Long Spear
"My true body is a Horcrux, left on Earth. Even if I die, I can be resurrected through the Horcrux," Lucas said.
An automated program was certainly not as reliable as having a wizard directly operate it.
But Murphy shook his head. "The long-range connection between a Horcrux and its physical vessel may also have a distance limit. Besides, there's no proof that this connection travels faster than light. Once your body gets far enough away, there may still be a delay."
"But there may not be any delay," Lucas said.
"It hasn't come to that yet," Murphy said. "There's no need to consider a self-sacrifice plan now."
And so the matter was settled. With their previous lunar landing experience, there were no major problems with the rocket or loading the nuclear weapons. The Apparition device capable of teleporting a rocket weighing over a thousand tons still posed some development challenges, but with the Time Accelerator's help, everything was completed within a month.
Murphy equipped the rocket with a powerful computational core. Its hardware consisted of a small supercomputer made up of hundreds of neuromorphic chips, while its software was a large-model super AI centered around a portrait soul. In every respect, its intelligence was no inferior to any human's.
The rocket itself was modified from the Energia super-heavy rocket. With the Undetectable Extension Charm, it could hold ten 150-megaton hydrogen bombs—they had not used the Shrinking Charm because past experiments had shown that it could cause an atomic bomb to accidentally reach criticality and detonate on its own, while a hydrogen bomb's trigger was itself an atomic bomb.
Fully loaded, the Energia weighed three thousand tons. That was after the Undetectable Extension Charm had greatly reduced the fuel mass, yet under the super AI's control, it could