Type II

A Type II or K2 civilization has control over their solar system, and may be able to harness the power equivalent of a single star. It extracts fusion energy, information, and raw-materials from multiple solar systems; it is capable of evolutionary intervention, interstellar travel, interstellar communication, stellar engineering, terraforming, and star cluster-scale influence; the resulting proliferation and diversification may negate the probability of extinction. Complete control of the fate of its home planet where threats lie ice ages and global warming can be avoided.

A utopian outcome would be a hybrid galactic culture, with millions of cooperating worlds in a galactic community. Poetically, this would be a mammoth archipelago of solar system societies, a multitude of civilized islands separated by the vastness of the oceans of space.

A dystopian path is also possible. Aggressive and ruthless expansion could lead to an uncontrolled sprawl far beyond any form of functional government, regressing into societal collapse and eventually a form of interstellar barbarism with little regard for life.

Detail
Energy usage: 1026 W to 1036 W. Total usage is the same as Type I multiplied across star systems. In addition: Dyson sphere, Star lifting, Dark Energy reactors, Industrial antimatter production and containment, magnetricity

Estimated Population: 100 Quadrillion (1017) people

Existence is in 4d (awareness of 5d) and 1r (reality)

Travel: Interstellar through galaxy sectors. Faster than light devices, wormholes.

Quality of life (government):


 * Adhocracy: flexible, adaptable, multidisciplinary government ideally suited to interstellar sprawl; opposite to bureaucracy
 * Hegemony: interstellar sprawl or alien influence leads to sector dominance
 * Military: protection against alien invasion or uncontrolled dissent might lead to a dystopian society ruled by an iron fist
 * Post-scarcity utopia: achieved once the species is beyond interstellar barbarism and has settled into sophonce

State of forms: hive minds (surrogacy or avatar)

WMD scale: Trans-dimensional; monopole enhanced nuclear weapons

Longevity: 350 – 500+

Social issues:


 * Artificial Planet creation
 * Synthetic Life and possible AI dominance
 * Avatar prostitution
 * Manipulating the cultural focus of other species
 * Alien Propaganda
 * Dyson spheres
 * Dimensional portals
 * Transhumanism

Industrial revolutions: Warp portal, Dyson sphere, Galactic Exploration

Arguments: Synthetic life, Spacer psionics

Dominant proliferation: dimensional miscegenation cults, unified transhuman society

Social weakening: dimensional fallout or hyper radiation where dimensionally alternate 2d has disastrous effects on health (solution – Avatar allowing re-hosting of the contaminated)

Social dream: Eden or religiously motivated megastructure projects

Class system: Ideology meaning the general availability of superiority makes your motivations and commitments a value set