Type II

A Type II or K2 civilization has control over their solar system, and may be able to harness all the power available in 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.

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