Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 400: Gravity Shield and Gravity Cannon

After achieving a series of breakthroughs, the two technologies that Tom valued most also made breakthroughs not long after.

Gravity Shield and Gravity Cannon!

The scene when the Cloud Civilization helped him resolve the silicon-based Mechanical Disaster left a deep impression on Tom.

Later, during the decisive battle with the Purple Moon Civilization, the immense pressure brought by their rudimentary Gravity Cannon, obtained from the Space-level Demonic Eye, felt like it was just yesterday.

And now, based on the Unified Force Field Theory, Tom has finally overcome the corresponding obstacles at the level of applied physics and truly applied this technology to combat weapons.

A gravity weapon powered by multiple fusion reactors, based on the Unified Force Field Theory, capable of arbitrarily applying high gravity or negative gravity to opponents, and using gravity to pull apart the opponent’s technological creations!

Furthermore, it is a gravity weapon for which Tom has completely mastered the full chain of production and manufacturing technology, fully understands its principles, and can modify or optimize it according to his will!

Following the birth of gravity weapons, Gravity Shield technology also emerged.

In Tom’s view, the so-called Gravity Shield is not actually a shield in the conventional sense. It is more like a gravity cancellation device.

When the opponent manipulates gravity to try to affect the structure of one’s own spaceship, one generates an opposing gravity in the corresponding area to counteract the opponent’s gravitational influence.

Of course, in addition, it can also use precise and minute Gravity Cannons to precisely influence small equipment like projectiles and space mines, pushing them off their existing trajectories to avoid affecting oneself.

From this perspective, the operating mechanism of the Gravity Shield is quite similar to the automatic defense system of the Electroweak stage.

"The Gravity Cannon and Gravity Shield are the fundamental devices for a Gravity Civilization.

The most direct measure of the technological development level of a Gravity Civilization is the performance of these two devices.

The higher their maximum effective force, the faster their reaction speed, and the more precise their reaction, the higher the technological level of that Gravity Civilization. At the same time, being able to manufacture gravity devices of this level also means a higher level of mastery over warp space, which naturally leads to higher warp speeds."

A flash of realization crossed Tom’s mind.

Just like now, his Gravity Cannon can at most apply a gravity of no more than 50 times that of Earth to a target within 10,000 kilometers; correspondingly, after his warp ship matures, its speed will likely be around 2 times the speed of light.

However, the warp speed of the Cloud Civilization back then was far more than that. According to Tom’s estimation, it might have reached around 6–7 times the speed of light.

"From this perspective, even if the Cloud Civilization’s technological level hasn’t reached the peak of gravity, it has probably reached a high level, with hope of impacting the Dark Energy stage."

Remembering the Cloud Civilization, Tom sighed softly again: "I wonder how they are doing now. Alas..."

Gathering his thoughts, Tom once again focused his attention on scientific research.

With the continuous breakthroughs in Gravity Technology, Tom planned to innovate his fleet.

Currently, any type of spaceship that requires gravity creates it through self-rotation, such as the large residential spaceships.

But this implies a very serious problem, which is that the internal space utilization rate of such cylindrical spaceships is extremely low.

Hundreds of meters of radius space near the axis of rotation cannot be effectively utilized. And once accelerating or decelerating, the interior is severely affected.

In previous residential spaceships, a lake, even the largest, would not exceed 1 square kilometer in area, with a total water volume not exceeding 5 million tons.

If it exceeded that, uncontrollable surging would occur during acceleration and deceleration, subsequently affecting the entire spaceship.

Not only that, but inside the original residential spaceships, all construction adhered to the principle of "easy to fix", otherwise, it might collapse or break down during acceleration and deceleration.

This placed great restrictions on residential spaceships. Although Tom had been trying his best to improve their internal environment, there was still a large gap compared to a truly natural environment.

Now, Tom planned to replace all these spaceships.

A massive spaceship was gradually taking shape in the shipyard.

Unlike the previous cylindrical residential spaceships, this residential spaceship was rectangular in shape.

It reached a length of 20 kilometers, a width of 15 kilometers, and a height of about 10 kilometers.

It was divided into 10 layers, each layer having a height of 1,000 meters and an area of 300 square kilometers, making the total area of the 10 layers 3,000 square kilometers.

According to different construction styles, each of these 10 layers had a different purpose.

Some were filled with towering buildings and flashing neon lights, completely resembling a metropolis, while others had towering snow-capped mountains and cold climates, or undulating mountain ranges with bird calls and beast roars everywhere, or vast plains with a rural landscape, or scattered lakes and rushing rivers.

Now with Gravity Technology, Tom could finally unleash his full potential and move all the natural landscapes that fit the aesthetics of Humans and various other races into the residential spaceship without any modifications, without worrying about them being affected by the zero-gravity environment of space, without being restricted by the cylindrical shape of the spaceship, and without worrying about the overload during acceleration and deceleration!

With a total area of 3,000 square kilometers, even with so much landscape arrangement, this spaceship could still accommodate over 1 million intelligent beings.

If it were primarily a metropolis, designed for maximum population capacity with a layer height of only about 100 meters, divided into 100 layers, and a total area reaching 30,000 square kilometers, then this single residential spaceship could accommodate over 50 million intelligent beings.

This is a tenfold increase compared to the previous cylindrical residential spaceships.

And even with such a large population, the intelligent beings inside the metropolitan spaceship could live comfortably, without feeling cramped at all.

Because even a metropolitan spaceship would have scattered natural landscapes and scenery inside. Suburban hills, city parks, various small streams and rivers, various green plants, etc., none would be missing.

Outside the metropolitan spaceship, Tom would also build specialized tourism spaceships, fully equipped with high mountains and snowy plains, vast forests, boundless oceans, great rivers, endless grasslands, and more.

This first residential spaceship merely integrated various elements into one spaceship.

After spending more than ten years, this spaceship, equipped with Gravity Cannons, Gravity Shields, a complete set of gravity generators, powered by multiple nuclear fusion, and internally equipped with all the landscapes desired by all races of intelligent beings, was finally completed.

Tom then announced this exciting news to the total population of over 120 billion intelligent beings, and simultaneously declared that because this was only the first experimental residential spaceship, the first batch of approved relocation spots would be limited to 1 million.

Furthermore, these spots would not be open to the public but would be awarded as prizes to the heroes themselves or their families who followed Heimerlan to search for Gravity beings, as well as outstanding individuals who performed exceptionally well over the years and received racial or higher honors, and scientific researchers, logistics personnel, engineering and industrial personnel, and their families who made outstanding contributions in scientific research projects.

This arrangement was reasonable and fair, and no one could find fault with it.

Under the gaze of countless envious eyes, the first batch of relocating personnel finally took shuttle spaceships from their original residential spaceships and arrived at this residential spaceship, which Tom named "Homeworld One".

Under the watch of numerous cameras, the shuttle spaceships docked at various hatches. The huge hatches opened, and warm, humid air instantly surged out. These personnel and their families, who had made outstanding contributions to civilization, stood frozen in place at that moment, as if struck by a stasis spell.

In front of countless terminal screens, people watching this live broadcast also held their breath, involuntarily uttering the same exclamation.

"It’s too beautiful..."

In front of the Homeworld One spaceship, an unknown number of people unconsciously knelt on the ground, tears streaming down their faces.

"This is the homeworld I dreamed of. The place where our race originated should have looked like this. I’ve seen it many times in my dreams."

"Is this where we will live in the future...?"