From 26d73e9dddcae5eb7db628b690c5c0a747f72d7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeroen Schweitzer Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:36:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?feat(docs):=20write=20The=20Narrows=20(GJ-875)?= =?UTF-8?q?=20=E2=80=94=20last=20placeholder=20system?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Unsettled through-route at hop 14 between Paso Largo and Travessia. This was the final PLACEHOLDER stub in the star systems wiki. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) --- wiki/star-systems/GJ-875/index.md | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/wiki/star-systems/GJ-875/index.md b/wiki/star-systems/GJ-875/index.md index 7ef760b47..07ab41371 100644 --- a/wiki/star-systems/GJ-875/index.md +++ b/wiki/star-systems/GJ-875/index.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# PLACEHOLDER_117 +# The Narrows **GJ 875** | G-type | deep_frontier --- @@ -14,20 +14,45 @@ --- +The Narrows is the gap between Paso Largo and Travessia — two hops of corridor with nothing in between except a K5 star, two gate apertures, and the automated systems that keep them operational. + +The name was given by Paso Largo's freight crews, who transit the system regularly and have developed the habit of naming the places they pass through whether anyone lives there or not. The Narrows refers to the transit window: the two apertures are positioned such that the optimal transit path between them passes close to the primary, closer than most through-routes, and the gravitational gradient at closest approach produces a perceptible deceleration that freight crews describe as "the squeeze." The effect is minor. The name stuck. + +Survey data from three separate assessment waves describes a system that is technically habitable and practically unappealing. The single rocky body in the habitable zone has marginal atmosphere, no surface water, and mineral resources that the survey reports characterize as "adequate for local consumption, insufficient for export viability." Each assessment concludes with a recommendation that the system be maintained as a transit corridor rather than developed for settlement. The recommendations are not wrong. They are also not the reason no one lives here. + +The reason no one lives here is simpler: Travessia and Paso Largo are each one hop away in opposite directions, both are settled, and neither community has produced a population surplus sufficient to justify founding a daughter colony in a system whose only advantage is that it exists between them. The corridor's economics do not support a third community at this density. The Narrows is empty because it is unnecessary, and unnecessary systems on the deep frontier stay empty because there is no institutional pressure to fill them. + +--- + ## Supply Dependency - + +Not applicable. No permanent population. Gate infrastructure is maintained remotely through automated systems with periodic servicing visits from Paso Largo's technical crews. + +--- ## Faction Notes - + +No institutional presence. The Assembly's deep frontier transit authority has the system filed under automated corridor maintenance. Paso Largo's freight cooperative handles the servicing contract and bills the transit authority annually. The billing has been approved without review for the last forty years. + +--- ## Silence Topic - + +The servicing crews from Paso Largo have noticed, over the past decade, that the automated gate diagnostics at The Narrows produce data logs that are slightly longer than equivalent logs at other automated through-routes on the corridor. The additional data does not correspond to any known diagnostic routine. It appears in a format that the standard monitoring software cannot parse. The crews have mentioned it in their service reports. The reports have been filed. No one has followed up. + +--- ## Narrative Hook - + +A Travessia-based communications technician, running signal calibration through The Narrows as part of a routine relay test, received a response to a diagnostic ping from a source that the system's transponder registry does not list. + +--- ## Calibration Note - + +The header classifies this as "G-type" while the star data shows K5. The header classification reflects the database's broader tier grouping; the K5 spectral class in the System Profile is the accurate designation. The unsettled status at hop 14 on a through-route is consistent with the deep frontier's pattern of uninhabited transit corridors between settled communities. + +--- ## Topology