feat(docs): write Tessera and Vargr wiki pages, complete all core systems

Tessera (GJ 3877) — Compact/Records, institutional memory, 5-aperture hub
Vargr (GJ 3522) — Mining/DSMC, 3-aperture junction with MVG/GateCorp stakes

Written by Miri agents, reviewed by Paula with fixes applied:
- Registry authority reframed as accumulated soft power, not constitutional grant
- Perpetual/Syndic categories collapsed correctly
- Silence topic ambiguity signal added (directed vs undirected drift)
- Kensho description hedged (stub system, no established facts)
- Five centuries → three centuries (wave_2 timeline correction)
- DSMC observer-of-observers asymmetry made explicit
- Commission/Guardians misclassification mechanism expanded
- Capital investment discrepancy attribution deepened

All 28 core systems now have full prose. Stub section removed from index.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

wiki/star-systems/GJ-3522/index.md

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-# PLACEHOLDER_168
-**GJ 3522** | M-type | core
+# Vargr
+**GJ 3522** | K-type | core
 
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 ## Supply Dependency
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+Vargr exports what the Reach is built from. Metals, rare-earth elements, processed ore, refined bulk material for structural fabrication — the system's extraction operations have been running for three centuries, and the output ledger does not vary much from year to year because the demand side does not vary much either. MVG needs metals for its vehicle manufacturing at Nova Roma. Gate Corporation needs refined material for span gate fabrication and infrastructure maintenance at Renaissance. Both are one hop away. Both have preferential supply agreements. The agreements are not identical, and the scheduling queue that determines whose freight gets loaded first is administered by DSMC.
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+The import side of the ledger reflects what a mining system cannot produce for itself. Food comes primarily through the MVG-adjacent logistics network at GJ 764. Consumer goods and precision equipment arrive through multiple routes, but Gate Corporation's freight operations carry a significant share. This is the structural position DSMC operates from: its two largest customers are also its primary inbound logistics providers, and neither can afford to let the relationship deteriorate to the point of supply disruption. DSMC decides which party's outbound consignment gets priority loading in a given cycle. MVG and Gate Corporation each lobby the allocation committee, formally and otherwise, on a continuous basis. The allocation committee is staffed by DSMC.
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+The dependency is real on all sides. Vargr cannot sustain its population without the supply lines its customers control. MVG and Gate Corporation cannot sustain their production runs without the raw material Vargr controls. This mutual exposure is the condition under which DSMC has operated since Wave 2, and the corporation has had three centuries to become proficient at managing it.
 
 ## Faction Notes
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+The Dorfhausen Sydney Mining Corporation is not the system's government. It is, however, the entity that administers extraction licensing, operates the primary transit infrastructure, employs the majority of the system's workforce, and controls the allocation queue that determines which of the two minority stakeholders receives favorable treatment in any given quarter. The administrative council that nominally governs non-industrial affairs was constituted under DSMC-drafted charters in the Wave 2 founding period. The distinction between the corporation and the council has narrowed over three centuries to the point where mapping the difference requires access to documents the public registry does not include.
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+MVG and Gate Corporation hold minority ownership positions large enough for board seats and preferential supply terms. Neither holds enough to dictate operations, and DSMC has maintained this arithmetic deliberately. Both companies have field representatives permanently stationed at Witwatersrand, the primary extraction and processing hub — nominally to manage their supply agreements, functionally to watch each other. The surveillance is symmetric and openly acknowledged. Each party assumes the other's representative is communicating information back to their respective headquarters at Nova Roma and Renaissance. This assumption is correct. DSMC's administrative leadership regards the mutual observation as a feature rather than a liability: two stakeholders who are each monitoring the other have less attention available for coordinated oversight of the majority owner. The allocation committee's scheduling decisions are made by people who can see both representatives' field activity. The information asymmetry runs one direction.
+
+The Lattice Commission's presence is centered on mining safety regulation and extraction certification. The safety inspection regime at Vargr is formally comprehensive — regular audit cycles, documented certification protocols for the deep extraction facilities, published incident reporting requirements. The Commission's Kalgoorlie Office, named after one of the system's oldest administrative districts, handles the regulatory workload for all surface and near-subsurface operations. What it does not handle, because the relevant operations were grandfathered under Wave 2 extraction licensing frameworks that predate the Commission's current authority, is inspection access to the deep-bore facilities in the Broken Hill formation and the restricted extraction zones in the lower Krupp belt. Those areas operate under DSMC's internal safety certification process. The Commission considers this an ongoing jurisdictional issue. DSMC considers it a settled contractual matter.
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+The Concord Assembly maintains a standard resource-sector delegation focused on extraction taxation, labor standards, and the Assembly's interest in ensuring that Vargr's output continues to flow to Reach-wide manufacturing rather than being cornered by either minority stakeholder. The delegation's practical leverage is limited. The Assembly can regulate; it cannot allocate. DSMC allocates.
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+The Guardians of Autonomy have a substantial presence in the system's residential and labor districts. Mining work at depth is physically demanding, carries injury exposure that the surface operations do not, and is concentrated in a workforce that has been doing it long enough to have developed strong occupational identity. The Guardians' local chapter organizes primarily around working conditions in the deep extraction operations — shift length, decompression protocols, equipment maintenance cycles — and has a complicated relationship with the Commission's safety office that reflects the fact that the Commission cannot inspect the facilities the workers consider most dangerous. The Commission and the Guardians are formally separate. Their interests at Vargr overlap sufficiently that DSMC treats them as a coordinated constituency, which they are not. The misclassification is tactically useful in a specific way: it allows DSMC to signal accommodation to one by making gestures toward the other, keeping both constituencies partially satisfied without either achieving the inspection access or the labor terms they actually want. Neither the Commission nor the Guardians has formally objected to being treated as the same problem. The framing saves both institutions from having to explicitly coordinate, which neither institution has the authority to do.
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+The Syndic presence reflects the commercial geometry. DSMC itself operates with Syndic standing — it is old enough and capital-substantial enough to qualify under the commercial dynasty framework. The MVG and Gate Corporation field representatives at Witwatersrand operate under their parent organizations' Syndic standing. The result is that the three parties who most intensely interact at Vargr are all Syndic-standing entities conducting a three-way commercial negotiation that has been running for two centuries without reaching a stable resolution, which is the outcome DSMC prefers.
 
