data(content): rebalance 5 thin afrikaans systems to MENA heritage (#1019)
The corridor over-represented southern-African heritage (afrikaans on 15 systems; arab=2, persian/turkic=0) as an artifact of the earlier name-balancing overcorrecting. Convert five genuinely-thin afrikaans systems — whose distinctive threads are heritage-agnostic — into Arab/Persian/Turkic founders so the cultural cascade is built on a balanced set. Load-bearing mystery systems (Eerste Wacht / Helderoog / Brandpunt etc.) are left untouched. Droëland (GJ 914A) -> Marib (arab) Stilwater (GJ 508A) -> Sawad (arab) Koeberg (GJ 1245B) -> Akhgar (persian) Skuilplek (GJ 722) -> Siginak (turkic) Carnarvon (GJ 680) -> Golestan (persian; Mostert dynasty -> Farahani) Result: afrikaans 15->10; arab 0->2, persian 0->2, turkic 0->1. Full narrative retouch (not just names): gttr.md + index.md prose, body/station proper_names, cultural_specialization, gttr_hook, atlas_city_names, and the four brand-corps named after the converted systems (corp IDs kept stable; only display names + products renamed). Cross-references in neighbour systems, the catalog, the aggregate drifter guides, and the atlas proposals are updated to match. arab/persian/turkic added to _CULTURAL_HERITAGE so the values validate; the full canonical 47-value migration remains #1016. Also fixes a pre-existing canon bug: Sawad (GJ 508A) no longer claims GJ 914A is "unsettled" — it is Marib, a three-century settlement. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"proper_name": "Koeberg",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**KOEBERG** is named after a coastal headland most of its founders had never seen and a few had never heard of, which is about as honest as place-naming gets.",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**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.",
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"proper_name": "Koeberg Horizon",
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"system_id": "GJ 680",
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"proper_name": "Carnarvon",
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"proper_name": "Golestan",
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"geographic_sector": "north_reach",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**CARNARVON** is the kind of spur-end system where the founding family's name appears on four of the seven primary agricultural regions, and no one has ever found this remarkable enough to comment on.",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**GOLESTAN** means \"the rose garden,\" and on a spur-end world where the founding family's name appears on four of the seven primary agricultural regions, the irony of naming the place after a walled garden one family tends has occurred to no one as worth commenting on.",
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"proper_name": "Tulbagh",
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"proper_name": "Hermanus",
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"proper_name": "Anzali",
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"station_id": "GJ680d-S1",
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"station_type": "agricultural",
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"proper_name": "Elsenburg",
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"proper_name": "Varamin",
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"station_id": "GJ680-oort-S1",
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"station_type": "horizon",
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"proper_name": "Yzerfontein",
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"proper_name": "Now Shahr",
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"system_id": "GJ 508A",
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"proper_name": "Stilwater",
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"proper_name": "Sawad",
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"geographic_sector": "north_reach",
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"geographic_band": "outer",
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"gate_topology": "through_route",
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"bodies": "1 habitable · 1 inhabited",
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"population": "6,140",
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"gdp": "12.3 MTr",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**STILWATER** was named for exactly what its settlers wanted: a world that would hold still and let people farm it. It has been doing that for two hundred years and shows no signs of stopping.",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**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.",
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"proper_name": "Uithoek",
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"proper_name": "Rusafa",
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"atmosphere": "standard",
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"station_id": "GJ508A-oort-S1",
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"orbits_body_id": "GJ508A-oort",
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"station_type": "horizon",
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"proper_name": "Stilwater Horizon",
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"proper_name": "Sawad Horizon",
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"population": 140,
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"system_id": "GJ 914A",
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"proper_name": "Droëland",
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"proper_name": "Marib",
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"geographic_sector": "deep_frontier",
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"geographic_band": "outer",
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"gate_topology": "through_route",
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"bodies": "1 habitable · 1 inhabited",
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"population": "18,320",
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"gdp": "36.6 MTr",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**DROËLAND** means \"dry land,\" which is what the founders found when they arrived three hundred years ago, and which they said out loud as a name because they were Afrikaans-heritage farming families who had come to work the soil and did not see the need for poetry about it.",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**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.",
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"body_id": "GJ914Ab",
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"proper_name": "Calvinia",
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"proper_name": "Ghouta",
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"atmosphere": "standard",
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"station_type": "horizon",
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"proper_name": "Droëland Horizon",
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"proper_name": "Marib Horizon",
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"system_id": "GJ 722",
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"proper_name": "Skuilplek",
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"proper_name": "Sığınak",
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"geographic_sector": "deep_frontier",
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"geographic_band": "inner",
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"gate_topology": "through_route",
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"bodies": "1 habitable · 1 inhabited",
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"population": "12,180",
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"gdp": "24.4 MTr",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**SKUILPLEK** means \"hiding place,\" and the founders chose that name because they came here to hide from the Lattice Commission's tightened imprint requirements, and the name was an accurate description of the project.",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**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.",
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"proper_name": "Rietbron",
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"proper_name": "Pınar",
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"station_type": "horizon",
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"proper_name": "Skuilplek Horizon",
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"proper_name": "Sığınak Horizon",
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"currency_zone": "TRACTUS_PRIMARY",
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"bodies": "0 habitable · 0 inhabited",
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"population": "0",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**BRANDPUNT** means focal point. The community at hop 17 named itself for what it does rather than what it is — an unusual choice in a corridor where systems are named for what they look like (Stilwater, Droëland, Skemeraand) or what they feel like (Eerste Wacht, Skuilplek, Helderoog). Brandpunt feels like a laboratory, which is what it is.",
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"gttr_excerpt": "**BRANDPUNT** means focal point. The community at hop 17 named itself for what it does rather than what it is — an unusual choice in a corridor where systems are named for what they look like (Skemeraand, Breëvlei, Helderoog) or what they feel like (Eerste Wacht, Sığınak). Brandpunt feels like a laboratory, which is what it is.",
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"system_id": "GJ 1245B",
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"proper_name": "Koeberg",
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"proper_name": "Akhgar",
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"star_type": "unusual",
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"spectral_class": "m",
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"body_id": "GJ1245Bb",
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"proper_name": "Glimkop",
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"proper_name": "Kavir",
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"body_type": "planet",
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"station_id": "GJ1245B-oort-S1",
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"proper_name": "Koeberg Horizon",
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"proper_name": "Akhgar Horizon",
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"orbits_body_id": "GJ1245B-oort",
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"station_type": "horizon",
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"population": 11000,
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"economic_role": "transit",
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"docking_class": "major",
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"has_gate_infrastructure": true,
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"notes": "horizon station — 1 aperture; dead_end; connects GJ 54; primary habitation for the system; wave_4 Afrikaner/Cape Malay heritage; ward council governance (seven wards, rotating chair); hydroponic food production; niche textile production; Founding Family Archive (genealogical and cultural records); Assembly oversight via scheduled visits from GJ 54"
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"notes": "horizon station — 1 aperture; dead_end; connects GJ 54; primary habitation for the system; wave_4 Persian heritage; ward council governance (seven wards, rotating chair); hydroponic food production; niche textile production; Founding Family Archive (genealogical and cultural records); Assembly oversight via scheduled visits from GJ 54"
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"system_id": "GJ 508A",
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"proper_name": "Stilwater",
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"proper_name": "Sawad",
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"star_type": "M",
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"spectral_class": "M2V",
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"body_id": "GJ508Ac",
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"proper_name": "Uithoek",
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"proper_name": "Rusafa",
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"body_type": "planet",
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"orbit_index": 2,
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"economic_role": "agricultural",
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"settlement_pattern": "dispersed",
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"industrial_corridor": "agricultural_export",
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"notes": "primary inhabited world; wave_4 Afrikaans heritage ('far corner'); 2-aperture through_route; M2V quiet star; unremarkable and deliberately so; plentiful land, infrequent neighbors; community council governance; Landbou Raad cooperative network (informal distribution agreements); Commission charter filing office (two-day medical station); agricultural consumption with modest surplus; Breëvlei visible as glow on clear nights"
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"notes": "primary inhabited world; wave_4 Arab heritage ('far corner'); 2-aperture through_route; M2V quiet star; unremarkable and deliberately so; plentiful land, infrequent neighbors; community council governance; Landbou Raad cooperative network (informal distribution agreements); Commission charter filing office (two-day medical station); agricultural consumption with modest surplus; Breëvlei visible as glow on clear nights"
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"station_id": "GJ508A-oort-S1",
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"proper_name": "Stilwater Horizon",
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"proper_name": "Sawad Horizon",
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"orbits_body_id": "GJ508A-oort",
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"station_type": "horizon",
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"population": 140,
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"settlement_pattern": "dispersed",
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"industrial_corridor": "agricultural_export",
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"notes": "primary inhabited world; wave_2 Afrikaans heritage ('old farm'); 2-aperture through_route; M0V dim star; oldest continuously worked agricultural settlement in deep_frontier (four centuries); family-representative council governance (unchanged for two hundred years); courteous indifference to Reach institutions; food surplus traded through Cairn pocket chain to Skuilplek; Guardians of Autonomy informal community; agricultural tempo — planning in decades"
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"notes": "primary inhabited world; wave_2 Afrikaans heritage ('old farm'); 2-aperture through_route; M0V dim star; oldest continuously worked agricultural settlement in deep_frontier (four centuries); family-representative council governance (unchanged for two hundred years); courteous indifference to Reach institutions; food surplus traded through Cairn pocket chain to Sığınak; Guardians of Autonomy informal community; agricultural tempo — planning in decades"
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"docking_class": "major",
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"has_gate_infrastructure": true,
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"notes": "horizon station — 2 apertures; through_route; connects Skuilplek and outer Cairn pocket; agricultural freight staging; Commission liaison transit point (infrequent, courteous hospitality)"
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"notes": "horizon station — 2 apertures; through_route; connects Sığınak and outer Cairn pocket; agricultural freight staging; Commission liaison transit point (infrequent, courteous hospitality)"
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"notes": "horizon station — 3 apertures; junction; connects Crux Station, Koeberg, and outer corridor; grain freight staging; Grão Freight Cooperative transit coordination"
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"notes": "horizon station — 3 apertures; junction; connects Crux Station, Akhgar, and outer corridor; grain freight staging; Grão Freight Cooperative transit coordination"
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"notes": "horizon station — 2 apertures; through_route; connects Waterkant and Stilwater; Cairn pocket chain relay; Commission nominal authority"
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"notes": "horizon station — 2 apertures; through_route; connects Waterkant and Sawad; Cairn pocket chain relay; Commission nominal authority"
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{"body_id": "GJ680d", "proper_name": "Tulbagh", "body_type": "planet", "orbit_index": 3, "parent_body_id": null, "inhabited": true, "population": 150000000, "mass_class": "terrestrial", "surface_gravity": 0.90, "orbital_period_days": 130, "rotation_period_hours": 22.0, "atmosphere": "breathable", "planet_class": "temperate", "hydrosphere": "moderate", "economic_role": "agriculture", "settlement_pattern": "dispersed", "industrial_corridor": null, "notes": "primary inhabited world, K5 warm steady light, mixed cereal and legume agriculture, Mostert family four of seven agricultural regions, Wave 2 Cape-heritage founders, council of agricultural cooperatives"},
|
||||
