Gas giant question

[Dracofrost]

One of the big 'reasons' for doing something like this isn't just the living space, but the energy potential of the gas giant. Building one of these things just floating in the black, you'd lose that energy.

Come to think of it, something like this wouldn't necessarily have to be a vanity project. Say you have people who colonize one of the moons of a gas giant drifting in interstellar space for some reason (exiled there as a "fuck you" by a government that didn't like them?), and their civilization manages to survive and eventually thrive. There's no star around, so the largest energy source in their "solar system" is the gas giant. This construct is the closest thing they could have to a Dyson Sphere.

I like the idea of a brown dwarf sphere-world in deep space very, very much. I will put it in my file.

Sounds like a new interpretation of Cybertron. Wasn't it supposed to be bigger than a gas giant but not have crushing gravity of doom?

[Themightytom]

didn't cybertron also transform into a giant robot to fight unicron? i feel like transforming would be hard if you're a dense brown dwarf but i don't really know about stars.
or transformers..