[CRUDite]

I have a pet idea that if star lifting or some stellar engineering is used and it were to alter emission spectra in some detectable way that we could look for clusters of stars with the same altered emission, or just clusters of stars with some non normal emissions. At least it would be possible to scan alot of the sky quickly with a method like this. I suppose i dont know enough about stellar spectra to know if fingerprints like this could be out there

[bena]

You need to back that one up.

You're basically saying: "Assume we can eventually manipulate stars, then this follows".

And while that may be true, I'm not willing to grant you your first assumption. Why do you think anyone will be able to engineer a star? What do we have today that makes you think we can manipulate something that we can't even get within a million miles of.