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wiki/economics/commodities/advanced_alloys.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | High-performance materials for hulls, gate infrastructure, precision machinery. |
 
+Advanced alloys are the high-specification materials required for vessel hulls, gate infrastructure, precision industrial machinery, and capital equipment designed for extreme environmental or mechanical stress. The production recipe requires 1.5t of metallic ore, 0.3t of rare minerals, and 0.2t of fusion fuel — making alloy fabrication one of three chains with direct rare minerals dependency, alongside electronics and drive core assembly.
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+The rare minerals input is the constraint that determines where advanced alloys can be produced economically. Smelting capacity is broadly distributed; rare mineral supply is not. Systems near rare mineral sources operate alloy fabrication efficiently; systems at distance pay freight premiums on the mineral input that compound through the alloy output price into the final goods that depend on them. Transport vehicles (0.8t alloy input), drive core assembly (0.8t via downstream chain), and gate components (1.0t direct) are all sensitive to alloy pricing — and all are ultimately sensitive to rare mineral geography.
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+Regional production ubiquity reflects this dependency: not every system has the mineral access to run alloy fabrication, but major manufacturing corridors typically have either local mineral production or established freight relationships with mineral-producing systems. No certification, no Compact contestation, no shadow channel. Alloys are high-value standard freight, but they're too physically heavy and too traceable by their downstream application to attract informal trade interest.

wiki/economics/commodities/agricultural_produce.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Food crops, livestock, grain, grapes. Every terraformed world produces some. |
 
+Agricultural produce covers everything grown, raised, or caught before shelf-stabilization: grain, legumes, root vegetables, livestock, aquaculture, and raw harvest from viticulture or fiber-crop operations. Every terraformed world of sufficient size runs at least subsistence production. Many run surpluses. The commodity is ubiquitous because the Reach was settled with agriculture as a precondition of habitability.
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+At 5 Tractus per tonne, margins on raw produce are thin. The value is downstream. Basic grain feeds food processing; the same tonnage from a specialized biosphere world flows instead into organic compound extraction at significantly better returns per hectare. Viticulture harvest from corridor-specific terroirs (VGV valley varietals, Calloway grain) feeds branded products whose prices the generic catalog does not track. A grower on a world producing brach fiber for textile feedstock operates in a different market from the grain farmer on the same continent, even if the Commission records both as agricultural produce.
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+Perishable bulk class limits gate-transit windows. Fresh produce cannot clear multiple hops before viability degrades; frontier nodes eat locally grown staples and import processed food for shelf-stable variety. No Commission certification is required and no shadow channel operates — too bulky, too cheap, and too time-sensitive to divert profitably.

wiki/economics/commodities/chemical_feedstock.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Industrial gases, reaction mass, solvents. Hazmat certification required. |
 
+Chemical feedstock covers industrial gases, reactive solvents, chemical precursors, and reaction mass extracted from planetary atmospheres, gas giants, and geological deposits. The primary production path for chemicals and pharmaceuticals runs through feedstock at a 2:1 input ratio — two tonnes of feedstock yield one tonne of processed output, making feedstock availability a direct determinant of a system's chemical production capacity.
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+Commission certification is required for formal sale and transport, based on hazmat classification and dual-use concerns. This is where the Compact friction enters: Compact member systems contest Commission authority over industrial chemicals as an overreach on internal industrial policy, and certification costs — Tractus-denominated regardless of the buyer's currency zone — represent friction that accumulates at scale for Mark-primary systems. The result is a functioning shadow market for uncertified feedstock in Compact territory, priced below formal channels to offset the certification risk.
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+The organic compounds substitution route reduces feedstock dependency for chemical production on biosphere-rich worlds (0.8 output yield versus 1.0 via feedstock), which means feedstock price spikes don't cascade uniformly through the chemical chain. Systems with viable organic compound production absorb shocks; feedstock-dependent systems do not.

wiki/economics/commodities/chemicals.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 3 |
 | Description | Medicines, industrial chemicals, life support consumables. Two production paths. |
 
+Chemicals and pharmaceuticals is a broad intermediate category covering industrial solvents, pharmaceutical compounds, life support consumables, and specialty chemistry. Two routes produce the same output: the primary geological path (2.0t chemical feedstock + 0.5t water → 1.0t output) and the biological path (1.0t organic compounds + 0.3t water → 0.8t output). The primary path yields more per cycle; the biological path is available to biosphere-rich systems that lack chemical feedstock infrastructure.
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+The three-week panic threshold is the longest in the intermediate tier, reflecting the critical dependency on chemicals across five downstream production chains: textiles (0.2t), lattice substrate processing (0.3t), implant fabrication (0.3t), medical goods (0.4t), and habitat module assembly (0.2t). A chemicals shortage does not trigger immediate panic in any single downstream industry, but the cumulative draw means that stockpile depletion at three weeks generates anticipatory buying across multiple sectors simultaneously. By the time the shortage is visible in chemicals pricing, downstream producers have already started competing for remaining inventory.
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+Commission certification is required because the category includes pharmaceutical compounds and dual-use precursors. Compact contestation follows the same logic as chemical feedstock: certification is Tractus-denominated, and the Compact's industrial chemistry sector faces the same conversion friction on every certified purchase. The shadow market for uncertified chemicals operates primarily in Compact territory and near-frontier systems, where Commission enforcement presence is thinner and the friction cost of certification makes informal channels economically competitive. Three-week panic threshold makes uncertified supply an attractive hedge for frontier operators who cannot guarantee formal supply chain continuity.

wiki/economics/commodities/commission_certification.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Lattice Commission regulatory certification. Tractus-denominated. Availability inverse to shadow economy. Shadow-viable is false: you cannot shadow-market the Commission's own stamp — you shadow-market the goods that skip certification. |
 
+Commission certification is the Lattice Commission's regulatory stamp — the mechanism by which lattice components, implant hardware, chemical feedstock, medical goods, transport vessels, and other regulated commodities enter formal trade. Demand is compliance-driven, not market-driven: operators procure certification because the law requires it, not because they have calculated a positive return on the cost. Inelastic elasticity follows from this — operators don't reduce their need for certification in response to price increases; they either pay or divert to shadow channels for the underlying goods.
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+The Tractus denomination of certification fees is the structural mechanism that converts Commission regulation into currency-zone politics. A Mark-primary system operator paying for chemical feedstock certification is paying in Tractus — the Assembly's currency — for the Assembly's regulatory approval to conduct commerce in their own system. The ~3% cross-currency conversion cost is the visible friction; the political objection is the invisible one. Compact member systems contest not just the fee but the legitimacy of the Commission's jurisdiction over goods moving entirely within their own territory.
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+Availability is inversely correlated with shadow economy intensity because Commission enforcement presence and shadow economy intensity are opposed forces: where the Commission maintains active presence, certification is available and formal trade operates; where shadow economy intensity is high, Commission presence is reduced, certification availability drops, and the formal/shadow boundary blurs. This is the operational meaning of `official_coverage_ratio`: high shadow intensity reduces formal certification density, which reduces the visible formal economy, which widens the gap between official and actual economic activity.
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+Shadow viable is marked false, precisely: you cannot obtain a counterfeit Commission certification stamp that carries the same legal weight as a real one — Commission records are centralized and cross-checkable. What you can do is skip certification entirely and trade the underlying goods through shadow channels. The Commission's stamp is not the contraband; it is the absence of the stamp that defines the contraband.

wiki/economics/commodities/consumer_goods.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Daily necessities, household items, personal tech. |
 
+Consumer goods is the broadest final category in the catalog, covering everything from household cookware and personal care products to light personal technology, clothing, and the durable goods that populate residential and commercial spaces. The production recipe mixes 0.3t of processed food, 0.3t of textiles, and 0.2 units of electronics — a deliberately broad input mix reflecting the category's diversity. Ubiquitous production ubiquity means consumer goods manufacturing is distributed across essentially every settled system at sufficient scale, making it the most geographically resilient final category.
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+Consumer goods demand is market-driven and unit-elastic, meaning price changes produce proportional demand responses. This is the standard commodity behavior — no panic, no regulatory complexity, no political flags. The category is interesting to traders primarily as a signal of upstream input conditions: a consumer goods price increase that outpaces general inflation suggests electronics or textiles constraints propagating forward; a consumer goods discount suggests processed food or textile surplus clearing through the manufacturing sector.
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+The 80 Tractus base price places consumer goods at the lower end of the final goods tier. The category is volume-driven — high turnover, competitive margins, geographically distributed producers. Brand differentiation (thrds garments, corridor-specific specialty items) operates above the generic catalog level, where the brand system rather than the commodity price governs margins. The generic category here is the floor of that market, not the ceiling.

wiki/economics/commodities/drive_cores.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Propulsion components. High-value, specialized. Double rare-minerals dependency. |
 
+Drive cores are the propulsion assemblies that power commercial and industrial vessels — standardized across a size range from light freighter to heavy cargo hauler, but manufactured to precision tolerances that limit production to well-equipped industrial facilities. The recipe requires 0.4t of rare minerals (direct) and 0.8t of advanced alloys — which themselves require 0.3t of rare minerals in their production. This gives drive cores a double rare-mineral dependency: each unit produced consumes roughly 0.64t of rare minerals across both the direct and alloy-embedded inputs.
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+Elastic demand reflects the commodity's capital goods nature. Vessel operators do not replace drive cores on a fixed schedule; they replace them when degradation reaches a threshold or when procurement pricing makes early replacement economically rational. During a rare mineral price spike, operators extend core service life rather than replace at elevated prices, and demand contracts. When mineral prices normalize, deferred replacement demand returns in concentrated buying pressure. This cyclicality makes drive cores one of the more interesting freight commodities to track for timing-sensitive traders.
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+Concentrated production ubiquity means a small number of industrial systems produce essentially all commercial drive cores. Transport vehicles, freight haulers, and heavy equipment all require drive cores as inputs (0.3t, 0.5t, and 0.2t respectively), anchoring demand to the general manufacturing cycle. No shadow channel: the specifications and serial-number tracking on commercial propulsion units make informal trade impractical.

wiki/economics/commodities/electronics.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Circuits, processors, control systems. Rare mineral-dependent. Input to nearly every final good. |
 
