The total number of 75,000 ships is the result of Li Qingsong's comprehensive calculation based on his current maximum number of consciousness connections, as well as the corresponding engineering strength, technological level, etc. A fleet of this size is almost the limit of what he can currently support. Over the years, Li Qingsong's maximum number of consciousness connections has been slowly increasing along with the development of biotechnology and the continuous improvement and enhancement of Nuwa AI. Although there has never been a huge increase like the previous one from 10 million to 100 million, there have always been small increases, such as a few tenths of a percent each time. Almost every new generation of clones will have more or less improvements. In this case, Li Qingsong's maximum number of consciousness connections has now increased to 120 million. Li Qingsong believes that in a normal social intelligent civilization, the ratio of its total population to the population that is completely off-duty and engaged in military industry and combat-related activities can be as high as about one hundred to one. That is, a civilization with a population of 120 million can support about million military personnel. On average, it takes 100 people to support one soldier. After all, soldiers are completely off-duty. They do not produce any resources themselves, but they can consume a large amount of resources. The fuel for the spacecraft, the manufacturing of the equipment, the salaries of the personnel, even the electricity and equipment used for research, etc., all of them are extremely expensive.
100 people can support one soldier, and this is when technology is highly developed, resources are abundant, and productivity is highly improved. Among this 1 percent of military-related personnel, the vast majority are responsible for logistics, maintenance, production, scientific research, training, and civilian duties. The ratio of front-line combat personnel to total military personnel is approximately 1 to 50. That is to say, it takes 50 military personnel to support one front-line combatant. Thus, this civilization with a total population of 120 million and million military-related personnel can probably support 24,000 front-line combatants. Taking into account factors such as rest and rotation, even if all of these 24,000 front-line combat personnel operate Mercury-class battleships, given that one Mercury-class battleship requires eight people to control, they can only support a fleet of 3,000 Mercury-class battleships. But don't forget that a Mercury-class ship is operated by eight clones, which is something only Li Qingsong can do. If it were an ordinary intelligent civilization, it would probably take at least 16 people. As a result, the size of the fleet shrank again, to only 1,500 ships. If it were an Earth-class battleship, Li Qingsong would need 688 clones to operate it, and an ordinary civilization would need at least 1,300 people, which would mean less than 20 ships could be supported. But for Li Qingsong, the situation is different. The reason is simple. The clone society under Li Qingsong is completely deformed. The entire society has almost no consumption other than scientific research, military and basic life maintenance. No wages, no entertainment, no leisure, no waste. In the whole society, resource utilization has almost reached its limit. Under this circumstance, although the effective total population is only 120 million, Li Qingsong can support the consumption of 12 million military industry-related personnel, with a ratio of one to ten, which is ten times more than that of ordinary civilizations! These 12 million military industry-related personnel can support approximately million front-line combat personnel. The ratio is still one to ten, which is five times that of ordinary civilization! The total amount is fifty times. According to this algorithm, although Li Qingsong has only 120 million people at the moment, in terms of military alone, it can roughly be equivalent to an ordinary intelligent civilization with a population of 6 billion. In fact, Li Qingsong believes that a more accurate estimate should be around 10 billion. The reason is very simple. Ordinary civilizations can achieve the above proportions because the entire civilization is united and internal friction and waste are greatly reduced.
With a little waste, the total population size would increase a lot to support the same proportion of front-line combatants. If we take into account scientific research, industrial capacity, the contribution of each effective population and many other aspects, Li Qingsong even believes that this number will increase three times, and only an ordinary civilization with a population of 30 billion can be compared with himself. It is for this reason that Li Qingsong dared to build a huge fleet with a total size of more than 75,000 spacecraft of various types at a time when there was only 120 million effective population! This goal was so grand and so huge that even Li Qingsong had to go all out. Under his control, the entire Jupiter system was truly busy. A total of about 220 million clones take turns to rest and work, ensuring that there are 120 million clones at work at all times. In many newly built mines, under the unified coordination of the Jade Emperor AI and the maintenance and decision-making of countless clones, countless machines are roaring, and large amounts of minerals are continuously produced. They are then processed on-site and then sent along the railway lines to the space elevator base or to another factory. Thousands of transport and passenger ships shuttled back and forth in the space routes, like threads connecting every planet and every base; In uranium enrichment plants, tens of millions of high-speed centrifuges are running non-stop, extracting uranium 235 from natural uranium, which is either used as fuel for power stations or transported to spacecraft to power them. With this comprehensive support, Li Qingsong truly realized the assembly line manufacturing of various types of spacecraft. A spacecraft is made up of tens of millions of parts, and the tens of thousands of factories involved are running non-stop. High-speed radar modules, chips, supercomputing modules, electromagnetic guns, laser gun modules, propulsion modules, fission reactor modules... And so on and so forth, endless parts converge on a total of 100 assembly plants. Among so many final assembly plants, 80 are dedicated to the production of Mercury-class battleships, 15 are dedicated to the production of Venus-class battleships, and 5 are dedicated to the production of Earth-class battleships. This production capacity was carefully calculated by Li Qingsong. Only in this way can the production speed of each level of warships meet expectations. Under such circumstances, all new equipment was adopted, whether it was the propulsion system, defensive weapons, or detection and offensive systems, all of which were the most advanced and most powerful warships at the current stage and were produced in an endless stream. Before his fleet was fully completed and only about 3,000 warships were produced, Li Qingsong had already started the next step. Actual combat drill! It’s a real combat drill with real guns and live ammunition, in which a large number of clones will die and a large number of warships will be destroyed! The existing total of about 3,000 warships are divided into two parts. With each part having an Earth-class battleship as its flagship, they are heading to the deep space in a mighty force, and a war is about to break out.