I mean, you can't build something large enough to register as a planetary body, let alone a stellar body, and *not* put a giant planet-melting laser on it.
@@Crazylom That's the problem with the ascention perks. Most of them are mild improvement and then there are a few of them that are game changingly powerful. So to awnser your question, people who don't pick mega engineering are newbis, some roleplayers and people who don't have utopia.
well, the death star part seems to be more of an afterthought, the main point was the warp/wormhole concept, but when you have a massive round space station bigger then a star, why not install a massive laser that can also be converted to thruster? plus, it servs as a massive defensive fortress with artillary capabilities in space relative range
Oh great, Isaac Arthur got crowd funding.... Fuckit I'll upload my mind to the dyson sphere and if that iteration of 'me' has to spend a portion of its time overseeing automated production of widgets? So be it. That version of me will be ON A FUCKING DYSON SPHERE. SUCK IT UNIVERSE!
Half way into the story I'm like Star Trek, replicator, galactic scale? I liked the eventual out come of story though. Galactic subway, "Pennsylvania Station to Outer Orion Arm, departure time 23:30 local, arrival 5:45 local, please go to gate 33. I repeat"
Haha, humans love generating too much energy! There was a cool Tom Scott video about a Scottish Island making too much energy. I don't think they're going to put a big laser on it though.
Basically, making a goddamn freeway/expressway in an intergalactic scale. God, the toll there is gonna be f*ck huge. "Oh you wanna go trade with those dudes? well you could travel there for 5 years or you could just pay us 10000 creds."
Only a Dyson sphere built around a red or white dwarf star or neutron stars would be small enough to be a 1:1 replica of the death star. A Dyson sphere built around our own sun (which is on the small side for stars) would dwarf even the planet killer base of the Rae star wars series.
reminds me of star trek online, where an ancient race and their servitor races had built 4 dyson spheres which could jump to any star of their choosing.
So humanity revolutionized travel, but in the process they also took over the galaxy because they have multiple massive super weapons capable of crossing the galaxy in an instant and fucking melting entire planets
STAR WARS fans know that building what is essentially a Death Star is a stupid idea. Why put all that time, resources, and energy into a death ray when you could put it in military training, medical advances,and transportation?
But it's not a death star, it's a wormhole engine, that has a massive thruster, that in emergency can become a death star, so it checks out. We have a solar mass entity engine, that is supposed to be backup and jumpstart of industry and energy, it's hard to defend that, why dont we strap a convertable death star on top of it, so it can act as a defensive mobile artillary battery, just in case?
Soooooo... teleport into a inhabited region and melt planet with well over billions lifeforms and many important military, economic and political stations?
A Dyson Sphere would make the death star look TINY. The most iconic (though neither the original nor even close to the most practical) version of the idea, which this one seems to be based on, is a “thin” (probably a few miles thick for structural reasons) spherical shell fully englobing the star and a large part of the inner solar system at approximately 1 AU radius, where the death star is “merely” large moon-sized. Tho its “death ray” (the specific style described in the vid is called a Nicoll-Dyson Beam in hard SciFi circles, and just passively reflects and focuses the entire star’s light on a single spot like a giant magnifying glass) would take many minutes to cook Earth’s biosphere and hours-days to actually blow apart a planet, and its hyperdrive charges MUCH faster than the described wormhole drive, so a death star is clearly running more efficiently as a combat platform.
Actually I thought it was going to be used for either a thruster (it was) or part of an kugelblitz assembly array (it wasn't, maybe that's a later project)
@@robertrosenthal7264 It could in the future, the currently built industrial capabilities only took up a fraction of the stable power output of the star, while it stored up batteries. I expect it to be used that way, and after you reach your destination, you simply start charging batteries, and build up ad-hook industrialisation to use the rest of the energy of the star.
I prefer not to raze my hands, as I am rather attached to both. Not even in the name of planet melting super lasers. I will, however, raze the hands of other people who seek to prevent their construction.
doesn't matter, a dyson sphere is more portable, more applicable to other purposes, and even if way more resource intensive, serves as a planet all on its own
Another story, another conflation of sentient and sapient. Can you hear my exasperated sigh from here? edit: Sapience is being wise, not sentience. Just remember, homo *sapien* = thinking man. Sentience is the ability to feel.
