feat(wiki): complete Drifter's Guide for hops 0-3

Write 14 new Guide entries completing hop 2 (Cairn) and all hop 3
systems with wiki content: Okafor Station, Tanegashima, Altair, EZ Aqr,
Johannsen's Star, Lalande, Ross 154, Wolf 359, Yongjin, Caldwell Point,
Suzhou, Puerto Rivera, Kensho.

Also: write Kensho wiki entry (Miri, reviewed by Paula), delete
deprecated GJ-702A placeholder, update core chapter with Kensho rating.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — KENSHO
+
+**KENSHO** is the Reach's primary research cluster, which means it is the place that decides what questions get asked — and, more importantly, what questions do not get funded, which is a different kind of decision that produces no documentation and leaves no archive and has been accumulating quietly for five centuries.
+
+The name means "sudden insight." Whether the founding generation intended this as aspiration or irony is not recorded. The founding documents are in Tessera's archive and do not specify.
+
+## The Cluster
+
+Kensho trains the researchers who go elsewhere and do the work. Aurelius, one hop away, trains the administrators who run the institutions those researchers work inside. The two systems exchange personnel in a flow calibrated by centuries of mutual necessity, and the distinction between them is the distinction between knowing how to study something and knowing how to govern the people who study it. Kensho does the first. It is adjacent to four systems that each represent a different kind of knowledge: Tessera stores the permanent record, Aurelius teaches the theory of governance, Ross 128 has the ocean that has been studied for five centuries, and Vargr has the mine shafts that have not.
+
+The physical economy is adequate and deliberately unambitious. The habitable body supports agriculture calibrated to local consumption. Manufacturing is limited to laboratory equipment and precision instruments. The founding charter specified that Kensho should not develop industrial capacity at a scale that would bring industrial politics into competition with academic governance. Five centuries later, the decision has held.
+
+## The Consortium
+
+The Kensho Research Consortium accredits programs, allocates gate access, and certifies which findings are complete enough for transmission to Tessera's Registry. It does not govern in the administrative sense — there is a separate civic administration that the charter constitutes as independent. Whether five centuries of the Consortium's institutional dominance have preserved that independence in practice is a question the political science faculty teach as a case study, without resolving it.
+
+The Veil Institute funds programs here in a way that is empirical where its relationship to Aurelius is theoretical. The programs are real — they produce findings, train researchers, publish results. They are funded by an organization whose criteria for funding decisions have never been publicly specified. Kensho's senior faculty do not discuss, in institutional forums, whether the pattern of what the Institute funds and what it declines to fund over five centuries has a shape that a careful analyst could read.
+
+## What Was Not Funded
+
+The Consortium publishes an annual allocation register — program, amount, source — and five centuries of registers are in Tessera's archive. What is not in the registers is the rejection record. The programs that applied and were declined are classified as internal governance documentation. This is standard for academic bodies. It means the visible record shows what was funded. The invisible record, which is considerably larger, contains what was considered and passed over.
+
+The shape of that absence is partially readable from the outside. Ross 128's deep-ocean classifications have been renewing for a hundred and forty years, with Kensho faculty sitting on the ethics board renewals — reading the justifications, participating in the decision to sustain the classification, decade after decade. Vargr's subsurface geological survey data carries classifications that were already in place when Kensho's geological programs first proposed studying them, and the Consortium's review committees declined to fund programs that would have required challenging those classifications. The distribution of certified findings that Tessera has received from Kensho over five centuries is uneven in ways the allocation record does not fully explain.
+
+The people who made the founding funding decisions are still alive, still in the system, still in advisory capacities. The rejection record is not just unarchived — it is partly embodied in individuals whose personal memory of what was declined and why is not subject to any disclosure framework. The archival gap and the living memory exist in parallel. One of them is considerably more accessible than the other, for anyone sufficiently motivated to ask.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Kensho is three hops from Gateway with four gate apertures — a junction connecting to Tessera, Ross 128, Vargr, and Aurelius. The system has the atmosphere of a university town that has been a university town for so long that the distinction between the town and the university has become a question for the political science department. The food is local. The people are thoughtful. The questions are excellent. The answers, on certain subjects, are unfunded.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Kensho: *Illuminating. Selectively.*

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 # Kensho
-**GJ 1286** | M-type | core
+**GJ 1286** | K-type | core
 
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 ## Supply Dependency
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+
+Kensho does not produce food in exportable quantity, does not extract ore, does not fabricate heavy components. What the system produces is structured inquiry, and the supply logic of structured inquiry is the opposite of extraction: the output is not a material that ships outward but a methodology that shapes what the systems connected to Kensho look for and therefore what they find.
+
+The physical economy is adequate and unambitious. The habitable bodies support mixed agriculture calibrated to local consumption. Manufacturing is limited to laboratory equipment, precision measurement instruments, and the specialized computational substrate that research programs require. The system's founding generation decided, in a charter provision that has been renewed without serious challenge, that Kensho should not develop industrial capacity at a scale that would bring an industrial population — and therefore industrial politics — into competition with its academic governance. Five centuries later, the decision has held, and the system has the institutional culture that tends to produce in places where the same decision has held for long enough.
+
+The import dependency is therefore standard for a knowledge-economy system of this density: food from the inner-core agricultural surplus, manufactured goods through the gate connections, specialized equipment from wherever in the Reach makes it. The gate connections make this unproblematic. A junction system at three hops from Gateway with four apertures receives competitive logistics service without negotiating for it.
+
+The export dependency operates through the four adjacent systems in ways that are not symmetrical. The connection to Tessera feeds the archive what Kensho's institutions produce — research findings, institutional records, the accumulated output of five centuries of funded inquiry, delivered through formal certification channels that give Tessera's Registry a continuous incoming stream from the Reach's most prolific research cluster. The connection to Aurelius creates a pipeline in the opposite direction: Aurelius's governance academies produce administrators who understand institutional theory; Kensho's research programs need institutional administrators who understand research; the two systems exchange personnel in a flow that has been calibrated by centuries of mutual necessity. The connection to Ross 128 is the most legible externally — the research pipeline that sends trained investigators to field postings, creates dual affiliations for senior researchers, and aligns Ross 128's research agenda with the funding priorities of Kensho's institutional councils. The connection to Vargr is the one that receives least discussion, which is itself a calibration note.
 
