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I think it depends entirely on the incentives of the civilization in question. If the primary goal was hiding your world from the Borg/Dalek/Alien bioweapon you
by tboughen 9y ago
I think it depends entirely on the incentives of the civilization in question. If the primary goal was hiding your world from the Borg/Dalek/Alien bioweapon your species discovered was ravaging the galaxy, then a 99% Carnot efficient Dyson sphere seems like the ideal defensive structure.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoNo it doesn't. Anything with sufficiently advanced technology to threaten a dyson sphere wielding species would probably detect the gravitational anomaly of the missing star and go investigate there first. Taking a tiny portion of the energy from a bunch of stars seems wildly more efficient at surviving from a threat than putting all your resources into creating a system they're sure to investigate.
- sfifs 9y agoThat is similar to the plot point of one of those Star Wars prequels if I recall right