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[General] What would happen to a Dyson Sphere if the star attached began to die?

When I think of a Dyson Sphere I imagine a boundless sort of energy. But I also think that it would be dangerous if the star died.

So what would happen to a Dyson Sphere if a star died? Could a sufficiently powerful empire prevent a stars death and continue the Dyson sphere?
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Stars take a really long time to die (predictable out to millions, billions or trillions of years in advance depending on the type of star), so in most sci-fi settings the Dyson Sphere could probably be evacuated even if they didn't have FTL technology. A good thing about stars running out of fuel (the most common way for a star to die) is that their output increases as fuel runs out and heavier elements start fusing in greater quantities so that would give the Dyson Sphere more power to work with in preparing for the star's death.

A lot of sci-fi settings would have the technology to stabilise the star via technobabble or possibly just collecting more fuel to feed into it (basically just tossing gas giants, brown dwarfs and possibly other smaller stars into it). Even in a really hard sci-fi setting there's several methods to extract the heavier elements in a star (collectively known as stellar lifting) to prevent those elements from eventually poisoning its fusion reaction which can substantially extend the life of any star. A good side effect of that is you're effectively mining the star for massive amounts of potentially very valuable material, likely more than existed in the star system outside of the star initially (e.g. our sun has a mass of just iron in it almost 5000 times greater than the total mass of Earth which is the largest rocky planet in the solar system).

I'll note that any civilisation that can build and use a Dyson Sphere's output is practically by definition powerful enough to substantially alter the star the Dyson Sphere is built around. Any Dyson Sphere should have a good degree of control over its star as far as stars can be controlled.