 ## Faction Notes
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+The Kensho Research Consortium is the system's governing body in name and the organizing framework for its academic institutions in practice. It was constituted at settlement, funded under Wave 1 founding provisions, and has spent five centuries functioning as the institutional body that accredits programs, allocates gate access for research logistics, and certifies which findings are complete enough for transmission to Tessera's Registry. It does not govern in the sense that an administrative council governs — it does not set taxation schedules or adjudicate civil disputes. Those functions are handled by a separate civic administration that the Consortium's charter explicitly constitutes as independent. Whether five centuries of the Consortium's institutional dominance have preserved that independence in practice is a question that Kensho's own political science faculty teach as a case study, without resolving it.
+
+The Veil Institute's relationship to Kensho is empirical where its relationship to Aurelius is theoretical. Aurelius is where the Institute's gate physics frameworks were established as academic curriculum; Kensho is where the Institute has funded field research programs for five centuries, across a range of disciplines that has expanded consistently since the founding generation. The programs are real — they produce findings, publish results, train researchers who go on to productive careers at systems across the Reach. They are funded by an organization whose criteria for funding decisions have never been publicly specified. The Consortium accredits the programs under its standard research certification framework. The standard framework does not require disclosure of funder priorities. Kensho's senior faculty do not discuss, in institutional forums, whether the pattern of what the Institute funds and what it declines to fund over five centuries has a shape that a careful analyst could read.
+
+The Lattice Commission maintains a regulatory presence at Kensho that reflects the system's actual regulatory requirements: primarily aperture administration, logistics oversight for the research supply chains, and the data quality monitoring that research institutions are required to maintain under the Reach's standard publication integrity framework. Commission agents here are not adversarial with the Consortium — the relationship is cooperative, mutually intelligible, and long-established. The Commission has never challenged the Consortium's certification authority over what constitutes a completed finding ready for Tessera transmission. That authority was established in Kensho's founding charter, and the Commission's standard jurisdictional framework treats charter-established institutional authorities with the procedural deference that the Assembly has consistently affirmed they are due.
+
+The Concord Assembly's relationship to Kensho is indirect and structurally significant. Research funding — which programs receive Assembly allocation, which receive Commission-adjacent institutional grants, which receive Consortium discretionary awards — is determined through a process that the Assembly does not directly control and the Consortium formally administers. The practical effect is that the academic agenda of the Reach's primary research cluster is set by an institutional body whose decision criteria are published at a level of generality that does not make the actual allocation logic legible from outside. Assembly delegates who have attempted to characterize Kensho's funding priorities for purposes of Reach-wide research policy have found the Consortium cooperative, detailed in response to specific inquiries, and systematically vague about the framework that connects specific decisions to general principles.
+
+The Guardians of Autonomy maintain a chapter at Kensho whose concerns are specific to the academic labor context: early-career researcher conditions, the terms under which long-term research staff are employed by programs that receive Institute funding versus Consortium funding versus Commission-adjacent grants, and the transparency of the funding disclosure requirements that shape what researchers can say publicly about the sources of their institutional support. The chapter is intellectually engaged in ways that reflect its context — its filings are thorough, its theoretical grounding is careful, and its complaints tend to be made in terms that the Consortium finds difficult to dismiss as misinformed. None of the chapter's major campaigns have succeeded in changing the Consortium's disclosure framework. The campaigns are in the archive at Tessera.
 
 ## Silence Topic
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+
+What Kensho does not discuss: the relationship between what its institutions fund and what they decline to fund, and what the accumulated shape of five centuries of those decisions reveals about the priorities of the entities making them.
+
+The funding record is public in the sense that the Consortium publishes an annual allocation register that specifies, for each funded program, the receiving institution, the program title, the funding amount, and the funding source. Five centuries of annual registers are in Tessera's archive. A researcher with the time and the analytical framework could construct, from those registers, a picture of what Kensho's institutional priorities have been across the settlement period.
+
+What is not in the registers is the rejection record. The programs that applied for funding and did not receive it are not documented in any public archive. The Consortium's deliberative records — the assessments its review committees produce, the recommendations its senior councils make before each allocation cycle — are classified under the Consortium's charter as internal governance documents not subject to public disclosure. This is standard for academic governance bodies across the Reach. It is not unusual. It means that the visible record shows what was funded; the invisible record contains what was considered and passed over. After five centuries, the volume of the invisible record is considerable.
+
+The specific area where this matters most is not easily characterized, because characterizing it requires knowing what was declined — which is the information the record does not provide. What is observable is a pattern in the distribution of completed research across the adjacent systems. Ross 128's deep-ocean classifications have been renewing for a hundred and forty years under ethics board authorizations that reference Kensho faculty review as part of the renewal process — which means that specific individuals at Kensho have been reading the renewal justifications for decades and have participated in the decision to sustain the classification each time. They are not passive inheritors of an institutional pattern. They are active participants in maintaining one. Vargr's subsurface geological survey data has DSMC classification claims dating to Wave 2 founding — early enough that when Kensho's geological research programs began proposing subsurface studies in the centuries that followed, the classifications were already in place and the Consortium's review committees declined to fund programs whose data access would have required challenging them. Tessera's Registry has, among the Kensho-sourced findings it has received over five centuries, a distribution across research domains that Kensho's own historians have noted is uneven in ways the allocation record does not fully explain.
+
+Whether the unevenness reflects the Institute's funding priorities, the Consortium's independent institutional conservatism, the normal variance of five centuries of academic decision-making, or something that connects all three into a coherent picture — that is a question whose answer requires the rejection record. The rejection record is internal governance documentation. The Consortium has never been asked to produce it, because no body with standing to make such a request has considered whether to frame the request in terms the Consortium's charter would require it to honor.
 
