reply to post by galadofwarthethird
They wouldn't need the bases. The fleet would have everything they needed. At the most they might contruct an orbital starport at a Lagrangian point.
Manufacturing, refining and processing of resources in either orbital plants or factory/refinery ships would be far more advantageous, no gravity,
pollution, etc. We have plans on earth right now to do the same thing at some point. An orbital industry would have many advantages. Plus there's
always asteroid mining.
If there are any "Star Trek" style space monsters, like plasma beasts or crystalline entities, they would be like insects or maybe even fungus in
terms of evolving any form of intelligence, much less sentience. I don't think they would apply. A Post Singularity civilization wouldn't have to live
anywhere. They could happily reside as information on a network. The hypernodes making up the network could be anything from Jupiter brains, Dyson
spheres or even specialized neutron stars.
What if your right....but lets say that these advanced aliens don't do it for the need, just for the fun and challenge or some alien logic that
they have. Have you not seen mighty earth hunters killing prey like buck and deer for the fun of it, even with high power snipers and rifles. They
could be advanced and bored looking for some sport or fun. Who really knows. If aliens exist that is.
I could see them toying with us for their own amusement. Heck a civilization like that could have created our entire world and all life on it for
their amusement. Its highly unlikely they would hide from us though. The only plausible explanation I can think of why they would hide from their ant
farm, would be due to rules, directives or laws. Who would have set up these rules though and why? Who would enforce them? Where's the game wardens or
the park rangers?
I'ts already in use it's usually called the ethereal plain now a days or stuff about chakras and other unseen dimensions, you know were souls
go into body's and play games. Immortality is sometimes like being a rock I would think, sure it would be fun for the first million years, but then it
would get old and pretty boring especially if you knew everything there is to know in the universe.
You don't need any quantum mysticism, when you have an interstellar matrix. I don't know if digital immortality could ever get boring. The universe is
so vast one would never run out of things to do.
True if they were that far off, but what if they like to eat humans for the heck of it, plus they could just not be as advanced as all that,
just more advanced then us....Imagine if some hundred years from now humanity came to a planet that was a couple thousand years technologically
backwards basically horse and carriage type of place with stone building and grass huts....What would we do?
If they arn't that advanced they would still be stuck in their own star system. We are less than 100, possibly 50 years from a singularity. Even then
we still have awhile before we get out of our system. We have to invent an interstellar drive and a power source for it that will at least make it to
Alpha Centauri. Maybe after we build the first orbital supercolliders we'll be able to manufacture (there's that orbital factory stuff), enough
antimatter or even small black holes that will be able to power some kind of drive that will warp or fold space. If we don't blow ourselves up, we
might have a drive like that in 100 years. If technology continues to progress at current rates, the transhumans that develop them will have more in
common with sci fi creations like the Borg, Cylons, or Terminators than modern homo sapiens. Might be called Homo Sapiens Cybernetica. If we do happen
to find some primitive species living at Alpha Centauri, it will be apocalyptic for them. Humans are like locusts. Imagine the film Avatar, but with
Terminators invading Pandora.
Could be, if that were true we could even be some sort of genetic creations or seeds that are meant to change the planet and atmosphere for
whatever reason. If they were so advanced we could just be a tool that they used for something like the above reason of terraforming planets. Or even
just seed a planet and move on type of deal.
A Seeder civilization isn't that too far fetched. I don't think they would build worlds and seed them with life for terraforming. Terraforming would
be better accomplished with nanite assembler swarms. If they were planetbuilders and seeders, they probably would do it for philosophical/ideological
reasons.
Things would get real interesting if there were two or more Type II civilizations, competing for resources and competing ideologies. One or more
could be "Seeders", who build worlds and plant life on them. One or more could be "Beserkers" who seek out worlds with potential competitors and
exterminate them before they become a problem. One or more could be "Watchers" who go on interstellar safaris and tour other worlds. Some Seeders
could protect their worlds from being destroyed by Beserkers or from intruders like Watchers. Some Beserkers could actually be a type of Seeder, which
destroys and remakes worlds in their image. Some Watchers could declare worlds to be preserves or reserves and off limits to other civilizations.
Another type of civilization, could be "Lifters", who uplift primitive species and civilizations. Regardless, their motivations would be most likely
ideological or philosophical in nature. They wouldn't uplift a civilization to mine for gold or engineer them to be livestock. Instead Lifters may see
themselves, somewhat as interstellar missionaries motivated by altruism or a duty to an abstract principle, such as philanthropic imperialism.
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