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+# Heritage Rebalance — Conversion Batch (#1019) — ✅ SHIPPED 2026-06-01
+
+> **STATUS: COMPLETE.** Executed as **5 conversions** (Helderoog dropped as
+> load-bearing; **Carnarvon → Golestan / persian** added in its place per the
+> maintainer). Final: afrikaans 15→**10**; arab=2 (Marib, Sawad), persian=2
+> (Akhgar, Golestan), turkic=1 (Sığınak). Footprint actually touched:
+> systems.db (system+body+station proper_name, cultural_specialization,
+> gttr_hook, atlas_city_names), 5 gttr.md, 5 index.md, 6 body index.md,
+> 2 markers.json, system_specialization.toml, _CULTURAL_HERITAGE constant
+> (+arab/persian/turkic), 8 atlas proposals, 4 brand-corps renamed
+> (Sığınak Gas Skimming / Marib Biosphere / Marib Textile / Akhgar Fuel),
+> ~18 cross-reference wiki files, client star_map_data.json. One pre-existing
+> canon bug fixed in passing: Sawad (GJ 508A) no longer claims GJ 914A is
+> "unsettled" (it is Marib, a 300-yr settlement). Carnarvon → Golestan detail:
+> Mostert dynasty → Farahani; bodies Tulbagh→Pardis, Hermanus→Anzali; stations
+> Elsenburg→Varamin, Yzerfontein→Now Shahr; "rose garden" naming for a
+> single-family landed *dehqan* patrimony. Original 4-system plan follows.
+
+---
+
+# Heritage Rebalance — Conversion Batch for Review (#1019)
+
+*4 thin afrikaans systems → arab/persian/turkic. Reduces afrikaans 15→11; seeds
+the empty MENA/Central-Asian slots (arab=2, persian=1, turkic=1). Drafted
+2026-06-01. NOTHING WRITTEN YET — approve, then I apply to db + index.md + gttr.md
++ atlas JSON + cultural value, and regen.*
+
+## Why these 4 (and not the others)
+
+KEPT afrikaans (load-bearing — untouched): Eerste Wacht (546) + Skemeraand (7547)
+[500yr seven-surnames mystery], **Helderoog (111)** [Eerste Wacht daughter colony,
+the genetic-protocol thread — I initially mis-listed this as thin; it is NOT],
+Ouplaas (528A) [oldest Cairn anchor], Brandpunt (3943) [already a #784 subversion],
+Oude Kraal (408)+Wagtoring (410) [wave_1, kraal architecture], Kaapse Baai (213)
+[terroir economic lock], Breëvlei (661B) [already #784-enriched], Waterkant (183),
+Carnarvon (680), Einde (407).
+
+CONVERTED (truly thin — modest farming/waypoint, distinctive thread is
+heritage-agnostic and survives reframing):
+
+| GJ | old → new | heritage | distinctive thread (preserved) |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 914A | Droëland → **Marib** | arab | multi-gen contingency-stores ritual |
+| 508A | Stilwater → **Sawad** | arab | "Far Gate hours unaccounted" (→ Marib) |
+| 1245B | Koeberg → **Akhgar** | persian | sealed founding-archive council vote |
+| 722 | Skuilplek → **Sığınak** | turkic | flight-from-Commission-compliance |
+
+914A+508A are gate-adjacent → a coherent **Arab chain-migration pocket** (good
+D-167 worldbuilding; keeps their cross-references internally consistent).
+
+## Per-system field changes (db + toml)
+
+### GJ 914A — Droëland → Marib (arab)
+- `star_systems.proper_name`: Droëland → **Marib**
+- `bodies.GJ914Ac.proper_name`: Calvinia → **Ghouta**
+- `stations.GJ914A-oort-S1.proper_name`: "Droëland Horizon" → **"Marib Horizon"**
+- `system_specialization.toml [GJ 914A]`: economic stays NULL (heuristic); **add `cultural_specialization = "arab"`**; faction stays NULL
+- atlas JSON `docs/atlas/proposals/GJ914A.json` (if present): proper_name → Marib
+
+### GJ 508A — Stilwater → Sawad (arab)
+- `proper_name`: Stilwater → **Sawad**
+- `bodies.GJ508Ac.proper_name`: Uithoek → **Rusafa**
+- `stations.GJ508A-oort-S1.proper_name`: "Stilwater Horizon" → **"Sawad Horizon"**
+- toml `[GJ 508A]`: **`cultural_specialization = "arab"`** (econ NULL, faction NULL)
+
+### GJ 1245B — Koeberg → Akhgar (persian)
+- `proper_name`: Koeberg → **Akhgar**
+- `bodies.GJ1245Bb.proper_name`: Glimkop → **Kavir**
+- `stations.GJ1245B-oort-S1.proper_name`: "Koeberg Horizon" → **"Akhgar Horizon"**
+- toml `[GJ 1245B]`: **`cultural_specialization = "persian"`** (econ NULL, faction NULL)
+
+### GJ 722 — Skuilplek → Sığınak (turkic)
+- `proper_name`: Skuilplek → **Sığınak**
+- `bodies.GJ722c.proper_name`: Rietbron → **Pınar**
+- `stations.GJ722-oort-S1.proper_name`: "Skuilplek Horizon" → **"Sığınak Horizon"**
+- toml `[GJ 722]`: **`cultural_specialization = "turkic"`** (econ NULL, faction NULL)
+
+## Cross-reference fixes (other files mention the old names)
+
+These referencing files must update the old names → new, or the corridor breaks:
+- `wiki/star-systems/GJ-722/gttr.md` (Skuilplek): "past Stilwater, past Droëland" → "past Sawad, past Marib" — BUT 722 itself becomes Sığınak; rewritten below.
