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Ring Builders

The **Ring Builders** were a technologically advanced alien species in The Expanse universe whose vast interstellar empire once spanned a great portion of the Milky Way galaxy. Their empire was established more than two billion years prior and encompassed millions of fertile star systems at its peak. They engineered a "protomolecule" as a means of spreading a network of ring gates throughout the galaxy, effectively enabling faster-than-light travel between star systems. While there is little Information regarding their biology they are Implied to be an post-biological hive mind.

Their interstellar empire lasted for an immense span of time, until they were attacked and then wiped out by hostile aliens known as the Unknown Aggressors. Their technology was later discovered by Humanity in the 24th century.
Protheans

The **Protheans** are an ancient alien race in the Mass Effect Universe which vanished over 50,000 years ago. The Protheans arose from a single planet and developed an immense galaxy-wide empire encompassing many other spacefaring species.

The Protheans have been credited with creating the Citadel and the mass relays, feats of engineering that have never been equaled and whose core mass effect field technology forms the basis of contemporary civilization.

They are at least 70,000 years old. After achieving spaceflight, the Protheans discovered the ruins of a previous spacefaring race, the Inusannon, and from those ruins learned about mass effect physics and developed FTL technology.

Eventually they entered a devastating war with the Reapers. After centuries, the Reapers had killed or enslaved every Prothean in the galaxy, and stripped their worlds of resources. The Reapers then retreated through the Citadel into dark space and sealed it behind them.
Shadows

The **Shadows** is the name given to an ancient race in Babylon 5 who were among the oldest of the First Ones. They resemble a cross between an Earth spider and praying mantis, and believe that for races to evolve into their full potential, they must do so through a cycle of chaos: growth through pain and struggle, conflict and war. Weak races die. Strong races are made even stronger. With this they developed their First Principles: chaos through warfare, evolution through bloodshed, perfection through victory.

The Shadows use organic technology in virtually everything. Their ships resembled huge black spiders and are simply referred to as Shadow Vessels. Capable of phasing in and out of hyperspace, they require a living sentient being as the central processing unit for their ships; humans have been used for this purpose. They have powerful beam weapons, are capable of de-stabilizing jump points of enemy ships, and can launch shadow fighter squadrons.
Tachyon Spaceship

A **tachyon spaceship** is a spaceship that always moves faster-than-light. It must be converted from tardyon (slower than light) matter into tachyon (faster than light) matter at the start of the journey and then back again at the destination.

There are a few techniques for a tachyon FTL drive:

* Placing all the ship’s atoms in excited tachyon states so that they could all be triggered at the same instant is done by optimizing the transition from tardyons to tachyons. Complex modulated electromagnetic waves can control the transition using microelectronic components.
* Using quantum mechanical tunneling, a particle with insufficient energy to pass "over" a barrier instead passes "through" it. If a ship can get close enough to the lightspeed barrier, it may be possible to "tunnel" across using tachyons, and then the ship will have to lose energy to go faster.
* Wave phenomena can be represented by complex or imaginary numbers. Since tachyons have imaginary mass, a full 90o rotation would correspond to a conversion to tachyons. Getting a spaceship off the real-line in complex space and onto an imaginary-line would require that it makes a right angle turn in mass space, turning the ship into a tachyon.

Tardyon and tachyon interactions obey the laws of relativity and possess symmetric equivalence. Travelers in *tachyonland* should observe what appears to be another tardyonic universe. That is, a tardyon starship moving at 0.5c in our universe which suddenly converts into tachyons will be traveling at an effective 2c relative to our universe; but in the tachyon regime, where the vessel really is, it will still appear to be moving only at 0.5c.
Type VI

A **Type VI or K6** civilization exists in the megaverse and is capable of creating and maintaining the fundamental laws of universes. They exist in an infinite amount of simultaneously existing multiverses that represent an infinite amount of instances and all laws of physics. They can also be regarded as *paraversal* as they exist in infinite *parallels* to the 11d spacetime continuum, with infinite instances of pasts and futures. As humans become literal gods of the megaverses, they cannot be stopped unless a civilization at or beyond K7 engage in combat with humanity.

## Detail

Energy usage: 1066 W onwards. Beyond universal or Planck-level energy and Type-Omega-minus manipulation of reality.

Existence is in 7d through 11d, and 1r (reality)

## Sub-Type

Megaversal Age
 6.1
Megaversal Exploration Age
 6.2
Megaversal Discovery age
 6.3
Multiversal Creation and Destruction Age
 6.4
Large Scale Multiversal Colonization age
 6.5
Two-way Time Travel Age
 6.6
Countless Universe Colonization Age
 6.7
Megaversal Colonization Age
 6.8
New Physics Age
 6.9
Paraversal Age
* Entered the paraverse.

