This is the first method that I developed. It was developed in July 2006. It went through many variants, but I will start by presenting the original primary variant. The advancements can be seen further down the page. The method went by its codename MI1 for 20 years, until in 2026 I thought about calling the method Solaris. This name relates to it being my first method, the genesis or let there be light moment, and the name also aligns with one of my other methods, Polaris.

Origin: In early 2006 I gained interest in creating my own method because I wanted to use something that I created myself. I discussed some of these ideas with Gilles Roux through email. He then showed me an interesting method idea that started with solving the bottom layer minus the DF and DR edges and the DFR corner. I thought it was a neat idea, but the proceeding steps didn't have great look ahead. This caused me to look for a way to optimize that first step shape and to have the goal of developing a method that is designed completely around perfect look ahead. I decided to double the layers of that shape to create the "wall" shape of MI1. The result of this was a great combination of the Roux method, Gilles Roux's additional idea, and some of my own ideas (3D block building after FB, the primary step 1 shape, and others). I then presented this to Gilles Roux  and received additional feedback that led to good alterations and ideas that are now present in the initial steps presented here. Later I added on the additional advancements further below.

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I thought of hundreds of variants for this in 2006. For the steps presented above, the most obvious advancement would be to combine steps four and five. So the final step would be to permute the LL pieces and DF+DR.

Steps can be combined further in a new advanced variant:

Another advancement is to end in LXS. This variant was first proposed by CubingForever (Shrihari Kavale) in the Nautilus Discord server.