Within the entire Solar System, the Sun alone accounts for 99.86% of the system’s total mass.
Of the remaining 0.14% of mass, Jupiter alone accounts for about 71%.
The remaining 29% of mass constitutes the other seven major planets, nurous dwarf planets, a virtually infinite number of asteroids, cots, interstellar dust, and all other celestial bodies.
Jupiter possesses a vast moon system.
There are four moons that have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, causing them to assu a spherical shape.
The largest moon, Ganyde, is even larger in volu than rcury, which is a major planet.
Of course, its mass is not comparable, being only half that of rcury.
In addition to the four large moons, it also has over seventy smaller moons and a magnificent Jupiter ring.
The Jupiter ring is similar to the Solar System’s asteroid belt, composed of countless large and small rock fragnts.
The Jupiter ring is highly fragnted; the largest internal bodies are only about a hundred ters in diater, and its overall thickness is only a dozen to several tens of kiloters.
However, this implies an advantage: Tom can very conveniently extract minerals from the Jupiter ring.
If the elental composition of a small celestial body ets his needs, he can directly tow it away for crushing and slting, completely eliminating the need to excavate downwards, sotis even thousands of ters deep, as is required for mining on planets.
Besides the Jupiter ring, the other four large moons and over seventy small moons also store rich mineral deposits, and most importantly, three of these four large moons have extrely abundant water reserves.
Ganyde alone stores more water than the entire Earth.
And coincidentally, Tom’s large-scale developnt precisely requires a large amount of water.
When on Loshen Star and God-Enemy Star, Tom was often troubled by insufficient water resources.
Moreover, Jupiter is located precisely at the edge of the dividing line between the Solar System’s rocky planets and gas giants.
Here, inward is the Solar System’s asteroid belt, containing more celestial bodies like dwarf planets and asteroids.
Further inward are rcury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, while outward are Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
No matter what resources are needed, they can be acquired relatively conveniently.
No matter where one needs to go, the distance is not too far.
This can probably be considered a "central" area of the Solar System.
After comprehensively comparing the data of various planets, Tom finally decided to establish his main developnt base in the Jupiter system, and more specifically, on Ganyde.
Upon entering the inner Solar System, Tom’s fleet still did not cease its journey.
It was not until they had passed the orbits of Uranus and Saturn, and were only a few hundred million kiloters from Jupiter, that the massive fleet slowly adjusted its direction, activated its engines, and began to thrust toward Jupiter, gradually reducing its speed.
However, one aerospace carrier did not decelerate.
Not only that, it adjusted its orbit, detached from the main fleet, and began to travel deeper into the Solar System.
After more than three months of deceleration, Tom’s main fleet arrived at Ganyde, and its speed had just decreased to about 2.5 kiloters per second.
Thus, 49 aerospace carriers and dozens of heavy transport ships entered Ganyde’s orbit, beginning to slowly revolve around it.
At this mont, a wondrous scene unfolded before Tom.
The distant Sun was no longer rely a point-like structure but had taken on a certain circular shape.
However, it was still very small, only the size of a marble.
Though small, it was extrely bright, even sowhat dazzling when viewed directly with the naked eye.
Its brightness was already sufficient to illuminate the vast deep space.
By its light, one could even clearly read small print in a book.
Casting shadows from various objects was effortless.
Overall, its brightness was roughly similar to twilight on Earth.
Under the illumination of such a bright Sun, beside it was a colossal planet, almost occupying a large portion of the celestial sphere, with distinct yellow and white stripes.
It resembled the eye of so cosmic demon, silently watching Tom’s fleet, exuding an extrely powerful sense of oppression.
Further away was an extrely bright, extrely dazzling, curved strip-like structure, like a rainbow.
It extended from behind Jupiter, like a long river in the sky, stretching to an extrely high altitude, then falling from a very distant place, re-entering the other side of Jupiter.
This was the Jupiter ring.
Beside this magnificent Jupiter ring, resembling a celestial river, there were also many bright points of light.
Those were Jupiter’s other moons.
Withdrawing his gaze from the sky and looking downward, Tom saw a colossal planet with a pale white hue.
On that pale white surface, there were also nurous grayish-white stripes.
This was the final destination of his journey of over ten billion kiloters: Ganyde.
It appeared pale white because many parts of its surface were covered by water ice, just as Earth appears azure because most of it is covered by seawater.
Those pale white stripes were massive fissures in the ice.
Such a vast planet, extrely rich in water resources and other resources, now lay before Tom like a succulent and delicious dish.
Tom was not in a hurry to begin large-scale landings imdiately.
He kept the massive fleet still anchored in orbit, then dispatched nurous satellites to survey the entire planet’s topography, environnt, and resource reserves from various angles, and also sent many small landing craft to land first for on-site reconnaissance.
The previous probes were, after all, too crude.
It was better to conduct a comprehensive investigation now.
In addition to Ganyde, Tom also dispatched nurous satellites and scientific research vessels to different moons, comncing the most detailed observations of every moon in the Jupiter system, as well as Jupiter itself.
Under these circumstances, the first batch of clones finally landed on Ganyde.
Looking at the vast land before them and feeling the extrely thin atmosphere, the clones busied themselves with their on-site reconnaissance mission.
While they were busy with preliminary reconnaissance work in the Jupiter system, on the other side, after several months of travel, the sole aerospace carrier that had separated from the main fleet finally arrived at its destination.
At this mont, it had entered the orbit of this planet, revolving around this vast azure planet at a speed of about 10 kiloters per second.
At this point, Tom temporarily halted the preliminary preparation work in the Jupiter system and, at the speed of light, transferred his consciousness from a clone located in the Jupiter system to a clone currently in orbit around this vast azure planet.
The consciousness transfer took about 43 minutes to complete.
The next mont, Tom opened his eyes and personally saw the planet where he had lived for several decades, where he was born, and where he grew up.
Earth.
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