On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 08:07, <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Dagnabit! You're just trying to get a new article.... ;)

Yes, there are some things that could be looked at. That might be a good community project for us here or maybe on COTI or somewhere.

I think I recall that in some system somewhere (God knows where) there was a ringworld (ring there, not finished) and somewhere else there was a partial or full Dyson's sphere around a sun.

The Judge's Guild magazine, Pegasus, published an "alternative universe" version of the Gateway/Maranantha-Alkahest Sector. There was a Mary-Sue Dyson sphere in there ("The hidden world of Sobregol" where the average IQ is 160!). IIRC, the size might have been "X", or an asterisk - the arithmetic progression of the usual UWP size score would not have handled a Dyson sphere. Population used the usual logarithmic scale. TL was J. All this from a very foggy recollection ...

Cheers,

KenB.