A legal claim to all outer space property and mineral rights in the Observable Universe—93 billion light-years in diameter—authenticated under the Great Seal of the United States, in accordance with UN treaty law. Claimed value: 100 Centillion US Dollars, a number with more zeros than there are atoms in the universe. Proceeds directed to the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals through a Swiss nonprofit, the United Space Claims Institute, with a blockchain deeds registry—built in 2016, three years before the NFT boom made digital ownership a mainstream conversation.
The persona shift is the first formal gesture: not Actionaut but The Most Popular Artist—a literally accurate description, since the artist who claims the entire universe has made a work available to anyone who has ever looked at the night sky.
The escalation from the Southern Cross (six stars) to everything that exists, everywhere, forever, is deliberately comic. The logic scales. The accompanying 174-page book is not documentation but interface: it tells you how to claim your own star. Its texts—the Universal Space Compact, the Creed—are secular scripture, addressed to “We the peoples,” structured as covenant rather than contract. New mythology for the space age. Book documentation published at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYQM9YN.
