Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 376 The Power Field!

After achieving a series of breakthroughs, the two technologies that Li Qingsong valued most also achieved breakthroughs not long afterward.

Gravity shield and gravity cannon!

The scene when the Yunluo Civilization helped him solve the silicon-based parasitic natural disaster left a very deep impression on Li Qingsong.

The immense pressure from the subsequent decisive battle with the Purple Moon Civilization, brought about by their rudimentary gravity cannon obtained from the Space-level Magic Eye, still feels like yesterday.

And now, based on the theory of everything, Li Qingsong has finally overcome the obstacles at the applied physics level and truly applied this technology to combat weapons.

Powered by multiple fusion reactors, based on the theory of universality, this is a gravity weapon that can arbitrarily apply high gravity or negative gravity to the opponent, using gravity to pull on the opponent's technological creations!
Furthermore, it is a gravity weapon that Li Qingsong has completely mastered in terms of the entire production and manufacturing technology, and has a complete grasp of its principles, so that he can modify or optimize it according to his own wishes!

After the invention of gravity weapons, gravity shield technology also emerged.

In Li Qingsong's view, the so-called gravity shield is not a shield in the conventional sense. It is more like a gravity-canceling device.

When the opponent manipulates gravity in an attempt to affect the structure of one's own spacecraft, one can generate an opposite gravity in the corresponding area to counteract the opponent's gravitational influence.

Of course, in addition to this, it can also use precise and tiny gravity cannons to accurately affect small devices such as projectiles and landmines, pushing them off their existing tracks to avoid affecting its own side.

From this perspective, the operation mechanism of the gravity shield is similar to that of an automatic defense system during periods of low electrical voltage.

"Gravity cannons and gravity shields are the basic devices of gravity-level civilizations."

The most intuitive way to measure the level of technological development of a gravitational civilization is through the performance of these two devices.

The higher their limiting force, the faster their reaction speed, and the more precise their reaction, the higher the level of technology of this gravitational civilization. At the same time, the ability to manufacture such a level of gravity device must also indicate a higher degree of control over curvature space, naturally leading to higher travel speeds.

A sudden realization flashed through Li Qingsong's mind.

For example, right now, his gravity cannon can only apply no more than 50 times the gravity of Earth to a target within a range of 2 kilometers. Correspondingly, once his warp drive is fully developed, its speed will be about twice the speed of light.

However, the Yunluo civilization's travel speed was far greater than that. According to Li Qingsong's estimate, it may have reached 6-7 times the speed of light.

"From this perspective, even if the Yunluo civilization's technology has not reached the peak of gravity, it has probably reached a relatively high level, and it is expected to break through to the dark force stage."

Thinking of the Yunluo civilization, Li Qingsong sighed softly again: "I wonder how they are now. Sigh..."

Gathering his thoughts, Li Qingsong once again focused his attention on scientific research.

With the continuous breakthroughs in gravity technology, Li Qingsong plans to innovate his fleet.

All existing spaceships, regardless of type, create gravity through rotation when needed, such as large habitation spaceships.

But this means a very serious problem: the internal space of this cylindrical spacecraft is extremely underutilized.

The space within a radius of several hundred meters near the axis of rotation cannot be effectively utilized. Furthermore, the interior is severely affected by acceleration and deceleration.

In the past, the habitable spaceships were located in lakes, with the largest area not exceeding 1 square kilometer and the total water volume not exceeding 500 million tons.

Once this limit is exceeded, an uncontrollable surge will occur during the acceleration and deceleration phases, which will then affect the entire spacecraft.

Moreover, the original living spaceship's interior was constructed according to the principle of "easy to fix," otherwise it might collapse during acceleration and deceleration phases.

This imposes significant limitations on habitable spaceships. Although Li Qingsong has been trying his best to improve its internal environment, it is still far from being a true natural environment.

Now, Li Qingsong plans to replace all of these spaceships.

A massive spaceship is gradually taking shape in the dock.

Unlike the previous cylindrical habitation spaceships, this habitation spaceship is now rectangular in shape.

It is 20 kilometers long, 15 kilometers wide, and about 10 kilometers high.

It is divided into 10 floors, each floor is 1000 meters high and has an area of ​​300 square kilometers, so the total area of ​​the 10 floors is 3000 square kilometers.

Depending on their different architectural styles, each of these 10 floors serves a different purpose.

Or perhaps it's a cluster of skyscrapers with flashing neon lights, resembling a metropolis; or perhaps it's a snow-capped mountain with a frigid climate; or perhaps it's a mountain range with undulating terrain and the sounds of birds and animals everywhere; or perhaps it's a vast plain with a rural landscape; or perhaps it's a landscape dotted with lakes and rushing rivers.

