feat(docs): add Calloway Distillery and thrds corporation pages, corporation template

Write full wiki pages for the two missing north_reach corporations
referenced in the corporations index. Content derived from existing
system pages (GJ-3325 Calloway Reach, GJ-475 Braemar). Add
corporation template to wiki/_templates/.

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

wiki/_templates/corporation.md

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+# {Title}
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+**Also Known As:** {abbreviations, local names, if any}
+**Status:** {status}
+**Scope:** {market reach description}
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+## Overview
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+
+---
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+## Origin
+
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+---
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+## Operations
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+## Products
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+## Political Relationships
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+{Relationships with other corporations, factions, and institutions. Each relationship as a bold-header paragraph. Include the power dynamic, the tension, and the history. 3-5 relationships.}
+
+---
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+## What They Don't Talk About
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+{The corporate silence — what the institution avoids discussing, what its records don't show, what its staff have learned not to ask about. The gap between the corporation's public narrative and its internal reality. This section is the primary source of investigation threads.
+
+Every corporation has one. The silence is where the gameplay lives.}
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+## Gameplay Relevance
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wiki/corporations/calloway-distillery.md

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+---
+title: "Calloway Distillery"
+description: "North_reach single malt whisky tradition based at Calloway Reach (GJ 3325) — eleven distilleries, 400 years of production, unreproducible terroir, and a Distillers' Council that governs by consensus"
+slug: calloway-distillery
+category: corporation
+status: canonical
+created: 2026-03-16
+updated: 2026-03-16
+scope: north_reach primary; inward corridor premium market secondary
+faction_type: economic
+headquarters: Calloway Reach (GJ 3325)
+tags: []
+decision_refs: []
+cross_refs: []
+---
+
+# Calloway Distillery
+
+**Type:** Corporation — Agricultural / Collective (Distillers' Council)
+**Also Known As:** Calloway House (founding distillery), the Council
+**Status:** Canonical
+**Scope:** North_reach corridor primary; inward premium market secondary
+**Headquarters:** Calloway Reach (GJ 3325) — 2-aperture loop_member, 6 hops from Gateway
+**System Holdings:** Calloway Reach (GJ 3325)
+**Classification:** Sub-Syndic collective; eleven independent distilleries under a shared governance council
+
+---
+
+## Overview
+
+Calloway Distillery is not, strictly speaking, a single corporation. It is a collective name for eleven independent distilling operations at Calloway Reach, governed loosely by the Distillers' Council — a body with formal advisory status in local government and informal authority over anything touching land use, water rights, or agricultural policy. The Council operates by consensus. It is genuinely slow. This frustrates those who want rapid decisions and reassures those who have watched rapid decisions damage things.
+
+What the eleven distilleries produce is single malt whisky. What makes the whisky significant is that it cannot be reproduced elsewhere. The water chemistry at Calloway Reach is specific to the system's geology. The yeast culture — 400 years descended from the founding population — has diverged from any off-system equivalent. The grain variety, a cold-adapted barley modified through several generations of corridor travel before the founders arrived, has spent four centuries adapting to Calloway soil and Calloway light. Attempts to license the production method to inward systems have produced technically competent but culinarily distinct results, which local distillers describe, with practiced politeness, as "fine products in their own tradition."
+
+---
+
+## Origin
+
+The founding cohort arrived at Calloway Reach 400 years ago — Scottish in heritage, practical in disposition — with agricultural equipment, seed stock, and a portable still. The still was not the last.
+
+The primary body is cold and dim under its K-type star, with rolling dark-soiled terrain, wet at lower elevations and windswept at higher ones. The founders planted grain and discovered that the combination of local mineral water, the specific yeast populations that developed in the cold damp air of the low valleys, and the barley variant they had brought produced, after fermentation and distillation and patient aging in sealed casks, something that tasted unlike anything the corridor had offered before.
+
+The first recorded commercial export occurred 360 years ago, when a passing trader carried three casks to Braemar and reported that they had sold immediately and that buyers were asking for more. The distillery tradition has never stopped since.
