In Hawke's plan, the minimum weight of a prefecture-class ship would be 100,000 tons, and its length would be at least 500 meters. After weighing his raw material reserves, Hawke decided to build a 300,000-ton ship to be his flagship, while the remaining two would be smaller, at 200,000 tons.
A ship of this size could no longer be built from the ground, simply because it was too large and too massive to take off from the ground with Hawke's current technology. If it had to take off from the ground, the hull of the ship would probably be severely damaged.
If the hull was only damaged, it would be better to have a megaton "city" class ship or a 10 million ton "province" class ship, which would not be able to be within the Roche limit of a massive star, or it would be torn apart by the gravity of the star. The whole thing would be torn apart.
Although Hawk's ship is made of the strongest and toughest materials, it is hollow, and apart from the outer shell, the interior is mostly space, so that overall the ship is not even as dense as water.
The Roche limit is the distance that a rigid body or fluid can travel around a massive star without being torn apart by its gravity. Take the Earth as an example, with Hawk's current technology, if a 10 million ton "Province" class ship is within 20,000 kilometres of the Earth, it will be torn to pieces by the Earth's gravity because of the imbalance of the Earth's gravity on all parts of the ship's hull. In the past, satellites launched by humans were not torn to pieces because they were too small and made of tough materials.
In science fiction movies, immense alien ships take off and land vertically from above the Earth, coming and going as they please, and it is certain that they are civilisations that have mastered anti-gravity technology, otherwise, with such huge hulls, they would not be able to do this at all.
With Hawk's current technology, he was still a little short of mastering anti-gravity technology.
Although there was no way to build the Prefecture from the ground, Hawke had found a solution early on by building a dock in synchronous orbit 2,000 kilometres from Titan in order to build the Prefecture.
But this would make the transport of supplies a major problem. At present, the only two ships capable of travelling through space are the Hope and the Aurora, but compared to the hundreds of thousands of tons of materials needed to build a prefecture-class ship, the transport capacity of these two ships is still a bit weak.
At this point, the Materials Technology Institute set up in advance came in handy. In that time, Hawke had developed a new nano-polymer material that was at least a hundred times stronger than steel.
Hawke named this material the "rope of life", and he intended to use it to build a space lift.
Hawke sent a huge army of robots to dig a hole several hundred metres deep at Titan's equator, where he buried a chunk of metal weighing several thousand tonnes, and then manoeuvred the Hope to hover two thousand kilometres (note 1) above the hole.
Then, a milky white rope-like object protruded from beneath the Hope. This object was the highest expression of Hawke's material technology, the Rope of Life. A millimetre-radius rope of life can withstand a maximum of ten tonnes of tension, so you can imagine the toughness of this material.
The Rope of Life sticking out from underneath the Hope has a radius of two centimetres. According to estimates, this rope can withstand a pull of nearly four thousand tons.
At one end of the rope is a small fusion engine, which, once started, pulls the rope down towards Titan until it reaches its end after 10 kilometres.
The other end of the rope of life is also fitted with a small fusion engine, and these two fusion engines hold the ten kilometre long rope of life in the air, slowly rotating together with Titan's rotation.
Hope then returned to its original position and reloaded a rope of life. After attaching the end of the new rope to the original one, the rope continued its descent under the fusion engine.
After more than two hundred round trips, one end of the rope was attached to a large pre-digged hole on Titan, fixed to a large metal block by Hawk, and then manipulated by the robot to bury it. The other end was secured to another large metal block by the Hope in space.
In this way, a simple space lift was created.
The principle of this space lift is simple: when an object moves faster than the second cosmic speed of the star, it will fly away from the star and never return. The space end of this space lift, however, is already moving faster than Titan's second cosmic speed, but it is held in place by the Cord of Life, which, as a matter of course, creates an upward pull that straightens the Cord of Life.
And because Titan has its own rotation, through the Rope of Life, Titan will constantly accelerate the large metal block at the space end of the Rope of Life, keeping his speed above that of escape and never falling off.
The most wonderful thing is that here at the space end of the rope of life, because of the centrifugal force, a force similar to gravity will also be generated here, so that the processing and construction of the hull will not have to suffer from weightlessness and inconvenience of construction.
The principle of the space lift is, in simple terms, like a person throwing a large chain with an iron ball at the top as hard as he can. The ball of iron tries to fly, but is held in place by the chain and cannot fly away, instead it tenses the chain.
In this way, Hawke could use this rope of life, which would never fall off, to transport a constant stream of supplies into space. Or even, Hawke could make a pulley and pull the supplies into space right from the ground.
Of course, that would be after the space lift was all built. Right now the space lift is just taking shape.
Over the next few months, Hawke worked on the space lift, reinforcing and thickening the rope to one metre in diameter, installing a large amount of equipment on it, and stationing a large number of robots at the space end of the space lift to begin the construction of the dock.
It took Hawke half a year to build the space lift. While this space lift was being built, Hawke started work on the other two. By the time the first space lift was completed, the other two space lifts were at an advanced stage of construction.
A total of three space lifts provided Hawke with a powerful capacity to transport materials. On the ground, countless special steel, special materials, various constructed components, and various types of robots were transported up one by one for the space dock's construction consumption.
At the same time, construction on the ground base began in full swing. In addition to the original bases, Hawk started construction of three more bases, while the three docks in space were fully occupied with the construction of the "Village" and "Township" class ships, and the "County The three dockyards in space were fully occupied with the construction of "county" class ships.
All kinds of materials were spent like water, and in return, three large dockyards with enough capacity to build 300,000 tons of ships, as well as hundreds of "village" class ships and dozens of "township" class ships neatly laid out on the ground, of which The smallest of them were the size of the Hope.
While the County-class ships were being built, Hawk took control of all the hundreds of Village-class ships and flew them to Saturn to stock up on supplies. After all, if he left the solar system, he would not be able to replenish even a single piece of scrap iron.
At the same time, the construction of a new generation of photonic computers was also on the agenda. During this period of time, Hawke had made new research findings on the architecture of the photonic computer, as well as the computing mode and instruction set, etc. It was expected that after the completion of the new computer, Hawke's computing power could be increased by another five times from the original one. In this way, while operating the fleet of more than 1,000 ships, Hawke will be able to start the compilation of the "Vault of Heroes" and conduct various scientific researches.
The latest photon computer will be installed on the flagship and will be the brain of the fleet, while the old photon computer will be installed on the other "Prefecture" class ship and will perform various auxiliary calculations that do not require Hawke's direct intervention.
By this time, Hawke was no longer concerned with sustainability, he had struck all the methane lakes on Titan where black bugs were present, either with nuclear strikes or conventional high explosive munitions, depending on the size of the lakes. He killed all the black worms he could find and then collected their bodies, partly to build a spaceship and partly to stockpile for later use.
The whole of Titan was a disaster, and in the intervening years a fire and a mushroom cloud would burst from time to time, and the whole of Titan was turned upside down by Hawke.
This is the last of the madness before we leave.
So Hawke thought.
Three years had passed, and the construction of the three Prefects had been completed. One thousand Village ships and seventy Township ships had also been built.
The long-awaited interstellar voyage that Hawk had been waiting for would soon begin.
Note 1: Because Titan is locked in Saturn's gravity and rotates slowly, the length of the lifeline needed to build the space lift described in the text would have to be at least 20,000 kilometres. In addition, there are certainly many errors in the scientific theories in the text, I hope you do not take them seriously, just for fun, I hope that students who have studied this do not look deeper.