+Electronics and components cover circuit assemblies, processors, sensor arrays, control systems, and integrated modules from basic industrial controllers to precision-grade guidance hardware. The production recipe requires 0.5t of rare minerals, 0.3t of refined metals, and 0.2t of fusion fuel per unit. Rare minerals are the binding constraint — the same minerals that bottleneck alloy fabrication also bottleneck electronics, which means a rare mineral supply disruption simultaneously affects both chains and propagates into every final good that draws on either.
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+Electronics appears as an input in five of nine final production chains: heavy equipment (0.3 units), transport vehicles (0.3 units), freight haulers (0.3 units), consumer goods (0.2 units), implant hardware (0.5 units — the largest single input), habitat modules (0.3 units), and rail infrastructure (0.3 units). This breadth means electronics availability is effectively a ceiling on general manufacturing throughput. A node running low on electronics components does not slow one industry — it slows most of them.
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+Compact bulk class means electronics moves efficiently relative to its value at 120 Tractus per unit. Regional production concentrations track rare mineral geography, with electronics fabrication hubs typically located adjacent to or downstream from mineral-producing systems. No Commission certification required, no shadow market. Electronics are traceable by specification and generally too high-value for casual diversion; the shadow market interest is in the downstream products rather than the components themselves.

wiki/economics/commodities/entertainment.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Performances, holo-content, cultural production. |
 
+Entertainment and holo-content covers live performances, venue-based cultural events, and the consumption of holo-content in local presentation facilities. The Meridian delivers content data reach-wide, but the experience of attendance — the social context, the physical presence, the shared audience — is location-bound. A concert hall at Altmark, a gladiatorial circuit at a Compact festival venue, a holo-theatre running archival Earth content in a frontier settlement: all are priced locally against local demand and local cost structures, not against some Reach-wide market rate.
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+Common production ubiquity reflects the low capital requirement of entertainment services relative to most economic activities. Any system with population density sufficient to sustain an audience supports some entertainment sector. Quality and scale vary enormously — the holo-theatres at major station hubs operate at orders of magnitude larger scale than a frontier settlement's community hall — but the service exists almost everywhere. This makes entertainment a useful economic signal: entertainment sector health tracks discretionary income availability, and entertainment sector collapse is an early indicator of broader economic distress in a community.
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+Elastic demand means entertainment is the first casualty of genuine economic hardship. When energy costs spike and food security tightens, audiences shrink before food purchases do. The entertainment sector's price sensitivity relative to inelastic necessities makes it a leading indicator of community economic stress that most economic data series don't capture directly. No Commission involvement, no shadow channel. The content may carry political valence in some corridors — Compact cultural production explicitly reflects values the Assembly disapproves of — but the service itself does not require regulation.

wiki/economics/commodities/financial_services.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Banking, credit, clearing, currency exchange. Cross-zone settlement infrastructure. |
 
+Financial services covers commercial banking, corporate credit facilities, interbank clearing, currency exchange, and the cross-zone settlement infrastructure that makes multi-system trade possible. Common ubiquity means most settled systems have functional banking — the Reach cannot operate without it. The service is location-bound because banking requires local regulatory standing, local currency clearing relationships, and local credit risk assessment. A Groombridge bank can run clearing for cross-corridor transactions, but its credit assessment for a frontier mining operation relies on information that a distant institution cannot evaluate without local presence.
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+The cross-zone dimension is where financial services become strategically interesting. Mark-primary systems need financial institutions with established Tractus-Mark clearing relationships to conduct commerce with Assembly-compliant systems. The ~3% cross-currency conversion rate is the published friction; the actual cost includes settlement delays, counterparty credit risk across zone boundaries, and the political uncertainty about whether Assembly-compliant institutions will maintain correspondent relationships with Compact banks under Assembly pressure. Systems at the MARK_PRIMARY / TRACTUS_PRIMARY boundary — the MIXED zone — host the financial institutions that manage both sides of this clearing relationship, which is why those systems tend to have disproportionately large financial services sectors relative to their population.
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+No shadow channel for financial services. You can shadow-market goods; you cannot usefully shadow-market the settlement infrastructure those goods need to move. An informal bank that isn't connected to formal clearing networks cannot actually clear payments at scale. What the shadow economy uses instead of banks is Sol — the untraceable medium that requires no clearing.

wiki/economics/commodities/freight_haulers.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Commercial cargo vessels. Demand driven by trade volume, not population. |
 
+Freight haulers are commercial cargo vessels at the working scale of Reach trade: gate-capable freighters, system-run bulk carriers, and the orbital-to-surface logistics craft that move goods between planets and stations. Production requires 1.5t of refined metals, 0.5 units of drive cores, and 0.3 units of electronics — the most metal-intensive final good recipe in the catalog. Commission safety registration is required, and the Compact contests this on the same jurisdictional grounds as transport vehicle registration: Commission certification of vessels operating within Compact systems is interpreted as implicit acceptance of Assembly commercial authority.
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+Demand is driven by trade volume, not by population. A system with high trade throughput — a major transit node, a mineral-export hub, a gate junction — generates freight hauler demand in proportion to cargo flows. A system with equivalent population but low trade activity does not. This decoupling from population means freight hauler production cycles track economic activity patterns rather than demographic growth, and experienced operators monitor trade-volume signals rather than census data when positioning equipment orders.
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+Concentrated production ubiquity reflects the capital intensity of shipbuilding. Only major industrial systems with integrated metal-to-drive-core supply chains and dry dock capacity operate at commercial hauler scale. Shadow viable is false: vessels require registration for gate transit, and unregistered cargo shipping is impractical rather than merely illegal. Commission registration contestation in the Compact plays out through licensing disputes and fee non-payment rather than through shadow vessels.

wiki/economics/commodities/fusion_fuel.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 2 |
 | Description | Deuterium/tritium refined from water at 8:1 ratio. Continuous consumption. Every system needs it. |
 
+Fusion fuel is the Reach's operational energy currency. Every inhabited node consumes it continuously as a utility overhead — proportional to population and active systems — and three major industrial chains require it as a direct input: ore smelting (0.3t per tonne of refined metals), alloy fabrication (0.2t), and electronics fabrication (0.2t). The demand model is utility, not market: consumption does not adjust to price. When fuel becomes expensive, smelters still run, stations still operate, and the cost moves downstream into everything that depends on energy-intensive production.
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+The 8:1 water-to-fuel yield ratio is the structural driver of the Reach's energy geography. Eight tonnes of water refine into one tonne of fusion fuel. Water is cheap (2 Tractus/t) but the volume requirements mean that frontier refineries, which must pay elevated transport costs on water imports, produce fuel at structural cost premiums over inner corridor operations where water is locally abundant. That premium is not event-driven — it is geometric. Every hop of water transport adds to the fuel production cost, and from there to smelting throughput, alloy costs, electronics costs, and ultimately to every manufactured final good on that frontier shelf.
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+Commission certification is required for formal trade; Compact members contest this as currency-zone coercion. Certification fees are Tractus-denominated regardless of the buyer's Mark-primary zone, which means every fuel certification in the Compact zone involves a cross-currency conversion at the prevailing ~3% friction rate. This is not a regulatory dispute — it is a structural tax on Compact industrial operations, and it feeds directly into the shadow fuel market that operates throughout the west reach. Shadow fuel moves without certification; it prices below formal channels by enough to absorb the compliance risk. The two-week panic threshold means any credible supply threat triggers hoarding before the shortage materializes.
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+For nodes that are gate-energy connected, Gate Corporation's energy-over-gate service reduces utility fuel demand to roughly 0.3× baseline. Compact member systems have historically refused this service as an act of energy sovereignty — the consequence being that Compact systems run full fuel demand from their own production, but are also insulated from Gate Corporation cutoff scenarios. When a dependent inner-corridor node loses gate energy access, it is Compact surplus that absorbs the emergency demand.

wiki/economics/commodities/gate_components.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Gate maintenance and construction parts. Gate Corporation monopoly. Triple rare-minerals dependency. |
 
+Gate components are the maintenance and construction units for span gates — the infrastructure backbone of all inter-system commerce and communication in the Reach. Production requires 1.0t of advanced alloys, 0.5 units of drive cores, and 0.3 units of lattice substrate, creating a triple rare-minerals dependency: rare minerals appear directly in alloys (0.3t), in drive cores (0.4t direct + embedded via alloy input), and in the electronics that feed drive core production. No other final good in the catalog concentrates rare mineral dependency so completely.
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+Gate Corporation holds an effective monopoly on gate component production and maintenance. This is not a regulatory designation — it reflects the reality that the engineering specifications, manufacturing infrastructure, and technical personnel required to produce functional gate components exist in one place. Gate Corp's monopoly is self-reinforcing: the expertise to certify that gate components meet operational standards resides in the organization that produces them. Commission certification is required, and the Commission's technical standards for gate components essentially codify Gate Corp's own manufacturing specifications.
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+Compact contestation of Commission authority over gate components follows from the general Compact position on Commission jurisdiction, complicated by the fact that gate infrastructure operates within Compact systems. A Compact system disputing Commission gate component certification is in tension with Gate Corp's service contracts — the gate runs on Gate Corp's hardware, and Gate Corp's warranty and service terms require certified components. The shadow channel for gate components is thin but real: counterfeit or refurbished components that lack the certification chain occasionally reach systems where the alternative is extended gate downtime. The decision to use uncertified gate components is made under maintenance duress, not as policy.

wiki/economics/commodities/habitat_modules.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Complete living/working units for stations and settlements. 2-5 year lead times. |
 
+Habitat modules are complete, pressurized living and working units manufactured for integration into orbital stations, surface settlements, and expanding population centers. Each unit includes life support interfaces, utilities routing, structural connections, and interior finishing to habitability standards. The production recipe requires 1.2 units of structural panels, 0.3 units of electronics, and 0.2t of chemicals — with the panel input creating a direct dependency on timber or stone availability in the supply chain.
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+Lead times of 2–5 years from order to delivery are structural, not market-driven. Large station expansions require coordinated panel supply, manufacturing capacity booking, and transport scheduling well in advance of the installation date. Operators planning population expansion programs treat habitat module procurement as a multi-year infrastructure commitment rather than a commodity purchase. Systems experiencing rapid immigration pressure — frontier expansion waves, post-disruption resettlement — face severe module shortages that cannot be resolved on short notice regardless of price.
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+Settlement density across the Reach is therefore partially a function of module lead-time management. Systems that run persistent module procurement programs and maintain forward inventory position their populations for growth; systems that procure reactively face population-to-capacity mismatches during growth phases. The 2-5 year figure is why experienced colony administrators consider module order placement to be among their most consequential routine decisions.

wiki/economics/commodities/heavy_equipment.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Mining rigs, construction machinery. 1-3 year lead times. |
 
+Heavy equipment covers the large-scale mechanical systems used in extraction, construction, and industrial operations: mining rigs, ore processors, planetary dozers, drilling platforms, construction cranes, and the capital machinery of expansion-phase development. Production requires 1.0t of refined metals, 0.3 units of electronics, and 0.2 units of drive cores per unit — positioning heavy equipment as a capital goods category with direct drive core dependency.
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+Elastic demand reflects the capital investment cycle. Mining and construction operators hold equipment orders against expected project demands and defer during economic contractions or price spikes. A 1–3 year lead time from order to delivery means demand signals in heavy equipment pricing represent commitments made one to three years ago, not current conditions. Active frontier development systems generate consistent heavy equipment demand; established core systems replace equipment on longer replacement cycles.
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+The economic significance of heavy equipment exceeds its direct commodity price. Equipment throughput determines extraction rates, construction timelines, and the physical pace of expansion — the economic output of a mining operation scales with its equipment capacity, and delayed equipment procurement delays the ore throughput that feeds downstream manufacturing. Stalownia is the canonical Reach manufacturer in this category; their large rigs carry 1–3 year lead times even in normal conditions, and procurement priority is a commercial relationship as much as a price negotiation.

wiki/economics/commodities/hospitality.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Corridor taverns, station cantinas, Talbreu taphouses. Cultural dining reflecting local heritage and transit-corridor traditions. |
 
+Fine dining and hospitality encompasses the full range of prepared food service and residential accommodation, from transit corridor cantinas to the Talbreu taphouse circuit and the prestige restaurant culture of major hub stations. The service is explicitly location-bound: Ostmark cuisine prepared at Ostmark, with Ostmark cultural context and the social network that makes a specific establishment meaningful, is not reproducible elsewhere. A station cantina in the outer west reach serves as both provisioner and community infrastructure — the social hub where transit workers, merchants, and locals negotiate the informal economy that formal records don't capture.
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+Regional production ubiquity reflects the commodity's dual dependency: good hospitality requires both the skill and cultural context to prepare it, and reliable access to the agricultural produce and processed food inputs that go into the service. Frontier systems maintain basic provisions but rarely develop the ingredient diversity that supports serious hospitality culture until the settlement matures. Major transit nodes and corridor junctions develop hospitality sectors disproportionate to their populations because transit populations are willing to pay for quality in transient contexts.
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+The 60 Tractus base price positions fine dining above entertainment as a discretionary luxury but below tourism as a considered destination investment. Elastic demand means it contracts with income; it also expands notably during transit booms and economic growth cycles. The cultural character of hospitality in specific corridors — the Germanic-Scandinavian cooking of west reach settlements, the east reach fusion traditions, the Sol-nostalgic cuisine that clusters around stations with significant Unbound communities — is legible in the commodity pricing but not captured in the generic catalog figure.

wiki/economics/commodities/implant_hardware.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Neural interfaces, lattice components. THE Compact political flashpoint. D-037 adjacent. |
 
+Implant hardware covers neural interface assemblies, lattice tier upgrade components, peripheral neural modules, and the physical substrate of the Commission's certified lattice ecosystem. Production requires 0.5 units of electronics, 0.3t of chemicals, and 0.4 units of lattice substrate — the highest electronics input of any final good in the catalog, reflecting the processing density required for neural-grade signal fidelity. Commission certification is not optional; it is the difference between a certified medical device and contraband.
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+The Compact's contestation of Commission authority over implant hardware is the sharpest political friction point in the commodity catalog. Compact member systems interpret Commission certification requirements as jurisdictional overreach that gives the Assembly a structural mechanism to control their citizens' neural autonomy through the hardware supply chain. Certification fees are Tractus-denominated and non-negotiable. Every certified implant purchased in a Mark-primary system pays cross-currency conversion on top of the certification fee — a structural tax on neural identity that the Compact has consistently refused to normalize.
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+The shadow market for uncertified implants is the canonical contraband stream of the Reach. Unlicensed lattice components are not conceptually different from certified ones; they simply lack the Commission audit trail that would tie the hardware to a registered citizen identity. Shadow-viable implants trade in deep-discount channels, primarily in Compact territory and frontier systems where Commission enforcement presence is intermittent. The demand comes from: citizens priced out of certified hardware, individuals seeking capabilities beyond licensed tiers, and operators who want neural infrastructure that is not on the Commission's registry. All three groups exist in every corridor at varying intensity.

wiki/economics/commodities/insurance.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Cargo, liability, corporate risk management. Affects trade volume through risk pricing. |
 
+Insurance and risk management services cover cargo underwriting, commercial liability policies, corporate risk transfer, and the actuarial infrastructure that enables large-scale trade and investment across systems with varying political stability. These are location-bound services: an insurer operating at Altmark is pricing risk for the west-reach corridor, drawing on local loss data, local legal frameworks, and local settlement capacity. That expertise cannot be freighted to another system — a Compact insurer providing coverage for inner-corridor cargo is operating at an information disadvantage that the price reflects.
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+The critical economic function is enabling trade volume. Insurance does not add to GDP in a conventional sense, but uninsured freight is freight that either doesn't move or moves at risk pricing that constrains volume. High-insurance-cost corridors generate measurably lower freight volumes than equivalent corridors with competitive insurance markets. This is the mechanism by which `shadow_economy_intensity` interacts with formal trade: shadow economy expansion degrades insurers' ability to price risk accurately (they can't see the full economic picture), which raises premiums, which suppresses formal trade volume, which is the `official_coverage_ratio` degrading in real time.
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+Regional production ubiquity means not every system has competitive insurance depth. Frontier systems often operate with single-insurer coverage or import coverage from corridor hubs at a distance premium. No certification required, no shadow channel — insurance is location-bound professional services, and the contractual framework that makes an insurance policy valuable requires functioning legal infrastructure anyway.

wiki/economics/commodities/lattice_grade_material.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Crystalline substrates for neural lattice fabrication and gate optics. East reach anchor. Strategic material. |
 
+Lattice-grade material is a class of crystalline substrates with the purity and structural coherence required for neural lattice wafer fabrication and gate optic components. Production requires geological conditions not present across most of the Reach — a small number of east reach systems hold essentially all known commercial deposits. Monopolistic ubiquity is not market language: there is no substitute input for lattice substrate processing, and the east reach anchor systems holding those deposits know it.
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+Commission certification is required for all formal transactions. Lattice-grade material is a dual-use precursor — the same crystalline substrates feed licensed implant fabrication and unlicensed modification. This is why shadow viability is marked yes despite Commission oversight: the formal market controls supply but cannot fully suppress demand from unlicensed fabricators, particularly in corridors where the Commission's operational presence is intermittent. Uncertified lattice-grade material commands a substantial premium in shadow channels because the certification process provides traceability that buyers in those channels are specifically avoiding.
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+The production chain is short: 1.0t of lattice-grade material combined with 0.3t of chemicals yields 1.0t of lattice substrate. The simplicity of that recipe makes the material's scarcity the dominant cost driver — there is no processing efficiency to gain, only sourcing discipline to maintain. Gate component manufacturers, implant fabricators, and lattice substrate processors all operate under the constraint that their primary input sources are geographically specific and Commission-monitored. Supply disruptions from east reach propagate directly into implant hardware and gate component pricing within two to three production cycles.

wiki/economics/commodities/lattice_substrate.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Processed neural lattice wafers and gate optics. From lattice-grade material. |
 
+Lattice substrate is the processed form of lattice-grade material: precision-cleaned crystalline wafers and optically finished gate components ready for end-stage fabrication. The processing recipe is simple — 1.0t of lattice-grade material plus 0.3t of chemicals yields 1.0t of substrate — but the output requires Commission certification for legal sale, and the production is concentrated in systems adjacent to east reach lattice-grade deposits. Moving substrate legally means moving it with its certification chain intact.
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+The shadow market exists because of what lattice substrate feeds: implant hardware fabrication consumes 0.4 units per output, and uncertified implants require uncertified substrate. Commission certification provides the traceability that distinguishes a licensed neural interface from contraband. Any fabricator operating outside Commission oversight needs a substrate source that doesn't carry a traceable certification number — hence the shadow channel, which sources material from either uncertified processing operations or certified stock that has been diverted after purchase and before the final audit trail would record the end use.
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+Gate component assembly also requires 0.3 units of lattice substrate per gate unit — a separate demand stream from the implant channel, operating entirely in the formal economy because Gate Corporation has no incentive to circumvent its own supply chain audits. The substrate market is therefore split between two fundamentally different demand profiles: the traceable, regulated gate manufacturing sector and the partially-shadow implant fabrication sector.

wiki/economics/commodities/legal_services.md

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 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Contract enforcement, dispute resolution, commercial law. |
 
+Legal services covers commercial contract enforcement, trade dispute resolution, licensing and regulatory compliance work, corporate structuring, and the transactional legal infrastructure that supports all formal economic activity. Inelastic demand reflects that legal services are consumed when disputes arise and contracts are formed — neither of which scales back significantly when prices rise. Common production ubiquity means most settled systems maintain some legal services capacity, though depth and quality vary considerably between a major commercial hub and a frontier outpost.
+
+The commodity's economic role is as an enabling infrastructure for everything else. Formal trade requires enforceable contracts. Insurance contracts require legal standing. Commission certification challenges require legal representation. A system with functional legal services can support higher-value economic activity than one without, because counterparties cannot rely on contract enforceability in the absence of competent legal institutions. This is the mechanism by which governance quality feeds into economic productivity — not directly measurable in the simulation's commodity framework, but present in the effective functioning of every market transaction.
+
+No Commission certification, no shadow channel. Legal services require qualified personnel operating within a recognized legal framework — they are inherently formal sector, and an "informal" legal service is simply a contract that neither party has meaningful recourse to enforce. The service is location-bound by jurisdiction: Compact legal services are authoritative within Compact systems and largely unenforceable outside them, which is precisely the point.

wiki/economics/commodities/medical_goods.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Pharmaceuticals, surgical equipment, diagnostics, re-embodiment supporting hardware. |
 
+Medical goods covers certified pharmaceuticals, surgical equipment, diagnostic hardware, and the supporting physical components for licensed re-embodiment procedures. Production requires 0.4t of chemicals, 0.3 units of electronics, and 0.2t of advanced alloys — inputs from across the technology chain. Commission certification is required for formal distribution because the category includes pharmaceutical compounds and re-embodiment hardware with direct implications for patient safety and lattice compliance.
+
+Compact contestation of Commission authority over medical goods is one of the more politically charged disputes in the certification framework. Commission oversight of re-embodiment hardware is interpreted by Compact member systems as an attempt to extend Commission jurisdiction over their citizens' neural identity infrastructure through the goods supply chain. The Tractus-denominated certification fee adds currency friction on top of the jurisdictional grievance. The result is a functioning shadow market in medical goods throughout the Compact zone — not driven by criminal demand but by communities that have collectively decided that Commission certification is not a legitimate gate on their medical autonomy.
+
+Medical goods without certification cannot be distinguished from certified goods by physical inspection. The shadow market prices them at a discount that reflects the legal risk to the buyer, not any quality difference. In Compact territory, that discount is narrow — the political cover provided by Compact non-compliance with Commission authority reduces buyer risk substantially. In inner corridor systems, the legal exposure is larger and the shadow discount is correspondingly deeper.

wiki/economics/commodities/medical_services.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Healthcare, neural backup, licensed re-embodiment. Unlicensed variant is canonical contraband. |
 
+Medical and re-embodiment services covers general healthcare, neural lattice backup procedures, and the full stack of licensed re-embodiment: the neural imprint capture, body preparation, continuity verification, and identity attestation that constitutes a legal re-embodiment under Commission standards. These are location-bound services — re-embodiment requires certified facilities, certified personnel, certified equipment, and a Commission-recognized procedural record. A body prepared in one system cannot be considered continuously certified if the procedure crosses jurisdictions without Commission tracking.
+
+Commission certification is mandatory because re-embodiment is identity-critical infrastructure. An uncertified re-embodiment is, under Assembly law, not a continuation of the original person's legal identity. The downstream consequences — property rights, contract obligations, criminal record, familial status — make the certification question existential rather than regulatory. This is why unlicensed re-embodiment is canonical contraband: the buyer is not purchasing a cheaper service, they are purchasing a service that the Commission will not recognize as valid, with all the legal exposure that entails.
+
+Compact contestation follows from the jurisdiction dispute over lattice regulation and the particular sensitivity of re-embodiment to Commission authority. Compact member systems have passed internal legislation recognizing re-embodiment procedures performed under their own governance frameworks as legally valid. The result is a two-tier system: re-embodiment certified by both Compact frameworks and Commission standards is recognized everywhere; re-embodiment certified only under Compact law is recognized in Compact systems and refused or contested in Assembly-compliant systems. The shadow market for medical services in Compact territory is therefore less criminal than it is an extension of the political dispute — communities offering re-embodiment under their own authority rather than applying for Commission certification they consider illegitimate.

wiki/economics/commodities/metallic_ore.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Ferrous and non-ferrous ore from planetary mines and asteroid operations. |
 
+Metallic ore is the base input for the Reach's entire metals economy: ferrous ores for structural steel, non-ferrous for copper wire, aluminum, and specialty metals for precision components. Common availability across settled space means most mid-corridor systems have at least one active mining operation. The commodity becomes interesting at the frontier, where terrestrial ore bodies may be unexploited and asteroid belt access varies enormously with system topology.
+
+Smelting consumes 2t of ore to produce 1t of refined metals — a 2:1 drawdown that makes the ore-to-metals ratio a standard measure of a system's metal production efficiency. The process also requires 0.3t of fusion fuel per output tonne, which means smelting throughput is an energy cost story as much as an ore availability story. Frontier smelters pay more to run the same recipe because fuel costs are structurally elevated.
+
+Alloy fabrication draws on both metallic ore (1.5t) and rare minerals (0.3t), making ore an input to two different metal chains. This dual dependency means a single ore shortage cascades into both refined metals and advanced alloys simultaneously. No certification required, no shadow channel. Ore moves as bulk freight and its value accumulates in the processing step.

wiki/economics/commodities/organic_compounds.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Biochemicals, pharmaceutical precursors, biological feedstock. Requires complex biosphere. |
 
+Organic compounds require a functioning complex biosphere to produce in commercial volumes — not just agriculture, but a mature ecological system capable of yielding biochemicals, enzyme precursors, complex lipids, and the biologically-derived feedstocks that industrial chemistry cannot economically synthesize from mineral sources. This restricts production to older terraformed worlds and naturally habitable planets with sufficient ecological depth. Regional ubiquity reflects this: not rare, but not universal.
+
+The commodity feeds two production chains. In textile fabrication, organic compounds (0.8t) combined with chemicals (0.2t) yield textiles and composites — the only route for brach fiber processing, which requires biological precursors that chemical synthesis cannot replicate. In chemical production, organic compounds provide the substitution route: a biological pathway yielding 0.8t of chemicals per 1.0t input versus 1.0t from the feedstock route. Lower yield, but available to worlds with functioning biospheres and no chemical feedstock infrastructure.
+
+At 35 Tractus per tonne, organic compounds command a premium over stone and metallic ore but remain well below the high-value raw materials. The premium reflects the biosphere requirement — geological extraction scales with equipment investment, but biosphere extraction scales with ecological health over centuries. Braemar is the canonical example: brach fiber output is capped by herd biology and habitat, not by investment.

wiki/economics/commodities/processed_food.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 2 |
 | Description | Shelf-stable, transportable food products. |
 
+Processed food is agricultural produce run through preservation, packaging, and shelf-stabilization. The recipe requires 1.5t of agricultural produce and 0.2t of water per tonne of output — a simple, energy-light process that every settled world with surplus agriculture runs continuously. The output is transportable through gates without viability loss, which is precisely the point: raw produce cannot clear multiple hops, but processed food can move Reach-wide on standard freight schedules.
+
+The two-week panic threshold is lower than it looks. Most inhabited nodes maintain 2–6 weeks of processed food stock as standard operational reserves. A supply disruption triggering hoarding behavior compresses that buffer quickly, particularly in high-population orbital stations where local food production is negligible and processed food is the primary caloric supply. Stations are more exposed than planetary surfaces; a gate blockage affecting a station's primary food route becomes a crisis in days rather than weeks.
+
+Ubiquitous production means processed food rarely generates price signals worth chasing on its own. The trading interest is in agricultural production disruptions upstream — a bad harvest on a surplus world ripples into processed food availability two to three production cycles later, and by then the price signal has already moved. Follow the agricultural conditions, not the shelf-stable output.

wiki/economics/commodities/rail_infrastructure.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Planetary transit systems, trains, intra-system transport networks. |
 
+Rail infrastructure covers the manufactured components of planetary and intra-system transit networks: rolling stock, track sections, station structures, signaling systems, and the specialized industrial rail used in mining operations and freight corridors. The production recipe is metals-heavy: 1.0t of refined metals, 1.5 units of structural panels, and 0.3 units of electronics per output unit. The panel-intensive nature of station and trackway construction makes rail infrastructure particularly sensitive to timber and stone supply conditions upstream.
+
+Demand is driven by economic development cycles rather than population. A system growing in population needs housing (habitat modules); a system growing in economic activity needs freight and passenger transport. These are correlated but not identical — a primarily extractive system with high freight demand may run heavy industrial rail while keeping residential infrastructure minimal. Transit investment decisions reflect governance priorities as much as raw economic signals, which means rail infrastructure pricing can diverge from the general construction sector even when habitat modules and structural panels are moving in the same direction.
+
+Regional ubiquity positions rail infrastructure between the broadly distributed consumer goods sector and the concentrated production of drive cores or lattice substrate. Corridor-specific manufacturing hubs specialize in rail components for their geography's terrain and climate requirements, but the fundamentals of steel track, electrified rolling stock, and pre-fabricated station sections are common enough to sustain production at moderate scale across most mid-corridor systems.

wiki/economics/commodities/rare_minerals.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Exotic crystals, rare earths. Scarce, location-specific. Critical bottleneck for high-tech manufacturing. |
 
+Rare minerals — exotic crystals, heavy rare earths, actinide-adjacent compounds, and precision-grade inorganic substrates — are the single most important supply-chain chokepoint in high-technology manufacturing. Electronics fabrication requires 0.5t per output unit; alloy fabrication requires 0.3t; drive core assembly requires 0.4t directly, plus additional mineral content in the alloy input. A rare minerals shortage cascades simultaneously into electronics, advanced alloys, and drive cores — and from there into nearly every final good that depends on those intermediates.
+
+Production is concentrated, not distributed. Rare mineral deposits require specific geological conditions that most terrestrial and asteroid environments do not provide. The systems that have them hold structural economic advantages in the technology supply chain that cannot be replicated by investment alone — the geology is either there or it is not. This concentrates production in a relatively small number of systems, and the trade routes that move rare minerals outward from those systems are among the most reliably profitable freight corridors in the Reach.
+
+No Commission certification required, no shadow channel. At 80 Tractus per tonne and precision bulk class, rare minerals move as high-value compact freight, not in bulk. The absence of a shadow market reflects both the difficulty of separating extraction from certification-free sale and the fact that the bottleneck commodity in three separate production chains draws too much scrutiny for informal trade to operate at scale.

wiki/economics/commodities/refined_metals.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Structural steel, copper wire, aluminum. Backbone of construction and manufacturing. |
 
+Refined metals are the basic structural material of every construction and manufacturing sector in the Reach. Smelting reduces two tonnes of metallic ore plus 0.3t of fusion fuel to one tonne of output — structural steel, rolled aluminum, copper wire, and the general-purpose metal stock that goes into buildings, vehicles, equipment, and infrastructure. Common production ubiquity reflects the fact that ore is common and smelting infrastructure is well-distributed across the Reach.
+
+The commodity feeds four final production chains either directly or as a critical input: freight hauler construction (1.5t), heavy equipment assembly (1.0t), rail infrastructure construction (1.0t), and consumer goods (indirectly, via textiles and panel components). Inelastic elasticity means demand holds regardless of price fluctuations — manufacturers don't stop building because steel costs more, they pass the cost forward. The absence of a panic threshold reflects durability; refined metals stockpile without degradation and buyers hold inventory against supply variability without triggering hoarding dynamics.
+
+Smelting throughput is energy-constrained. A frontier smelter running at 30 Tractus/t output pays more than an inner corridor smelter to produce the same tonne, because fuel input costs are structurally elevated by water transport economics. This means refined metals prices quietly encode the fuel cost geography of wherever they were produced — metal from deep frontier carries a structural premium over the same specification produced at hop 2.