+
+---
+
+## Operations
+
+**Production:** Eleven operating distilleries, ranging from the founding-era Calloway House — still family-owned in the fifth generation, still using the original still design in the original low valley — to newer operations experimenting with grain variations and aging vessel types. The distilleries employ roughly 15% of the workforce directly and support a substantially larger fraction indirectly through agriculture, coopering, warehousing, and transport logistics.
+
+**Aging:** Most Calloway single malts are held for 12 to 20 years before release. This requires capital patience and sophisticated inventory management. The aging cycle is the reason the distillery trade produces wealth slowly and reliably rather than quickly and speculatively. You cannot panic-sell whisky that will not be ready for a decade.
+
+**Distribution:** Calloway single malt trades as far inward as Wolf 359 territory. At those distances it is a premium imported luxury — bottles carry provenance documentation and command prices that reflect six hops of transit cost and four centuries of reputation. At Braemar and Dunbar, it is just what people drink. The loop topology connecting to both systems provides two routing options for export, which the trade has used to maintain supply continuity even when one gate is under maintenance.
+
+**Cooperage:** Aging casks are constructed from specific wood types imported from Dunbar (GJ 3991), which has managed forestry appropriate to the purpose. The cooperage relationship with Dunbar is the most operationally critical external supply dependency and has been stable for over three centuries.
+
+---
+
+## Products
+
+**Calloway House** — the founding distillery, the one every corridor resident has heard of. The House expression is the benchmark Calloway single malt: aged 16 years in Dunbar-sourced casks, copper-pot distilled in a design that has not meaningfully changed since the founding era. The current head, Ewan Calloway-Marsh, is 70 years old and widely expected to be the last of his line to run the operation; his children have other interests. What happens to Calloway House when Ewan steps down is a question the entire system thinks about and nobody discusses publicly.
+
+**The newer operations** — five distilleries established within the last two centuries, experimenting with grain variations (including a controversial double-grain expression that traditional producers regard with diplomatic silence), alternative aging vessels, and shorter maturation cycles aimed at the volume market. They produce competent whisky. Whether they produce Calloway whisky is a conversation that the Distillers' Council has been having, in its consensus-driven way, for approximately forty years without resolution.
+
+---
+
+## Political Relationships
+
+**The Grain Alliance:** The agricultural cooperative representing farming families that supply the distilleries. Has periodic disputes with the Distillers' Council over price setting, and has historically lost those disputes, though the margin has narrowed as the Alliance has become more organizationally sophisticated. The Alliance is the Council's most important domestic relationship and the one most likely to produce genuine political friction.
+
+**thrds Cooperative (Braemar):** Adjacent system, adjacent culture, analogous economic structure — a local product that became a corridor brand. Calloway and Braemar residents understand each other in the way that two communities managing unexpected wealth from specific terroir understand each other. The relationship is warm and commercially complementary: thrds garments and Calloway whisky appear together in the same inward-corridor premium markets without competing.
+
+**Mercado Travessia:** Calloway whisky appears on Mercado Travessia's shelves at inner-corridor locations. The procurement relationship is managed through the Council's distribution agreements. Mercado treats Calloway as a provenance product — authenticated origin, premium shelf placement, markup that reflects transit distance and brand reputation.
+
+**The Concord Assembly:** At hop 6, the Assembly's regulatory reach is present as compliance documentation rather than operational presence. The Council files its required quality certifications and maintains standards that satisfy the Assembly's agricultural product authentication framework. The relationship is functional and unremarkable.
+
+---
+
+## What They Don't Talk About
+
+At least two of the eleven distilleries have been quietly approached by inward investors proposing partial acquisition structures that would expand production and extend distribution networks at the cost of local ownership dilution. The Distillers' Council does not know. The Grain Alliance does not know. The approaches have been kept between the individual distillery owners and the investors, and the owners have not yet collectively disclosed that the offers are happening — though at least three of them are aware that others have been approached.
+
+A Grain Alliance accountant reconciling inter-distillery supply contracts has found a payment structure that suggests one of the founding distilleries is already partially owned by an off-system holding company — the ownership transfer registered somewhere that Calloway Reach's local records don't index. The accountant has not yet decided what to do with this information.
