Chapter 589: Clones

"You have completed the transformation of your body. Next, every ten people form a team, and each team elects its own captain."

"From today on, each of your lives is no longer your own. Each of you is the most important asset of the Empire!"

"Your military rank will be unified as major in the future! Your salary will be increased by two levels, equivalent to colonel, and your relatives or lovers will always be protected by the Imperial Government!"

"Congratulations, Spartan warriors!" Eva shouted to everyone in the middle of the room.

Time flies. 2205 is here in a blink of an eye.

The test ship of the Empire's latest model of warships has completed the final test, which means that the new warships can be officially equipped.

Except for the dreadnoughts and Titans, the Empire's original warships have all retreated to the second line, and they will be gradually replaced by the new battleships Zeus-class warships.

The replaced warships will all be responsible for defending various important nodes, and the next battle with the Zerg will be mainly handed over to the Zeus-class warships.

Of course, these warships that have retreated to the second line have also replaced their weapons. The original beam weapons and kinetic weapons have all been replaced with crusher cannons.

The replaced weapons are sealed on the spot and will be reactivated after the rules limiting the speed of light disappear.

The new Zeus-class warship is only two kilometers long, two hundred meters wide, and three hundred meters high, which is about the same size as the Empire's original cruiser, and even shortened by five hundred meters.

This also makes it almost the same speed as the Empire's original cruiser when it is not plated with dimensional armor!

According to the Empire's construction capabilities, the Empire can build 400,000 of these new warships in the next fifteen years before the arrival of the Zerg.

However, only 1,500 of these 400,000 warships can be plated with dimensional armor.

It's not that Li Mingze doesn't want to equip more warships with dimensional armor, but the manufacturing cost of dimensional armor is still too high. The dimensional armor used by one hundred warships per year is already the limit.

These 1,500 warships equipped with dimensional armor will be evenly distributed to the five major fleets of the Empire, and each fleet will be able to carry 300 dimensional armored Zeus-class warships.

After the success of the experimental ship, all the shipyards of the Empire began to build Zeus-class warships non-stop.

The new aircraft carrier has also completed the final design. In the final design draft, all the carrier-based aircraft of the new aircraft carrier are suspended in the launch bay in advance.

Once a battle breaks out, these fighters can fly out from the launch ports on both sides of the aircraft carrier at the same time.

The recovery of the fighters is through the deck in the middle of the aircraft carrier. After the fighters land on the deck, they will be pushed back into the launch bay by drones.

The maintenance of these fighters is carried out by molecular robots, without occupying precious space on the ship to build a maintenance room.

Once the fighters are all shot, because it is a local battle, the Empire's aircraft carriers can mobilize the Empire's material transmission network at any time to produce fighters continuously!

But at this time, the high combat loss rate of the fighters is placed in front of Li Mingze again. The loss of each fighter means that the Empire has lost a pilot!

This is something Li Mingze absolutely cannot bear. You know, in the war he deduced, almost every battle will lose millions or even tens of millions of fighter planes!

If so many imperial pilots died, his heart would bleed, and the empire would also have a war-weariness!

Against this background, the cloning plan quietly started.

In a galaxy far away from civilization in the empire, a brand new cloning facility is being built under the supervision of Eva.

In order to prevent too many deaths of the empire's soldiers, Li Mingze decided to replace these Sith soldiers with clones.

These clones designed for war are not new humans created by the empire's human-making facilities.

The reason they are called clones is that these clones are different from new humans. It only takes a short month for them to form!

As soon as their brains are fully developed, they will be forced to be instilled with memories, and various air combat skills will be instilled into the clones' brains at the same time.

These clones have no fear, no emotions, and they only have loyalty.

Therefore, the lifespan of these clones is very short, and the super-fast growth and forced memory instillation seriously affect their lifespan!

Each clone has only three years to live after leaving the production line, and they will die of genetic collapse after three years.

At the same time, they don't even have reproductive organs, and they can't reproduce, which isolates the possibility of clones rebelling.

Although these clones have a lifespan of three years, there are probably very few clones who can survive each battle.

So it is almost impossible for them to survive for three years. Even if they rebel, the Empire only needs to stop the clone production line, and these clones will collapse after three years.

In addition to these clones, the Empire's one hundred ace fighter pilots will also participate in the battle, but their treatment is obviously better than these clones. These ace pilots control the clones to fight through consciousness devices.

Even if the fighter is destroyed, these aces can change their bodies and continue to participate in the battle.

At this point, some people may say that Li Mingze is too cruel and inhumane, and he actually regards clones as cannon fodder tools and consumables.

There is no other way. Only these efficient clones can give humans some advantages in some aspects. Otherwise, it is too difficult to train a pilot from scratch. Even with the help of the game, once this group of elites dies in battle, it will take a very long time to train the next batch.

This war is related to the survival of the Sith people in the entire galaxy. Li Mingze will never take the lives of hundreds of billions of people in the Sith Empire for the Virgin Mary.

As long as he can win this war, no matter how cruel, inhumane, and insidious the means are, Li Mingze will do it without hesitation!

If these clones are proven to be efficient and reliable, Li Mingze even plans to replace the Imperial Marines with these clones.

After all, the cost of a clone without emotions is much cheaper than raising a soldier. Clones can only eat nutrient solution for survival, but the imperial soldiers can't. The empire even has to prepare various entertainment facilities for them to prevent them from having mental problems!

In the palace of the Sith Empire, Li Mingze was standing on the balcony and staring at the Sith star in the sky not far away.

"Your Majesty, do we need to announce the Zerg to the citizens?" Tianyi stood behind Li Mingze and hugged his waist and asked in a low voice.

"No need. If we tell them now, they will be under too much pressure. Let's delay it a little longer." Li Mingze shook his head slightly. He inexplicably had a bad premonition in his heart.