 ## Silence Topic
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+What Vargr does not discuss: what three centuries of extraction at depth have encountered, and what the Broken Hill formation's restricted survey classification actually covers.
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+The system's geological survey reports are publicly available in the Commission's documentation archive. They describe Vargr's subsurface resource profile with the quantitative specificity appropriate to a commercially significant extraction system. They also have sections that are classified under Wave 2 extraction licensing terms, reproducible only in redacted form, which is standard for commercially sensitive geological data. The redacted sections have been classified since before the Commission's current documentation standards were in effect. They have never been reviewed for declassification because the entity with standing to request the review is DSMC, and DSMC has not requested it.
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+What the workers in the Broken Hill deep-bore facilities observe is not straightforwardly anomalous. The formation's physical characteristics — acoustic propagation patterns, thermal gradients at certain depths, the structural geometry of cavities encountered below the primary ore seams — are consistent with a range of geological explanations, most of which are unremarkable. The explanations DSMC has provided, when the specific characteristics have been raised in safety certification filings, are technically adequate and do not satisfy the workers who raised them. The Commission's Kalgoorlie Office has received seventeen incident reports over the past sixty years that reference conditions in the restricted extraction zones using language the standard incident classification system does not have a category for. The reports are filed. They are not aggregated. The Commission office that would need to aggregate them does not have inspection access to the facilities the reports describe.
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+The allocation of what has been found, if anything has been found, is not a question the system's public record permits answering. What the public record does show is that DSMC's capital investment in the Broken Hill formation has consistently exceeded the investment justified by the publicly disclosed ore yield from those sections, and that the discrepancy has been noted in at least two separate financial analyses — one prepared for the MVG board seat, one for the Gate Corporation seat — neither of which was shared with the other party, and neither of which has been shared with DSMC's minority oversight committee in the form in which it was originally prepared.
 
 ## Narrative Hook
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+Three centuries of extraction at depth have produced anomalous geological filings that the Commission cannot inspect and DSMC has never sought to declassify.
 
