Lakes of liquid metal, both large and small, were scattered across the surface of this planet like stars in the sky.
Only elements or alloys with high melting points could maintain a solid state. The remaining elements with low melting points had all melted.
These "lakes" even had ripples and sometimes "waves."
The planet had no atmosphere. These ripples and waves were not formed by the wind.
They were formed by frequent asteroid impacts.
Even at such a close distance to the main star, asteroid activity was still frequent. The large planet itself was even located within an asteroid belt.
The definition of a large planet is twofold: first, it orbits a star; second, it has sufficient mass to clear its orbit.
According to these two definitions, this planet did not seem to qualify as a large planet because it had not cleared its orbit.
The number of asteroids orbiting Pegasus V432 in the same orbit as it numbered in the trillions.
Li Qingsong roughly estimated that the total mass of the entire asteroid belt was as high as 75% of the mass of this large planet! Approximately equivalent to the mass of an entire Earth.
In contrast, the total mass of all the asteroids in the solar system's asteroid belt is only about five ten-thousandths of the Earth's mass.
This shows the immense size of this asteroid belt.
Nevertheless, Li Qingsong still considered this rocky planet, designated a, to be a large planet.
The reason was simple: it wasn't that it lacked the ability to clear the other celestial bodies from its orbit, it just needed time.
In a few hundred million years, there probably wouldn't be any asteroids left in its orbit; they would probably all have crashed into it.
Those that didn't crash would be driven out of their current orbit, either crashing into the star or being expelled from the galaxy.
By then, it was estimated that its total mass would grow to about times its current mass.
The current stage was still its rapid growth phase.
However, Li Qingsong's arrival was destined to temporarily halt this process.
Developing industry requires a stable environment; constant asteroid impacts wouldn't do.
"Planet a has abundant mineral resources. Very good. I'll use you as my industrial center."
Looking at the "sparkling" planetary surface, Li Qingsong made his decision.
Immediately, numerous small ships from the massive fleet began to descend, braving the scorching heat of the Pegasus V342 star, which was as large as a house, and landed on the surface of planet a amidst the blinding light, immediately beginning the corresponding industrial construction.
At the same time, another part of the fleet, docked next to the gas giant planet about 700 million kilometers away, also began related construction under the control of the Divine Craftsman AI and Li Qingsong's delayed decisions.
After breaking through quantum electrical supercomputing technology, the performance of the Divine Craftsman AI was greatly enhanced. Now, a delay of only a few tens of minutes was completely within acceptable limits.
Li Qingsong first built some basic industries, including only mines, energy plants, and metallurgical and casting factories.
High-level industrial systems, such as precision casting and chip factories, were not numerous, and the types were only a few.
The reason for this was that Li Qingsong wanted to build an indispensable system in the shortest possible time.
Like the SkyNet system in the Altair star system, specifically used to resist asteroid impacts!
Everything at this moment was in service of this goal.
In just one year, the initial hundreds of thousands of factories were completed. Supported by the almost limitless resources of the star system's large planets, metallic box-shaped thrusters, which could automatically network, automatically search for targets, and automatically push them away, were released into space, accumulating hundreds of millions of units in a short period.
At the same time, on the surface of each planet, land-based air defense bases were built one after another.
Thus, on the more than 50 large satellites, dwarf planets, and large planets that Li Qingsong had selected, "SkyNets" were erected, blocking all asteroids that attempted to impact.
With the problem of asteroid impacts solved, larger-scale factory construction began immediately.
Factories rose from the barren, desolate, and scorching land, and heavy-duty railways crisscrossed. In space, countless heavy-duty ships shuttled back and forth along shipping lanes.
Large amounts of minerals and industrial products flowed between different planets, including iron ore, titanium ore, and carbon oxides from rocky planets, and deuterium, argon, nitrogen, and methane from gas giants. The entire star system seemed to be connected at this moment.
It only took 30 years to complete the construction of a sufficiently scaled industrial system.
Based on the more advanced Divine Craftsman AI system, it originally wouldn't have taken so long. But because the scale of the industrial system that Li Qingsong was building this time was unprecedentedly large, it still took so long.
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At this moment, Li Qingsong had more than ten million factories of various types, and the number of quantum electrical supercomputing bases for various AIs to run reached more than one hundred thousand.
In the migration fleet, Li Qingsong had only built twenty thousand quantum electrical supercomputers in order to perform scientific calculations that were almost endless in number.
Scientific calculations are the most computationally intensive type of calculation.
And now, in the absence of almost any scientific calculations, Li Qingsong had built as many as one hundred thousand supercomputers!
Fortunately, Li Qingsong's maximum consciousness connection number had increased to billion. Otherwise, even if the performance of each AI had greatly improved, it would not have been possible to complete this construction task in such a short period.
Now that the industrial base had been laid, it was time to carry out the next construction plan.
In this next construction plan, Li Qingsong did not plan any large scientific devices.
Although breaking through to become a Strong Nuclear Civilization was Li Qingsong's most urgent and most important need, and even Li Qingsong himself was extremely looking forward to it, Li Qingsong still forcibly suppressed the impulse in his heart to develop technology.
Now was not the time. If he started to conduct scientific research now, then before he could break through, the Machine God Disaster would arrive, and in the end, he would gain nothing.
At this moment, there were things more urgent than developing technology.
In the plan, Li Qingsong divided this stage of construction tasks into four categories.
First, the production of Mercury-class spaceships.
Only produce the smallest Mercury-class spaceships among manned warships. In addition, not a single Venus-class or Earth-class ship will be built!
Anyway, in the face of a Machine God Disaster that has reached the Strong Nuclear level, there probably won't be any difference between Mercury-class and Earth-class warships.
