THE COMPLETE BOOK · FIRST PUBLIC WEB EDITION 1.0 · OCTOBER 2026

Read Solarian.

A complete twenty-five-chapter argument for a shared operating calendar across worlds, followed by seven technical and comparative appendices. This online edition preserves the approved manuscript text and original illustrations.

Begin Chapter 1 ↗New: Appendix G — real astronomical implementation ↗

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PART 01

THE CALENDAR ACCIDENT

01When the Solar System Becomes Geography↗02One Planet Made It Look Easy↗03What Must Be Shared↗

PART 02

INTRODUCING SOLARIAN

04The Solarian Calendar on One Page↗05The Calendar for People↗06The Calendar for Worlds↗07You Only Need One Number↗08The Week Does Not Break↗09One Week for the Solar System↗

PART 03

THE PLANETS SLOW DOWN

10The Red Planet Is Almost Too Easy↗11One Calendar, Many Moons↗12Almost Perfectly In Sync↗13The Generational Year↗14Beyond a Human Lifetime↗

PART 04

THE UNTIDY SOLAR SYSTEM

15A Population, Not a World↗16When We Get to Choose the Orbit↗17Where the Protocol Says No↗

PART 05

WHEN THE YEAR GETS SMALLER

18The Calendar We Already Invented↗19When the Two Calendars Separate↗20The Fastest Year↗

PART 06

WHEN THE CALENDARS HAVE TO TALK

21What Changes When You Move?↗22Several Calendars, One History↗23Dates Become Geography↗24Knowing Where to Stop↗25One Grammar, Many Calendars↗

REFERENCE

Appendices A–G

ASolarian Protocol v1.0↗BMathematical Basis & Calendar Selection↗CIntercalation & Expansion-Joint Tables↗DInterplanetary Geometry & The Month-Gap Heuristic↗EComparative Calendars & Design Context↗FSources, Notes & Bibliography↗GOuter Planets: From Idealised Orbits to Astronomical Reality↗

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

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