Methodology

This is a research and design program, not a declaration that post-scarcity, autonomous habitats, or space settlement are solved. Here is how we keep the public story honest.

Six honesty principles

Label every claim

Each public claim is marked PROVEN, PROJECTED, or HORIZON. Nothing speculative is dressed as solved.

Preserve context

Figures keep their date, configuration, and source. Where sources disagree — like the ISS 90% vs 98% water baselines — we preserve both contexts instead of averaging them away.

Cite or withdraw

A consequential claim is sourced or it is removed. The sources page lists every reference.

Publish disagreement

Dissent is recorded, not hidden. Negative results and incidents are published alongside successes.

Independent review

Legal, engineering, medical, ecological, labor, disability, and queer/trans reviewers gate each phase.

Reversible commitments

Every phase is small, funded to decommission, and reversible before the next begins.

The legal spine

The law the program answers to — a habitat cannot declare itself beyond it.
Instrument	What it binds	Ref
Outer Space Treaty, Article II	Bars national appropriation of space. A habitat cannot simply declare itself sovereign.	source
Outer Space Treaty, Article VI	States remain responsible for non-governmental activity in space. Terrestrial law follows us up.	source
Rights of nature (Ecuador, 2008)	Ecosystems — including a closed life-support loop — can hold legal standing.	source
Universal Declaration of Human Rights	The floor the charter builds on, not below.	source

Sources

Every consequential claim is cited or withdrawn.