Star Lifting - in Fiction

In Fiction

  • In the Star Wars franchise of Knights of the Old Republic, the Star Forge is capable of star lifting.
  • In Lexx, the Mantrid Drones eventually became capable of star lifting simply by using their combined gravity to draw material away.
  • The novel Star Trek: Voyager – The Murdered Sun featured a reptilian race using the material from a star to sustain the opening of a wormhole. However, the novel depicted the process as shortening the star's lifespan precipitously rather than extending it.
  • In The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, the alien species the Kiint created an arc of custom made planets around their sun from mass extracted from their star.
  • In The Time Ships by Steven Baxter, a Dyson sphere is constructed by material harvested from the sun through star-lifting.
  • In the web-based collaborative fiction site "Orion's Arm" the star Polaris is subject to starlifting (with image).

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