{"body_id": "GJ680d", "proper_name": "Pardis", "body_type": "planet", "orbit_index": 3, "parent_body_id": null, "inhabited": true, "population": 150000000, "mass_class": "terrestrial", "surface_gravity": 0.90, "orbital_period_days": 130, "rotation_period_hours": 22.0, "atmosphere": "breathable", "planet_class": "temperate", "hydrosphere": "moderate", "economic_role": "agriculture", "settlement_pattern": "dispersed", "industrial_corridor": null, "notes": "primary inhabited world, K5 warm steady light, mixed cereal and legume agriculture, Farahani family four of seven agricultural regions, Wave 2 Persian-heritage founders, council of agricultural cooperatives"},
|
||||
{"body_id": "GJ680d-1", "proper_name": null, "body_type": "moon", "orbit_index": 1, "parent_body_id": "GJ680d", "inhabited": false, "population": 0, "mass_class": "dwarf", "surface_gravity": 0.05, "orbital_period_days": 8, "rotation_period_hours": 192, "atmosphere": "none", "planet_class": "barren", "hydrosphere": "none", "economic_role": null, "settlement_pattern": null, "industrial_corridor": null, "notes": "small moon"},
|
||||
{"body_id": "GJ680e", "proper_name": "Hermanus", "body_type": "planet", "orbit_index": 4, "parent_body_id": null, "inhabited": true, "population": 8000000, "mass_class": "terrestrial", "surface_gravity": 0.70, "orbital_period_days": 280, "rotation_period_hours": 20.0, "atmosphere": "breathable", "planet_class": "temperate-cool", "hydrosphere": "extensive", "economic_role": "agriculture", "settlement_pattern": "dispersed", "industrial_corridor": null, "notes": "secondary settlement body, fishing cooperative, marine protein surplus, 300-year cooperative structure"},
|
||||
{"body_id": "GJ680e", "proper_name": "Anzali", "body_type": "planet", "orbit_index": 4, "parent_body_id": null, "inhabited": true, "population": 8000000, "mass_class": "terrestrial", "surface_gravity": 0.70, "orbital_period_days": 280, "rotation_period_hours": 20.0, "atmosphere": "breathable", "planet_class": "temperate-cool", "hydrosphere": "extensive", "economic_role": "agriculture", "settlement_pattern": "dispersed", "industrial_corridor": null, "notes": "secondary settlement body, fishing cooperative, marine protein surplus, 300-year cooperative structure"},
|
||||
{"body_id": "GJ680f", "proper_name": null, "body_type": "planet", "orbit_index": 5, "parent_body_id": null, "inhabited": false, "population": 0, "mass_class": "terrestrial", "surface_gravity": 0.35, "orbital_period_days": 650, "rotation_period_hours": 16.0, "atmosphere": "none", "planet_class": "frozen", "hydrosphere": "ice", "economic_role": null, "settlement_pattern": null, "industrial_corridor": null, "notes": "frozen rocky"},
|
||||
{"body_id": "GJ680g", "proper_name": null, "body_type": "gas_giant", "orbit_index": 6, "parent_body_id": null, "inhabited": false, "population": 0, "mass_class": "gas_giant", "surface_gravity": null, "orbital_period_days": 2000, "rotation_period_hours": 11.0, "atmosphere": "dense", "planet_class": null, "hydrosphere": null, "economic_role": null, "settlement_pattern": null, "industrial_corridor": null, "notes": "moderate gas giant"},
|
||||
{"body_id": "GJ680g-1", "proper_name": null, "body_type": "moon", "orbit_index": 1, "parent_body_id": "GJ680g", "inhabited": false, "population": 0, "mass_class": "dwarf", "surface_gravity": 0.06, "orbital_period_days": 5, "rotation_period_hours": 120, "atmosphere": "none", "planet_class": "barren", "hydrosphere": "none", "economic_role": null, "settlement_pattern": null, "industrial_corridor": null, "notes": "inner gas giant moon"},
|
||||
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
|
||||
{"body_id": "GJ680-oort", "proper_name": null, "body_type": "oort_cloud", "orbit_index": 10, "parent_body_id": null, "inhabited": false, "population": 0, "mass_class": null, "surface_gravity": null, "orbital_period_days": null, "rotation_period_hours": null, "atmosphere": null, "planet_class": null, "hydrosphere": null, "economic_role": null, "settlement_pattern": null, "industrial_corridor": null, "notes": "oort cloud"}
|
||||
],
|
||||
"stations": [
|
||||
{"station_id": "GJ680d-S1", "proper_name": "Elsenburg", "orbits_body_id": "GJ680d", "station_type": "agricultural", "population": 3000000, "economic_role": "agriculture", "docking_class": "standard", "has_gate_infrastructure": false, "notes": "agricultural cooperative trade hub, Mostert family landholdings, light manufacturing, surplus export to Mabaso Junction corridor"},
|
||||
{"station_id": "GJ680-oort-S1", "proper_name": "Yzerfontein", "orbits_body_id": "GJ680-oort", "station_type": "horizon", "population": 0, "economic_role": "transit", "docking_class": "standard", "has_gate_infrastructure": true, "notes": "horizon station, 2 apertures, Gate Corp minimal rotating crew"}
|
||||
{"station_id": "GJ680d-S1", "proper_name": "Varamin", "orbits_body_id": "GJ680d", "station_type": "agricultural", "population": 3000000, "economic_role": "agriculture", "docking_class": "standard", "has_gate_infrastructure": false, "notes": "agricultural cooperative trade hub, Farahani family landholdings, light manufacturing, surplus export to Mabaso Junction corridor"},
|
||||
{"station_id": "GJ680-oort-S1", "proper_name": "Now Shahr", "orbits_body_id": "GJ680-oort", "station_type": "horizon", "population": 0, "economic_role": "transit", "docking_class": "standard", "has_gate_infrastructure": true, "notes": "horizon station, 2 apertures, Gate Corp minimal rotating crew"}
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"system_id": "GJ 722",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Skuilplek",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Sığınak",
|
||||
"star_type": "M",
|
||||
"spectral_class": "M0V",
|
||||
"wiki_data": {
|
||||
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"body_id": "GJ722c",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Rietbron",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Pınar",
|
||||
"body_type": "planet",
|
||||
"orbit_index": 2,
|
||||
"parent_body_id": null,
|
||||
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
|
||||
"economic_role": "agricultural",
|
||||
"settlement_pattern": "dispersed",
|
||||
"industrial_corridor": null,
|
||||
"notes": "primary inhabited world; wave_4 Afrikaans heritage ('reed spring'); 2-aperture through_route; M0V dim star; substantially self-sufficient (food since first generation, minimal lattice integration by design); community governance (legacy Commission exemption status, automatic renewal, no visit in living memory); Guardians of Autonomy named affiliation (cited in Guardian minimal-lattice viability literature); seven-generation M-dwarf agriculture from Cairn pocket tradition"
|
||||
"notes": "primary inhabited world; wave_4 Turkic heritage ('reed spring'); 2-aperture through_route; M0V dim star; substantially self-sufficient (food since first generation, minimal lattice integration by design); community governance (legacy Commission exemption status, automatic renewal, no visit in living memory); Guardians of Autonomy named affiliation (cited in Guardian minimal-lattice viability literature); seven-generation M-dwarf agriculture from Cairn pocket tradition"
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"body_id": "GJ722-belt",
|
||||
@@ -176,14 +176,14 @@
|
||||
"stations": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"station_id": "GJ722-oort-S1",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Skuilplek Horizon",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Sığınak Horizon",
|
||||
"orbits_body_id": "GJ722-oort",
|
||||
"station_type": "horizon",
|
||||
"population": 180,
|
||||
"economic_role": "transit",
|
||||
"docking_class": "major",
|
||||
"has_gate_infrastructure": true,
|
||||
"notes": "horizon station — 2 apertures; through_route; connects Droëland and outer Cairn pocket; minimal lattice infrastructure by community design; Guardian field representative visits (occasional); legacy Commission exemption maintained automatically"
|
||||
"notes": "horizon station — 2 apertures; through_route; connects Marib and outer Cairn pocket; minimal lattice infrastructure by community design; Guardian field representative visits (occasional); legacy Commission exemption maintained automatically"
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"system_id": "GJ 914A",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Droëland",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Marib",
|
||||
"star_type": "K",
|
||||
"spectral_class": "K2V",
|
||||
"wiki_data": {
|
||||
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"body_id": "GJ914Ac",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Calvinia",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Ghouta",
|
||||
"body_type": "planet",
|
||||
"orbit_index": 2,
|
||||
"parent_body_id": null,
|
||||
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
|
||||
"economic_role": "agricultural",
|
||||
"settlement_pattern": "dispersed",
|
||||
"industrial_corridor": "agricultural_export",
|
||||
"notes": "primary inhabited world; wave_3 Afrikaans heritage ('dry land'); 2-aperture through_route; K2V dim star; three centuries worked soil; mature irrigated agriculture (grain, legumes); no industrial sector; community governance with Guardian-aligned autonomist reflexes; Commission filed registration only (no resident personnel); multi-year contingency reserves as founding practice; supply dependency on Stilwater corridor for fabricated components"
|
||||
"notes": "primary inhabited world; wave_3 Arab heritage ('dry land'); 2-aperture through_route; K2V dim star; three centuries worked soil; mature irrigated agriculture (grain, legumes); no industrial sector; community governance with Guardian-aligned autonomist reflexes; Commission filed registration only (no resident personnel); multi-year contingency reserves as founding practice; supply dependency on Sawad corridor for fabricated components"
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"body_id": "GJ914A-belt",
|
||||
@@ -196,14 +196,14 @@
|
||||
"stations": [
|
||||
{
|
||||
"station_id": "GJ914A-oort-S1",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Droëland Horizon",
|
||||
"proper_name": "Marib Horizon",
|
||||
"orbits_body_id": "GJ914A-oort",
|
||||
"station_type": "horizon",
|
||||
"population": 320,
|
||||
"economic_role": "transit",
|
||||
"docking_class": "major",
|
||||
"has_gate_infrastructure": true,
|
||||
"notes": "horizon station — 2 apertures; through_route; connects Stilwater and outer Cairn pocket; grain and legume freight staging; contingency reserve logistics"
|
||||
"notes": "horizon station — 2 apertures; through_route; connects Sawad and outer Cairn pocket; grain and legume freight staging; contingency reserve logistics"
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
}
|
||||
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@@ -1622,6 +1622,10 @@ _CULTURAL_HERITAGE = {
|
||||
"chinese", "italian_northern", "tagalog", "norse_compact", "irish",
|
||||
"portuguese_iberian", "korean", "japanese", "swahili", "hausa",
|
||||
"bengali", "punjabi", "yoruba",
|
||||
# MENA / Central-Asian heritage seeded by the #1019 South-African rebalance.
|
||||
# The full canonical 47-value migration (renames + sector normalisation) is
|
||||
# #1016; these three are added early so the rebalanced systems validate.
|
||||
"arab", "persian", "turkic",
|
||||
}
|
||||
_CULTURAL_VOCAB = _CULTURAL_ACTIVITY | _CULTURAL_HERITAGE
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -193,42 +193,42 @@ backstory = "The deep frontier's serious mining operation. Altgrund Belt Survey
|
||||
character = "Self-reliant, technically skilled, operating with the confidence of people who have learned that out here, you solve your own problems. Altgrund Belt Survey's reports are thorough because there is no one to call when your survey is wrong."
|
||||
|
||||
[skuilplek_gas_skimming]
|
||||
name = "Skuilplek Gas Skimming Operations"
|
||||
name = "Sığınak Gas Skimming Operations"
|
||||
tier = 2
|
||||
lore_archetype = "gas_giant_skimming"
|
||||
behavioral_archetype = "producer"
|
||||
corridor = "deep_frontier"
|
||||
headquarters_system = "GJ 722"
|
||||
headquarters_settlement = "Skuilplek Station"
|
||||
headquarters_settlement = "Sığınak Station"
|
||||
currency_preference = "tractus"
|
||||
bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
|
||||
scope = "regional"
|
||||
primary_commodities = ["fusion_fuel", "chemical_feedstock"]
|
||||
secondary_commodities = ["water"]
|
||||
branded_products = ["SGO Deep Reach Fuel Standard", "Skuilplek Atmospheric Extract", "Frontier Fuel Bond"]
|
||||
branded_products = ["SGO Deep Reach Fuel Standard", "Sığınak Atmospheric Extract", "Frontier Fuel Bond"]
|
||||
shadow_connections = false
|
||||
gate_energy_dependent = false
|
||||
backstory = "GJ 722's gas giant provides the fuel supply for deep frontier operations that cannot gate back to inner-reach refineries for every fill. Skuilplek Gas Skimming is the energy independence operation — not ideologically, but practically. This far out, you cannot wait."
|
||||
character = "Independent in the way that geography enforces. Skuilplek Gas Skimming does not have opinions about Assembly or Compact. It has fuel, and the deep frontier needs fuel. That is enough of a relationship."
|
||||
backstory = "GJ 722's gas giant provides the fuel supply for deep frontier operations that cannot gate back to inner-reach refineries for every fill. Sığınak Gas Skimming is the energy independence operation — not ideologically, but practically. This far out, you cannot wait."
|
||||
character = "Independent in the way that geography enforces. Sığınak Gas Skimming does not have opinions about Assembly or Compact. It has fuel, and the deep frontier needs fuel. That is enough of a relationship."
|
||||
|
||||
[droeland_biosphere_cultivation]
|
||||
name = "Droëland Biosphere Cultivation"
|
||||
name = "Marib Biosphere Cultivation"
|
||||
tier = 2
|
||||
lore_archetype = "biosphere_cultivation"
|
||||
behavioral_archetype = "producer"
|
||||
corridor = "deep_frontier"
|
||||
headquarters_system = "GJ 914A"
|
||||
headquarters_settlement = "Droëland"
|
||||
headquarters_settlement = "Marib"
|
||||
currency_preference = "tractus"
|
||||
bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
|
||||
scope = "regional"
|
||||
primary_commodities = ["organic_compounds", "chemical_feedstock"]
|
||||
secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
|
||||
branded_products = ["DBC Frontier Bioreactor Extract", "Droëland Cultivation Matrix", "Deep Reach Organic Standard"]
|
||||
branded_products = ["MBC Frontier Bioreactor Extract", "Marib Cultivation Matrix", "Deep Reach Organic Standard"]
|
||||
shadow_connections = false
|
||||
gate_energy_dependent = true
|
||||
backstory = "Droëland's dry, marginal world makes conventional agriculture difficult. Droëland Biosphere Cultivation specialises in closed bioreactor systems adapted to arid-world conditions — producing organic compounds and chemical feedstocks without the water inputs conventional farming needs. A pioneer solution to a frontier problem."
|
||||
character = "Technically inventive by necessity, proud of having found approaches that work where conventional methods fail. Droëland Biosphere Cultivation is the kind of company that patents innovations not from commercial strategy but because the frontier made them invent things no one else had."
|
||||
backstory = "Marib's dry, marginal world makes conventional agriculture difficult. Marib Biosphere Cultivation specialises in closed bioreactor systems adapted to arid-world conditions — producing organic compounds and chemical feedstocks without the water inputs conventional farming needs. A pioneer solution to a frontier problem."
|
||||
character = "Technically inventive by necessity, proud of having found approaches that work where conventional methods fail. Marib Biosphere Cultivation is the kind of company that patents innovations not from commercial strategy but because the frontier made them invent things no one else had."
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
# ==========================================================================
|
||||
@@ -417,22 +417,22 @@ backstory = "Leuchtturm Station sits at a gate junction where traffic from three
|
||||
character = "The lighthouse that watches everything and says little. Leuchtturm Intelligence Relay considers discretion about its sources to be its most valuable product. It sells light, not exposure."
|
||||
|
||||
[droeland_textile_works]
|
||||
name = "Droëland Textile Works"
|
||||
name = "Marib Textile Works"
|
||||
tier = 2
|
||||
lore_archetype = "textile_craft_guild"
|
||||
behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
|
||||
corridor = "deep_frontier"
|
||||
headquarters_system = "GJ 914A"
|
||||
headquarters_settlement = "Droëland"
|
||||
headquarters_settlement = "Marib"
|
||||
currency_preference = "tractus"
|
||||
bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
|
||||
scope = "regional"
|
||||
primary_commodities = ["textiles"]
|
||||
secondary_commodities = ["consumer_goods"]
|
||||
branded_products = ["Droëland Frontier Cloth Standard", "DTW Pioneer Settlement Weave", "Deep Reach Functional Textile Grade"]
|
||||
branded_products = ["Marib Frontier Cloth Standard", "MTW Pioneer Settlement Weave", "Deep Reach Functional Textile Grade"]
|
||||
shadow_connections = false
|
||||
gate_energy_dependent = false
|
||||
backstory = "The deep frontier cannot depend on inner-reach textile supply chains. Droëland Textile Works produces settlement-grade fabric from locally-cultivated fibers using power-efficient production methods designed for off-grid operation. Not fashionable. Durable, repairable, and available."
|
||||
backstory = "The deep frontier cannot depend on inner-reach textile supply chains. Marib Textile Works produces settlement-grade fabric from locally-cultivated fibers using power-efficient production methods designed for off-grid operation. Not fashionable. Durable, repairable, and available."
|
||||
character = "Uninterested in aesthetics, focused entirely on function. 'This cloth lasts ten years of hard frontier use. If you want something beautiful, you want something from Kurashiki. If you want something that will still be a shirt when you need it to be, you want ours.'"
