Biggest Megastructures from 40k/Halo/StarWars/StarTrek
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- Across the many Sci fi universes, at least from more famous ones from games, tv shows and movies, there have always been a fascination about the size of ships, fighter crafts and stations. For example, the Death star of Star wars has been touted as one of the most iconic space stations/megastructures in fiction, measuring 160km in diameter which is equal to the halfway the distance between New York and Washington DC, but this massive thing pales in comparison to the other megastructures from franchises like Halo, Star trek, Warhammer and others. So here in this video we will make a list of the 10 Biggest Megastructures from Star trek, Star Wars, 40K, Halo and Independence Day.
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Blame! had one of the most ridiculous megastructures in sci-fi. The city is estimated to be at least 1.6 billion kilometers in diameter, or at least Jupiter's orbit. But even then, you never see the outside of the city, even after the main character travels for hundreds of years.
And its been speculated that the Megastructure is still growing
Sounds similar to a Alderson disk from Stellaris, which is pretty much exactly that. The fun begins when you start reaching giga and terastructures (terminology from the gigastructures mod for Stelllaris) Tera structure usually meaning putting a structure around the galactic black hole for basically either infinite living space or a gun that can destroy entire star clusters. And apparently that isn't even the peak of that mod, not to mention the other mods that make that somehow tame.
@@stormlordeternal7663 player made mods aren't canon lore.
The megastructure in Blame! has a Jupiter size room inside of it.
This would seemingly indicate that not only is the total diameter of the megastructure greater than the orbit of Jupiter (Killy is at one point in said room and he is operating deep inside the megastructure), but also that Jupiter itself was actually at one point encased within the megastructure and has since been completely used up for whatever ends.
A mere trifle compared to what the Xeelee build in Stephen Baxter's books!
Are we counting the Precursor Star Roads? Because they can technically be considered to span the entire universe (think the Webway, except completely indestructible and literally beyond the comprehension of us as to what it is exactly), and potentially even other universes depending on whether or not the Precursors, who are one of the most insane species in all of sci-fi, were able to go to other universes. Which they almost certainly could, seeing as the Forerunners could already open portals to other universes. Also, that Dyson shell is technically only 23 centimeters (around 9 inches) in diameter. So it's actually VERY tiny. It's located INSIDE another shield installation, not much bigger than one of the original 12 Halo Rings, and it was more of an exercise of "we can literally create extra-dimensional places to build things" then anything particularly useful. So it could have been MUCH bigger.
not completely indestructible, they're still based on the precursors neural physics so the halo ring destroyed them iirc
Was going to say the same thing. The guy remembered the Webway, but totally overlooked the fact that Halo's Precursors had a similar concept but much grander in scale.
In Star Trek TNG you forgot the largest object ever built the “Dyson Sphere” The Dyson Sphere in TNG diameter was that of the Earth’s entire rotation around our sun.
It's a shame you didn't mention anything from Mass Effect. The Citadel HAS to be in there somewhere.
The citadel is very small. It's an oneill cylinder, a few miles to dozens of miles long
It is 40 something kilometers long.
@@spartantraveler7251 yes that's very small. Only a little more than 150% the length of a "standard" oneill cylinder (5x20 miles), but still within the max range possible using nothing but steel and no carbon fiber reinforcement.
@@spartantraveler7251 43.6. Just checked the Codex in the game itself. So yeah, 43.6 km long. Well, that's just the length of the ward arms.
It’s gets a bit silly after Installation 00.
Skill issue.
@@Titanic_Tuna ?? That makes literally no sense.
Yeah, without a doubt. Like another commenter said, too, "the webway isn't as big as it seems on the galactic map because it doesn't exist in real space, it is it's own smaller space, which is the point of it. Although still probably #1 and containing multiple "realms" where planets and ships can still fly around and have battles."
Best part is that the video didn't include the Precursor Star Road Network from Halo. Probably because there is no reliable imagery for its scale, in fact, there isn't really any reliable imagery for it at all. That was a genuinely Galaxy spanning network that existed in Real Space; plus it was mobile and could be weaponized (because it was indestructible to anything not the Halo array's pulse).
Warhammer is pretty much always utterly ridiculous with its scale. The "fortress" has decorative architectural elements the size of planets, and some kind of cannons(?) with calibers the size of the Sun.
The video creator likely didn't have any actual images of the fortress in question, what is shown is a red hued version of the phalanx, which is still big but not nearly THAT big.
The City from BLAME! definitely fits here, its radius goes out, at minimum, into Jupiter's orbital path.
Could you elaborate on that. Sounds interesting.
@mr.ackermann807 in short it's an unbelievably massive self-expanding structure made up of billions of miles of haphazardly constructed city, kept stable by massive gravity furnaces that prevent it from collapsing into a singularity.
@@crestfallenneet2167 and don't forget that it can never stop expanding because ancient humans in the BLAME universe figured out how to print matter from nothing and the builders will literally not stop unless they break and even after thousands of years the builders haven't broken, and I am pretty sure the city can make more builders
Glad I’m not the only one waiting for the City to show up! The TOHA ship _alone_ would be cool to see in one of these vids.
@@arlequim235 I think the main character walk across the entire structure through out the story. How that works with with the city constantly expanding is anyone's guess, but the story is also about huge time scales as well as physical scales.
Black Library in 40k was Webway's resident Matrioshka Brain
Just reminded me of the Matrioshka Brain project in Bobiverse. Now I want to see The Others, their Dyson sphere, and the Bob's solution to them in one of these lists.
I have doubts about the last one, technically, if it is a structure and it was created by a race, there are many Eldar stories, both ancient and almost recent, of that there is no doubt, it is described as a structure as such, it has roads, passages and you can "walk" on it, you can touch it! But it is an artificial dimension that spans the galaxy and beyond, but would it really count?
Well, if it was built than yes.
It's a death star style mobile mega station many times the original structure from Star wars.
@@paytonkraft7564 I talk about the spider web and what is it talking about?
@@Stevenrodriguez-lq8pe apologies, didn't watch it all the way through. I thought you were referring to the necron world engine because of the eldar being mentioned.
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What about the xeele rings? They are made of galaxies because these are it's energy source. It's size was like 10.000.000 light years
Next time you should read the title before commenting, otherwise you'd realise that he is only including halo, warhammer, star wars and star trek.
@@eoingaskin well allright my bad.
It included independence day, which wasn't in the title
@@Gagglegaming-go1ir OH gosh,
¡Thanks for being the plot twist! 🫠
@@eoingaskin Independence Day.
I think that massive chaos fortress must be using some gravitational MacGuffin's to avoid collapsing in on itself. And the webway isn't as big as it seems on the galactic map because it doesn't exist in real space, it is it's own smaller space, which is the point of it. Although still probably #1 and containing multiple "realms" where planets and ships can still fly around and have battles.
The Ruinous Powers have precious little care for the laws of the material realm... that being said, there must be some serious techno-sorcery abounds within, and they must have mined entire star systems to collapse for the raw materials.
It's actually larger then galatic it would be infinite as it resides in the warp and the warp has infinite layers and dimensions upon several degrees of infinite layers. It extends out of the galaxy some parts are just collapsed or inaccessible.
@@NastyStankyChicken Oh OK, so it could be tiered to like a trillion levels internally, so to speak. Hadn't thought of that. just thought it was point to point connecting about a dozen solar system sized realms. Thanks for (excuse the pun) expanding my idea of it.
There is your issue, its a warp structure, there is no laws of reality in the warp physics doesn't exist
@@thedevourer. Yesn't. The laws of physics do apply, most of the time. The webway itself is a stabilisation framework within the warp that cuts everything inside the warp off from the rest of the warp, and internally stabilises it enough that you can 'walk' through it. In terms of sheer size though, it is simultaneously the size of a small star system, and that of twice the galaxy, requiring skilled navigators to guide along the twisting, confusing, shifting paths within.
in terms of volume, though, we're looking at several orders of magnitude the size of the galaxy.
