Voyage of the Stars

Where there are tracks, there are tracks. This is not unacceptable, as long as it can be successful and let humans master the navigation technology that a third-level civilization should have.

Yue Yuan stood up and floated to the porthole to look out into outer space. What he saw was a sci-fi scene that he already felt was very normal.

Tianqin is in the satellite orbit of one of the planets in this star system at the moment. It happens to be the time when Tianqin emerges from behind the satellite, so from Yue Yuan's perspective, it looks like a planet in the distance. I saw a huge ball with a yellow surface rising from the edge of the satellite arc.

At first it was just a convex point and a half arc, then it got bigger and bigger, and finally it completely floated into space with a dark background, looking lonely and beautiful.

The light from several astronomical units behind shines on the satellite, and then the satellite's shadow is reflected on the planet. Although it is very far away, Yue Yuan can still distinguish the light and dark changes caused by the satellite's shadow with the naked eye.

And between the changes in light and dark, there are flickering bright spots, just like stars twinkling in it, extremely beautiful.

However, those are not real stars, but various human spacecraft that shuttle there. They are all uniformly operated by strong artificial intelligence and bring various resources from the planet to humans in a fully automated mode.

You can see the shapes of these bright spots as they get closer. They are transport ships loaded with cargo, continuously delivering raw materials to the space resource processing base not far away.

This so-called space resource processing base is actually a gathering place for many human factory-type spacecrafts. The mined raw materials will be sent to these spacecrafts to be processed into semi-finished products or finished products, and then transported to other functional spacecrafts as needed. Or the space dock and residential spacecraft cluster not far away.

Human beings have already specialized in mechanical technology. Now with the blessing of strong artificial intelligence, it is even more powerful. The productivity level of the entire human society has increased more than a hundred times compared with before.

With the support of such powerful productivity, the entire space area where humans live is extremely busy. Various spaceships and transport ships are constantly traveling to and from various planets, each performing their duties under the multi-thread deployment of strong artificial intelligence.

If you observe for yourself, you can see that the most frequent gathering place for these various spaceships, transport ships, engineering ships, etc. is a large structure that is just beginning to take shape.

The main frame of this structure has appeared. It is eighteen kilometers long from beginning to end, and about ten kilometers in all directions. Although it is very large, it is actually a hollow structure.

If you are an insider, you will already know what this is when you see this scene. Yes, this is the modular mobile space dock that humans are building.

Because the designed magnetic thrust device is so large that the original battleship can no longer accommodate it, so humans must have larger ships, and if they want to build larger ships, they need larger space docks.

Speaking of which, at the current technological level of mankind, other engineering ships can be used to build new ships step by step in space using mechanical arms and the like without the need for a space dock. However, this is very cumbersome and confusing, and is not suitable for mass production.

It is impossible to build only one ship when humans want to build it, so a space dock is necessary. Not only is it necessary, but if the sample ship test is successful, humans will also need to build more space docks to mass-produce more warships, new residential spacecraft, and various types of ships.

This is part of the Grand Fleet plan.

In a previous plenary meeting, the leadership agreed that the emergence of new thrusters will inevitably lead mankind to another level. All current warships can no longer meet the needs, so a comprehensive replacement and upgrade is required.

Obviously, the leadership is very confident in the magnetic push technology. After all, the model test has passed and the feasibility has been proven. When the sample is tested, it only needs to be optimized and improved, and humans will have real magnetic push technology.

Based on this, the Grand Fleet Plan was proposed at the conference.

According to the previous fleet structure adjustment plan of the high command, the conference divided the grand fleet plan into three steps. The first step, after completing all tests of the sample warships, is that humans will first build one hundred new warships.

These one hundred new warships are all controlled by humans, and all are equipped with a military-specific strong artificial intelligence.

In the second step, based on these 100 new warships, each new warship serves as a flagship and then horizontally develops 10,000 unmanned warships controlled by strong artificial intelligence, and then forms a hundred fleets. Each fleet has approximately 10,000 warships, for a total of one million warships.

The third step is to comprehensively upgrade residential spaceships, engineering, factory, and biosphere spacecrafts so that they can all meet the needs of human beings and the development of civilization.

In order to carry out this plan, humans must build enough space docks before this happens. So what Yue Yuan sees now is all in the preparation stage of the plan.

In the preparation stage alone, there were no less than 100,000 unmanned spacecraft with various functions coming and going in space, and the entire space area fell into a busy scene.

If you look at the various planets in this galaxy, it is not difficult to find that each planet has pictures of various human aircraft and various types of bases.

Set after set of space elevators are transporting supplies day and night, and the orbital mass accelerator also plays its role in transporting large objects.

After the emergence of strong artificial intelligence, the number of human space elevators and orbital mass accelerators has rapidly grown from single digits to hundreds of digits.

And this is only the scale formed during the preparation stage of the grand fleet plan.

It is foreseeable that when the grand fleet plan really begins, the starry sky will be even busier. The collision of steel, the beauty of machinery, and the power of intelligence will all be staged meaningfully in this starry sky.

Human beings are the leaders of all this.

According to the conference's estimates, after the grand fleet plan is completed, the total number of human fleets will probably reach about two million, including various types of spacecraft such as battleships and residential spacecraft.

Of course, this does not mean that the size of the human fleet will stop here. Because the large fleet plan is only the early stage of human development at this stage, the main reason is that the military feels that one million warships are still too few.

Especially the current active-duty officers, they believe that expansion should be based on the current Lake-class battleships. Humanity now has two fleets, with a total of about 2,500 Lake-class battleships.

The crew of each battleship should be allowed to become the backbone of the flagship in the new battleship formation, because their combat experience is already very rich.

If this is the case, then the number of human warships will eventually reach 25 million, or even more.