Supported by the first batch of ten thousand quantum-powered supercomputers, Li Qingsong's construction progress truly entered a phase that could only be described as insane.
On the dozens of larger planets that Li Qingsong had selected, which were of a size that achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, and on the smaller asteroids that, while not massive enough to become spherical, still possessed some value, countless intelligent machines, intelligent devices, and intelligent robots belonging to Li Qingsong began constructing day and night without rest.
Indeed, with the quantum computers put into use and the intelligence of Divine Craftsman AI greatly enhanced, Li Qingsong finally possessed a new type of production tool: the humanoid general-purpose multi-functional robot!
Originally, Li Qingsong also had a large number of robots, but those robots were usually only able to stay in one fixed location, undertaking fixed work tasks.
But now the situation was different. Higher intelligence made the emergence of general-purpose humanoid robots possible.
They could not only replace clones working on the front lines in heavy, dangerous, and harsh environments, but also make independent decisions, autonomously coordinate, and complete tasks more intelligently and efficiently.
During this phase, the vast majority of clones were finally able to withdraw from the front lines and enter comfortable, spacious, and well-lit control bases to work.
They only needed to sit in front of computers or lie in intelligent pods, contributing their brainpower under Li Qingsong's unified coordination. Unless there were special circumstances, they no longer needed to go to the front lines of work.
Even the Jupiter planes and transit platforms flying within Altair A could finally be fully staffed by robots instead of clones, finally freeing the clones from enduring the torment of gravity ten times that of Earth.
From this moment on, the clones collecting deuterium resources only needed to work in the orbit around Altair A, controlling the Jupiter planes through remote control, assisted by Divine Craftsman AI.
There was originally no gravity here, but suitable gravity could be created as needed through self-rotation. The improvement in the working environment was enormous.
Because of the huge increase in work efficiency, Li Qingsong could also manufacture more Jupiter planes and put them into Altair A, achieving ten times, or even more, the collection efficiency with the same number of clones.
Construction on the other planets was also in full swing.
Originally, Li Qingsong could only carry out the construction of hundreds of thousands of factories simultaneously. Now, with quantum computers and hundreds of millions, even billions, of intelligent general-purpose robots and machines, the number of factories that Li Qingsong could build simultaneously skyrocketed to millions, or even tens of millions!
Even Altair B, this rocky planet, had more than 30% of its surface area, a total of 400 million square kilometers, directly designated by Li Qingsong as an industrial zone.
There were mines, steel mills, chemical plants, chip factories, spaceship component factories, power plants, and so on and so forth.
An infinite number of factories were born in the industrial zone, and the lights used for illumination, on the side facing away from Altair, even converged into an ocean of light, clearly visible from far away in space.
The same was true for the other planets.
As Li Qingsong went all out to start construction, each planet became colorful and radiant.
The number of transport ships shuttling through space also skyrocketed. The total freight volume also soared from the previous average of about 10 billion tons per year to more than 100 billion tons at this moment, and it was still soaring.
Similarly, although the total freight volume had increased significantly, the number of clones invested in transportation engineering had not increased.
Under these circumstances, the number of various large ships in Li Qingsong's fleet began to explode.
Li Qingsong's goal was to build a fleet 20 times the size of the previous one, which meant that Li Qingsong had to build 10,000 giant aerospace carrier ships, 50,000 heavy transport ships, and so on.
But in actual construction, Li Qingsong needed to build six times more of these large ships.
Of course, not real ships, but empty shell ships of the same tonnage and size.
If the scale of the real fleet became larger, the scale of the fleet used for disguise would of course have to be expanded synchronously.
But even empty shell ships were not easy to build.
With such a huge tonnage and volume there, even if only thrusters, reactors, and shells, as well as some simple equipment, were needed, the difficulty was not comparable to that of real small and medium-sized ships.
It is worth mentioning that since arriving in the Altair star system, all of Li Qingsong's construction actions have followed one principle.
Environmental protection.
This was certainly not to protect the environment of the Altair star system.
There wasn't even the simplest single-celled organism here. What was the point of protecting the environment?
The most important thing was to avoid causing too much change to the environment here, which would cause external observers to notice.
Almost all waste gas generated during such a huge production process would be deliberately collected by Li Qingsong and condensed into solids through various means, buried deep inside the planets, or thrown into Altair A.
Because if these waste gases were directly discharged, they would condense into an atmosphere on the surface of the planet, or merge into the original atmosphere, changing the composition of the original atmosphere. In this way, through the transit method, distant observers might be able to detect industrial activity in this star system from a distance of a dozen light-years, or even further.
This would inevitably lead to Li Qingsong's exposure.
These waste gases could not be thrown into Altair either. Because Altair was a star, it would directly vaporize these solid wastes and merge them into its atmosphere.
Although this would only cause extremely small changes to Altair's atmosphere, it would inevitably be noticed.
Deep burial, or throwing it into Altair A, a giant gas planet, did not have this concern.
Wastewater, waste residue, or the light pollution on the planets did not matter and did not require additional treatment.
At this moment, Li Qingsong's industrial scale had expanded dozens of times, and his industrial production capacity had also expanded dozens of times. Correspondingly, his environmental protection efforts had also increased.
Before, when the industrial scale was limited, it didn't matter if a little waste gas was leaked. Now that the scale was large, if a little was leaked here and a little was leaked there, an atmosphere might be formed.
Thus, countless ships shuttled through the Altair star system, countless factories roared, and the scene was busy. But even just 1 light-year away, the Altair star system still looked as quiet as ever, with almost no change.
This was the conclusion Li Qingsong had reached after actually observing through those "backhand" spaceships.
Time passed quickly in this situation.
The number of warships parked in space was increasing, and in the pictures transmitted from the clones in the solar system, that star was becoming brighter and brighter.
