> Couple that with mass and energy ultimately being limited then there is a strong incentive and advantage in becoming as large as possible. Unless you can tra

> Couple that with mass and energy ultimately being limited then there is a strong incentive and advantage in becoming as large as possible. Unless you can transmit power over infinite disctance without loss, you get diminishing returns as you expand. Eventually the amount of energy you can beam back from a new dyson swarm does not justify the cost of building a new dyson swarm. There is no incentive to expand beyond that point. For reasonable engineering estimates, such a range is still very small on galactic scales.