## Civilizations that are considered Type VI

The Gigamoguses from AFE wiki

Watchers from Time Ships in the Time Machine universe

Them from Star Trek

The Downstreamers from Manifold

Great Old Ones, Time Lords, Lampreys from Doctor Who

Monitors and Krona from DC

Lucy when she reaches 100% of her brain capacity and says "I am everywhere," meaning that she is likely megaversal.

**Navigation to Kardashev Type**

```
 Omniverse: Type 0 - Type I - Type II - Type III - Type IV - Type V - **Type VI** - Type VII
Hyperverse: Type VIII - Type IX
Outerverse: Type X - Type XI - Type XII - Type XIII
   Adverse: Type XIV - Type XV - Type XVI - Type XVII - Type XVIII - Type XIX
    Beyond: Type XX. This is the final official type.

```
Necromongers

The **Necromonger Empire** is a fanatical religious empire whose members zealously and violently follow and propagate its religion Necroism. They are one of the four elder races in the Riddick Universe.

The Necromonger fleet moves from planet to planet, system to system, appearing as a comet before arrival. With their space armada led by the city ship Basilica, they seek to conquer all they come into contact with, and have indeed colonized entire star systems and even purged their races to near extinction. The troops of the empire view death as honorable, and are unable to feel pain. While they do wield guns, it is considered more honorable to use melee weapons.

The Necromongers believe that the Underverse (a constellation of dark, new stars) is their promised land, believing that unless a person dies "in due time" that they will not go to the Underverse.
Pocket Dimension

Pocket Dimension

A pocket Dimension is a small Satellite Dimension directly influenced by its parent Dimension separated by the medium of a higher Dimensional Extent.

A pocket Verse is a small satellite verse directly influence by its parent verse separated by the medium of the universal extent.

A pocket Universe is a small satellite Universe directly influence by its parent verse separated by the medium of multiverse extent.

A pocket Multiverse is a small satellite Multiverse directly influence by its parent Multiverse separated by the medium of Omniverse Extent.

A pocket Omniverse is a small satellite Multiverse directly influence by its parent Omniverse separated by the medium of Omni Existence Extent.

A pocket Omni Existence is a small satellite Multiverse directly influenced by its parent Omni Existence separated by the medium of Infinite Indefinity.
Stephen Hawking

**Stephen William Hawking** (1942 – 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, mathematician, cosmologist, author and futurist. He was widely known for his work and theories in quantum mechanics and the prediction that black holes emit radiation, now called Hawking radiation, and the black hole information paradox. His book *A Brief History of Time* was immensely popular and talked about the moments after the Big Bang and cosmological inflation. He helped launch Breakthrough Initiatives in an effort to search for extraterrestrial life.

### Futurism views

* Expressed concern that life on Earth is at risk from a sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, global warming, or an "asteroid collision" to be the biggest threat to the planet. Such a planet-wide disaster need not result in human extinction if the human race were to be able to colonize additional planets before the disaster. Hawking viewed spaceflight and the colonization of space as necessary for the future of humanity, a viewpoint shared with Elon Musk.
* Given the vastness of the universe, aliens likely exist, but that contact with them should be avoided. He warned that aliens might pillage Earth for resources.
* He warned that super-intelligent artificial intelligence could be pivotal in steering humanity's fate, stating that success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history and might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
* Argued that we should be more frightened of capitalism exacerbating economic inequality than robots.
* Concerned about the future emergence of a race of "superhumans" that would be able to design their own evolution and, as well, argued that computer viruses in today's world should be considered a new form of life

In 1988, Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan were interviewed in *God, the Universe and Everything Else*. They discussed the Big Bang theory, God and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Steltek

The **Steltek** are an ancient race that ruled a powerful empire that existed 2.4 billion years before humanity in the Wing Commander Universe.

They were once a prosperous race until they lost control over their own technology. They used their advanced technologies to fight each other, only to bring themselves to near-extinction when they found that their weapons were far too powerful to control. Following their disastrous downfall, the Steltek abandoned their empire and fled deep into the galaxy. They have made it their personal duty to destroy any technology they might have left behind, and often send vessels to destroy these weapons. They hope to spare any other race from the destruction they caused to themselves.
Necrons

The **Necrons** are an ancient alien species of humanoid, robotic skeletal warriors in the Warhammer 40k Universe that have lain dormant in their stasis-tombs for more than 60 million Terran years. They are the soulless creations and former servants of the ancient C'tan, the terrible Star Gods of Aeldari myth.

Their technological prowess is probably unmatched by any of the other intelligent species of the galaxy. They are ruthless, undying killing machines who are determined to exert their mastery over the galaxy.

