Untouchable

Having learned from the experience of Ross 154-4, humanity was extremely cautious this time, spending two months just on unmanned exploration.

For this unmanned exploration, on the way to Ross 154-7, humans used the inventory on Hope to produce more than ten artificial satellites.

Because artificial satellites are released directly into orbit, they do not need to be launched from the ground by rockets, which greatly reduces the difficulty.

While Ross 154-7 was being probed, its satellites were also within human detection range.

In fact, when humans first arrived in this Star System, they also launched artificial satellites towards this planet. Therefore, humans already possess some data about this planet, and with the detailed exploration over the past two months, even more detailed information about the planetary system has been stored in humanity's Central Computer.

The fears did not materialize; no anomalies like those of Ross 154-4 were discovered on this planet.

The entire planet Ross 154-7, including its moons, exists in a very natural state, with no signs of life or other phenomena deviating from planetary evolution models.

Because of the fate of Ross 154-4, humanity was previously worried that there might be signs of development on this planet as well, but now we can rest assured.

Humanity, which had long been thirsty for resources, launched an initial landing mission on the planet Ross 154-7, along with its moons, after exploring everything.

However, despite their desire for resources, humanity did not immediately embark on large-scale construction. Instead, they proceeded step by step, first sending a small number of personnel to build an initial base. Only after the initial construction was completed did the New Government increase its investment in personnel and equipment to carry out large-scale construction on the planet.

Although the conditions on this planet were not as good as those on Ross 154-4, fortunately, the landing and construction went without any unexpected incidents.

In this way, various types of factories and workshops gradually appeared on the planet's surface, centered around the base. Then, machines began to produce machines, and then more machines participated in the construction.

In just one year, humanity has completed the construction of all the basic factories, and geological exploration teams have also discovered many mineral deposits on the planet.

Although this planet is small and its mineral reserves are not as abundant as those of Ross 154-4, it has a fairly complete range of minerals, including gold, silver, copper, iron, tungsten, manganese, zinc, tin, and aluminum. Unfortunately, although humans have discovered several radioactive element deposits on Ross 154-7, the reserves are extremely scarce.

However, every cloud has a silver lining. While no large deposits of radioactive elements were found on the planet itself, three or four extremely rich and easily exploitable reserves were discovered on its moons. Therefore, humanity constructed a dedicated fission fuel extraction plant on the moons of Ross 154-7.

Another year passed.

Ross 154-7 has changed. The once barren ground has been transformed into a vast industrial landscape with countless factories built by humankind. Beyond these factories are wide, flat roads, where various types of vehicles speed along, transporting loads of different kinds of ore from the mines to the base.

After being refined in different types of factories and chemical plants, the raw ore enters other secondary and tertiary processing plants to become various parts. Then, the parts are assembled into modules of various types in the production workshop, and finally launched into space via a cargo Orbital Mass Accelerator.

With the assistance of the Artificial Intelligence "Tianhe Light" supercomputer, countless Artificial Intelligence robots have participated in large-scale construction projects, including unmanned pavers, unmanned road rollers, unmanned transport aircraft, unmanned mining vehicles, unmanned excavators, and unmanned transport vehicles. They handle key tasks on construction sites, while everything else is done by "Tianhe Light".

Since the Hope could not land on the planet's surface, in order not to disrupt construction efforts, humanity specially copied three intelligent 'Construction Module' programs from the original "Tianhe Light" onto the Hope. These modules were placed separately at the Ross 154-7 base, the Space Dock, and the Ross 154-7-1 satellite nuclear fission fuel plant.

Although the Artificial Intelligence "Tianhe Light" is based on traditional Artificial Intelligence, its intelligence level is extremely high, and it can learn and iterate on its own, making it the most powerful Artificial Intelligence currently available to humankind.

After years of iteration, the "Tianhe Light" supercomputer is basically capable of handling most tasks, and all the intelligent automation in the construction process is controlled by it.

This is one of the reasons why humans were able to build such a large industrial system so quickly with so few people.

With the assistance of the "Tianhe Light," humanity gradually recovered from the predicament of a thousand-year voyage.

Because there's no need to consider planetary environmental issues, human resource extraction has become almost destructive. Basically, easy-to-mine areas are simply dug out with a bunch of unmanned excavators and large mining machines, while slightly more difficult areas are immediately blasted with bombs.

We'll do whatever it takes to mine the fastest.

Anyway, a planet is big enough for humanity to squander as it pleases. If we really finish mining this planet, we can always go to Ross 154-6, which is also a Rocky Planet.

Of course, the resources of a single planet are already more than enough for humanity to squander.

After two years of exploration and calculation by relevant experts, the various minerals contained on the planet Ross 154-7 are more than enough to build a fleet for mankind.

Humans are capable of building a fleet, but they don't have enough manpower, and if they build too many, no one will be able to operate them.

But now that they had abundant resources and the dockyard had been built, the New Government changed the original plan to build one warship to three. After all, the Hope had three mounting positions, and the Space Dock had already been built, so they might as well make the most of it.

Once it's built, just attach it to the container. If no one's going to use it yet, it can be left as a resource warehouse.

After two years of hard work, humanity has finally emerged from the predicament of resource and energy scarcity and begun to move towards abundant resources.

Batch after batch of goods are launched into space by the cargo Orbital Mass Accelerator, and then sorted by the "Tianhe Light" fully automated system, sending them one by one to the next destination.

Those destined for the dock were assembled into warships, while those destined for the Hope were processed into various finished products.

All kinds of workshops on the Hope were also operating at full capacity. Clothing, towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes, toiletries and other daily necessities were continuously produced from their respective production workshops and then displayed in the Hope's merchandise compartment for people to take away in limited quantities for free.

With sufficient energy and resources, food became abundant, and large quantities of artificially synthesized starch were sent to food processing plants to be transformed into various kinds of pasta products.

Two years of repairs restored the Hope from its old and dilapidated state. On this basis, humans also expanded the Hope with three large discs: one for expanding the plantation, one for traditional Living Module, and the other for industrial areas.

After the expansion of the disc, the Hope's length increased from 980 meters to 1,300 meters. In order to propel the heavier Hope, the engineers also modified and upgraded its propulsion system.

In the past two years, the Military Industry Department has also manufactured the most powerful weapon currently in human hands.