Dyson Hybrid Interaction [potential spoilers]

[AnOddRadish]

Game info: 7/7, high setting hybrids and advanced hybrids for 1 AI, the other one is high sharks. No superweapons. Random AIs, but I had the misfortune for the shark to be a one way doormaster with said door fairly close to my home command station.

So apparently, a planet in my system (I know which one, and it's adjacent to a planet I own, albeit guarded by half of the galaxy's hybrid population) managed to piss of a dyson sphere. No biggie, my turrets deal with it handily. But on this heavily guarded planet there is a Dyson converter. So I have a few questions:

What happens when the DS is "converted"?
This has been going on for about half an hour, how long do I have to wait before the secret but fun stuff shows up?
If you are not going to spoil this for me (I honestly don't care unless it's REALLY REALLY cool), how big of a deal is this secret stuff?
How much effort should I put towards shutting down the converter? Should this be priority numero uno, or is it more of a tertiary concern?

thanks for the help,
AnOddRadish

[Coppermantis]

If I remember correctly, the converter makes it so the gatlings target you exclusively, even if you've freed the dyson. As for how big a deal it is, it's lost me a game before, but that probably could have been avoided had I paid it more attention.

[orzelek]

From what I recall the longer it goes on the more gatlings will appear.
I don't know the final fun stuff since I didn't survive that long - was a bit unprepared for this and never enabled it again.

[Shrugging Khan]

I lost a game to that one, too. That was a few patches ago, though, when the converters were still nigh-impossible to spot 

[ZaneWolfe]

The following text is delberatly colored to make it hard to read. It is a full spoiler for the Advanced Hybrid Plot as far as the Dyson Sphere is concerned. At least as far as it has been done so far. It may be changed at a later date, but this is what it does as of version 6.something early. It have not tested it in some time, so it may not be the same anymore. That being said you have been warned. IF YOU DO NOT WANT THIS SPOILED DO NOT READ IT. Now then, simply highlight the text below and enjoy.

If you have the Dyson Agitator, or whatever it is called, as I cant remember, then ALL Dyson Gattlings will spawn as your enemy and ignore the AI. This gets slowly and slowly worse and worse, while eventually the Super Hybrid begins to build the Dyson Converter. Now if you already have the Converter being built, then things get worse. It will spawn more and more Gattlings, which are of course enemy to you and ignore the AI. Now once it it built, then after a certain time, the grand finale kicks off. The Dyson Sphere is fully converted, into a weapon, which promptly goes off, and has the exact same power and effect as a Doomsday Device.

[Coppermantis]

 I didn't know that last part O_o

[AnOddRadish]

Yeah, I got too many dysons to deal with before that could come up . It's a tough scenario, and that I seriously worry about what could actually spawn afterwards...

[ZaneWolfe]

I didn't know that last part O_o

Yeah I cheat, and was in a position that was pretty much, "I can win this anytime I want.". So I went, "I wonder what happens when that Dyson/Hybrid plot completes. I bet it's badass!" and let the plot run to its conclusion. And it finished in the middle of an exo. Four of them actually. Spirecraft, Golem, Botent, all hard, and Fallen Spire. There was also a CPA too, but that didn't matter. This was all pre-starship buff. And golems are immune to nukes. As are Hunter/Killers. Good news was that so is the FS Fleet. Bad news was those were currently neutering an AI HW. Even with 2 HWs, Mark I-III of starships is not enough to stop 4 endgame category exos' worth of golems, starships, spirecraft and H/Ks.