Dyson Spheres in Popular Culture - Games

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• The PlayStation 2 game Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne by Atlus takes place in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo that's been ripped from the surface of the Earth and folded in upon itself around a nucleus called "Kagutsuchi" to form what is essentially a Dyson sphere.
• The PlayStation 2 game Code Age Commanders takes place in an "intraglobular world", a fictional hollow world similar to a Dyson sphere, with people living on its internal surface.
• The PC game Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity by Spectrum Holobyte features a Dyson Sphere in its endgame, containing 'The Unity Device' (the players goal).
• The PC game Freelancer by Microsoft Game Studios shows a Dyson Sphere (specifically, a Dyson Shell) in the last system visited in the game campaign. It was constructed by either the highly advanced "Dom'Kavash" civilization, or their servant race the "Nomads".
• The PC game Homeworld by Relic Entertainment contains what appears to be a half-completed Dyson sphere in Mission 13, The Karos Graveyard. It later turns out to be the site of a massive ship battle, where the vessels were never salvaged. Homeworld 2 later revealed the large bits of wreckage viewed in the distance to be from a massive ship that broke apart many years ago.
• The epilogue of the PC game Mission Critical by Legend Entertainment. Humans created the artificial electronic life-forms (ELFs) and after decades of research they will both construct such a sphere; the humans will live inside and the ELFs outside.
• The PBeM Game Quadrant Delta
• In the Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe, The Outsider, a C'tan, is said to inhabit a Dyson sphere, having been trapped inside it by The Laughing God of the Eldar, Cegorach.
• In the AT-43 fictional universe, the Therians plan to enclose all stars inside Dyson spheres. The first released campaign, Operation Damocles, takes place on a mobile, solid Dyson sphere.
• The PC games Space Empires IV and Space Empires V by Malfador Machinations allows the construction and colonization of Dyson spheres (called "sphereworlds").
• The PC game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri by Firaxis Games refers to a Dyson Sphere in one of the game endings.
• The PC and Xbox 360 game Prey by Human Head Studios (after a short introductory level in a bar) takes place on a Dyson sphere (more specifically it is a Dyson Net constructed of organic and technological matter).
• The internet game Flash Trek 2: Broken Mirror contains a Dyson sphere in the system beyond the Bajoran wormhole
• In the PC game Chronomaster, the final pocket universe to be explored is encapsulated entirely by a Dyson sphere.
• The Xbox 360 strategy game Halo Wars set in the Halo series sees the latter half of its campaign take place on and inside a planetary sized Dyson Shell with a small artificial sun in the center. This so-called Shield World was meant to protect the Forerunners and their technology from The Flood, and the Forerunners or another life form from the Halo Array's firing. The entire inside of the shell is habitable and thus must have some sort of artificial gravity system to keep everything from floating off the surface. Also, in the Halo series, Shield Worlds are Micro-Dyson Spheres often protected by a planet-sized Dyson Swarm of sentries called Sentinels, whereas the Shield World itself will protect its inhabitors from the superweapon's firing, and the Sentinels will protect the Micro-Dyson Sphere from being destroyed by means of weapons or asteroids and such, as is the case with the Shield World called "Onyx" in the book by Eric Nylund "Halo: Ghosts of Onyx". Albeit the Micro-Dyson Sphere in question is said to be externally "only a few meters in diameter", while internally is approximately the size of Earth's orbit around our sun, with a small artificial star.
• In the PC/Xbox 360/PS3 game Mass Effect 2, the geth character "Legion" (a sentient artificial intelligence) mentions the Dyson sphere as the closest analogue to the mega structure its species is currently working: since geth are networked programs (e.g. Legion is a "mobile platform" for over a thousand of them), such massive platform for the conciousnesses would ensure that "no geth would ever be alone", which is their idea of utopia.
• In the Nintendo DS video game Infinite Space, the "Overlords" - a transcendent race responsible for the destruction and rebirth of universes - use a Dyson sphere attached to the Sun to power the "True Void Gate" with which they access and manipulate the current universe.
• The Facebook game Galaxy Legion features Dyson Spheres as one of the discoverable and colonizable types in the galaxy, although they are extremely rare.
• In the role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII, the floating utopia of Cocoon is a Dyson Shell. Cocoon surrounds an artificial sun, which is the fal'Cie Phoenix.
• In the PlayStation 3 video game Another Century's Episode: R, the planet "Area" where the main plot takes place resides in a Dyson sphere, though its name is not stated directly. This sphere has holographic panels on the inner surface to give the illusion of sky and sun, and to prevent what is inside the planet from reaching space.
• In the Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal series, the antagonist V uses a card called Number 9: Sky Canopy Star - Dyson Sphere, a card based on the fictional term. In the anime, it has a few interesting quirks:
  • When this card's effects are negated, all its lights shut down just like a machine without any power.
  • It creates a black hole (which sucks in all matter) to negate attacks, and then creates a white hole (which are said eject matter) to make attack.
  • This is one of the largest monsters, if not the largest, seen in the anime so far, being slightly smaller than a star when in its sealed form.
  • When it is in its true form, it is big enough to surround the same star with its panels.
  • Its panels are shown to have buildings, which means that its panels are not just for supplying energy, but also for supporting entire cities. This confirms V's statement about Dyson sphere being a "space colony".
• In Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II, Dr. Eggman builds a new Death Egg over the Little Planet from Sonic CD. Its believed that Eggman is using the Little Planet's energy to power the Death Egg Mk II similar to a Dyson sphere.