Systems map · GShips

Editorial boundary: This public alpha is generated from version-controlled source without third-party application or build packages. It is not the reviewed 1.0 corpus: 60 Academy lessons are substantive editorial drafts, 0 remain foundation outlines, and independent domain review remains open.

Foundation dependency and decision-gate index
Capability	Direct dependencies	Decision gate
Mission architecture & requirements	Propulsion, Life support, Industry, Governance	Do not approve an irreversible mission architecture until alternatives, arrival, braking, rights, rescue limits, and whole-lifecycle maintenance have independent evidence.
Propulsion & trajectory	Power & heat, Habitat, Connection	No propulsion claim advances beyond concept status without a complete mass, energy, acceleration, braking, thermal, shielding, and failure analysis.
Power generation & thermal rejection	Industry, Habitat, Cyber resilience	Demonstrate isolated power trains, black start, representative heat rejection, local repair, and stable operation through injected failures.
Structures, habitats & shielding	Power & heat, Health, Human life	Require full-scale human-in-the-loop mockups, diverse-body accessibility review, fire/refuge tests, and long-duration rotating-environment evidence.
Air, water & waste life support	Ecology & food, Industry, Power & heat	Demonstrate bounded material accounting with a declared system boundary, interval, inventories, flows, losses, maintenance media, and measurement uncertainty, plus independent emergency reserves, manual control, and recovery from contamination.
Food, agriculture & closed ecology	Life support, Power & heat, Health	Operate an integrated hybrid ecology through multi-season failures while measuring every essential element and publishing negative results.
Medicine, public health & human performance	Habitat, Ecology & food, AI & autonomy, Governance	Do not rely on reproduction until independent evidence supports the intended environment and the architecture remains viable under voluntary reproductive choices, accessible clinical care, privacy, appeal, disability support, and no coercive quotas.
Reproduction, genetics & population	Health, Governance, Human life	Reject any architecture that requires forced reproduction, forced abortion, nonconsensual genetic intervention, disability exclusion, or hereditary legal status; require equal access to contraception, abortion care, assisted reproduction, parenting, genetic counseling, disability support, and accessible information.
Psychology, culture, education & meaning	Habitat, Governance, AI & autonomy	Demonstrate that residents can retain privacy, education, cultural choice, political agency, and meaningful non-mission lives under scarcity.
Governance, law, economics & rights	Human continuity, Human life, Cyber resilience	Require an independently reviewed rights floor, civic constitution separate from corporate control, due process, amendment, youth voice, and limits on emergency authority.
AI, LLMs, autonomy & digital twins	Cyber resilience, Industry, Coordination	Require independently assessed safety properties, separate physical protection layers, explicit authority gates, tested workload and timing bounds, audited provenance, bounded abstention, manual operation, recovery drills, and independent appeal.
Cybersecurity, software assurance & recovery	AI & autonomy, Connection, Industry	Mixed crews must repeatedly isolate a compromised zone, maintain life support, investigate locally, rebuild from known-good material, and rejoin safely.
Communications, navigation & knowledge	Power & heat, AI & autonomy, Coordination	Demonstrate navigation and archive recovery without current experts, cloud services, vendor activation, or a single surviving medium.
Manufacturing, repair, recycling & ISRU	Power & heat, AI & autonomy, Assembly	Operate an integrated factory cell through tool wear, sensor drift, contaminated feedstock, missing specialists, and injected cyber faults.
Radiation, dust & the space environment	Habitat, Health, Propulsion	Validate representative spectra, impact regimes, secondary particles, inspection, repair, and lifetime biological risk before relying on a shield architecture.
Launch, assembly, logistics & supply chains	Industry, Architecture, Coordination	Require nonexclusive interfaces, multiple suppliers, transparent logistics assumptions, staged assembly demonstrations, and a complete commissioning plan.
Destinations, astronomy & planetary protection	Connection, Architecture, Governance	No crew launch without high-confidence robotic characterization and a presumption against settlement where credible indigenous life is detected.
Analogs, testbeds, simulation & verification	Architecture, Coordination, Cyber resilience	Every claimed capability must identify its environment, duration, scale, intervention, failure history, evidence boundary, and next harder test.
Ethics, alternatives & decision gates	Architecture, Governance, Destinations	At every major stage, rerun launch, wait, habitat, probe, and do-not-go alternatives; treat pause or abandonment as valid outcomes.
Institutions, capital, standards & workforce	Architecture, Proof ladder, Governance	Fund only work with a real near-term beneficiary, a measurable capability gap, reversible tests, transparent conflicts, and an independent review path.

Systems lab

Six inspectable teaching tools connect arithmetic, system relationships, leadership pathways, and explicit uncertainty. Every tool retains its documented example, result, and table without JavaScript.

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Distance, speed, energy, and braking

Compare idealized constant-speed coasting times and relativistic payload-energy changes.

