Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones

For example, when facing a maze.

Traditional electronic computers can only try one path at a time, using brute-force algorithms to eventually find the correct path.

Quantum computers, however, can try all paths simultaneously, which naturally makes finding the correct path much faster.

Most importantly, quantum computers can exhibit superior performance in intelligent AI because they can accelerate matrix operations, optimize computation processes through extremely high parallelism, and assist intelligent AI in finding the correct solution among many possibilities.

Intelligent AI holds extremely high importance in Tom's current industrial power.

Hestia AI, Demeter, Gaia, Goku AI…

Once quantum computers are successfully developed and put into practical use, the improvement of other intelligent AIs can be temporarily put aside; at least the capabilities of Hestia AI can be greatly enhanced.

This would allow him to achieve a significant increase in overall industrial strength while maintaining the same maximum consciousness connection count, making it possible to complete a fleet 20 times the current scale within 25 years!

Facing the relentless pursuit of the Mechanical Disaster, conquering quantum computer technology and developing his own high-performance quantum computer based on his own technical route is almost Tom's only chance for survival!

Long ago, Tom had been researching quantum computers, referencing the technology of the Bluetoth Civilization.

Although there had been many advancements, there was still a certain gap before true practical application.

As for the Bluetoth Civilization's quantum computers, due to differences in their technical routes, they were incompatible with Tom's existing technological system.

They could only serve as auxiliary tools and could not truly bear heavy responsibilities.

So, the only question now is: with only five years remaining, can he achieve a technological breakthrough in quantum computers?

Can he elevate quantum computers from their current state as 'toys in the laboratory' to something that can be used on a large scale?

But… I don't seem to have any other choice right now.

Then I won't think about whether I can do it; I'll just do my best!

Tom truly made up his mind.

At this moment, Tom's industrial strength operated at full capacity, with numerous factories immediately shifting production to related equipment and materials.

A large number of spacecraft shuttled back and forth between planetary surfaces and space, and in just a few months, an unprecedentedly enormous space laboratory was constructed.

This was a massive laboratory with a diameter of 3 kilometers and a length of 6 kilometers, still maintaining a cylindrical shape overall.

The Quantum Laboratory!

The outer part of the Quantum Laboratory consisted of three rotating cylinders, each approximately 200 meters thick, with precisely adjustable rotation speeds around the main axis, allowing for the creation of different gravities according to various needs.

Inside the three cylinders was a stationary cylindrical main axis, maintaining a low-gravity or zero-gravity state.

This massive laboratory was planned to be divided into over 1,000 areas, covering various branches of quantum supercomputing technology: those for studying decoherence issues, environmental interference, high-performance heat dissipation, refrigeration, new superconducting materials, error correction technology, laser precision manipulation, algorithms, systems, programs, and so on.

Each technical branch occupied a huge space.

The total number of clones working in this laboratory reached 5 million.

However, this was not the entirety of Tom's effort to overcome quantum supercomputing technology.

On other planets and various space bases, Tom also built over 1,000 auxiliary laboratories, where more than 2 million clones were also distributed.

The number of clones working on the front lines exceeded 7 million, but beyond these 7 million clones, Tom also mobilized the brainpower of 100 million clones, instructing them to do nothing else.

Even their meals were specially taken care of by other clones; they were solely to lie in bed all day and ponder various problems in technological breakthroughs.

The results of these 100 million clones' thoughts would be synchronized in real-time with the minds of the front-line clones, allowing the front-line clones to adjust the direction of their next experiments based on these thoughts.

When the next experiment produced data, it would also be synchronized in real-time with the minds of these brainpower clones, supporting them in their next round of thinking.

Thus, they mutually promoted and circulated.

At this stage, mobilizing a total of approximately 110 million clones to participate in the quantum supercomputing breakthrough was the limit of what Tom could do.

After all, other areas also required a large number of personnel.

The industrial system needed to be maintained, and research related to previously accumulated technological conjectures and spacecraft performance improvements also needed clones to carry out.

But even with only 110 million clones participating in the breakthrough, their scientific research capabilities already far exceeded those of the Human Civilization and the Bluetoth Civilization in the past.

Roughly estimated, the scientific research strength of these 110 million clones was at least ten times that of the entire Bluetoth Civilization combined!

The scientific research strength equivalent to ten Bluetoth Civilizations combined was now entirely invested in this single quantum supercomputing project.

This was Tom's confidence in conquering this technology within five years.

In addition to fully dedicating himself to the two extremely important technological breakthroughs of quantum supercomputing and spacecraft performance optimization, Tom also spared a little effort to do a third thing.

He built dozens of heavy transport ships, each with a full load mass of about 10 million tons.

The reason for not building them larger, or even directly using Aerospace Carriers, was primarily for concealment.

Each of these transport ships contained 10,000 clones in hibernation and carried a small but extremely crucial amount of industrial equipment, such as simple but highly reliable chemical power generation equipment, mining equipment, ore refining equipment, casting equipment, chemical equipment, and rudimentary agricultural planting and breeding equipment, etc.

Each transport ship contained a supercomputer, which was not only responsible for the overall control of the spacecraft but also carried all of Tom's technological data from these years, as well as the program codes for Hestia AI, Demeter, Gaia, and all other intelligent AIs.

Afterward, these heavy transport ships, under the autonomous control of Hestia AI, followed Tom's instructions and flew in a direction away from the Altair System.

The destination star systems of each transport ship were different.

These star systems varied in distance, with the closest being only a dozen light-years away and the furthest over a hundred light-years.

Even if their luck was bad and they encountered unexpected damage during the voyage, with so many ships, surely a few would successfully reach their destinations?

This was the contingency plan Tom prepared for himself.

Once things went awry, and the Mechanical Disaster arrived in the Altair System prematurely, leading to the destruction of his main fleet, he could at least transfer to other star systems through that unknown connection method and restart his development