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[[File:rsz kardashev 2010 12 8 3891.jpg|frame|How advanced are you?]]
{{quote|''"Your race hasn't even reached Type 1 on the Kardashev scale. It doesn't control the resources of this one planet, let alone a solar system or a galaxy. The Time Lords were '''the''' Type 4 civilization. We had no equals. We controlled the fundamental forces of the entire universe. Nothing could communicate with us on our level. [[Blasphemous Boast|Most races pray to lesser beings than the Time Lords.]]"''
[[Technology Levels]] has some actual reference in the real world in the form of the [[wikipedia:Kardashev scale|Kardashev Scale]], which indicates how much power a civilization uses. This was originally used in the context of astronomy, speculating about what advanced alien civilizations might look like from afar, particularly the implications of enormous energy demands. It has since been used to compare the [[Power Levels]] of fictional civilizations and, sometimes, individuals.
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{{examples}}
== Type 0: Less than Type I. Clear cases go here. If it looks like a large fraction of a planet's power, it's borderline. ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
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* ''[[Farscape]]'' seems to have dozens of civilizations at around this level, depending on just how much power the phlebotinum uses.
* ''[[Firefly]]'' might just be Type I, depending on its population. ''Serenity'' (considered old in-universe) takes minutes (say, 1000 s) to get out of an Earth-like gravity well (Earth's gravity well has a depth of 6×10<sup>7</sup>J/kg), and is capable of carrying herds of cows (say, 50 cows weighing 700 kg each); putting all that together, ''Serenity'' herself has a power output of at least 2×10<sup>9</sup>W.<ref>(actually more, because she has to lift her own weight as well as that of the cows, but since she could be made of some random ultralight futuristic material that's harder to estimate)</ref> So, if ''Serenity'''s engine represents one part in 10<sup>8</sup> of that civilization's power output, the total civilization's output is at least 2×10<sup>17</sup>W. (For comparison, note that 1:10<sup>8</sup> is roughly the ratio of a car engine's power output to the power output of our entire civilization.)
* The 12 Colonies of Kobol in ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* The sub-Vorlon/Shadow civilizations of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' seem to be in this neighborhood.
=== Video Games ===
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