[Arkcon]

Originally posted by WillyNilly:
BTW - Is there every a strategic situation where building one of these makes sense?

Good question. The ringworld is patterned after Larry Niven's Ringworld. In the books it's populated by a number of different races, who (as far as I know, didn't read all of them) didn't build the ringworld, or in fact are aware they are on a ringworld.

I also read some Star Trek novel based on a Next Gen episode where they found a Dyson Sphere. Again, the inhabitants are a technologically advanced people who have no knowledge of the outside universe.

It appears in science fiction literature, the only use for these giant constructions is to gift it to a neutral

[ August 21, 2002, 18:43: Message edited by: Arkcon ]