Fictional Universe Taxonomy Research

Terragen Sphere

Universe: Orion's Arm
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Tech Summary

Value: Post-Singularity
Confidence: InformedGuess

Archailect-governed civilization with wormhole networks and megastructures.

Bio Population

Value: 78e15
Min: 50e15
Max: 100e15
Confidence: Canon

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Embodied Population

Value: 390e15
Min: 300e15
Max: 450e15
Confidence: Canon

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Counting only Modosophonts, not Transsapients

  • because higher toposophics do not make much of a dent compared to the S<1 population
  • because transsapient populations scale down by a factor of about 1000 per level
  • while the logarithm of the intelligence/awareness/saphens growth per level is between 4 and 8,
  • using the Banks-Scheme which counts higher intelligence logarithmically,
  • using a per level intelligence factor between 10 k and 100 mio.,
  • considering that 15 k is given for the first toposophic level
  • and applying that to all other levels
  • which is probably wrong, but better than nothing for an estimate that uses a log scale anyway.

Virtual Population

Value: 1000e18
Min: 300e18
Max: 3000e18
Confidence: Canon

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Population

Value: 390e15
Min: 300e15
Max: 450e15
Confidence: Canon

Same as Embodied Population

Mech Population

Value: 310e15
Min: 250e15
Max: 400e15
Confidence: Canon

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Techlevel

Value: 14
Confidence: InformedGuess

TL 14 Universe Engineering. 34 confirmed S6 Greatest Archailects (13 Sephirotic + 21 others). Hardest tech: basement universe creation. S6 archailects extend their existence into metric constructions of their own creation. Scholars believe most S6 entities use them. Also present: void ships and void swarms (TL 13), wormhole nexus spanning ~10M systems (TL 12), metric bombs, thunderbolts, implosion weapons, magmatter (TL 11). The average modosophont citizen uses TL 8 (nanotech) level technology. S7 is theoretical/unconfirmed. S6 is the confirmed maximum toposophic level.

Class

Value: 17
Confidence: InformedGuess

Archailects up to S5-S6, wormhole networks, Dyson swarms, matrioshka brains, magmatter, metric engineering. Class 17 Spacetime Engineering (OA S3-S5 characteristic).