Dyson sphere: Difference between revisions

At the core of the artificial world [[Onyx]] was a [[slipstream space|slipspace]] rift that shunted those that passed through it to a [[Trevelyan|structured Dyson shell]] with an [[Earth]]-like, habitable inner surface. This construct was separated from a normal space-time symmetry by advanced Forerunner slipspace technology, making it only 23 centimeters in diameter in real space, despite being 300 million kilometers (or approximately two [[Wikipedia:Astronomical unit|astronomical units]] [1 AU is 149,598,000 km]) in diameter on the inside. The Micro Dyson sphere was located in a ''factually'' compressed slipstream space. In other terms, any object inside might appear to be a certain size, but inside the Slipstream bubble it is much, much larger. This led [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] to dub it as a "Micro Dyson sphere". The Dyson sphere's star has a spectra and energy output slightly smaller than the dimensions of [[Sol system|Sol]].<ref name="goo"/>

The shield placed by the Forerunners around the [[San'Shyuum]] home system was a different iteration of the Dyson sphere concept, known as a "Dyson swarm". Instead of being a physical shell, the sphere was comprised of trillions of automatons known as [[vigilant]]s, which constantly transitioned in and out of slipspace. Extending four hundred million kilometers from the system's star, any ships passing through the shield would require special access codes or be vaporized by the vigilants.<ref name="cryptum144"/>