Under the flood of abundant electricity and massive resources, this integrated food base has been put into operation.

The agricultural AI trained by Tom, which he named "Demeter," has now taken over most of the work at the integrated food base.

To enable Demeter to work better, Tom also specially built a supercomputing base of the highest specifications.

Under the management of Demeter AI, this enormous food base only requires 20,000 clones to operate at full capacity.

When developing on Loshen Star, half of the clones often had to be dedicated to agricultural production to supply the food needed by all clones.

The ratio of agricultural production personnel to non-production personnel once reached one to one, or even higher.

This clearly meant low efficiency.

But at this moment, the ratio of agricultural production personnel to non-production personnel has directly surged to 1:750; the increase in efficiency can no longer be called a surge, it can be called a leap.

Looking at the wheat beginning to grow in the wheat fields, the rice beginning to grow in the paddy fields, and various vegetables, legumes, as well as fish, livestock, and fungi, and then glancing at the aerospace carrier, which now had less than 10% of its food reserves remaining, Tom breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Finally, he didn't have to worry about the large-scale starvation of clones due to lack of food.

At this moment, food, electricity, and steel were all ready.

Thus, with the concerted efforts of 15 million clones, coupled with the cooperation of Hestia AI and numerous intelligent programs like Industrial AI and Construction AI, in just three years, the total industrial scale of the Ganymede base increased to the level of the combined Loshen Star and God-Enemy Star.

But this had clearly not yet reached Tom's limit.

The maximum consciousness connection count of over 10 million, 15 million clones, and the various industry AIs that have initially formed a system, possess a certain level of intelligence, and are still rapidly evolving, are already sufficient to support at least three times this industrial scale when combined.

Previously on Loshen Star, it wasn't that Tom lacked the ability to build larger bases, but rather that the resources there were too barren to support it.

Now that I've come to the Inner Solar System, to Jupiter, if I'm still constrained by resources, wouldn't my trip have been in vain?

At present, the development of Ganymede has reached a relatively high level. Tom decisively made the decision to begin spreading to other planets.

Those aerospace carriers and heavy cargo spacecraft came in handy at this time. They were fully loaded with heavy materials produced from Ganymede and began heading to the other three major moons, as well as other more important moons.

The total size of the entire Jupiter system—calculated by the orbit of the furthest valuable moon—is approximately 3 million kilometers.

The Jupiter ring is also within this range.

3 million kilometers, the communication delay is only 10 seconds. Coupled with the initially perfected industry AIs, the construction capabilities of the clones would at most be weakened by only 20%, which is completely within an acceptable range.

Thus, large-scale construction simultaneously began on the eight moons—Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Amalthea, Carme, Ananke, and Pasiphae—as well as within the Jupiter ring and interstellar space.

At this time, Tom gradually began to perceive a problem.

With the large-scale construction on multiple planets, the Jupiter ring, and space bases, the demand for transportation between various planetary surfaces and interstellar space became increasingly enormous.

At this stage, for aerospace dual-use spacecraft, he was still using old-fashioned chemical fuel thrusters.

Secondary pressurized thrusters, due to their excessively large volume and mass, could only be applied to heavy cargo ships.

And in the short term, Tom saw no possibility of dual-use spacecraft and landing craft also using secondary pressurized thrusters.

This led to the situation where this enormous cargo demand had to be met by landing craft and dual-use spacecraft making repeated trips between space and the surface, which was extremely inefficient and consumed a great deal of energy.

Electromagnetic catapult devices were also not very useful in the relatively complex environment of the Jupiter system. And their overall efficiency was also low.

Moreover, they could only launch, not recover.

The speed of material circulation had become another bottleneck limiting Tom's development.

"Since that's the case… let's solve this problem completely and once and for all!"

Tom decided to develop space elevator technology!

A space elevator is the construction of a cable that directly connects the surface to space.

Every celestial body has rotation, and as long as this cable is long enough, the operating speed of its end will always exceed the escape velocity of the celestial body.

Thus, the end of the cable, having reached escape velocity, will firmly pull the cable taut, ensuring it never falls down.

It's like a person desperately swinging a chain ball; the chain ball will pull the chain tightly taut.

With this cable, Tom can transport goods like they are taking an elevator, directly from the planet's surface to space, and also allow goods from space to take a downward elevator, directly from space to the surface.

Not only will efficiency and speed be greatly improved, but energy consumption will also be reduced, and it will be more convenient.

Furthermore, building space elevators on these four moons of Jupiter is much less difficult than building them on Earth.

Because their gravity is lower than Earth's, the space elevator doesn't need to be too long, and the strength requirements for the cable are not as high.

At this moment, Tom decided to build four space elevators.

Yes, four, not one.

One for each of the four large moons!

The other smaller moons wouldn't need them; they are too small, and large spacecraft can directly land and take off from their surfaces.

Having decided to tackle space elevator technology, Tom's attention instantly shifted to the materials laboratory.

As early as on Loshen Star, Tom had never relaxed his research into materials science and already possessed sufficient knowledge reserves.

Even if he didn't specifically tackle space elevator technology now, its natural development would have reached this point anyway.

While carrying out massive construction, Tom manipulated numerous clones to work busily in the laboratory.

In just two short years, in a materials science laboratory, two huge machines roared and vibrated with a dull sound, slowly drawing out a thin filament in a vacuum environment.

This filament was extremely thin, with a diameter of only about 50 micrometers. Even a person with good eyesight could barely see it under ideal conditions.

But such a thin filament was manufactured by Tom, integrating all his technological strength and adopting the most advanced techniques.

A thick, extremely tough steel plate was taken out by a robotic arm and moved toward the filament.

Then, the next moment, the steel plate was directly cut into two halves by the filament.

And under the microscope, the filament remained completely intact!

"Very good, with this material, I can build a space elevator."

Tom was filled with joy.

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