Chapter Summaries

Li Qingsong began large-scale construction on Ganymede after completing its exploration, using the moon’s rich mineral deposits to establish power, mining, and manufacturing facilities. He also built a vast integrated food-production base capable of supplying all fifteen million clones, leaving the colony with ample power, materials, and food for further development.

• Li Qingsong left Earth’s ecology untouched and sent the landing ships back to the Aerospace Carrier, then returned his consciousness to the Jupiter System ahead of the fleet.
• After the exploration and construction plans for Ganymede were completed, Li Qingsong launched more than a thousand construction projects with over fifteen million clones.
• Li Qingsong built a massive uranium-fueled Nuclear Fission Power Plant and a nearby uranium mining and enrichment factory, then began supplying electricity across Ganymede.
• Li Qingsong completed a steel factory that produced around 200,000 tons of steel per day, followed by a precision Foundry and numerous other mines and factories.
• Li Qingsong established a huge integrated base for crops, livestock, aquaculture, and fungi cultivation, providing enough food for all the clones and additional industrial use.

Li Qingsong expanded industrial operations across Jupiter’s moons and identified slow, costly cargo transport as a major obstacle. He developed an ultrathin, exceptionally strong filament and prepared to build four space elevators.

• Shennong AI managed Ganymede’s integrated Grain Base, sharply reducing the number of clones needed for agriculture.
• Li Qingsong used Ganymede’s resources to expand construction across eight satellites, Jupiter’s Rings, and interplanetary space.
• Li Qingsong recognized that inefficient transport between planetary surfaces and space was limiting development and decided to build space elevators on the four major moons.
• After two years of materials research, Li Qingsong produced a fifty-micrometer filament that cut through a thick steel plate without being damaged.

Li Qingsong built a vast production base on Ganymede to manufacture enough Zero Fiber for a Space Elevator. After 2,500 production lines began operating, construction of the elevator’s ground anchoring system began, leaving the cable secured deep beneath Ganymede’s rock and ice.

• Li Qingsong calculated that 2,500 production lines could make enough material for a Space Elevator in two and a half years and ordered their construction.
• The Transportation AI and Construction AI directed vehicles and clones to level and reinforce a 300-square-kilometer site on Ganymede, completing the work in just over two months.
• Over two and a half years, Li Qingsong completed the Zero Fiber production base, including 2,500 production lines and their supporting facilities.
• All 2,500 production lines began operating, and nine 5,000-kilometer cables were welded together to form a 45,000-kilometer Space Elevator cable.
• Li Qingsong selected an equatorial site, excavated a deep shaft and underground anchoring layer, and secured one end of the cable there with an enormous anchor and reinforced concrete.

Li Qingsong completed Ganymede’s Space Elevator and put it into full operation, creating a high-capacity route between the surface and space. Cable Cars and cargo ships began carrying goods in both directions, leaving the elevator running at a scale that sharply reduced fuel needs.

• A spaceship raised the Space Elevator’s first cable 45,000 kilometers above Ganymede, where clones secured it to a ballast-loaded Heavy Cargo Ship.
• Li Qingsong’s crews added cables until the elevator reached its planned ten-meter diameter, then wrapped it in lightweight steel and completed the ground and space-side facilities.
• Li Qingsong prepared Cable Cars that used electromagnetic force to climb and descend the cable, carrying cargo between the surface and synchronous orbit.
• Li Qingsong calculated that the elevator could move about 140,000 tons each way per day using electricity instead of the enormous fuel supply previously needed for spacecraft.
• The Space Elevator began operating at full power as Cable Cars, Heavy-Load Trains, and Heavy Cargo Ships moved cargo between Ganymede’s surface and space.

After completing the four Space Elevators and building a unified industrial network across Jupiter’s system, Li Qingsong’s research made a major breakthrough. He produced the first 10 Nanometer chips, whose performance at least doubled compared with the previous generation.

• Li Qingsong increased Zero Fiber production and improved its performance, raising annual output to roughly 1.9 million tons.
• Over six years, Li Qingsong completed Space Elevators on all four major moons of Jupiter’s system.
• Li Qingsong built a vast industrial and resource-extraction network across Jupiter’s moons, rings, and surrounding space.
• Li Qingsong’s minor advances across scientific and industrial fields surpassed ten million, then exceeded that total again within three years.
• Li Qingsong produced a small batch of 10 Nanometer chips, increasing transistor count to ten billion and at least doubling performance.