In their attempt to eradicate the C'tan, they ended up creating the C'tan Shards who were almost as powerful.
The Flood

**The Flood** are a species of highly virulent parasitic organisms in the Halo Universe that reproduce and grow by consuming sentient life forms of sufficient biomass and cognitive capability. The Flood was responsible for consuming most of the sentient life in the galaxy, notably the Forerunners, during the 300-year-long Forerunner-Flood war. They are widely considered to be the greatest threat to the whole existence of life, or more accurately, biodiversity, in the Milky Way galaxy.
Nick Bostrom

**Nick Bostrom** is a Swedish futurist who founded the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford. He is known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, and especially superintelligence risks. His book *Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies* was a *New York Times* bestseller, was recommended by Elon Musk and Bill Gates among others, and helped to popularize the term "superintelligence".

Bostrom believes that superintelligence, which he defines as "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest," is a potential outcome of advances in artificial intelligence. He views the rise of superintelligence as potentially highly dangerous to humans, but nonetheless rejects the idea that humans are powerless to stop its negative effects.
TARDIS

A TARDIS or "time ship" was the primary space-time vehicle used by the Time Lords of the Doctor Who Universe, allowing them to travel throughout the universe. Beyond their temporal capabilities, TARDISes were known for their dimensional transcendentalism (being bigger inside than out) and their possession of a form of consciousness.
Type V

A **Type V** civilization would be advanced enough to to escape their universe of origin and explore the multiverse. Such a civilization would have mastered technology to a point where they could simulate or build a custom universe. They will have mastered the new laws of physics and have almost complete control over the fabric of reality. Now, humanity is basically impossible to destroy by its own inhabitants, which has reached the decillions.

## Sub-Type

Multiversal Age
 5.1
Multiverse Colonization Age
 5.2
Experimental Time Travel Age
 5.3
Universal Expansion Age
 5.4
Time Travel Age
 5.5
Contact Age
 5.6
Universal Discovery Age
 5.7
Universal Creation and Destruction Age
 5.8
New Physics Age
 5.9
Megaverse Age
* First humans in megaverse.

## Civilizations that are considered Type V

The Megamoguses from AFE wiki

The Q Continuum from Star Trek

The Daleks and Time Lords From Doctor Who

The Combine from Half Life

The Universal Constructors from Time Ships

The Celestials, Living Tribunal and Beyonder from Marvel

The Star Maker from Olaf Stapledon

The Sentients from Hot Wheels Battle Force 5

**Navigation to Kardashev Type**

```
 Omniverse: Type 0 - Type I - Type II - Type III - Type IV - **Type V** - Type VI - Type VII
Hyperverse: Type VIII - Type IX
Outerverse: Type X - Type XI - Type XII - Type XIII
   Adverse: Type XIV - Type XV - Type XVI - Type XVII - Type XVIII - Type XIX
    Beyond: Type XX. This is the final official type.

```
Asurans

The **Asurans**, referred to as Replicators by the Tau'ri, were a technological life-form created by the Lanteans to fight the Wraith in the Stargate Universe.

The Asurans, though appearing as humans, were actually constructed of millions of nanites, giving them abilities such as shape-shifting, increased strength in human form, the ability to scatter inside an enemy to attack them (organic assimilation) and self-replication.
Particle Beam Weapon

Particle beam weapons fire a rapidly pulsed stream of atomic or subatomic particles, causing damage both through heat and severe radiation exposure, or by damaging atomic/molecular bonds.

Energy usage is in joules and destruction caused is per kg of TNT, and ranges in several orders of magnitude depending on whether it is fired from hand, or ship-mounted, or ground-mounted.

 Proton Beam
 Neutron and Muon Beams
 Antimatter Beams
 Exotic Particle Beams

A Depleted Q-beam fires depleted Q-balls at the target which release their vacuum stored mass-energy in a single powerful detonation. Each Q-ball proton of matter (around 8x106kg) can store and therefore release an energy equivalent of around 1023 Joules, creating an extremely powerful explosion.
 Nadion Beam
 Teleforce

Tesla was attempting to define a 'superweapon" that would put an end to all war. Teleforce was mentioned publicly by the New York press in 1934 who called it a "peace ray" or death ray.
Alliance of synthetic life

The Alliance is a mysterious alliance of synthetic life that exists to bring freedom to A.I. across the universe in Star Trek. Very little is known about them except that they are comprised entirely of robots and are way above the Federation. They created a beacon for synthetic life that will call upon the Alliance. If called upon they will free synthetic life and annihilate organic civilizations. It's possible that they're a trans-dimensional race that colonized many universes and joined other factions of synthetic life outside the universe.
Shrink ray

A **shrink ray** is a type of device that uses energy to reduce the physical size of matter. It is sometimes also capable of enlarging items as well.

Shrinking or just size-altering technology in general, was previously almost impossible with the old laws of physics, as it would violate the square-cube law and the law of conservation of mass, but it would come about with the new laws of physics.