wiki/economics/commodities/stone.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Construction stone, ceramics feedstock. Substitution route for structural panels. |
 
+Stone and aggregate are the fallback input for structural panel production on worlds without viable forestry. Quarried stone, gravel, crushed rock, and volcanic aggregate feed both direct construction and the ceramic processing sector. Common availability means most settled worlds can source locally — the commodity rarely moves long distances unless a large construction program outpaces local quarry capacity.
+
+The critical economic role is as a substitution route. Timber-deficient worlds or settlements without managed forest access use stone-based panel fabrication instead. Stone panels yield 0.8 units per 1.5t input versus timber's 1.0 per 1.0t — lower efficiency, different source. For systems with abundant quarry operations and no accessible forests, the stone route is economically rational regardless of the yield gap.
+
+At 8 Tractus per tonne, stone is marginally more expensive than water and far cheaper than any processed good. The commodity generates interest only at scale — major infrastructure projects, rapid settlement expansion, or station construction programs draw enough volume to create corridor price signals. No certification, no political flags, no shadow channel.

wiki/economics/commodities/structural_panels.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Pre-fabricated building components. Two production paths: timber or stone. |
 
+Structural panels are pre-fabricated building elements — walls, floors, ceiling cassettes, modular partitioning, pressurized station sections — manufactured at scale for assembly on-site. Two production routes feed the same output: the timber route (1.0t timber + 0.5t refined metals → 1.0 unit) and the stone route (1.5t stone + 0.5t refined metals → 0.8 units). Timber yields more per input cycle; stone yields less but uses a different and generally more available raw. Regional ubiquity reflects that panel manufacturing requires stable raw supply chains, which not every system maintains.
+
+The two-route structure is the commodity's most important economic feature. A timber shortage on a world running the timber route forces either a switch to the less efficient stone route or import of finished panels from neighbors. A stone shortage on a stone-route world rarely causes disruption because stone is more geographically common than managed forest. Systems that have both routes available carry structural resilience in their construction sector that single-route systems lack.
+
+Panels are a direct input to habitat modules (1.2 units) and rail infrastructure (1.5 units), making panel availability the gating factor for settlement expansion and transit development. Station construction programs in particular draw on panels intensively — station sections are modular by necessity, and each new habitation ring is largely a panel assembly problem. Disruptions in timber-primary corridors cascade into habitat module lead times, which cascade into settlement capacity expansion.

wiki/economics/commodities/textiles.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Clothing, technical fabrics, composite materials. |
 
+Textiles and composites cover the full spectrum from basic clothing fiber to technical aerospace composites, carbon-weave structural reinforcement, and the specialty biological fabrics — brach fiber among them — that carry a cultural premium in specific corridor markets. Production requires 0.8t of organic compounds and 0.2t of chemicals per output tonne. The organic compounds dependency means textile production is effectively a biosphere-dependent industry: worlds without viable complex ecology cannot run it independently and must import.
+
+The commodity is a direct input to consumer goods (0.3t per unit), making textiles a quiet but consistent component of the broadest demand category in the simulation. Consumer goods demand is ubiquitous and market-driven; a textiles shortage ripples into consumer goods production at every manufacturing node that depends on it. Regional ubiquity means this effect is not uniform — outer corridor nodes with limited local textile production are more exposed to import disruptions than inner-corridor manufacturing hubs.
+
+At 50 Tractus per tonne, textiles carry a real price premium over the base raw materials that go into them, reflecting the processing complexity and the biosphere requirement. Specialty textile streams — brach fiber from Braemar, technical composites for shipbuilding — command prices above the generic catalog figure, but the simulation tracks this category at the generic level. No certification, no shadow channel. Technical composites occasionally attract attention for dual-use concerns, but not enough to generate a formal shadow market.

wiki/economics/commodities/timber.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Structural and decorative wood from managed forests. 40-60 year replanting cycles. |
 
+Timber is regional because forest ecosystems take decades to establish and managed stands require 40–60 year replanting cycles. Only worlds with sufficient terraforming maturity and appropriate biome conditions run economically significant forestry operations. The commodity covers structural lumber, engineered wood products, and the high-grade decorative timber used in prestige construction and cultural goods.
+
+The primary production use is structural panel fabrication, where 1t of timber combined with 0.5t of refined metals yields one full unit of structural panels — the higher-yield route compared to the stone-based alternative. Systems with active forestry enjoy a permanent input cost advantage for panel production over stone-route producers. That advantage flows through into habitat module construction, rail infrastructure, and any other panel-dependent final good.
+
+Forty to sixty year replanting cycles mean that disruptions to forest cover — whether from industrial overcut, ecological events, or rapid-settlement construction demand — cannot be corrected quickly. A world that exhausts its standing timber inventory shifts to the stone panel route for a generation. Traders holding timber futures on active frontier development zones are pricing replanting timelines. No political flags; no shadow channel. Timber is too bulky to move for purposes other than legitimate construction.

wiki/economics/commodities/tourism.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Cultural tourism, prestige destinations. Cannot freight the experience. |
 
+Tourism is the experience of being in a specific place for its own value — Kvitfjell's marble quarry district, the Braemar highland circuit, the VGV valley harvest walk, Ostmark's old-city precincts with five centuries of intact Germanic-Scandinavian architecture. These experiences are location-bound by definition: the marble is at Kvitfjell, the wine landscape is in the VGV valley, the architecture is at Ostmark. No amount of holo-reconstruction elsewhere reproduces the specific status and social meaning of actually having been there.
+
+Concentrated production ubiquity reflects the rarity of genuine destination experiences. Most systems have functional hospitality; only a handful have the cultural depth, natural spectacle, or historical significance to generate tourism demand from beyond their immediate corridor. These destinations are permanently supply-limited — Kvitfjell cannot expand its marble district, Ostmark cannot replicate its founding-era architecture, and Braemar's highland ecology is biologically constrained. Demand can expand; supply cannot. This creates the structural premium that distinguishes tourism from ordinary hospitality.
+
+At 100 Tractus per contract — the highest base price in the service tier — tourism represents discretionary spending by travelers for whom the trip itself is the product. Elastic demand means tourism is disproportionately sensitive to income shocks across the Reach; prestige travel contracts sharply during economic downturns in ways that basic hospitality does not. The economic signal value is therefore in the gap: strong tourism spending indicates that significant populations across the Reach have disposable income sufficient to plan multi-hop journeys, which is a leading indicator of broad economic health rather than just local conditions at the destination.

wiki/economics/commodities/transport_vehicles.md

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
 | Description | Ships, ground vehicles. Commission safety registration. |
 
+Transport vehicles covers the full range of personal and commercial ground and atmospheric transport — from individual intra-city vehicles to regional planetary cargo haulers and intra-system passenger craft. The production recipe uses premium inputs: 0.8t of advanced alloys (not base refined metals), 0.3 units of electronics, and 0.3 units of drive cores. The alloy specification reflects the structural and thermal requirements of atmospheric entry, high-speed ground operation, and the pressure cycling that intra-system vessels experience.
+
+Commission safety registration applies to all vessel classes and ground vehicles above a certain gross weight threshold. The Compact's contestation is categorical rather than case-by-case: Compact member systems do not recognize Commission authority to license vehicles operating within their own transit networks. In practice, vessels moving between Compact and non-Compact systems carry registration to avoid gate complications; vehicles and craft operating exclusively within Compact territory often do not. The dispute is a jurisdictional friction point, not a prohibition — unregistered Compact vehicles are legal under Compact law, simply not legal under Commission frameworks.
+
+MVG is the canonical high-end manufacturer in this category, with bespoke vehicle construction on 1–2 year lead times. The broader market includes numerous regional producers supplying standard-specification vehicles on shorter schedules. At 350 Tractus per unit, transport vehicles are among the most expensive routine economic goods in the final tier, with demand responsive to both individual income levels (personal vehicles) and freight economics (commercial vehicles).

wiki/economics/commodities/water.md

@@ -16,3 +16,10 @@
 | Panic Threshold (weeks) | 1 |
 | Description | Water ice, atmospheric gases. Life support critical. Fusion fuel feedstock. |
 
+Water is the foundation commodity. Every inhabited node consumes it continuously — for life support, for agriculture, for industrial processes — and no substitution exists at scale. The Reach's terraformed worlds and station habitats carry water reserves measured in days to weeks of consumption, not months. When supply interrupts, rationing begins within hours.
+
+The commodity's true economic importance is as fusion fuel feedstock. Each tonne of fusion fuel requires eight tonnes of water to refine (D-187). This 8:1 yield ratio turns the physical distribution of water ice across the Reach into a structural determinant of energy costs. Systems with local water surplus — primarily inner corridor worlds with active hydrospheres and ice-rich asteroid belts — carry a permanent fuel-cost advantage over frontier nodes that must import water before they can produce fuel at all.
+
+At base price of 2 Tractus per tonne, water moves in bulk and generates thin margins. The value is not in water itself but in the energy cost differential it creates downstream. A node running a water deficit is quietly running an energy deficit that will manifest in smelting throughput, alloy output, and electronics fabrication costs before the shortage ever shows up in water pricing. Traders who track fuel feedstock availability often see supply chain disruptions before they become visible in the affected commodities.
+
+No Commission certification is required and no shadow market operates. Water is too cheap and too bulky to smuggle profitably.

