Similar experience in Dyson sphere program. By the time you’re advanced enough to build a Dyson sphere, you’ve likely paved over the oceans and destroyed all the trees. The resources of the planet are completely tapped dry and you’re bringing in raw materials from all over the galaxy to continue building the Dyson sphere, and killing the local inhabitants of most systems to do it.
And the endgame literally gives us a glimpse of what a type 2+ civilization would do: your planet has iron, so your entire planet’s mission is to produce iron plates. We will destroy all terrain and life to put as many conveyor belts and smelters as possible. Nothing else matters.
Your planet has iron and stone, so you will make reinforced concrete so that we may more efficiently exploit other planets. And when you’re out of the resources we need we will leave you barren and forgotten.
Similar experience in Dyson sphere program. By the time you’re advanced enough to build a Dyson sphere, you’ve likely paved over the oceans and destroyed all the trees. The resources of the planet are completely tapped dry and you’re bringing in raw materials from all over the galaxy to continue building the Dyson sphere, and killing the local inhabitants of most systems to do it.
And the endgame literally gives us a glimpse of what a type 2+ civilization would do: your planet has iron, so your entire planet’s mission is to produce iron plates. We will destroy all terrain and life to put as many conveyor belts and smelters as possible. Nothing else matters.
Your planet has iron and stone, so you will make reinforced concrete so that we may more efficiently exploit other planets. And when you’re out of the resources we need we will leave you barren and forgotten.
And we’ll use the remains of your planet to build a giant planet killing machine.