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* An offshoot of the Caeliar species in the [[Star Trek Destiny]] series. They had been shunted back in time nearly fourteen billion years into another galaxy. In the intervening years, they constructed a [[Dyson Sphere]] around ''every star in their new galaxy'', knowing that such overt technology would attract the attention of their past selves [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|living in the present]], which would let them destroy them for investigating and send a few meager remnants into the past, completing a [[Stable Time Loop]]. They fact that the Caeliar as a whole are borderline [[Reality Warper|Reality Warpers]] who have [[Clarke's Third Law|ridiculously advanced technology]] that makes them functionally immortal and can teleport away entire planets and civilizations that come bothering them probably pushes them close to a Type IV.

* The Danannians from L.E. Modesitt's The Eternity Artifact were at least Type III, but it's entirely possible they were a borderline type IV+.

 

 

* The holder of the Infinity Gauntlet in the [[Marvel Universe]] possesses pretty high order omnipotence, capable of moving multiple universes and effortlessly deposing the living incarnation of all matter, energy and time in the universe.

* In ''[[Star Trek]]'', the Q Continuum are hard to judge based on technology, since by all accounts they appear to be, in their natural forms, transcendent beings with no fixed shape who exist in another dimension called The Continuum. They may have outgrown the need for technology, as they can reshape reality around themselves, reverse time and entropy, teleport to any point in space and time, shapechange themselves and others, tweak natural laws (Q: "Simple. Just change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the mass of the asteroid.") so their powers can pretty much be described as "magic".

* The Markovians from Chalker's [[Well World]] series are here, given that they built planet-sized megacomputers that could freely revise physical laws, edit the course of history, and indeed kept the universe stable. Specific estimates of energy usage are probably a moot point, as they were the ones deciding how much energy there ''is'' in the universe.

* The Beyonder from ''[[Secret Wars]]'' is probably unmeasurable. In his first appearance, he effortlessly ''destroyed a galaxy'' [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|to provide an empty corner of the universe]] for the various metabeings to battle each other.