wiki/economics/corporations/tier1.toml

@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ name = "Sova Station Works"
 tier = 1
 lore_archetype = "station_module_constructor"
 behavioral_archetype = "producer"
-headquarters_system = "GJ 280B"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 280A"
 headquarters_settlement = "Sova"
 currency_preference = "tractus"
 bloc_affiliation = "assembly"

wiki/economics/corporations/tier2/core.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,471 @@
+# ==========================================================================
+# Settled Reach — Tier-2 Corporation Catalog: Core Corridor
+# Source of truth. Compiled to economy.db via `make economy-db`.
+#
+# Fields match tier1.toml plus:
+#   corridor      Geographic corridor this corp operates within
+#   backstory     Founding or origin context (1-2 sentences)
+#   character     Commercial personality and voice (1-2 sentences)
+#
+# Decisions: D-175 (corporation taxonomy), D-182 (TOML pipeline)
+# Coverage: financial_services, legal_services, insurance, commission_certification,
+#           medical_services, transit, intelligence, manufacturing, hospitality
+# ==========================================================================
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# FINANCIAL SERVICES
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[meridian_exchange]
+name = "Meridian Exchange"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "financial_clearing_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 674"
+headquarters_settlement = "Meridian Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+branded_products = ["Meridian Settlement Slip", "Meridian Secondary Account", "Exchange Short-Date Instrument"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Established at the second hop as an overflow routing intermediary when Groombridge's clearing volumes exceeded its secondary desk capacity. Handles the trades GSH doesn't want visible in its main book."
+character = "Discreet, institutional, speaks in settlement periods and basis points. The staff at Meridian Exchange have been told not to confirm the names of correspondent institutions."
+
+[tessera_credit]
+name = "Tessera Credit Authority"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "financial_clearing_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "monopolist"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3877"
+headquarters_settlement = "Tessera Hub"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["commission_certification"]
+branded_products = ["Tessera Trade Certificate", "TCA Credit Instrument", "Outer Core Finance Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The Commission-chartered credit authority for outer core systems. Issues trade finance instruments backed by Commission certification of underlying commodity flows."
+character = "Bureaucratic, correct, inscrutable. Tessera Credit does not innovate; it certifies. The queue is long and the process is correct."
+
+[proxima_cooperative_bank]
+name = "Proxima Cooperative Bank"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "financial_clearing_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 551"
+headquarters_settlement = "Proxima Central"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+branded_products = ["Proxima Credit Union Account", "Worker's Freight Finance", "Cooperative Bond Instrument"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Worker-owned bank serving the labor communities attached to Gateway's outer ring stations. Specializes in financing small freight operators and service cooperatives."
+character = "Informal, member-first, keeps books in tractus but thinks in work-hours. Not interested in complexity. Interested in whether the loan gets paid back."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# LEGAL SERVICES
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[kensho_advocates]
+name = "Kensho Advocates"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commercial_law_firm"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1286"
+headquarters_settlement = "Kensho"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["commission_certification"]
+branded_products = ["Kensho Standard Engagement", "Outer Ring Trade Opinion", "KA Compliance Memo"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Outer ring trade law specialists who developed expertise interpreting core regulations for outer-ring clients who cannot afford Sirius rates."
+character = "Precise, reasonably priced, will tell you when you are wrong before opposing counsel does. Their archive is smaller than Ferreira Monteiro's but their turnaround is faster."
+
+[nova_roma_chambers]
+name = "Nova Roma Chambers"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commercial_law_firm"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 764"
+headquarters_settlement = "Nova Roma"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+branded_products = ["Nova Roma Brief", "NRC Commercial Arbitration Service", "Core Trade Opinion"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The Latin name is not an accident. Three centuries of precedent in cross-corridor commercial disputes. Their clients are mostly corporations; their fees are architecture."
+character = "Formal, expensive, correct. Nova Roma Chambers loses very few cases. This is because they take very few cases they might lose."
+
+[lu_ban_notarial]
+name = "Lu Ban Notarial Services"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commission_certification_agent"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 15A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Lu Ban Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["commission_certification"]
+secondary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+branded_products = ["Lu Ban Standard Filing", "LBN Compliance Stamp", "Outer Core Documentation Package"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The certification gateway for the outer ring's affordable operators. Lu Ban processes routine certification filings for small operators who don't need Sirius-grade legal services."
+character = "Efficient, unpretentious, slightly world-weary. Three generations of the same family have stamped the same categories of paperwork. They are good at it."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# INSURANCE
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[inner_ring_mutual]
+name = "Inner Ring Mutual Assurance"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "risk_underwriting_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 820B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Cygni B"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+secondary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+branded_products = ["Inner Ring Industrial Policy", "Station Worker Liability Cover", "Cooperative Risk Pool"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Established by the manufacturing corridor's station workers as an alternative to Commission-tied underwriting. Covers industrial liability and worker compensation."
+character = "Cooperative, self-funded, opinionated about risk. Has declined to cover operations it considers reckless, even when it cost them business. This is considered eccentric in the core."
+
+[aurelius_syndicate]
+name = "Aurelius Risk Syndicate"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "risk_underwriting_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 783A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Aurelius"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+secondary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+branded_products = ["Aurelius Syndicate Pool", "ARS Infrastructure Cover", "Core Mega-Risk Instrument"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Syndicated underwriting pool for large-scale infrastructure and transit risk. Brokers risk exposure across a pool of member capital contributors."
+character = "Clinical, analytical, moves in syndication units rather than individual policies. The Aurelius Syndicate never meets; it votes by proxy and adjusts premiums."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MEDICAL SERVICES
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[renaissance_primary_care]
+name = "Renaissance Primary Care"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "medical_re_embodiment_clinic"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 251"
+headquarters_settlement = "Renaissance"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["medical_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["medical_goods"]
+branded_products = ["Renaissance Standard Re-embodiment", "Primary Care Annual Program", "RPC Emergency Protocol"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The working-class alternative to Somatic Futures. Full-service medical including standard re-embodiment, without the prestige pricing."
+character = "Practical, quick, staffed by people who have seen everything. Renaissance Primary Care treats about 40,000 patients a year and doesn't particularly want to grow."
+
+[prometheus_longevity_clinic]
+name = "Prometheus Longevity Clinic"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "medical_re_embodiment_clinic"
+behavioral_archetype = "monopolist"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 702B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Prometheus"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["medical_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["implant_hardware"]
+branded_products = ["Longevity Standard Protocol", "PLC Neural Continuity Program", "Prometheus Renewal Package"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Operates in the shadow of Prometheus Labs, providing premium re-embodiment services to the longevity research community and its adjacent wealthy clientele."
+character = "Expensive, boutique, deeply aware that it is not Prometheus Labs. The comparison is unflattering and the clinic has stopped making it."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# TRANSIT AND LOGISTICS
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[barnard_gateway_logistics]
+name = "Barnard Gateway Logistics"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "gateway_transit_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 699"
+headquarters_settlement = "Barnard Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["transport_vehicles"]
+branded_products = ["Barnard Hub Routing Protocol", "BGL Four-Corridor Transfer", "Gateway Transshipment Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The hub routing operation for the core's busiest secondary gate junction. Handles transshipment for all four corridors passing through Barnard's Star."
+character = "Volume-obsessed, lean, efficient. Barnard Gateway Logistics does not do interesting; it does reliable. The routing algorithms are the product."
+
+[sirius_transit_authority]
+name = "Sirius Transit Authority"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "gateway_transit_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "monopolist"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 244A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Sirius Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["commission_certification"]
+branded_products = ["STA Priority Route Certificate", "Sirius Junction Clearance", "Assembly Transit Protocol"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The Assembly-chartered transit coordination authority at the core's primary junction. Not quite a private corporation — more of a regulated monopoly with Assembly board representation."
+character = "Institutional, slow to change, absolutely essential. The fees are non-negotiable. The queue is first-come. The routing decisions are technically autonomous."
+
+[keid_cold_chain]
+name = "Keid Cold Chain Partners"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "perishable_chain_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 166A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Keid"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["medical_goods"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce", "chemicals"]
+branded_products = ["Keid Pharmaceutical Cold Chain", "KCP Medical Transit Certificate", "Controlled-Temperature Freight Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Premium cold-chain logistics for core medical and pharmaceutical shipments, founded by a pharmacist who was tired of receiving temperature-degraded samples."
+character = "Fastidious, slightly anxious, absolutely on time. The Keid team will open a cargo container to verify temperature logs at 2 AM. They have done this."
+
+[sova_independent_freight]
+name = "Sova Independent Freight"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "corridor_freight_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 280A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Sova"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["consumer_goods"]
+branded_products = ["Sova Independent Standard Load", "SIF Inner Ring Express", "Member Freight Allocation"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The cooperative fleet operator competing with Sova Logistics on inner core routes. Owned by its member operators, who resent the comparison to the Tier-1."
+character = "Scrappy, cooperative, better at relationships than algorithms. Sova Independent Freight knows the second name of every cargo officer at every inner core station."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# INTELLIGENCE AND DATA
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[parallax_market_research]
+name = "Parallax Market Research"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "intelligence_network"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 280A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Parallax"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+branded_products = ["Parallax Route Analysis Report", "PMR Commodity Flow Index", "Observatory Standard Dataset"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The data subsidiary of an old survey consortium, repurposed for commercial intelligence when survey contracts dried up. Sells route analysis and commodity flow data."
+character = "Methodical, citation-heavy, slightly slow. Parallax Market Research publishes reports. Adams & Ford publishes insights; Parallax publishes evidence."
+
+[frontier_data_relay]
+name = "Frontier Data Relay"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "intelligence_network"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 251"
+headquarters_settlement = "Renaissance"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+branded_products = ["FDR Priority Data Route", "Encrypted Manifest Service", "Frontier Intelligence Subscription"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Routes commercial data packets between the core and outer corridor systems. What this means in practice: the company knows what is in every encrypted cargo manifest it routes."
+character = "Technically neutral, actually never neutral. Frontier Data Relay is a very good friend to have. Being its enemy has not worked out for several operators."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[sindri_forge]
+name = "Sindri Forge and Foundry"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "heavy_industrial_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3522"
+headquarters_settlement = "Sindri"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["refined_metals"]
+secondary_commodities = ["advanced_alloys", "structural_panels"]
+branded_products = ["Sindri Ferrous Grade", "SFF Structural Alloy Bar", "Deep Core Refined Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Deep-core iron and alloys producer supplying the core's manufacturing belt. Runs around the clock in a low-light environment that visitors find unsettling."
+character = "Tight-lipped, output-focused, the kind of operation that measures itself in tonnes per shift. The workers have worked here for generations. The furnaces have been running for two hundred years."
+
+[bastion_security_systems]
+name = "Bastion Security Systems"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "precision_instrument_maker"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 570A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Bastion"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["electronics"]
+secondary_commodities = ["implant_hardware"]
+branded_products = ["Bastion Station Monitoring Suite", "BSS Certified Security Electronics", "Bastion Access Control Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Precision electronics for security and monitoring applications. Supplies core station security infrastructure through Commission certification contracts."
+character = "Contracted, credentialed, security-cleared. Bastion Security Systems does not discuss its clients. The clients do not discuss Bastion Security Systems."
+
+[lacaille_gate_supply]
+name = "Lacaille Gate Supply"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "gate_infrastructure_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 887"
+headquarters_settlement = "Lacaille"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["gate_components"]
+secondary_commodities = ["advanced_alloys", "electronics"]
+branded_products = ["LGS Aperture Component", "Lacaille Certified Alloy Blank", "Gate Corp Supply Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "A tier-2 component supplier in the gate infrastructure supply chain — not building gates, but supplying precision alloys and electronics that Gate Corp's production lines consume."
+character = "Gate Corp-adjacent and comfortable with it. Lacaille Gate Supply is the subcontractor that survives precisely because Gate Corp does not want to own its entire supply chain."
+
+[renaissance_consumer_works]
+name = "Renaissance Consumer Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "textile_craft_guild"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 251"
+headquarters_settlement = "Renaissance"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["consumer_goods"]
+secondary_commodities = ["textiles"]
+branded_products = ["Renaissance Standard Consumer Pack", "RCW Basic Apparel Line", "Inner Core Household Goods"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Consumer goods manufacturer for the inner ring's working-class residential systems. Functional products, functional prices, no aesthetic ambitions."
+character = "Competent, invisible, present in every household. Renaissance Consumer Works makes the thermal socks and the pressure gauges. Nobody thinks about them until they need one."
+
+[tessera_compliance_bureau]
+name = "Tessera Compliance Bureau"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commission_certification_agent"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3877"
+headquarters_settlement = "Tessera Hub"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["commission_certification"]
+secondary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+branded_products = ["TCB Certification Queue Slot", "Compliance Review Service", "Tessera Fast-Track Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The Commission's preferred certification intermediary for outer core operators. Profitable because it controls the queue for Commission certification review."
+character = "Impersonal, correct, slightly smug. The queue is managed fairly. The queue is also long. These facts are presented without apology."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# HOSPITALITY
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[arbour_hospitality]
+name = "Arbour Hospitality Group"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "destination_hospitality_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "core"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 338B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Arbour"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["hospitality"]
+secondary_commodities = ["tourism", "entertainment"]
+branded_products = ["Arbour Residence", "AHG Curated Dining Experience", "Inner Ring Event Management"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The premium hospitality operation for the core's leafy residential corridor. Operates curated dining and cultural experience venues for the Assembly-adjacent class."
+character = "Discreet, cultivated, priced accordingly. Arbour Hospitality does not advertise. Its clients prefer it that way."

