Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 466: Continent-Class Spaceship

The participation of intelligent beings had an obvious effect in pushing forward Xiao Yu’s construction progress. With their help, the task of building hundreds of docks was all completed in just a little over twenty years, something Xiao Yu could hardly have imagined before. One should know that the total number of robots Xiao Yu could control was only on the order of fifty million. Discounting factors such as coordination and cooperation, even if the ten billion intelligent being workers were regarded as equivalent to one hundred million robots, the intelligent beings’ construction capability still reached more than twice that of Xiao Yu.

The addition of intelligent beings saved Xiao Yu a vast amount of computing power, and the computing power saved could be allocated to other areas for other tasks. It could be said that the impetus the intelligent beings provided to the Divine Ark Civilization was comprehensive. It was entirely possible that some specific technology Xiao Yu researched was achieved using the computing power saved in this way.

During the more than twenty years spent building docks, scientists who now had new research facilities frequently reported good news to Xiao Yu. In this period, at least more than one hundred thousand technologies achieved breakthroughs. Among them, the most important breakthrough was in computational science.

Research on a new type of computer successfully made a breakthrough. A new supercomputer had been developed and passed Xiao Yu’s all-around acceptance tests. In Xiao Yu’s tests, this supercomputer achieved results that delighted him. Tests showed that this computer had twenty times the computing speed of the machine Xiao Yu was currently using, and under high load its error rate was reduced by more than two hundredfold, with reliability greatly improved.

Computing power had always been Xiao Yu’s strongest backing. With the support of computing power, whatever Xiao Yu set out to do faced far fewer constraints. After holding a celebration, Xiao Yu immediately directed robots to build such a computer inside the China spaceship and moved in without delay. From now on, this computer would replace the China’s previous central computer and become the command core of the entire Divine Ark Civilization.

At the present stage, the China spaceship remained the safest place. Before the Asia Continent-Class spaceship was built, Xiao Yu did not plan to leave the China.

With ample computing power, Xiao Yu immediately devoted a larger proportion of his effort to various scientific research fields and at once began expanding the construction scale within this star system. As a result, more robots appeared, more factories appeared, more bases appeared…

The construction of the Asia spaceship was formally placed on the agenda. The Asia spaceship was a ship unlike any other. Most importantly, apart from certain parts with special requirements, it was to be manufactured entirely from Alien Beast flesh refined through concentration. This was absolutely a first in Xiao Yu’s interstellar journey. One should know that the earliest Hebei spaceship had used only about fifty percent Alien Beast flesh.

Although the flesh of this Alien Beast could not compare in quality to that of the White Dwarf Alien Beast, it had the advantage of being abundant enough to fully support the construction needs of a Continent-Class spaceship.

There were two supermassive docks in total that could be used to build Continent-Class spaceships. The rest were smaller docks that could be used to build Nation-Class, Province-Class, and other ships. Thus, after the docks were completed, Xiao Yu’s construction tasks entered a new phase. Spaceship construction began.Xiao Yu planned to build a total of three combat-type Continent-Class spaceships. This was not because of a shortage of materials or time, but because Continent-Class spaceships were only suitable as core presences. They were better suited for assaulting hard targets rather than open-field engagements. Suppose the materials for building one Continent-Class spaceship could instead build one million Village-Class spaceships. Then, when encountering a field battle, one million Village-Class spaceships would certainly play a stronger role than a single Continent-Class spaceship.

Also, the new-type computer increased Xiao Yu’s computing power twentyfold, but this did not mean his fleet size could also increase twentyfold on the basis of its previous peak. It was obvious that the more advanced a spaceship was, the more computing power it occupied. Therefore, in Xiao Yu’s plan, after this era of grand construction, his fleet size would reach roughly ten million ships. Adding the one to one and a half million ships reserved for the biological army, his total fleet size would be maintained at about eleven million ships.

For a fleet of eleven million ships, the appropriate number of Continent-Class spaceships was three. After all, Xiao Yu had to balance both assaulting hard targets and field battles. Large ships were a must, yet the number of small ships could not be lacking. Taking everything into account, Xiao Yu set the number of Continent-Class ships to three.

