The first to be relocated were the neutrino telescopes.

Tom had built a total of 16 neutrino telescopes. The largest of these telescopes stored 10 million tons of pure water in its internal pure water tank, while the smallest still held 4 million tons.

This meant that the pure water tanks alone had diameters ranging from 200 to 300 meters.

Their size wasn't actually too large. If it was purely for transportation, Tom could completely disassemble them, storing the equipment components and pure water separately, which wasn't difficult.

However, considering that they needed to operate during the relocation journey, it became quite troublesome.

This was because neutrino telescopes have a very important characteristic: they must block out other types of radiation as much as possible, allowing only neutrinos, which have extremely high penetrability, to pass through. Only then can they achieve the goal of detecting neutrinos.

On the planet, Tom adopted the method of building them deep underground, relying on thick rock layers to achieve this shielding purpose.

In space, what would Tom rely on for shielding?

While spacecraft armor certainly has extremely high radiation resistance, how thick would the armor need to be to achieve the shielding effect of thousands of meters of deep rock layers?

Don't forget, the requirements for the shielding layer of a neutrino telescope are much higher than for living organisms. Even a little interference would essentially render the entire telescope useless.

After much thought, Tom decided to build an unprecedentedly massive spherical spaceship.

The radius of this spherical spaceship reached 1.7 kilometers—thus, its longest dimension, or diameter, was only 3.4 kilometers. It might seem small, but it was actually larger than the largest Aerospace Carrier.

This was because an Aerospace Carrier only reached 6 kilometers in length and width, but its height was only 600 meters.

The internal volume of an Aerospace Carrier was about 18 cubic kilometers, while the internal volume of this spherical scientific research vessel was as high as 20.5 cubic kilometers!

Its total mass also exceeded a fully loaded Aerospace Carrier, reaching around 500 million tons.

Tom placed the main structure of the neutrino telescope, which was the pure water tank with extremely high requirements for radiation shielding, at the core of this massive spherical spaceship. Furthermore, Tom designed this spaceship as a cargo ship.

Thus, outside the innermost pure water tank, in every direction, there were approximately 1.4 kilometers of armor, isolation layers, equipment, and most importantly, various materials with good radiation shielding properties, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, chemicals, and so on.

Using the transported materials themselves as a shielding layer created a sufficiently pure environment for the neutrino telescope at the very core, allowing it to operate normally even in space.

Because there were 16 neutrino telescopes, Tom also needed to build 16 of these spherical cargo ships. And because the neutrino telescopes varied in size, operational goals, and detection directions, each spherical cargo ship needed to be specially designed.

After solving the problem of the neutrino telescopes, the next challenge was the particle colliders.

Here, Tom encountered some difficulties again.

Particle colliders can be divided into two shapes: circular and linear. Circular ones were relatively easy; he could just build a ring-shaped spaceship.

But linear particle colliders were a bit tricky.

They were simply too long.

The longest one even had a length of 30 kilometers!

Before this, the largest spaceship Tom had built was only 6 kilometers long. This was an expansion of five times.

But there was no other way.

During the transportation phase, they could be disassembled and moved, but when they needed to operate, he couldn't just leave them exposed in interstellar space at a few percent of the speed of light, could he?

He had to build a spaceship to house them.

Left with no choice, Tom had to design a new type of bamboo pole-shaped spaceship, equipping it with its own power and protection. He also built equipment rooms, observation rooms, supercomputing bases, personnel logistics bases, and so on, to accommodate this particle collider.

Because this spaceship was extremely long and thin, its thrusters had to be specially designed, and the thrust had to be strictly consistent.

For ordinary spaceships, because they inherently possess a suitable mechanical structure, it doesn't matter if the thrusters' output is slightly inconsistent; the hull strength will compensate for this problem.

But with this "bamboo pole" spaceship, if the thruster thrust was even slightly inconsistent, it might just break directly.

After a series of tests, improvements, and so on, Tom finally solved this problem with great effort.

In comparison, the circular colliders weren't much trouble.

After solving the colliders, the next challenge was the gravitational wave detectors.

Compared to particle colliders, gravitational wave detectors were even more troublesome.

Particle colliders were either long and linear or circular, with relatively simple structures. But gravitational wave detectors were "7"-shaped.

They had a horizontal axis and a vertical axis. Both axes were several kilometers long but were connected at only one point.

Traditional gravitational wave detectors actually didn't need axes; they only needed a few laser emitters connected by lasers.

However, Tom gradually discovered during his long research that to improve detection precision to a certain extent, even the vacuum of interstellar space was not enough; a higher vacuum had to be created artificially.

Thus, there had to be a pipe connecting these laser emitters.

This was because only a physical pipe could maintain an extremely high vacuum inside, allowing the laser to travel without any interference to achieve the highest precision.

These two pipe axes had to maintain an absolute 90-degree angle and could not deform. Once deformed, detection would be greatly affected.

Such a large and fragile detector gave Tom a headache. After experimenting with dozens of methods, Tom finally found a right-angled triangular spaceship structure, installing these two mutually perpendicular pipe axes on the two right-angle sides of the right-angled triangular spaceship, thus solving the transportation problem of the gravitational wave detector.

After solving the environmental setup and transportation for these most challenging large scientific facilities, the remaining large scientific facilities, though also extremely complex, were much easier to handle.

Thus, one custom-built large spaceship after another emerged from the shipyards, and high-temperature laboratories, high-pressure laboratories, array telescopes, radio telescopes, and so on, were all transported into the spaceships.

At this moment, the originally scheduled 30 years were only a few months away from completion.

Tom's fleet was also fully prepared and ready to set sail at any time.

"Before leaving, I'll leave you a little surprise."

Tom pondered to himself, then issued another command.

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