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* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' allows you to build your own Dyson Spheres as of the ''Utopia'' expansion, though doing so is a ''massive'' undertaking. They can only be built in uninhabitable systems (because blocking the sun like that freezes every world around it), and are constructed in six stages that take a total of 55 years and tens of thousands of alloys to finish - but once you ''are'' finished, you can basically forget about building power plants for your EnergyEconomy ever again. You may also find ruined Dyson Spheres left behind by some {{Precursor|s}} civilization, which can be repaired for faster and cheaper than building your own from scratch.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'':
** The game allows you to build your own Dyson Spheres as of the ''Utopia'' expansion, though doing so is a ''massive'' undertaking. They can only be built in uninhabitable systems (because blocking the sun like that freezes every world around it), require the "Galactic Wonders" ascension perk being taken (which you can only choose eight of) and are constructed in six stages that take a total of 55 years and tens of thousands of alloys to finish - but once you ''are'' finished, you can basically forget about building power plants for your EnergyEconomy ever again. You may also find ruined Dyson Spheres left behind by some {{Precursor|s}} civilization, which can be repairedfor far faster and cheaper than building your own from scratch.scratch.
** ''The Machine Age'' expansion also adds the Dyson Swarm as a new preliminary stage to constructing your Dyson Sphere. Instead of generating a massive set amount of energy, the Dyson Swarm boosts the output of any star you put them around. While they are not nearly as powerful as a full sphere, the Dyson Swarm has the benefit of being available much earlier in the game, being not as expensive to build and you being able to construct multiple of them in different systems.
** The game allows you to build your own Dyson Spheres as of the ''Utopia'' expansion, though doing so is a ''massive'' undertaking. They can only be built in uninhabitable systems (because blocking the sun like that freezes every world around it), require the "Galactic Wonders" ascension perk being taken (which you can only choose eight of) and are constructed in six stages that take a total of 55 years and tens of thousands of alloys to finish - but once you ''are'' finished, you can basically forget about building power plants for your EnergyEconomy ever again. You may also find ruined Dyson Spheres left behind by some {{Precursor|s}} civilization, which can be repaired
** ''The Machine Age'' expansion also adds the Dyson Swarm as a new preliminary stage to constructing your Dyson Sphere. Instead of generating a massive set amount of energy, the Dyson Swarm boosts the output of any star you put them around. While they are not nearly as powerful as a full sphere, the Dyson Swarm has the benefit of being available much earlier in the game, being not as expensive to build and you being able to construct multiple of them in different systems.
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That object was described as a high-mass variable star.
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** On the other hand, there IS at least [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/weirdastronomy.php#id--Object_X one object]] that ''could'' be a Dyson Sphere, judging by its visual properties.
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** ''VideoGame/X3TerranConflict'': [[spoiler:A plot leads you to the Hub, an ancient space station inside a Dyson sphere. However, the latter ''orbits'' a star, and, looking outside, you can see more of them, like in Dyson's concept.]]
** In the ''Xtended'' GameMod for the previous game, ''X3: Reunion'', the Sohnen -- the robotic representatives of the {{Precursors}} that built the PortalNetwork -- possess a dyson sphere built around tiny star in a remote sector, which the player must dock with to interact with the friendly faction of Sohnen. Inside the sphere, the miniature star is surrounded by a massive gyroscope spinning at a rate that will crush any ship.
** In the ''Xtended'' GameMod for the previous game, ''X3: Reunion'', the Sohnen -- the robotic representatives of the {{Precursors}} that built the PortalNetwork -- possess a dyson sphere built around tiny star in a remote sector, which the player must dock with to interact with the friendly faction of Sohnen. Inside the sphere, the miniature star is surrounded by a massive gyroscope spinning at a rate that will crush any ship.
** In the ''Xtended'' GameMod for ''X3: Reunion'', the Sohnen -- the robotic representatives of the {{Precursors}} that built the PortalNetwork -- possess a dyson sphere built around tiny star in a remote sector, which the player must dock with to interact with the friendly faction of Sohnen. Inside the sphere, the miniature star is surrounded by a massive gyroscope spinning at a rate that will crush any ship.
** A plot in ''X3: Terran Conflict'' leads you to [[spoiler:the Hub, an ancient space station inside a Dyson sphere. However, the latter ''orbits'' a star, and, looking outside, you can see more of them, like in Dyson's concept]].
** A plot in ''X3: Terran Conflict'' leads you to [[spoiler:the Hub, an ancient space station inside a Dyson sphere. However, the latter ''orbits'' a star, and, looking outside, you can see more of them, like in Dyson's concept]].
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* ''WebAnimation/{{Kurzgesagt}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A Discussed]]. They dismiss a true "sphere" as impractical, instead opting for a "Dyson swarm" of mirrors built using [[IndustrializedMercury Mercury's mineral resources]] that transmit solar energy to Earth and the Solar System's other inhabited bodies.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{Kurzgesagt}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A Discussed]]. They dismiss a A true "sphere" is dismissed as impractical, instead opting for impractical in favor of a "Dyson swarm" of mirrors built using [[IndustrializedMercury Mercury's mineral resources]] that transmit solar energy to Earth and the Solar System's other inhabited bodies.