After 10 Nanometer chips boosted Li Qingsong’s computing power, he focused on miniaturizing nuclear fission propulsion but found that progress was limited by a shortage of specialized researchers. Nuwa AI’s gene-editing plan offered a possible solution by increasing the number of clones he could connect to at once.

• Li Qingsong began mass-producing 10 Nanometer chips and shut down about ten factories that had produced obsolete 100-micrometer chips.
• Li Qingsong devoted his workforce to miniaturizing the Nuclear Fission Secondary-Pressurization Propulsion Module, which still weighed about 3,000 tons after three years of research.
• Li Qingsong concluded that further progress required more manpower and estimated that he needed a maximum consciousness connection count of at least 15 million.
• Nuwa AI simulated a new gene-editing plan that could improve clones’ brains and physical abilities, potentially raising Li Qingsong’s consciousness connection count from 10 million to 20 million.

After gene-edited clones were born with a consciousness-connection capacity of 100 million, far beyond the simulation’s prediction, Li Qingsong reorganized his plans to expand clone production and supporting infrastructure. Three years of intensive construction eased the immediate crisis, with his clone population reaching 110 million.

• Li Qingsong transferred his consciousness into a newly born clone and discovered its connection capacity was 100 million.
• Li Qingsong realized he needed roughly 200 million clones and ordered clone-production capacity expanded to 30 million per year, alongside food, housing, transport, and industrial infrastructure.
• Li Qingsong sent his 30 million existing clones into mines and factories to supply the construction effort, temporarily setting aside work on miniaturizing Nuclear Fission engines.
• In the first year, the first phase of the Clone Cultivation Factory began operating and started cultivating 5 million clone embryos.
• In the second year, Li Qingsong's clone population reached 41 million, another factory phase began cultivating 15 million embryos, and three integrated Grain Bases were completed.
• By the third year, the new Clone Cultivation Factory and Grain Bases were completed, and Li Qingsong's clone population had grown to 110 million.

Li Qingsong expanded his industrial system and research workforce across the Jupiter System, bringing his active consciousness links to one hundred million. After forty years of construction, the Nuclear Fission Propulsion Laboratory announced that its dual-source Secondary Pressurization Thruster had achieved preliminary miniaturization.

• Li Qingsong sent his eighty million simultaneously linked clones to build factories and expand transportation and infrastructure across the Jupiter System.
• The Clone Cultivation Factory began dispatching newly born clones continuously, and Li Qingsong’s total clone population reached about one hundred and fifty million.
• Li Qingsong maintained one hundred million active consciousness links while continuing to cultivate reserve clones.
• After forty years, construction expanded the base clusters and industrial system to five times their original size, and Li Qingsong assigned idle clones to operations and scientific research.
• The expanded research workforce drove minor technological advances into the millions on its first day of full operation.
• The Nuclear Fission Propulsion Laboratory reported that its Secondary Pressurization Thruster had shrunk from three thousand tons to two hundred and sixty tons while reaching roughly twice its original fuel efficiency.

Li Qingsong’s clones developed a fourteen-ton nuclear fission thruster for Mercury-class Battleships, bringing its performance up to the human world’s highest level and sharply reducing chemical fuel consumption. He turned next to miniaturizing fission thrusters for Interstellar Missiles and called for battleships that could match or surpass humanity in every system before another combat exercise.

• Li Qingsong directed his clones to launch a vast, costly research campaign to reduce the mass of nuclear fission propulsion modules.
• Ten years later, his researchers built a fourteen-ton fission thruster suitable for Mercury-class Battleships, with fuel utilization 20% better than the previous generation.
• Li Qingsong set his sights on shrinking fission thrusters enough to equip Interstellar Missiles.
• Widespread use of fission thrusters cut annual chemical fuel consumption from 1.06 billion tons to 620 million tons, with consumption expected to fall below 300 million tons the following year.
• Li Qingsong withheld the new Mercury-class and Venus-class Battleships from large-scale combat exercises because their systems remained far behind humanity’s best, and called for developing battleships that could match or surpass it overall.

With the Lantu Ke Civilization’s main fleet approaching, Li Qingsong expanded research into weapons, defenses, Wukong AI, and chip technology to strengthen the Solar System’s chances of survival. His teams mass-produced 7-nanometer chips and then achieved 5- and 3-nanometer breakthroughs, while Li Qingsong pushed them toward the 2-nanometer limit.

