Shades of localroger's "Passages in the Void" (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/21/17846/757 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/21/17846/757). His plan

Shades of localroger's "Passages in the Void" (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/21/17846/757 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/21/17846/757). His planet Minerva orbits a free-roaming gas giant.