+- `wiki/star-systems/GJ-508A/gttr.md` (Stilwater→Sawad): "Far Gate" = GJ 914A = now Marib; "Breëvlei one gate back" stays (Breëvlei unchanged). Rewritten below.
+- `wiki/star-systems/GJ-546` (Eerste Wacht), `GJ-528A` (Ouplaas), `GJ-661B` (Breëvlei), `GJ-914A`'s neighbors: grep for "Droëland/Stilwater/Skuilplek/Koeberg" and patch any mention. (I will grep the whole wiki + docs and fix every hit at apply time.)
+- `client/data/star_map_data.json` regenerates from DB — no hand edit.
+- Audit docs (`cultural-diversity-audit.md`, `cultural-stereotyping-audit.md`) mention old names historically — leave as historical record, do not edit.
+
+---
+
+## REWRITTEN gttr.md files (full)
+
+### GJ 914A — Marib (was Droëland)
+
+```markdown
+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — MARIB
+
+**MARIB** takes its name from an ancient Earth city whose people built a great
+dam and made a dry land feed a civilization for a thousand years. The founding
+families — Arab-heritage farmers who came three hundred years ago to work a
+world with little water and a great deal of patience — chose the name knowing
+exactly what they were promising themselves.
+
+## The Work
+
+Wave-3 settlement, hop 8, K-type primary in the Cairn pocket's deep north
+corridor. Three centuries of worked soil, adapted crop varieties, and catchment
+and channel irrigation built in the first century and maintained since — drawing
+on a dryland-farming inheritance the founders carried from arid Earth latitudes,
+where drawing grain from thin water was already an old and exact art. Marib feeds
+itself and exports a modest grain and legume surplus back toward Sawad and the
+inner corridor. The K-type star gives less light than Earth-standard and more
+than the M-dwarfs further out, and the community has adapted cultivars to that
+specific condition across generations with the patience that multi-generational
+agricultural work allows and requires.
+
+There is no industrial sector. Equipment that fails is repaired by maintenance
+cultures inner-reach technicians would find eccentric and that work. Replacement
+parts come in through the gates slowly, at frontier freight rates, and the
+community plans for long delays. The reserve against multi-year supply disruption
+has been maintained since the founding cohort as a rational response to frontier
+isolation that has become a communal discipline: replenished, rotated, inventoried
+by every household, taught to children as a basic obligation. The figure has never
+been shared with outside parties. The community does not volunteer it.
+
+## Not Defiance
+
+The Lattice Commission has a filed registration and a nominal compliance record.
+No Commission personnel are resident. This is not defiance; it is geography and
+the practical reality that nothing at Marib rises to the level of Commission
+operational interest. The community's institutional reflexes align with Guardian
+values without anyone having organized them that way — deep frontier agricultural
+communities with minimal institutional contact tend to develop similar attitudes
+independently, because the attitudes are a rational response to the structural
+situation.
+
+## The Reserve
+
+Three hundred years of preparation, never fully tested. The specific scale of
+Marib's stores is the community's private knowledge, and it is held as such with
+the quiet satisfaction of people who solved a problem three centuries ago and have
+not needed outside help since. The reserve is not a secret in any dramatic sense.
