Heading for Outer Space. Part 2: Topography

The legendary German military strategist Helmuth von Moltke was known for not seeing the river, the forest, the field and the hills, but the “terrain,” which you need to cross, where you march, hide or which provides or denies the line of sight and fire.

In astropolitics and  astrostrategy, it is (and will be) the same. And that’s what the following story is all about.