Chapter 422 Grand Fleet Plan

If there is a track, there is a track. This is not unacceptable. As long as it can succeed, it will allow humans to master the navigation technology that a third-level civilization should have.

Yue Yuan stood up and floated to the porthole to look at the outer space. What came into his eyes was a sci-fi scene that he already felt was very normal.

Tianqin was in the satellite orbit of one of the planets in this star system at this moment. It happened to be the time when Tianqin appeared from behind the satellite, so from Yue Yuan's perspective, looking at the distant planet, he saw a huge yellow surface ball rising from the edge of the satellite arc.

At first it was just a convex half arc, then it became larger and larger, and finally floated completely into the dark background of space, looking lonely and beautiful.

The light from several astronomical units behind was sprinkled on the satellite, and then the shadow of the satellite was reflected on the planet. Although it was very far away, Yue Yuan could still distinguish the light and dark changes brought by the shadow of the satellite with his naked eyes.

And between the light and dark changes, there were flickering bright spots floating, just like the stars twinkling in it, which was very beautiful.

However, those are not real stars, but various human spaceships shuttling there. They are all operated by strong artificial intelligence and bring various resources from the planet to humans in a fully automated mode.

You can see the shapes of these bright spots after approaching. They are transport ships loaded with cargo, which continuously deliver raw materials to the space resource processing base not far away.

This so-called space resource processing base is actually a gathering place for many factory-type spaceships of humans. The mined raw materials will be sent to these spaceships to be processed into semi-finished products or finished products, and then transported to other functional spaceships required or space docks and residential spaceship clusters not far away.

Humans already have specialized mechanical technology, and now with the blessing of strong artificial intelligence, it is even more powerful. The productivity level of the entire human society has increased by more than a hundred times compared with before.

With such a strong productivity blessing, the entire space area where humans are located seems extremely busy. Various spaceships and transport ships keep going back and forth between various planets, and each performs its duties under the multi-threaded deployment of strong artificial intelligence.

If you observe it yourself, you can see that the most frequent gathering place of these various spaceships, transport ships, engineering ships, etc. is a large structure that is just beginning to take shape.

The main frame of this structure has appeared. It is eighteen kilometers long from head to tail and about ten kilometers in all directions. Although it is huge, it is actually a hollow structure.

If you are an insider, you will know what this is when you see this scene. Yes, this is the modular and movable space dock that humans are building.

Because the magnetic propulsion device that has been designed is very large, the original warships can no longer accommodate it, so humans must have larger ships, and if they want to build larger ships, they need larger space docks.

In fact, at the current technological level of humans, they do not need space docks and can use other engineering ships to use mechanical arms in space to build new ships step by step, but that is very cumbersome and chaotic, and not suitable for mass production.

And the ships that humans want to build must not be built only one, so space docks are necessary. Not only is it necessary, if the sample ship test is successful, humans will also build more space docks to mass-produce more warships and new residential spacecraft and various types of ships.

This is part of the Grand Fleet Plan.

At a previous plenary meeting, the leadership agreed that the emergence of new propulsion will inevitably lead humans to another level. All current warships can no longer meet the needs, so a comprehensive replacement and upgrade is required.

Obviously, the leadership is very confident in the magnetic propulsion technology. After all, the model test has passed and the feasibility has been proven. When the sample is tested, it only needs to be optimized and improved, and humans will have real magnetic propulsion technology.

Based on this, the Grand Fleet Plan was proposed at the conference.

According to the fleet structure adjustment plan of the previous command, the conference divided the Grand Fleet Plan into three steps. The first step is that after completing all the tests of the sample warships, humans must first build 100 new warships.

These 100 new warships are all operated by humans, and all are equipped with a military-specific strong artificial intelligence.

The second step is to use these 100 new warships as the basis, and each new warship will be used as the flagship to horizontally develop 10,000 unmanned warships controlled by strong artificial intelligence, and then form 100 fleets. Each fleet has about 10,000 warships, a total of 1 million warships.

The third step is to comprehensively upgrade the residential spacecraft, engineering spacecraft, factory spacecraft, and biosphere spacecraft to meet the needs of human beings and civilization development.

In order to carry out this plan, humans must build enough space docks before this. So the scenes that Yue Yuan sees now are all the preparation stages of the plan.

In the preparation stage alone, there are no less than 100,000 unmanned spacecrafts of various functions coming and going in space, and the entire space area is in a busy scene.

If you look at the various planets in this galaxy, it is not difficult to find that there are pictures of various types of human aircraft and various types of bases on each planet.

One set of space elevators after another transports materials day and night, and the orbital mass accelerator also plays its own role in the process of transporting large objects.

After the emergence of strong artificial intelligence, the number of human space elevators and orbital mass accelerators has rapidly developed from single digits to hundreds.

And this is only the scale formed in the preparation stage of the Grand Fleet Plan.

It is foreseeable that when the Grand Fleet Plan really begins, this starry sky will be busier, and the collision of steel, the beauty of machinery, and the power of intelligence will be meaningfully performed in this starry sky.

And humans are the leaders of all this.

According to the conference's prediction, after the completion of the Grand Fleet Plan, the total number of human fleets will be about two million, including various types of spacecraft such as warships and residential spacecraft.

Of course, it does not mean that the scale of human fleets will stop here. Because the Grand Fleet Plan is only the early stage of human development at this stage, mainly because the military feels that one million warships are still too few.

Especially the officers currently in service, they believe that they should expand based on the current Lake-class battleships. Humans now have two fleets with a total of about 2,500 Lake-class battleships.

The crew of each battleship should become the backbone of the flagship in the new battleship formation, because they have rich combat experience.

If this is the case, then the number of human warships will eventually reach 25 million, or even more.