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -178,23 +178,23 @@ backstory = "Permanent by design. Station module and surface construction for th
|
||||
character = "Patient, structural, four-century planning horizon. Dzimbahwe Permanent Structures builds things to last. This is not a marketing claim."
|
||||
|
||||
[koeberg_fuel_works]
|
||||
name = "Koeberg Fuel Works"
|
||||
name = "Akhgar Fuel Works"
|
||||
tier = 2
|
||||
lore_archetype = "frontier_ice_mining"
|
||||
behavioral_archetype = "producer"
|
||||
corridor = "south_reach"
|
||||
headquarters_system = "GJ 1245B"
|
||||
headquarters_settlement = "Koeberg"
|
||||
headquarters_settlement = "Akhgar"
|
||||
currency_preference = "tractus"
|
||||
bloc_affiliation = "independent"
|
||||
scope = "regional"
|
||||
primary_commodities = ["fusion_fuel"]
|
||||
secondary_commodities = ["water", "chemical_feedstock"]
|
||||
branded_products = ["Koeberg Refined Fuel Standard", "KFW Mid-South Fuel Supply", "South Ice Extract Grade"]
|
||||
branded_products = ["Akhgar Refined Fuel Standard", "AFW Mid-South Fuel Supply", "South Ice Extract Grade"]
|
||||
shadow_connections = false
|
||||
gate_energy_dependent = false
|
||||
backstory = "Fuel supply for the mid-south corridor, extracting and refining water ice from the outer system bodies in the Koeberg zone."
|
||||
character = "Quiet on purpose, functional, keeping the fuel flowing. Koeberg Fuel Works does not seek attention. The fuel arrives."
|
||||
backstory = "Fuel supply for the mid-south corridor, extracting and refining water ice from the outer system bodies in the Akhgar zone."
|
||||
character = "Quiet on purpose, functional, keeping the fuel flowing. Akhgar Fuel Works does not seek attention. The fuel arrives."
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
# ==========================================================================
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ economic_specialization = "research_station"
|
||||
dominant_faction = "independent"
|
||||
|
||||
["GJ 722"]
|
||||
cultural_specialization = "turkic"
|
||||
dominant_faction = "independent"
|
||||
|
||||
["GJ 892"]
|
||||
@@ -317,6 +318,7 @@ economic_specialization = "marble_monopoly"
|
||||
dominant_faction = "independent"
|
||||
|
||||
["GJ 680"]
|
||||
cultural_specialization = "persian"
|
||||
dominant_faction = "independent"
|
||||
|
||||
["GJ 75"]
|
||||
@@ -696,3 +698,15 @@ economic_specialization = "financial_hub"
|
||||
|
||||
["GJ 1248"]
|
||||
dominant_faction = "independent"
|
||||
|
||||
# --- #1019 South-African heritage rebalance: thin afrikaans systems rewritten
|
||||
# --- into MENA/Central-Asian heritage (see docs/workshops/system-economic-
|
||||
# --- specialization/heritage-rebalance-batch.md). Names rewritten in systems.db.
|
||||
["GJ 914A"]
|
||||
cultural_specialization = "arab"
|
||||
|
||||
["GJ 508A"]
|
||||
cultural_specialization = "arab"
|
||||
|
||||
["GJ 1245B"]
|
||||
cultural_specialization = "persian"
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
id: GJ1245Bb
|
||||
name: Glimkop
|
||||
name: Kavir
|
||||
body_type: planet
|
||||
planet_class: frozen
|
||||
body_scale: planet
|
||||
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ render:
|
||||
night_side_ambient: 0.025
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Glimkop
|
||||
# Kavir
|
||||
|
||||
Frozen planet.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
|
||||
# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — KOEBERG
|
||||
# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — AKHGAR
|
||||
|
||||
**KOEBERG** is named after a coastal headland most of its founders had never seen and a few had never heard of, which is about as honest as place-naming gets.
|
||||
**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.
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## The Ember (Different One)
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## The Ember
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The primary at GJ 1245B is classified with a lowercase `m`, which reflects an object at the hydrogen-burning minimum mass boundary — a star so small and cool that the category is doing its best. The community calls it "the ember" without affection or resentment. It is what it is. 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.
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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.
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One gate connects Koeberg 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 Koeberg 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.
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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.
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## Why Here
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## Practical Information
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Koeberg 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 that 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 that was abruptly sealed away in that closed council meeting and never revisited. The Founding Family Archive is a genuine cultural institution and open to visitors with genealogical inquiries.
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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 that 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 that was abruptly sealed away in that closed council meeting and never revisited. The Founding Family Archive is a genuine cultural institution and open to visitors with genealogical inquiries.
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Adams of the Guide rates Koeberg: *Quiet on Purpose.*
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Adams of the Guide rates Akhgar: *Quiet on Purpose.*
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# Koeberg
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# Akhgar
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**GJ 1245B** | M-type | south_reach
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---
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||||
|
||||
---
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||||
The name comes from a place on Earth that most of Koeberg's founders had never visited and a few had never heard of — a coastal headland north of Cape Town, best known for a nuclear installation that was already centuries decommissioned by the time the wave_4 emigration began. The name was chosen at a community meeting two hundred years ago by a group of Afrikaner and Cape Malay settlers who wanted something that sounded like where they came from. Not a famous place. Not a landmark. Just a name that felt like home to people who no longer had a home, finding their way to the end of a transit line to see if this was somewhere they could make one.
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||||
The name is the Persian word for an ember — a single glowing coal — chosen at a community meeting two hundred years ago by the Persian-heritage settlers who founded the system, for the barely-burning star they had come to live beside. Not a grand name. Not a landmark. Just the plainest true description of the light they had chosen, settled on by people who no longer had a home and had come to the end of a transit line to see whether this was somewhere they could make one.
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||||
The star classification is unusual even by this region's standards — the lowercase `m` designation reflects an object at or near the hydrogen-burning minimum, a star so small and cool that it sits at the edge of what the term "star" reliably means. The primary emits barely enough energy to define a habitable zone; the community lives in station habitats close-in to the horizon station infrastructure, supplemented by hardened surface installations on the largest body. The star itself is nearly invisible to unaugmented observation from any distance. The community refers to it as "the ember" without particular affection or resentment. It is what it is.
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||||
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||||
One gate connects Koeberg to GJ 54. Through GJ 54, eventually, to the wider Reach. The community was founded wave_4 — two hundred years ago — which is recent enough that living memory runs to the third generation of settlers, and families with direct links to the founding party are common. The Afrikaner and Cape Malay founding heritage is legible in everything from the community's naming conventions to its architectural preferences to the specific form its governance has taken. The early settlers built with the particular determination of people who understood, when they chose a dead-end with a near-minimum star, exactly what they were committing to.
|
||||
One gate connects Akhgar to GJ 54. Through GJ 54, eventually, to the wider Reach. The community was founded wave_4 — two hundred years ago — which is recent enough that living memory runs to the third generation of settlers, and families with direct links to the founding party are common. The Persian founding heritage is legible in everything from the community's naming conventions to its architectural preferences to the specific form its governance has taken. The early settlers built with the particular determination of people who understood, when they chose a dead-end with a near-minimum star, exactly what they were committing to.
|
||||
|
||||
What they were committing to was quiet. Koeberg has one gate. The transit volume through that gate is low by any measure — the community imports what it needs, exports what it produces, and is not a through-route for anything. The isolation that a dead-end implies has, over two hundred years, become the community's defining characteristic rather than its limitation. Residents of Koeberg tend toward a particular quality of self-possession, an unhurriedness, and a social depth that comes from knowing that the person across from you at dinner will still be your neighbor in thirty years. The community is small — perhaps fifteen thousand registered residents — and the smallness is a feature.
|
||||
What they were committing to was quiet. Akhgar has one gate. The transit volume through that gate is low by any measure — the community imports what it needs, exports what it produces, and is not a through-route for anything. The isolation that a dead-end implies has, over two hundred years, become the community's defining characteristic rather than its limitation. Residents of Akhgar tend toward a particular quality of self-possession, an unhurriedness, and a social depth that comes from knowing that the person across from you at dinner will still be your neighbor in thirty years. The community is small — perhaps fifteen thousand registered residents — and the smallness is a feature.
|
||||
|
||||
Governance is a ward council — seven wards, each electing a representative, with a rotating chair that shifts each year through the seven wards in sequence. The predictability is intentional; the founding generation wanted a government whose next move could always be anticipated. The Assembly does not maintain any permanent staff at Koeberg. Oversight is handled through GJ 54 on a scheduled-visit basis. The community has never requested more.
|
||||
Governance is a ward council — seven wards, each electing a representative, with a rotating chair that shifts each year through the seven wards in sequence. The predictability is intentional; the founding generation wanted a government whose next move could always be anticipated. The Assembly does not maintain any permanent staff at Akhgar. Oversight is handled through GJ 54 on a scheduled-visit basis. The community has never requested more.
|
||||
|
||||
## Supply Dependency
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The specific reasons why the founding party chose this system — with its barel
|
||||
|
||||
## Narrative Hook
|
||||
|
||||
The geological survey records from Koeberg's first fifty years of settlement show a survey team that spent three seasons mapping a specific subsurface formation and then abruptly abandoned the project, filed an incomplete report, and never returned to the site — and the ward council's record from that period shows that the decision to stop was made at a closed session whose minutes were sealed by unanimous vote.
|
||||
The geological survey records from Akhgar's first fifty years of settlement show a survey team that spent three seasons mapping a specific subsurface formation and then abruptly abandoned the project, filed an incomplete report, and never returned to the site — and the ward council's record from that period shows that the decision to stop was made at a closed session whose minutes were sealed by unanimous vote.
|
||||
|
||||
## Calibration Note
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
| Orbit | ID | Name | Type | Inhabited | Pop | Mass | Gravity | Year (d) | Day (h) | Atmo | Class | Hydro | Economy | Settlement | Industrial |
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||||
| 1 | `GJ1245Bb` | Glimkop | planet | yes | 4K | terrestrial | 0.62g | 6 | 144.0 | thin | frozen | — | — | urban_concentrated | — |
|
||||
| 1 | `GJ1245Bb` | Kavir | planet | yes | 4K | terrestrial | 0.62g | 6 | 144.0 | thin | frozen | — | — | urban_concentrated | — |
|
||||
| 2 | `GJ1245Bc` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.34g | 18 | 20.4 | trace | frozen | — | — | — | — |
|
||||
| 3 | `GJ1245B-belt` | — | asteroid_belt | no | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
|
||||
| 4 | `GJ1245Bd` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.26g | 56 | 24.8 | none | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
| ID | Name | Type | Orbits | Population | Economy | Governance | Docking | Gate | Districts |
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||
| `GJ1245B-oort-S1` | Koeberg Horizon | horizon | `GJ1245B-oort` | 11K | transit | — | major | yes | 1 |
|
||||
| `GJ1245B-oort-S1` | Akhgar Horizon | horizon | `GJ1245B-oort` | 11K | transit | — | major | yes | 1 |
|
||||
|
||||
## Topology
|
||||
<!-- READ-ONLY — regenerated from star-map.json edges -->
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Every Assembly field officer posted to Athabasca eventually writes a private mem
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||||
|
||||
## Practical Information
|
||||
|
||||
Athabasca is five hops from Gateway with three gate apertures connecting to GJ 3988, Fremantle, and Carnarvon. The k-type primary is unremarkable; the habitable environment is functional. The system's economy runs on governance services, transit coordination, and the support infrastructure Assembly field presence requires. It processes paperwork and moves people between systems. This is its reason for existing, and if the Assembly's regional administrative structure were ever to contract, Athabasca's reason for existing would contract with it.
|
||||
Athabasca is five hops from Gateway with three gate apertures connecting to GJ 3988, Fremantle, and Golestan. The k-type primary is unremarkable; the habitable environment is functional. The system's economy runs on governance services, transit coordination, and the support infrastructure Assembly field presence requires. It processes paperwork and moves people between systems. This is its reason for existing, and if the Assembly's regional administrative structure were ever to contract, Athabasca's reason for existing would contract with it.
|
||||
|
||||
The field officers here are experienced. The memos remain in the drawer.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The name means "lighthouse," and it was chosen because the system's G-type star
|
||||
|
||||
## Supply Dependency
|
||||
|
||||
Leuchtturm does not generate the agricultural surplus that corridor systems like Droëland achieve. The G-type star is warmer than most deep frontier systems, which is an astronomical advantage, but the habitable world has limited arable zones and a small founding cohort that never grew into a large agricultural population. The community has always been sized for research, not production, and has accepted the supply dependency that comes with that choice.
|
||||
Leuchtturm does not generate the agricultural surplus that corridor systems like Marib achieve. The G-type star is warmer than most deep frontier systems, which is an astronomical advantage, but the habitable world has limited arable zones and a small founding cohort that never grew into a large agricultural population. The community has always been sized for research, not production, and has accepted the supply dependency that comes with that choice.
