Aww, no alien empires yet

[stevebowers]

They were really only looking for type III civs, or at least high type II civs with lots of stars in use. Still, disappointing.

I'm hoping that most civilisations discover some curious method of optimising their existence. Baby universes, femtoscale civilisations, translation to another brane- something like this, that makes dyson spheres irrelevant. Trouble is you need every single civilisation in 100,000 galaxies to reject the Type III route.