Two letters, the first and the last, built as one machine. It means: from the first question to the last answer.
Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. Here it stands for the first question: the moment someone admits they do not know, and decides to find out.
The crossbar has been taken out. What is left is a doorway, not a wall. The apex is sharp, like a flame or a peak. The feet are stepped and notched, because foundations are built in stages and the next stage always has a place waiting.
Omega is the last letter. It stands for the last answer. It is drawn as two-thirds of a circle and left open underneath.
That gap is the point. There is no final answer, only the best one so far. The arc is also a horizon behind the peak, and a planet seen from just above it: the thing the work is for.
Seen from the side, the two parts are separate pieces set one in front of the other. Seen from the front, they are one figure. The beginning stands inside the end.
Every answer contains the next question. That is why the mark is a single object and not two letters side by side.
The metal is engraved. Round the arc run the three principles and the formula for the Kardashev scale. Up one leg are the places where the work happens; down the other, the five fields and the destination.
Drag the mark to turn it and read the rest.
The whole mark comes from one circle and one triangle sharing a centre line. The arc is 238 degrees of that circle. The triangle is close to equilateral, 61 degrees at its apex, and its point rises above the centre of the circle. The two strokes are almost the same weight, so neither letter outranks the other.
In the Greek story, Prometheus took fire from the gods and carried it down to people in a hollow fennel stalk. With it came cooking, metal, warmth at night: everything that followed. He was punished for it, and did it knowing he would be.
The name was chosen for the second half of the story, not the first. Taking fire is only cleverness. Giving it away is the act that changed the world.
Knowledge behaves like fire in exactly this respect: lighting someone else's torch costs you nothing and doubles the light. Prometheus, the project, exists to carry it between people: openly, with the evidence attached, to anyone who asks.
Fire was the first technology, and nobody invented it alone. Prometheus begins from the same idea: knowledge grows when it is handed on.
The Agora: an open floor where anyone can read, and anyone can take a seat and speak. Claims carry evidence labels, papers are cited, and disagreement is the point.
The Grand Plan: five fields, pursued in the open, with roadmaps that say plainly what is done and what is only intended.
Humanity is a 0.73 on the Kardashev scale. The destination every other part serves is 1.0: a civilisation that commands the energy of its planet without wrecking it.
There is not one. The arc is open. Whatever is reached becomes the ground the next question stands on.
If you hold to the same three, put your name beside ours.