 ## Narrative Hook
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+Five centuries of the Reach's most prolific research output has been shaped by a funding body whose criteria for declining to fund are not documented in any archive the public can access.
 
 ## Calibration Note
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+
+`wave_1` settlement at `hop_distance: 3` from Gateway is consistent with the founding generation's systematic outward movement through the gate network. What makes Kensho's wave_1 founding load-bearing for the system's current character is not temporal priority but institutional continuity: five centuries of uninterrupted operation under a founding charter that has never been substantially revised. The Consortium's governance framework is older than every institution it governs. The Perpetual-class researchers who participated in constituting the Consortium are still present in the system, in emeritus and advisory capacities, and the institutional memory they carry does not have a backup in any archive that other parties can access. The difference between Kensho's institutional memory and Tessera's is that Tessera's is documented and Kensho's is partly embodied. The people who made the founding decisions are still here and have no obligation to explain them. The rejection record is not only unarchived — it is partly embodied in individuals who are still alive and whose personal memory of what was declined and why is not subject to any disclosure framework the Consortium's charter recognizes. The archival gap and the living memory exist in parallel, and a sufficiently motivated investigator would eventually recognize that the second is more accessible than the first.
+
+`aperture_count: 4` with `topology: junction` produces the connectivity profile appropriate to an institution that must draw researchers, students, and funding from across the Reach and distribute its trained personnel outward. The four connections are not symmetric in character. The Tessera connection provides the archival relationship that gives Kensho's output institutional permanence — findings certified to Tessera become part of the Reach's permanent record, which is a different kind of existence than findings sitting in a Consortium database. The Aurelius connection provides the personnel exchange and governance-theory adjacency that keeps both systems from developing in isolation from each other — academic governance theory at Aurelius and empirical research methodology at Kensho have co-evolved over five centuries in ways that have produced both systems' current institutional character. The Ross 128 connection anchors the field-research pipeline that is Kensho's most visible external relationship. The Vargr connection is the one whose institutional significance is least discussed, which is worth noting: a research cluster adjacent to the Reach's most significant concealed subsurface extraction operation has had three centuries to develop an interest in subsurface geology, and the programs Kensho has and has not funded in that domain are in the invisible portion of the allocation record.
+
+`K1 Ve` stellar classification at 19.5 light-years produces a system that is physically unremarkable in the way that many successful institutional systems are unremarkable — the star is stable, the habitable body's climate is moderate, the living conditions are comfortable without being attractive in ways that generate independent migration pressure. Kensho's population is here because the institutions are here. The institutions are here because the founding generation decided they would be. The founding generation's descendants, who are still present, are here because they have been here for five centuries and the institutions reflect the priorities they established. The physical environment neither explains nor complicates the institutional character. It simply sustains it.
+
+The name Kensho — a Zen Buddhist concept indicating sudden insight or illumination — reflects a founding generation that named the system for the experience of understanding rather than the process of accumulating it. Whether this was aspiration or irony is not recorded. The founding documents are in Tessera's archive and do not specify.
 
 ## Topology
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 - **Hop Distance from Gateway:** 3
-- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 3877, GJ 447, GJ 3522, GJ 783A
+- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 3877 (Tessera), GJ 447 (Ross 128), GJ 3522 (Vargr), GJ 783A (Aurelius)

