The advancement of basic physics needs to be completed within the galaxy, because only here are there enough material supplies. However, subsequent research at the level of applied physics, as well as the research and development of various facilities, can be completely completed in space.
Other civilizations can't do this, but Li Qingsong can. Moreover, Li Qingsong had already truly verified this point during the previous two thousand years of long voyage.
Then, what Li Qingsong is going to do next is very obvious.
Not technology research and development, not fleet upgrades—at this stage, Li Qingsong has not yet mastered any strong nuclear-level application technology, and there is no way to upgrade the fleet, but…
To collect materials on a large scale again, to build empty shell disguised fleets on a large scale again, and then, escape into the starry sky!
Once separated from the star system and entered the starry sky, then, even the Mechanoid Scourge fleet will not be able to track itself in a short time.
In this way, I will have the time to break through basic physics and transform it into breakthroughs in industry and combat power.
So, at this moment when large-scale scientific research has come to an end, the massive number of factories still has not stopped, but has instead entered into more efficient operation.
This time, the material reserve work that Li Qingsong is going to carry out far exceeds any previous one.
The reason is very simple. If technology is improved, and you want to conduct scientific research again to further improve technology, the amount of materials needed will naturally be greater.
The last time he set sail, plus the weight of the spaceship itself, the total mass of Li Qingsong's fleet was about 10 trillion tons.
And this time, not counting the weight of the spaceship itself, Li Qingsong plans to reserve about 200 trillion tons of materials alone!
Even with such a large scale of reserve materials, Li Qingsong's calculations show that it is barely enough.
If time wasn't so tight, Li Qingsong would even want to bring more materials.
However, even the current 200 trillion tons of materials have brought a huge challenge to Li Qingsong.
That is, how to bring so many materials…?
The maximum load-bearing weight of a giant space carrier is about several hundred million tons.
Doesn't 200 trillion tons of materials mean hundreds of thousands of space carriers?
Space carriers are not Mercury-class battleships, and it is not easy to build hundreds of thousands of them.
Which space carrier doesn't take a long time and is difficult to manufacture?
Even if Li Qingsong devotes all the remaining time to the construction of space carriers, it is impossible to build hundreds of thousands of them.
Even with Li Qingsong's industrial strength, he is unable to cope with such a large-scale construction.
Even if Li Qingsong completes the breakthrough in the biological branch based on the Grand Unified Formula in the future, doubling the current billion consciousness connection number again to 3 billion, he will not be able to complete such a huge construction task.
This is simply not something a strong nuclear-level civilization can do.
Then…
Li Qingsong gritted his teeth and made a decision.
Then I won't build space carriers!
I want to build a Flying Star!
After determining this plan, those transport ships that were originally carrying a large amount of materials to converge on the fleet immediately changed their course and came to a void area far away from any large celestial body.
Here, about 10 million tons of steel were unloaded and directly thrown into space.
Depending on the type of use, some of these steels are in the shape of steel ingots, some are steel plates, and some are steel coils, steel bars, and other different types.
They are packed in huge containers, each container having a volume of about 300 cubic meters, with a total of more than 4,000.
Using a fixed mode of connecting pieces, these containers are fixed into a huge non-standard sphere with a radius of about 100 meters, quietly suspended in space.
They are the "core" of the Flying Star.
Outside this core, one heavy transport ship after another flew from various planets, taking various materials stored in various modes, such as protium gas, deuterium gas, and helium-3 gas in huge gas storage tanks, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and other chemical products in huge chemical tanks, various plastics, biological products, machinery in containers, huge steel ingots, aluminum ingots, tin blocks, gold, silver, copper, iron, etc., little by little, stacked on the core of the Flying Star.
Like rolling a snowball, under Li Qingsong's continuous "feeding", the core of the Flying Star gradually grew, gradually developed, and became larger and larger.
In its continuous "development", Li Qingsong also reserved various pipelines and channels to ensure that even the materials pressed in the most core area could be easily taken out.
Countless mines and factories on multiple planets roared day and night, the heavy-duty railway lines to the space elevator roared with trains all day long, and a large amount of materials, like water in a water pump, were constantly "pumped" from the surface of the planet to space by the space elevator, and then entered into heavy-duty transport ships.
One transport ship after another, like diligent bees, collected "nectar" from afar and gathered it at the construction site of the Flying Star.
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Every time a heavy transport ship arrives, the Flying Star grows a little and becomes a little bigger.
On average, more than 1,500 heavy transport ships arrive every day, more than sixty ships every hour, almost one ship in less than a minute!
Each heavy transport ship transports materials starting at ten million tons. The types are varied and all-encompassing.
From the spoons used by clones to eat, to the propulsion system assembly of spaceships, the total number of categories is almost as high as tens of millions!
In short, everything that the fleet might use during deep space navigation is being stockpiled in large quantities and piled up on this "Flying Star" as if it were free.
Li Qingsong was busy in this way, with one heavy transport ship arriving in less than a minute, for a full thirty-two years.
With such a mass of various materials piled up, it even created a planet out of thin air.
The average density of this planet is about grams per cubic centimeter—the reason why the density is so low is because Li Qingsong has stored a very large amount of lighter gases such as protium and deuterium in it.
Its radius reaches 50 kilometers, and the whole maintains a spherical shape.
A near-spherical celestial body with a radius of 50 kilometers, to put it bluntly, whether in terms of volume or density, has exceeded most of the planets in this galaxy.
Even an asteroid with a length of more than 100 kilometers has a much smaller overall volume than the planet that Li Qingsong created at this moment because it is not a sphere.
This is a real spaceship planet, which Li Qingsong referred to as, the Flying Star!
