Neo-VECTR Solar Sim (NASA Standard)

A low-weight 2D-engine (visually 3D) astronomy simulator that renders only proven celestial objects through a deterministic universe graph. Portable offline client with catalog-driven truth packs, orbit visualization, and scalable galaxy-to-planet navigation.

🔐 Built on ARC-Core — the authority / event / receipt kernel. Every celestial object, orbit derivation, and scale-tier transition is an ARC-Core-shaped event with provenance-checked receipts. The "NASA Standard" qualifier is enforced by ARC-Core's authority-over-provenance contract.

🔭 What it is

Neo-VECTR is a deterministic astronomy simulator built around truth packs — catalog-driven manifests of celestial objects whose provenance (observation catalog, identifier, instrument, epoch) is cryptographically verifiable. The simulator will not render an unverified object. If a truth pack says "this planet exists with these orbital parameters from this NASA-standard source," that claim is receipt-backed.

🌌 Design principles

• NASA-standard ingestion — only celestial objects traceable to a canonical catalog are accepted
• Truth packs — self-contained, SHA-256-verifiable bundles of astronomical data
• Deterministic rendering — two users with the same truth pack see the same universe bit-for-bit
• Offline-first — full operation without a network once truth packs are local
• Low-weight — 2D math core projected to 3D visually; runs on modest hardware
• Scalable navigation — galaxy → system → planet tier transitions without reloading

🏗️ Built on ARC-Core

Neo-VECTR uses the ARC-Core authority kernel for:

Neo-VECTR layer	ARC-Core pattern
Truth-pack receipt chain	Every celestial object has a provenance receipt citing its NASA-standard source
Event-sourced navigation	Camera, zoom, pan, scale-tier transitions are events; any viewport is reconstructable by replay
Authority over "proven"	The NASA-standard qualifier is an authority claim backed by proposal → evidence → receipt flow
Deterministic universe-graph replay	Universe graph is derived from truth packs + event log; fully reproducible
Offline verification	Receipts are SHA-256-addressable; packs verifiable without a server
Object identity	ARC-Core's entity-resolution pattern applied to celestial objects across truth packs

🌐 The ARC Ecosystem

Neo-VECTR is one of several consumer applications built on the ARC governed-AI ecosystem. All share the same author and the same event-and-receipt doctrine:

• ARC-Core — authority / event / receipt kernel (backbone of this project)
• arc-cognition-core — model-growth lab
• ARC-Neuron-LLMBuilder — governed AI build loop
• arc-language-module — governed lexical truth
• omnibinary-runtime — binary mirror / runtime ledger
• Arc-RAR — archive / rollback bundles
• arc-lucifer-cleanroom-runtime — deterministic operator kernel

Companion consumer repos:

• Seeded-Universe-Recreation-Engine — the broader seeded-universe research project
• Proto-Synth_Grid_Engine — the Synth grid runtime
• RiftAscent — action game on the same backbone
• TizWildinEntertainmentHUB — audio plugin ecosystem

💖 Support

Single funding target for every ARC repo and every consumer application:

github.com/sponsors/GareBear99

📜 License

See LICENSE.