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — OKAFOR STATION
+
+**OKAFOR STATION** markets itself as the north corridor's most transparent financial hub, which is accurate in the same way that a window is transparent — you can see through it clearly, provided nobody has drawn the curtains on the other side.
+
+## The Family Exchange
+
+Chukwuemeka Okafor, a Nigerian-heritage merchant, established the original transit post in Wave 3. Seven generations later, the Okafor family trading house is the dominant commercial entity — not the government, but the economic infrastructure that makes governance possible, which gives the family influence that formal titles understate.
+
+The exchange handles cargo broking, financial services, and the kind of regional trade coordination that accumulates naturally in junction systems where three gate corridors converge. The elected council handles civic governance. The distinction between the two is maintained with the procedural formality of a founding culture that believes authority should be accountable and legible. Key decisions get made in extended consultation with affected parties before they reach the formal record, which means the formal record reflects consensus rather than producing it. This is not a flaw in the system. It is the system.
+
+## The Grain Position
+
+The exchange has recently been executing a series of quiet forward-purchase contracts on grain shipments originating from Puerto Rivera, two hops inward. The contracts extend out eight years — an unusual horizon for commodity transactions at this distance. Someone in the exchange has seen or obtained Puerto Rivera's sealed variable-star planning report, or has independently modelled the same agricultural disruption scenario and is positioning ahead of it.
+
+The family leadership has not briefed the council. The transparency has its curtains.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Okafor Station is three hops from Gateway with three gate apertures — a junction connecting toward the core via Barnard's Star, toward Lacaille, and into the outer north corridor. The G8V star supports one marginal habitable world with a thin atmosphere requiring ongoing management. Local food production covers perhaps a third of resident needs. The station economy runs on transit handling and Guild-certified cargo broking. The people are warm. The hospitality is genuine. The forward contracts are not mentioned.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Okafor Station: *Welcoming. Check the Commodity Desk.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — TANEGASHIMA
+
+**TANEGASHIMA** makes things without asking what they are for, and has made enough money doing so that questioning the arrangement has become socially difficult.
+
+## The Guilds
+
+Governance here is an Assembly of Technical Delegates — representatives elected by professional guild rather than geography. Each licensed trade guild nominates candidates; all resident adults vote across guilds. The result looks like a meritocracy, debates endlessly in technical terms, and produces policy that reliably advantages the established guilds at the expense of newer arrivals. The Concord Assembly finds this arrangement procedurally confusing but does not object to it so long as assessments are paid on schedule, which they are.
+
+The system's economic anchor is advanced fabrication. Wave 4 settlers brought manufacturing traditions and established the first modular shipyard in this band of the north corridor. Gate Corporation contracts for hull components and gate maintenance sub-assemblies have kept those yards viable for a century. The Japanese founding heritage survives in naming conventions and the guild governance model, but the population is demographically mixed after four generations.
+
+## The Contract
+
+The fabrication guilds have been negotiating a long-term component supply contract with a buyer whose identity has not been disclosed in any public filing. The scale — if the figures that have leaked to guild floor representatives are accurate — exceeds Tanegashima's current production capacity by a factor of three. Nobody knows who the buyer is, what the components are for, or where they will ultimately go. The guild leadership says it is commercially sensitive. The workers want to know whether they are building something they would want built.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Tanegashima is three hops from Gateway with three gate apertures. The Commission has a small monitoring station here, less for enforcement than scientific interest — the spectroscopic binary star produces unusual lattice-propagation conditions. The food is imported. The fabrication yards are impressive. The questions about what they are fabricating are not encouraged.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Tanegashima: *Skilled. Don't Ask.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — YONGJIN
+
+**YONGJIN** controls the queue, and the queue is the east corridor, and everyone who moves freight into the eastern Reach has learned that the people who manage the queue are very helpful and that their helpfulness has a pattern.
+
+## The Gateway
+
+Every freight shipment entering the east corridor from the core passes through Yongjin's scheduling authority. A single-day disruption to gate scheduling here does not stop the freight — it creates a queue that takes four days to clear. This leverage is real. The Assembly maintains a transit oversight office with authority to intervene in scheduling disputes, which is one of the few Assembly functions east corridor operators acknowledge as genuinely useful.
+
+Gate Corporation operates a regional scheduling coordination office here, which is the institutional nucleus around which Yongjin's professional class has organized itself. The Korean-heritage founding community that named the system remains significant, particularly in the older residential districts. The transit authority council uses a procedural framework with roots in Korean civil service tradition, emphasizing documented merit review and competitive credential assessment. This has made the local bureaucracy unusually meritocratic relative to comparable junctions. Whether this is a cultural legacy or an efficient adaptation to a transit-coordination role is a question locals do not find interesting.
+
+## The Algorithm
+
+The queue prioritization criteria are publicly documented: hazardous cargo, perishables, medical supply, time-bound contracts, then volume throughput optimization. The actual criteria include, according to persistent freight-operator rumor, a secondary weighting that favors established corridor operators over new entrants. The Commission has audited the algorithm twice and certified it compliant both times. The operators who believe the weighting exists cannot demonstrate it because the Commission found no documented parameter encoding it. The possibility that the weighting is embedded in an undocumented calibration that the Commission did not specifically test for is the question that makes new entrants frustrated and established operators careful to maintain their relationships with the scheduling office.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Yongjin is three hops from Gateway with four gate apertures — a junction connecting Parallax to the east corridor's inner systems. The system does not produce much; it coordinates. The food is adequate. The bureaucracy is efficient. All the operators who run reliably on time seem to share the same legal representation firm.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Yongjin: *Orderly. Results May Vary.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — WOLF 359
+
+**WOLF 359** is the node where every north corridor transit complaint eventually arrives, and where those complaints are politely processed, stamped, and filed in sequence until they become someone else's problem.
+
+## The Administrative Hub
+
+Five gates, an M6 dwarf with no hospitable bodies, and a population that lives entirely on platforms purpose-built for transit service. Wolf 359 was activated late — Wave 5, despite being only three hops from Gateway — because early settlement waves passed through and did not stay. There was nothing here to stay for. The platforms were built later, when the north corridor's traffic volume justified a dedicated administrative node, and the community formed around the bureaucracy rather than the other way around.
+
+The Concord Assembly maintains a full regional office — not a delegate relay but a staffed administrative node with authority to issue transit endorsements, adjudicate inter-system commercial disputes, and coordinate fleet patrol scheduling across the north corridor. This is the Assembly's institutional face for the entire region at this distance. The Gate Corporation has a Class-2 operational base, larger than most inner systems warrant, reflecting the maintenance demands of a five-aperture facility.
+
+Local governance is parliamentary — an elected Chamber of Delegates with proportional representation across twelve residential platforms. In practice the Chamber defers heavily to the Assembly regional office on matters touching transit and commerce, which is most matters. The procedural culture is Assembly-institutional rather than organic: imported wholesale when the regional office was established and adopted by a platform-born population that had no older tradition to resist it. Every decision gets a record, every record gets archived, every archive gets indexed.
+
+## The Reclassification
+
+The Assembly regional office has been quietly reclassifying certain freight categories to bring them under "security inspection" protocols that add three to five days of processing delay. The official rationale is standardization. The actual effect is that Assembly-aligned freight brokers — who have advance knowledge of the new schedules — can offer guaranteed delivery windows that independent operators cannot match. No one inside the Chamber has formally objected. Several have been asked not to.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Wolf 359 is three hops from Gateway with five gate apertures. The system has no agricultural or extractive economic base, which makes it tractable in ways that systems with genuine local economies are not. The Gate Corporation staff gives it the most cosmopolitan resident population in the north corridor. The platforms are functional. The procedures are thorough. The complaints are filed.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Wolf 359: *Administrative. Patience Required.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — LALANDE
+
