Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 465: Supermassive Dock

Every day was this busy. No matter how powerful Xiao Yu’s computing power was, no matter how fast Xiao Yu processed data, there was always an endless stream of data waiting behind him, and new data was being generated at every moment. Xiao Yu maintained this working state for a full thirty years.

At this moment, thirty years had passed since Xiao Yu came to this star system.

What Xiao Yu had promised at the beginning was to complete all construction tasks within fifty years, but during this period some new changes occurred. These changes led Xiao Yu to finish the work twenty years ahead of schedule.

One matter was that the development of the new computer made a small breakthrough. This breakthrough was not comprehensive, so Xiao Yu did not begin manufacturing a new supercomputer, but instead carried out a modification and upgrade on the central computer of the ship the China where he presently resided, optimizing part of the hardware and algorithms. This increased Xiao Yu’s computing power by roughly 1.7 times. The improvement in computing power naturally meant an acceleration of the construction process.

Another matter originated from a suggestion by Luka Two.

Luka Two’s suggestion unfolded around a single core, which was very simple. To put it bluntly in an unflattering way, it was waste utilization. What was waste? In Luka Two’s suggestion, the word ‘waste’ referred to the ordinary intelligent beings under Xiao Yu’s command, whose number had reached eighty billion and who could not become scientists.

“As you can see, in the Home ships at present there is a serious surplus of labor. Although Master, you have gradually withdrawn your computing power and handed over the various factories related to livelihood to the intelligent beings themselves to manage, these places still cannot provide enough jobs. I know that at present Master is troubled that insufficient computing power is constraining the construction process, so I have a suggestion. Why not recruit the intelligent beings to participate in construction tasks? Their efficiency may not match that of robots directly controlled by you, but they have the advantage of sufficient numbers. I have calculated that at this stage, if we mobilize on a large scale, we can recruit at least ten billion laborers to participate in construction tasks. Ten billion laborers should be equivalent to one hundred million robots by any calculation, right? And one hundred million robots would presumably occupy quite a lot of your computing power, would they not?”

“Mm, this suggestion is good.” Xiao Yu was open to counsel and readily accepted it. “Very well. The early-stage mobilization, selection, and organization will be handled by your Social Academy of Science. I will hurry to manufacture personal life-support devices and construction tools suitable for intelligent beings to use. I will appoint specialized scientists to be responsible for the training.”

This was a very cost-effective matter. Manufacturing personal life-support devices and tools for the intelligent beings could be completed through automated programs. These would not consume much of Xiao Yu’s computing power at all.

In fact, Xiao Yu had thought of this long ago. The reason he had been unable to make up his mind for a long time to let intelligent beings also participate in his construction tasks was due to certain concerns in his heart.Even now, this concern still existed in Xiao Yu’s heart. However, Xiao Yu planned to give it a try, or rather to test, to test these intelligent beings.

Thus, after selection, training, and a series of related arrangements, a vast army of intelligent beings also joined the mighty era of grand construction. Luka Two was indeed the most outstanding scientist of the psychosocial sciences. A number of intelligent beings approaching ten billion were organized by Luka Two in perfect order. Under the constraints of various reward, punishment and rank systems, these intelligent beings erupted with unprecedented enthusiasm.

On the busy construction sites, intelligent beings wearing lightweight personal life-support equipment could be seen everywhere, coming and going. The communications instruments they carried always sent the next work orders to them in a timely way, guiding them to complete their tasks. The large ecological spheres built beside the sites could provide them with services in all aspects of food, clothing, housing, and transportation, allowing them to live as comfortably as they did within the Home ships.

“For the development of our Divine Ark Civilization, as a member of the Divine Ark Civilization, it is time to contribute our own strength.”

“Every bit of labor we give will become the cornerstone that builds the edifice of our Divine Ark Civilization.”

The union of practical benefits and ideological publicity drove the work enthusiasm of these intelligent beings to the peak, to the point that even Xiao Yu felt somewhat surprised.

“Compared with them, how lazy I was in the Earth era.” Xiao Yu sighed inwardly.

These two matters directly shortened Xiao Yu’s construction schedule by twenty years. By now, the Life Academy of Science, the Institute of Physics, the Military Academy of Sciences, the Computational Academy of Science, and so on had all been completed.

The scientists joyfully moved into these brand-new buildings and began using the complete and advanced experimental instruments there to verify their ideas and study new science, while Xiao Yu entered the next phase of construction tasks.

Xiao Yu had to build at least two supermassive dockyards, at least ten gigantic dockyards, and an even greater number of large dockyards. The improvement of Xiao Yu’s computing power was already something that could be anticipated. The person in charge among the scientists of the Computational Academy of Science had once patted his chest before Xiao Yu and said he guaranteed the goal would be achieved within thirty years, guaranteed that a computer with an entirely new architecture would be developed within thirty years.

Xiao Yu did not doubt this. He was also participating in the development of the new-architecture computer and had taken on the largest share of the work. Judging by the current progress, it would absolutely be completed within thirty years, perhaps even without needing that long.

