Voyage of the Stars

After bombing the planet, the Tianqin turned around and left. Other mining ships will come to mine, or push the rocks away with thrusters just like catching asteroids, or drive the smelting platform nearby, or release the ash directly for nano-mining.

No matter which method or several methods are used, this mining method is much more efficient than driving the spacecraft to the interior of the planet and digging slowly.

Such a mining method was unthinkable in the past, and the power of the fourth-level civilization was fully demonstrated here. Seeing the scene of the entire planet exploding, some old people couldn't help but recall the silver mist that humans encountered when they set foot in the starry sky. If there was such a means at that time, the silver mist could be eliminated with one shot.

However, after bombing this planet, the Tianqin turned around and went to other planets, and then continued to bomb. Any planet that was favored by humans would inevitably be crushed into space mineral deposits by one shot.

Of course, the Tianqin did not continue to destroy recklessly. After bombing five planets, it probably met certain resource needs, so it stopped temporarily. Yes, only temporarily, because humans in this period have not yet completed the upgrade of the fourth-level civilization creation, so space transportation capabilities have not been fully utilized.

For this reason, the first step for humans to mine and obtain resources is to build new production and transportation tools on a large scale, that is, transport ships, mining ships, engineering ships, etc. with warp speed navigation capabilities. After building these, they will continue to expand the scale of mining and continue to improve resource acquisition efficiency, and then enter the replacement of residential spacecraft, biosphere spacecraft, large equipment transport ships, etc.

As for the eliminated residential spacecraft, humans will not discard them, but will be pulled back to the dock for transformation, equipped with warp engines, and then given to several affiliated races such as the Chiyan civilization and the Kuntai people cluster as residential spacecraft.

As a subordinate race and vassal civilization, it is reasonable for them to live in a spaceship that is smaller than that of humans. Of course, individuals of subordinate races who have made contributions to science will not be stingy. They will also be given spacious new spaceships of Level 4 civilization as their residences, and such living conditions will be promoted in the society of each of their races. The purpose is self-evident.

It is to let them understand that only by making scientific contributions to the entire group can they have better living conditions.

Who doesn't yearn for better living conditions? When you are still living in a small spaceship that simulates gravity with rotational inertia, and when you are still living in a room composed of cabins, others have already stepped onto a spacious Level 4 civilization spaceship. Envy is useless. Only by working hard to contribute to the collective can you enjoy this environment.

This difference in living environment will to a certain extent motivate the efforts of other races, which is beneficial and harmless to the entire human civilization cluster.

In the comprehensive upgrade plan of creation, humans will not only upgrade the creations of their own civilization, but also take into account other races. After all, they still need to travel through the universe with humans, and their Level 3 civilization spaceships must be upgraded and transformed to keep up with the big team.

However, the creations of other races will be upgraded later. Humans will first upgrade their creations completely and arm themselves to the teeth, and then consider subordinate civilizations and races.

Time in the starry sky always passes quickly. After the Tianqin blasted a star with one shot, the great construction era was measured in centuries. After several centuries, humans completed the upgrade of various ships of this civilization.

Then it took several centuries to build 2,990 planetary warships based on the connection of "consciousness frequency" equipment. These warships will be together with Tianqin as the most elite fleet of mankind.

Although they are not manufactured completely according to the high-standard standards of Tianqin, their main frame structure also uses some strong materials. This is unavoidable. The production of strong materials is too difficult. If they are all manufactured according to the standards of Tianqin, then it will take at least 10,000 years to complete the construction of 3,000 warships. The time cost is too high and the gain is not worth the loss.

If completing the upgrade of living spacecraft, engineering ships, mining ships, biosphere spacecraft, scientific research ships and other spacecraft is the level of human life and production reaching the fourth-level civilization level, then the appearance of these 2,999 warships is the symbol of the fourth-level civilization combat power officially possessed by humans.

And this is not the end. The mere 3,000 planetary warships cannot meet the safety needs of humans, so humans will continue to build new ones, which are also planetary warships, but they are ordinary planetary warships without "consciousness synchronization" equipment.

The plan of humans at this stage is to build a fleet with a total number of 3 million planetary warships, and these fleets are still divided into three fleets. That is, the first fleet directly led by Tianqin, the second fleet led by Jupiter, and the third fleet led by Saturn.

Yes, Jupiter and Saturn.

These two warships were planned to be built when the 2,990 warships were produced. They were designed specifically as the flagships of the second and third fleets. Their performance configuration is actually similar to other warships in the same batch, but there are many more equipment for overall command.

Because the manufacturing time cost of strong materials is too high, these two warships cannot be equipped with star destroyers like the Tianqin, because the structural strength does not allow it, so they can only settle for the second best and install large neutron kill/neutron explosion as the main gun. Of course, other weapons such as gravity bombs and warp missiles are also available.

At present, due to the time cost, humans can only have one star destroyer.

As for why there are only three million other ordinary warships, the main reason is the time cost of shipbuilding.

The planetary warships of the fourth-level civilization are much more complicated than those of the third-level civilization, and the amount of resources consumed in shipbuilding is also geometrically increased. Even with fully automated production, the time cost problem caused by the complicated process cannot be ignored. Therefore, unless the fourth-level civilization has existed for a long time, there will generally not be too many planetary warships.

In this way, the fleet of the fourth-level civilization is much smaller than that of the third-level civilization, but the small number is only temporary, because time will increase everything, and the small number does not mean weak combat effectiveness.

Humans stayed in this binary star system for almost another thousand years to complete the creation and upgrade of various fourth-level civilization creations. After completing all this, there are basically few rocky planets left in the entire binary star system, and even the gaseous planets have shrunk a little because of the long-term absorption of hydrogen, helium and other elements.