|
||||
|
||||
Food comes in from Knotenpunkt and the inner corridor. Leuchtturm exports data — processed astronomical records, deep frontier survey coordinates, spectroscopic archives that the community has been building for three hundred years. Whether this is an economically rational trade is a question that frontier agricultural systems occasionally raise with something approaching exasperation. Leuchtturm's researchers regard the question as a category error. They did not come here to grow crops.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
The name means waterside in Afrikaans, and it fits. The habitable world is low and wet, wide floodplains drawing long shadows under M-dwarf rust-orange light. Two hundred years of settlement have turned the original homestead plots into established agri-communes of the kind that barely need managing because everyone already knows their role. The Landbou Raad — the informal agricultural cooperative council — predates any formal Commission presence by over a century. It handles resource allocation, boundary arbitration, and settlement licensing. The Commission's local liaison is politely tolerated.
|
||||
|
||||
Waterkant feeds the outposts deeper in the Cairn pocket extension: processed grain, preserved protein cultures, and basic fabrication stock moving forward along the corridor toward Breëvlei and Stilwater. Return traffic is thin. The economic flow is directional, and the community is organized around production rather than exchange.
|
||||
Waterkant feeds the outposts deeper in the Cairn pocket extension: processed grain, preserved protein cultures, and basic fabrication stock moving forward along the corridor toward Breëvlei and Sawad. Return traffic is thin. The economic flow is directional, and the community is organized around production rather than exchange.
|
||||
|
||||
Disputes over water rights and field boundaries — the oldest kind of disputes humans carry with them — make up most of the local docket. The system sits at a choke point on the corridor's shared aquifer systems, and the neighboring settlements have long memories about dry years. This is not discussed in Commission correspondence. It is discussed everywhere else.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Authority is intermittent. Commission representatives pass through on scheduled
|
||||
|
||||
## Supply Dependency
|
||||
|
||||
Waterkant feeds outposts deeper in the Cairn pocket extension. Processed grain, preserved protein cultures, and basic fabrication stock move spinward along the corridor toward Breëvlei and Stilwater. Return traffic is thin — tools, replacement components, the occasional specialist — which gives the system a slightly one-directional feel economically.
|
||||
Waterkant feeds outposts deeper in the Cairn pocket extension. Processed grain, preserved protein cultures, and basic fabrication stock move spinward along the corridor toward Breëvlei and Sawad. Return traffic is thin — tools, replacement components, the occasional specialist — which gives the system a slightly one-directional feel economically.
|
||||
|
||||
## Faction Notes
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — BRANDPUNT
|
||||
|
||||
**BRANDPUNT** means focal point. The community at hop 17 named itself for what it does rather than what it is — an unusual choice in a corridor where systems are named for what they look like (Stilwater, Droëland, Skemeraand) or what they feel like (Eerste Wacht, Skuilplek, Helderoog). Brandpunt feels like a laboratory, which is what it is.
|
||||
**BRANDPUNT** means focal point. The community at hop 17 named itself for what it does rather than what it is — an unusual choice in a corridor where systems are named for what they look like (Skemeraand, Breëvlei, Helderoog) or what they feel like (Eerste Wacht, Sığınak). Brandpunt feels like a laboratory, which is what it is.
|
||||
|
||||
## Why the Binary Matters
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ The system's K5V+M3V binary produces a light environment that no other inhabited
|
||||
|
||||
This is the fact that Brandpunt was built to study.
|
||||
|
||||
Thirty-five years ago, a consortium of technical specialists from the corridor's farming communities recognized a problem that had been accumulating for decades without a name. The corridor's farming communities had each spent generations adapting Earth-derived crop cultivars to their specific stellar conditions — Pedra Seca's drought-resistance work under its K7V primary, Droëland's photosynthetic adaptations for K-type dimness, Ouplaas's long-cycle cereal genetics tuned to M-dwarf output. As the communities' supply relationships deepened, they began exchanging seeds along with goods. They were exchanging cultivars whose light-spectrum tuning was calibrated to different stars. The adapted strains performed poorly when transplanted to neighboring worlds whose stellar spectrum differed from their development environment — and nobody had the research infrastructure to explain why.
|
||||
Thirty-five years ago, a consortium of technical specialists from the corridor's farming communities recognized a problem that had been accumulating for decades without a name. The corridor's farming communities had each spent generations adapting Earth-derived crop cultivars to their specific stellar conditions — Pedra Seca's drought-resistance work under its K7V primary, Marib's photosynthetic adaptations for K-type dimness, Ouplaas's long-cycle cereal genetics tuned to M-dwarf output. As the communities' supply relationships deepened, they began exchanging seeds along with goods. They were exchanging cultivars whose light-spectrum tuning was calibrated to different stars. The adapted strains performed poorly when transplanted to neighboring worlds whose stellar spectrum differed from their development environment — and nobody had the research infrastructure to explain why.
|
||||
|
||||
The founding consortium — eight specialists from four corridor communities, including three Khoikhoi-descended agricultural scientists who had trained at Lalande's technical institute and returned to serve the corridor's needs — identified GJ 3943 as the only natural multi-spectrum testing environment within the corridor's reach. The oscillating binary light would allow a single experimental planting to be assessed against both K5V and M3V spectral parameters within a single growing cycle. Neither parameter exists anywhere else on the corridor in isolation, let alone in combination. Every survey report had recommended against permanent settlement, citing the thin atmosphere, marginal gravity, and polar ice as the only water source. The founding consortium's response was that this made it appropriate. A natural laboratory should not be a place anyone would otherwise want to farm.
|
||||
|
||||
The Agricultural Spectrum Research Compact was incorporated thirty-five years ago. Each member community — Pedra Seca, Droëland, Skuilplek, Ouplaas, and eventually Eerste Wacht — contributes a defined annual share of agricultural surplus to the Compact. In return, members receive Brandpunt's cultivar testing results, light-condition specifications for adapted strains, and access to technical consulting from resident specialists. The system that three consecutive surveys had declared unviable for settlement turned out to be viable in the specific register of people who brought their food with them and had a consortium of farming communities to bring it from.
|
||||
The Agricultural Spectrum Research Compact was incorporated thirty-five years ago. Each member community — Pedra Seca, Marib, Sığınak, Ouplaas, and eventually Eerste Wacht — contributes a defined annual share of agricultural surplus to the Compact. In return, members receive Brandpunt's cultivar testing results, light-condition specifications for adapted strains, and access to technical consulting from resident specialists. The system that three consecutive surveys had declared unviable for settlement turned out to be viable in the specific register of people who brought their food with them and had a consortium of farming communities to bring it from.
|
||||
|
||||
The settlement on GJ3943b is called Skuiling — Afrikaans for shelter. It is built into the polar terrain where the ice-extraction infrastructure provides both the water supply and the habitat foundation. Pressurized dome modules anchor to the extraction framework. The sky overhead shows the binary's color oscillation that corridor travelers recognize as the waypoint marker — from inside the domes, the binary's light comes through panels calibrated to specific spectral parameters and shifts on a scheduled cycle to match the companion's orbital position. Researchers track the spectral schedule with precision because the experiment requires it.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ The community is 1,800 people. It holds more advanced degrees per capita than an
|
||||
|
||||
## Supply Dependency
|
||||
|
||||
Brandpunt imports essentially all food from member communities. The agricultural surplus contributions from Pedra Seca, Droëland, and Ouplaas cover food requirements for the permanent population and the rotating research cohort. The community maintains six months of reserve stores — shorter than most deep-frontier communities hold, by design: the founding consortium's view was that extended reserve culture would signal a siege mentality that would undermine the Compact's collaborative model.
|
||||
Brandpunt imports essentially all food from member communities. The agricultural surplus contributions from Pedra Seca, Marib, and Ouplaas cover food requirements for the permanent population and the rotating research cohort. The community maintains six months of reserve stores — shorter than most deep-frontier communities hold, by design: the founding consortium's view was that extended reserve culture would signal a siege mentality that would undermine the Compact's collaborative model.
|
||||
|
||||
Technical components for the research infrastructure arrive through the corridor from inner-reach sources, sourced through Commission research procurement contracts. Brandpunt's Commission contract status is the subject of occasional pointed commentary from the corridor's more autonomy-oriented communities. The community's position is that institutional contracts fund the research that keeps their neighbors' crops viable, and their neighbors have not disagreed in terms that alter the arrangement.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
id: GJ508Ac
|
||||
name: Uithoek
|
||||
name: Rusafa
|
||||
body_type: planet
|
||||
planet_class: temperate
|
||||
body_scale: planet
|
||||
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ render:
|
||||
night_side_ambient: 0.025
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Uithoek
|
||||
# Rusafa
|
||||
|
||||
Temperate planet.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
|
||||
# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — STILWATER
|
||||
# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — SAWAD
|
||||
|
||||
**STILWATER** was named for exactly what its settlers wanted: a world that would hold still and let people farm it. It has been doing that for two hundred years and shows no signs of stopping.
|
||||
**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 Still
|
||||
## The Settled Land
|
||||
|
||||
The name is "still water" in Afrikaans and Dutch, chosen by 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 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 includes Stilwater in its distribution agreements, informally and occasionally slowly.
|
||||
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
|
||||
|
||||
Stilwater is a through-route between Breëvlei and 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. No settlement has taken root at GJ 914A in the thirty years since the through-route technically opened. 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.
|
||||
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 arriving out of the Marib direction show a pattern of missing hours — more than the run between two quiet farming systems should produce. 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
|
||||
|
||||
Stilwater is seven hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to Breëvlei inward and 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.
|
||||
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 Stilwater: *Peaceful. Far Gate Hours Unaccounted.*
|
||||
Adams of the Guide rates Sawad: *Peaceful. Far Gate Hours Unaccounted.*
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
|
||||
# Stilwater
|
||||
# Sawad
|
||||
**GJ 508A** | M-type | north_reach
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
@@ -19,31 +19,31 @@
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Stilwater is the quiet deep of the Cairn pocket chain. The name — "still water" in Afrikaans and Dutch — was chosen two centuries ago by settlers who found the system's main habitable world unremarkable in all the ways they wanted: no violent weather, no unstable tectonics, no competing interests. Just a planet that would hold still and let people farm it. It has been doing that ever since.
|
||||
Sawad is the quiet deep of the Cairn pocket chain. The name — old Earth's word for the black, watered farmland between two rivers, the settled land as against the desert beyond it — was chosen two centuries ago by Arab-heritage settlers who found the system's main habitable world unremarkable in all the ways they wanted: no violent weather, no unstable tectonics, no competing interests. Just a planet that would hold still and let people farm it. It has been doing that ever since.
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At hop 7, Stilwater is as far from the interstellar corridor's center of gravity as a settled system can practically be. Commission presence is nominal — a charter filing office, a transit log, a medical station that operates 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.
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At hop 7, Sawad is as far from the interstellar corridor's center of gravity as a settled system can practically be. Commission presence is nominal — a charter filing office, a transit log, a medical station that operates 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.
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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 to the naked eye on clear nights, a reminder of the corridor they sit at the end of.
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## Supply Dependency
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||||
Stilwater relies on inbound manufactured goods, medical supplies, and technical components from the corridor behind it, primarily sourced through Breëvlei and Waterkant. Its agricultural output is sufficient for local consumption with modest surplus sent back along the chain. The supply line is long and the delays are part of life here.
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Sawad relies on inbound manufactured goods, medical supplies, and technical components from the corridor behind it, primarily sourced through Breëvlei and Waterkant. Its agricultural output is sufficient for local consumption with modest surplus sent back along the chain. The supply line is long and the delays are part of life here.
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## Faction Notes
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A community council operates all civic functions. No external faction has established a meaningful presence — the system is too far out and too small to justify the overhead. The Landbou Raad cooperative network from the corridor includes Stilwater in its distribution agreements, though the relationship is informal and occasionally slow.
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A community council operates all civic functions. No external faction has established a meaningful presence — the system is too far out and too small to justify the overhead. The Landbou Raad cooperative network from the corridor includes Sawad in its distribution agreements, though the relationship is informal and occasionally slow.
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## Silence Topic
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The status of GJ 914A, the system on the far side. Stilwater is a through_route between Breëvlei and GJ 914A, but no one discusses what exactly is there or what the transit logs from that direction contain.
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The transit logs on the Marib (GJ 914A) gate. Sawad is a through_route between Breëvlei and Marib, and the short run between two quiet farming systems should not produce the pattern of missing hours that vessels arriving from that direction carry — but no one discusses what the logs contain.
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## Narrative Hook
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||||
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||||
The through_route beyond Stilwater toward GJ 914A has been technically open for thirty years, but no settlement has taken root there, and the transit logs from vessels coming in from that direction have a pattern of missing hours that no one has formally explained.
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The transit logs from vessels arriving out of the Marib (GJ 914A) direction carry a recurring pattern of missing hours — more than a short hop between two farming systems should produce — and no one at Sawad has ever formally explained them.
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## Calibration Note
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Wave_4 at hop 7 is unusual — most hop 7 settlements are wave_5. Stilwater's early founding reflects the Cairn pocket's original settlement push, which reached deep before the Reach's expansion slowed during the early Secession years.
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Wave_4 at hop 7 is unusual — most hop 7 settlements are wave_5. Sawad's early founding reflects the Cairn pocket's original settlement push, which reached deep before the Reach's expansion slowed during the early Secession years.
