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[edit] Type 0 - Type I
[edit] Type I
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Type I Single Planetary Civilization |
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| Early (1016 W to 1019 W) |
Middle (1020 W to 1023 W) |
Late (1024 W to 1026 W) (debateable) |
| near space colonization, near space industry, Asteroid mining, Planet Mining for fuels and energy |
First Interstellar travel, Culture Orbital |
Construction begins on Dyson Sphere or Alderson disk.ß, Stress caused by size of civilization, at this point it can fragment into multiple planetary civilizations—reversion from single civilization early in type 1 |
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Increasing levels of technology, Increasing levels of space exploration, space based energy sources increase, offworld civilization centers increase, increasing energy usage, increasing area of habitation |
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decreasing levels of centrality, societies and civilizations increasingly are not the same, due to time differences breaking single social bonds 1 |
[edit] Type II
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Type II Civilization extends to the entire Solar System 2 |
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| Early (1026 W to 1029 W) |
Middle (1030 W to 1033 W) (debateable) |
Late (1034 W to 1036 W) (debateable) |
| Dyson Sphere completion, Exploration of the nearest star systems 1, creation of the nearest star colony |
star lifting and Shkadov thrusters, Ringworld, Star Trek type civilization, |
Stress caused by size of civilization, at this point it can fragment into multiple solar system based civilizations—reversion to single star based civilization early, Automated Galatic colonization effort may begin 3 |
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Increasing levels of technology, Exponential growth in stars that are colonized, centralized systems increasingly draw resources from further systems which have not had their resources harvested–– driving increased expansion |
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decreasing levels of centrality, increasing likelihood of fragmentation into single star systems if resources cannot be adequately transferred from central sources, resource based wars may remerge after disappearance during Type I |
[edit] Type III, IV, V