+**LALANDE** was named by accident and never bothered to change it, which is the most honest thing a transit hub has ever done.
+
+## The Hub
+
+Five gates, a modest red dwarf, and a community that grew up around traffic rather than any particular vision of itself. The system became important before it was inhabited — infrastructure preceded community by perhaps a century. The horizon station was routing freight during earlier settlement waves; the permanent residential population did not reach self-sustaining scale until Wave 4. This produces a city that feels assembled rather than grown: efficient, pragmatic, tolerant of strangers in the way any crossroads town is tolerant, but without the deep neighborhood webs that characterize older south corridor communities.
+
+The governing structure is a transport cooperative council — seven seats, four elected by registered residents, three appointed by the major carrier syndicates. Critics note this gives freight companies formal political power. Supporters note that freight is what Lalande runs on, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest governance. The cultural texture is a blend accumulated through centuries of transit — the founding Iberian heritage has been diluted to surnames in the residential registers, and you can find a dozen linguistic communities in the port district alone.
+
+## The Gap
+
+Lalande does not discuss the century between when the horizon station was built and when formal settlement was chartered. The pre-settlement operation left records that are technically accessible and practically opaque — who operated the station, under what authority, and what moved through it are questions the carrier syndicates do not encourage. The Assembly compliance office has audited the pre-charter records twice and closed the inquiry both times.
+
+A bonded cargo record from the pre-charter era has recently surfaced in a freight broker's inheritance — a manifest listing a shipment that, if real, would contradict the official account of how one of the five gates was financed. Most residents simply don't ask. The gap is institutional memory that everyone has agreed, without formal agreement, to leave undisturbed.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Lalande is three hops from Gateway with five gate apertures — the south corridor's primary logistics hub. The system imports virtually all consumables and would face food shortages within weeks if the gates went quiet, which is the reason the carrier syndicates hold political seats and the reason nobody has seriously proposed removing them. The people are warm. The transit canteens are communal. The south corridor instinct toward community is expressed here through hospitality rather than deep kinship, which makes Lalande the friendliest place in the south that you will never feel at home in.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Lalande: *Passing Through. Everyone Is.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — SUZHOU
+
+**SUZHOU** is a dead-end system that chose to be a dead-end system, which makes it either the most principled or the most paranoid academic community in the Reach, depending on whether you think a founding consortium that specifically petitioned for isolation was protecting its research or protecting something else.
+
+## The Academy
+
+The founding consortium petitioned the Assembly in Wave 4 for a dead-end system designation specifically because dead-end topology would limit commercial traffic and protect research conditions. The petition was granted. The consortium became the de facto governance body. That arrangement has persisted for the better part of two centuries without anyone finding a compelling reason to change it.
+
+The local economy is small, deliberate, and sufficient. Agricultural terraria provide food. The population is stable rather than growing. There is no corporate extraction presence and no aspiration for one. The research output — theoretical materials science, low-temperature chemistry, and the increasingly specialized field of stable-orbit astrophysics enabled by the M-dwarf's emission characteristics — is genuine and well-regarded. The Chinese founding heritage persists in the name, a transplant from Jiangsu province, though the research staff is cross-corridor in the usual way of academic environments.
+
+## The Telescope
+
+The orbital telescope array is the most capable low-frequency observation platform within four hops of the core, positioned specifically because the M6 Ve star's narrow emission signature permits observation windows that would be contaminated by more active stars. Its published research outputs are genuine. Its pointing schedule also includes regular observations toward deep-reach systems that have nothing to do with the published research programs. Who authorized those pointings, and whose data they serve, is not recorded in any document the founding consortium's governance council has seen.
+
+The Veil Institute has an affiliate research station here. The relationship is cooperative rather than controlling. The founding institutions have twice formally declined research proposals that would have redirected telescope infrastructure toward Institute-specific monitoring objectives, which is either evidence of genuine academic independence or evidence that the Institute has learned to obtain what it wants through channels the governance council does not oversee.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Suzhou is three hops from Gateway with one gate aperture connecting to Matsue. The system imports most of what it consumes through that single connection. The academic community has spent considerable institutional energy ensuring that Matsue's manufacturing interests do not extend to influencing research agendas in exchange for supply reliability. The food is grown in terraria. The research is excellent. The telescope points where it is told to point, and sometimes where it is not told.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Suzhou: *Quiet. Watching Something.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — JOHANNSEN'S STAR
+
+**JOHANNSEN'S STAR** is named after the geologist who found the ore, which tells you everything about the system's priorities and saves the trouble of asking about anything else.
+
+## The Consortium
+
+Sigrid Johannsen's survey work triggered the Wave 3 settlement program. Her descendants still hold a board seat on the Johannsen Extraction Consortium, which has run the refineries for six generations under a self-renewing charter. The Assembly has twice flagged the perpetual-renewal clause as inconsistent with competitive licensing standards. Both times the local parliament has voted to retain it, which is the democratic process functioning exactly as designed and producing exactly the outcome the founding family intended.
+
+The subgiant star's expanded envelope burned away surface volatiles from the inner orbital bodies millennia ago, leaving behind unusually dense mineral deposits. Raw ore arrives inbound from the outer systems; Johannsen's Star has the refinery capacity to upgrade it and ship processed concentrates toward the core. The economic logic is straightforward. The governance logic follows it.
+
+## The Missing Geologist
+
+An independent survey team recently identified a secondary ore body beneath the northern shelf of the primary mining moon — one that the Consortium's own surveys missed, or suppressed. The team's lead researcher has not been seen publicly for eleven weeks. The Consortium says she is on extended field assignment in the outer belt.
+
+The Veil Institute maintains a small geological research station in the outer orbital zone. The researchers are unobtrusive and rarely intersect with local governance, which is either professional restraint or the specific kind of disinterest that comes from already knowing what you need to know.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Johannsen's Star is three hops from Gateway with three gate apertures. The system is a junction connecting the outer extraction corridors to the core via Cairn. The Norwegian founding heritage is a corporate-origin cross-corridor exception. The refineries are efficient. The charter is perpetual. The system's entire economic history rests on one survey report filed by one woman three hundred years ago, and her descendants have made sure no one develops a second opinion.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Johannsen's Star: *Profitable. Don't Prospect.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — CALDWELL POINT
+
+**CALDWELL POINT** is named after the family that runs it, which is the kind of honesty you get from people who arrived at a junction before anyone with deeper capital and have been holding the gate ever since.
+
+## The Family
+
+The Caldwells were English-heritage contract logistics managers from a mid-tier transport firm who arrived in Wave 3 and recognized the junction's structural value before anyone else did. They staked a land claim, negotiated gate scheduling rights, and were in place before the competing bids arrived from the inner corridor. Three generations of patient institutional building later, the family name is on the system. The Caldwells are not wealthy by Perpetual-class standards, but they are locally irreplaceable, which is a different kind of security.
+
+The elected district council handles civic governance and is genuinely independent of the family on most questions — a compromise reached about a hundred and fifty years ago following a prolonged dispute over transit fees. The arrangement is described as satisfactory by both sides and warm by neither.
+
+## The Queue
+
+Three apertures converging at a junction where inbound traffic from the inner west disaggregates into three separate branches. The family logistics operation and Gate Corporation jointly manage gate scheduling. The question of whether the routing priority decisions subtly favor operators who maintain commercial relationships with the Caldwells is one that neither party has any incentive to subject to formal review. Complaints from outer-corridor operators are routed to a Gate Corporation grievance process that has not produced a finding against the local scheduling authority in fifty years.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Caldwell Point is three hops from Gateway with three gate apertures. The K5V star is unremarkable. The system's value is entirely positional — a waypoint in the transit geography, which is exactly what the "Point" in the name signals. The food is adequate. The family is welcoming. The queue is the queue.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Caldwell Point: *Convenient. For Some.*