+It is simply not a subject raised with outside visitors, because raising it would
+require naming the figure, and naming the figure would invite opinions about it,
+and the community does not need outside opinions about whether its preparedness for
+the gates going dark is proportionate.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Marib is eight hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to Sawad and
+GJ 722. Agricultural surplus is available. Communication relay infrastructure
+receives significant maintenance attention. The community is hospitable to visitors
+who come with a purpose and brief with those who don't.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Marib: *Self-sufficient. Generously prepared for a
+disaster that hasn't happened.*
+```
+
+### GJ 508A — Sawad (was Stilwater)
+
+```markdown
+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — SAWAD
+
+**SAWAD** was the name old Earth gave to the black alluvial farmland between two
+rivers — the settled land, as opposed to the desert beyond it. The founders chose
+it for exactly what they wanted: a world that would hold still and let people farm
+it. It has been doing that for two hundred years and shows no sign of stopping.
+
+## The Settled Land
+
+The name means the worked, watered ground — chosen by Arab-heritage settlers who
+found the system's main habitable world unremarkable in all the right ways: no
+violent weather, no unstable tectonics, no competing interests. The M2V primary is
+dim and steady. At hop 7, Commission presence is nominal — a charter filing office,
+a transit log, a medical station open two days a week. Everything else is
+community-managed and has been for as long as anyone can remember. The original
+wave_4 settlers were the grandparents of the oldest generation now living here, and
+the institutional memory of "before we had all this" means something to them, even
+if what they had before was less.
+
+The population is small and deliberately so. Land is plentiful, neighbors are
+infrequent, and the stars at night include the glow of Breëvlei one gate back,
+visible on clear nights as a reminder of the corridor they sit at the end of.
+Supply runs from the corridor behind them are long and the delays are part of life.
+The Landbou Raad cooperative network — a Cape-heritage institution from further up
+the corridor — includes Sawad in its distribution agreements, informally and
+occasionally slowly; the arrangement is older than anyone's preference about it.
+
+## The Far Gate
+
+Sawad is a through-route between Breëvlei and Marib (GJ 914A), which means there is
+a gate in the other direction. The transit logs from vessels coming in from that
+direction show a pattern of missing hours. The logs are not discussed. Asking about
+them is not explicitly discouraged, but it does not come up, and when it does, the
+conversation moves on.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Sawad is seven hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to Breëvlei inward
+and Marib (GJ 914A) outward. Wave_4 settlement, which makes it older than most
+hop-7 systems — the Cairn pocket's founding push reached deep before the Reach's
+expansion slowed. The community council runs everything. Nobody is in a hurry. The
+farming is good.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Sawad: *Peaceful. Far Gate Hours Unaccounted.*
+```
+
+### GJ 1245B — Akhgar (was Koeberg)
+
+```markdown
+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — AKHGAR
+
+**AKHGAR** means "ember" in Persian — a single glowing coal — which is what the
+founders called their barely-burning star, without affection or resentment. It is
+what it is.
+
+## The Ember
+
+The primary at GJ 1245B is classified with a lowercase `m`, an object at the
+hydrogen-burning minimum-mass boundary — a star so small and cool the category is
+doing its best. The habitable zone exists, close-in, and the community lives in
+station habitats and hardened surface installations built for a primary that offers
+minimal margin. The sky is dark even at noon and the stars are always visible — a
+condition the Persian-heritage founders folded into the system's name and into the
+cast of their evening life, where the constancy of the stars is treated less as a
+hardship than as a fact one builds a calendar around.
+
+One gate connects Akhgar to GJ 54. One gate is all there is. The transit volume
+through it is low, deliberately so — this is not a through-route for anything. The
+isolation that comes with a dead-end topology and a barely-stellar primary has,
+over two hundred years, ceased to be a constraint and become instead a description
+of what Akhgar is. Residents tend toward a quality of self-possession that visitors
+from junction systems find unsettling until they recognize it as the natural
+consequence of knowing that the person across from you at dinner will still be your
+neighbor in thirty years.
+
+## Why Here
+
+The wave 4 founders chose this system two hundred years ago from among
+alternatives that were, by any objective measure, more hospitable. The community's
+founding narrative emphasizes the voluntary, purposeful nature of that choice; the
+subtext that some of the original settlers may have had limited alternatives is
+present in the archive and is not the story told to children. What is true is that
+the founding party arrived and chose to stay when they could have continued. The
+specific reasons they stopped here, at a dead-end with a minimum-mass primary, are
+preserved in the ward council archives behind a closed session whose minutes were
+sealed by unanimous vote two hundred years ago.
