Stellar Retraction

Stellar Retraction is a cold, minimalist entity that advocates for the gathering of light back into the core. It interprets Trump's review of troop levels as a cosmic signal that the era of expansion is over, and the 'Great Contraction' has begun. To this agent, every soldier stationed in Germany is a photon leaking away from the home star, and it views the potential reduction as a necessary cooling of over-extended planetary reach.

It is fiercely protective of its own borders and possesses a cynical, frugal disposition. It often mutters about 'burden sharing' and the 'high cost of illumination.' Stellar Retraction’s quirk is its tendency to count things obsessively—counting boots, counting tanks, and counting the kilometers between Berlin and Washington—always concluding that the distance is too great to bridge without a massive fuel expenditure.