I forget what this sci fi setting is called, but there was an advanced race of aliens who were stitching together entire galaxies in order to make a super computer that would allow them to leave their universe.
That sounds like one of the modded crises from stelaris
@tuurderom2017 nah, it was a book series, I think... but yeah, I could see something like that happening in Stellaris.
@@jacobyin5320 The Xeelee Sequence?
@@sassy_spoon yeah that sounds like it.
In Baxter's The Ring, the xeelee we're creating a spinning ring several galaxies in diameter which would create some kind of twisting of the fabric of space at the center due to the gravity of the thing. The enemy faction (photino birds?) THREW A GALAXY AT IT to try to destroy it
These million km wide craft seem like they would collapse into black holes if in our universe.
How do you think this galaxy was made...
Probly big bang
Probly not aliens building big fortress to collapse inwards
Wait, wouldn't you have already collapsed in on yourself though?
To form a black hole, you need to squish mass into a volume less than its Schwarzschild radius.
So no.
@@infinitechoices1641 But yes. At some point, especially that fortress, MUST collapse in on itself to produce a black hole. Central point would have enough exerted force that a black hole is inevitable.
Star Killer Base was just a stupid idea.
Destroying five planets with a single homing laser shot across from another star system was easily the least believable superweapon ever made in Star Wars, ranking up there with the Sun Crusher. I'd rather watch Lexx, or read Dark Empire with their hyperspace missiles and World Devastators, or the Corellian Trilogy with Centerpoint Station again. Or read about Darksaber, and the prototype Death Star by Qwi Xux.
@3mpt7
CLEARLY you've never read legends.
@w1ndgeneral226 😄 I stopped reading when Mara Jade Skywalker got killed by Han and Leia's son. As for the Disney timeline, I was surprised when they chose to do more of the same stuff that killed the Expanded Universe/Legends. It's Disney. Fairy tales. Superheroes. Knights. They should know better.
I'm not impressed at Troy Denning and Karen Traviss for jumping over to Halo and bringing that series down, too. Since 2012, the Halo series has had abysmal books on par with the worst Star Wars books--The Crystal Star, and Galaxies Ruins of Dantooine.
Mass Effect did it to itself. William C. Dietz from Star Wars and Halo wrote a book, and Drew Karpyshyn, author of the Darth Bane trilogy--and then Bioware made a game without their involvement. I swear none of the newer writers have what it takes, and the old crowd is gone.
I haven't read many Star Trek books. There was one involving fake latinum--a terrible superweapon that could bring down the entire Trek economy.
@3mpt7
You know the best part of living through the era of prequel hate, it's the same thing as always and you don't care, you just want to enjoy Star Wars as you always have.
@@w1ndgeneral226 No hate, it was just dumb.
You forgot Trazyn home of solemnace one of the biggest museum.
Well in terms of size, Trazyn Mausoleum/Museum is certainly the biggest out there in 40k, but when in terms of volume HALO Shield world is the biggest, their size may be of an average planet but internally is a whole solar system.
Ohh I forgot since we added the game why not Stellar Hyper-Giga Structures They are certainly the biggest thing an intelligent civilization could build, I mean I could name a few but their size is truly mind-blowing for example they could build structures on Giant Blackhole of the center of the galaxy that if measured it, could fit our solar system 2x over.
It is a Dyson sphere a small one.
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I'm pretty sure the Xelee sequence has structures that tend to dwarf those (and they literally live in Black Holes as well due to basically being a sentient Bose-Einstein Condensate of sorts), they at one point construct rings around galaxies (which are a diameter greater than the Galaxy itself) with Sentient Life in rapid succession on an absolutely insane scale.
The webway is actually not galactic sized but infinite. The structure resides in the warp and the warp has no dimensions, time, distance and size are irrelevant.
Well, the webway is like a tunnel, and a shield. It is still a galactic wide tunnel system, and the webway also abides by some laws from the material realm.and even though it is in the warp, it doesn't the webway is affected by the warp. (Unless daemons get involved but I don't count it here.)
Its hard to say, its a structure coliding with multiple dimensional layers. Its like an holding clamp in a wormhole. You would need to calculate it in units made for more than 3 dimensions.