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## Celestial Bodies
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<!-- READ-ONLY — generated from systems.db bodies/stations tables -->
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| Orbit | ID | Name | Type | Inhabited | Pop | Mass | Gravity | Year (d) | Day (h) | Atmo | Class | Hydro | Economy | Settlement | Industrial |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 1 | `GJ508Ab` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.32g | 9 | 206.4 | none | barren | — | — | — | — |
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| 2 | `GJ508Ac` | Uithoek | planet | yes | 6K | terrestrial | 0.84g | 65 | 28.4 | standard | temperate | liquid_water | agricultural | dispersed | agricultural_export |
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| 2 | `GJ508Ac` | Rusafa | planet | yes | 6K | terrestrial | 0.84g | 65 | 28.4 | standard | temperate | liquid_water | agricultural | dispersed | agricultural_export |
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| 3 | `GJ508A-belt` | — | asteroid_belt | no | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| 4 | `GJ508Ad` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.48g | 220 | 24.8 | thin | frozen | — | — | — | — |
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| 5 | `GJ508Ae` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.36g | 640 | 28.6 | trace | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
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| ID | Name | Type | Orbits | Population | Economy | Governance | Docking | Gate | Districts |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| `GJ508A-oort-S1` | Stilwater Horizon | horizon | `GJ508A-oort` | 140 | transit | — | major | yes | 1 |
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| `GJ508A-oort-S1` | Sawad Horizon | horizon | `GJ508A-oort` | 140 | transit | — | major | yes | 1 |
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## Topology
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<!-- READ-ONLY — regenerated from star-map.json edges -->
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@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ The legal basis for land tenure on Ouplaas is not clarified in any document the
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## The Neighbor Relationship
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The connection inward to Skuilplek is the system's primary external relationship. The communities know each other the way neighbors know each other across a very long road — occasional visits, reliable trade, the mutual understanding that neither will call for help unless the need is genuine. Ouplaas sends food. Skuilplek sends processed materials and the occasional technical specialist. Neither community discusses this in terms that imply dependency.
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The connection inward to Sığınak is the system's primary external relationship. The communities know each other the way neighbors know each other across a very long road — occasional visits, reliable trade, the mutual understanding that neither will call for help unless the need is genuine. Ouplaas sends food. Sığınak sends processed materials and the occasional technical specialist. Neither community discusses this in terms that imply dependency.
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## Practical Information
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|
||||
Ouplaas is ten hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to GJ 5 and Skuilplek. Agricultural produce is available. The tempo of community life is seasonal and measured. Outside visitors who arrive expecting urgency will find instead a community that has already thought carefully about whatever they came to offer, found it lacking, and moved on.
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Ouplaas is ten hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to GJ 5 and Sığınak. Agricultural produce is available. The tempo of community life is seasonal and measured. Outside visitors who arrive expecting urgency will find instead a community that has already thought carefully about whatever they came to offer, found it lacking, and moved on.
|
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Adams of the Guide rates Ouplaas: *Four hundred years of excellent farming. Institutional opinion not solicited.*
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Four hundred years is a long time. Ouplaas predates the Lattice Commission, pred
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The community has a relationship with Reach institutions that can best be described as courteous indifference. Commission liaisons pass through infrequently and are treated with the particular hospitality extended to guests who are not quite welcome and know it. The Assembly's administrative reach is nominal. There are no Syndic operations of consequence — the community produces more than it needs, trades for what it lacks, and has maintained that balance for so long that disrupting it would require more institutional leverage than anyone at this depth can bring to bear. Ouplaas doesn't need saving, doesn't need governing, and doesn't need investment. It is four hundred years into being exactly what it set out to be.
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|
||||
The connection inward to Skuilplek through the Cairn pocket chain is the system's primary external relationship. The communities know each other the way neighbors know each other across a very long road — occasional visits, reliable trade, the understanding that neither will call for help unless the need is genuine. Ouplaas sends food. Skuilplek sends processed materials and the occasional technical specialist. Both communities benefit from the other's existence. Neither community discusses this arrangement in terms that imply dependency.
|
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The connection inward to Sığınak through the Cairn pocket chain is the system's primary external relationship. The communities know each other the way neighbors know each other across a very long road — occasional visits, reliable trade, the understanding that neither will call for help unless the need is genuine. Ouplaas sends food. Sığınak sends processed materials and the occasional technical specialist. Both communities benefit from the other's existence. Neither community discusses this arrangement in terms that imply dependency.
|
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|
||||
What Ouplaas has that the inner Reach lacks is time. Not just the four hundred years already elapsed, but the sense that the community has enough time ahead of it not to hurry anything. The tempo of life here is agricultural — seasons, harvests, planning cycles measured in decades rather than fiscal quarters. An outsider who arrives expecting urgency finds instead a community that has already thought carefully about whatever the outsider came to offer, found it lacking, and moved on.
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@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ What Ouplaas has that the inner Reach lacks is time. Not just the four hundred y
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|
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## Supply Dependency
|
||||
|
||||
Light manufacturing components and technical equipment sourced via the Cairn chain corridor, primarily through Skuilplek. The community is largely self-sufficient in food, basic materials, and most common services; the dependency is on specialized tools and replacement parts for agricultural and atmospheric processing equipment that the community cannot manufacture locally. Disruption would be felt slowly, over years, as equipment aged without replacement.
|
||||
Light manufacturing components and technical equipment sourced via the Cairn chain corridor, primarily through Sığınak. The community is largely self-sufficient in food, basic materials, and most common services; the dependency is on specialized tools and replacement parts for agricultural and atmospheric processing equipment that the community cannot manufacture locally. Disruption would be felt slowly, over years, as equipment aged without replacement.
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|
||||
---
|
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|
||||
@@ -78,4 +78,4 @@ Four centuries of uninterrupted settlement has produced something the Reach cann
|
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## Topology
|
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<!-- READ-ONLY — regenerated from star-map.json edges -->
|
||||
- **Hop Distance from Gateway:** 10
|
||||
- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 5, GJ 722 (Skuilplek)
|
||||
- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 5, GJ 722 (Sığınak)
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ The Grão Freight Cooperative was founded two centuries ago by smaller producers
|
||||
|
||||
## Practical Information
|
||||
|
||||
Inhambane is five hops from Gateway with three gate apertures — junction connecting Crux Station, Koeberg, and GJ 829. Food production is structurally insulated against disruption by design. The system imports refined fuels, technical equipment, and modest luxury goods, and is not supply-dependent in any critical sense. The K-type primary is warm enough for the alluvial plains to do what they do. Three hundred years of consistent surplus have produced a community that understands food security in both agricultural and political terms.
|
||||
Inhambane is five hops from Gateway with three gate apertures — junction connecting Crux Station, Akhgar, and GJ 829. Food production is structurally insulated against disruption by design. The system imports refined fuels, technical equipment, and modest luxury goods, and is not supply-dependent in any critical sense. The K-type primary is warm enough for the alluvial plains to do what they do. Three hundred years of consistent surplus have produced a community that understands food security in both agricultural and political terms.
|
||||
|
||||
Adams of the Guide rates Inhambane: *Fed Everyone Else First, Still Has Enough.*
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
Where do you put that much grain? The answer, developed over two centuries of incremental infrastructure investment, is a network of atmosphere-controlled storage facilities — silos in the formal sense but built to a scale that makes the word insufficient. The largest complex, in the northern plain near the original founding settlement, holds enough processed grain to feed Zenzele and Crux Station's combined population for eighteen months without a single additional harvest. Three hundred years of maintenance and expansion have made this infrastructure the most sophisticated agricultural storage operation in the south_reach. The moisture control systems, the pest management protocols, the inventory management software developed locally and now licensed to outer south_reach systems — all of it built by people whose founding ethic was that food security was the precondition for everything else.
|
||||
|
||||
The three gates connect to Crux Station (inward), GJ 1245B (Koeberg), and GJ 829 (outward). The Crux Station connection is the primary import and export corridor; Inhambane's grain moves toward inner systems through Crux Station and onward. The GJ 829 connection extends the corridor outward into systems that depend on Inhambane's processing capacity for their own agricultural output — smaller producers who grow but lack the infrastructure to store and ship efficiently.
|
||||
The three gates connect to Crux Station (inward), GJ 1245B (Akhgar), and GJ 829 (outward). The Crux Station connection is the primary import and export corridor; Inhambane's grain moves toward inner systems through Crux Station and onward. The GJ 829 connection extends the corridor outward into systems that depend on Inhambane's processing capacity for their own agricultural output — smaller producers who grow but lack the infrastructure to store and ship efficiently.
|
||||
|
||||
The settlement governance is what you would expect from a community founded by agricultural cooperatives and left largely to its own management for three centuries: a council of storage operators and field cooperatives, with rotating seat allocation weighted by production contribution. Formally equitable. In practice, the three families who managed the first grain storage expansion — and whose descendants still hold the operating licenses for the major storage complexes — have a structural weight in council proceedings that is not written into the charter but is not absent from the room.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ The supply line to Weitblick and the inner corridor still matters for manufactur
|
||||
|
||||
## Faction Notes
|
||||
|
||||
Helle Wacht has no formal institutional affiliations by design. The community's founding premise was the rejection of institutional entanglement, which means it has gone further in that direction than even Skuilplek — no Compact affiliation, no Lattice Commission compliance registration beyond the minimum required to maintain gate access, no Guardian chapter (the community regards the Guardians as still too institutionally mediated for their purposes).
|
||||
Helle Wacht has no formal institutional affiliations by design. The community's founding premise was the rejection of institutional entanglement, which means it has gone further in that direction than even Sığınak — no Compact affiliation, no Lattice Commission compliance registration beyond the minimum required to maintain gate access, no Guardian chapter (the community regards the Guardians as still too institutionally mediated for their purposes).
|
||||
|
||||
The founders disagree internally about what zero institutional obligation actually means in practice. A functioning community requires institutions. The question is which institutions are acceptable and on what terms. These debates are ongoing, active, and unresolved. The community is building institutions from scratch while simultaneously debating the philosophical basis on which those institutions should be justified.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ Settlers have been finding weathered marker stakes in the deep marsh. Not recent
|
||||
|
||||
## Practical Information
|
||||
|
||||
Breëvlei is six hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to Stilwater inward and Waterkant. The Cairn pocket extension continues through here. The community is young, the governance is improvised, and the tidal lowlands are not yet fully catalogued. The blue-white F-type light is genuinely distinctive for the corridor.
|
||||
Breëvlei is six hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to Sawad inward and Waterkant. The Cairn pocket extension continues through here. The community is young, the governance is improvised, and the tidal lowlands are not yet fully catalogued. The blue-white F-type light is genuinely distinctive for the corridor.
|
||||
|
||||
Adams of the Guide rates Breëvlei: *Promising. Marsh Unexplored.*
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
id: GJ680d
|
||||
name: Tulbagh
|
||||
name: Pardis
|
||||
body_type: planet
|
||||
planet_class: temperate
|
||||
body_scale: planet
|
||||
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ render:
|
||||
night_side_ambient: 0.025
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Tulbagh
|
||||
# Pardis
|
||||
|
||||
Temperate planet.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
id: GJ680e
|
||||
name: Hermanus
|
||||
name: Anzali
|
||||
body_type: planet
|
||||
planet_class: temperate
|
||||
body_scale: planet
|
||||
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ render:
|
||||
night_side_ambient: 0.025
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Hermanus
|
||||
# Anzali
|
||||
|
||||
Temperate planet.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
|
||||
# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — CARNARVON
|
||||
# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — GOLESTAN
|
||||
|
||||
**CARNARVON** is the kind of spur-end system where the founding family's name appears on four of the seven primary agricultural regions, and no one has ever found this remarkable enough to comment on.
|
||||
**GOLESTAN** means "the rose garden," and on a spur-end world where the founding family's name appears on four of the seven primary agricultural regions, the irony of naming the place after a walled garden one family tends has occurred to no one as worth commenting on.
|
||||
|
||||
## The Spur
|
||||
|
||||
One gate in, one gate out — both the same gate. No through traffic. Everything that passes through Carnarvon's horizon station is either coming here or came from here. The economy is correspondingly local: mixed cereal and legume agriculture on the primary, light manufacturing for self-maintenance, and a fishing cooperative on the second-largest settlement body that has been running on the same structure for three hundred years. The Mostert family arrived on a wave_2 land-survey contract four centuries ago and simply stayed when the survey was complete. The family name appears on four of the seven primary agricultural regions and two of the manufacturing cooperatives. The land was surveyed by the Mosterts, allocated by the Mosterts, and has passed to Mostert descendants in every generation since. The Assembly's inheritance and land-use frameworks nominally apply. No one has ever tested them here.
|
||||
One gate in, one gate out — both the same gate. No through traffic. Everything that passes through Golestan's horizon station is either coming here or came from here. The economy is correspondingly local: mixed cereal and legume agriculture on the primary, light manufacturing for self-maintenance, and a fishing cooperative on the second-largest settlement body that has been running on the same structure for three hundred years. The Farahani family arrived on a wave_2 land-survey contract four centuries ago and simply stayed when the survey was complete. The family name appears on four of the seven primary agricultural regions and two of the manufacturing cooperatives. The land was surveyed by the Farahanis, allocated by the Farahanis, and has passed to Farahani descendants in every generation since. The Assembly's inheritance and land-use frameworks nominally apply. No one has ever tested them here.
|
||||
|
||||
The Cape-heritage founding culture — practical, self-reliant, deeply skeptical of external institutional claims on local governance — makes Carnarvon more comfortable with its effective isolation than most Assembly administrators would prefer. The system is not hostile to outside contact. It simply does not require it.
|
||||
The Persian-heritage founding culture — an old landed sensibility, patient and proprietary, deeply skeptical of external institutional claims on what a family has held and worked for four centuries — makes Golestan more comfortable with its effective isolation than most Assembly administrators would prefer. The system is not hostile to outside contact. It simply does not require it.
|
||||
|
||||
## The Contract
|
||||
|
||||
The original land-survey contract under which the founding party arrived has a public record: the survey was commissioned, completed, and filed. It does not establish what terms governed the surveyors' rights to claim residency after filing, or what the contracting party received in exchange. The contracting party — a wave_2 colonial development firm that no longer exists as a legal entity — apparently received something, because the contract was filed as fulfilled.
|
||||
|
||||
The firm transferred its archived assets to a successor entity three mergers ago. Someone in that chain has been paying annual archival access fees on Carnarvon's founding records for the past forty years.
|
||||
The firm transferred its archived assets to a successor entity three mergers ago. Someone in that chain has been paying annual archival access fees on Golestan's founding records for the past forty years.
|
||||
|
||||
## Practical Information
|
||||
|
||||
Carnarvon is six hops from Gateway with one aperture connecting to Enugu and Athabasca. The K5 primary is warm and steady by outer arc standards. The fishing cooperative produces a surplus of processed marine protein. The agricultural governance council is slow, consensual, and weighted in practice by vote blocs that formal structures would officially decline to acknowledge. Assembly's nearest outpost is at Athabasca. Gate Corp maintains a minimal rotating crew.
