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 | starforged
• section — appendix section, e.g. E.6, E.13, E.17
• category — 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 label
• metric — 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 value
• percentile — anthropometry / strength only: p1 | p50 | p99 | min (empty otherwise)
• sex — where applicable: male | female | any
• population — 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_earth
• source — citation
• notes — free text, optional

Sections

Section	Category	Rows
E.3	species	2
E.4	sex	6
E.5	age	12
E.6	anthropometry	36
E.7	region	12
E.8	handedness	4
Total		72

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.