As early as when he had just mastered the Unified Field Formula, understood the attack mechanism of energy cannons, and knew that the reason why energy cannon projectiles were so powerful was because their projectiles were in a strong nuclear excited state, transforming into ultra-miniature nuclear bombs, Tom had a hypothesis.

That was… if a projectile could be influenced by external factors to enter a strong nuclear excited state, capable of releasing Strong Nuclear Force from the microscopic world, then, what about other materials?

For example, a teacup, a toothbrush, a washing machine, or even… a battleship?

One thing that is certain is that once an object is too large or too massive, its stability will plummet.

The reason why a projectile can maintain a relatively stable strong nuclear excited state, not exploding in the ammunition bay or the energy cannon barrel, but only exploding upon impact with the target after a violent vibration, thereby releasing its internal Strong Nuclear Force, is precisely because its mass and volume are relatively small, making it more stable.

Quite obviously, even if Tom could manage to put a massive battleship into a strong nuclear excited state, its enormous volume and mass, as well as its extremely complex internal structure, would inevitably lead to its instability.

The moment it entered a strong nuclear excited state, it would explode with a bang.

This blocked the possibility of Tom putting his own spaceship into a strong nuclear excited state and then launching a suicide attack.

But it didn't matter. If I can't put my own spaceship into a strong nuclear excited state, then… can I find a way to put the opponent's spaceship into a strong nuclear excited state?

Once in a strong nuclear excited state, it would explode the next moment. Therefore, making the opponent's spaceship enter a strong nuclear excited state would be equivalent to destroying the opponent's battleship oneself.

Based on this idea, Tom began the development of a new type of weapon.

But soon, Tom discovered that this method was not feasible.

The reason was simple: his method of putting energy cannon projectiles into a strong nuclear excited state was to place them under highly controllable conditions, achieving it through controlled collisions of X and Y bosons.

In a complex battlefield environment, how could he possibly manage to excite the opponent's battleship?

But Tom did not give up. He changed his approach instead.

If targeting a single battleship is not feasible, then… can he target space itself?

What Tom meant by targeting space itself was not to cause any impact on space.

That would be impossible. Tom did not have that capability.

His idea was whether it was possible to construct some kind of Unified Force Field that would encompass an entire space, to influence all creations within that space?

Electromagnetic force has a photon field, gravity has a gravity field, weak nuclear force has W and Z boson fields, and Strong Nuclear Force has a gluon field.

The particles that transmit the unified force are X and Y bosons, and they can form an X and Y boson field.

X and Y bosons originally could only exist for a very short time, decaying in an instant. But it didn't matter; a Strong Nuclear Civilization could already create certain environments to extend their lifespan.

It was precisely because of this that a Strong Nuclear Civilization was able to put energy cannon projectiles into an excited state.

Now, Strong Nuclear excitation targeting a single battleship is not feasible. So, can I construct an X and Y boson field that encompasses an entire space, exciting the Strong Nuclear Force of everything within that space?

Based on this concept, Tom once again began research.

Then, Tom encountered even greater difficulties.

He discovered that this weapon was theoretically feasible, but its engineering implementation was almost impossible.

At least, for orthodox intelligent civilizations, it was not feasible.

As for Tom…

That's naturally another matter.

One reason was the extremely complex battlefield environment, which brought about extremely complex computational demands.

Since an entire space was to be placed under a boson field, the influence of the battlefield environment would inevitably have to be considered, and customized influence would have to be applied to achieve it.

And the instantaneous, massive calculations caused by the constant changes in the battlefield environment were simply impossible for existing quantum supercomputers to handle.

At the same time, this was only one of the difficulties.

Another difficulty related to computational demands was that, because the "Unified Force Field" deployment device would necessarily need to be placed in the rear, at a certain distance from the battlefield—only then could these devices be ensured not to be destroyed—there would be a certain delay for the influence of the "Unified Force Field" device to reach the battlefield.

This meant that Tom's calculations were not just about the current battlefield situation and customization, but required predicting the battlefield situation for the next few tens of seconds or even one to two minutes—depending on the distance, the delay time would vary—based on the current battlefield situation, and needed to maintain an extremely high accuracy rate.

Only with sufficient accuracy could the influence exerted by their "Unified Force Field" align with the battlefield situation, ultimately creating the desired impact on the entire battlefield.

Tom estimated that the accuracy rate needed to be at least 90% to meet the requirements.

Above this, the higher the accuracy rate, the better the excitation effect.

This had already moved beyond the concept of computing power and ascended to the demands of computational models. That is, even if the computing power of quantum supercomputers increased by ten thousand times, it still could not meet the demand.

There must be a true Strong Artificial Intelligence, meaning one that possesses the same computational model as a true intelligent life, to possibly meet the corresponding computational demands.

And whether a true Strong Artificial Intelligence even existed in this universe, Tom didn't know, let alone developing one independently.

Although the main AI of the Mechanical Disaster was powerful, fundamentally speaking, it was only a Weak Artificial Intelligence; it essentially had no consciousness of its own.

Facing this obstacle, Tom adopted an almost insane solution.

If I can't create a true Strong Artificial Intelligence, then I'll use true living intelligence instead. I'll use human brains combined with quantum supercomputers to meet the demand!

The 2 billion clones currently lying in the intelligent cockpits were the "Life Intelligent Supercomputer" that Tom built to meet the computational demands.

Through extensive previous research, Tom had confirmed that, with his investment of approximately 1.5 billion clones acting as a Life Intelligent Supercomputer, for a Strong Nuclear level civilization's battlefield, the prediction accuracy could reach the lower limit, which is 90%.

On this basis, the more clones he invested, the larger the Life Intelligent Supercomputer, and the higher the accuracy rate.

The current investment of these 2 billion clones does not mean that the accuracy can be raised to the highest level.

The more clones invested, the better, with no upper limit. But at this stage, Tom could only deploy 2 billion clones at most.

Having solved this problem, the next challenge facing this project was that even if they spared no expense and used true intelligent life as tools to build a "Life Intelligent Supercomputer," they still needed to solve the problem of coordination between different life forms.

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