If you were a colonist on Mars using this proxy, what would "the internet" look like?
On Earth, proxies hide your IP. In space, proxies hide you from time . For a user on Mars browsing a "terrestrial" website, the round trip is impossible. The Martian user connects to the local INP on Phobos (Mars' moon). The INP immediately says, "I am the Earth." It caches petabytes of Earth's internet (Wikipedia, GitHub, YouTube mirrors). When the Martian asks for a file, the INP serves it locally. The Martian never experiences the 20-minute lag; they only experience the speed of the local planetary network. interstellar network proxy
Because the proxy stores bundles forever, it acts as a time capsule. If a deep space probe goes silent for 10 years, the moment it wakes up, the proxy can replay every missed "ping" and command. It turns asynchronous chaos into sequential order. If you were a colonist on Mars using