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-# PLACEHOLDER_265
-**GJ 702A** | K-type | core
-
----
-
-## System Profile
-<!-- READ-ONLY — generated from systems.db -->
-
-| | |
-|---|---|
-| **Star** | K0V SB · 16.6 ly |
-| **Gates** | 1 aperture · dead_end |
-| **Settlement** | wave_2 |
-
----
-
-## Supply Dependency
-<!-- Required for manufacturing/transit_logistics base and narrative_notable systems -->
-
-## Faction Notes
-<!-- Significant local factions not covered by standard columns -->
-
-## Silence Topic
-<!-- Required for narrative_notable and Institutional Core / Diplomatic Periphery zones -->
-
-## Narrative Hook
-<!-- Required if narrative_notable = true. One sentence. -->
-
-## Calibration Note
-<!-- Unusual column combinations requiring justification -->
-
-## Topology
-<!-- READ-ONLY — regenerated from star-map.json edges -->
-- **Hop Distance from Gateway:** 2
-- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 866A

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — ROSS 154
+
+**ROSS 154** was skipped by three centuries of settlement because its star has a habit of erupting, which made it dangerous for anyone who needed to go outside. The people who eventually settled here do not need to go outside. They need abundant stellar flux and heavily shielded processing facilities, which is a different set of requirements that the same star happens to satisfy perfectly.
+
+## The Flare Star
+
+The M3.5Ve primary is an eruptive flare variable. The evacuation protocols are not theoretical. Every resident is trained. The result is a community with an unusual practical solidarity — when the alert sounds, everyone moves together, regardless of employment status. It is the one area where the gap between contractor and permanent resident disappears.
+
+The installed population lives almost entirely in shielded subsurface or orbital facilities. The economy is structured around transit throughput — three converging western corridor branches meet here, making Ross 154 a significant routing node despite its small population. The processing consortiums that operate the orbital infrastructure are the effective government. Governance is administered by a joint operations council representing the three major firms. The twelve thousand permanent residents who do not work for one of the three have advisory representation, which is a polite way of saying they are consulted and not heeded.
+
+## The Survey Gap
+
+The system was surveyed multiple times before settlement. Three of those survey reports — covering the Wave 2 period — have gaps in their instrument readings at a specific orbital band that does not correspond to the flare activity that was nominally the reason for curtailment. The gap is not large. It is consistent across three separate expeditions. The processing consortiums are aware of it. They have not filed updated survey documentation. Something at that orbital band has been producing anomalous gate cycle timing that the operations council's technical staff has been logging internally for two years.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Ross 154 is three hops from Gateway with three gate apertures. The system feels new in a way that hop-3 systems almost never do — there is no deep institutional history, no accumulated governance tradition, no founding culture. The star is close to Sol at 9.7 light-years, which should have meant early settlement and did not, which is its own kind of story. The energy is abundant. The shielding is adequate. The alerts are regular.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Ross 154: *Energetic. Keep Your Helmet.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — ALTAIR
+
+**ALTAIR** is the last place the rules apply before you go south, and the people who work here have spent five centuries processing ambiguous cargo manifests without ever assembling the individual anomalies into the composite picture they would form if anyone looked at them all at once.
+
+## The Checkpoint
+
+Three gate apertures, one pointing back to Cygni B, two pointing into the southern frontier. This makes Altair the single point through which everything the southern Reach imports or exports must pass. The transit logistics sector is not a supplement to some other economic base. It is the base. The A7V primary is roughly ten times solar luminosity, which made Altair one of the most conspicuous objects in Earth's night sky — a resonance the system's current residents, mostly transit operators and Commission inspectors, find mildly ironic.
+
+The Assembly maintains a transit regulation office rather than a full delegation. The distinction matters: a full delegation implies a local civic structure worth representing. A transit office implies that what the Assembly cares about here is the flow, not the residents. The office is understaffed relative to the volume it processes and has been understaffed for as long as anyone can measure, because the Assembly's resourcing decisions are made at Sirius by people who have never personally transited a southern gate corridor at peak freight season.
+
+## What Moves South
+
+The Commission's Altair office is the last point at which inspectors have reliable jurisdiction before freight enters the coverage gap. South-bound cargo presents the Commission with its most persistent inspection problem: the southern Reach is where monitoring is thinnest, and the operators understand this.
+
+The cargo manifests are filed, processed, and archived. The documentation is formally correct. What the documentation does not capture — because the categories were designed for core-zone commerce — is the growing proportion of freight that does not fit cleanly into any standard classification. Components that could be industrial equipment or could be something else. Biological material under research exemptions the office has been renewing for decades without Sirius reviewing the underlying applications. Personnel transfers logged as contractor rotations to installations that do not appear in the Assembly's southern infrastructure registry.
+
+None of this is necessarily illicit. The categories are ambiguous. The operators are technically compliant. What no one at Altair does is aggregate the anomalies into a pattern and ask what the pattern describes. Whether this is an oversight or a decision is the question Altair does not raise.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Altair is three hops from Gateway. The Veil Institute has no presence here, despite the system's position as the southern gateway — an absence that either means nothing or means something the Institute has decided to pursue through other channels. The food is transit-grade. The inspectors are motivated. The coverage gap begins at the next aperture.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Altair: *Last Stop. Act Accordingly.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — PUERTO RIVERA
+
+**PUERTO RIVERA** has survived seven variable-star cycles, which means it knows exactly how to prepare for the eighth. The question is whether it can do so before the news gets out.
+
+## The Farm
+
+The G5 subgiant variable's higher luminosity pushed the habitable zone outward to a world with unusually productive growing conditions. Puerto Rivera exports agricultural surplus — grain and processed protein that feeds the north corridor. The system was settled in Wave 2 by Emilio Rivera's agricultural survey expedition, drawn from Latin American cooperatives, producing a Spanish-heritage founding community on a north corridor gate path. After six generations, the cultural mix has broadened, but the cooperative governance model, the naming traditions, and the food culture remain.
+
+The variable star is an ongoing economic consideration. Luminosity fluctuation on a twenty-two-year cycle requires agricultural planning over multi-decade horizons, which has produced a class of specialist long-range planners who are among the most respected figures in local governance. The elected Council of Governors is a functional parliamentary body with genuine independence. The Assembly delegate attends and is treated with courtesy; the Council does not ask the delegate's opinion before acting on local matters.
+
+## The Eighth Cycle
+
+The current twenty-two-year luminosity cycle is predicted to reach its peak variance in approximately eight years. The long-range planning committee's models suggest this cycle will be more intense than any in recorded settlement history. The committee's report was presented to the Council in closed session six months ago. The Council has not made it public. Seed vault procurement has quietly tripled.
+
+Eight years is enough time to prepare, if the preparation can be conducted without every other north corridor system competing for the same seed stock. The planning committee knows this. The Council knows this. Okafor Station's family exchange, two hops away, appears to know it too — their eight-year grain futures position suggests someone has seen the report or modelled the same scenario independently.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Puerto Rivera is three hops from Gateway with three gate apertures — a junction connecting to Cairn, Lacaille (GJ 825), and Singh's Landing. The food is excellent, genuinely — this is one of the north corridor's major breadbaskets and the produce reflects five centuries of agricultural expertise. The people are hospitable. The planning is meticulous. The next eight years will determine whether meticulous planning and public silence are compatible.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Puerto Rivera: *Fertile. Clock Ticking.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — CAIRN
+
+**CAIRN** has seven gate apertures and no population, which is the sort of statistic that should make you curious, and then — if you are paying attention to the way every institution in the inner orbit has carefully not explained it for forty years — should make you something else.
+
+## The Anomaly
+
+Every other hub-topology system in the Reach has been settled for at least two centuries. ACB is a five-aperture hub that became the Commission's headquarters. Gateway is a five-aperture hub that anchors the Reach's diplomatic architecture. Aperture count and settlement are, everywhere else, positively correlated — more gates means more traffic means more people means institutions competing to plant a flag. Cairn has seven gates. Seven systems connect through it. The transit topology would give a settled Cairn leverage over a significant arc of the northern corridor. Nobody lives here.
+
+The star is within range. The Commission's preliminary survey, filed forty years ago and not updated since, documented no environmental conditions that would categorically preclude habitation. The assessment concluded with a standard recommendation for further evaluation. The further evaluation has not occurred. When asked about the timeline, the Commission's regional office at ACB — one hop away — cites active survey prioritization in frontier systems. This is procedurally accurate. It does not explain why a seven-aperture hub with no competing survey load has been deprioritized for four consecutive assessment cycles.
+
+## The Name
+
+"Cairn" does not appear in any official Commission or Assembly record as a designated name. It is an informal term — the word for a marker built to say that someone passed this way, and why they stopped — that predates the formal survey. Where the name originated, and what the naming parties intended to mark, is not recorded in any document that has been located.
+
+## The Silence
+
+The Veil Institute registered a research interest in Cairn's aperture data within two years of the preliminary survey. The registration is on record. The Institute has not deployed personnel. The Assembly maintains no administrative presence. No qualifying charter application has been received. The institutional silence has arrived from each direction independently, which is either a coincidence or a description of something else entirely.
+
+The Reach's settlement history includes pre-Commission expedition parties that reached Cairn in the first century of expansion. Their reports exist in the Institute's early archive, not cross-referenced in the Commission's current documentation, which treats the forty-year-old preliminary assessment as the first formal record. The accounts that have circulated through informal channels describe personnel who returned expressing a consistent reluctance to discuss what the system looked like — not in the sense of classified information, but in the more unsettling sense of people who found the act of description difficult to complete.
+
+The official language says: assessed, no charter filed, no settlement to date.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+Cairn is two hops from Gateway with seven gate apertures, making it the most connected unsettled system in the Reach by a considerable margin. Vessels transit through because the topology makes it efficient for routes that would otherwise require additional jumps. Someone is moving through this system. The freight manifests list cargo, not settlers.
+
+The Guide's correspondent visited Cairn on a transit stop. The entry you are reading is the result. The correspondent did not request a return assignment.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates Cairn: *Available. No Takers.*