|
||||
Golestan is six hops from Gateway with one aperture connecting to Enugu and Athabasca. The K5 primary is warm and steady by outer arc standards. The fishing cooperative produces a surplus of processed marine protein. The agricultural governance council is slow, consensual, and weighted in practice by vote blocs that formal structures would officially decline to acknowledge. Assembly's nearest outpost is at Athabasca. Gate Corp maintains a minimal rotating crew.
|
||||
|
||||
Nobody comes here without a purpose. The Mosterts are hospitable to people with purposes.
|
||||
Nobody comes here without a purpose. The Farahanis are hospitable to people with purposes.
|
||||
|
||||
Adams of the Guide rates Carnarvon: *Independent. Contract Pending Review.*
|
||||
Adams of the Guide rates Golestan: *Independent. Contract Pending Review.*
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
|
||||
# Carnarvon
|
||||
# Golestan
|
||||
**GJ 680** | M-type | north_reach
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
@@ -21,27 +21,27 @@
|
||||
|
||||
## Supply Dependency
|
||||
|
||||
Carnarvon is a spur, which shapes everything about it. One gate in, one gate out — both the same gate. The horizon station connects back toward Athabasca and Enugu, but there is no through traffic, no corridor of systems depending on Carnarvon as a waypoint. What passes through the gate is either coming here or came from here. The economy is correspondingly local: mixed cereal and legume agriculture on the primary, light manufacturing that supplies its own maintenance, and a fishing industry on the second-largest settlement body that has been running on the same cooperative structure for three hundred years.
|
||||
Golestan is a spur, which shapes everything about it. One gate in, one gate out — both the same gate. The horizon station connects back toward Athabasca and Enugu, but there is no through traffic, no corridor of systems depending on Golestan as a waypoint. What passes through the gate is either coming here or came from here. The economy is correspondingly local: mixed cereal and legume agriculture on the primary, light manufacturing that supplies its own maintenance, and a fishing industry on the second-largest settlement body that has been running on the same cooperative structure for three hundred years.
|
||||
|
||||
The Mostert family — Cape-heritage founders who arrived on a wave_2 land-survey contract and simply stayed when the survey was complete — remain the system's largest agricultural landholders. The family name appears on four of the seven primary agricultural regions and two of the manufacturing cooperatives. This is not unusual for a spur-end system with four centuries of continuous settlement and no demographic disruption. The land was surveyed by the Mosterts, allocated by the Mosterts, and has passed to Mostert descendants in every generation since. The Assembly's inheritance and land-use frameworks nominally apply. No one has ever tested them here.
|
||||
The Farahani family — Persian-heritage founders who arrived on a wave_2 land-survey contract and simply stayed when the survey was complete — remain the system's largest agricultural landholders. The family name appears on four of the seven primary agricultural regions and two of the manufacturing cooperatives. This is not unusual for a spur-end system with four centuries of continuous settlement and no demographic disruption. The land was surveyed by the Farahanis, allocated by the Farahanis, and has passed to Farahani descendants in every generation since. The Assembly's inheritance and land-use frameworks nominally apply. No one has ever tested them here.
|
||||
|
||||
## Faction Notes
|
||||
|
||||
Carnarvon has no significant external faction presence. Gate Corporation maintains a minimal rotating-contract crew at the horizon station. The Assembly's nearest outpost is at Athabasca, one hop inward. No Syndic has a major operation here. The local governance is a council of agricultural cooperative representatives, which functions as it has functioned for two centuries: slowly, consensually, and with the Mostert family's vote bloc carrying more weight than any formal structure would officially acknowledge.
|
||||
Golestan has no significant external faction presence. Gate Corporation maintains a minimal rotating-contract crew at the horizon station. The Assembly's nearest outpost is at Athabasca, one hop inward. No Syndic has a major operation here. The local governance is a council of agricultural cooperative representatives, which functions as it has functioned for two centuries: slowly, consensually, and with the Farahani family's vote bloc carrying more weight than any formal structure would officially acknowledge.
|
||||
|
||||
The Cape-heritage founding culture — practical, self-reliant, deeply skeptical of external institutional claims on local governance — makes Carnarvon more comfortable with its effective isolation than most Assembly administrators would prefer. The system is not hostile to outside contact. It simply does not require it.
|
||||
The Persian-heritage founding culture — an old landed sensibility, patient and proprietary, deeply skeptical of external institutional claims on what a family has held and worked for four centuries — makes Golestan more comfortable with its effective isolation than most Assembly administrators would prefer. The system is not hostile to outside contact. It simply does not require it.
|
||||
|
||||
## Silence Topic
|
||||
|
||||
What Carnarvon does not discuss with outsiders is the content of the original land-survey contract under which the founding party arrived. The contract's public record establishes that the survey was commissioned, completed, and filed. It does not establish what terms governed the surveyors' rights to claim residency after filing, or what the contracting party received in exchange. The contracting party — a wave_2 colonial development firm that no longer exists as a legal entity — apparently received something, because the contract was filed as fulfilled. What that was, and whether its terms created any ongoing obligations on the Mostert family's landholdings, has not been examined by anyone with the authority to do so.
|
||||
What Golestan does not discuss with outsiders is the content of the original land-survey contract under which the founding party arrived. The contract's public record establishes that the survey was commissioned, completed, and filed. It does not establish what terms governed the surveyors' rights to claim residency after filing, or what the contracting party received in exchange. The contracting party — a wave_2 colonial development firm that no longer exists as a legal entity — apparently received something, because the contract was filed as fulfilled. What that was, and whether its terms created any ongoing obligations on the Farahani family's landholdings, has not been examined by anyone with the authority to do so.
|
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||||
## Narrative Hook
|
||||
|
||||
The founding survey contract is filed, fulfilled, and closed — but the development firm that commissioned it transferred its archived assets to a successor entity three mergers ago, and someone in that chain has been paying annual archival access fees on Carnarvon's founding records for the past forty years.
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The founding survey contract is filed, fulfilled, and closed — but the development firm that commissioned it transferred its archived assets to a successor entity three mergers ago, and someone in that chain has been paying annual archival access fees on Golestan's founding records for the past forty years.
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## Calibration Note
|
||||
|
||||
`wave_2` `spur_end` at `hop_distance: 6` is a common profile for systems settled by specific contract or expedition rather than organic corridor migration. Carnarvon's Cape-heritage exception is an Early Arrival archetype: the founding party followed a specific economic opportunity (survey contract) rather than cultural affinity with the Commonwealth corridor. Four centuries of isolation on a spur have made the Cape-heritage founding more persistent than it might otherwise be — there was no subsequent demographic wave to dilute it.
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`wave_2` `spur_end` at `hop_distance: 6` is a common profile for systems settled by specific contract or expedition rather than organic corridor migration. Golestan's Persian-heritage exception is an Early Arrival archetype: the founding party followed a specific economic opportunity (survey contract) rather than cultural affinity with the Commonwealth corridor. Four centuries of isolation on a spur have made the Persian-heritage founding more persistent than it might otherwise be — there was no subsequent demographic wave to dilute it.
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|
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## Celestial Bodies
|
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<!-- READ-ONLY — generated from systems.db bodies/stations tables -->
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 1 | `GJ680b` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.32g | 20 | 480.0 | none | barren | none | — | — | — |
|
||||
| 2 | `GJ680c` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.48g | 55 | 1320.0 | thin | arid | none | — | — | — |
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| 3 | `GJ680d` | Tulbagh | planet | yes | 150M | terrestrial | 0.90g | 130 | 22.0 | standard | temperate | moderate | agriculture | dispersed | — |
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| 3 | `GJ680d` | Pardis | planet | yes | 150M | terrestrial | 0.90g | 130 | 22.0 | standard | temperate | moderate | agriculture | dispersed | — |
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| ↳ 3.1 | `GJ680d-1` | — | moon | no | — | dwarf | 0.05g | 8 | 192.0 | none | barren | none | — | — | — |
|
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| 4 | `GJ680e` | Hermanus | planet | yes | 8M | terrestrial | 0.70g | 280 | 20.0 | standard | temperate-cool | extensive | agriculture | dispersed | — |
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| 4 | `GJ680e` | Anzali | planet | yes | 8M | terrestrial | 0.70g | 280 | 20.0 | standard | temperate-cool | extensive | agriculture | dispersed | — |
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| 5 | `GJ680f` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.35g | 650 | 16.0 | none | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
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| 6 | `GJ680g` | — | gas_giant | no | — | gas_giant | — | 2000 | 11.0 | dense | — | — | — | — | — |
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| ↳ 6.1 | `GJ680g-1` | — | moon | no | — | dwarf | 0.06g | 5 | 120.0 | none | barren | none | — | — | — |
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|
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|
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| ID | Name | Type | Orbits | Population | Economy | Governance | Docking | Gate | Districts |
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||
| `GJ680-oort-S1` | Yzerfontein | horizon | `GJ680-oort` | — | transit | — | standard | yes | 1 |
|
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| `GJ680d-S1` | Elsenburg | agricultural | `GJ680d` | 3M | agriculture | — | standard | no | 1 |
|
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| `GJ680-oort-S1` | Now Shahr | horizon | `GJ680-oort` | — | transit | — | standard | yes | 1 |
|
||||
| `GJ680d-S1` | Varamin | agricultural | `GJ680d` | 3M | agriculture | — | standard | no | 1 |
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|
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## Topology
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|
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|
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---
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id: GJ722c
|
||||
name: Rietbron
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name: Pınar
|
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body_type: planet
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planet_class: temperate
|
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body_scale: planet
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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ render:
|
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night_side_ambient: 0.025
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Rietbron
|
||||
# Pınar
|
||||
|
||||
Temperate planet.
|
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
|
||||
"Shale Slope"
|
||||
],
|
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"cities": [
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||||
"Rietbron"
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"Pınar"
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],
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"pois": [
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"North Fork"
|
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|
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@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
|
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# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — SKUILPLEK
|
||||
# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — SIĞINAK
|
||||
|
||||
**SKUILPLEK** means "hiding place," and the founders chose that name because they came here to hide from the Lattice Commission's tightened imprint requirements, and the name was an accurate description of the project.
|
||||
**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.
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|
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## The Flight from Compliance
|
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Two centuries ago, the Lattice Commission tightened its imprint requirements. A cohort of Afrikaans-heritage families decided that compliance was less acceptable than distance. They followed the Cairn pocket corridor outward — past Stilwater, past Droëland — to the furthest point the corridor reached, filed a charter, and named what they found after their intention. The Commission never followed.
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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 Skuilplek 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.
|
||||
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 here 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 Skuilplek 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.
|
||||
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
|
||||
|
||||
Skuilplek is nine hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to Droëland 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 that are accurate in the founding-historical sense.
|
||||
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 that are accurate in the founding-historical sense.
|
||||
|
||||
Adams of the Guide rates Skuilplek: *Two centuries of hiding. The Commission stopped looking a long time ago.*
|
||||
Adams of the Guide rates Sığınak: *Two centuries of hiding. The Commission stopped looking a long time ago.*
|
||||
|
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
|
||||
# Skuilplek
|
||||
# Sığınak
|
||||
**GJ 722** | M-type | deep_frontier
|
||||
|
||||
The name means "hiding place," and the founders chose it deliberately. Skuilplek was settled two centuries ago by Afrikaans-heritage families who had decided that compliance with the Lattice Commission's tightened imprint requirements was less acceptable than distance from the Commission entirely. They followed the Cairn pocket corridor outward past Stilwater and Droëland to the furthest point the corridor reached, and they named what they found after their intention. The Commission never followed.
|
||||
The name means "refuge" in Turkish, and the founders chose it deliberately. Sığınak was settled two centuries ago by Turkic-heritage families who had decided that compliance with the Lattice Commission's tightened imprint requirements was less acceptable than distance from the Commission entirely. They followed the Cairn pocket corridor outward past Sawad and Marib to the furthest point the corridor reached, and they named what they found after their intention. The Commission never followed.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -23,25 +23,25 @@ The name means "hiding place," and the founders chose it deliberately. Skuilplek
|
||||
|
||||
## Supply Dependency
|
||||
|
||||
Skuilplek is agricultural at its core — crops adapted to M-dwarf light over seven or eight generations, cultivation techniques refined from the broader Afrikaans corridor tradition modified for the dimmer conditions here. The community is substantially self-sufficient in food and has been since the end of the first generation. This was not accidental; the founding cohort included experienced M-dwarf agricultural specialists who understood the adaptation challenge before arrival.
|
||||
Sığınak is agricultural at its core — crops adapted to M-dwarf light over seven or eight generations, cultivation techniques refined from the broader Cairn pocket corridor tradition modified for the dimmer conditions here. The community is substantially self-sufficient in food and has been since the end of the first generation. This was not accidental; the founding cohort included experienced M-dwarf agricultural specialists who understood the adaptation challenge before arrival.
|
||||
|
||||
The dependency is in what cannot be grown or fabricated: lattice-adjacent technology (which the community uses minimally by design), medical equipment requiring precision manufacturing, and the relay hardware that keeps the gates operational. These come in through Droëland and the inner corridor, slowly, at intervals the community plans around. The minimal lattice integration the founders sought has also meant that Skuilplek's dependency on lattice infrastructure supply chains is structurally lower than most systems of comparable size — a dependency that was reduced by choice and has become a source of community pride.
|
||||
The dependency is in what cannot be grown or fabricated: lattice-adjacent technology (which the community uses minimally by design), medical equipment requiring precision manufacturing, and the relay hardware that keeps the gates operational. These come in through Marib and the inner corridor, slowly, at intervals the community plans around. The minimal lattice integration the founders sought has also meant that Sığınak's dependency on lattice infrastructure supply chains is structurally lower than most systems of comparable size — a dependency that was reduced by choice and has become a source of community pride.
