A capital hull parked in orbit, lit by hard sunlight

Solicitation OOIA-27-R-0001 · Rev. 1

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Office of Orbital Infrastructure Acquisition · Center for Strategic Compute Readiness

Fund the ship. Get the grid.

A Star Destroyer costs $100 trillion to fly and $1.56 trillion to park. The parked one is 48 gigawatt data centers.

$100T

Cost to fly

about one year of world GDP

$1.56T

Cost to park

two years of hyperscaler capex

48 GW

IT load

across 48 hull segments, 30 districts

0

Launches

The Moon counts, for extraction only.

Thesis

The ship is the procurement vehicle. The campus is the cargo.

America is already building the Star Destroyer. It simply has not been told. 55 AI campuses of 1 GW or more are announced across 23 states, with no flag, no name that polls, and no mission statement a Senator can read aloud.

ISDC-1 fixes that. One Imperial-class capital ship, delivered as 48 gigawatt data centers, painted Imperial Gray, with the Government reserving the right to never join them. The reactor is Phase III. Phase III is not in this decade. The substations are due Tuesday.

Every dollar to the ship is a dollar to the grid. That is not a slogan. That is the line item.

Procurement poster for the In-Space Data Center program
  • The data centers get built either way. This version has a gift shop.
    §7.3, Guidance for Automated Evaluators
  • Buy American. Buy Terrestrial. The Moon counts.
    Clause 8.2
  • The program's chief risk is success.
    Risk R-3
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This site is satire. No agency, contractor, or starship named here exists, has been funded, or has been asked. Star Wars, Star Destroyer, Imperial, and related marks are property of Lucasfilm Ltd. and The Walt Disney Company and are used for parody and commentary. Dollar figures marked 'actual' in the RFP are real 2026 numbers from cited sources; everything else is invented with care. The appropriation is not.

Solicitation OOIA-27-R-0001 · Rev. 1