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Originally Posted by Skarg

Then there's the mass of such a thing, and how you plan on building it and keeping it in place, and/or collecting the material for it in the first place. All of those things tend to be utterly impractical even for planet-scale constructions. Also solar systems are really really really enormous - the idea of encasing one in something physical ... runs into the same problems I already have believing in planet-scale constructions, only multiplied by a number so large it's hard to comprehend, and then cubing that to account for volume... Nope to the nope power, cubed.

Just to be clear, the solar system would not be encased in any kind of physical construct... it is in a pocket dimension, sub-space bubble or similar theoretical (or fantastical) region of space that exists outside of normal space. As such, it would be immune to any stellar phenomenon or rogue asteroids/planetoids that exist outside its boundaries.