 ## Calibration Note
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+`topology: junction` with `aperture_count: 3` at `hop_distance: 2` from Gateway is a configuration that, for a mining system, carries structural consequences that the economic profile alone does not capture. Each aperture connects directly to a neighbor with a material interest in Vargr's output: Nova Roma (MVG), Renaissance (Gate Corporation), and Kensho — whose institutional character is not fully public but whose research interest in subsurface geology, if it exists, would find this adjacency convenient. The alien horizon station did not arrange this adjacency for DSMC's benefit, but DSMC has been operating inside it for three centuries as though it were a designed advantage. A mining operation at a junction cannot conduct its business quietly. Every aperture is a route through which a stakeholder's freight, personnel, and information flows. The transparency is inescapable and DSMC's management of it — keeping MVG and Gate Corporation watching each other rather than coordinating — is the primary operational competency the corporation has developed.
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+`settlement_wave: wave_2` at `hop_distance: 2` from Gateway is a pairing that requires context. Wave 2 systems at two hops from Gateway are typically commercial or industrial mid-tier operations that were established after the founding core was secured. Vargr fits this profile: the system was not part of the original core settlement, but its proximity to both the institutional hub at Gateway and the established industrial base at Renaissance made it a natural early candidate for resource extraction development. The Wave 2 founding cohort — the Dorfhausen-Sydney consortium that gave the corporation its name, drawing on mining heritage from two Earth continents — selected the system specifically because its K-type star produced a habitable-zone environment compatible with long-term surface settlement while the subsurface resource profile justified the capital investment. The population that grew here grew around the extraction work, and three centuries of that growth have produced a labor culture with strong occupational identity and a corporate administration that has learned exactly how far it can push that identity before the Guardians escalate.
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+The naming convention throughout the system reflects the founding cohort's deliberate reference to Earth mining heritage. Witwatersrand for the primary processing hub, Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill for major operational districts, the Krupp belt for the outer extraction zone, the Bethlehem fabrication facility for processed material staging. The names are not nostalgia. They are a founding-era statement about what this system is for, legible to anyone in the Reach who knows what those names reference.
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+`star_type: K-type` at 14.6 light-years produces a habitable zone that is workable rather than comfortable. The primary's output is lower than Sol's, the habitable bodies orbit closer, and the system infrastructure has been engineered for efficient operation rather than residential amenity. This is consistent with the settlement history: Vargr was founded as an extraction base, not a population center. The residential districts at Witwatersrand and the secondary settlements in the Kalgoorlie administrative zone have the character of company towns that have had three centuries to develop civic institutions without ever fully escaping the original company-town structure. The comparison to Renaissance is apt and occasionally made by people at both systems, usually not in a spirit of solidarity.
 
 ## Topology
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wiki/star-systems/GJ-3877/index.md

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-# PLACEHOLDER_027
-**GJ 3877** | unusual-type | core
+# Tessera
+**GJ 3877** | K-type | core
 
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 ## Supply Dependency
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+Tessera imports what any mid-density professional-class system imports: food from the agricultural surplus systems in the inner Reach, manufactured consumer goods, replacement components for infrastructure the system neither builds nor maintains locally. The population is not large. It is not growing rapidly. It is stable in the way that institutional systems tend to be stable — not because conditions are comfortable but because the work is here and the work does not move.
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+The export is not enumerated in freight manifests. What leaves Tessera is access: certified copies of Assembly proceedings, authenticated precedent records, regulatory interpretation filings, verified historical extracts from the Compact archives. This material does not travel in cargo containers. It travels in authenticated data packets through the Commission's formal transmission network, in the memory cores of credentialed couriers, in the briefing files of Assembly advocates preparing for proceedings at Sirius. Every system in the Reach that has ever filed an administrative appeal, contested a Commission regulatory determination, or invoked founding-document protections has ultimately depended on Tessera's archives to provide the authoritative record on which the determination rests. The dependency is universal and largely invisible. Systems are aware of Tessera when they need something from it. They are not aware of it the rest of the time, which is how archival infrastructure characteristically works.
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+The only local production of note is Tessera's legal and interpretive services sector — a dense concentration of Assembly advocates, archival specialists, records authentication practitioners, and Compact interpretation consultants who cluster here because the archive they work from is here. This is not manufacturing. It is a proximity industry: the archive draws the practitioners, the practitioners generate demand for local services, the local service economy is sized accordingly. It is a comfortable system if one's work involves documents and an unremarkable one if it does not.
 
