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-# SOLARGOD ▸ Solar System View
+# SOLARGOD ▸ Orrery
 
-A browser-based **compressed-scale 3D solar system explorer** — real ephemerides,
-scrubbable time across centuries, jump-to-orbit navigation, and live layers for
-deep-space probes, asteroids, and comets. Sibling of
-[GODSIGH](../GODSIGH/README.md), which watches Earth; SOLARGOD watches everything
-else. Everything runs client-side from free, public, keyless data.
+A standalone, browser-based 3D solar-system explorer — the interplanetary sibling
+of [GODSIGH](../GODSIGH), which watches Earth. Float above a compressed-scale
+("MEGA") solar system with every world visible at once, moving on **real JPL
+ephemerides**; scrub a time bar across centuries; fly the camera into orbit around
+any planet, its moons circling; toggle **TRUE scale** and watch the system animate
+out into its real, humbling emptiness. Live layers plot where Voyager 1, JWST and
+Parker Solar Probe are *right now*, plus real asteroids, comets and Earth
+close-approaches. Everything is client-side, free, and keyless.
 
-**Status: pre-build.** The full spec lives in [SOLARGOD_BRIEF.md](SOLARGOD_BRIEF.md).
+![SOLARGOD](docs/hero.jpg)
 
-## Quickstart (once built)
+## Quickstart
 
 ```sh
-python3 serve.py
+python3 serve.py          # stdlib only — no npm, no build step
 # open http://127.0.0.1:8147
 ```
 
-## Planned layers
+`serve.py` statically serves the app and proxies the JPL feeds a browser can't call
+directly (Horizons / SBDB / CAD — no CORS), with a disk cache in `cache/`. Three.js
+loads from a pinned CDN importmap. The deterministic core (Sun, planets, moons,
+orbits, time travel) runs with **zero network calls** — positions are computed
+locally from Keplerian elements; network layers are additive and fail soft.
 
-| Layer | Source | Notes |
-|---|---|---|
-| **Planets** | JPL Keplerian elements (Standish) | computed locally, no network — scrub 1800–2050 |
-| **Moons & rings** | JPL SSD satellite elements | 21 major moons, Saturn/Uranus rings |
-| **Spacecraft** | JPL Horizons | Voyagers, New Horizons, JWST, Parker — where they are *now* |
-| **Asteroids** | JPL SBDB | real main-belt sample + NEO close approaches (CNEOS CAD) |
-| **Comets** | JPL SBDB | Halley & friends, full orbits, 1/r² tails |
+## Verify
 
