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Always eccentric, keeping to his lab most days with his research, he had toiled away the years on topics of spatial plasmas and cosmological whatsits. I was mildly surprised when he came out of his lab one day with a folder and proceeded to approach me while I was having my lunch in the cafeteria. “Uhh, Dr. Cantor, I understand you are the director for the Starlight array?” “Why yes, Dr. Kampherm. How are you today?” I answered. Starlight was a solar-ion fueled, fusion-powered coherent laser array that was station-keeping just above the plane of the Solar System. It was