 ## Faction Notes
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+The Concord Assembly's interpretive apparatus is distributed across the Reach, but its institutional memory is here. Sirius is where the Assembly meets, deliberates, and decides. Tessera is where it remembers. The distinction is consequential in practice because the Reach's constitutional framework does not, in explicit terms, place interpretive authority anywhere. What it does is locate the definitive record at Tessera and leave the question of who speaks authoritatively from that record to five centuries of practice. The body that has answered that question, by answering questions from the Assembly without being formally constituted to do so, is the Assembly Interpretive Registry. Its authority is the accumulated weight of five hundred years of precedent on which the Reach has relied. No one has asked the Assembly to formally ratify it, because formally ratifying it would require specifying its limits. It is not glamorous institutional work. It is, over five centuries of accumulated precedent, the work that determines whether Assembly decisions remain actionable.
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+The Lattice Commission's relationship with Tessera is functional and continuous. Commission regulatory determinations across 300 systems depend on precedent chains that run back through the founding period, and those chains are maintained at Tessera's regulatory archive. When a Commission office in the mid-Reach issues a contested ruling, the appeal process eventually produces a request to Tessera's archive for the relevant precedent extract. The volume of such requests is high and steady. The Commission does not administer Tessera — the system sits outside standard Commission jurisdiction in ways that reflect its constitutional rather than regulatory status — but it is one of the archive's heaviest users, and the two institutions have a working relationship built on mutual dependence: the Commission relies on Tessera's records for regulatory legitimacy; Tessera relies on the Commission's enforcement apparatus to make its certified interpretations enforceable in the field. The relationship is not frictionless. Commission officers who feel that Tessera's Registry has interpreted a regulatory precedent in ways that constrain Commission authority have been filing formal objections to those interpretations since the founding generation. The objections are archived at Tessera. The irony of this arrangement is noted by no one, because no one at either institution has found it sufficiently productive to note.
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+The Syndic presence at Tessera is concentrated in archival services companies and records authentication firms rather than the industrial combines that characterize Syndic influence at manufacturing hubs. These are smaller operations, tightly credentialed, with deep institutional relationships built over generations. The commercial logic is that the Reach's Perpetual-class practitioners — the senior Syndic advocates who have been working the same precedent chains for a century, the Assembly delegates whose institutional relationships predate the Commission — need authenticated archival access that the public registry cannot always provide on the timeline commercial proceedings require. There are firms at Tessera that will produce authenticated precedent extracts, certified Compact interpretations, and registered historical filings faster than the Registry's standard processing queue — not by circumventing the archive, but by knowing it well enough to work it efficiently. The boundary between knowing the archive well and having informal relationships that produce favorable queue positioning is one those firms do not invite scrutiny of. No formal complaint has been successfully concluded against any credentialed archival services firm at Tessera in the past two centuries. The Registry's formal position is that the firms operate within its certification framework. This is accurate.
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+The Veil Institute does not maintain a research presence at Tessera in the conventional sense. It does maintain a credentialed access account with the Registry, and its senior archivists submit records requests at a frequency that the Registry's public disclosure report does not itemize by requesting organization. The Institute's interest in historical records is professionally explicable — an organization studying alien transit infrastructure would naturally want access to the founding-era survey reports, the first-wave settlement documentation, the earliest recorded interactions with gate topology. Whether the Institute's Tessera access extends to records that are not in the public registry's standard collection — whether the Institute has arrangements with the Registry that go beyond the standard credentialed-access framework — is a question the Registry's public disclosures are not structured to answer.
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+The Guardians of Autonomy maintain a small permanent office at Tessera, which is anomalous given the Guardians' typical operational focus on labor conditions and civil liberties enforcement in the working Reach. Their stated reason for the presence is monitoring: the Compact's founding protections include civil liberties provisions that the Guardians consider their constituency's primary legal shield against Commission overreach, and the interpretive body that determines how those provisions are applied in contested cases operates from Tessera. The Guardians want a local presence when interpretations are being developed, on the grounds that interpretations made without affected-population representation tend to develop in directions the affected population would not have chosen. The Registry's formal position is that the interpretive process does not receive input from advocacy organizations. The Guardians' formal position is that they are not providing input; they are observing. The distinction has been contested in four separate Registry proceedings in the past century. The Guardians have lost all four. They have maintained the office throughout.
 
 ## Silence Topic
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+What Tessera does not discuss: the gap between what the archive contains and what the archive says it contains.
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+Five centuries of records infrastructure produces a specific kind of institutional sediment. Decisions are made about what to retain, how to classify it, which precedent chains to mark as active and which to annotate as superseded or administratively consolidated. These decisions are made by archivists, who are trained professionals operating under Registry standards that have themselves been developed over five centuries of accumulated revision. The standards are documented. The documentation of the standards is in the archive. The decisions about what the standards should be were made by people who had access to the archive at the time they made them.
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+The gap that does not get discussed is not fraud in the simple sense. No single document has been removed from the registry and replaced with a fabrication — the authentication systems would catch it. The gap is subtler: it is in the classification decisions, the consolidation decisions, the decisions about which precedent chains to mark as primary and which to route to secondary status where they remain technically retrievable but are not surfaced by standard searches. A founding-era Assembly proceeding that was classified as a procedural matter rather than a substantive one does not appear in substantive precedent searches. It is in the archive. It is not found unless someone knows to look for it specifically. After five centuries, the volume of material that is technically present but functionally inaccessible — because of classification decisions, because of consolidation annotations, because the search architecture routes around it — is not something anyone has systematically audited. Whether the accumulated drift has a direction — whether the classifications that most consistently deprioritized certain precedent chains were made by archivists with institutional relationships to the parties those chains would have constrained — is not a question the undirected record can answer. Auditing the drift would require knowing what to look for, and knowing what to look for would require access to the records that describe what was classified and why, and those records were themselves classified under the same framework they document.
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+The archivists who work the Registry are not concealing anything, individually. They are applying the standards they were trained on, which were developed from the standards that came before, which were developed from the standards that came before those. Whether the accumulated effect of five hundred years of individually reasonable classification decisions has produced an archive that reliably reflects what happened, or an archive that reliably reflects what the people making classification decisions at each stage preferred to have on record, is a question that requires access to the archive itself to investigate — which means asking the archive to evaluate its own reliability, which is the one question the archive cannot answer from its own contents.
 