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+# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — EZ AQR
+
+**EZ AQR** was never developed. It was *staffed*. Gate Corporation classified it as an operational facility rather than a settlement for most of its occupied history, which meant population counts for Assembly tracking were not filed until the resident population exceeded the threshold that triggers mandatory registration. By then the community had been functionally present for two generations and simply hadn't noticed it wasn't official.
+
+## The Company Town
+
+Gate Corporation is the system's founding institution, largest employer, infrastructure owner, and effective government for the majority of residents who live in company-managed habitat modules. Local governance exists as a transit worker council with consultative authority on shift scheduling and habitat conditions. Nobody mistakes it for political power.
+
+The settlement's heritage profile is mixed in the way Gate Corporation postings always are: staff drawn from across the Reach with no dominant founding community. There is no cultural corridor identity because nobody chose to be here. Residents arrived on contract, stayed past their contracts, and called the result a community. Some second-generation locals have begun the kinds of civic organizing that precede genuine self-governance — a local school collective, a mutual aid fund — but these are very recent and fragile.
+
+## The Archive
+
+Gate Corporation's monitoring function generates continuous records of transit patterns, cargo manifests, and vessel identification logs for every ship that passes through both gates. The archive is Gate Corp proprietary, reviewed internally, and shared with the Lattice Commission on formal request. The records go back thirty years. Several freight operators believe the archive contains scheduling anomalies that would demonstrate systematic favoritism toward certain cargo handlers at the Yongjin junction. Nobody has successfully filed a formal access request. Gate Corp's position is that transit monitoring data is operational infrastructure documentation, not commercial records subject to Commission audit. That position has not been tested in Assembly adjudication.
+
+## Practical Information
+
+EZ Aqr is three hops from Gateway with two gate apertures — a through-route connecting the inner east corridor to the outer systems. The M5 flare star is dim. The population is small. The community is real in the way that communities are real when people have lived somewhere long enough to care about it, regardless of whether anyone's paperwork says they are a community yet.
+
+Adams of the Guide rates EZ Aqr: *Technically Unofficial.*

