Academy
Twelve connected learning tracks covering the technical, biological, institutional, and ethical foundations of generation-ship work.
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Track 01 · 5 lessons
Define generation ships honestly, compare alternatives, and learn why the research can matter even if no crewed starship ever departs.
Core question: What is worth learning now without assuming humanity should go?
Track 02 · 5 lessons
Work through light-years, cruise speed, acceleration, braking, energy, waste heat, dust, and the architecture consequences of long travel.
Core question: How does each extra fraction of light speed reshape the whole system?
Track 03 · 5 lessons
Separate operational Solar System propulsion from low-maturity stellar concepts, then add navigation, communications, and destination braking.
Core question: What complete mission does each propulsion proposal actually enable?
Track 04 · 5 lessons
Design the rotating, shielded, maintainable neighborhoods in which people could live ordinary lives across generations.
Core question: What makes a closed habitat safe, accessible, and worth living in?
Track 05 · 5 lessons
Explore power islands, machine tools, spares, recycling, ISRU, metrology, electronics, and century-scale repair.
Core question: How much of an industrial civilization must travel with the habitat?
Track 06 · 5 lessons
Follow air, water, carbon, nutrients, food, waste, microbes, materials, and energy through a hybrid industrial ecosystem.
Core question: What does closure mean when every percentage has a boundary?
Track 07 · 5 lessons
Study gravity, radiation, medicine, pregnancy, childhood, aging, genetics, public health, and the ethics of continuity.
Core question: What evidence would justify asking future people to live their entire lives aboard?
Track 08 · 5 lessons
Design for privacy, family, disability, childhood, grief, arts, belief, play, education, tacit knowledge, and cultural change.
Core question: How can people remain fully human rather than becoming mission components?
Track 09 · 5 lessons
Work through jurisdiction, legitimacy, rights, commons, markets, emergency power, conflict, constitutional revision, and future generations.
Core question: Who may decide when survival infrastructure and political power are inseparable?
Track 10 · 5 lessons
Understand how AI changes training, maintenance, science, and institutional memory while creating new failure and power risks.
Core question: How can intelligence remain useful, contestable, and recoverable for centuries?
Track 11 · 5 lessons
Secure the cyber-physical ship through segmentation, local trust, secure updates, supply-chain provenance, crypto agility, and humane insider resilience.
Core question: Can the crew keep living while assuming parts of the system are compromised?
Track 12 · 5 lessons
Turn the systems map into Earth analogs, Solar System demonstrations, partner relationships, fundable products, standards, and leadership practice.
Core question: What can a serious person or organization do in the next year?
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