• Li Qingsong redirected research resources toward electromagnetic cannons, armor, radar, laser cannons, and automatic interception systems to improve spacecraft combat power.
• Li Qingsong decided to enhance Wukong AI by pursuing mass-produced 2-nanometer silicon-based chips and more powerful supercomputers.
• Millions of clones conducted chip research and factory experiments, rapidly validating new manufacturing methods.
• Li Qingsong’s teams achieved mass production of 7-nanometer chips, followed by breakthroughs in 5- and 3-nanometer technology.
• Li Qingsong ordered the clones to continue research toward 2-nanometer chips, hoping to maximize Wukong AI’s power before the Lantu Ke fleet arrived.

Li Qingsong overcame the technical obstacles to 2-nanometer chip manufacturing and stabilized a production line after six months of trial production. He used the first batch of usable chips to build a supercomputer as 100 new chip factories began production.

• Li Qingsong solved the short-channel leakage problem by developing a Gate-All-Around transistor design.
• Li Qingsong developed a new light source using Tin Droplets and a high-power Carbon Dioxide Laser, then created improved metal-oxide and organic-inorganic hybrid Photoresist and multilayer molybdenum-silicon mirrors.
• Li Qingsong resolved the remaining laboratory-scale manufacturing problems and found his list of technical obstacles empty.
• Li Qingsong upgraded a factory that had produced 3 Nanometer chips and spent half a year stabilizing its 2-nanometer production line.
• The factory produced its first batch of 2-nanometer chips at less than 10% yield, and Li Qingsong used around one million good chips to build a supercomputer.
• A full 100 newly built 2-nanometer chip factories began production.

Li Qingsong gave Wukong AI a supercomputer and then accelerated electromagnetic cannon research as his industrial and computing capabilities grew. After more than a decade of iteration, he completed the Eighth Generation Electromagnetic Cannon and prepared to test it.

• Li Qingsong entrusted his first supercomputer to Jade Emperor AI, improving coordination across the Jupiter System, and built a second for Wukong AI to run simulated battles.
• Li Qingsong reflected on his more than eighty years in the Jupiter System and continued developing warship technology at the Electromagnetic Weapon Research Base.
• Li Qingsong developed the First Generation Electromagnetic Cannon, then built a thousand units to gather data despite their poor performance and high power demands.
• Li Qingsong used the test data to develop successive generations of electromagnetic cannons, improving their performance through the Fifth Generation and beyond.
• After more than a decade, Li Qingsong completed the Eighth Generation Electromagnetic Cannon and moved on to testing it.

Li Qingsong tested his largest Eighth Generation Electromagnetic Cannon on Ganymede, proving it could destroy an ice mountain but consumed enormous amounts of power. After testing more cannon models, he learned that High-Speed Radar Technology had also achieved a breakthrough.

• Li Qingsong's clones connected the largest Electromagnetic Cannon to the power grid and loaded it with one million shells.
• Li Qingsong fired the cannon at an ice mountain, and its shells eventually toppled the peak.
• Li Qingsong noted that the five-hour test consumed 500,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, but considered the cost acceptable because Nuclear Fission Reactors could be carried aboard ships.
• Li Qingsong tested several more Electromagnetic Cannons against another ice mountain.
• Li Qingsong received news that High-Speed Radar Technology had achieved a breakthrough.

Li Qingsong tested a massive High-Speed Radar designed to detect tiny, fast Electromagnetic Cannon Shells and confirmed it had made a crucial step toward meeting battlefield requirements. The chapter left him needing to optimize the radar and develop the firing and computing systems required to intercept detected shells.

• Li Qingsong determined that spaceships needed High-Speed Radar to detect tiny, fast Electromagnetic Cannon Shells before they could be intercepted.
• Li Qingsong devoted decades and more than a million clones to developing a radar powerful enough to detect the shells.
• Li Qingsong tested the building-sized radar during an hour-long barrage, and it captured precise trajectory and velocity data for 1.6 million of more than two million shells.
• Li Qingsong concluded that the radar was about 80% developed but still needed optimization, while interception required integrated computing, a turret, and either electromagnetic shells or laser cannons.
• Rainbow announced that updates would be posted in two daily time slots, with three at 12 o'clock and two at 18 o'clock.

Li Qingsong developed defensive electromagnetic cannons and tested an offensive laser cannon that could burn through a battleship’s armor from one thousand kilometers away. He concluded ship-mounted lasers would remain effective only within roughly three thousand kilometers, then turned to testing defensive laser cannons.

• Li Qingsong designed compact defensive electromagnetic cannons that fired tiny shells at high rates to intercept incoming projectiles.
• Li Qingsong developed offensive and defensive laser cannon models after decades of work on power generation, cooling, and beam divergence.
• Li Qingsong fired a high-energy offensive laser at a retired Mercury-class Battleship one thousand kilometers above Ganymede.
• The laser burned through the battleship’s armor in half a minute, causing gas to leak and the ship to lose power.
• Li Qingsong concluded that the largest ship-mounted laser cannons could be destructive within roughly three thousand kilometers, then began testing defensive laser cannons.

