# The Off-World Civilization

A space civilization grows through a succession of increasingly independent habitats rather than one heroic leap.

- Type: curated historical and symbolic lineage
- Inquiry Domain: civilization-ecology

## Path

1. **Earth** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-worlds-earth--sfoc-worlds-moon`
2. **Moon** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-worlds-moon--sfoc-worlds-lunar-base`
3. **Lunar Base** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-worlds-lunar-base--sfoc-worlds-mars`
4. **Mars** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-worlds-mars--sfoc-worlds-mars-colony`
5. **Mars Colony** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-worlds-mars-colony--sfoc-worlds-asteroid-belt`
6. **Asteroid Belt** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-worlds-asteroid-belt--sfoc-worlds-ceres`
7. **Ceres** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-worlds-ceres--sfoc-worlds-off-world-base`
8. **Off-World Base** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-worlds-off-world-base--sfoc-worlds-orbital-habitat`
9. **Orbital Habitat** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-worlds-orbital-habitat--sfoc-worlds-dyson-habitat`
10. **Dyson Habitat**

## Reading

- Forward: Read as an unfolding sequence in which each threshold creates the problem addressed by the next.
- Reverse: Read as an integration path that traces a present condition back toward its enabling assumptions.
- Diagnostic: Stop where the sequence first feels implausible; that seam names the contested transition.