+
+The succession question at Calloway House is the other silence. Ewan Calloway-Marsh's children have careers elsewhere. The founding distillery's governance documents do not have a clean succession path for the scenario where no family member wants to operate. What happens to the founding distillery — sale, cooperative absorption, or something else — would redefine the Council's internal power balance, and everyone on the Council knows it.
+
+---
+
+## Gameplay Relevance
+
+Calloway Distillery provides setting texture for the outer north_reach and investigation threads concerning beneficial ownership, corporate acquisition, and the tension between local economic independence and inward capital.
+
+For investigation, the key threads are:
+- **The partial acquisition** — which distillery is already partially owned, by whom, and what the holding company is positioned to benefit from. The ownership structure exists in registries the local system does not index, which means tracing it requires access to inward commercial records.
+- **The succession crisis** — Calloway House's future is a structural question for the entire system. An investigator with access to governance documents and family communications could map the likely outcomes before the community has processed them publicly.
+- **The Grain Alliance accountant** — a potential source or a potential problem, depending on what she decides to do with what she's found.
+
+The provenance documentation attached to Calloway whisky bottles is also ambient investigation material — supply chain records, transit manifests, distribution agreements that document commercial relationships across six hops of corridor.
+
+---
+
+**Cross-References:**
+- [Calloway Reach](../star-systems/GJ-3325/index.md) — Headquarters; founding system; home of all eleven distilleries
+- [Braemar](../star-systems/GJ-475/index.md) — Adjacent system; thrds cooperative; complementary corridor brand
+- [Dunbar](../star-systems/GJ-3991/index.md) — Cooperage wood source; loop partner
+- [thrds](thrds.md) — Adjacent-system brand with analogous origin story and complementary market position
+- [Mercado Travessia](mercado-travessia.md) — Inner-corridor distributor; carries Calloway whisky as provenance product
+
+---
+
+**Status:** Canonical
+**Created:** 2026-03-16
+**Updated:** 2026-03-16

wiki/corporations/thrds.md

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+---
+title: "thrds"
+description: "North_reach cold-weather technical clothing cooperative based at Braemar (GJ 475) — brach fiber garments, local cooperative ownership, creative direction that stayed at origin"
+slug: thrds
+category: corporation
+status: canonical
+created: 2026-03-16
+updated: 2026-03-16
+scope: north_reach primary; transit corridor fashion markets secondary
+faction_type: economic
+headquarters: Braemar (GJ 475)
+tags: []
+decision_refs: []
+cross_refs: []
+---
+
+# thrds
+
+**Type:** Corporation — Textile / Design Cooperative
+**Also Known As:** threads (archaic, local speech origin)
+**Status:** Canonical
+**Scope:** North_reach corridor primary; transit corridor fashion markets secondary
+**Headquarters:** Braemar (GJ 475) — 2-aperture loop_member, 5 hops from Gateway
+**System Holdings:** Braemar (GJ 475)
+**Classification:** Sub-Syndic cooperative; founding family governance, local creative direction
+
+---
+
+## Overview
+
+thrds began as a vocabulary word. The fiber-workers at Braemar called their output "threads," the local speech shortened it, and eventually the shortened form became a registered mark. Always lowercase. The name is the product and the product is the name, and the fact that both originated in casual working speech rather than marketing strategy is part of why the brand works.
+
+The material basis is the brach — a native six-limbed herbivore roughly the mass of a large sheep, with dense insulating fiber that the founding settlers spent two generations selectively breeding and learning to process. Brach fiber has an unusual insulation gradient: it stays comfortable across a wider temperature range than most synthetics, adapting to the wearer's body heat in ways that materials engineers at inward corridor labs have studied without fully replicating. Three hundred years of cold-weather refinement at Braemar — long winters, shortened summers under a G0V star — produced a fiber product with thermal properties that outer corridor workers needed and inner corridor fashion markets eventually discovered they wanted.
