Paddy, this piece is a trip. I don't know that I've read anything quite like it. I tend to get into a metaphoric mindset when I read something that's both conceivable and seemingly impossible -- I know I'm hedging my bets, but there may be a whole level of truth we have to relax to fully grasp, and the Roswell finding and the Air Force Sergeant were a little too far on the other side for where I'm at right now. But the prison planet is the kind of idea that if you get the lens just right, it ll falls into place. Nice piece of imaginative work, spanning millennia and light years.