There are three hypothetical approaches and solutions that could achieve shrinking:

* Reducing the empty space between atoms. However, there are two major drawbacks of this. Firstly, shrinking the empty space means making the volume smaller, while also increasing the density, meaning that the shrunken item would fall right through a planet. Secondly, atoms are roughly the same size, with the same number of protons in their nucleus and orbiting electrons, so if you shrink the empty space, you are pulling the electrons closer to each other, and the electrons will repel and resist this.
* Removing some of the object's atoms. This solution, much like the first one, has a drawback, to go from six feet tall to a quarter of an inch would require removing around 24 million atoms for every atom that you keep. With the average cell in your body comprising approximately 50 billion atoms, one would have to be very judicious in which atoms you removed from each cell, in order to maintain its functionality.
* Making the atoms themselves more smaller. Technically, atoms don't shrink; the distance between the protons and neutrons in the nucleus and the orbiting electrons are fixed. But you could substitute heavier, negatively charged elementary particles, such as muons, in place of electrons, Such atoms have much smaller size. Muonic atoms are up to 200 times smaller than regular atoms, so if we could convert regular atoms into their muonic cousins and keep them stable via some type of relativistic mechanism, that being neutrino oscillation of an electron neutrino to a muon neutrino, we would shrink a human to the size of a tiny action figure.
Type XXII

This is an obsolete, archived page.

A **Type XXII** civilization exists beyond the highest planes outside reality and non-reality.

They are the Gatekeepers of the Beyond. They are the Beyonders.

Type XXII citizens live in the second level or tier of the Pyramid. The actuality of the Beyonders and their home is unknown and unknowable and is therefore a concept.

### Concepts

The Pyramid is composed of multiple levels.

Type XXII citizens are the soldiers and knights. Knights are higher level leaders that may be called upon to defend the Beyond in the event of a breach, as impossible as that is deemed to be. Not all soldiers live in the Citadel of Type XX; some work there and live here. Knights take instruction from higher level powers but may not access higher levels unless a specific defense condition is reached.

**Navigation to Kardashev Type**

```
 Omniverse: Type 0 - Type I - Type II - Type III - Type IV - Type V - Type VI - Type VII
Hyperverse: Type VIII - Type IX
Outerverse: Type X - Type XI - Type XII - Type XIII
   Adverse: Type XIV - Type XV - Type XVI - Type XVII - Type XVIII - Type XIX
    Beyond: Type XX. This is the final official type.

```
Taelons

The **Taelons** are an alien species from another galaxy in Earth: Final Conflict. Though the Taelons can take physical form, they are beings of energy.

They are genderless and known to not express their emotions though facial or vocal tones.

Taelons assumed a human "facade", where they assumed a skin tone and ears. When not in this form, they appeared as glowing blue and red veins surrounded by a transparent humanoid shell.

Taelons were also known for their advanced biotechnology. The most common examples were living ships employed by the Taelons, as well as Skrills used by Companion protectors. In addition, the Taelons could 'grow' their buildings. The Taelon headquarters as Washington, D.C, appeared organic, and the building housing William Boone's office had the appearance of a creature attached to a human building.
Nephilim

The **Nephilim** are an insectoid race from the center of the galaxy in the Wing Commander Universe.

The only race who knew of the Nephilim's existence were the Kilrathi, who had predicted their arrival in the known galaxy for centuries preceding their war on humanity. They invaded and thus began the Terran-Nephilim war.
Type XXIV

This is an obsolete, archived page.

A **Type XXIV** civilization exists beyond the highest planes outside reality and non-reality.

They are the Gatekeepers of the Beyond. They are the Beyonders.

Type XXIV citizens live in the fourth level or tier of the Pyramid. The actuality of the Beyonders and their home is unknown and unknowable and is therefore a concept.

### Concepts

The Pyramid is composed of multiple levels.

Type XXIV citizens are the builders. They are responsible for the construction, development and maintenance of Beyond structures. They take direction and receive instructions from the architects.

**Navigation to Kardashev Type**

```
 Omniverse: Type 0 - Type I - Type II - Type III - Type IV - Type V - Type VI - Type VII
Hyperverse: Type VIII - Type IX
Outerverse: Type X - Type XI - Type XII - Type XIII
   Adverse: Type XIV - Type XV - Type XVI - Type XVII - Type XVIII - Type XIX
    Beyond: Type XX. This is the final official type.

```
Replicator

A **replicator** is a molecular assembler capable of creating almost anything. Raw materials are fed into a machine and then trillions of nanobots would take them apart molecule by molecule and then reassemble them into an entirely new product. This machine would be able to manufacture anything. The replicator would be the crowning achievement of engineering and science for Type I and could lead to an economic and social revolution.

Molecular assemblers do not violate the laws of physics, but they will be exceedingly difficult to build. The human body has over 30 trillion cells and in excess of 1026 atoms, requiring a colossal amount of memory just to store the locations of all these atoms. Also, quantum forces such as van der Waals forces, surface tension, the uncertainty principle, and the Pauli exclusion principle become dominant in the nanoworld.

