chibifire/starforged-std-3001-appendix-e
STARFORGED-STD-3001 Vol 2 Appendix E — Physical Characteristics and Capabilities Data Sets Population, demographic, and anthropometric data sets for Starforged systems accommodating the current human universe as of 2024. Modeled after NASA-STD-3001 Vol 2 Appendix E (ANSUR-1988 U.S. Army subset projected to 2015), but widened from U.S.-military-only to the current Earth population, because Starforged is played worldwide. The Markdown source of the appendix is in APPENDIX-E.md.… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/chibifire/starforged-std-3001-appendix-e.
STARFORGED-STD-3001 Vol 2 Appendix E — Physical Characteristics and Capabilities Data Sets
Population, demographic, and anthropometric data sets for Starforged systems accommodating the current human universe as of 2024.
Modeled after NASA-STD-3001 Vol 2 Appendix E (ANSUR-1988 U.S. Army subset projected to 2015), but widened from U.S.-military-only to the current Earth population, because Starforged is played worldwide.
The Markdown source of the appendix is in `APPENDIX-E.md`. The parquet under data/ is a denormalized single-table rendering of its distributions, per the workspace's hf-datasets-no-etnf skill.
The companion `GUIDELINES.md` (Appendix E-1) is the translation guide: how a real human player picks up a Starforged character without violating the physical accommodation span in Appendix E or the fictional accommodation distribution the setting uses.
Three configs, one dataset
The HuggingFace viewer surfaces three configs:
- `human` — Appendix E rows for real Earth players (120 rows)
- `starforged` — Appendix E-2 rows for fictional characters (142 rows)
- `conversion` — bidirectional mapping between the two universes (37 rows: 18 human→starforged + 19 starforged→human)
Load one config at a time:
from datasets import load_dataset
human = load_dataset("chibifire/starforged-std-3001-appendix-e", "human")
starforged = load_dataset("chibifire/starforged-std-3001-appendix-e", "starforged")
conversion = load_dataset("chibifire/starforged-std-3001-appendix-e", "conversion")Documents
- `APPENDIX-E.md` — human universe. Follows NASA-STD-3001 Vol 2 Appendix E structure verbatim (E.1 Purpose, E.2 Anthropometric Dimensions, E.3 Range of Motion, E.4 Body Surface Area, E.5 Body Mass, E.6 Body Volume, E.7 Player Strength), widened from U.S.-military-only to Earth-worldwide 2024. Adds a demographic overlay (E.8-E.12) and a body-model identity/pose section (E.13) that NASA's original does not carry.
- `APPENDIX-E-STARFORGED.md` — Starforged universe. Mirrors the same section numbers 1:1 for the fictional population. Includes a rigor section (E.16) that publishes Wilson-score 95% CIs, a reweighting protocol to sampled-Earth shares, and an explicit unmeasured-continent carve-out.
- `GUIDELINES.md` — translation guide from real-human player to Starforged character.