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* ''Webcomic/DreamwalkJournal'': The world of Cyeatea, with its immense jungle housing a peaceful culture of sexually-insatiable anthropoid insects and spiders, is apparently a habitat within a Dyson Sphere called Velveteen. However, there is only one reference to this in a [[AllThereInTheManual related text piece]].
* ''Webcomic/DreamwalkJournal'': The world of Cyeatea, with its immense jungle housing a peaceful culture of sexually-insatiable anthropoid insects and spiders, is apparently a habitat within a Dyson Sphere called Velveteen. However, there is only one reference to this in a [[AllThereInTheManual related text piece]].
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* ''Webcomic/DreamwalkJournal'': The world of Cyeatea, with its immense jungle housing a peaceful culture of
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%%* ''Film/{{Moonfall}}'': No prizes for guessing what turns out to be a Dyson sphere powered by a white dwarf star.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E3Decision3012 Decision 3012]]", Richard Nixon wants to build a ''Dyson fence'' to keep alien immigrants out of the solar system rather than collect energy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E3Decision3012 Decision 3012]]", Richard Nixon wants to build a ''Dyson fence'' to keep alien immigrants out of the solar system rather than collect energy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E3Decision3012 Decision 3012]]", Richard Nixon wants ''WesternAnimation/{{Pantheon}}'' has a TimeSkip to build a ''Dyson fence'' to keep alien immigrants out of the solar system rather than collect energy.very distant future in the final episode, where [[spoiler:Maddie]] has constructed a Dyson Swarm around a star for the purpose of powering a vast simulation to model countless variations on human history.
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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'': [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4845fbe091a18 Many types]] appear. Most are swarms of oribiting habitats, housing either humanoid-friendly environments or computer systems home to AI. One is a [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4847416b8b0ad suprastellar shell]], a solid Dyson sphere (actively supported) that people live on the outside of. The one and only solid Dyson Sphere which people live on the ''inside'' of is called "the Impossible Dyson" and exists only in a virtual reality.
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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'': ''Website/OrionsArm'': [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4845fbe091a18 Many types]] appear. Most are swarms of oribiting habitats, housing either humanoid-friendly environments or computer systems home to AI. One is a [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4847416b8b0ad suprastellar shell]], a solid Dyson sphere (actively supported) that people live on the outside of. The one and only solid Dyson Sphere which people live on the ''inside'' of is called "the Impossible Dyson" and exists only in a virtual reality.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'': The [=USS=] Protostar gets its name due to being powered by an artificial protostar allowing it to travel thousands of lightyears in minutes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'': ''Franchise/StarTrek'' cartoons offer some vastly smaller versions:
** The [=USS=] Protostar from ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'' gets its name due to being powered by an artificial protostar allowing it to travel thousands of lightyears inminutes.minutes.
** In the ''[[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks Lower Decks]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E03WellAlwaysHaveTomParis We'll Always Have Tom Paris]]", Rutherford is trying to work out how Lieutenant Shaxs came back from the dead. One of his imaginary scenarios has Shaxs saying that a microscopic civilization brought him back to life and turned his body into a tiny Dyson sphere.
** The [=USS=] Protostar from ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'' gets its name due to being powered by an artificial protostar allowing it to travel thousands of lightyears in
** In the ''[[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks Lower Decks]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E03WellAlwaysHaveTomParis We'll Always Have Tom Paris]]", Rutherford is trying to work out how Lieutenant Shaxs came back from the dead. One of his imaginary scenarios has Shaxs saying that a microscopic civilization brought him back to life and turned his body into a tiny Dyson sphere.
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* ''Literature/ImperialRadch'': It's mentioned that the true Radch is an ancient Dyson sphere and the GalacticSuperpower that shares its name exists primarily to protect it. Radchaai citizens outside the Dyson sphere don't know any more than that.
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* ''Literature/ImperialRadch'': It's mentioned that the true Radch is an ancient Dyson sphere and the GalacticSuperpower that shares its name exists primarily to protect it. Radchaai citizens outside the Dyson sphere don't know any more than that.that, given their strong xenophobia.
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* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': When Sydney discovers her orbs' FTL function she winds up at [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-676-double-death-star/ The Fracture]], an interstellar trade station that appears to be a Dyson sphere built around a neutron star and using it to power several gates, some of which are big enough for entire fleets of ships.
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BigDumbObject or PlanetSpaceship not big enough for you? Look no further. SciFi authors have made ''solar-system-sized'' artifacts into a trope of their own. A prime example to illustrate how (most) ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{Kurzgesagt}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A Discussed]]. They dismiss a true "sphere" as impractical, instead opting for a "Dyson swarm" of mirrors built using [[IndustrializedMercury Mercury's mineral rescources]] that transmit solar energy to Earth and the Solar System's other inhabited bodies.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{Kurzgesagt}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A Discussed]]. They dismiss a true "sphere" as impractical, instead opting for a "Dyson swarm" of mirrors built using [[IndustrializedMercury Mercury's mineral rescources]] resources]] that transmit solar energy to Earth and the Solar System's other inhabited bodies.