 ## Narrative Hook
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+The institutional memory of the Settled Reach has been curated by the same institution for five centuries, and no external body has ever had the access required to audit whether the curation has been faithful.
 
 ## Calibration Note
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+`hub` topology with `wave_2` settlement at hop distance 2 from Gateway initially reads as overbuilt for an archival function. Records infrastructure does not require five apertures. The explanation runs in the other direction: the five apertures were present when the system was selected, not installed because the system was selected. Wave 2 settlement was explicitly organized around existing gate topology — second-wave founders chose high-connectivity systems for institutional functions because institutional functions require access. A constitutional archive that could only be reached through two or three routing paths would be structurally vulnerable in exactly the ways that a founding document should not be vulnerable. The hub topology made Tessera reachable from any point in the Reach in a small number of hops, which was the operational requirement for a records system that every system in the network needs to be able to reach.
+
+The K5V stellar classification produces a habitable zone that is narrow by comparison to Sol-type systems and positioned closer in. Tessera's primary inhabited body orbits within those constraints — a small, geologically settled world with moderate axial tilt, low storm activity, and the kind of undramatic climate that produces functional cities rather than distinctive ones. Tessera does not have a reputation for quality of life. It has a reputation for archival access and for the dense concentration of legal professionals that archival access attracts. The population that lives here is largely professional class, largely transient on the decade-scale, and largely here because the work requires physical proximity to the Registry. The system profile — stable, institutional, professionally dense, climatically unremarkable — is so consistent with its function that it reads as designed, which it was not. It is simply what a wave_2 hub becomes after five centuries of developing around a single institutional anchor.
+
+The adjacency profile reinforces the hub's institutional position. GJ 1156 provides a mid-Reach routing corridor. Parallax (GJ 280A) — one hop away — is the Reach's primary media and information distribution center. The structural adjacency of the official record and the public narrative is not remarked upon in either system's official documentation. Lacaille (GJ 887) provides a checkpoint corridor toward the outer systems. Proxima (GJ 551) — the first colony, the founding memorial — is one hop from Tessera, which means the Compact's physical housing and the site of the original settlement wave are directly connected. Kensho (GJ 1286) completes the hub's neighborhood. The connection to GJ 551 (Proxima) — the founding colony — provides the two-hop path to Gateway. The institutional logic of the siting runs through that corridor: founding memorial one hop, founding governance two hops. The five-aperture configuration connects Tessera to every major institutional node in the inner Reach within two hops. This was, by wave_2 standards, the point.
 
 ## Topology
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 - **Hop Distance from Gateway:** 2
-- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 1156, GJ 280A, GJ 887, GJ 551, GJ 1286
+- **Adjacent Systems:** GJ 1156, GJ 280A (Parallax), GJ 887 (Lacaille), GJ 551 (Proxima), GJ 1286 (Kensho)

wiki/star-systems/index.md

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 | [Ross 128](GJ-447/index.md) | GJ 447 | Ocean world — fishing, research, tourism | 3 |
 | [Lu Ban](GJ-15A/index.md) | GJ 15A | Mixed industrial — failed corp bazaar | 3 |
 
-## Core Systems — Stub (need prose)
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-| System | GJ ID | Role | Hop |
-|--------|-------|------|-----|
-| [Tessera](GJ-3877/index.md) | GJ 3877 | Compact/Records — institutional memory | 2 |
-| [Vargr](GJ-3522/index.md) | GJ 3522 | Mining — DSMC | 2 |
 | [Cairn](GJ-845/index.md) | GJ 845 | The Graveyard — unsettled, 7 apertures | 2 |
 
 ## Full Catalog