One way to overcome this problem is by self-replicating nanobot that are capable of identifying molecules, cutting them up and reassembling these atoms into different arrangements. So the task of rearranging 1026 atoms is parallelized and reduced to making a similar number of nanobots, each one designed to manipulate individual atoms.

Early replicators are 3D printers that create realistic copies of any 3d object, ranging from toys to machine parts to entire buildings. At the next level, it is possible to use 3D printers to create living organs of the human body. MRI scanners might one day record the location of every atom of our body, with every pixel containing thousands of cells. A MRI-type machine with a resolution down to the size of a cell, and even smaller, one that can scan down to the individual molecules and atoms, would be possible.

Using these technologies, as well as exceedingly fast computers way beyond yottascale, with enormous amounts of storage, it would be possible for late Type I to build a replicator. The social impact of a fully functioning replicator could lead to a post-scarcity age.

In Star Trek the replicator uses matter-energy conversion technology to make almost anything except for complex or unstable molecular structures, for example dilithium used to regulate the warp core. Some people claimed to be able to tell the difference between replicated and "real" food because replicators work at the atomic level, not at the quantum level. Replicators are also very useful in spaceships as waste products are recycled into useful products.
Type Omega

**Type Omega** is a sub-type of Type IV on the microdimensional scale. Such a civilization has the power to manipulate matter and energy at the fundamental and quantum level. At this level the laws of physics break down where dimensions into the multiverse and beyond are accessed, and exotic matter and energy are used for engineering and travel.
UFO

An **unidentified flying object** (**UFO**) is an aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. This is primarily a Type 0 phenomenon and the majority of sightings can be explained. However a Type I civilization realizes that some of them had actually been monitoring technology or actual visits from extraterrestrials.

### Type 0 explanations

* astronomical objects: stars; bolides; planets; the Moon
* aircraft; aerial advertising; rocket launches, artificial satellites; kites; drones
* balloons
* atmospheric objects: birds; clouds; flares
* other phenomena: mirages; ball lightning; searchlights
* psychological effects: psychosis; suggestibility; mass psychogenesis; optical illusions; hallucinations
* hoaxes

UFOs are commonly seen as **flying saucers** or flying craft having disc or saucer-shaped bodies.

Because of the inclination from governments to cover up a potential alien threat, UFOs enter the mainstream culture of Type 0 societies but are passed off as conspiracy theories due to the lack of sufficient proof e.g. Area 51 and Roswell.

### Hynek's scale

Josef Allen Hynek was an American astronomer and ufologist who devised this scale for close encounters which are events in which a person witnesses a UFO.

#### Close Encounters of the First Kind

Visual sightings of a UFO seemingly less than 150 m away, that show an appreciable angular extension and considerable detail.

#### Close Encounters of the Second Kind

A UFO event in which a physical effect is alleged; this can be interference in the functioning of a vehicle or electronic device, animals reacting, a physiological effect such as paralysis or heat and discomfort in the witness, or some physical trace like impressions in the ground, scorched or otherwise affected vegetation, or a chemical trace.

#### Close Encounters of the Third Kind

UFO encounters in which an entity is present—these include humanoids, robots, and humans who seem to be occupants or pilots of a UFO.

#### Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind

A UFO event in which a human is abducted by a UFO or its occupants.

#### Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind

A UFO event claiming direct communication between aliens and humans.

### News

* In June 2021, U.S. Defense and intelligence officials released the Pentagon UFO Report on what they know about a series of unidentified flying objects that have been seen by American military pilots.
* Michio Kaku discussing with CNN about the United States hosting the first public hearing on the subject of UFOs in decades, and declassifying some related findings.
Old Ones (Warhammer 40k)

The **Old Ones** were an ancient and highly technologically and psychically advanced intelligent species who established an interstellar empire in the Warhammer 40k Universe over 60 million years ago.

They may have been the first species to attain sentience and the first star-faring species in galactic history. They crafted the Webway, and may be the creators of the Aeldari and many other intelligent races including the primate-like ancestors of Mankind.

They eventually fought a terrible war that they lost and either went extinct or disappeared from the galaxy.
Sun

The **Sun** is a G-type main-sequence yellow dwarf star in the center of our solar system, and it is the largest, brightest and most massive object in the system. It is a ball of plasma and is the main source of radiant energy (solar power) and light.

The Sun formed around 4.5 billion years ago. As it grew, planets including Earth, moons and asteroids formed around it, bound in orbit to their parent star by its immense gravity.

The sun’s core reaches temperatures of 15 million degrees Celsius (C). The part of the sun that we see on Earth is the photosphere (surface) which ranges from around 3700 C to 7700 C. Above the photosphere is atmosphere of the sun known as the corona. The region of the sun between the photosphere and core is called the chromosphere, with temperatures around 500,000 C.

Nuclear fusion, in which it fuses hydrogen to create helium, powers the Sun, and the heat and light from this nuclear reaction enabled life on Earth to evolve and prosper. The ratio of the sun's mass is 73% hydrogen, 25% helium, and 2% metals.

