05-16-2019, 11:35 AM
(05-15-2019, 10:07 PM)stevebowers Wrote: To get the most benefit from the blueshifted energy, you have to pay the penalty of being on a fast-track to the future.
Note that some number of sophonts in the setting would likely consider that fast track to be a feature, not a bug.
Some sophonts might see this option as a way to 'time travel' - either jumping ahead to some specific date for some reason or seeking to 'fast-track to the future' to see the distant future or migrate into deep time or the like.
Given OA tech, they might also not need to wait to find natural black holes. Rather, they could convert stars into black holes and then built inverted dysons around them.
Todd