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== Borderline Type II: Power use roughly equivalent to a G type star's radiant output. 1E26W ==
=== Literature ===
* The Sun puts out about 3.86×10<sup>26</sup>W, as a largish G type star using mostly proton-proton chain fusion, converting slightly over 4 million metric tons of mass into energy every second.▼
* The various human groups in ''[[Hyperion]]'' are very much capable of building living Dyson Spheres/rings around stars, but seem to generally stick to single planets. By way of comparison the AIs are considerably more advanced (they can teleport planets) and are considered God-like by most people, and probably use rather more power. Likely scenario is a decent number of partially utilized stars for the humans, maybe somewhat more for the AIs.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* The unidentified builders of the Dyson Sphere in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Relics".▼
* Vorlons of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' are possibly this high based on some demonstrated planetary bombardment, but they're rather mysterious, so it's hard to say for sure. This is even more pronounced for their rivals the Shadows, which, though their superweapons seem to be considerably less powerful, are apparently in a stalemate with the Vorlons.▼
=== Tabletop Games ===
* The Imperium of Man from ''[[Warhammer 40,000
=== Video Games ===
* The [[The Precursors|Dom Ka'vosh]] from ''[[Freelancer]]'', who built an almost galaxy-wide empire long before Humanity colonized the Sirius sector. You must enter a [[Dyson Sphere]] in the last mission, and nothing contradicts the possibility that there may be more of them.
** Then again, the "Dyson Sphere" seemed to have a building at the center instead of a star, so maybe it wasn't a real Dyson Sphere but just a [[Hollow World]]. Or that could just be an artifact of the game's [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|bizarre spatial measurement]].
▲* The unidentified builders of the Dyson Sphere in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Relics".
* The [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|Ascent to Transcendance]] victory text of ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'' indicates that building a structure intended to mimic the theoretical effects of the Dyson sphere is a project currently being undertaken and which will be completed relatively soon.
* The elusive Geth of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' may be in this territory. The small amount of their space shown features low to mid Type I scale development per system, with tens to hundreds of thousands of ships and orbital platforms, especially around gas giants. If they control a good part of a galactic arm, which they may, they'd be around here.▼
▲* Vorlons of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' are possibly this high based on some demonstrated planetary bombardment, but they're rather mysterious, so it's hard to say for sure. This is even more pronounced for their rivals the Shadows, which, though their superweapons seem to be considerably less powerful, are apparently in a stalemate with the Vorlons.
=== Real Life ===
▲* The [[Warhammer 40,000|Imperium of Man]] probably goes here. It possesses myriad hive worlds, each probably rating about Type I, and countless Type 0 worlds across much of the galaxy. Their more powerful weapons can blow up planets, indicating transitory mid Type II scale power use, though that happens fairly rarely.
▲* The Sun puts out about 3.86×10<sup>26</sup>W, as a largish G type star using mostly proton-proton chain fusion, converting slightly over 4 million metric tons of mass into energy every second.
▲* The elusive Geth of [[Mass Effect]] may be in this territory. The small amount of their space shown features low to mid Type I scale development per system, with tens to hundreds of thousands of ships and orbital platforms, especially around gas giants. If they control a good part of a galactic arm, which they may, they'd be around here.
== Solid Type II: Clearly more power than a single star, but less than a galaxy. ==
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