Row shape
Every row has the same ten columns; the universe column discriminates:
universe—human | starforgedsection— appendix section, e.g.E.6,E.13,E.17category—anthropometry | range_of_motion | body_surface_area | body_mass | body_volume | strength | species | sex | age | region | handedness | body_model_identity | body_model_pose | maskscore_head | sex_presentation_reweighted | unmeasured_region | …subcategory— bucket labelmetric—fraction | count | length_cm | mass_kg | length_mm | angle_deg_min | angle_deg_max | force_N | torque_Nm | area_m2 | volume_L | d100_low | d100_high | wilson_95_lo | wilson_95_hi | joint_count | inventory_task | …value— numeric valuepercentile— anthropometry / strength only:p1 | p50 | p99 | min(empty otherwise)sex— where applicable:male | female | anypopulation— reference population:worldwide_2024,ansur_1988_projected_2024,nasa_jsc_abf_2007_2008,starforged_setting_nem_mila_2024,starforged_setting_nem_mila_2024_reweighted_sampled_earthsource— citationnotes— free text, optional
Sections
Sources
- UN World Population Prospects 2024 Revision — sex, age, regional composition
- UN DESA 2024 — worldwide count, regional counts
- ISO 7250-1:2017 methodology + DINED (TU Delft) aggregation, weighted to E.11 civilian worldwide 2024 — anthropometric anchor. Not ANSUR; the ANSUR-1988 US Army anchor NASA's original uses is deliberately replaced here because Starforged is played by the world civilian population, not selected military personnel
- AAOS civilian orthopedic ROM reference (Norkin & White), Bohannon 2019 civilian grip meta-analysis, NIOSH RWL, Mathiowetz 1985 civilian pinch — ROM and strength floors, civilian sources throughout
- Papadatou-Pastou et al. 2020 — handedness (N=2,396,170)
- Sax 2002 — intersex conservative point estimate
Scope
This appendix describes the players of Starforged (the real Earth human population). The setting of Starforged uses a different population distribution derived from the Nem × Mila Social VR Lifestyle Survey 2024; that distribution is fictional and applies to the setting only, not to the players.
Licence
Workspace-authored operations standard, CC-BY-4.0.
Cited datasets remain under their original licences:
- UN WPP / UN DESA data is public.
- ANSUR I is a U.S. government work in the public domain.
- Papadatou-Pastou et al. 2020 is CC-BY-4.0.
Machine-checked QA (Lean 4)
QA.lean encodes the dataset's numeric distributions as Lean 4 definitions and proves 59 invariants — distribution sums (permille, ±5 tolerance for source rounding), d100 coverage and adjacency, anthropometric percentile monotonicity, ROM min ≤ max, Wilson-CI containment of every raw point estimate, reweighting arithmetic (dot product across regions matches the appendix's claim of ~76% reweighted feminine), MaskScore zero-absorb across all three axes, prosthetic taxonomy cardinality, and cross-universe section coverage. Compiled clean on Lean 4.33.1 (exit 0, zero errors).
Reproduce with lean QA.lean — no Mathlib required, only Lean 4 core.
Attribution (CFF)
cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "STARFORGED-STD-3001 Vol 2 Appendix E — Physical Characteristics and Capabilities Data Sets"
message: "If you use this dataset, cite it along with the underlying UN, ANSUR, Nem × Mila, and handedness-meta sources."
type: dataset
license: CC-BY-4.0
url: "https://huggingface.co/datasets/chibifire/starforged-std-3001-appendix-e"
version: "1.1.0"
date-released: "2026-09-06"
authors:
- name: "chibifire (workspace)"
references:
- type: report
title: "World Population Prospects 2024 Revision"
year: 2024
institution:
name: "United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division"
- type: report
title: "1988 Anthropometric Survey of U.S. Army Personnel"
year: 1989
number: "Natick/TR-89/044"
institution:
name: "U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center"
- type: report
title: "Identity in Metaverse — Social VR Lifestyle Survey 2024"
authors:
- family-names: Bredikhina
given-names: Liudmila
- name: "Nem"
year: 2024
- type: article
title: "Human handedness: A meta-analysis"
authors:
- family-names: Papadatou-Pastou
given-names: Marietta
year: 2020
journal: "Psychological Bulletin"
doi: "10.1037/bul0000229"
- type: article
title: "How common is intersex? A response to Anne Fausto-Sterling"
authors:
- family-names: Sax
given-names: Leonard
year: 2002
journal: "Journal of Sex Research"
doi: "10.1080/00224490209552139"
- type: report
title: "NASA-STD-3001 Volume 2 Appendix E"
institution:
name: "National Aeronautics and Space Administration"
year: 2022
url: "https://www.nasa.gov/reference/appendix-e-vol-2/"The full-fidelity machine-readable citation ships alongside as `CITATION.cff`.
