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* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' has several big, weird and [[Precursors|evidently old]] objects, including...
** "Zoojack" - a prison of an unknown owner for species previously unknown, yet mysteriously speaking Galstandard.
** "Oisri" - the nearly Moon-sized "asteroid" made of superdense alloys with total of 1.2 Earth's mass [[Artificial Gravity|artificially]] masked [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-03-11 to 0.07] locally. An UNS military analyst suspected that it may be an annihilation plant - thousand times bigger than humans have and [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-03-18 over ten times bigger] than the greatest ''ever'' created known... which survived just long enough to prove that "bigger is exponentially better". {{spoiler|They are wrong, of course. It turns out to be something ''much'' nastier than that.}}
** "Eina-Afa" - ancient space station that goes beyond "[[That's No Moon]]", because 8100 km across is more like ''"[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 you could drop Mars into that can, and then tuck Luna and Europa on top]"''. Its article on Ovalkwiki has drawing to scale next to some objects of Sol system, Oisri and Death Star 2.0 (pixel size 10 km).
** [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-03-10 Then] there was a discussion of Galaxy scale telescopes. It's an array, however — individual nodes are pocket sized (until unrolled), there's just a trillion of them spread that wide.