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The problem with the Kardashev scale of civilization advancement is that it is dreadfully tedious to ascend each rung of the ladder. To even reach Class 1 you need to blanket every desert in solar panels, split the atom in every ounce of uranium, cover every coastline in turbines, and fuse every gram of deuterium. To reach Class 2, you need to disassemble entire planets just to get enough mass to fill the lower orbits of your home star with a titanic swarm of solar satellites. If only there was a shortcut. A substance that you could just dig out of the ground. Wouldn't that be grand? Imagine if the oil of the North Sea burned as energetically as deuterium-helium-3 fusion, could advance computing in ways that put the invention of the semiconductor to shame, and made you telepathic if you injected it into your brain. Are you imagining it? Now you have an inkling of what Coral is. Frank Herbert, eat your heart out.

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