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Welcome to The ORION Initiative, an international, not-for-profit, all-volunteer high-IQ membership association dedicated since 1996 to breeding and educating Humankind's pioneers to the stars via the establishment of conscious assortative mating communities—intially on-planet, then subsequently in privately-funded orbital coloniesby the end of the 21st Century. 
 
Integral to this mission is the establishment of Lifelong Learning Centers by and for the gifted and talented. All Citizens from the mid-teens on up are expected to volunteer time to educating fellow Citizens and their younger dependents...and your student today may well be your teacher tomorrow.   
 
We're dedicated not only to establishing our own minarchist ("night-watchman State") Intentional Communities here on-planet, but also to promoting minarchist ideals to the individuals, communities, and institutions with which we are currently constrained to live and work. In that spirit, some of us may be politically active in our own existing Earthside communities and some of us may not.
 
Nevertheless, we keep our eyes on the prize: first, sequester ourselves and nurture our unique community culture Down Here...in service of ultimately realizing our dream in its entirety Up There.  

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Much of the necessary technology to crerate viable orbital habitats already exists. But if present on-planet dysgenic trends continue without safely sequestering off-planet a cognitive-elite breeding population, Humankind itself may not exist long enough to sustain the coming diaspora! We believe that the initial privately-funded, non-Statist orbital pioneers must be both dedicated to the consciously genetically advantaged outbound optimization of the species, and firmly rooted in the great technological, sociopolitical, and moral achievement that is Western Civilization.
Any individual over the age of 18 who has a verifiable tested IQ of 130 or higher (if you've never been tested, ask us how!) and who shares this Dream, or simply wishes to learn more about it, is warmly welcomed to apply for Citizenship in this "spookybright spacefarin' Tribe."

The ORION Initiative does not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, physical disability, race, ethnicity, religion/belief system, or national/regional culture of origin and/or adoption (provided such religion/beliefs or national/regional culture are not manifestly incompatible with ORION's principles and practices). 

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