MARIANOperating Architecture Series

Operating Architecture Series

Marian

An Operating Calendar for Human Mars

JB Bullock

A complete illustrated online reading edition. Chapter text and tables retain the source wording; figure placements and captions are author approved.

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Marian book cover showing Mars in red against a black astronomical grid, with the white book title.

Contents

Front Matter

Part 1

  1. Chapter 1: When Sol 431 Is Not Enough
  2. Chapter 2: Almost Earth
  3. Chapter 3: The Accidental Calendar
  4. Chapter 4: What Must Survive

Part 2

  1. Chapter 5: Seventy Calendars for an Empty Planet
  2. Chapter 6: Twelve Months or Twenty-Four?
  3. Chapter 7: The Week Problem
  4. Chapter 8: Where the Irregularity Goes

Part 3

  1. Chapter 9: The Marian Calendar in One Page
  2. Chapter 10: The Year in One View
  3. Chapter 11: Two Jobs, Two Scales
  4. Chapter 12: The Missing Sunsol
  5. Chapter 13: Where the Year Begins
  6. Chapter 14: Odd Years Leap
  7. Chapter 15: A Date That Survives Translation

Part 4

  1. Chapter 16: A Long Year
  2. Chapter 17: The Calendar at Work
  3. Chapter 18: When Dates Become Meaning
  4. Chapter 19: Two Worlds, One Timeline

Part 5

  1. Chapter 20: Does Marian Do What It Says?
  2. Chapter 21: No Calendar Gets Everything
  3. Chapter 22: What Marian Gives Up
  4. Chapter 23: When Other Things Depend on It
  5. Chapter 24: Home Time

Appendices

  1. Appendix A: Marian Calendar Specification
  2. Appendix B: Marian Calendar Tables
  3. Appendix C: Intercalation & Astronomical Alignment
  4. Appendix D: Dates, Identity & Implementation
  5. Appendix E: Earth-Mars Reference
  6. Appendix F: Comparative Calendar Reference
  7. Appendix G: Sources, Notes & Bibliography

Postscript and Back Matter

About this edition

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