Construction log--
Planet 6 framework mission progress: 0.0000000010%
Inside Planet 6, in normal space.
In the darkness, countless probes furiously broke down the rock layers.
The satellite swarm supplied vast amounts of scanning and positioning data, allowing the Molecular Robots to pinpoint their locations.
First, they opened channels three centimeters in diameter inside the planet.
Then the Molecular Robots assembled into instruments, breaking down matter around the designated channels to leave pitch-black passages ten centimeters in diameter.
The printing probes shone with blue light, spraying atomic material onto rods one millimeter in diameter.
Miniature controllable magnetic fields manipulated the atoms, rapidly assembling them.
The slender framework, just one millimeter in diameter, grew rapidly.
Yet that single millimeter could withstand a million tons of force.
The skeleton of the entire planetary factory expanded from that initial one-millimeter diameter.
The rectangular Ark appeared within the star system, in Planet 5's outer orbit.
Its massive hull began approaching the planet.
From the outside, Planet 5 was entirely black.
The planet was roughly spherical but irregular, having also been caught in the Third-Generation Warship's attack.
It measured 10,000 kilometers in diameter, with a total mass of approximately 5.5 sextillion tons.
The planet was composed primarily of rock, but its interior contained two percent more metal than Planet 6.
Planet 5 likewise had no atmosphere or liquid water. Its magnetic field was only one-tenth as strong as Water Blue Star's, and its gravity was only 92 percent of Water Blue Star's.
Yet on this once barren, freezing planet, the arrival of Luo Qi had brought one structure of civilization after another rising from the ground.
Tens of thousands of flying builders were constantly replicating themselves.
Others were constructing ground facilities, Aircraft, satellites, and other creations.
The busy multipurpose Aircraft rose from and returned to