Now that gravity technology is available, Li Qingsong can finally unleash his full potential and transfer all the natural landscapes that conform to human and racial aesthetics to his living spaceship in their original form, without making any modifications. He is not worried about them being affected by the zero-gravity environment of space, nor are they limited by the cylindrical spaceship, nor do they have to worry about overload during acceleration and deceleration!

With a total area of ​​3000 square kilometers, and despite the extensive landscaping, this spaceship can still carry more than one million intelligent beings.

If we were to choose a city-centric spaceship that could accommodate the largest population, with a height of only about 100 meters, 100 internal floors, and a total area of ​​3 square kilometers, then this single residential spaceship could carry more than 5000 million intelligent beings.

This is an improvement of dozens of times compared to the previous cylindrical living spaceships.

Even with such a large population, the intelligent life inside the city spaceship can live comfortably without feeling cramped at all.

Even urban spaceships have a variety of natural landscapes and scenery scattered throughout their interiors. Suburban hills, city parks, streams and rivers, and all kinds of greenery are included.

In addition to urban spaceships, Li Qingsong will also build specialized tourist spaceships, complete with high mountains and snowfields, dense forests, vast oceans, great rivers, boundless grasslands, and more.

This first habitable spaceship was simply a collection of various elements put together in one spaceship.

After more than a decade of work, this spaceship, equipped with gravity cannons, gravity shields, a complete set of gravity generators, and powered by multiple nuclear fusion processes, and featuring all the landscapes of every race of intelligent life, was finally completed.

Li Qingsong then announced this exciting news to the intelligent life forms, whose total number exceeded 1200 billion, and at the same time announced that because this was only the first experimental habitation spaceship, only 100 million people could be approved for relocation in the first batch.

Furthermore, these slots will not be open to the public, but will be awarded as prizes to the heroes who followed Haimeran to search for gravity life or their families, as well as outstanding individuals who have performed exceptionally well over the years and have received racial or higher honors, and researchers, logistics personnel, engineering and industrial personnel and their families who have made outstanding contributions to scientific research projects.

This arrangement is perfectly reasonable, and no one can say it's wrong.

Under the watchful eyes of countless envious people, the first group of relocated people finally boarded the shuttle spaceship and left their original residential spaceship, arriving at the residential spaceship that Li Qingsong named "Mother Star No. 1".

Under the watchful eyes of numerous cameras, the shuttle ships docked at one hatch after another. As the massive hatches opened, warm, humid air rushed in, and the personnel and their families who had made outstanding contributions to civilization stood frozen in place, as if under a spell.

In front of countless terminal screens, everyone watching the live broadcast held their breath and involuntarily uttered the same exclamation.

"So beautiful……"

Before the Mother Planet No. 1 spaceship, countless people unconsciously knelt on the ground, tears streaming down their faces.

"My dream home planet, the place where our race originated, must look like this. I've seen it many times in my dreams."

"Is this where we'll live in the future...?"

More than one million intelligent beings entered this enormous spaceship with awe and a sense of sacredness that cannot be described in words.

For some time to come, any news from this spaceship will attract a great deal of attention throughout the entire intelligent life species.

Those who failed to secure a spot would look at the scenery inside the Mother Planet One spaceship, and at the spaceship where they were currently living, and an irrepressible surge of excitement and anticipation would always well up in their hearts.

Even though Li Qingsong repeatedly announced that more motherships were under construction and that every intelligent being would move to live on a mothership in the future, with no one missing, and that all that was needed now was to wait patiently, the network belonging to intelligent life was still overwhelmed by the waves of urging voices.

Fortunately, with the experience gained from building the first comprehensive homeworld spaceship, the construction of the second batch should be much faster. Furthermore, Li Qingsong plans to build 20 ships in this batch, one for each race.

Because it's unnecessary to consider the aesthetic preferences of every single one of the 20 races, only the scenery corresponding to one race is needed. Although these 20 homeworld ships are also multi-purpose ships, the population capacity of each ship has been increased again, from 1 million to 5 million. Thus, a total of 100 million slots have been created, and these slots will be available in a maximum of 5 years.

This time, Li Qingsong announced that the selection process would be open to all races. The selection criteria would be based on individual contributions.

The greater one's contribution to civilization as a whole, the greater their chances of being selected.

After the selection criteria were announced, more than 1200 billion intelligent beings instantly went into a frenzy, and their enthusiasm for work increased by an unknown amount.

Seeing this, Li Qingsong nodded with satisfaction.

