Here is an infographic posted on Space.com on the background of the concept of the Dyson Sphere, a way in which VERY advanced civilizations would harness the energy of a whole star.
The organization of a society to achieve such a feat would be hard to imagine, as the more complex the project, seemingly the more chances for things to go horribly wrong. The time-scale for building such a large object might outlast the civilization which started it. So, ostensibly some artificial intelligence would be put in charge to run the program. But it, too, might be swayed by some sort of evolutionary pressure to adapt and do something else before the sphere is complete. Or various versions of AI would be competing to work on the project and create roving armies of builder-bots which would take materials already built into Dyson sphere and continuously improve them. The building over time might work like the growth of a biological organism with the building robots operating like cells within the body. Some AI agents might decide to go rogue (those pesky gamma rays play havoc with electronics!), so an immune function would also be evolved as part of this Dyson "artificial super-organism." So one can immagine large armies of immunocyte bots waging giant wars against disease bots on the surface and within the structure of the sphere. Thus, like an organism, if the disease gets out-of-hand, it could spell eventual death to the sphere.
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