A thousand light years from home aboard the Vermillion, a large ringed space station, I stood watching out the wall-sized window of my 50x50 foot living quarters. Beyond the Tube, the central axle connecting the rings together like the axle of an ancient horse-drawn cart, spun another ring like the one I inhabited, eclipsing the white dwarf beyond. My phone in my pocket vibrated and chimed, and I quickly took it out to ch...