Over a single century, the Earth Disk of equatorial orbital stations expanded into a more tenuous Dyson Cloud around the sun.
New stations were being built at an exponential rate, as the asteroids and then the nearby planets were mined for materials.
They orbited the Sun from about 100 million to 200 million kilometers.
Each orbit was filled with its own ring of space stations around the sun. About a billion of them, a kilometer or so between their centers of mass.
The next orbits inward and outward were the same distance apart.
A hundred million orbits in total, each offset by a fraction of a degree.
All together, this spherical cloud of human habitats did an excellent job of blocking the sunlight in all directions.
Most stations were powered by waste heat from many deeper rings around the sun.
Stations in tilted orbits came closest twice a year, crossing at the Polar Points.
Many different orbits could align, forming a long shadow line from the sun. No heat flow for a few days, just an even infrared background glow.
For such a complicated system of artificial worlds to sustain itself, everything had to go right all the time. Human behavior had to be controlled completely.
Fortunately, that could be arranged
With a population as large as the number of stars in the observable universe, psychosocial research had advanced temendously.
Free will could now be predetermined. From now on, history would have an author.
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