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This is a story about how an analysis of the largest involuntary mass migration of marine animals (after Japan’s 2011 Tohoku earthquake) led to a self-propelling, 360-degree rotating marine observatory. Using only physical limitations as its site, the resulting vessel questions the definition of “territory” and aims to inspire universal empathy.