"Although they can't compare to the Eye of the Magic civilization, whose internal organizational capacity has reached its limit, at this stage, the organizational capacity and productivity of these intelligent beings are still better than those of the previous Havele civilization."

With the sudden increase in assistance from intelligent life forms, Li Qingsong's overall technological development speed has accelerated once again.

Soon, the first Mercury-class warship, built using entirely new technology and equipped with multiple fusion reactors, gravity cannons, gravity shields, new deep-space radar, and conventional high-speed thrusters, was completed.

In the first batch, Li Qingsong built 10,000 ships and then launched them all into space to conduct live-fire exercises and find areas for optimization and improvement in actual combat.

Then came the Gold Star-class warships, followed by the Earth-class and Mars-class.

At this moment, more than 100 Mars-class warships were also deployed in live-fire exercises. But this was not the end of Li Qingsong's research into military technology.

He sensed that with the breakthrough in gravity technology, the time was ripe for him to develop a new generation of super-large warships, larger and more powerful than the Mars-class warships, and Jupiter-class warships.

In order to develop the Jupiter-level warship, Li Qingsong specially allocated 50 billion clones, along with millions of intelligent life spaceship and weapons experts, to the research.

There are more than 20 major fields and hundreds of thousands of sub-fields. Each field corresponds to at least a dozen large research institutes, requiring the use of more than two supercomputers and several factories, fusion power plants, etc. Li Qingsong spared no expense and devoted all his efforts to it.

In the end, Li Qingsong created a giant spaceship that looked like it was assembled from a dozen or so thick iron blocks. It resembled an airplane but was many times larger and had a rough surface, filled with various equipment.

Space warships don't need to consider aerodynamic performance. The reason they look like airplanes is because of gravity technology. Li Qingsong no longer needs to consider whether the combination of the various parts of the spaceship conforms to the principles of gravity. When designing the spaceship, he only needs to consider practicality.

This shape allows for the best possible balance between the performance of various internal systems, including energy, power, weaponry, storage, defense, and maintenance, thereby maximizing combat effectiveness.

This new generation of Jupiter-class warships has a total length of about 9 kilometers, which is more than 20 times longer than the Mars-class warships. The total mass when fully loaded has also increased from about 30 tons for the Mars-class warships to about 1000 million tons.

Its giant gravity cannon, thanks to ample design space and sufficient energy supply, has been enhanced to a level equivalent to plus or minus 150 times Earth's gravity.

With both gravity cannons firing simultaneously, one exerts a suction force of 150 times the gravity of the target, while the other exerts a repulsive force of 150 times the gravity of the Earth. Under the combined tidal force of 300 times the gravity of the Earth, even a Mars-class warship built using gravity technology would be easily torn apart.

And this wooden star-level warship is equipped with a total of 100 such heavy gravity cannons!
Its gravity defense system is also extremely powerful. Not only can any part of the spacecraft counteract 120 times the gravity of Earth, but the specially designed spacecraft structure can also keep a single area intact under more than 20 times the gravity of Earth.

In addition to the gravity system, it is equipped with energy cannons, energy shields, high-energy burning lasers, radiation lasers, artillery, missiles, etc., which originated from the strong core stage but were upgraded and strengthened in the gravity civilization stage, as well as interstellar mines, missiles, and shells that are unique to the gravity civilization stage and are loaded with gravity bombs.

This is a killing monster born entirely for war. If it were to unleash its full power, even a dwarf planet would be completely torn apart by its relentless attacks.

Its formidable combat capabilities were fully demonstrated in actual combat exercises.

The interstellar battle, which originally involved only Mars-class and lower-class warships, was instantly overwhelmed when one side received a Jupiter-class warship.

Even their flagship Mars-class warships were torn apart. No matter how strong the defenses were, they would be broken through instantly by the enemy's attack. Destroying Earth-class, Gold-class, and Mercury-class warships was as easy as killing chickens. How could they possibly fight like this?
At that moment, Li Qingsong seemed to see a scene from the era of cold weapon warfare: a ferocious war elephant, clad in full armor and completely obedient to its pilot, charging into a group of infantry.

With the addition of the Wood Star-level warship, Li Qingsong's combat power more than doubled.

"This wooden star-level warship is good, but unfortunately, the cost is too high, and the number of warriors required is far too many."

Li Qingsong sighed and gave up his plan to build a thousand or two thousand wooden star-level warships.

Jupiter-class warships are no longer something that can be mass-produced simply by accumulating industrial strength.

There are some special components that even with Li Qingsong's industrial capabilities, they cannot be manufactured quickly and can only be accumulated slowly over time.