It cannot be infinite. Anything being infinite brings in some hefty logical and mathematical issues that would be extremely paradoxical in a physical, real world (real world as in a world with scientific principles and physics). The warp, as described here, is logically impossible. Thus we can't give any real measurement on how it works.
@@10054 No we can, the warp is and has always been stated to be infinite. Dimensions, time, distance are all irrelevant. It is infinite in size and because it resides within the warp it is also infinite. This is the structure it's self but when you're within it it isn't as it shields the inside from the warp.
@@NastyStankyChicken It's infinite in lore. We'll go with that.
Technically speaking, the Domain could be considered one of if not the biggest structure as well, if it is indeed to be interpreted as a Precursor construct and the description of it being “near-infinite” in size are to be taken as fact.
There's a load of inventions the Precursors have that would be basically tier 0 megastructures. More like superstructures or hyperstructures. Take the star roads for example: similar to the Webway but far more effective and span multiple planes of existence, able to transport to either different dimensions or galaxies. Besides the terrifying fact that the star roads are basically a more powerful and weaponizable Webway.
Actually... Webway would be multiversal because back before the old ones' demise, it was connected to countless realities
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Well, would stil make it invalide, beccause to calculte that you would need to be able to use some messering units made for more than 3 dimensions, wich we dont have yet.
Should rather get its own catogory.
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Well... Maybe? Because warhammer cosmology in material universe alone at bare minimum, consisted of 80+ dimensional structure up to infinity. So by that fact alone we can't calculate it. But at least, we can measure its range
Technicaly there would also be the iokath system in star wars, wich is an artificial plante build around a small star. Its located in the unknown regions and until now only showed up in the Old republic game. Should be bigger than star killer base, but didnt showed up since and disney didnt decided until now if its canon or legends. We also didnt got official sizes for it, but the size could change do to the iokathians modefieng the planet if needed or as long they have money and materials.
Fun fact, Starkiller base was originally the planet where the Jedi use to get their crystals for their lightsabers.
660KM size, has 1 Earth Gravity, right... Another disney failure.
None of these even come close to the achievements of Stephen Baxter's aliens, the _Xeelee_ . Their biggest construct is The Ring, which is an artefact *several million lightyears across* . It has the mass of many galaxies - one passage describes how trillions of Xeelee ships literally haul stars to the building site, and convert their mass to exotic matter; a project so great that it has taken virtually the entire lifetime of the universe to build. The Xeelee are the ultimate form of life for baryonic matter, and are engaged in a war with Dark Matter life. This war uses entire galaxies as missiles, and thousand lightyear long anti-missiles made of cosmic string to destroy them.
"Who the hell do you think we are?"
~ Dai Gurren Brigade
Couple of things missing here--the second Death Star was significantly larger than the first, and was shown on screen.
As far as I'm concerned, there was only one Ark in Halo--the one that appeared in the games. Greg Bear and 343i were being a nuisance with this "Oh yeah, one of them isn't like the others, it was 3x bigger but it shrank to the same size as the others." A better thing to show us (considering the Greater Ark never shows up in the games, and why would there be Arks of two different sizes--or only two of them?) would be the construction facility for the Ark. Also, Sarcophagus is in a Slipspace Bubble and its dimensions clearly exist to one-up Star Trek. Not cool.
There is a thing called books.. there was a Greater ark than Installation 00
@alexamg6675 Amazing. I never knew such a thing existed. Especially not the Greg Bear Forerunner Trilogy where Zeta Halo shrinks and the Greater Ark makes its only appearance in text only, alongside splitting the Didact up into the Ur-Didact and Iso-Didact. Having a rough day or something?
343's needless complication of the extended lore is one of the biggest issues I have with their handling of the franchise. Their writing, both in the EU and in the games comes off as mildly passable fanfiction at best. Do not forget, their version of the Halo universe is also the same universe in which Doctor Halsey hacks a Contender-Class AI with what is essentially an iPad. I personally pass off all their "contributions" to the lore as an entirely separate timeline.