-MEGA mode compresses distances so the whole system is one readable view;
-TRUE mode animates it back out to its real, humbling emptiness.
+Open **http://127.0.0.1:8147/verify.html** — an in-browser gate runner that checks
+the ephemeris against **JPL Horizons ground truth** (hard-coded checkpoints + live
+queries through the proxy). All 13 gates should read PASS, e.g.:
+
+| Gate | Result |
+|------|--------|
+| Mars / Jupiter / Earth @ 2026-07-15 (heliocentric ecliptic AU) | Δ ≤ 3.3e-4 / 2.9e-3 / 3.9e-5 AU |
+| Kepler solver converges at e=0.97 · orbitPath closes · frame round-trips | exact |
+| MEGA→TRUE preserves direction (unit dot ≈ 1) | 1.000000000000 |
+| Mars @ J2000 · Jupiter @ 1900 vs **live** Horizons | Δ 4.8e-5 / 2.0e-3 AU |
+| Main belt between Mars & Jupiter · Halley aphelion beyond Neptune | pass |
+| Voyager 1 @ 2026-07-15 = (−32.07, −136.21, +98.55) AU · JWST hugs Earth | Δ 0.002 / 0.011 AU |
+
+## Layers
+
+| Layer | Source | Default | Notes |
+|-------|--------|:------:|-------|
+| **Planets & orbits** | JPL SSD approximate elements (Standish) | on | 8 planets + Pluto, textured, MEGA-compressed orbit paths |
+| **Body labels** | — | on | names; the focused body's children also get distance labels |
+| **Moons** | JPL satellite data | on | 21 moons, per-parent local compression, retrograde Triton |
+| **Rings** | true km, scaled to parent | on | Saturn (textured annulus) · Uranus (schematic) |
+| **Spacecraft** | JPL **Horizons** (proxy) | on | Voyager 1/2, New Horizons, JWST, Parker, Juno, Lucy, Psyche — live distance + one-way light-time |
+| **Main belt** | JPL **SBDB** (proxy) | off | ~1500 main-belt asteroids, shared Kepler core |
+| **Comets** | JPL **SBDB** (proxy) | on | 1P/Halley, 2P/Encke, 67P, 96P — full orbits + anti-sunward 1/r² tail |
+| **Close approaches** | JPL **CAD** (proxy) | off | ±30-day NEO radar around Earth, miss distance in lunar distances |
+
+## Controls
+
+- **Focus** — click any body (or use the Focus menu) → the camera flies into orbit
+  around it; breadcrumb `SOL ▸ JUPITER ▸ EUROPA`; `Esc` steps out one level.
+- **MEGA / TRUE** — toggle the scale mode; the transition animates over ~2.5 s.
+- **Body scale** — 1× / 100× / 1200× radius exaggeration.
+- **Time bar** — NOW, play/pause, reverse, rate presets (`1× · 1 min/s … 1 yr/s`),
+  and a scrubbable 1800–2050 timeline. A **LIVE / SCRUBBED** chip mirrors GODSIGH.
+- **Info panel** — appears on focus: a grimoire card with a physical fact sheet,
+  hand-written prose, a stylized portrait, and **live computed** facts (distance
+  from Sun & Earth, sunlight age, orbital speed, day & year length). Focusing Earth
+  reveals a link to the GODSIGH world view.
+- **Shareable URLs** — the view serializes to the hash
+  (`#f=<body>&t=<time>&s=<mega|true>&L=<layers>&cam=…`); paste one to reproduce a view.
+- **`?debug=1`** — frame-rate / scale readout.
+
+## Architecture
+
+No build step, no framework, plain ES modules. One module owns the truth→view
+transform (`scale.js`); every position is computed in real heliocentric J2000
+ecliptic AU first (`ephem.js`) then compressed. A **floating origin** subtracts the
+focused body's position in float64 before writing to the scene graph, so a focused
+planet never jitters at close zoom.
+
+```
+index.html · serve.py · verify.html
+css/style.css
+js/  config lib ephem bodies scale ui main
+js/layers/  planets moons rings spacecraft asteroids comets neos almanac
+assets/textures/ (CC BY)  ·  assets/art/grimoire/ (generated)
+```
+
+The full execution spec is [SOLARGOD_BRIEF.md](SOLARGOD_BRIEF.md).
+
+## Credits
+
+- **Positions** — [JPL SSD](https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/approx_pos.html)
+  approximate elements; live feeds via **JPL Horizons / SBDB / CAD**.
+- **Textures** — [Solar System Scope](https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/),
+  CC BY 4.0 (see `assets/textures/CREDITS.md`).
+- **Grimoire art** — generated locally with MODELBEAST / FLUX (see
+  `assets/art/PROMPTS.md`); the *aesthetic* layer only — real worlds get real data
+  textures.
+- Built on [Three.js](https://threejs.org/).
diff --git a/assets/art/PROMPTS.md b/assets/art/PROMPTS.md
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+# Generated art — reproducibility log
+
+House rule (brief §7b): every shipped generated asset records its prompt, model,
+seed and operator chain so any card can be regenerated in-style. All art here is
+the **aesthetic layer only** — never a substitute for real-world data textures.
+
+## Pipeline
+
+- Operator: `flux_local` (MODELBEAST, mflux/MLX on-device, **free & unlimited**)
+- Model: `flux2-klein-4b`
+- Host: MODELBEAST (`~/Documents/MODELBEAST`), guest `agents` credential
+- Post: JPG re-encode at 640px, q82 (`sips`) to stay lean (brief §7 budget)
+
+## Splash / boot hero (`splash/`, candidates only)
+
+- Seeds: 1–5, 1280×768
+- Prompt: *"a grand antique brass orrery mechanism floating in the black void of
+  deep space, armillary sphere rings and intricate clockwork gears in aged brass
+  and gold, a glowing sun at the center, faint distant stars and nebula dust,
+  cinematic volumetric god-rays, ornate engraved astronomical grimoire aesthetic,
+  moody chiaroscuro, ultra detailed, dark observatory"*
+
+## Grimoire portraits (`grimoire/<body>.jpg`) — info-panel cards
+
+- Seeds run: 1–2 · **chosen seed: 1** for every body · 800×800 → 640px JPG
+- Shared style suffix: *", antique astronomical engraving, ornate brass astrolabe
+  frame, aged parchment, gold leaf accents, occult grimoire illustration,
+  intricate etched linework, chiaroscuro, dark background, centered circular
+  celestial portrait, NOT photorealistic, no text, no words"*
+- Per-body subject prompt:
+
+| Body | Subject prompt (prefix) |
+|------|-------------------------|
+| sun | the radiant Sun as a crowned solar deity with a face of fire, flames and rays |
+| mercury | the swift small planet Mercury, cratered grey orb, a winged caduceus |
+| venus | the planet Venus veiled in golden sulphur clouds, a rose and hand-mirror |
+| earth | the planet Earth, blue and green world with white clouds, encircled by a brass armillary sphere |
+| mars | the red planet Mars, ochre desert sphere, a spear and shield, god of war |
+| jupiter | the giant planet Jupiter, swirling cloud bands and a great red storm, a thunderbolt, king of gods |
+| saturn | the ringed planet Saturn, a scythe and hourglass, aged father of time |
+| uranus | the pale cyan ice giant Uranus tilted on its side, a lyre and aurora |
+| neptune | the deep blue planet Neptune, a trident and ocean waves, god of the sea |
+| pluto | the distant dwarf world Pluto with its moon Charon, a key and a shadowed lantern, lord of the underworld |
+
+Regenerate any card:
+```sh
+source ~/Documents/MODELBEAST/data/agent.env
+~/Documents/MODELBEAST/mb run flux_local -p prompt="<subject><style>" \
+  -p model=flux2-klein-4b -p seed=1 -p width=800 -p height=800 --wait --download art/candidates/grimoire/<body>/
+```
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+# Texture credits
+
+All planet, moon, Sun, ring and starfield maps in this directory are from the
+**Solar System Scope** texture pack and are used under **CC BY 4.0**.
+
+- Source: https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/
+- License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
+  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
+- Attribution: *Solar System Scope* (INOVE / solarsystemscope.com). Textures are
+  based on NASA elevation and imagery data.
+
+Downloaded 2026-07-16 at 2k resolution:
+
+| File | Body |
+|------|------|
+| 2k_sun.jpg | Sun |
+| 2k_mercury.jpg | Mercury |
+| 2k_venus_surface.jpg | Venus (surface) |
+| 2k_earth_daymap.jpg | Earth (day) |
+| 2k_mars.jpg | Mars |
+| 2k_jupiter.jpg | Jupiter |
+| 2k_saturn.jpg | Saturn |
+| 2k_uranus.jpg | Uranus |
+| 2k_neptune.jpg | Neptune |
+| 2k_moon.jpg | Moon |
+| 2k_saturn_ring_alpha.png | Saturn rings (alpha) |
+| 2k_stars_milky_way.jpg | Milky Way skybox panorama |
+
+Attribution also appears in the app's HUD footer, as CC BY requires.
+
+**Truth boundary (brief §7b):** these are the *real data* textures — real worlds
+get real maps. The stylized grimoire portraits in `../art/grimoire/` are the
+*aesthetic* layer (generated art), kept visually and directorially separate.
diff --git a/css/style.css b/css/style.css
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 /* ---- info panel (left, Stage 6) ---- */
 #infopanel {
-  position: absolute; top: 14px; left: 14px; width: 300px; max-height: calc(100vh - 130px);
+  position: absolute; top: 46px; left: 14px; width: 300px; max-height: calc(100vh - 160px);
   padding: 16px; background: var(--panel-solid); border: 1px solid var(--border);
   border-left: 2px solid var(--brass); border-radius: 12px; overflow-y: auto;
   z-index: 9; box-shadow: 0 8px 44px rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
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--- a/js/ephem.js
+++ b/js/ephem.js
@@ -140,6 +140,12 @@ export function helioEcl(bodyId, jd, out = {}) {
 // Mean motion [deg/day] from semi-major axis via Kepler's third law (Gaussian).
 export function meanMotionDegPerDay(a) { return 0.9856076686 / Math.pow(a, 1.5); }
 
+// Resolved semi-major axis [AU] of a planet at jd (for vis-viva speed, year length).
+export function semiMajor(bodyId, jd) {
+  const p = useExtended ? resolvePlanetExt(bodyId, jd) : resolvePlanet(bodyId, jd);
+  return p.a;
+}
+
 // Small-body position (asteroids/comets/Pluto): epoch elements propagated by
 // M = M0 + n·(jd − epoch). el = {a,e,i,om(Ω),w(ω),ma(M0),epoch}.
 export function smallBodyEcl(el, jd, out = {}) {
diff --git a/js/layers/almanac.js b/js/layers/almanac.js
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+// SOLARGOD almanac (Stage 6) — the info panel that knows. On focus it shows a
+// grimoire card: a physical fact sheet + hand-written prose + (if generated) a
+// MODELBEAST portrait, plus LIVE computed facts that come free from the ephemeris
+// — distance from Sun and Earth, sunlight age (light-time), orbital speed, and the
+// length of the body's day and year (brief §5). Focusing Earth reveals the GODSIGH
+// easter egg. Not a toggleable feed — no HUD row.
+
+const GM_SUN = 1.32712440018e11; // km^3/s^2, heliocentric gravitational parameter
+const YEAR_DAYS = 365.256;
+
+const BLURBS = {
+  sun: "The hearth of the system and 99.86% of its mass — a self-gravitating furnace fusing 600 million tonnes of hydrogen every second. Every world here is a fleck of its leftover disk, still falling around it.",
+  mercury: "A cratered iron cinder with almost no air, swinging so close to the Sun that it laps every other world. Its days are longer than its years; three rotations fit in two of its tight orbits.",
+  venus: "Earth's twin gone wrong: a runaway greenhouse under sulphuric cloud, hot enough to melt lead and crushing as the deep sea. It turns backwards, so slowly that a Venusian day outlasts its year.",
+  earth: "The one world we know that woke up. A thin film of water and air over spinning iron, tilted just so for seasons — the pale blue vantage from which all the rest of this was measured.",
+  mars: "A rusted desert half Earth's size, streaked with the dry beds of ancient rivers and crowned by Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano known. Cold, thin-aired, and the most-visited graveyard of robots off-world.",
+  jupiter: "A failed star and the system's great vacuum cleaner, its storms wider than Earth and its gravity shepherding the asteroid belt. Four bright moons circle it in a clockwork Galileo used to unseat the Earth from the centre.",
+  saturn: "The jewel — a globe you could float on water, wrapped in rings of ice no thicker than a mountain is tall. Titan below hides a haze-orange world of methane rain and hydrocarbon seas.",
+  uranus: "An ice giant knocked onto its side, likely by an ancient impact, so it rolls around the Sun pole-first. Its faint rings and pale cyan haze mark the coldest atmosphere of any planet.",
+  neptune: "The last great world, a deep-blue storm-lantern found by mathematics before any eye saw it. Its winds are the fastest in the system, and Triton, its captured moon, orbits backwards toward a slow doom.",
+  pluto: "The heart-marked dwarf at the edge of the known, half rock and half ice, locked in a slow gravitational dance with its outsized moon Charon. Demoted from planet, it remains the king of the Kuiper Belt.",
+  moon: "Earth's single great moon, born of a Mars-sized collision and slowly drifting away. It keeps one face turned to us forever, and its pull raises the tides that may have coaxed life ashore.",
+  io: "The most volcanic body in the system, flexed and heated by Jupiter's tides until it turns itself inside out in sulphur.",
+  europa: "A cracked shell of ice over a global ocean — perhaps twice Earth's water — and one of the best places to look for life beyond home.",
+  ganymede: "The largest moon in the system, bigger than Mercury, and the only one with its own magnetic field.",
+  callisto: "The most heavily cratered world known, a dark ancient face that has barely changed in four billion years.",
+  titan: "The only moon with a thick atmosphere, raining methane onto seas of liquid hydrocarbon under an orange sky.",
+  enceladus: "A tiny snowball that jets plumes of ocean water into space from cracks at its south pole.",
+  triton: "A captured Kuiper Belt world orbiting Neptune backwards, spouting nitrogen geysers across a frozen pink surface.",
+  charon: "Pluto's giant partner — the two are tidally locked face to face, forever hanging still in each other's sky.",
+};
+
+export default function create(ctx) {
+  const { bodies, ephem, lib, focus } = ctx;
+  const panel = document.getElementById('infopanel');
+  let lastFocus = null;
+  let lastWall = 0;
+  const _b = {}, _e = {};
+
+  function helioOf(id, jd, out) {
+    const b = bodies[id];
+    if (id === 'sun') { out.x = out.y = out.z = 0; return out; }
+    if (b.ephemId) return ephem.helioEcl(b.ephemId, jd, out);
+    if (b.elements) return ephem.smallBodyEcl(b.elements, jd, out);
+    if (b.parent) return helioOf(b.parent, jd, out); // moon ≈ parent at AU scale
+    out.x = out.y = out.z = 0; return out;
+  }
+
+  function render(id) {
+    const b = bodies[id];
+    const artPath = `assets/art/grimoire/${id}.jpg`;
+    const earthEgg = id === 'earth'
+      ? `<a class="ip-link" href="http://127.0.0.1:8137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">▸ open GODSIGH world view</a>` : '';
+    panel.innerHTML = `
+      <div class="ip-close" role="button" aria-label="close">×</div>
+      <div class="ip-title"></div>
+      <div class="ip-type"></div>
+      <img class="ip-art" alt="" />
+      <div class="ip-blurb"></div>
+      <div class="ip-facts"></div>
+      ${earthEgg}`;
+    panel.querySelector('.ip-title').textContent = b.name;
+    panel.querySelector('.ip-type').textContent = b.type;
+    panel.querySelector('.ip-blurb').textContent = BLURBS[id] || `A ${b.type}${b.parent ? ' of ' + bodies[b.parent].name : ''} in the solar system.`;
+    const img = panel.querySelector('.ip-art');
+    img.src = artPath;
+    img.onerror = () => { img.style.display = 'none'; };
+    panel.querySelector('.ip-close').addEventListener('click', () => { panel.hidden = true; });
+    panel.hidden = false;
+  }
+
+  function fact(label, value) {
+    return `<div class="ip-fact"><span>${label}</span><span>${value}</span></div>`;
+  }
+
+  function updateLive(id, jd) {
+    const b = bodies[id];
+    helioOf(id, jd, _b);
+    const rSun = Math.hypot(_b.x, _b.y, _b.z);          // AU
+    ephem.helioEcl('earth', jd, _e);
+    const rEarth = id === 'earth' ? 0 : Math.hypot(_b.x - _e.x, _b.y - _e.y, _b.z - _e.z);
+    const rows = [];
+    // physical
+    rows.push(fact('Radius', lib.fmtKm(b.radiusKm)));
+    if (b.axialTiltDeg != null) rows.push(fact('Axial tilt', `${b.axialTiltDeg.toFixed(1)}°`));
+    // live distances
+    if (id !== 'sun') rows.push(fact('From Sun', `${lib.fmtAU(rSun)} · ${lib.fmtLightTime(rSun)} light`));
+    rows.push(fact('From Earth', id === 'earth' ? '—' : `${lib.fmtAU(rEarth)} · ${lib.fmtLightTime(rEarth)} light`));
+    // orbital speed + periods
+    if (b.type === 'moon') {
+      const per = Math.abs(b.moonOrbit.periodDays);
+      const v = (2 * Math.PI * b.moonOrbit.aKm) / (per * 86400);
+      rows.push(fact('Orbits', bodies[b.parent].name));
+      rows.push(fact('Orbital speed', lib.fmtSpeed(v)));
+      rows.push(fact('Orbital period', `${lib.fmtDuration(per)}${b.moonOrbit.periodDays < 0 ? ' (retrograde)' : ''}`));
+    } else if (id !== 'sun') {
+      const a = b.elements ? b.elements.a : ephem.semiMajor(b.ephemId, jd);
+      const rKm = rSun * lib.AU_KM, aKm = a * lib.AU_KM;
+      const v = Math.sqrt(GM_SUN * (2 / rKm - 1 / aKm)); // vis-viva
+      rows.push(fact('Orbital speed', lib.fmtSpeed(v)));
+      rows.push(fact('Year', lib.fmtDuration(YEAR_DAYS * Math.pow(a, 1.5))));
+    }
+    if (b.rotationHours) {
+      rows.push(fact('Day (rotation)', `${lib.fmtDuration(Math.abs(b.rotationHours) / 24)}${b.rotationHours < 0 ? ' (retrograde)' : ''}`));
+    }
+    const facts = panel.querySelector('.ip-facts');
+    if (facts) facts.innerHTML = rows.join('');
+  }
+
+  return {
+    id: 'almanac',
+    onClockTick(simMs, jd) {
+      if (focus.id !== lastFocus) { lastFocus = focus.id; render(focus.id); lastWall = 0; }
+      if (panel.hidden) return;
+      const now = performance.now();
+      if (now - lastWall < 200) return; // ≤5 Hz
+      lastWall = now;
+      updateLive(focus.id, jd);
+    },
+  };
+}
diff --git a/js/layers/planets.js b/js/layers/planets.js
index cdce17d..a30f59f 100644
--- a/js/layers/planets.js
+++ b/js/layers/planets.js
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ export default function create(ctx) {
 
   let showOrbits = true, showLabels = true;
   ui.addLayer('orbits', 'Orbit paths', true, (on) => { showOrbits = on; for (const e of entries) e.line.visible = on; });
-  ui.addLayer('labels', 'Body labels', true, (on) => { showLabels = on; for (const e of entries) e.lbl.div.style.display = on ? '' : 'none'; });
+  ui.addLayer('labels', 'Body labels', true, (on) => { showLabels = on; for (const e of entries) e.lbl.obj.visible = on; });
   ui.setStatus('orbits', `${entries.length} orbits`, 'ok');
   ui.setStatus('labels', 'names shown', 'ok');
 
diff --git a/js/main.js b/js/main.js
index cada6b4..1fb645f 100644
--- a/js/main.js
+++ b/js/main.js
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ephem.setExtendedRange(CONFIG.useExtendedRange);
 scale.init(CONFIG);
 
 // ---- renderer / scene / camera ----
-const renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({ antialias: true, logarithmicDepthBuffer: true });
+const renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({ antialias: true, logarithmicDepthBuffer: true, preserveDrawingBuffer: true });
 renderer.setSize(innerWidth, innerHeight);
 renderer.setPixelRatio(Math.min(devicePixelRatio, 2));
 document.getElementById('scene').appendChild(renderer.domElement);
@@ -340,7 +340,8 @@ const ctx = {
 };
 
 const LAYER_MODULES = ['./layers/planets.js', './layers/moons.js', './layers/rings.js',
-  './layers/spacecraft.js', './layers/asteroids.js', './layers/comets.js', './layers/neos.js'];
+  './layers/spacecraft.js', './layers/asteroids.js', './layers/comets.js', './layers/neos.js',
+  './layers/almanac.js'];
 const activeLayers = [];
 async function loadLayers() {
   const results = await Promise.allSettled(LAYER_MODULES.map((p) => import(p)));