Though this warship weighed over a hundred tons, it was still the smallest type of warship in Li Qingsong's plans, the most basic combat unit.
Li Qingsong called warships of this class "Mercury-class."
Mercury was the Major Planet closest to the Sun. From the inside outward came Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Once Li Qingsong built larger warships with greater combat capability in the future, they would be Venus-class, then Earth-class, and so on.
This Mercury-class Battleship carried seven clones.
Two clones served as machine gunners, operating two machine guns; two served as autocannon gunners, operating two autocannons.
There was also one missile operator, responsible for controlling eight Interstellar Missiles; one spacecraft pilot, responsible for flying the ship and controlling its attitude; and one Communications Officer.
Communication between Li Qingsong and the clones naturally required no instruments. However, the ship itself needed to exchange vast amounts of information with numerous logistics support systems, friendly forces, and others. This information also required a dedicated Communications Officer to handle.
While the ship was in flight, he continuously determined its positional coordinates, calculated the coordinates of enemy targets relative to them, the coordinates of friendly forces, the various coordinates relayed by higher combat units, and so on. He then converted them all into parameters for their own warship and provided them to the pilot, machine gunners, autocannon gunners, and missile operator for reference.
Besides them, there was one logistics support staff member.
Inside the cabin, he was responsible not only for first aid, emergency repairs, and logistics. If any of the other clones were too seriously injured to perform their duties, he would also have to step in and take on their combat roles.
That made seven clones in total.
Originally, they would also have needed a captain to