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My verdict:
* Physics: Yes, absolutely compatible with orbital mechanics and the Oberth effect.
* Engineering: Brutally hard but not absurd compared to other megaprojects (way saner than a Dyson sphere).
* Strategic value: High for: - reducing starship departure mass - seeding outer system with resources - training civilization for interstellar ops.

The only thing I push back on is expectation:
* You will not get a continuous, dense chain of depots all the way to Alpha Centauri.
* You will get a handful of massive waypoints on similar outbound tracks.
* They’re best seen as bonus oases your ship may choose to intercept, not guaranteed stepping stones.

If you want, next step I’d suggest is:
* We outline a 3-phase roadmap for this idea: 1. Inner & outer Solar System implementation (no interstellar yet) 2. First outbound “alpha-corridor” dead-drops 3. First starship that actually plans to use one or two of those blocks as refuel points.

That gives you something you could literally turn into a whitepaper section or a hard-SF setting bible.