Open conceptual notebook exploring asteroid mining, self-replicating industrial swarms, in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), mass/energy economies, zero-gravity fabrication, propulsion tradeoffs, rogue management, ethical AI frameworks, and long-term space expansion.
This is a living technical notebook — expect contradictions, incomplete ideas, and rapid evolution. Not a finalized design.
Once in space, the Lazarus Forge will be able to spread its wings.
Near-Earth asteroids → Ceres hub → self-sustaining replication → outer-system expansion
Focus: bootstrapping capability over near-term commercialization.
- Single source of truth — Vision and Discovery define authority.
- Explicit constraints — Safety and ethical rules are embedded in the system, not implied.
- Iterative realism — Systems should be testable, auditable, and incrementally improvable.
- Human-aligned autonomy — Automation extends human capabilities; it does not replace oversight.
The guiding vision is maintained in a single, stable document:
- Vision
vision-philosophy/Vision.md(canonical source for intent, ethics, and long-term design)
This document consolidates:
- Purpose and long-term goals
- Ethical boundaries and constraints
- Design philosophy for autonomous and self-evolving systems
All design and operational decisions defer to this vision.
Status tags:
[IDEA] speculative | [DRAFT] partial reasoning | [WORKING] consistent | [REFERENCE] stable | [EXPERIMENTAL] exploratory
- architecture-high-level/ [DRAFT] — Swarm structures, system roles, ejector concepts
- Propulsion_Economy_isru/ [WORKING] — Delta-v economics, ISRU mass budgets, propulsion loops
- notebooks/ [EXPERIMENTAL] — Growth simulations, delta-v models, thermal extraction
- power-solar-backbone/ [DRAFT] — Solar scaling, energy backbone, superconductor ideas
- rogue-management/ [IDEA] — Failure modes, containment, resilience
- terraforming-core/ [IDEA] — Ceres/Mars sketches, planet-building seeds
- vision-philosophy/ [REFERENCE] — Long-horizon vision, ethical AI, guiding principles
For the full canonical file list, raw links, and quick-reference groupings (including more files than shown here), see:
Discovery.md — the single source for all project mapping and raw URLs
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👉 Raw for direct ingestion
This repo is built for raw-file ingestion and cross-document synthesis.
- Use Discovery.md as the entry point for all links and structure.
- Documents may be speculative or contradictory — truth emerges from synthesis, not any single file.
Issues, pull requests, critiques, and discussions welcome — especially on ISRU realism, swarm dynamics, energy models, or ethical boundaries.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.
Lazarus Forge is the foundational Earth-side / near-term research thread: salvage-first adaptive recovery, functional preservation, and self-improving infrastructure under strict ethical constraints.
Astroid-miner represents its logical long-horizon extension once replication capability reaches orbit/space.
Authoritative map for Lazarus Forge: Discovery.md (Lazarus-Forge-)
Last major README update: January 19, 2026