wiki/star-systems/catalog.md

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 | [GJ 693](star-systems/GJ-693/index.md) | — | M5 | 19.0 | south_reach | wave_3 | spur_end |
 | [GJ 695A](star-systems/GJ-695A/index.md) | — | G5IV | 27.1 | south_reach | unsettled | junction |
 | [GJ 699](star-systems/GJ-699/index.md) | **Barnard's Star** | sdM4 | 5.9 | core | wave_2 | loop_member |
-| [GJ 702A](star-systems/GJ-702A/index.md) | — | K0V SB | 16.6 | core | wave_2 | dead_end |
 | [GJ 702B](star-systems/GJ-702B/index.md) | **Prometheus** | K5 Ve | 16.6 | core | wave_1 | dead_end |
 | [GJ 706](star-systems/GJ-706/index.md) | — | K2V | 36.0 | north_reach | wave_4 | spur_end |
 | [GJ 707](star-systems/GJ-707/index.md) | — | K7V | 42.7 | deep_frontier | wave_3 | through_route |

wiki/star-systems/gttr-core.md

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 | [Arbour](GJ-338B/gttr.md) (GJ 338B) | *Lovely. By Invitation.* |
 | [Aurelius](GJ-783A/gttr.md) (GJ 783A) | *Educational. In Every Sense.* |
 | [Bastion](GJ-570A/gttr.md) (GJ 570A) | *Prepared. For What Remains Unclear.* |
-| [Kensho](GJ-1286/gttr.md) (GJ 1286) | *Entry forthcoming.* |
+| [Kensho](GJ-1286/gttr.md) (GJ 1286) | *Illuminating. Selectively.* |
 | [Lacaille 9352](GJ-887/gttr.md) (GJ 887) | *Functional. Do Not Linger.* |
 | [Lu Ban](GJ-15A/gttr.md) (GJ 15A) | *Affordable. One Exit.* |
 | [Nova Roma](GJ-764/gttr.md) (GJ 764) | *Well-Built.* |