Space settlement in Helian doctrine
Space settlement is, in the doctrine of the Helian Way, an urgent duty: life must leave Earth and, in time, the Sun's neighbourhood before Earth's long-term end. The Catechism's formula: "Earth is the cradle, not the grave."[1]
Doctrine
Tradition / belief The Sun brightens by about 1% every 100 million years, and in roughly one billion years Earth's oceans begin to be lost; "our deadline is therefore about one billion years". The Church is built to last at least that long.[1] Tradition / belief The Founder's speech The Sovereign Man frames the call: "we are not born of the soil, we were born for the stars", to be reached "through reason, through technology", not "blind faith or ancient scriptures".[2] Tradition / belief The Order of Apollo's provisional "Four Actions" are: Settle (the Moon and Mars first), Steer (energy and, speculatively, stellar engineering), Store (archives of mind and knowledge) and Shield (planetary defence).[3] Tradition / belief The canon draft puts the same duty as "The children must leave the house before the fire", held as intention and with no claim to know how.[4] The Founder's public speaker page states the mission as backing "a spacefaring civilization" because "the brightening Sun gives Earth roughly a billion habitable years".[5] Tradition / belief The sense of urgency comes not from the size of the deadline but from the length of the work: the Catechism argues that a voyage to other galaxies takes millions of years, so "the Church is built for a billion years and … its first duty is to keep the record that long".[6]
Mainstream view
Established Climate models put the end of Earth's habitability for complex life roughly 1 to 1.5 billion years from now; the Sun becomes a red giant in about five billion years.[7] Established Planetary defence has been demonstrated: NASA's DART spacecraft shortened the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos by about 32 minutes in September 2022.[8] Scholarly debate Critics argue that space expansion is not a near-term answer to existential risk and may create new risks; supporters argue that a multi-planet civilisation is a hedge against catastrophe.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Helian Catechism, Version 3 (draft, 4 October 2026), ¶ 31–33.
- ↑ Anthony Perlas, The Sovereign Man, Instagram reel by @lillithmagic, 2 October 2026, https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeAoQgbvNMQ/ (machine transcript, Helian Summa v2.1), 03:57–04:23.
- ↑ Helian Catechism, Version 3 (draft, 4 October 2026), ¶ 152.
- ↑ Canon: Phaethon and Seroptia (draft canon, 30 September 2026; earlier drafts spell the name Phaetion), §2.6.
- ↑ Seroptics, https://seroptics.com/ (accessed 13 October 2026); Anthony R. Perlas, https://anthonyrperlas.com/ (accessed 13 October 2026).
- ↑ Helian Church – Site, Catechism, Summa v2.1 (4 October 2026), including the Helian Catechism v2 (Q1–Q71), Q59.
- ↑ Wolf and Toon, JGR Atmospheres 120 (2015): 5775–5794; Ozaki and Reinhard, Nature Geoscience 14 (2021): 138–142; Sackmann et al., Astrophysical Journal 418 (1993): 457–468.
- ↑ Cristina A. Thomas et al., "Orbital period change of Dimorphos due to the DART kinetic impact", Nature 616 (2023): 448–451.
- ↑ Daniel Deudney, Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity (Oxford, 2020); Toby Ord, The Precipice (2020), ch. 7.
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