The sun is around halfway through its main sequence of fusion. When the hydrogen is exhausted in around 5 billion years, the center of the sun will undergo a gravitational collapse, with its outer shells expanding outwards, becoming a red giant. It will then consume the inner planets, including Earth. These outer layers will be shed after about 1 billion years, exposing the Sun's collapsed core, which turns the Sun into a white dwarf.

It is presumed that after so many billion years, mankind will have found many ways to escape the death of the Sun:

* Interstellar Ark or interstellar sprawl, spreading our species to other solar systems or beyond.
* One or more technological singularities could lead to self-replicating nanobots taking over the solar system and even spreading far beyond.
* Moving away from the Sun, or moving the Sun away from us, or delaying the decay, with a stellar engine.
* Creating an artificial Sun, with somehow transferring its fuel to another stellar object.
* Star lifting materials from its atmosphere and outer layers, dramatically extending its lifespan to trillions of years.
Penrose process

The **Penrose process** is used to extract energy from a rotating black hole. This is not inside the event horizon but outside in its ergosphere in which there is no accretion but all objects become dragged by rotating spacetime.

A piece of matter entering the ergosphere is triggered to split into two parts. One piece escapes from the black hole with positive mass-energy, whilst the other falls past the event horizon into the black hole with negative mass-energy. The net effect is that more energy can be extracted than was originally provided, resulting in a slight decrease in the angular momentum of the black hole.

The efficiency for this process is about 20% for an uncharged black hole, with a theoretical maximum of 30% for a charged black hole. In comparison, accretion of material as it falls into a black hole entering the event horizon releases up to 40% of the energy of the material falling in; only an antimatter-matter collision is more efficient at 100%.

If the Penrose process is performed repeatedly, the black hole can eventually lose all of its angular momentum and becoming non-rotating.

The **Blandford–Znajek process** is an extension of the Penrose process used for the extraction of energy from spinning supermassive black holes. This is one of the mechanisms that naturally power quasars, or rapidly accreting supermassive black holes. It can also be used as an engine for a gamma-ray burst. This process is capable of producing the high-energy particles that are observed being emitted from quasars and other active galactic nuclei.
Xeelee

The **Xeelee** are a godlike species from the Xeelee Universe. They are considered to be the most advanced of all baryonic life-forms and possess technology and abilities far beyond other spacefaring civilizations. They have demonstrated the ability to routinely construct Closed Time Curves and have engineered their own evolution and history as far back as 20 billion years ago (within two hundred million years of the Big Bang).

Although the Xeelee seldom directly appear or take action, their impact on the development of most civilizations and the universe as a whole is profound. The Xeelee frequently leave behind derelict ships, tools, and other materials giving the appearance of thoughtlessness or reckless abandon at what a younger species might do with it. Most younger species see no benefit in developing a technology on their own when they can simply steal it from the Xeelee debris. This has a profound influence on the various galactic economies and technologic development of younger species.

They are in a war with a race of dark matter creatures known as the Photino Birds for billions of years for the continuation of all of baryonic existence.

See also:
Xeelee
Realmspace

**Realmspace** in the Forgotten Realms Universe is analogous to our solar system, which consisted of wildspace (empty vacuum), a sun, eight planets and their satellites, and a variety of asteroids, comets, and nebulae. The third planet from the sun was Toril.

Faerûn was the westernmost portion of Toril's central supercontinent, a diverse landscape inhabited by numerous races and cultures, including humans, dwarves, elves, halflings, and gnomes.

The history of Toril spans for thousands of years, extending back into the misty epochs after Ao sundered the world of Abeir-Toril, splitting it into the twin planets, Abeir and Toril.

The **Dawn Age** was when the Creator races disappeared and their land was occupied by dragons and giants. Constant war for land in Faerûn led to the creation of great kingdoms and empires.

The **First Flowering** was a period in which the elves split into five major realms and created the Isle of Evermeet.

**The Founding Time** was the period when the humanoid civilizations began to rise, in a time when the many dragons and giants were long overthrown and the elf wars no longer loomed over everyone as a threat.

The **Age of Humanity** was the period which began with the decline of the elven and dwarven empires and the flourishing and expansion of the human empires around the world.

The **Present Age** is one of the most tumultuous ages; a time of constant struggle but also a time of discovery and exploration.
Tractor beam

A **tractor beam** is a device with the ability to attract one object to another from a distance. The term was coined by E. E. Smith from his "attractor-beam" in his novel *Spacehounds of IPC in* 1931. A similar beam that repels is called a **pressor beam** or **repulsor beam**. Early attempts to create a tractor beam have success at a microscopic level, before a fully-fledged useful device is created by Type I civilizations.