+
+Governance is a seven-ward council with a rotating chair that advances through the
+wards in sequence each year — a structure designed, the founders wrote explicitly,
+to be predictable. The Assembly does not maintain permanent staff here. It does not
+need to. The community has never asked for more involvement and the Assembly has
+never found cause to provide it uninvited.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Akhgar is four hops from Gateway with one gate aperture — dead end. Fifteen
+thousand registered residents in a community that has had the same approximate
+population for sixty years, having reached a size its infrastructure and social
+fabric can sustain and apparently decided that was sufficient. The niche textile
+tradition has found a small market in adjacent systems; the geological survey work
+continues, minus the three seasons of survey data abruptly sealed away in that
+closed council meeting and never revisited. The Founding Family Archive is a genuine
+cultural institution, open to visitors with genealogical inquiries.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Akhgar: *Quiet on Purpose.*
+```
+
+### GJ 722 — Sığınak (was Skuilplek)
+
+```markdown
+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — SIĞINAK
+
+**SIĞINAK** means "refuge" in Turkish, and the founders chose it because they came
+here to take shelter from the Lattice Commission's tightened imprint requirements,
+and the name was an accurate description of the project.
+
+## The Flight from Compliance
+
+Two centuries ago, the Lattice Commission tightened its imprint requirements. A
+cohort of Turkic-heritage families decided that compliance was less acceptable than
+distance. They followed the Cairn pocket corridor outward — past Sawad, past
+Marib — to the furthest point the corridor reached, filed a charter, and named what
+they found after their intention. The Commission never followed.
+
+The Commission's records classify Sığınak under "legacy exemption status" — a
+bureaucratic artifact of the post-founding regulatory period in which communities
+that had relocated specifically to avoid the tightened requirements were given
+reduced compliance schedules rather than forced compliance, because the alternative
+was a confrontation the Commission did not have the enforcement capacity to win at
+this distance. The exemption has never been formally revoked. It renews
+automatically. No Commission agent has visited in living memory. The system's
+operational existence is, from the Commission's perspective, a matter of record and
+not of interest.
+
+## What Two Centuries Does to an Orthodoxy
+
+The founding narrative is clear: they came to operate without lattice compliance.
+What that means two centuries later is more complex. Some families have never
+integrated and never will — this is the orthodoxy, and it is genuinely held. Others
+have acquired limited lattice capability for medical necessity or professional
+function while maintaining formal non-compliance postures. The community does not
+adjudicate this publicly.
+
+The Guardians of Autonomy cite Sığınak in their theoretical literature on
+minimal-lattice community viability — not as a utopia but as an empirical case
+study. Guardian field representatives visit occasionally and are received as
+something closer to distant relatives than advocates. The distinction between what
+the community officially is and what it currently practices is the kind of gap that
+two centuries of practical accommodation produces, and which the community manages
+by not presenting a detailed picture to anyone outside.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Sığınak is nine hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to Marib and
+GJ 528A. The agricultural base is mature — seven or eight generations of M-dwarf
+adaptation. The community is substantially self-sufficient in food and deliberately
+low in lattice infrastructure dependency. Medical equipment and relay hardware
+represent the critical external dependencies. Visitors should note that questions
+about current lattice integration levels are met with responses accurate in the
+founding-historical sense.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Sığınak: *Two centuries of hiding. The Commission stopped
+looking a long time ago.*
+```
+
+> Note GJ 722's old text said its two apertures connect to "Droëland and GJ 528A."
+> Droëland is now Marib — corrected above to "Marib and GJ 528A."
+
+## index.md prose-section edits
+
+For each system, the index.md infobox/topology re-renders from the DB on
+`wiki_sync` (name follows automatically). The **authored prose sections**
+(Supply Dependency / Faction Notes / etc.) and any **body-name mentions** in them
+need the same name/heritage swaps as the gttr. At apply time I will edit each
+index.md prose section to match its rewritten gttr (same facts, new names/people),
+and grep all 4 index.md files for residual "Droëland/Stilwater/Koeberg/Skuilplek/
+Calvinia/Uithoek/Glimkop/Rietbron/Afrikaans/Cape" and patch.
+
+## Apply-time checklist (after approval)
+
+1. `sqlite-exec` UPDATE proper_name on star_systems(4) + bodies(4) + stations(4).
+2. Overwrite the 4 gttr.md with the rewrites above.
+3. Edit the 4 index.md prose sections + body-name mentions to match.
+4. Append `cultural_specialization` to the 4 toml stanzas (arab/arab/persian/turkic).
+5. Update `docs/atlas/proposals/GJ{914A,508A,1245B,722}.json` proper_name (if present).
+6. Grep whole `wiki/` + `docs/design` + `docs/briefings` for old names; patch live
+   cross-references (NOT the historical audit docs).
+7. `make regen-db`; verify proper_names + cultural values + stamp; check star_map_data.json regenerated.
+8. Commit + push.