Dyson Sphere
Freeman Dyson
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The Dyson Sphere was first theorized by physicist Freeman Dyson in the early twentieth century. Theoretically, a race could take all of the mass of an entire solar system's planets and pulverize it into a thin layer of earth and atmosphere. This layer could be shaped into a sphere around the system's sun at a distance of one AU (astronomical unit - one Earth-Sun distance), creating an Earth-like habitat with over a billion times the surface area of Earth. The New Mutants encountered a Dyson Sphere when they were transported there by Lila Cheney, who uses it as a base of operations. Even Lila doesn't know who created the sphere, when they created it, or why they left. It sits at the other end of our Galaxy, and is Lila's stopping point when she needs to teleport distances shorter than her power allows. She hops to the Sphere and then jumps back to her target.
Additional Course Material
Building a Dyson Sphere
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