/lit/ - Literature

>>14580678
Blindsight, Foundation, Dune, Superluminary, Space Viking, Echopraxia.

>>13515506
I'm not a fan of the dark forest theory; it's too pessimistic and doesn't make sense in any case. Any technological civilization that beats you to the galactic stage will be able to completely dominate the galaxy within a few million years at most, and monitor or eliminate every potential life evolving planet. Even if a few intelligent species evolve within the same period of a million years or so, whoever has the lead will be able to spend a fraction of their home system dyson swarm's energy/mass budget to mass produce billions of massive satellites and monitor every star system in the galaxy. Fusion torch drives would be visible from many light years away, and even fission power torches should still be quite visible. Any buildup of lights on the surface of a planet would be detectable, and especially the formation of a dyson swarm would be easily seen. The whole "oh no we better try and hide" thing is nonsense unless your universe actually allows some kind of stealth; which ours seemingly doesn't. Even then it would be better to expand and harvest as much matter/energy as possible ASAP.