>>12065941Yet we are talking about colonizing other plants for more lebensraum. Dyson swarms are to colonizing planets, what quarrying rock to build houses is to living in caves. A single mountain may have a couple of good caves to live in, but consists of enough building material to cover a continent in stone houses.
Living in rotating habitats is not only hugely more mass efficient, but also energy efficient in that you live in vacuum and have cheap sunlight flowing all the time, travel is between habitats is very cheap due to no deep gravity well to escape etc. Not to mention the fact that a Dyson swarm is essentially immune to all the planet killing natural disasters that can happen, like giant meteors, radiation bursts etc.