|
||||
|
||||
## Faction Notes
|
||||
|
||||
The Lattice Commission does not maintain a presence at Skuilplek. The community operates with what Commission administrators classify as "legacy exemption status" — a bureaucratic artifact of the post-founding regulatory period in which communities that had relocated specifically to avoid the tightened imprint requirements were given reduced compliance schedules rather than forced compliance, because the alternative was creating a confrontation the Commission did not have the enforcement capacity to win at that distance. That exemption status has never been formally revoked. It is renewed on a schedule that the Commission's administrative systems process automatically. No Commission agent has visited in living memory.
|
||||
The Lattice Commission does not maintain a presence at Sığınak. The community operates with what Commission administrators classify as "legacy exemption status" — a bureaucratic artifact of the post-founding regulatory period in which communities that had relocated specifically to avoid the tightened imprint requirements were given reduced compliance schedules rather than forced compliance, because the alternative was creating a confrontation the Commission did not have the enforcement capacity to win at that distance. That exemption status has never been formally revoked. It is renewed on a schedule that the Commission's administrative systems process automatically. No Commission agent has visited in living memory.
|
||||
|
||||
The Guardians of Autonomy represent the community's institutional affiliation of choice. Skuilplek is a named system in Guardian theoretical literature on minimal-lattice community viability — cited not as a utopia but as an empirical case study in how communities maintain institutional function with low infrastructure integration. Guardian field representatives visit occasionally, received as something closer to distant relatives than to external advocates.
|
||||
The Guardians of Autonomy represent the community's institutional affiliation of choice. Sığınak is a named system in Guardian theoretical literature on minimal-lattice community viability — cited not as a utopia but as an empirical case study in how communities maintain institutional function with low infrastructure integration. Guardian field representatives visit occasionally, received as something closer to distant relatives than to external advocates.
|
||||
|
||||
## Silence Topic
|
||||
|
||||
What Skuilplek does not discuss with outsiders: the current level and character of lattice integration within the community.
|
||||
What Sığınak does not discuss with outsiders: the current level and character of lattice integration within the community.
|
||||
|
||||
The founding narrative is clear — they came here 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. 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 question of how much the original founding commitment has softened through practical accommodation over two centuries is a live internal tension that the community manages by not presenting a detailed picture of current integration levels to anyone on the outside.
|
||||
|
||||
## Narrative Hook
|
||||
|
||||
Skuilplek was founded two centuries ago by families fleeing a Commission regulatory crackdown; the Commission never followed, and the community's current level of actual lattice integration is a question that no one inside will answer clearly.
|
||||
Sığınak was founded two centuries ago by families fleeing a Commission regulatory crackdown; the Commission never followed, and the community's current level of actual lattice integration is a question that no one inside will answer clearly.
|
||||
|
||||
## Celestial Bodies
|
||||
<!-- READ-ONLY — generated from systems.db bodies/stations tables -->
|
||||
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|
||||
| Orbit | ID | Name | Type | Inhabited | Pop | Mass | Gravity | Year (d) | Day (h) | Atmo | Class | Hydro | Economy | Settlement | Industrial |
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||
| 1 | `GJ722b` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.34g | 10 | 230.4 | none | barren | — | — | — | — |
|
||||
| 2 | `GJ722c` | Rietbron | planet | yes | 12K | terrestrial | 0.86g | 70 | 27.6 | standard | temperate | liquid_water | agricultural | dispersed | — |
|
||||
| 2 | `GJ722c` | Pınar | planet | yes | 12K | terrestrial | 0.86g | 70 | 27.6 | standard | temperate | liquid_water | agricultural | dispersed | — |
|
||||
| 3 | `GJ722-belt` | — | asteroid_belt | no | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
|
||||
| 4 | `GJ722d` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.50g | 240 | 25.8 | thin | frozen | — | — | — | — |
|
||||
| 5 | `GJ722e` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.40g | 720 | 29.4 | trace | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
|
||||
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ Skuilplek was founded two centuries ago by families fleeing a Commission regulat
|
||||
|
||||
| ID | Name | Type | Orbits | Population | Economy | Governance | Docking | Gate | Districts |
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||
| `GJ722-oort-S1` | Skuilplek Horizon | horizon | `GJ722-oort` | 180 | transit | — | major | yes | 1 |
|
||||
| `GJ722-oort-S1` | Sığınak Horizon | horizon | `GJ722-oort` | 180 | transit | — | major | yes | 1 |
|
||||
|
||||
## Topology
|
||||
<!-- READ-ONLY — regenerated from star-map.json edges -->
|
||||
- **Hop Distance from Gateway:** 9
|
||||
- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 914A (Droëland), GJ 528A
|
||||
- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 914A (Marib), GJ 528A
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
Three gates at hop 7: a junction in the outer north arc serving as the only significant commercial center for several hops in any direction. The founding families — the Okonkwo, Eze, and Nwachukwu surnames appear in every major commercial enterprise — arrived on a wave_3 extraction contract, recognized the mineral deposit survey data when they read it, and built a processing operation that their great-grandchildren operate today. The K0V star provides more Earth-comparable light than the M-dwarfs typical of the inner north arc, which the founding families noted positively in their original settlement documentation and which has made Enugu the closest thing to a comfortable posting available at this hop distance.
|
||||
|
||||
Three gates mean three adjacent systems' worth of supply and demand routing through this station. Transit fees compound. The commercial district is substantially larger than the population alone would support. Enugu has the outer north arc's only significant credit market. Carnarvon and Ratnagiri settle their interstellar accounts here. The Assembly's outpost is tiny and consulted mainly on filing requirements. The actual governance is local: Igbo-heritage community deliberation, deep precedent, earned standing through demonstrated contribution, and a deep-seated suspicion of institutions claiming authority without local legitimacy.
|
||||
Three gates mean three adjacent systems' worth of supply and demand routing through this station. Transit fees compound. The commercial district is substantially larger than the population alone would support. Enugu has the outer north arc's only significant credit market. Golestan and Ratnagiri settle their interstellar accounts here. The Assembly's outpost is tiny and consulted mainly on filing requirements. The actual governance is local: Igbo-heritage community deliberation, deep precedent, earned standing through demonstrated contribution, and a deep-seated suspicion of institutions claiming authority without local legitimacy.
|
||||
|
||||
## The Second Ledger
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ The junction's commercial registry has recorded every interstellar transaction t
|
||||
|
||||
## Practical Information
|
||||
|
||||
Enugu is seven hops from Gateway with three apertures connecting to Ngata's Star, Ratnagiri, and Carnarvon. No Syndic holds a significant stake in the processing operations — the founding families bought out the original contracting entity three generations ago, and several buyers have since tried and failed to acquire a controlling interest. Gate Corporation's rotating maintenance crew is present and unobtrusive.
|
||||
Enugu is seven hops from Gateway with three apertures connecting to Ngata's Star, Ratnagiri, and Golestan. No Syndic holds a significant stake in the processing operations — the founding families bought out the original contracting entity three generations ago, and several buyers have since tried and failed to acquire a controlling interest. Gate Corporation's rotating maintenance crew is present and unobtrusive.
|
||||
|
||||
The commercial district is worth a visit if you have accounts to settle.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
Enugu is the north_reach's outer industrial hub: mineral processing, transit-grade component manufacturing, and the commercial infrastructure that a junction system at this hop distance requires to be functional. The mineral deposits on the system's second body were the reason the founding families came here — a wave_3 extraction contract, negotiated by a consortium of Nigerian-heritage industrial investors who already operated processing operations in two inner systems and recognized the deposit survey data when they read it. The processing capacity they built is still running. Their great-grandchildren operate it.
|
||||
|
||||
The junction topology makes Enugu a regional commercial center in a way that its individual industries do not fully explain. Three gates mean three adjacent systems' worth of supply and demand routing through this station. The transit fee revenue compounds. The commercial district around the horizon station is substantially larger than the population alone would support. Enugu has the outer north_reach's only significant credit market, which creates a dependency relationship with the spur-end systems on either side: Carnarvon and Ratnagiri both settle their interstellar accounts through Enugu.
|
||||
The junction topology makes Enugu a regional commercial center in a way that its individual industries do not fully explain. Three gates mean three adjacent systems' worth of supply and demand routing through this station. The transit fee revenue compounds. The commercial district around the horizon station is substantially larger than the population alone would support. Enugu has the outer north_reach's only significant credit market, which creates a dependency relationship with the spur-end systems on either side: Golestan and Ratnagiri both settle their interstellar accounts through Enugu.
|
||||
|
||||
## Faction Notes
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
id: GJ914Ac
|
||||
name: Calvinia
|
||||
name: Ghouta
|
||||
body_type: planet
|
||||
planet_class: cold_arid
|
||||
body_scale: planet
|
||||
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ render:
|
||||
night_side_ambient: 0.025
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Calvinia
|
||||
# Ghouta
|
||||
|
||||
Cold Arid planet.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
|
||||
"Barren Sands"
|
||||
],
|
||||
"cities": [
|
||||
"Calvinia"
|
||||
"Ghouta"
|
||||
],
|
||||
"pois": [
|
||||
"North Fork"
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
|
||||
# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — DROËLAND
|
||||
# THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — MARIB
|
||||
|
||||
**DROËLAND** means "dry land," which is what the founders found when they arrived three hundred years ago, and which they said out loud as a name because they were Afrikaans-heritage farming families who had come to work the soil and did not see the need for poetry about it.
|
||||
**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, irrigation infrastructure built in the first century and maintained since. Droëland feeds itself and exports modest grain and legume surplus back toward Stilwater and the inner corridor. The K-type star provides less light than Earth-standard and more than the M-dwarfs further out, and the community has been adapting cultivars to that specific condition across multiple generations with the patience that multi-generational agricultural work allows and requires.
|
||||
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 coaxing 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 provides less light than Earth-standard and more than the M-dwarfs further out, and the community has been adapting cultivars to that specific condition across multiple 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 that 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. Contingency stores against multi-year supply disruption have been maintained since the founding cohort as a rational response to frontier isolation that has since become a community ritual: replenished, rotated, inventoried by every family, taught to children as a basic life skill. The number has never been shared with outside parties. The community does not volunteer it.
|
||||
There is no industrial sector. Equipment that fails is repaired by maintenance cultures that 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. Contingency stores against multi-year supply disruption have been maintained since the founding cohort as a rational response to frontier isolation that has since become a community discipline: replenished, rotated, inventoried by every family, taught to children as a basic obligation. The number 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 Droëland 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.
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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.
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## The Contingency
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Three hundred years of preparation, never fully tested. The specific scale of Droëland's reserves is the community's private knowledge, and the community treats it as such with the quiet satisfaction of people who solved a problem three hundred years ago and have not needed outside help since. The reserves are not a secret in any dramatic sense. They are simply not a subject that gets raised with outside visitors, because the raising would require explaining the number, and explaining the number would invite opinions about the number, and the community does not need outside opinions about whether its preparedness for the gates going dark is proportionate.
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Three hundred years of preparation, never fully tested. The specific scale of Marib's reserves is the community's private knowledge, and the community treats it as such with the quiet satisfaction of people who solved a problem three hundred years ago and have not needed outside help since. The reserves are not a secret in any dramatic sense. They are simply not a subject that gets raised with outside visitors, because the raising would require explaining the number, and explaining the number would invite opinions about the number, and the community does not need outside opinions about whether its preparedness for the gates going dark is proportionate.
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## Practical Information
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Droëland is eight hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to Stilwater 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.
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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.
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Adams of the Guide rates Droëland: *Self-sufficient. Generously prepared for a disaster that hasn't happened.*
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Adams of the Guide rates Marib: *Self-sufficient. Generously prepared for a disaster that hasn't happened.*
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# Droëland
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# Marib
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**GJ 914A** | K-type | deep_frontier
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Three centuries of working the same soil in dim K-type light have produced a community that does not feel the need to explain itself. Droëland is a straight continuation of the Cairn pocket push into the deep north — Afrikaans-heritage farming families who followed the corridor outward and stayed. They arrived with a clear purpose and have not deviated from it. The name means "dry land," which is what they found, and the practicality of that naming is characteristic.
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Three centuries of working the same soil in dim K-type light have produced a community that does not feel the need to explain itself. Marib is a straight continuation of the Cairn pocket push into the deep north — Arab-heritage farming families who followed the corridor outward and stayed. They arrived with a clear purpose and have not deviated from it. The name recalls an ancient Earth city that dammed a river and fed a civilization from dry ground for a thousand years, and the ambition folded into that naming is characteristic.
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## Supply Dependency
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Droëland feeds itself and exports modest grain and legume surpluses back toward Stilwater and the inner corridor. The agricultural systems here are mature — three hundred years of worked soil, adapted crop varieties, irrigation infrastructure built in the first century and maintained since. The K-type star gives less light than Earth-standard but more than the M-dwarfs further out; the community has bred their cultivars accordingly over several generations.
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Marib feeds itself and exports modest grain and legume surpluses back toward Sawad and the inner corridor. The agricultural systems here are mature — three hundred years of worked soil, adapted crop varieties, irrigation infrastructure built in the first century and maintained since. The K-type star gives less light than Earth-standard but more than the M-dwarfs further out; the community has bred their cultivars accordingly over several generations.
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There is no industrial sector to speak of. Droëland does not manufacture what it cannot fabricate locally from agricultural byproducts and recycled material. Replacement parts for equipment that fails come in via the gates, slowly, at frontier freight rates. The community plans for long delays and keeps older equipment running through maintenance cultures that inner-reach technicians would find eccentric but effective.
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There is no industrial sector to speak of. Marib does not manufacture what it cannot fabricate locally from agricultural byproducts and recycled material. Replacement parts for equipment that fails come in via the gates, slowly, at frontier freight rates. The community plans for long delays and keeps older equipment running through maintenance cultures that inner-reach technicians would find eccentric but effective.
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The supply line to Stilwater is the system's one real dependency. Not for food — food they have. For the fabricated components, medical supplies, and communication relay maintenance that require industrial capacity they cannot replicate locally. This dependency is manageable at present. The community has maintained contingency stores calibrated for disruptions of up to three years, a practice established in the first century of settlement that has never had to be tested at full duration.
