ToughSF no Twitter: ""It's a fusion-powered laser battlestar, radiators and coolant vents lit up like a furnace. The big blue surface is the main mirror, which focuses the beam onto the target." "
How could we detect an alien megastructure such as a Dyson sphere? Will it emit some sort of energy for us to receive? Do we have the technology for its detection? -
![Future weapon concept, the "Nicoll-Dyson Laser", where the satellites of a Dyson sphere swarm can deliver the energy of a star as a mega sunbeam to a planet-sized target from a range of millions of light years away. - 9GAG Future weapon concept, the "Nicoll-Dyson Laser", where the satellites of a Dyson sphere swarm can deliver the energy of a star as a mega sunbeam to a planet-sized target from a range of millions of light years away. - 9GAG](https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aWE4oXx_460swp.webp)
Future weapon concept, the "Nicoll-Dyson Laser", where the satellites of a Dyson sphere swarm can deliver the energy of a star as a mega sunbeam to a planet-sized target from a range of millions of light years away. - 9GAG
![Are the Colossus and Nicoll-Dyson Beam just too small? Introducing the Quasi-Stellar Obliterator, a gigantic gun built around a supermassive quasar! : r/Stellaris Are the Colossus and Nicoll-Dyson Beam just too small? Introducing the Quasi-Stellar Obliterator, a gigantic gun built around a supermassive quasar! : r/Stellaris](https://preview.redd.it/l4hj30ixfg751.png?auto=webp&s=8743fd23d0d50af21228d36963f8dac641a7cacf)