This kind of research method would absolutely never appear in human civilization.

Not to mention whether there are enough materials science experts with sufficient knowledge accumulation and operational experience to participate in the experiment; even if there were, the material consumption during the process alone would be unbearable.

Every experiment requires the involvement of extremely precise equipment and consumes a large amount of electricity and precious raw materials.

But for Tom, none of this was a problem.

Materials science experts?

I have them, many of them. If a million isn't enough, I can even produce a hundred million.

Every clone, even those who farm, raise pigs, drive cars, or collect trash, can transform into a materials science expert whenever necessary.

Material consumption? That's also not an issue. What are all those products, produced by so many factories running at full capacity all day, for?

Are they to ensure every clone lives a good life?

Of course not; they are to support the consumption of scientific experiments.

The two major obstacles simply did not exist for Tom. Thus, Tom launched his assault on materials science with theoretically the highest efficiency, and in just over a decade, he continuously experimented, iterated, and optimized, finally finding suitable materials.

It was a type of steel produced by high-pressure forging, with niobium metal as an additive.

With the breakthrough in materials science finally achieved, manufacturing qualified high-speed bogies no longer posed an obstacle for Tom.

At this moment, after decades of continuous research, a qualified high-speed bogie finally lay before Tom.

Its overall structure resembled a hemisphere, with some brackets extending from it, somewhat like an antenna.

Tom placed this antenna on a violently shaking and oscillating test stand.

Although this test stand was constantly shaking, no matter how it shook, thanks to its special shock absorption and stabilization system, only the hemisphere inside its outer shell was shaking, while the outer layer remained stable and motionless.

Not only that, but the brackets on it were also rapidly turning, pointing one moment this way, and the next moment that way.

It looked like tree branches swaying irregularly in a strong wind, but the indicator lights emitted from those brackets showed that this was not an irregular sway, but a conscious manipulation.

Those light beams would always precisely point to the corresponding numbers on the huge screen in front, even though those numbers were extremely small, too small to see clearly even up close with the naked eye, and even though the distance between them was as high as a hundred meters.

Dozens of brackets simultaneously aimed rapidly, without any disorder or error.

Watching its performance, Tom finally nodded in satisfaction.

"Everything else is fine, it's just that the amount of niobium metal used is a bit high.

This stuff is a rare element. The largest niobium mine on Earth back then only had a few million tons of reserves, and there's even less here in the Jupiter system.

To manufacture it on a large scale, we still need to look for it on rocky planets and in the asteroid belt.

But it doesn't matter; in the future, I'll just build a few mining bases within the solar system."

Now that the high-speed bogie had also been successfully developed, the entire interception system was left with only one final component.

The data processing system.

The data processing system is the brain of the entire interception system.

When the radar captures a target signal, it must first be calculated by the data processing system, which then combines the target's orbit and heading with its own orbit and heading, as well as the current operating status, orientation, and ship posture of existing defensive weapons, to make a comprehensive decision and issue commands to the bogie. Only then can the bogie direct the appropriate weapon in the appropriate direction, and only then can the electromagnetic cannon and laser cannon fire.

Although the data processing system is important, it is ultimately just a high-performance computer.

And at this moment, Tom had already overcome the manufacturing process for the 2 nm chip and could mass-produce it.

The 2 nm chip technology is already fully sufficient to handle this volume of data calculation.

Thus, with the successful development of the high-speed bogie, the last obstacle to building a truly "modern" battleship was finally completely removed by Tom.

The decades-long, large-scale scientific and technological research finally yielded phased results, allowing Tom to breathe a slight sigh of relief.

But it was only a slight sigh of relief.

Tom did not forget that Goku AI was constantly waiting for real and effective battlefield data as food.

At this stage, Goku AI can only feed on virtual data in the virtual space simulated by supercomputers.

So...

Tom immediately made a decision.

Build a real modern battleship!

At this moment, because the relevant technology had just achieved a breakthrough, the relevant production lines were not yet ready.

But it doesn't matter; under the existing industrial system, customized production can still produce all the relevant parts for this battleship.

Thus, within five days, a total of 16,000 parts factories, including hull factories, engine factories, secondary pressurization module factories, bogie factories, and so on, produced all the parts and transported them to the vacuum assembly workshop.

The assembly workshop maintained an extremely high degree of vacuum, with a material sparsity even higher than that of actual interstellar space.

For example, at a distance of about 5,000 kilometers from Ganymede, even in space where matter is so sparse, there are on average about 10 particles per cubic centimeter. But in the vacuum assembly room built by Tom, the average number of particles per cubic centimeter is only 3.

In such a pure space, various parts began precise assembly.

During numerous past production and construction projects, Tom had deeply realized a truth.

For industrial products like spaceships, which have an extremely large number of parts, even hundreds of thousands or millions, the production of a single part is not the most difficult; the most difficult part is assembling them together.

This is an extremely complex and systematic task. A slight imperfection could affect the overall performance of the spaceship. A slightly unreasonable wiring could lead to malfunctions.

But fortunately, Tom was already well-versed in this.

Hundreds of clones, assisted by Hestia AI, operated highly precise robotic arms, gradually building the parts from the vacuum chamber into the spaceship frame.

Continuous welding, bonding, tightening, and connecting kept them busy for more than ten days, finally assembling the very first truly modern Mercury-class battleship in history.

Looking at this disc-shaped spaceship, dark gray on the outside and about 16 meters in diameter, Tom's heart was filled with joy.

The birth of this spaceship meant that, at least in terms of battleship-related technology, he had completely surpassed the former human civilization!

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