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The supply line to Sawad is the system's one real dependency. Not for food — food they have. For the fabricated components, medical supplies, and communication relay maintenance that require industrial capacity they cannot replicate locally. This dependency is manageable at present. The community has maintained contingency stores calibrated for disruptions of up to three years, a practice established in the first century of settlement that has never had to be tested at full duration.
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## Faction Notes
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The Lattice Commission has a presence at Droëland only in the formal sense: a filed registration, a regulatory schedule, a nominal compliance record. No Commission personnel are resident. The community interacts with Commission oversight at its own pace, which is slow, and through the filing systems rather than through any personal relationship with Commission agents. This is not defiance. It is geography and the practical reality that nothing here rises to the level of Commission operational interest.
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The Lattice Commission has a presence at Marib only in the formal sense: a filed registration, a regulatory schedule, a nominal compliance record. No Commission personnel are resident. The community interacts with Commission oversight at its own pace, which is slow, and through the filing systems rather than through any personal relationship with Commission agents. This is not defiance. It is geography and the practical reality that nothing here rises to the level of Commission operational interest.
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The Guardians of Autonomy have no formal chapter, but the community's institutional reflexes align closely with Guardian values without anyone having organized them that way. Deep frontier agricultural communities with minimal institutional contact tend to develop similar attitudes independently. Droëland is self-reliant, wary of external mandates, and has strong informal mechanisms for community cohesion that serve many of the same functions formal organizations serve elsewhere.
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The Guardians of Autonomy have no formal chapter, but the community's institutional reflexes align closely with Guardian values without anyone having organized them that way. Deep frontier agricultural communities with minimal institutional contact tend to develop similar attitudes independently. Marib is self-reliant, wary of external mandates, and has strong informal mechanisms for community cohesion that serve many of the same functions formal organizations serve elsewhere.
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## Silence Topic
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What Droëland does not discuss with outsiders: the exact scale of the contingency stores.
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What Marib does not discuss with outsiders: the exact scale of the contingency stores.
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The practice of maintaining multi-year emergency reserves began with the founding cohort as a rational response to frontier isolation. Over three centuries it has become a cultural fixture — the reserves are replenished and rotated as a community ritual, the inventory is known to every family, the protocols for accessing them in emergency are taught to children as a basic life skill. The community has no particular interest in outside parties knowing how well-prepared they are, or how long they could sustain themselves if the gates went dark. This is not paranoia. It is the private satisfaction of people who solved a problem three hundred years ago and have not needed outside help since.
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## Narrative Hook
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|
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Droëland has maintained emergency stores sufficient for multi-year self-sufficiency since its founding; no outsider has ever been given a full inventory, and the community does not volunteer the number.
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Marib has maintained emergency stores sufficient for multi-year self-sufficiency since its founding; no outsider has ever been given a full inventory, and the community does not volunteer the number.
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## Celestial Bodies
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<!-- READ-ONLY — generated from systems.db bodies/stations tables -->
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| Orbit | ID | Name | Type | Inhabited | Pop | Mass | Gravity | Year (d) | Day (h) | Atmo | Class | Hydro | Economy | Settlement | Industrial |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 1 | `GJ914Ab` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.42g | 24 | 19.4 | none | barren | — | — | — | — |
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| 2 | `GJ914Ac` | Calvinia | planet | yes | 18K | terrestrial | 0.88g | 200 | 26.6 | standard | cold_arid | liquid_water | agricultural | dispersed | agricultural_export |
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| 2 | `GJ914Ac` | Ghouta | planet | yes | 18K | terrestrial | 0.88g | 200 | 26.6 | standard | cold_arid | liquid_water | agricultural | dispersed | agricultural_export |
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||||
| 3 | `GJ914A-belt` | — | asteroid_belt | no | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| 4 | `GJ914Ad` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.56g | 580 | 27.4 | thin | frozen | — | — | — | — |
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| 5 | `GJ914Ae` | — | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.42g | 1600 | 30.2 | trace | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
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@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ Droëland has maintained emergency stores sufficient for multi-year self-suffici
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| ID | Name | Type | Orbits | Population | Economy | Governance | Docking | Gate | Districts |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| `GJ914A-oort-S1` | Droëland Horizon | horizon | `GJ914A-oort` | 320 | transit | — | major | yes | 1 |
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| `GJ914A-oort-S1` | Marib Horizon | horizon | `GJ914A-oort` | 320 | transit | — | major | yes | 1 |
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## Topology
|
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<!-- READ-ONLY — regenerated from star-map.json edges -->
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- **Hop Distance from Gateway:** 8
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- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 508A (Stilwater), GJ 722
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- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 508A (Sawad), GJ 722
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@@ -83,10 +83,10 @@ Sorted by sector, then hop distance from Gateway.
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| [GJ 408](GJ-408/index.md) | **Oude Kraal** | M-type | 6 | wave_1 | spur_end | 2 |
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| [GJ 638](GJ-638/index.md) | — | M-type | 6 | wave_2 | dead_end | 1 |
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| [GJ 661B](GJ-661B/index.md) | **Breëvlei** | F-type | 6 | wave_5 | through_route | 2 |
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| [GJ 680](GJ-680/index.md) | **Carnarvon** | M-type | 6 | wave_2 | spur_end | 2 |
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| [GJ 680](GJ-680/index.md) | **Golestan** | M-type | 6 | wave_2 | spur_end | 2 |
|
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| [GJ 880](GJ-880/index.md) | **Holgersen's Landing** | K-type | 6 | wave_3 | dead_end | 1 |
|
||||
| [GJ 410](GJ-410/index.md) | **Wagtoring** | M-type | 7 | wave_3 | dead_end | 1 |
|
||||
| [GJ 508A](GJ-508A/index.md) | **Stilwater** | M-type | 7 | wave_4 | through_route | 2 |
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| [GJ 508A](GJ-508A/index.md) | **Sawad** | M-type | 7 | wave_4 | through_route | 2 |
|
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| [GJ 603](GJ-603/index.md) | **Mossbank** | G-type | 7 | wave_5 | dead_end | 1 |
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| [GJ 653](GJ-653/index.md) | **Dunmore** | M-type | 7 | wave_3 | through_route | 2 |
|
||||
| [GJ 706](GJ-706/index.md) | **Ngata's Star** | M-type | 7 | wave_4 | spur_end | 2 |
|
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@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Sorted by sector, then hop distance from Gateway.
|
||||
| [GJ 1002](GJ-1002/index.md) | **Caparica** | G-type | 4 | wave_3 | spur_end | 2 |
|
||||
| [GJ 1061](GJ-1061/index.md) | **Crux Station** | M-type | 4 | unsettled | junction | 4 |
|
||||
| [GJ 1111](GJ-1111/index.md) | **Zenzele** | M-type | 4 | wave_3 | hub | 5 |
|
||||
| [GJ 1245B](GJ-1245B/index.md) | **Koeberg** | K-type | 4 | wave_4 | dead_end | 1 |
|
||||
| [GJ 1245B](GJ-1245B/index.md) | **Akhgar** | K-type | 4 | wave_4 | dead_end | 1 |
|
||||
| [GJ 234A](GJ-234A/index.md) | **Carvalhais** | M-type | 4 | wave_3 | junction | 3 |
|
||||
| [GJ 33](GJ-33/index.md) | **96 Piscium** | K-type | 4 | unsettled | loop_member | 2 |
|
||||
| [GJ 412A](GJ-412A/index.md) | **Morales' End** | K-type | 4 | wave_3 | dead_end | 1 |
|
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@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Three of the Guide's field researchers are currently listed as "on extended assi
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||||
| [GJ 324A](GJ-324A/gttr.md) (GJ 324A) | *Uninhabited. No one has asked why in a while.* |
|
||||
| [Travessa](GJ-482B/gttr.md) (GJ 482B) | *A clean record and a busy cold storage. Not contradictory.* |
|
||||
| [Helle Wacht](GJ-598/gttr.md) (GJ 598) | *Ideologically rigorous. Architecture still under debate. The founders know the part of the story they haven't told, and they have decided not to.* |
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| [Droëland](GJ-914A/gttr.md) (GJ 914A) | *Self-sufficient. Generously prepared for a disaster that hasn't happened.* |
|
||||
| [Marib](GJ-914A/gttr.md) (GJ 914A) | *Self-sufficient. Generously prepared for a disaster that hasn't happened.* |
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Three of the Guide's field researchers are currently listed as "on extended assi
|
||||
| [Recanto](GJ-556/gttr.md) (GJ 556) | *Defensible position. One side of the story, well-maintained.* |
|
||||
| [Neugrund](GJ-675/gttr.md) (GJ 675) | *The synthesis is working. The institutional question is outstanding.* |
|
||||
| [Dois Sóis](GJ-707/gttr.md) (GJ 707) | *Both suns, full adaptation. The survey reports were incomplete.* |
|
||||
| [Skuilplek](GJ-722/gttr.md) (GJ 722) | *Two centuries of hiding. The Commission stopped looking a long time ago.* |
|
||||
| [Sığınak](GJ-722/gttr.md) (GJ 722) | *Two centuries of hiding. The Commission stopped looking a long time ago.* |
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ The North Reach is a corridor defined by distance. Hop 3 is still institutional
|
||||
|--------|--------|
|
||||
| [Breëvlei](GJ-661B/gttr.md) (GJ 661B) | *Promising. Marsh Unexplored.* |
|
||||
| [Calloway Reach](GJ-3325/gttr.md) (GJ 3325) | *Distinguished. Ownership Partially Offshore.* |
|
||||
| [Carnarvon](GJ-680/gttr.md) (GJ 680) | *Independent. Contract Pending Review.* |
|
||||
| [Golestan](GJ-680/gttr.md) (GJ 680) | *Independent. Contract Pending Review.* |
|
||||
| [GJ 3988](GJ-3988/gttr.md) (GJ 3988) | *Transitory. Signal Unresolved.* |
|
||||
| [Greymantle](GJ-638/gttr.md) (GJ 638) | *Atmospheric. Interior Views Recommended.* |
|
||||
| [Holgersen's Landing](GJ-880/gttr.md) (GJ 880) | *Exceptional. Recipe Not For Sale.* |
|
||||
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ The North Reach is a corridor defined by distance. Hop 3 is still institutional
|
||||
| [Enugu](GJ-75/gttr.md) (GJ 75) | *Commercially Essential. Ownership Documented Elsewhere.* |
|
||||
| [Mossbank](GJ-603/gttr.md) (GJ 603) | *Unexpectedly Pleasant. Land Claim Pending.* |
|
||||
| [Ngata's Star](GJ-706/gttr.md) (GJ 706) | *Irreplaceable. New Deposits Unannounced.* |
|
||||
| [Stilwater](GJ-508A/gttr.md) (GJ 508A) | *Peaceful. Far Gate Hours Unaccounted.* |
|
||||
| [Sawad](GJ-508A/gttr.md) (GJ 508A) | *Peaceful. Far Gate Hours Unaccounted.* |
|
||||
| [Wagtoring](GJ-410/gttr.md) (GJ 410) | *Watchful. Logs Unavailable.* |
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The southern arm extends through Lacaille 9352's checkpoint and into the corrido
|
||||
| [Caparica](GJ-1002/gttr.md) (GJ 1002) | *Self-Sufficient by Necessity, Comfortable by Discipline.* |
|
||||
| [Crux Station](GJ-1061/gttr.md) (GJ 1061) | *Essential. Legally Speaking, Optional.* |
|
||||
| [Zenzele](GJ-1111/gttr.md) (GJ 1111) | *Built to Last, Reluctant to Explain.* |
|
||||
| [Koeberg](GJ-1245B/gttr.md) (GJ 1245B) | *Quiet on Purpose.* |
|
||||
| [Akhgar](GJ-1245B/gttr.md) (GJ 1245B) | *Quiet on Purpose.* |
|
||||
| [Carvalhais](GJ-234A/gttr.md) (GJ 234A) | *The Shortest Path Between Two Better Places.* |
|
||||
| [96 Piscium](GJ-33/gttr.md) (GJ 33) | *Perfectly Good. Conspicuously Empty.* |
|
||||
| [Morales' End](GJ-412A/gttr.md) (GJ 412A) | *Far Enough. No Further.* |
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -105,13 +105,13 @@ Index of all settled and surveyed systems in the Settled Reach, organized by sec
|
||||
- [Oude Kraal](GJ-408/index.md) (GJ 408)
|
||||
- [GJ 638](GJ-638/index.md)
|
||||
- [Breëvlei](GJ-661B/index.md) (GJ 661B)
|
||||
- [Carnarvon](GJ-680/index.md) (GJ 680)
|
||||
- [Golestan](GJ-680/index.md) (GJ 680)
|
||||
- [Holgersen's Landing](GJ-880/index.md) (GJ 880)
|
||||
|
||||
### Hop 7
|
||||
|
||||
- [Wagtoring](GJ-410/index.md) (GJ 410)
|
||||
- [Stilwater](GJ-508A/index.md) (GJ 508A)
|
||||
- [Sawad](GJ-508A/index.md) (GJ 508A)
|
||||
- [Mossbank](GJ-603/index.md) (GJ 603)
|
||||
- [Dunmore](GJ-653/index.md) (GJ 653)
|
||||
- [Ngata's Star](GJ-706/index.md) (GJ 706)
|
||||
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Index of all settled and surveyed systems in the Settled Reach, organized by sec
|
||||
- [Caparica](GJ-1002/index.md) (GJ 1002)
|
||||
- [Crux Station](GJ-1061/index.md) (GJ 1061)
|
||||
- [Zenzele](GJ-1111/index.md) (GJ 1111)
|
||||
- [Koeberg](GJ-1245B/index.md) (GJ 1245B)
|
||||
- [Akhgar](GJ-1245B/index.md) (GJ 1245B)
|
||||
- [Carvalhais](GJ-234A/index.md) (GJ 234A)
|
||||
- [96 Piscium](GJ-33/index.md) (GJ 33)
|
||||
- [Morales' End](GJ-412A/index.md) (GJ 412A)
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user