RE: Slightly OT: Cool Stuff in Space, was Asteroid etc.belts

From: Brian Bilderback bbilderback@hotmail.com
>One of the ideas I'm toying with is having one of them discover a 
Dyson's Sphere.  I'm also debating whether it will still be inhabited by

it's builders, and why or why not....  Any suggestions?

a) a ringworld isn't very plausible but it's more plausible than a Dyson
sphere.  Not that you should let that stop you.
b) if the builders are still around, the players will be considerably
outclassed--the ability to build a Sphere requires ultra-super-high tech
c) if the builders aren't around, a Sphere will take a looooooooooong
time to explore.  If you set it at one AU radius, it will have a surface
area something like 1.25x10^13 times the surface of the Earth, IIRC.

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