Li Qingsong identified the High-Speed Swivel as the last missing component for a modern warship, but found its aiming precision and reaction speed far below combat requirements. After concluding that better materials were needed to break the precision limit, he launched a massive program to test new material formulas.

• Li Qingsong completed preliminary development of Defensive Laser Cannons and mastered all four offensive and defensive cannon types.
• After optimizing the High-Speed Radar, Li Qingsong recognized that a High-Speed Swivel was still needed to aim weapons quickly and precisely.
• Li Qingsong calculated that weapons needed one-hundred-thousandth-of-a-degree precision to hit targets 50 kilometers away, far beyond his current technology.
• Li Qingsong concluded that tougher, more wear-resistant materials and improved metalworking were necessary to advance the swivel.
• Li Qingsong established five hundred thousand materials research teams, each with two clones testing a different formula.

After decades of research, Li Qingsong developed a working High-Speed Swivel and completed the final component needed for a modern interception system. He then assembled the first Mercury-class Battleship, marking a major advance in his warship technology.

• Li Qingsong used high-pressure-forged steel alloyed with niobium to build a High-Speed Swivel that accurately tracked targets on a violently shaking test platform.
• He decided to establish mining bases to secure more niobium and identified the Data Processing System as the interception system's last remaining component.
• Because his mass-produced 2-nanometer chips could handle the necessary calculations, Li Qingsong considered the main obstacles to a modern warship overcome.
• Li Qingsong ordered sixteen thousand component factories to produce the parts for a real modern warship, and they delivered them to the Vacuum Assembly Workshop within five days.
• With Divine Craftsman AI's assistance, more than a hundred clones assembled the spacecraft over ten days, completing the first Mercury-class Battleship.
• Li Qingsong examined the sixteen-meter-wide, disk-shaped warship and recognized that his warship technology had surpassed that of past Human Civilization.

Li Qingsong completed and tested an intelligent Mercury-class Battleship equipped with the Tactical Wukong AI, advanced weapons, sensors, armor, and propulsion. After the ship returned when it ran out of fuel, he decided to begin large-scale construction of Mercury-, Venus-, and even Earth-class Battleships.

• Li Qingsong equipped the new Mercury-class Battleship with improved propulsion, armor, radar, weapons, communications, and a compact supercomputer.
• The Tactical Wukong AI enabled the battleship to coordinate with nearby ships and fight autonomously, even when communications were unavailable.
• Li Qingsong sent the battleship through space to maneuver and attack under the control of a clone linked to his consciousness.
• After the battleship exhausted its fuel and returned, Li Qingsong ordered large-scale construction of Mercury-, Venus-, and Earth-class Battleships.

Li Qingsong designed and built the first Earth-class Battleship, a heavily armed spacecraft intended to anchor the battlefield with powerful weapons, defenses, communications, and endurance. After overcoming thousands of technical obstacles, he began its maiden voyage.

• Li Qingsong completed the Earth-class Battleship's blueprint, envisioning it as a durable, long-range battlefield command vessel.
• Li Qingsong and the laboratories overcame more than ten thousand technical obstacles while specialized factories prepared for construction.
• The factories built the first Earth-class Battleship, a 16,000-ton spacecraft equipped with thousands of defensive weapons and an extensive array of cannons and lasers.
• Li Qingsong took control of the completed War Behemoth as it began its first voyage.

Li Qingsong tested the first Earth-class Battleship in combat and named it Zi Wei after it proved able to destroy a Mercury-class fleet and a massive asteroid fragment. Satisfied with its performance, he planned a fleet of more than seventy-five thousand spacecraft, including fifty Earth-class Battleships.

• The Earth-class Battleship escaped Ganymede and tested its maneuverability before more than one hundred Mercury-class Battleships attacked it.
• The Earth-class Battleship used its radar network and weapons to annihilate the attacking Mercury-class fleet, suffering only minor damage.
• Li Qingsong sent the Earth-class Battleship to Jupiter's Rings, where it destroyed a two-hundred-meter fragment with electromagnetic cannon fire.
• Li Qingsong named the battleship Zi Wei and planned seven more Earth-class Battleships named after the Big Dipper's stars.
• Li Qingsong began planning a fleet of more than seventy-five thousand spacecraft, including Mercury-class, Venus-class, and Earth-class Battleships and auxiliary ships.