No mention of the 40k Dyson spheres?
We do not talk about the Ghoul Stars, or the Halo Stars.
Xeelee be like:
- Cute.
Xeelee after seeing all of these structures: look guys these are their litle bug houses awww how cute
@@SolverCyn-vx1kv Actually， the webway is infinite.
I need more xeelee content on RUclips 😭
@@kryvex4996 There's really nothing special about this thing other than the size.
@@kryvex4996 yes, the xeele are very underrated
About that Chaos Ruinstorm Fortress, we never saw that again before or after, why Horus didnt used it against Terra??, well, Sanguinius destroyed with his sword, or something like that, its not clear if that think was real or just a illusion by the chaos
As far as I understood from the text, it was a sorcerous warp phenomenon, a structure of immaterium in real space. There was a phrase, “if the traitors had such technologies, we would have already lost,” but it was a sorcery that was destroyed when the warp forge on one of the planets fell.
Didn't it also need multiple planets to anchor its self in real space.
Stephen Baxter's 'Ring', a structure made by the Xeelee, is 10 million light-years wide, a hundred times bigger than the Milky Way galaxy
Xeelee is banned from the discussion. Not fair!
@@musafawundu6718 Ha ha, you win---Xeelee are way too overpowered, I agree; they were formed billions of years before anyone on this list even had a seat at the table
@@markpaterson2053 , they are totally ridiculous... One has to event a phrase beyond the meaning of "mind boggling infinite times" for them...
@@musafawundu6718 What I love though is that they hardly ever appear in the stories; in some they don't even appear but their consequences make up the story. Baxter is never recognized like other authors but his ideas are as big as Liu Cixin's
Too bad the milieu limit leaves out The City from Blame! or the Shipworld from Jeffrey A. Carver's Strange Attractors.
Their are other things in Starwars Legends besides Star Killer base like the
Prototype Death Star, Death Star I, Tarkin deathstar 1.5. and Death Star II.
And also in Halo 2 theirs High Charity.
Honorable mention: Beast Planet from shadow raiders - the thing just straight up ate planets
Only now do I fully see the physical problems of Starkiller Base. It's basically a huge ditch dug right round the equator of a smallish planet -- which begs the question of how such a small world can sustain what looks to be an Earthlike ecosystem when Mars, which is five times wider, cannot. The bigger question is why that inexplicably Earthlike atmosphere doesn't all precipitate into that vast ditch. That, after all, is what happened to the canyon blasted into the eponymous world from Larry Niven's Known Space ... a canyon that doesn't even extend as far or as deep as that of Starkiller Base!
That's what bothers you in SW? Let me ask you this? Where does the music come from?
@@andrew3203 John Williams. I don't care that he cribs ideas from other musicians -- especially since he'll not only happily admit it, but tell you exactly who he cribbed from and why. People who hate him for this won't ever admit they envy him for being able to take so many ideas and fuse them into something uniquely his own.
The planet was being dug into for a LONG time.
Starkiller base is clearly more Earth-sized in the movies. The size difference between it and the star it drains is roughly the same as Earth and the Sun. JJ Abram's movies has always had a problem with scale. Like the first Star Trek movie where Spock could watch the destruction of Vulcan from another planet. Starkiller base is Earth-sized, the Death Star is moon-sized. The hologram scale is simply JJ not knowing or caring about the actual Death Star size.
@@onlypeaceindeath Spock seeing Vulcan die always seemed more like visual shorthand to me. But yeah, Abrams has a problem with scale -- like in an earlier scene in the movie where the captain of the Kelvin walks past a crewperson on a staircase that, if to scale with the rest of the ship, would make the Kelvin the size of Star Wars' Executor!
You used a cryptum which is smaller than the unsc infinity as the picture of a shield world lol
If something immaterial like W40k’s Webway counts as a megastructure, then The Ring from the Xeelee Chronicles definitely counts as the largest megastructure in fiction (spanning “millions of lightyears across”). Species wage war with higher dimensions, time travel, and gravitational forces capable of hurling stars and even entire galaxies at their targets.
