Great stuff, aroundthetable
I looked into it a little, and the Type V reference is actually from the Kardashev Scale, which takes a look at the different stages of civilization and the technologic advances you would assume they have. Much of it from a science fiction point of view of course, unless they actually know something we don't!
Type V is by that scale, quite powerful....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale