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I belive that this thread could fit on a few different forums but I'll use Star Wars facts to get my answers.

Since The History Channel's: The Universe is finished I was left with a very sad thought on whats going to happen to our Earth millions of generations after all of us on this forum are beyond dust.

Say we humans don't get killed by Covenant forces or each other and we do eventually create a interstellar empire what will happen to our Earth? Will we watch it burn up when the sun implodes like in "The End of the World" in Doctor Who or is it possible to hook up the Earth with a massive hyperdrive like on Zonoma Sekot or the Corellian system planets?

What amount of fuel will this hyperdrive need to move our Earth to system to system to perpetually have our home planet at the center of our Empire?

There's a lot of conditionals here. Namely those concerning the nature and state of our interstellar empire. What you're talking about is literally billions of years in the future. If humanity even exists at that point, chances are extremely remote that it will be anything immediately recognizable as "human" to us. Trying to ascribe similar attributes to our distant descendents is a lot like trying to anthropomorphize hypothetical gods.

Why would they even care about Terra? Is it still heavily populated? Contrary to what most science fiction purports, your most advanced civilizations are likely to be completely independent of planetary holdings. And by the time Sol starts burning out, this has surely been the case for some time.

I suppose if they were dead set on preserving Terra for some reason, there are other options to look at. They could "simply" shield it from the incredible radiation as Sol expands and sustain it while and after it collapses into its minority. Sol will always be there (in the form of a neutron star), so it's not like Terra has no primary to orbit. Where's the impetus to transform it into a giant, impractical starship? And if you can do that, why not just conjure up the vast amounts of hydrogen needed to sustain Sol itself indefinitely? After all, our sun is just as if not more sacred than our homeworld, I'd think. And if you can assrape physics and causality to travel faster than light and mine black holes for your mundane, everyday fuel, what's a couple stars' worth of hydrogen?