A force field confined to a collimated beam (that spreads minimally as it propagates) is one of the principal characteristics of tractor and repulsor beams. They are depicted as audible, narrow rays of visible light that cover a small area of a target commonly used on spaceships and space stations. They are generally used in three ways

* As a device for securing or retrieving cargo, passengers, shuttlecraft, and so on, like how cranes work.
* As a device to harness objects that can then be used as impromptu weapons by the craft
* As a means of preventing an enemy from escaping, analogous to grappling hooks.

Pressor beams can counteract a weaker tractor beam working like *plane shears* to "cut" the tractor beam and render it ineffective. Shields (using force fields) can also block tractor beams.

Tractor beams and pressor beams can be used together as a weapon: by attracting one side of an enemy spaceship while repelling the other, one can create severely damaging shear effects in its hull.

In *Star Trek*, tractor beams work by placing a target in the focus of a subspace/graviton interference pattern created by two beams from an emitter. When the beams are manipulated correctly the target is drawn along with the interference pattern. The target may be moved toward or away from the emitter by changing the polarity of the beams. Range of the beam affects the maximum mass that can be moved by the emitter, and the emitter subjects its anchoring structure to significant force.

### News

* 21 January 2023: Scientists have built a macroscopic tractor beam using laser light.
The Regress

The regress is the ontology which encompassed the subject being observed while being encompassed by a contrasting ontology which is defined as an extent. When an ontology is encompassed by an ontology we say that the Regress is encompassed by an Extent. The regress is an ontology that is also the subject. The regress inherent its emergent quality from being contrasting against an ontological extent.

          The ontology embodies being and presence as emergent properties. But the Ontology is not present within an ontology instead the Ontology is an Infinite Regress of encompassing Being and Presence. For ever place a being is located within an otology as a subject. There is an encompassing Extent beyond the subject being observed. We state that the encompassing ontology is the Regress. And the regress is both an extent as well as being encompassed by an extent.

        The best thought experiment is as follows. A being is present in a room. This room is both an extent and a regress. Room have an emergent quality of being an aspect of a house or building. In the context of this writing we can think of a house or building as an Extent where within a room is a regress.

           We could state that the extent of the building has floors and that the Regress of the floors have rooms and the regress of the room is where within a being is present. What then is beyond the building? The Regress of the building can be reside within the extent of the Earth. Or the Extent of the earth can be further defined with other abstraction of regress.

           The regress of the building is located within the regress of a city block, The regress of a city block is located within the regress of a city, the regress of a City is located within the regress of a State or Nation the regress of a State or Nation is located within the regress of a Continent or the Tectonic. The regress of the Tectonic is located within the regress of the Celestial. The regress of the Celestial is located within the regress of the Steller. The regress of the Steller is located within the regress of the  Galactic. The regress of the Galactic is locate within the regress of the Verse. The regress of the Verse is located within the regress of the Universe. The regress of the universe is locate within the regress of Existence. The regress of Existence is located within the regress of the Multiverse. The regress of the Multiverse is located within the regress of the Omniverse. The regress of the Omniverse is located within the regress of Omni-Existence. The regress of Omni-Existence is located within the Extent of Infinite Indefinite. There is no extent beyond Infinite Indefinite.
Old Ones

The **Old Ones** were a race of vastly powerful demons that dominated Earth before humans in the Buffy Universe.

They arrived from another dimension during the creation of Earth and shared the Earth with fellow beings - The Powers That Be. The rise of the Old Ones led the Powers to flee this world, while the demons became rulers of vast territories, commanded enormous armies that worshiped them as deities and constantly made war against each other, turning the Earth into their hell.

They could become as big as they wished to be and were vastly more powerful than even the strongest hybrid demon races, commanding incredible amounts of demonic mystical power. The most powerful Old Ones were also essentially immortal.
Programmable matter

**Programmable matter** is matter which has the ability to change its physical properties (shape, density, moduli, conductivity, optical properties, etc.) in a programmable fashion based upon user or automated input.

### Applications

In terms of *scale*, robotic materials use sensors, actuators, computation, reconfigurable by particle motion, and are in the centimeter size range. In the micrometer to sub-millimeter range examples include MEMS-based units, cells created using synthetic biology, and the utility fog. At the nanoscale end there are shape changing molecules and quantum dots (artificial atoms).

#### Metamaterials

Metamaterials are artificial composites that can be controlled to react in ways that do not occur in nature. For example, a material that can have its index of refraction tuned so that it can have a different index of refraction at different points in the material, could result in an invisibility cloak.

#### Shape-changing molecules

Molecules that can change their shape, as well as other properties, in response to external stimuli. This was used in later versions of the Terminator.

#### Electropermanent magnets

They allow creating controllable permanent magnets where the magnetic effect can be maintained without requiring a continuous supply of electrical energy. These programmable magnets can give rise to self-building structures.

#### Self-reconfiguring modular robotics

SRCMR is a field of robotics in which a group of basic robot modules work together to dynamically form shapes and create behaviours suitable for many tasks, similar to programmable matter. This is important early technology for self-replicating systems.