+
+The garments that thrds produces are not luxury goods in the traditional sense. They are working clothes that happen to be beautiful, designed by people who wear them in the conditions they were made for. The aesthetic emerged from the functional constraint, not the other way around. This is the brand's core proposition and it has held for two centuries of corridor market presence.
+
+---
+
+## Origin
+
+Braemar's founding cohort arrived 400 years ago and named themselves after a Scottish highland town — a conceptual reference point for the cold uplands, pastoral work, and unhurried permanence they intended to build. The local fauna proved biochemically incompatible with Earth-origin livestock, but the ecological niche was available. Within two generations, the settlers had developed working relationships with the brach.
+
+The transition from practical fiber production to commercial brand happened gradually over the second and third centuries. The first exports were functional garments for outer corridor workers — people who spent time in unheated freight corridors, exposed transit platforms, and the marginal environments of systems still being built. The garments worked. Word traveled along the gate routes. The transit corridor's aesthetic culture — which values functional design, unpretentious material quality, and the kind of style that looks like it wasn't trying — adopted thrds garments as both practical clothing and cultural signal.
+
+The cooperative structure formalized approximately two hundred years ago, consolidating the previously independent fiber operations, processing workshops, and design studios under a single governance framework with founding family descendants holding governance rights.
+
+---
+
+## Operations
+
+**The thrds Cooperative:** The dominant economic institution at Braemar. Integrates raw fiber sourcing, processing, design, and distribution under a single governance structure. Creative direction is the cooperative's most visible function — the designers who define the thrds aesthetic live at Braemar, work in brach fiber as their primary medium, and wear their output in the conditions it was designed for. The current creative director is Mira Callum-Brennan, the most publicly visible person in the system, who has opinions about local governance she does not always keep to herself.
+
+**Fiber production:** Brach herding remains the upstream material base. The animals graze Braemar's highland plains in managed herds, with fiber harvested seasonally. Selective breeding over three hundred years has optimized the fiber's thermal properties without losing the density that makes it structurally useful for garment construction. The fiber is processed at Braemar facilities — cleaning, sorting, spinning, and the proprietary treatment process that gives finished thrds fiber its characteristic hand and insulation gradient.
+
+**Distribution:** thrds garments move through markets at Havnfjord (GJ 3622), Calloway Reach (GJ 3325), and further inward, occasionally appearing at corridor fashion markets as far as Wolf 359 territory. The loop topology connecting to both adjacent systems provides routing flexibility. Distribution is managed through the cooperative's own logistics contracts rather than through intermediary brands — the thrds mark on the garment is the only mark, and the supply chain between brach and buyer is shorter than most corridor consumers assume.
+
+---
+
+## Products
+
+**Cold-weather outer layers:** The core product line. Jackets, coats, and overshirts designed for the temperature gradient between heated interiors and unheated transit environments. The insulation adapts: brach fiber stays comfortable in a wider range than synthetics because the fiber structure responds to body heat and ambient temperature differently at different layers of the weave. The result is garments that work in a heated bar and an exposed freight platform without requiring the wearer to add or remove layers. This is the property that outer corridor workers discovered first and that inner corridor buyers adopted later.
+
+**Working base layers:** Fiber-knit underlayers for sustained cold exposure. Less visible than the outer layers but technically more demanding — the fiber processing for base-layer weight requires a different approach than outerwear. Smaller production runs, primarily distributed through Braemar's own supply channels rather than corridor markets.
+
+**Limited collaborations:** Periodically, the cooperative's design studio produces small-batch garments in partnership with transit corridor textile operations at Havnfjord and other north_reach systems. These are design exercises rather than commercial products — the studio uses them to test fiber blends and construction techniques that may or may not enter the main product line.
+
+---
+
+## Political Relationships
+
+**The Brach Herders' Association:** Represents the upstream fiber suppliers. Has a complex relationship with the Cooperative: dependent on thrds prices for viability, but collectively the largest single vote bloc in Cooperative governance and therefore not without leverage. Tensions rise when Cooperative designers want specific fiber characteristics that herders consider impractical to breed for at scale. The relationship is symbiotic and occasionally irritable.
