Independently from the energy production aspects of each type of civilization, I was asking myself how would resemble a being whom civilization has been through many paths of technological evolution over thousands of years of trying to overcome physical and reality constraints. That scale is only a science fiction intellectual exercise in order to try to understand why a contact with humanity could be very different from what one would expect. All these hypothetical stages of civilization have mastered the possibility to reach Earth in a short time by bending space and time. In one singular Type of civilization there can be multiple shades depending on how close they are to the limits of the Type classification.
Type 1 (planet energy mastering) – Enhanced humanoids : in this type of civilizations, groups have not only managed to access all type of energies from their own planet, but also from other planets and moons in their own solar system. That allows them to establish settlements in other worlds. But the risks of space travel and different atmospheric conditions conduced most of this civilizations to start reviewing biological aspects of their own bodies as the original ones constitute a limitation for the exploration and survival on alien environments. Therefore, they have been genetically modified and have applied some very advanced technological features around and inside their bodies to enhance their, longevity, abilities and senses. Hence they can survive to and overcome extreme lack of food, changes of pressure, gravity, radioactivity or temperatures easier than their original biology features could permit. However, they remain mostly biological allthough they live longer than before. They can die and still reproduce themselves the natural way. They use ships to travel, these ships can barely bend space time to do “jumps” and considerably reduce the travellers’ relative time, they can’t travel through time per se as it is considered to be a unexpected and unwanted effect of bending space-time. They also have powerful AI, drones and robots to help them, they also can live in space stations.
Type 2 (star energy mastering) – Synthetic beings : gathering energy directly from their own sun allowed them to deal with enormous amounts of energy which they used to improve space stations and space-time travel. They can not only access al the energy from their own star but they can reach other stars to do the same. But in order to overcome the deadly constraints of long travel in space and the risks of using enormous quantities of energy for powerful propulsion systems, they had to leave their original bodies as the remaining part of biological features happened to be mostly insignificant along thousand of years more of evolution. They managed to build a perfect biomimetic synthetic organism to storage their mind and soul and connect each individual to a mother hivemind. These artificial bodies are made of super advanced nanomaterials, that allow them to overcome baryonic matter limits so they can travel through dimensions (and so through time) while continuing to interact with the tridimensional reality. Their habilities have become indistinguishable from what we would call magic. For example they can individually hide in reality itself for a moment and teleport easily in short distances. However they still need a mothership to survive because these ships are the hivemind for each of their communities and also their home. They don’t need planets to host their life and they mastered immortality. Their city ships as big as moons or planets are the only way for them to travel through space-time with no limit, as they did not manage to miniaturisize the pharaonic power core, similar to a star, that allows them to produce the infinite amount of energy needed to do so. Most of the time they remain in a humanoid shape for interaction purposes, but they can transform into a travelling form and they can separate pieces of their own bodies to create or summon one or more assistance robots/drones.
Type 3 (galactic energy mastering) – Energy entities : the former hiveminds of the city ships collected all the souls and minds of their inhabitants and miniaturized the pharaonic power core of the city ships into a nano multidimensional energy extractor that feeds on the electromagnetic background of the universe. One being represents all the souls that were in the hiveminds. One being is the entire civilization itself. Neither ships, habitats or superadvanced material are needed anymore, they are made of plasma, at least that’s what we think. We are now talking about a godlike entity able to survive forever, allowed to travel individually through time and different realities, interacting with mathematical hypothetical worlds we don’t know yet. This stage is the final stage. The collective being becomes one and has omniscient and ubiquity abilities. They can interact with lower species and our baryonic matter in order to maintain and create life.
As a short conclusion, nothing remains static, the beings change as their abilities and technologies change.
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