Faced with this achievement, Li Qingsong was quite satisfied. Although his combat power is only strong at the current technological level, and he does not know the technological level of his opponent at the moment, he has already reached the limit of the current technological level. It's just that the fuel consumption is a bit too much. While maneuvering the Mercury-class battleship back home, Li Qingsong sighed softly in his heart. After just a few hours of fighting, up to 50 tons of fuel were consumed. Not only that, but also tons of bullets, artillery shells and interstellar missiles were completely consumed. "This was just one battleship fighting for a few hours. An interstellar war would involve at least several hundred warships, right? It would take at least several months or years, right? Let’s not talk about how much the entire war cycle consumes. Just for 500 warships to be deployed once and fight once, it will consume at least 25,000 tons of fuel and thousands of tons of ammunition…” Li Qingsong has always known the saying "War is fought with logistics", but he never really understood it before.
He had understood this sentence himself after experiencing the expeditionary force's wiping out the cluster of strange birds, which consumed thousands and tens of thousands of tons of combat supplies at one time. But at this moment he realized that his understanding of this sentence was still too superficial. "Since so much combat material has been consumed, the model of launching warships from the surface of Luoshen Star will not work when the war breaks out." To take off from the surface of Roselle and enter space, you first need to accelerate your speed to about one kilometer per second, which obviously consumes a lot of fuel. "The best way is to build a large integrated logistics base in space. When there is no fighting, the warships can be anchored in this logistics base, always maintaining a speed of about one kilometer per second. When a battle occurs, they can set sail immediately. At the same time, the methane, liquid oxygen, bullets, artillery shells, missiles, and various consumables needed for the battle can be stored in the base in advance for easy access. Even a spacecraft repair factory can be built here so that it can be repaired quickly if damaged. Just a logistics base like this, how big must it be..." It was obviously meaningless to have less fuel and supplies stored in the logistics base. To be truly effective, it would have to be very large, and at least be able to store millions of tons of supplies. Taking into account various facilities and its own weight, the total mass of a base is probably more than two million tons, which is larger and heavier than the previous space laboratory. In particular, such a large logistics base will inevitably become the enemy's main target of attack, and it must be equipped with heavy armor and a huge defense weapon system. In this case, the total mass is likely to reach more than 4 million tons, and it is not impossible that it will be higher. "But there is no other way. I must have a base like this to support the war that may break out later." Li Qingsong gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "Then next, I will have three key projects to carry out. 1. Make every effort to expand warship production capacity and quickly build more warships. Second, make every effort to build a large-scale comprehensive logistics base. Third, the deep space communication network must be built.”
As the number of warships and spaceships increases, various communication needs, positioning needs, and interaction needs will increase dramatically. When the number of warships increases, how do you determine the position of each warship? How do you dispatch them? This requires a complete deep space communication network. After confirming the three key construction projects, Li Qingsong looked at the nearby dwarf planet with some worry. At this moment, Li Qingsong had named it the Enemy Star, which means the planet where the enemy is. He sighed again in his heart: "I don't know when they will make the next move. I hope they can give me more time. Unfortunately, I still can't send a probe there at this stage. But I shouldn’t have to wait too long. Once the deep space communication network is built, not only will spacecraft and warships be able to get information support, but deep space probes will also be able to get information support. Then I can launch it.” At this moment, Li Qingsong's maximum consciousness connection number still fluctuates around 700,000. In order to maintain a state where there are 700,000 clones working at all times, the total number of clones mobilized by Li Qingsong at this moment is about million. The number of clone reserves is around million, with a total population of 3 million. But at this moment, the workload of the 700,000 clones connected by Li Qingsong has almost reached saturation. The best they can do is to support the production of Mercury-class battleships at the current production capacity level, which is an average rate of one ship every two days. If they want to do anything else, they may not be able to do it. After all, warships are much more difficult to build than ordinary cargo ships. Not only do they require higher precision, but they also have a larger tonnage. "Building a deep space communication network does not require too many people, but it is a technical job and there are still some technical problems that have not been solved. It is estimated that about 10,000 clones will be needed for scientific research and another 10,000 clones for logistics. Only then can we hope to solve the problem in a relatively short period of time. As for the rest, building a comprehensive space logistics base would probably not be possible without 200,000 clones. This does not even take into account the problem that once the number of warships and spaceships increases, more fuel will be consumed, and more manpower will be needed on the mining and purification ends. I'm afraid my consciousness connection number will have to be increased to 1 million to be barely enough." Li Qingsong looked at the biotechnology experimental area of the space laboratory. There, a dozen clones wearing white coats, hats, masks and gloves were carefully operating something in the clean room. "Whether we can cultivate higher quality clones depends on this time." Time passed quietly, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed. At this moment, the clone who came to the culture dish again took a closer look, and a feeling of joy arose in Li Qingsong's mind. He saw that under the cultivation of the newly configured culture medium, the mouse, rabbit and human cells used in the experiment showed a trend of rapid division and development! Obviously they have more vitality! "Okay, that's it!" After obtaining first-hand test data, Li Qingsong immediately selected more than 20,000 clones and rushed into the culture medium preparation factory and clone breeding factory to upgrade the equipment according to the latest needs. So just a few days later, the first batch of culture medium, enough for a hundred people, was successfully produced. Without waiting for more culture medium to be produced, Li Qingsong immediately began the cultivation of just one hundred clones. In any case, let's first increase the number of consciousness connections. As for the average quality of the clones, we can leave it for later improvement.