Interface guardrail: These input limits prevent unusable browser values; they are not a feasible or safe mission envelope. The model assumes ideal coasting in flat spacetime and reports payload kinetic-energy change. It excludes acceleration duration, propulsion and braking efficiency, propellant, power, heat rejection, shielding, navigation, reliability, communications, ecology, and human viability.

At 0.1 c, the ideal selected-frame coasting time is 42.465 years.

Idealized mission calculation; the table remains available without JavaScript
Measure	Illustrative value
Earth-frame coasting time	42.465 years
Traveler-frame coasting time	42.2521 years
Lorentz factor	1.005
Acceleration energy change	4.5278e+20 J
Braking energy change	4.5278e+20 J
Acceleration plus braking	9.0555e+20 J

Artificial-gravity rotation

Relate a rigid habitat radius and target floor acceleration to rotation rate.

Interface guardrail: The radius and acceleration limits are teaching-interface limits, not evidence of human safety or engineering feasibility. This rigid-body relation does not establish vestibular tolerance, acceptable Coriolis effects, structural margins, dynamic balance, pressure integrity, radiation protection, habitability, or long-duration health. The one-metre gravity drop is only a comparison measure.

A 100-metre radius at 1 g₀ requires about 2.99 revolutions per minute.

Rigid-body artificial-gravity calculation; the table remains available without JavaScript
Measure	Illustrative value
Rotation rate	2.99 rpm
Rotation period	20.06 seconds/revolution
Floor rim speed	31.32 m/s
Acceleration drop one metre inward	1% of floor value

Closed-loop material explorer

Vary three independent, normalized recovery inputs and expose each illustrative gap.

Interface guardrail: Each 0–100% value is an independent declared normalization boundary, not a whole-habitat closure estimate. The arithmetic gaps are percentage points. This explorer does not mass-balance coupled water, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, food, waste, trace contaminants, stored inventory, time dynamics, microbiomes, maintenance, or crew health.

The illustrative unmet water, food, and oxygen fractions are 10, 50, and 5 percentage points.

Independent normalized material-stream inputs; the table remains available without JavaScript
Stream	Entered recovery	Illustrative gap (percentage points)
Water	90%	10
Food	50%	50
Oxygen	95%	5

Census-index sensitivity comparison

Compare compound arithmetic paths without converting the result into a demographic prescription.

Ethical and interface guardrail: These are arithmetic interface inputs, not viable-population bounds. The imposed rate is not fertility, consent, viability, policy, or biological fitness. The comparison cannot justify reproductive targets, assigned pairing, genetic selection, coercion, discrimination, or restrictions on bodily autonomy. If voluntary human choices make a mission infeasible, the mission is infeasible.

After 10 modeled steps, the illustrative decline, no-change, and growth census-index values are 904, 1,000, and 1,105.

Compound census-index sensitivity comparison; the table remains available without JavaScript
Arithmetic scenario	Imposed sensitivity rate	Census-index value after 10 steps
Decline	−1% per modeled step	904
No change	0%	1,000
Growth	+1% per modeled step	1,105

Leadership and event matcher

Choose a pathway to inspect task-linked events and one evidence-bearing starting action.

Editorial guardrail: A match is a starting point, not an endorsement, affiliation, invitation, credential, or finding of leadership fitness. Verify dates, deadlines, eligibility, access, accessibility, cost, travel, safety, and program details with the official organizer before acting.

Systems assurance. 5 current editorial event matches are shown.

Starter action: Trace one public claim to its source, locator, assumptions, and change condition.

First artifact: An independently checked evidence-and-requirements graph.