Thus, expanding the scale of the fleet became very important. Through studying the complete technology tree of the Molian Civilization, Xiao Yu believed the time to construct a Continent-Class spaceship had arrived. He could begin now.

Building spaceships required dockyards, so Xiao Yu began constructing dockyards.

In Xiao Yu’s plan, a Continent-Class spaceship would have a length of at least sixty kilometers, with a total mass reaching as much as two billion tons. To build a spaceship this enormous, the dockyard had to be even larger. In fact, in Xiao Yu’s plan, the lengths of these two supermassive dockyards would reach the order of one hundred kilometers. Such colossal things would not be an exaggeration to call interstellar fortresses.

The construction task for one supermassive dockyard could occupy nearly thirty percent of the total construction workload of the first thirty years. The sheer scale of the project can be imagined, and what is more, Xiao Yu intended to build two such dockyards, along with gigantic dockyards for building Nation-Class spaceships and large dockyards for building Province-Class and City-Class spaceships.

“Luka Two, I have already manufactured a large quantity of personal life-support equipment suitable for work in space. Yes, the first phase of construction tasks has been completed. Now I am going to start building the dockyards. Go organize it. Let these nearly ten billion intelligent beings join this project. Mm, we need to build more than three hundred dockyards of various types in total. After the dockyards are completed, the spaceship construction project will be even more enormous. Before we leave this star system, the citizens of the Divine Ark Civilization will basically have no chance to be idle.”

“I believe the citizens of our Divine Ark Civilization will be very willing to contribute to our civilization.” Luka Two replied. “Master, please rest assured. After leaving about fifty million workers to handle the routine maintenance of the various bases, I will interface with Number Three and Number Five. After completing the training for these workers, the construction corps can await your orders at any time.”

“Very good. There is one point you must remember. The various supporting facilities for these workers, including housing, food, and entertainment, must all be complete. They are contributing to our civilization. In these aspects, we absolutely must not shortchange our citizens.”

“I will handle this properly. Please rest assured.” After bowing to Xiao Yu, Luka Two cut the connection.

“Continent-Class spaceships constructed entirely from Alien Beast flesh, integrating the most advanced technologies of the present stage, possessing the strongest mobility, the strongest defense, and the strongest offensive power. The thought truly makes one look forward to it.” Xiao Yu sighed slightly. “I suppose a Continent-Class spaceship is the most powerful warship a Level 5 Civilization can build. To build a Planet-Class spaceship will likely be a matter for after becoming a Level 6 Civilization. But it does not matter. The Divine Ark Civilization will certainly enter the category of a Level 6 Civilization. A Planet-Class spaceship, the Earth, and even a Star-Class spaceship, the Solar, will appear under my hand.”

“Deciding to let intelligent beings join the construction corps was truly a bit difficult.” Xiao Yu sighed softly. “Has this already deviated from what I originally intended?”

At the beginning when he came into contact with intelligent beings, Xiao Yu had not thought so far. At that time, he only planned to raise these intelligent beings in captivity, supply them with all kinds of resources without limit, and hope to cultivate scientists who could contribute to the development of his technology. But at this point, things seemed to have departed from Xiao Yu’s original intention.

Long ago, Xiao Yu decided to withdraw his computing power from the various factories on the Home ships and hand these facilities back to the intelligent beings themselves. This was the first attempt. Later he formed the biological army and let intelligent beings participate in the civilization’s military strength. This was the second attempt. Now he had agreed to Luka Two’s suggestion and agreed to let intelligent beings participate in various construction tasks. This was the third attempt.

Xiao Yu saw that the intelligent beings were gradually becoming a force that could not be ignored, participating in all aspects of the Divine Ark Civilization. Xiao Yu did not know whether this change would be good or bad for him. He truly had no way to predict the future, but he believed that at least for now this move could bring him certain benefits.

Xiao Yu thought again of that fellow who claimed to have been sent by his future self. That fellow said that in the future Xiao Yu fell into an extremely passive situation because of a rebellion by the intelligent beings under his command, and was thus forced to reverse the time of the entire galaxy and come to warn his present self. Xiao Yu did not believe that this fellow had truly come from the future. In fact, deep down, Xiao Yu had long concluded that this was the Taihao Civilization’s trick. But now Xiao Yu thought of another aspect.

“Whether the Taihao Civilization is friendly or hostile to me, I have never been able to judge. Then, does the Taihao Civilization’s insistence that I annihilate these intelligent beings under my command truly have some rationale? If we proceed along the current trajectory, the influence of the intelligent beings on the entire Divine Ark Civilization can only grow larger and larger. Perhaps there really will come a day when the intelligent beings become strong enough to be beyond my control and launch a rebellion to get rid of me. That is not impossible.”

This was a dilemma. Xiao Yu truly could not make a decision on how to choose.

“At least for now, I have not discovered any signs of rebellion. I will carefully control the permissions of the intelligent beings. I will not give them a chance to rebel. I believe I can accomplish this.”

A moment later, Xiao Yu made his decision.