Civilization Tiering System

The following is an overview of our new Tiering System for Civilization and Race profiles, designed to classify them based on their level of technological advancement and territorial dominion. The original blog where this was proposed and explained is here.

It should be noted that this does note replace the already existing Tiering System which classifies individual characters based on their sheer power and Attack Potency. Instead, the two should be used in conjunction for Civilization profiles, as it is quite possible for a fictional civilization of lesser technological advancement to possess greater destructive power than a science-fiction civilization, most often through magical or supernatural means.

## The Scale

**Pre-Industrial Civilization:** A civilization which has yet to undergo significant technological advancements, and lacks access to things such as electricity, industries, fuel based transports, etc.

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**Post-Industrial Civilization:** A civilization that can harness energy sources such as electricity, coal, wind, nuclear power and endothermic energy. Typically has developed technologies at the very least comparable to 18th - 19th Century Earth, or even slightly superior to current 21st Century Earth.

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**Planetary Civilization:** A civilization which has obtained total dominion and control over its home planet, uniting all continents and nations under one government. Typically possess technology which is notably more advanced than our own.

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**Stellar Civilization:** A civilization with dominion over its planetary system and even its parent star, being capable of inhabiting most if not all planets of its home system, and thus a technology far superior than our own.

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**Interstellar Civilization:** A civilization whose territory extends throughout multiple star systems, being capable of colonizing distant worlds, and possessing truly futuristic technology, such as spaceships with Faster-than-Light travel, and weapons whose potency render our technology wholly irrelevant.

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**Galactic Civilization:** A civilization whose territory extends throughout most, if not all of its home galaxy, containing many thousands if not millions of planets united under one government. Typically possesses means of Massively FTL+ travel, and technology capable of terraforming and destroying planets.

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**Intergalactic Civilization:** A civilization which controls not only its home galaxy, but numerous other galaxies as well, all united under one government.

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**Universal Civilization:** A civilization which possesses control over their entire universe, or at least a significant portion of it. These beings are typically indistinguishable from gods, and are often “Precursor” type races which seeded life all throughout the universe

e.g: The Guardians of the Universe

**Multiversal Civilization:** A civilization of such power that their dominion extends beyond their home universe, instead spreading throughout multiple other universes throughout the multiverse. Potentially, they may rule over the entire multiverse.

e.g: The New Gods

**Higher-Dimensional Civilization:** A civilization whose dominion and reach extends not only across numerous, if not infinite parallel universes, but also across higher-dimensional planes of existence and higher realities as well.

**Transcendent Civilization:** Civilizations / races who control the totality of existence, on a level so complete they are effectively all-powerful. The technology of such a civilization (If such a term even applies) is completely unexplainable by our understanding of physics.

## The Kardashev Scale

The **Kardashev Scale** is a measurement created by Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev, meant to measure the scale of a civilization’s technological advancement, measured through energy output.

It should be noted that being higher on the Kardashev Scale does not always dictate greater firepower, as the scale measures only the energy which the civilization uses.

**Type 0: 1E6 – 1E16 watts**. A civilization that harnesses significant portion of the energy of its home planet, but not to its full potential.

**Type I: 1E16 – 1E26 watts**. A civilization that can harness the entirety of the geothermal energy of Earth.

**Type II: 1E26 – 1E36 watts**. A civilization that can harness the energy of a star.

**Type III: 1E36 – 1E46 watts**. A civilization that can harness the energy of a galaxy.

**Type IV: 1E46 – 1E56 watts**. A civilization that can harness the energy of a galactic supercluster.

**Type V: 1E56 – 1E69 watts**. A civilization that can harness all of the energy of its universe.

**Type VI: 3.9 x 1E69 watts and above**. A civilization that generates more energy than the universe every second.

**Type VII: Immeasurable**. Civilizations beyond any known quantification of joules.

* Heaven/Hell
* New Genesis/Apokolips
* Skyland/Underworld

This scale is expanded beyond the traditional scale, which only goes to Type III or IV, so encompass more types of Civilizations that can be seen in fiction.