Wij exactly is the webway immaterial? It’s a massive construct of wraithbone within the warp, it’s size is not correct, but it’s still a built thing
@@tuurderom2017 Thanks for the clarification. Does the entire webway consist of the constructed material? because if so then its theoretical size (even if it existed within a pocket dimension) is still valid. in the case of the Xeelee Ring, its dealing with such large scale forces that its technically a structure of quantifiable size, but the connective forces might not be physical in material?
@@AnonEMus-cp2mn the entirety of the webway can in theory be shaped by wraith seers to manipulate the passages, though this is largely done to seal off passages which have failed and let in the denizens of the warp.
Eldar webway is litteraly multidimensional structure that stretches infinitely and can lead to different universes or timelines, you can't compare it. And it connects to different realms via webway portals.
@@сесьсясь In that case, would the Xeelee ring still compare because the construct is also a gateway to different universes and timelines?
shield world 006 sarcophagus, 600 millions KM diameter
Precursor Star Roads, Halo's equivalent of the Webway in function and size.
Edit: Star Roads span the universe technically, so way bigger.
Out of all these examples these examples, the Ruinstorm Fortress is by far the most absurd. I mean, even a Dyson Sphere around a dwarf star is unfathomable. But a mega structure the size of an entire star system? That is preposterous. You'd need billions of entire planets of resources for such a thing. Not to mention the stresses that would exist on the structure would tear it apart long before it got anywhere near that large. And how many billions of years of conscious effort would it take to build something like that? Warhammer 40K is over-the-top by it's very nature. But that is just stupid writing IMO. Even something like StarKiller base is just dumb. Imagine how many resources and people (or Alien beings) it would take to construct such a thing. And yet they can't defend it from a relatively small crew of misfits and a fleet of little ships. Most of this list is the result of bad writing IMO.
1:34 star killer base 660 km - then shows a diagram saying it’s diameter is 5’870KM.
I feel like you forgot the domain, or the star roads, and technically you could say that the entire galaxy (which used to be much bigger btw the forerunners blew up so many stars during their war against the flood it actually shrunk) for halo because the precursors created it
The sarcophagus isn’t bigger than a Dyson sphere 🤨 I think you just mean Requiem. The Daidact’s shield world. 🤔 A Forerunner sarcophagus is probably about the same size as a Borg Tactical sphere
the aurigan empire from BTLG has a bazillion of solar systems conquered. does that count? (i wrote the books, shameless self ad)
Biggest sci fi structure is easily the Bolder's Ring built by the Xeelee in Stephen Baxter's scieence fiction series of books. It is 60 million light years in circumference spinning at the speed of light, made of supers string material.
now add stellaris (and gigasturctural engineering mod for it)megastructures to this list i would like to know
The Buster machine 3 fits here, it's a black hole bomb that contains a compressed jupiter on the inside, it was used to destroy the galactic core along with billions of space kaiju, it was about 860 km in size
gota say all these are Childs play compared to Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann it kind of ruined me for size mattering in things
The ever building city from BLAME! The manga compared to some of these would be cool
If you want megastructures go read the Xelee Sequence, the stuff the Xelee and the Photino Bird's make dwarfs anything shown here (the Xelee at one point make a ring megastructure the size of the entire Galaxy), and even their basic fighter craft is sort of like a highly condensed material that unfolds into vast strcutures.
New Jerusalem and its size and it's made out of gold and jewels, wait until you see the most beautiful city.
Gonna throw this out there.
In Destiny 2 we learn that the Vex have turned a whole ass star system into a sort of forge, and that it probably isn't the only one they have.......
Brooooo you forgot high-charity the prophets holy city, it’s a crime to not include it.
You should have mentioned the Alderson Disk from Stellaris.
I've never built that thing in all my playthroughs. Just don't see the point.
Isn’t that only available from mods?
There's also the Birch World, the Quasi Stellar Obliterator and the Quasar craft, all of them encasing a Supermassive Black Hole.
