Depth is priority: the relays carrying tonight's power float forward, sharp and bright, while the idle web sinks by exactly how little it matters.
An artistic imagining, rendered procedurally, of a web of microwave power relays filling cislunar space as an information landscape in the spirit of Muriel Cooper: every relay floats at a depth set by its importance, so the six relays carrying tonight's Earth-to-Moon power route surface sharp and bright while the idle web sinks into cyan fog. Microwave power beaming has been demonstrated in orbit — Caltech's SSPD-1 MAPLE experiment transferred power wirelessly in space in 2023 — but no such relay web exists.Image: poweringspace.com. Artistic imagining.