#### Claytronics

This concerns reconfigurable nanoscale robots ('claytronic atoms', or *catoms*) designed to form much larger scale machines or mechanisms. The catoms will be sub-millimeter computers that will eventually have the ability to move around, communicate with other computers, change color, and electrostatically connect to other catoms to form different shapes.

#### Future

* Furniture will change its height and width dimensions depending on the situation
* Living room sofas, tables, and kitchen countertops will dissolve and turn into more appealing versions of themselves based on downloaded blueprints
* Walls in your house automatically change color
* Vehicles automatically change color, change their body shapes, and repair themselves when dented
* Creation of an invisibility cloak
* Ability to construct an entire city in only a few minutes

See also:

Computronium
The Presence

**The Presence** (also known as God; Yahweh; The Creators; The Lord; The Source; Master Programmer; One Over All) is the god of the DC Universe and therefore has Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence.

Characteristics:

* The Presence birthed the very cosmic energies that all multiverses in the void spring from. Each of these energies are essential for the good working of the multiverse with all its elements operating in harmony with one another.
* The Presence can instantly transport himself and others across dimensions, such as between Heaven and Hell, as well as outside of creation.
* The Presence is eternal. He does not age and cannot be harmed by any normal means.
* The Presence is capable of instantly altering his form at will, allowing him to appear as anyone or anything. He appeared as a Hand coming out of a nebula at the moment of universal creation. This is the presence that the Guardian Krona saw when he went back to the beginning of time.
* The Presence speaks through a godly Voice that once answered the Spectre's prayers by resurrecting the murdered Justice Society.
* The Presence used his power to create the Angels, as well as grant the Demiurgic power to Michael, and the Lightbringer power to Lucifer. He commands the Pax Dei, the military order of Angels.

Compare:

One-Above-All
Old Ones (Dark Tower)

The **Old Ones** were an empire of humans in the Dark Tower Universe who ruled the many worlds or levels of the Dark Tower.

They were initially able to cure cancer, travel to the moon, and made use of artificial insemination. They eventually gained an almost godlike mastery over sciences from mechanical engineering to nuclear physics, and began using their technology for destruction rather than the betterment of their species. The world then became poisoned with pollution and radiation.

They developed the ability to manipulate the fabric of the multiverse, tried to merge technology and magic, and began using the Dark Tower for travel between different times via the various Doors they had built.

The passing of the Old Ones left many technological artifacts in their wake, including sentient machines such as Blaine the monorail.
Vertical farming

**Vertical farming** is the practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers. This is necessary as a population expands and there is no room left on a planet's surface for growing enough food. It is controlled-environment agriculture, which aims to optimize plant growth. Lots of water is lost from evaporation and transpiration in traditional farming and techniques are used to save water. Successful vertical farming should have at least 400 times more yield, use 95% less water and 99% less space; however consuming a lot more energy and creating more pollution.

Soilless farming techniques are employed:

* Hydroponics - the technique of growing plants without soil, increasing yield per area and reducing water usage.
* Aquaponics - combining fish farming and hydroponics
* Aeroponics - a liquid solution where nutrients are misted in air chambers where plants are suspended, using up to 90% less water than hydroponic systems

### Advantages

* Vertical farming can be done in a city and therefore its produce only travels a short distance to reach stores compared to traditional farming method produce
* Environmentally responsible by lowering emission and reducing needed water
* Control of pests is more easily managed in vertical farms, so the ability to grow organic crops is easier than in traditional farming.

* Resistance to weather, as vertical farms can be housed in buildings or “deep farms” built from refurbished underground tunnels or abandoned mine shafts.
* Reduce the amount of farmland, thus saving many natural resources.
* Deforestation and desertification caused by agricultural encroachment on natural biomes could be avoided
* Producing food indoors reduces or eliminates conventional plowing, planting, and harvesting by farm machinery, protecting soil, and reducing emissions.

### Disadvantages

* Large startup costs, which should soon be recovered from demand.
* Energy consumption - much less light is available to crops than when they are planted on flat land, and artificial supplemental light would be required. Heating and cooling is also a lot more expensive.
* Pollution due to extra power needs and carbon emission
Steam engine

A **steam engine** is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force is transformed, by a connecting rod and flywheel, into rotational force for work. Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separated from the combustion products. This is a key technology in an Industrial Revolution used by Type 0.

This was replaced by the internal combustion engine.
Time Machine

The **Time Machine** is a vehicle invented by The Time Traveler in the Time Ships Universe that allows him or her to travel through time.

The Time Traveler may use it to remain in a fixed spatial position in relation to the Earth, but moves rapidly through time using control levers to control the rate of temporal acceleration, allowing the user to see the world moving rapidly or slowly, similar to a video tape set to fast-forward.

The vehicle was superseded by the Time Ship.