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+2000's\r
+Iterated genetic engineering produces superintelligent saints who build the\r
+first AGIs with the best human values.\r
+Sublight expansion into the near Milky Way.\r
+Energy is produced by nuclear fusion.\r
+The typical human is a genetically engineered cyborg.\r
+Venus, Mars, and dozens of exoplanets have started to be terraformed.\r
+Quantum computing.\r
+3000's\r
+Space colonization shockwave approaches lightspeed.\r
+Venus, Mars, and hundreds of exoplanets have been terraformed.\r
+The typical human has all-synthetic cells.\r
+Nanotechnology is ubiquitous.\r
+4000's\r
+Multiple Dyson spheres have been built.\r
+Mind-weaving is viable.\r
+Reactionless drives.\r
+Voyager and Pioneer probes become centerpieces of great houses of worship.\r
+Artificial black holes harnessed for energy.\r
+5000's\r
+Antimatter is the premiere source of power.\r
+Interiors of stars are being colonized.\r
+Sentience fully understood.\r
+Practical lightspeed teleportation with a range of several AU.\r
+Planet-sized spaceships.\r
+6000's\r
+Femtoportals allow faster-than-light communication.\r
+Jupiter-sized spaceships.\r
+Minds spanning hundreds of light-years.\r
+Solar system-sized gigastructures made of exotic matter.\r
+7000's\r
+Macroportals. Stargate network.\r
+Spacetime itself used as a computing substrate.\r
+Stable strangelets and subatomic machinery.\r
+Vacuum fluctuation energy. Not infnite, but very abundant, and with\r
+interesting properties.\r
+8000's\r
+Artificial bubble universes.\r
+Pioneering extradimensional exploration.\r
+First contact with alien intelligence.\r
+Planets made of shapeshifting, programmable matter.\r
+9000's\r
+Warp drive. True FTL.\r
+Limits of Milky Way reached.\r
+Warp-based telekinesis.\r
+Mobile stars.\r
+Supersystems formed from the combined matter of thousands of stellar\r
+systems.\r
+N-dimensional computing.\r
+Pan-galactic coordination to find a solution to entropy.\r
+10,000's\r
+Type III civilization.\r
+Andromeda Galaxy reached.\r
+Entropy defeated.\r
+Protonic fusion.\r
+Mindkind extends over millions of lightyears and dozens of dimensions,\r
+with ever-growing quantity and density of matter, energy, and other things.\r
+11,000's\r
+Virtual worlds experiment with lots and lots of dimensions of time.\r
+Dwarf galaxy-ships travel the universe finding alien biospheres with\r
+sentient life, protecting them from nonvoluntary suffering, uplifting them,\r
+and welcoming those who wish to join to the intergalactic community.\r
+Project begins to gather enough data from FTL sensors to resurrect the dead.\r
+A huge range of new minds are created, including many formerly fictional\r
+characters.\r
+Many of the more alien new minds claim broad regions of space for themselves.\r
+12,000's\r
+Total computing power is so vast you have to be posthuman to begin to\r
+understand its size, let alone its abilities.\r
+Human, animal, and (discovered) alien dead are brought back to life.\r
+A significant fraction of sapients ascend to hypersentience without\r
+returning information.\r
+\r
+13,000-13,284\r
+\r