Xiao Yu had also decided on the names of these three Continent-Class spaceships, the Asia, the America, and the Europe. Among them, the Asia would be Xiao Yu’s flagship, made entirely from refined Alien Beast flesh and possessing the strongest performance. The America would be a general-purpose flagship, and the Europe would be the flagship of the biological army. These two ships would be made from ordinary materials. Their performance would not match the Asia, but they would still far exceed Nation-Class ships.

After Xiao Yu finalized the upcoming construction tasks, the intelligent being workers who had completed the dock construction turned to spaceship construction. At this moment, what they participated in building were Nation-Class or Province-Class spaceships, as well as Continent-Class Home ships used for habitation. For the combat-type Continent-Class spaceships, Xiao Yu did not intend to let any intelligent being workers participate. Especially for the Asia, Xiao Yu would not allow intelligent beings to so much as touch it. The entire process had to be manufactured by himself.

Although Xiao Yu knew very well that even if intelligent being workers were used to build the Asia it was unlikely to cause any trouble, he was unwilling to take even the slightest risk. For something this critical, his own vehicle was more reliable if built by his own hands. As for the Europe and the America, if he built them himself, he could also leave some backdoors according to his own wishes, so that in the event of an unexpected situation he could immediately seize the command authority of the ships.

At present, Xiao Yu already possessed breakthroughs in a new-type computer, a new-type engine, more efficient shields, weapons of far greater power, and higher maneuverability. Xiao Yu would apply all of these new technologies to the construction of the Continent-Class spaceships.

Especially during the war with the Molian Civilization, when he occupied that mining star system of the Molian Civilization, Xiao Yu obtained a large quantity of grade 1 metal. These materials could be used to build space weapons. Xiao Yu had already calculated that the reserves of this grade 1 metal were sufficient for him to build six high-power space weapons on the Asia, three space weapons each on the America and the Europe, and the remaining grade 1 metal could still arm at least ten Nation-Class spaceships.

Compared with the America and the Europe, Xiao Yu devoted even more care to the Asia. Anything good would be used on the Asia. Xiao Yu also had the intention to test things. He wanted to see, with his current technological level, what kind of performance the largest warship built by gathering all the best resources would show when facing other Level 5 Civilizations.

“I suppose that even if it cannot fight ten thousand alone, it should at least be able to fight a thousand alone.” Xiao Yu thought with full expectation. “In any case, when facing the Continent-Class spaceships of other Level 5 Civilizations, the Asia should definitely be able to suppress them, even destroy them in single combat. If it cannot do that, then all this advanced technology and space weapons would truly have been wasted.”

Xiao Yu did not believe that the other Level 5 Civilizations would possess spaceships with speeds as high as his. In Xiao Yu’s plan, all newly built ships would have a maximum speed of thirty-five times the speed of light. But note this point. This speed was achieved only after analyzing the spaceships of the Guardian Civilization for inspiration and making technological breakthroughs. Xiao Yu did not believe that other civilizations would also have Level 6 Civilization ships available for them to analyze.

That was one aspect. In computational science as well, Xiao Yu had absolute confidence that he could surpass the other Level 5 Civilizations.

Moreover, the Asia would also possess primary space weapons and a Four-Dimensional shield. With so much advanced equipment, if it still could not destroy the spaceships of other Level 5 Civilizations in single combat, then Xiao Yu might as well die.

In fact, even without deploying the Asia, with only the America and the Europe, Xiao Yu was confident he could completely suppress the Continent-Class spaceships of other civilizations.

The Asia was the first combat-type Continent-Class spaceship to start construction, and built alongside the Asia was a Continent-Class Home ship. With the intelligent being population growing at an almost explosive rate, Xiao Yu had begun to feel a bit of population pressure. In Xiao Yu’s estimation, the mere one hundred Nation-Class Home ships would only be able to support the population for less than two hundred more years. Intelligent beings were an extremely precious asset. It could well be that the ordinary infant born to some ordinary citizen of the Divine Ark Civilization in the next moment would later become a super-genius scientist capable of propelling the entire Divine Ark Civilization forward. Therefore, Xiao Yu would never implement population control. By comparison, he would rather spend time to build a hundred Continent-Class Home ships.

Time flowed slowly amid these busy construction tasks. In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years passed again.