All pathway and event relationships; JavaScript narrows this table without removing the complete no-JavaScript fallback
Pathway	Event	Tier	Recorded dates	Status	Intended artifact	Last verified
Systems assurance	2nd European Interstellar Symposium	A0	2026-12-02–2026-12-04	monitor	A frozen, originality-checked, evidence-reviewed abstract packet on shared evidence, interfaces, failure, alternatives, and public-benefit institutions; preparation is prioritized, but submission is not authorized.	2026-07-26
Systems assurance	INCOSE EMEASEC 2026	A2	2026-08-29–2026-09-02	monitor; current access details require verification	A bounded assurance-method critique or learning agenda; current program and registration access must be verified before effort.	2026-07-26
Systems assurance	ASCEND 2027	A2	2027-05-18–2027-05-20	active call; civil-and-defensive review required	A measured, reviewed technical contribution derived from an actual pilot; no broad generation-ship vision paper and no national-security expansion.	2026-07-26
Systems assurance	NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026	B	2026-11-14–2026-11-15	monitor	A small public prototype using open data with a declared beneficiary, reproducible source, accessible documentation, and no NASA-affiliation claim.	2026-07-26
Systems assurance	INCOSE International Symposium 2027	monitor	2027-07-17–2027-07-22	monitor	A measured assurance-method paper or review packet, not a generation-ship overview.	2026-07-25
Living systems	ASGSR Annual Meeting 2026	monitor	2026-12-02–2026-12-05	monitor	A material-boundary and failure-recovery comparison prepared only after domain review.	2026-07-26
Industrial autonomy	COSMIC-CONFERS CONFERgence 2026	monitor	2026-12-01–2026-12-03	monitor	A repair, commissioning, inspection, and evidence-interface scenario.	2026-07-25
Industrial autonomy	NETS 2027	monitor	2027-05-02–2027-05-05	monitor	A complete public mass-energy-heat-safety balance with nuclear and dual-use boundaries.	2026-07-25
Cyber and knowledge resilience	NIST Software and Supply Chain Assurance Forum	monitor	2026-09-22–2026-09-23	monitor	A public defensive recovery requirements crosswalk; no implication of NIST approval.	2026-07-26
Human health and access	SpaceCHI 2026	monitor	2026-09-24–2026-09-25	monitor	An accessible life-critical workflow and barrier log reviewed by affected users.	2026-07-26
Human health and access	ASGSR Annual Meeting 2026	monitor	2026-12-02–2026-12-05	monitor	A high-consequence evidence-boundary review, not a clinical claim.	2026-07-26
Mission science	EANA 2026	monitor	2026-09-01–2026-09-04	monitor	A probe-first destination evidence framework; no submission is authorized.	2026-07-26
Mission science	ASGSR Annual Meeting 2026	monitor	2026-12-02–2026-12-05	monitor	A high-consequence evidence-boundary review, not a clinical claim.	2026-07-26
Mission science	NETS 2027	monitor	2027-05-02–2027-05-05	monitor	A complete public mass-energy-heat-safety balance with nuclear and dual-use boundaries.	2026-07-25
Governance and rights	Summit for Space Sustainability	monitor	2026-11-04–2026-11-05	monitor	An expiring decision gate with rights, environmental, minority-finding, and appeal requirements.	2026-07-25
Public-benefit institution building	2nd European Interstellar Symposium	A0	2026-12-02–2026-12-04	monitor	A frozen, originality-checked, evidence-reviewed abstract packet on shared evidence, interfaces, failure, alternatives, and public-benefit institutions; preparation is prioritized, but submission is not authorized.	2026-07-26
Public-benefit institution building	INCOSE EMEASEC 2026	A2	2026-08-29–2026-09-02	monitor; current access details require verification	A bounded assurance-method critique or learning agenda; current program and registration access must be verified before effort.	2026-07-26
Public-benefit institution building	ASCEND 2027	A2	2027-05-18–2027-05-20	active call; civil-and-defensive review required	A measured, reviewed technical contribution derived from an actual pilot; no broad generation-ship vision paper and no national-security expansion.	2026-07-26
Public-benefit institution building	NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026	B	2026-11-14–2026-11-15	monitor	A small public prototype using open data with a declared beneficiary, reproducible source, accessible documentation, and no NASA-affiliation claim.	2026-07-26
Public-benefit institution building	INCOSE International Symposium 2027	monitor	2027-07-17–2027-07-22	monitor	A measured assurance-method paper or review packet, not a generation-ship overview.	2026-07-25

Systems dependency selector

Inspect curated direct dependencies, dependents, failure modes, precursors, and the current decision gate.

Capability selection System to inspect

Choose one foundation capability record.

Evidence guardrail: A recorded arrow means the selected foundation synthesis asserts a direct dependency. It does not prove completeness, causality, readiness, safety, or priority; an absent arrow does not establish independence. The relationship table is not a validated engineering model, and indexed context sources are not automatically claim citations.

Mission architecture & requirements has 4 recorded direct dependencies and 5 recorded direct dependents.

Depends on

PropulsionLife supportIndustryGovernance

Selected system

Architecture

Direct dependents

AssemblyDestinationsProof ladderAlternativesCoordination

Recorded direct relationships for Mission architecture & requirements
Relationship	Capability	Evidence boundary	Detail
This system depends on	Propulsion & trajectory	Foundation synthesis; linked claims editorially assessed; independent system review pending	Open system
This system depends on	Air, water & waste life support	Foundation synthesis; linked claims editorially assessed; independent system review pending	Open system
This system depends on	Manufacturing, repair, recycling & ISRU	Foundation synthesis; linked claims editorially assessed; independent system review pending	Open system
This system depends on	Governance, law, economics & rights	Foundation synthesis; linked claims editorially assessed; independent system review pending	Open system
Selected system	Mission architecture & requirements	Foundation synthesis; linked claims editorially assessed; independent system review pending	Open system
Depends on this system	Launch, assembly, logistics & supply chains	Foundation synthesis; linked claims editorially assessed; independent system review pending	Open system
Depends on this system	Destinations, astronomy & planetary protection	Foundation synthesis; linked claims editorially assessed; independent system review pending	Open system
Depends on this system	Analogs, testbeds, simulation & verification	Foundation synthesis; linked claims editorially assessed; independent system review pending	Open system
Depends on this system	Ethics, alternatives & decision gates	Foundation synthesis; linked claims editorially assessed; independent system review pending	Open system
Depends on this system	Institutions, capital, standards & workforce	Foundation synthesis; linked claims editorially assessed; independent system review pending	Open system