+
+**The Old Holdings Committee:** An informal grouping of families whose land grants predate the thrds era. They feel their interests in pastoral continuity are being subordinated to the brand's aesthetic and commercial needs. Advocates for limits on development in highland grazing areas. The Committee has no formal governance standing but commands social authority from seniority and land tenure.
+
+**Calloway Distillery (Calloway Reach):** Adjacent system, complementary brand. thrds and Calloway whisky appear in the same inward-corridor markets without competing. The communities share an understanding of what it means to build a corridor brand from specific terroir without surrendering creative control to inward capital. The relationship is warm and functionally useful — joint distribution logistics, shared transit scheduling through the loop.
+
+**Mercado Travessia:** thrds is not a Mercado product category — textiles and groceries occupy different retail infrastructure. But Mercado's transit corridor presence means thrds garments and Mercado shelves appear in the same station districts, and the two brands' corridor reputations reinforce each other as markers of authentic corridor-origin goods.
+
+---
+
+## What They Don't Talk About
+
+The cooperative has received acquisition inquiries from three inward corridor holding companies over the past decade. All three inquiries have been declined and none have been publicly disclosed. Local governance does not require public disclosure of acquisition inquiries. The herders' association and the old holdings families are not aware the inquiries occurred.
+
+A junior accountant at the Cooperative's financial office has been quietly compiling a parallel record of the acquisition inquiries and the governance communications that followed — not to expose anyone, but because she suspects the current creative director has been negotiating terms rather than simply declining. The accountant has not yet decided what to do with her parallel record, and she is aware that the cooperative's governance structure does not protect whistleblowers in any formal sense.
+
+The other silence concerns the fiber itself. Three centuries of selective breeding have produced brach fiber with properties that no other system's native fauna can replicate. The cooperative has never permitted live brach export, has never licensed its breeding stock, and has declined requests from inward corridor research institutions for biological samples sufficient to attempt off-system cultivation. The reasons given are agricultural — disease risk, ecological sensitivity, breeding stock management. The reason not given is commercial: if brach fiber could be produced elsewhere, thrds' entire market position would depend on design rather than material exclusivity, and the cooperative's governance structure was built for a world where both advantages existed simultaneously.
+
+---
+
+## Gameplay Relevance
+
+thrds provides setting texture for the north_reach corridor and investigation threads concerning corporate acquisition pressure, cooperative governance, and the economics of material exclusivity.
+
+For investigation, the key threads are:
+- **The acquisition inquiries** — who approached the cooperative, what terms were discussed, and whether the creative director's "declined" communications conceal ongoing negotiation. The accountant's parallel record is the critical document.
+- **The brach monopoly** — the biological exclusivity question. If someone is attempting to obtain brach breeding stock or biological samples through channels the cooperative doesn't control, the supply chain between highland herder and off-system buyer would be the investigation surface.
+- **Cooperative governance dynamics** — the tension between the herders' association (votes), the old holdings committee (social authority), and the creative director (commercial vision) creates a governance environment where each faction's private information about the others is incomplete. An investigator with access to all three communication channels would understand the cooperative's trajectory better than any internal participant does.
+
+thrds garments themselves are ambient setting material — visible on NPCs in transit corridors across the north_reach, identifiable by the distinctive fiber texture and the small lowercase mark. They are what corridor workers wear, and that ubiquity makes them invisible in a useful way.
+
+---
+
+**Cross-References:**
+- [Braemar](../star-systems/GJ-475/index.md) — Headquarters; founding system; brach herding and fiber production
+- [Calloway Reach](../star-systems/GJ-3325/index.md) — Adjacent system; Calloway Distillery; complementary corridor brand
+- [Havnfjord](../star-systems/GJ-3622/index.md) — Distribution hub; transit corridor market access
+- [Calloway Distillery](calloway-distillery.md) — Adjacent-system brand with analogous origin story and complementary market position
+- [Mercado Travessia](mercado-travessia.md) — Corridor-origin brand peer; different retail category, shared market reputation
+
+---
+
+**Status:** Canonical
+**Created:** 2026-03-16
+**Updated:** 2026-03-16