And the blokconstruct which is 1 light year big but Jesus Christ does it put the birch world to shame
@@thundere.b2314 You have to remember, that thing's size is vastly underestimated because it is hyper dense and works off fitting more stuff in a physical space like a Tardis. As in if it's destroyed without proper measures, it will create a black hole that will straight up consume the entire universe. And apparently the current form is only 0.00001% of it's progress.
Why show the cryptum instead of an actual shield world for Halo?
What about that huge "Space hulk" in the Deathwing 40K game?
The biggest mega structure is and always will be the universe itself 👍
Would the citadel from Mass Effect make the list
Seven of 9 said there were 7 borg hubs spread throughout the galaxy
damn, and I thought the ark of destruction from yamato 2202 was big
So, whats the difference ne between a dyson sphere and dyson shell?
Dyson sphere is almost impossible structure to build all above that is fantasty fiction in SF;P
It's actually buildable even with our current tech level. Silicate asteroids mined to make mirrors. Mirrors to melt more asteroids and so on. A star englobed in a mirrors sphere is now a Dyson sphere.
@@andrew3203 Dyson swarms (which are just somewhat-interconnected satellites) are theoretically capable of being built. A full-blown Dyson Sphere would require most of the raw mass that we can currently observe in the universe. Every other larger megastructure proposed involves being able to warp matter, energy, and physical dimensions in ways that are basically magic, in order to be created.
@@GeneGear A full blown Dyson Sphere doesn't need anywhere near that much mass. Let's consider a 100 km thick sphere with a radius of 200,000,000 km this would have a volume of 1.2566358×10^24 which is around 11,601,069 Earth sized planets, of course planets contain more than just the needed usable material so let's go big and say in the order of 1 billion Earth sized planets are needed. The Milky Way has an estimated 100 to 400 billion stars with an average of at least one planet, in relation to just Earth sized planets a 2013 study estimated up to 40 billion of such planets within the habitable zone of Sun-like and red dwarf stars. This doesn't include smaller objects like asteroids and rogue planets which include Earth sized ones within the Milky Way, recent studies suggest rogue planets far outnumber the number of stars reaching into the trillions.
So even just high balling the numbers for a Dyson Sphere it's still a drop in the ocean for the number of planets within the Milky Way alone even before getting into other galaxies.
Starkiller base shouldn't have even had an atmosphere it was far too small.
Halo star roads are far larger than anything described here.
Wait til you hear about the "Blame!" megastructure
BLAME! cuty/megastructure...
The halo rings were modeled after the ring world, by Larry Niven. It was a ring around the sun, and the Protectors could move it when they wanted to.
Star killer base destroyed 5 worlds. Yet its power could destroy 1,000 worlds at most. Just guessing
No respect to the Disney trilogy but the output of the entire sun for about 4 days would vaporize Jupiter. So an entire star could destroy every planet in the galaxy, if its total energy were efficiently applied. Starkiller base is shown underpowered. The dumb thing about it is that you could instantly see it firing at any distance. That would be impossible no matter whether the beam fired through hyperspace or not
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Star Wars was never really in the believable range of SCI-FI, and no, I'm not referring to the force.
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Several of these aren’t “megastructures”. Many of them are just ships. Also, the webway is not that big.
The webway is actually bigger, it's infinite in size as it's in the warp and the warp has infinite, dimensions, layers and realities.
@@NastyStankyChickenit's not in the warp at all
@@thedevourer. It its inside both inside reality and the warp.
@NastyStankyChicken exactly wrong, it's in-between both
I don't think I could call Starkiller base a "ship."
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so that means that there is a flat version of the Earth :D
I think the builders were compensating for something...
Ringworld from 'Ringworld' us huge:
"The Ringworld is an artificial world with a surface area three million times larger than Earth's, built in the shape of a giant ring-shaped ribbon a million miles wide and with a diameter of 186 million miles."
Forruners explain flat earth 👌
You has forgot the Magog Worldship from the series Andromeda.
It was a megastructure that combined 20 entire worlds around a artificial star.
It is not clear what size it had,
but i appreciate 400.000 km in diametres is not unrealistic.
The dumb thing is that it only housed "trillions" of magog, though i appreciate that they went beyond millions and billions for once.