Recorded failure modes

Requirements growth hides mass, energy, braking, logistics, and contingency costs until the design is no longer coherent.
A favored reference mission crowds out safer probes, Solar System habitats, waiting, or a valid do-not-launch decision.

Useful precursors

Auditable requirements and digital-twin exercises for remote habitats, disaster logistics, and long-duration Solar System missions.
Robotic interstellar precursor studies that close acceleration, cruise, communications, arrival, and braking budgets.

Decision gate

Do not approve an irreversible mission architecture until alternatives, arrival, braking, rights, rescue limits, and whole-lifecycle maintenance have independent evidence.

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not undertaken"},{"taskId":"commons-standards-workforce","eventId":"event-2nd-european-interstellar-symposium","tier":"A0","fitRationale":"Time-critical founder-release fit: the official call is open, its July 31, 2026 abstract deadline is five days after this review, and the proposed Earth-first technology-commons paper directly serves the declared launch goal.","intendedArtifact":"A frozen, originality-checked, evidence-reviewed abstract packet on shared evidence, interfaces, failure, alternatives, and public-benefit institutions; preparation is prioritized, but submission is not authorized.","actionStatus":"proposed; not undertaken"},{"taskId":"commons-standards-workforce","eventId":"event-nasa-space-apps-challenge-2026","tier":"B","fitRationale":"The open-data, local-and-virtual hackathon format can support public participation, team formation, and a bounded Earth-first prototype without requiring a generation-ship claim.","intendedArtifact":"A small public prototype using open data with a declared beneficiary, reproducible source, accessible documentation, and no NASA-affiliation claim.","actionStatus":"proposed; not undertaken"},{"taskId":"commons-standards-workforce","eventId":"event-ascend-2027","tier":"A2","fitRationale":"The current technical-paper and session call is relevant to whole-system infrastructure, institutional coordination, and Earth-first precursor work, subject to a strict civil-and-defensive screen.","intendedArtifact":"A measured, reviewed technical contribution derived from an actual pilot; no broad generation-ship vision paper and no national-security expansion.","actionStatus":"proposed; not undertaken"},{"taskId":"habitat-assurance-pilot","eventId":"event-incose-emeasec-2026","tier":"A2","fitRationale":"The systems-engineering conference is directly relevant to evidence graphs, lifecycle verification, digital engineering, competency, and systems-of-systems practice.","intendedArtifact":"A bounded assurance-method critique or learning agenda; current program and registration access must be verified before effort.","actionStatus":"proposed; not undertaken"}]

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stations, the Moon, and uncrewed orbital platforms.","Human-rated rotating-habitat demonstrations that validate balance, access, repair, and safe spin transitions."],"gate":"Require full-scale human-in-the-loop mockups, diverse-body accessibility review, fire/refuge tests, and long-duration rotating-environment evidence."},{"slug":"life-support","name":"Air, water & waste life support","shortName":"Life support","dependencies":["ecology-food","manufacturing-isru","power-thermal"],"failureModes":["Trace contaminants, microbial fouling, salt accumulation, or sensor drift silently poisons a nominally closed loop.","Closely coupled air, water, waste, and thermal loops share a common failure and cannot be isolated or restarted."],"precursors":["ISS environmental-control operations and increasingly closed terrestrial water, nutrient, and waste systems.","Multi-year sealed-habitat trials with full mass balances, fault injection, local repair, and public negative results."],"gate":"Demonstrate 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or inherit poisoned data while appearing authoritative to a crew that cannot call outside experts.","A common model, sensor, power source, or update process defeats supposedly independent autonomous systems."],"precursors":["Offline, provenance-preserving assistants for maintenance, science, and remote infrastructure with auditable citations.","Formal verification, adversarial evaluation, graceful degradation, and human-recovery drills on bounded safety functions."],"gate":"Require independently assessed safety properties, separate physical protection layers, explicit authority gates, tested workload and timing bounds, audited provenance, bounded abstention, manual operation, recovery drills, and independent appeal."},{"slug":"cybersecurity","name":"Cybersecurity, software assurance & recovery","shortName":"Cyber resilience","dependencies":["ai-autonomy","communications-navigation","manufacturing-isru"],"failureModes":["A compromised build, spare, model, credential, or maintenance 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