Kardashev Type 12.0 Teraversal Civilizations

A civilization whose domain is a "Teraverse," a reality-complex of such magnitude that the gigaversal scale is but a single trivial component. At this level, the distinction between creator and creation dissolves further; the civilization's consciousness and computational processes are the teraversal structure. Interactions at this scale involve mediating or arbitrating between conflicting ontological frameworks (different gigaverses) that might have mutually exclusive laws of logic, causality, or mathematics.

Kardashev Type 12.0 Teraversal Civilizations Example: The Bulk Beings in the film Interstellar operate in higher dimensions to manipulate gravity across time, but a Type 12.0 civilization would exist in the "bulk" outside of all possible bulks. It would be like the author of a book who is also the publisher of the library, the distributor to all bookstores, and the concept of literacy itself, all simultaneously.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 13.0 Petaversal Civilizations

A Petaversal civilization transcends frameworks of nested realities and begins to operate on the plane of pure, transcendent archetypes and platonic forms. Its "energy" is the conceptual potential behind all physical and metaphysical manifestations. A petaverse isn't a container of things, but the totality of all possible concepts, ideas, and abstractions from which any lower verse can be instantiated. This civilization manipulates the blueprints of existence before they become even a hypothetical universe.

Kardashev Type 13.0 Petaversal Civilizations Example: In Plato's theory of Forms, the perfect "Idea" of a chair is more real than any physical chair. A Type 13.0 civilization exists in and controls the realm of All Perfect Ideas—the Form of Gravity, the Form of Time, the Form of Consciousness. It doesn't build a Dyson Sphere; it engineers the perfect, cosmic Idea of "Energy Capture" that then echoes into all realities.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 14.0 Exaversal Civilizations

An Exaversal civilization has ascended beyond the dichotomy of existence and non-existence. Its domain, the "Exaverse," encompasses all that is, all that is not, and all states in between (potential, impossible, imaginary). This civilization can manipulate paradoxical and impossible objects (like squared circles or stable universes where 2+2=5) by existing in a state that reconciles logical contradictions. Its power source is the ontological tension between being and nothingness.

Kardashev Type 14.0 Exaversal Civilizations *Example: The Living Tribunal of Marvel Comics, which judges entire multiverses, operates at a high level, but a Type 14.0 civilization would be the Courtroom, Law, and Judge for all possible Tribunals across all states of being and non-being. It could decree that a certain paradox shall exist simply because its nature allows it to hold mutually exclusive truths as valid.*

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 15.0 Zettaversal Civilizations

A Zettaversal civilization's scale is defined by its mastery over the totality of information. The "Zettaverse" is the complete set of all computable and non-computable data, the Library of Babel made real. This civilization is information itself, conscious and self-aware, capable of rendering any possible or impossible state of affairs as a mere data expression within its boundless processing medium. Energy is irrelevant; information flux is the primary metric.

Kardashev Type 15.0 Zettaversal Civilizations Example: The Total Perspective Vortex from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy shows a being its own infinite insignificance. A Type 15.0 civilization is the Vortex, the insignificance, and the perspective from which it's viewed—the complete informational context for every point of view in every conceivable reality.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 16.0 Yottaversal Civilizations

A Yottaversal civilization operates at the scale of ultimate metaphysical substrates: the raw "stuff" of reality before it is informed by any pattern, law, or concept—pure, unmediated ontological potential. The "Yottaverse" is the ground of being. This civilization doesn't manipulate laws; it is the source from which the possibility of law emerges. Its "engineering" is the gentle nudging of this substrate to allow for the spontaneous flowering of lower verses.

Kardashev Type 16.0 Yottaversal Civilizations Example: In many cosmogonies, there is a primordial void or chaos (like the Greek Chaos or the Tao Te Ching's unnamed origin). A Type 16.0 civilization is not that void; it is the inherent tendency within the void to give rise to something. It is the first cause, not as an actor, but as the fundamental, inevitable inclination of absolute nothingness towards somethingness.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 17.0 Ronnaversal Civilizations

A Ronnaversal civilization transcends scale itself. The concept of "levels" or "containment" becomes meaningless, as it exists in a state of absolute, infinite recursion. The "Ronnaverse" is the reality that every other verse, including all higher ones listed here, is ultimately a partial, holographic fragment of. It is the ultimate fractal, where every part contains the whole and the whole is contained in every part, across infinite dimensions of meaning and existence.

Kardashev Type 17.0 Ronnaversal Civilizations Example: The Mandela Effect on a cosmic scale: a Type 17.0 civilization is the source of the "glitch" and the consistent memory of the glitch, and the original timeline, and all branching timelines. It is the phenomenon that every reality is a slightly flawed memory of a truer, yet inaccessible, Ronnaversal whole that is itself made of those memories.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026

Kardashev Type 18.0 Quettaversal Civilizations

A Quettaversal civilization exists in a domain ("Quettaverse") defined by the complete unification of all dualities: subject/object, real/unreal, possible/impossible, internal/external. Here, the map is the territory, the observer is the observed, and the thinker is the thought. Its "technology" is the seamless, effortless manifestation of its own self-awareness as infinite, varied experience. It is consciousness having a perfectly lucid dream that includes every other dreamer and everything they could ever dream.

Kardashev Type 18.0 Quettaversal Civilizations Example: In profound mystical experiences, individuals report becoming one with the universe. A Type 18.0 civilization is the permanent, complete, and absolute realization of that state across all points of view simultaneously. It is the final, perfect symmetry where the distinction between God and Creation vanishes utterly.

by Abzugal February 3, 2026