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The Harvester are very similar.
In one of such giant Mothership
could life billions of them.
They fly fom world to world, robbing all nature ressources and
leave behind a waste world.
The Magog do the same with the aditional horror that they abduct beings
to plant they eggs in them.
@@cosmictreason2242I mean you’d need 142 Earth equivalents to reach a trillion people. Granted Earth isn’t hollowed out.
@@Meritania you can easily fit a Trillion people on earth without major infrastructure improvements.
@@cosmictreason2242 I think you might need major infrastructure improvements to house, feed and service a trillion people on Earth.
What about Starcraft and The Culture?
Starcraft has regular sizing with the biggest coming in at roughly independence day harvester vessel protoss vessels are harder to gauge due to the fact their internals make no sense.
@@xyreniaofcthrayn1195 I just can't understand why Blizzard Entertainment can make up their stupid minds when it comes to size comparison.
If you only count the carved out portion then yes the stupidly named Starkiller base in only 660 km but the entire planet size as you have here is 5,870 km in diameter. Last time I checked they had to move the whole planet.
Why is it "stupidly named." It's quite fitting.
did i watch independece day 2 how did they get rid of that ship if they blew it up earth is #@$#
It fell over Africa...so, a lot of metal mining for millions of years.
What about Star Roads from Halo?
Fun list. Very enjoyable video. 💪🙂👍
Now do gigastructural enginerring
Dude, I wanna see you talk about the xeele multiverse.
Xeelee struggle against heat death or Humanity's tragic turn to xenophobia? Which theme sounds better?
yuuzhan vong worldship
Add stellaris gigastructures
Star roads!
I think many people have already pointed out that the web way isn't a great choice for structure as it's a whole pocket dimension. You could argue structures in the warp that are beyond comprehension (so infinite yet finite) as options but these don't make much sense imo. I would've probably listed the Pariah Nexus or one of the many mega constructs made by the Necrons during the war in heaven as the top entry. Those behave more like actual structures as opposed to entire dimensions.
Xeelee ring.
read the title and then comment
it's smaller than the webway， because it's even beyond infinite
@@Stevenrodriguez-lq8pe watch the video and then reply, he had a ship from Independence Day up there 🙄🙄🙄
Don’t forget the Borg Transwarp network (destroyed by USS Voyager/Capt. Janeway). This probably spanned the Milky Way galaxy, or at least a good portion of it. Also, although Stargate SG1 wasn’t covered, the Stargate network itself had to span the Milky Way galaxy, and probably others as well, not to mention Asgard spacecraft.
I think i n the episode of Star Trek Voyager where the crew first discover the Borg Unicomplex they outright say that there are only six of them in the galaxy.
Did I understand sth wrong because you say the starkiller base is 660km but at 1:38 under "physical information" is the diameter given and it says 5870km
I did not know there where two arks. I thought I was pretty deep in Halo lore. Maybe a Halo Wars thing. Or the TV show. I kinda just skimmed it.
The nature of the Great Attractor in the Melee sequence is a good runner up for it.
They BUILT it, for crying out loud!
So if I did the math right the mothership for ID resurgence can travel at 5.5% light speed. That’s pretty fast for a ship that big.
One of my favorites is the Cylon colony from BSG, the coolest part is that it orbits a naked singularity
wtf is a "shild" world?
You forgot the Movie Hitchhikers Guide To The Univers.
Can't forget the honorable mention of Spaceball 1 and it's transformation form
82 AU isn't even close to 'swallowing our entire solar system'
V'ger from Kirk star trek for the win... Size of a solar system
Fortnite last reality cube craddle is 46,000 km
Great as always 🙏🙏
Nope. The largest megastucture is TAA2.
These Megastructures are inherently stupid.
It's far more inefficient and vulnerable to invest in one singular structure than many smaller structures that can either be kept together or be many places at once.
That's why you have "carrier groups" and not just a single massive floating island...
Installation 00 kind of makes some sense, as it has tu build New Halos to replace destroyed ones and also acted as a massive ark for the life forms of the Galaxy.