The non-linearity of general relativity makes it at least difficult if not impossible to view a relativistic cloud of matter as being made up of point-source constituents. Perhaps the most delicate issue to circumnavigate is the inherent lack of the classical notion of superposition. Even if one were to believe that the recent framework developed by the first and the third author in [3] leads to an appropriate interpretation of the phrase "initial data for a point-source", there is prima facie no reason to believe that it lends itself to a principle of superposition. In this paper we propose an extension of said framework which serves as a de-facto superposition of point-sources and which recovers Brill-Lindquist metrics in the limit. We also show that our proposal can be seen as a continuous extension of the classical superposition principle of Newtonian gravity. This paper fits within a larger program of representing relativistic clouds of matter as cumulative effects of pointsources.
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