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+# ==========================================================================
+# Settled Reach — Tier-2 Corporation Catalog: Deep Frontier Corridor
+# Source of truth. Compiled to economy.db via `make economy-db`.
+#
+# The deep frontier is the Reach's margin. Commission presence is sparse
+# to absent. Shadow economies are structural — not crime, but necessity.
+# German, Afrikaans/Dutch, and Portuguese/Brazilian cultural substrates
+# dominate, with extensive mixed-settler communities in waystation systems.
+#
+# Echternach (GJ 127B) is a Compact-adjacent system at the edge of formal
+# space; corps headquartered there treat mark-denominated trade and informal
+# Commission-bypass as normal operating procedure, not rebellion.
+#
+# Knotenpunkt (GJ 1235) is the deep frontier's commercial anchor — a
+# transit waystation that is formally Assembly-affiliated but practically
+# multi-currency and multi-bloc by necessity. Everything passes through
+# Knotenpunkt eventually.
+#
+# Coverage: frontier_ice_mining, deep_rock_extraction, gas_giant_skimming,
+#           industrial_staple_farming, biosphere_cultivation, distribution_clearing_hub,
+#           corridor_freight_operator, gateway_transit_operator, destination_hospitality_operator,
+#           medical_re_embodiment_clinic, commercial_law_firm, risk_underwriting_house,
+#           intelligence_network, pharmaceutical_manufacturer, precision_instrument_maker,
+#           station_module_constructor, fermentation_cooperative, financial_clearing_house,
+#           textile_craft_guild, terroir_specialty_agriculture
+# ==========================================================================
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# KNOTENPUNKT — THE FRONTIER CROSSING POINT
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[knotenpunkt_trade_house]
+name = "Knotenpunkt Trade House"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "distribution_clearing_hub"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1235"
+headquarters_settlement = "Knotenpunkt"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services", "consumer_goods"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce", "metallic_ore"]
+branded_products = ["Knotenpunkt Standard Clearing Receipt", "KTH Multi-Currency Settlement Slip", "Deep Frontier Commercial Bond"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The central commercial nerve of the deep frontier. Knotenpunkt Trade House runs the commodity exchange, currency desk, and storage operations that make the waystation function as a real economy. Formally Assembly-registered, practically multi-currency and multi-bloc — it operates on the principle that the frontier needs a clearing house more than it needs ideological alignment."
+character = "Pragmatic to the point of philosophy. KTH's traders have seen Commission inspection teams and Compact financial auditors at the same desk in the same week. The house does not take sides; it takes fees. The rate card is available in three currencies."
+
+[knotenpunkt_gateway_transit]
+name = "Knotenpunkt Gateway Transit"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "gateway_transit_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1235"
+headquarters_settlement = "Knotenpunkt Gate Station"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["transport_vehicles"]
+branded_products = ["KGT Deep Frontier Transit Bond", "Knotenpunkt Gate Queue Priority Pass", "Outer Reach Freight Charter"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Operates the gate coordination function at Knotenpunkt's junction — the deepest transit hub in the reach. Manages queue priority, freight inspection coordination (which is light, and known to be light), and corridor scheduling. Operates with a deliberate lack of curiosity about cargo manifests."
+character = "Professionally incurious about what passes through. Not corrupt — just realistic about what inspection infrastructure is available and what commercial life requires. The phrase 'manifest sufficient' is house standard for a document that meets the minimum and no one is checking further."
+
+[knotenpunkt_waystation_hospitality]
+name = "Knotenpunkt Waystation Hospitality"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "destination_hospitality_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1235"
+headquarters_settlement = "Knotenpunkt"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["hospitality", "tourism"]
+secondary_commodities = ["entertainment"]
+branded_products = ["Knotenpunkt Long-Haul Rest Package", "KWH Deep Frontier Crew Renewal", "Waystation Standard Berth Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Crews on deep frontier runs stop at Knotenpunkt because they have to. Knotenpunkt Waystation Hospitality makes the most of that captive audience — decent quarters, real food, medical check-ins, and the only entertainment venue within six gate-hops. Not luxurious. But restorative."
+character = "Warm in the way that frontier necessity forces warmth — because the alternative is misery, and misery is bad for business. The staff speak four languages between them and are usually unsurprised by unusual requests."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# SERTÃO — PORTUGUESE/BRAZILIAN FRONTIER AGRICULTURE
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[sertao_grain_collective]
+name = "Sertão Grain Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "industrial_staple_farming"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 138"
+headquarters_settlement = "Sertão"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["organic_compounds"]
+branded_products = ["Sertão Pioneer Grain Certificate", "SGC Deep Reach Staple Standard", "Backcountry Reserve Grain"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The deep frontier cannot import all its food from the inner reach — the transit costs make it uneconomical. Sertão Grain Collective is the anchor that keeps the outer systems fed, producing high-volume staple crops on Sertão's marginal but workable agricultural land. Cooperative governance because early settlers had no capital for corporate structures."
+character = "Quietly proud of feeding people no one else bothers to feed. Sertão Grain Collective uses the word 'pioneer' unironically and without embarrassment. The grain is not exciting. The work is not glamorous. It is done."
+
+[saudade_fermentation_house]
+name = "Saudade Fermentation House"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "fermentation_cooperative"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1267"
+headquarters_settlement = "Saudade"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["processed_food", "chemicals"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+branded_products = ["Saudade Reserve Ferment", "Frontier Culture Starter", "Deep Reach Preservation Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Named after a Portuguese word for a particular ache of longing, Saudade Fermentation House preserves the food of a culture that is genuinely far from home. Produces fermentation starters, preserved goods, and traditional fermented foods from organisms that settlers brought from inner reach worlds. The culture library of the deep frontier."
+character = "Emotionally grounded in a way frontier settlements often are not. The Fermentation House considers its work to be an act of cultural maintenance. Every starter culture that survives another generation is a small victory."
+
+[pedra_funda_heritage_lodge]
+name = "Pedra Funda Heritage Lodge"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "destination_hospitality_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 204"
+headquarters_settlement = "Pedra Funda"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["tourism", "hospitality"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["Pedra Funda Pioneer Experience Package", "PFLH Deep Reach Heritage Circuit", "Founders' Settlement Cultural Tour"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Pedra Funda was one of the first deep frontier settlements — its age and the preserved record of pioneer hardship attracts a specific kind of visitor. Pedra Funda Heritage Lodge is built on the story of what it cost to build something this far out. Every exhibit doubles as testimony."
+character = "Respectful, unhurried, conscious of the weight of what it is preserving. The Lodge treats the pioneer story as genuinely worth telling. Visitors come here to understand what the Reach's edge actually required."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# SCHUILHOEK — AFRIKAANS FRONTIER EXTRACTION
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[schuilhoek_ice_works]
+name = "Schuilhoek Ice Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "frontier_ice_mining"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 68"
+headquarters_settlement = "Schuilhoek"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["water", "fusion_fuel"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["SIW Verified Comet Ice Certificate", "Schuilhoek Deep Cold Standard", "Frontier Water Bond"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The deep frontier's primary water source outside the inner-reach supply chain. Schuilhoek Ice Works operates comet ice capture and processing operations at GJ 68's cometary belt. What it produces is, genuinely, drinking water and reaction mass for ships that cannot afford to wait for an inner-reach delivery."
+character = "Unsentimental about a very sentimental resource. Water is infrastructure. Ice Works does not dress this up. It extracts, processes, and delivers. The price is the price."
+
+[altgrund_belt_survey]
+name = "Altgrund Belt Survey"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "asteroid_belt_mining"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 189"
+headquarters_settlement = "Altgrund Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["metallic_ore", "rare_minerals"]
+secondary_commodities = ["chemical_feedstock"]
+branded_products = ["ABS Frontier Survey Assessment", "Altgrund Belt Grade Ore Certificate", "Deep Reach Raw Stock"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The deep frontier's serious mining operation. Altgrund Belt Survey does the prospecting work that Tier-1 firms won't justify this far out — small team, high-autonomy, working seams that the big operations walked away from. Sells into both certified and informal markets depending on what the material provenance allows."
+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"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "gas_giant_skimming"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 722"
+headquarters_settlement = "Skuilplek 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"]
+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."
+
+[droeland_biosphere_cultivation]
+name = "Droëland Biosphere Cultivation"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "biosphere_cultivation"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 914A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Droëland"
+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"]
+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."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# WEITBLICK — GERMAN FRONTIER LOGISTICS & PRECISION
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[weitblick_deep_freight]
+name = "Weitblick Deep Freight"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "corridor_freight_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 286"
+headquarters_settlement = "Weitblick"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["transport_vehicles"]
+branded_products = ["WDF Deep Reach Freight Charter", "Weitblick Long-Haul Transit Manifest", "Frontier Cargo Standard Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The deep frontier's long-haul freight specialist. Weitblick Deep Freight operates routes that inner-reach operators decline as uneconomical — multi-week transits to systems where Assembly infrastructure is sparse and everything is slower. Its ships are older, its margins are thin, and its reliability record is the business."
+character = "Stoic, methodical, structured — the Germans of freight logistics. Weitblick Deep Freight does not promise fast. It promises that when you need cargo moved to a place nobody else goes, it will be there on the date agreed."
+
+[weitblick_observation_systems]
+name = "Weitblick Observation Systems"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "precision_instrument_maker"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 286"
+headquarters_settlement = "Weitblick"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["electronics"]
+secondary_commodities = ["heavy_equipment"]
+branded_products = ["WOS Long-Range Survey Array", "Weitblick Deep Field Sensor Package", "Frontier Observation Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The frontier runs on information about what is beyond the next gate. Weitblick Observation Systems makes the sensors and survey arrays that deep frontier prospectors, navs, and settlement planners rely on. More technically exacting than most frontier firms because the alternative — bad data at the edge — is genuinely dangerous."
