Starlight Plan · Public Charter

What Starlight is

Starlight is a public-record project for civilizational advance. It does three things: identifies people and outcomes that have moved civilization forward; places unresolved critical gaps on a compass; and uses reviewable records, sources, and version histories so that contributions can be seen without depending only on fame, wealth, or speaking power.

What Starlight is not

Starlight is neither a hall of fame nor a judgment on a person's total worth. A Starlight score describes only visible, verifiable, realized civilizational contribution. Direct harm or limitation inseparable from an outcome enters that outcome's M; other moral qualities, material externalities, and admission judgments are disclosed separately, rather than being washed flat by one arithmetic adjustment.

Three public object types

• Starlight people: the current point-score ranking includes people with migrated outcome ledgers. Each complete outcome is assigned M, then allocated under the global budget a; accumulated outcome light yields a research point score. Only point scores are shown; they are not mapped to T tiers. Unmigrated people retain identity, contribution, and ordinary introductions, without legacy scores.
• Dark Stars: specific civilizational gaps that remain unsolved; they show an initial potential assessment, not a realized contribution.
• Nebulae: larger civilizational goals organized from related Dark Stars; they are not ranked alongside people.

The three object types may be connected by evidence-backed illumination events, but they do not convert into one another or inherit identity, score, or tier. Research points may be published for scrutiny before certification, but their sources, provisional status, review, and certification state must be explicit; publishable does not mean certified, and missing information cannot be presented as having passed.