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== Solid Type III: More power than a single galaxy, but probably less than a galactic supercluster. ==
=== Literature ===
* Quasars vary, but 1×10<sup>40</sup>W is a ballpark.▼
* ''[[Manifold Time]]'' by [[Stephen Baxter]]. In the distant future, descendants of humanity maintain vast Dyson nets around the supermassive black hole remnants of galaxies until they evaporate via Hawking radiation, accessing the power equivalent of multiple galaxies.
** A star puts out a lot more energy from fusion than a black hole of the same mass would from Hawking radiation. Also, the more massive the hole, the lower its effective temperature. This might be more of a Type II or borderline Type III, depending on exactly how many "multiple" is.
* Though the details are a bit sketchy, some remarks in [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]]'s ''Whispers in the Dark'' suggest that the Mi-go could be here, since they've mastered interdimensional travel and apparently rule entire galaxies in their native dimensions.
* 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]]s 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+.
=== Web Original ===
* Established powers in ''[[Orion's Arm]]'' do things like suck entire stars through wormholes called grazers (over a period of many decades) and convert their mass directly to energy. A star's mass is in the
=== Real Life ===
▲* Quasars vary, but 1×10<sup>40</sup>W is a ballpark.
== Borderline Type IV: Power use approximately that of one to many superclusters. 1E46W ==
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