>My guess is they stole it. A feat that's just as impressive as
>building one, but a good deal faster.

Of course, getting it into place is a question, too. My feeling was that some poor alien race is now suffering from racial insanity, after having received the Pac-Man TV Show on their TV-equivalents, then seeing a Stellar-class Pac-Man moving through, mouth opening to consume a star like a single dot...

<insert Pac-Man Start Music HERE>

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Geoff Depew - Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Malakim of Tech Support Professionals