artificial planet theme

An entire planet designed and constructed by some sentient race.

Examples

A mysterious planetoid turned out to be a wholly artificial artifact of a long gone alien civilization in tos3x14 "That Which Survives".

16 total · 2 choice · 5 major · 9 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
movie: Titan AE (2000) choice A main novelty of the film is Project Titan: an invention that was designed to create an Earth-like planet. The story culminated with Cale and Akima activating the invention, resulting in the nearly instant creation of a new and beautiful Earth.
tos3x14 choice Kalandan artificial planet :: the Kalandans built one
movie: Return of the Jedi (1983) major The Empire was building a new and more powerful Death Star.
movie: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) major The Death Star planet killing superweapon.
movie: Star Wars (1977) major The Death Star planet killing superweapon.
movie: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) major The Starkiller Base was a gigantic spherical structure in outer space used to destroy multiple planets simultaneously.
movie: The Transformers: The Movie (1986) major Unicron was a sentient robotic planet that went around consuming other worlds. The Autobots home planet of Cybertron with its metallic surfaces also appeared to be of artificial construction.
ent3x06 minor The Xindi had built an estimated 50 artificial moon-sized spheres.
ent3x12 minor Tucker and Travis visited a cloaked Xindi sphere in the teaser.
ent3x22 minor T'Pol led a mission to recover something from inside one of the Xindi Spheres.