Kardashev Scale Wiki



Welcome to the Kardashev Scale Wiki
The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement, based on the total energy usage of a civilization. The scale is exponential and hypothetical and regards energy consumption on a cosmic scale. It was proposed in 1964 by the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev.

The purpose of this wiki is to include an exhaustive list of sapient human and alien civilizations with an attempt to classify their origins, existence, possible technologies, energy usage, longevity, possibility of extinction, and so on.

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Commercially published books, movies or games must be cited, and links to their Fandom pages are encouraged. Fiction is allowed, but must feel as a natural extension and not contradict a pre-existing page. Alternatively, content can be taken from established fiction and/or non-fiction.

Civilization categories of the scale:
There are also Microdimensional categories of the scale proposed by John Barrow. Civilizations have found it more cost-effective to extend any abilities to manipulate their environment over increasingly smaller dimensions rather than increasingly larger ones, therefore reversing the classification downward from Type I-minus to Type Omega-minus.

Anything beyond Type VII is fan based. These are supported so far:

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 Civilization categories of the scale:

