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Solfarer

Zach Burnham

Watchface
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Description

Wander the real stars. Every morning your ship starts at Sol, and every hour it hops to a nearby star - real ones, from the Hipparcos catalog: Proxima Centauri, Barnard's Star, Wolf 359, Tureis, Guniibuu, and 2,200 more systems of the 100-light-year Local Bubble, drawn in their true spectral colors.

The map is a traveling 40-light-year viewport that rides the wander. The gold route sweeps to a different neighbor every minute; flick your wrist to browse the rest. When the hour strikes, the flight plays out as a twin-paradox cutscene - honest relativity at 1g: the universe ages 19 years while you age 6 on a 74-light-year run. A gold signpost always points home to Sol. By nightfall you're deep in the Bubble; at your chosen morning hour, you wake at Sol with a new day's journey ahead.

It's a full watchface too: steps, distance, and heart rate beside the clock, a minute-by-minute activity sparkline of your past hour, weekday, date, and current temperature. A shake shows last night's sleep. Everything optional; the pure star chart is one toggle away.

* 2,235 real star systems, names, spectral classes, and constellations included
* Deterministic daily wander - miss an hour and it catches up instantly
* Health data on the face; sleep on a wrist-flick; Open-Meteo weather
* Configurable start-at-Sol hour and hop cadence (hourly or half-hourly)
* Sibling of the Lighthaul watchface - same bones, real galaxy

The physics is real: exact time dilation, honest 1g rocketry in rapidity. The twin paradox, one hop at a time.
  • DeveloperZach Burnham
  • CategoryFaces
  • PlatformsTime/Time Steel, Time Round, 2, 2 Duo, Time 2, Round 2
  • Updated2026-07-25
  • Version1.0.0