Aside from Manned Warships, there was the production of Unmanned Warships.
Unmanned Warships were divided into various models according to their different tactical roles and produced simultaneously. Their ultimate goal remained to amass the largest possible quantity in the shortest amount of time.
The third was the production of Clones.
Li Qingsong planned to increase the number of Clones to over 20 billion within the next two hundred years or so. Only such a quantity of Clones could sustain the combat operations and attrition of the massive fleet of Mercury-class Warships.
Fourth, and most critical, was the manufacturing of Hydrogen Bombs!
Previously, in the Oriental Star System and the last system they had stopped in, Li Qingsong had manufactured a large number of Hydrogen Bombs to create traps. The Hydrogen Bomb trap in the Oriental Star System had been a success, causing immense losses to the Intelligent Mechanical Calamity Fleet.
The trap in the last star system had failed, clearly because the Intelligent Mechanical Calamity Fleet was now on guard.
Now, if he were to deploy a large number of Hydrogen Bombs in this Star System, the Intelligent Mechanical Calamity Fleet would almost certainly not fall for it.
But that didn't matter. Li Qingsong had his own plans.
This time, Li Qingsong was going to manufacture even more Hydrogen Bombs—at least 50 billion of them. And in addition to the most conventional, low-yield Hydrogen Bombs, he also planned to produce numerous high-yield ones.
Theoretically, the yield of a Hydrogen Bomb could be infinitely large.
After all, stars like the Sun or Pegasus V432 could, in essence, be considered massive Hydrogen Bombs.
But theory and engineering are sometimes different. Limited by engineering complexity and cost, Li Qingsong ultimately set the yield of a single high-yield Hydrogen Bomb at one billion tons of TNT.
A single such Hydrogen Bomb would require about 50 tons of deuterium-tritium gas just for the fusion reaction. Combined with the small atomic bomb trigger and other devices, the total mass of one Hydrogen Bomb reached around 200 tons, nearly equivalent to a Mercury-class Warship.
Li Qingsong planned to manufacture over 10 billion of these large Hydrogen Bombs alone, with a total mass of about two trillion tons.
To put that into perspective, when Li Qingsong first left the Solar System to begin the migration, his fleet's total mass was only just over 400 billion tons.
Now, just a single sub-task within the Hydrogen Bomb construction project—the building of large Hydrogen Bombs—would have a total mass five times that of the original migratory fleet from the Solar System.
Even the migratory fleet at the time of their departure from the Oriental Star had a total mass of less than ten trillion tons.
And that ten trillion tons of mass had sustained Li Qingsong's thousand-year-long flight, the continuous scientific research during their escape, countless experiments, and the survival needs of billions of Clones and Blutuk People.
But these Hydrogen Bombs were the core of Li Qingsong's next plan. No matter how immense the construction task, it had to be completed.
Fortunately, Li Qingsong's current industrial capacity had once again improved significantly compared to the past.
This wasn't just due to the increase in his maximum number of consciousness connections, but also the improvement in supercomputer performance.
During the thousand-plus years of flight, Li Qingsong had never abandoned scientific research. Technology in various fields, including Quantum Supercomputer technology, had made great strides. The Quantum Supercomputers Li Qingsong built this time had higher computing power, better compatibility with the intelligent AI, and were more powerful overall.
By a rough estimate, a new-generation Quantum Supercomputer of the same scale would have an overall performance at least 2.5 times greater than the ones used during the flight.
With these new supercomputers, how much would the performance of the Divine Craft AI increase, and by how much would Li Qingsong's industrial strength grow?
Moreover, the time frame for construction was also longer this time.
No matter how fast that Intelligent Mechanical Calamity was, Li Qingsong estimated he had at least 200 years.
After confirming these four production tasks, massive-scale production began immediately, operated by over a billion Clones, supported by a vast number of supercomputers, and under the direct control of the Divine Craft AI.
On the smallest gas giant, Li Qingsong deployed a total of over five million Jupiter Planes, and their numbers were still increasing rapidly.
He chose the smallest gas giant as the collection site for deuterium gas because it had the lowest gravity and, by comparison, the mildest environment. Although it was still far, far harsher than Jupiter in the Solar System, it was at least within the tolerance range of the Jupiter Planes.
A single Jupiter Plane could collect about 4 tons of deuterium gas per day on average. With five million of them, and accounting for losses, that amounted to 19.5 million tons a day, or about 7 billion tons a year.
Adding in other energy sources and materials, the mass that needed to be transported from the gas giant to other planets each year easily exceeded a trillion tons.
Assuming a heavy transport ship could carry ten million tons of materials in a single trip, transporting just the materials from the gas giant would require one hundred thousand heavy transport ship sorties!
But this was only a small fraction of the total materials Li Qingsong needed to transport.
All sorts of primary minerals—iron ore, tin ore, titanium ore, aluminum ore—as well as various components, chemical products, and so on, constituted the bulk of the transportation needs.
And so, in the vastness of space, under the watchful gaze of the bright Pegasus V432 Star and surrounded by thousands of asteroids, a transport fleet composed of tens of thousands of heavy transport ships bustled along the space lanes day and night, never resting.
Construction on the planets was even more frantic.
Colossal fusion power plants constantly supplied a surging tide of electricity—an amount unimaginable to the past Human Civilization, or even the Blutuk Civilization—powering one factory after another in a frenzy of operation.
Supplied with components from numerous factories, a single Hydrogen Bomb production line could produce an average of two small-to-medium-yield Hydrogen Bombs per hour, each with a yield of 10 million tons of TNT.
A Hydrogen Bomb was no small toy; it was a bona fide, large-scale, high-tech industrial product.
A large factory with a plant floor covering hundreds of thousands of square meters would have only a single production line.
And Li Qingsong had built a full fifteen thousand of these large factories!
The factories for producing Mercury-class Warships were even more massive.
A single factory occupied up to several dozen square kilometers, or tens of millions of square meters.
One such factory could produce a full 50 of the latest model Mercury-class Warships per day—vessels that incorporated all the technology Li Qingsong had accumulated over the past two thousand years, with a tech level that had truly reached the pinnacle of an Electroweak Civilization.
And Li Qingsong had also built several hundred of these factories.
As for the rest—factories producing Clones, Unmanned Warships, unmanned combat equipment, and so on—there were countless other types.
And each of these end-product factories was connected upstream to anywhere from dozens to tens of thousands of other factories.
This almost innumerable quantity of factories carried out what could only be described as frenzied production under Li Qingsong's unified control.
This situation continued for over 190 years without a moment's pause.
Until, at this moment, a dim star once again appeared in the vast, dark sky.