Even if Li Qingsong's maximum number of consciousness connections has increased to 1000 billion at this moment, and these 1000 billion clones do nothing else but invest all their industrial strength into building wooden star-level warships, it would still take an average of 10 years to build one wooden star-level warship.

Furthermore, a large maintenance team is needed to maintain and service the equipment after each deployment, which is incredibly costly.

The number of clones used to operate this Jupiter-class warship is as high as 60.

This is under the premise of having an equivalent level of intelligent AI as an aid.

In a typical civilization, considering internal friction and communication costs, it would probably take more than 150 years to build each wooden star-level warship, and each one would require at least 200 million soldiers to operate and control simultaneously, with each soldier being an extremely outstanding and highly trained warrior.

Based on a three-shift system, even a single wooden star-level warship would require a civilization to employ a total of 1000 million people, including logistics personnel, to maintain its operation.

—Of course, we don't need so many people during peacetime, but who knows when war will break out? Even if we're in a period of peace now, which civilization would dare to withdraw all these people?
I'm afraid they wouldn't dare to withdraw it, and they would have to send this wooden star-level warship out from time to time in order to maintain the team's level and prevent a talent gap.

According to Li Qingsong's estimate, in the stage of gravitational civilization, the upper limit of the population of orthodox intelligent civilization is about one trillion.

However, even if this civilization has a high degree of internal organization, as long as it is still in a normal stage, it probably cannot have more than 20 Wood-level warships at the same time, and at most only 10 can be deployed at the same time.

If the number were too large, the daily consumption alone could cripple a massive civilization.

Of course, Li Qingsong has unique advantages in this regard. But even so, after comprehensive evaluation, Li Qingsong did not dare to build too many. He would build about 200 ships to keep in reserve and maintain, and at most deploy 100 ships at a time.

Having completed the design of the Jupiter-star spaceship and continued production as planned, Li Qingsong shifted his attention to another, more important aspect.

This will also be the last important task that Li Qingsong needs to complete in this star system.

Long before breaking through gravity, Li Qingsong had envisioned a question: based on the unified force field, after unifying gravity and upgrading the unified force to the universal force, could it also be upgraded?
The principle behind the unified force field's ability to inflict damage on the enemy is to release a large number of particles carrying the unified force, namely the X and Y bosons, which induce strong nuclear forces within the materials that make up the enemy fleet, forcibly converting mass into energy and thus causing damage.

So... after unifying gravity, will the universal force also be like this?
Based on this conjecture, Li Qingsong conducted numerous experiments and ultimately confirmed that it was entirely possible to achieve this.

Furthermore, fusing universal particles that carry the force of everything with X and Y bosons that carry the force of unity yields even better results!
Because the universal particles acting on the enemy warship will rapidly break symmetry, releasing real gravitons. These real gravitons, when acting on matter, reduce the object's natural resistance to the unifying force, making it easier to induce the strong nuclear force between nucleons, thus releasing more energy and causing greater damage.

Furthermore, with the introduction of universal particles, the more advanced energy shield possessed by the gravitational civilization, which has a stronger interception effect on X and Y particles, will be broken through by universal particles, making it easier for X and Y particles to react with matter itself.

Now that the basic principles are clear, all that's needed is to implement them.

During this stage, Li Qingsong encountered considerable difficulties.

The reason is simple: the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the Wanli Force occurred too quickly and in too short a time. The real gravitons generated by Li Qingsong simply didn't have enough time to be deployed onto the enemy warship.

After much thought and experimentation, Li Qingsong finally found a feasible path.

"Since universal particles cannot be deployed over long distances, then... why not use the enemy warships themselves as a production base for universal particles!"

The specific implementation logic is also very simple: Li Qingsong only needs to build a particle collider with sufficient energy level to accelerate helium nuclei, and then launch helium nuclei to collide with the enemy warship, using the enemy warship as a target in the particle collider. After the collision, a micro black hole will be generated at the corresponding part and annihilated instantly, releasing real gravitons.

Real gravitons react rapidly with matter, moving from real to virtual and affecting the structure of matter as well as the energy shield, thus opening a pathway for the arrival of X and Y particles, allowing them to also act smoothly on matter.

A combination of techniques, employing multiple factors, can unleash even greater energy and achieve greater results!

However, this would mean that the complexity of the universal force field would be several times, or even more than ten times, higher than that of the unified force field. This would place even higher demands on Li Qingsong's computing power.

However, feeling that his consciousness connections had increased to 1000 billion, Li Qingsong did not take the increase in complexity to heart at all.

(End of this chapter)