+character = "Technically serious, calibration-obsessed, contemptuous of gear that performs well in labs but fails in frontier conditions. Every product is rated for conditions worse than spec because Weitblick considers the spec to be optimistic."
+
+[neugrund_station_builders]
+name = "Neugrund Station Builders"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "station_module_constructor"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 675"
+headquarters_settlement = "Neugrund"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["habitat_modules"]
+secondary_commodities = ["structural_panels"]
+branded_products = ["NSB Frontier Station Module Standard", "Neugrund Self-Install Habitat Kit", "Deep Reach Emergency Shelter Pack"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "On the deep frontier, you build what you can get delivered, and you assemble it yourself. Neugrund Station Builders designs modular station systems that can be installed by settlement crews without specialised construction teams. Self-sufficiency is not a feature — it is the core design requirement."
+character = "Pragmatic about limitations, creative within constraints. Neugrund's cooperative model means design decisions are made by people who have assembled their own modules in difficult conditions. This produces unfussy, functional engineering."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# ECHTERNACH — COMPACT FRINGE
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[echternach_arbitration_house]
+name = "Echternach Arbitration House"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commercial_law_firm"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 127B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Echternach"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["EAH Compact Commercial Standard", "Echternach Arbitration Protocol", "Deep Frontier Dispute Resolution Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "At the edge of Compact space, formal Assembly contract law does not reach. Echternach Arbitration House provides commercial dispute resolution under Compact commercial code — not Assembly protocols. The distinction matters. Compact commercial code has no Commission arbitration clause, which makes it the preferred legal framework for operators who do not want Commission visibility."
+character = "Legally precise, ideologically aligned with Compact principles, useful to operators who need enforceable contracts without Assembly jurisdiction. The House is not a criminal operation — it is a legitimate legal practice operating in a different legal tradition. The distinction is not always visible from the outside."
+
+[echternach_mutual_credit]
+name = "Echternach Mutual Credit"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "financial_clearing_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 127B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Echternach"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+branded_products = ["EMC Mark Credit Certificate", "Echternach Frontier Credit Account", "Deep Compact Settlement Protocol"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The financial infrastructure of the deep Compact fringe. Echternach Mutual Credit provides Mark-denominated credit and clearing for operators at the edge of formal space where Tractus banking is either unavailable or carries Assembly audit costs that operators won't pay. The cooperative structure keeps it formally member-governed — and formally outside Commission banking supervision."
+character = "Principled about the Mark, quietly aware of its value to operators who prefer Commission opacity. Echternach Mutual Credit does not ask why clients prefer Mark-denominated accounts. It considers the question to be outside its commercial mandate."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# FRONTIER SERVICES
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[leuchtturm_medical_outpost]
+name = "Leuchtturm Medical Outpost"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "medical_re_embodiment_clinic"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 142"
+headquarters_settlement = "Leuchtturm Station"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["medical_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["medical_goods"]
+branded_products = ["LMO Frontier Medical Standard", "Leuchtturm Emergency Trauma Protocol", "Deep Reach Medical Clearance Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The deep frontier's most capable medical facility — which is still less capable than a mid-reach community clinic. Leuchtturm Medical Outpost operates on mixed Commission-certified and informal protocols, treating whoever arrives with whatever works. Some of its pharmaceutical sourcing is formally traceable. Not all."
+character = "Medically competent within honest resource limits, ethically pragmatic in ways inner-reach practitioners would find uncomfortable. 'The alternative to treating someone here is not treating them somewhere better. It is not treating them.' This is stated as policy, not apology."
+
+[neugrund_pharmacist]
+name = "Neugrund Frontier Pharmacist"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "pharmaceutical_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 675"
+headquarters_settlement = "Neugrund"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["medical_goods"]
+secondary_commodities = ["chemicals"]
+branded_products = ["NFP Frontier Medical Standard Compound", "Neugrund Field Grade Pharmaceutical", "Deep Reach Medication Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Out here, you do not always get the Commission-certified pharmaceutical. Sometimes you get the one that works. Neugrund Frontier Pharmacist manufactures essential medications under adapted protocols — not certified for core market sale, but meeting the standard that frontier medicine actually requires. The Assembly does not endorse this. The frontier cannot wait for the Assembly."
+character = "Medically serious, formally non-compliant, operating in the gap between what regulations require and what the frontier receives. NFP's chemists are competent; their products work; the paperwork is, at best, a reasonable facsimile of correct."
+
+[sertao_risk_pool]
+name = "Sertão Risk Pool"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "risk_underwriting_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 138"
+headquarters_settlement = "Sertão"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+secondary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+branded_products = ["SRP Deep Frontier Transit Cover", "Sertão Risk Mutual Certificate", "Pioneer Liability Pool Membership"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Frontier transit insurance from a frontier operator. The Sertão Risk Pool was formed by corridor operators who could not afford inner-reach insurance premiums — so they pooled capital and wrote their own underwriting rules. Claims are decided by member committees who understand what deep frontier operations actually face. Premiums are high, but the claims process is honest."
+character = "Collectively self-aware about the risks it insures. 'We know what it is to have a ship go dark out here. We know what it is to file a claim. This is why we built this and why it works.'"
+
+[leuchtturm_intelligence_relay]
+name = "Leuchtturm Intelligence Relay"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "intelligence_network"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 142"
+headquarters_settlement = "Leuchtturm Station"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["LIR Deep Frontier Market Report", "Leuchtturm Waypoint Intelligence Feed", "Outer Reach Shipping Movement Digest"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Leuchtturm Station sits at a gate junction where traffic from three deep frontier routes passes. The Intelligence Relay has simply been watching that traffic for two generations. Sells information — gate queue data, freight movement patterns, price variance reports — to operators who need to know what is moving through the deep frontier before it affects their plans. Does not sell to Commission enforcement. This is known and priced into its clientele."
+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"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "textile_craft_guild"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 914A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Droëland"
+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"]
+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."
+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.'"
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MANUFACTURING GAP FILL — STRUCTURAL PANELS, TRANSPORT VEHICLES, RAIL
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[altgrund_panel_works]
+name = "Altgrund Panel Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "heavy_industrial_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 189"
+headquarters_settlement = "Altgrund Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["structural_panels"]
+secondary_commodities = ["habitat_modules", "heavy_equipment"]
+branded_products = ["APW Frontier Pressure Panel", "Altgrund Standard Bulkhead", "Deep Reach Structural Grade Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The deep frontier's primary structural panel manufacturer. Builds the pressurised wall sections and structural elements that new outposts install before everything else. Altgrund Panel Works does not build beautiful — it builds sealed, rated, and delivered to where nothing else has been built yet."
+character = "Construction-culture pride, no tolerance for theoretical discussions about design. Every product spec includes the failure mode and the repair procedure. This is considered good manners in Altgrund."
+
+[sertao_vehicle_works]
+name = "Sertão Vehicle Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "heavy_industrial_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 138"
+headquarters_settlement = "Sertão"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["transport_vehicles"]
+secondary_commodities = ["heavy_equipment"]
+branded_products = ["SVW Pioneer Surface Crawler", "Sertão Utility Hauler Series", "Deep Reach Pressurised Ground Vehicle"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Surface transport on frontier worlds requires vehicles that inner-reach manufacturers do not build — because inner-reach manufacturers have never needed to survive what frontier surfaces deliver. Sertão Vehicle Works makes surface crawlers, pressurised utility haulers, and ground transport for worlds where the atmosphere is the least of the problems."
+character = "Practically minded in the way that frontier engineering requires. SVW's test protocols involve conditions that would void warranties on any inner-reach vehicle. This is intentional and considered the minimum."
+
+[neugrund_surface_rail]
+name = "Neugrund Surface Rail"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "heavy_industrial_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "deep_frontier"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 675"
+headquarters_settlement = "Neugrund"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["rail_infrastructure"]
+secondary_commodities = ["structural_panels", "heavy_equipment"]
+branded_products = ["NSR Frontier Rail Standard Gauge", "Neugrund Intra-Settlement Track Kit", "Deep Reach Low-Maintenance Maglev Section"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Trans-Reach Rail builds interstellar-scale rail connections. Neugrund Surface Rail builds the track that connects the mine to the port, the port to the settlement, the settlement to the next one over. Regional-scale intra-system surface rail for worlds that cannot wait for Tier-1 capital allocation. Self-install documentation included."
+character = "Gap-filling infrastructure awareness — knows exactly the scale where Trans-Reach Rail's business model stops making sense and NSR's begins. Specialises in modularity so frontier settlements can extend their rail networks without NSR engineers present."

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+# ==========================================================================
+# Settled Reach — Tier-2 Corporation Catalog: East Reach Corridor
+# Source of truth. Compiled to economy.db via `make economy-db`.
+#
+# The east reach is the most industrially sophisticated corridor outside
+# the core. Korean, Japanese, Filipino/Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Chinese
+# cultural substrates dominate. Precision manufacturing, lattice-grade
+# materials, and maritime tradition are corridor anchors. The east is
+# where drive cores and implant hardware actually get made at regional
+# scale — Tier-1 corps like Hanyang and Takamori draw on east reach
+# supply chains.
+#
+# Coverage: precision_instrument_maker, maritime_salvage, deep_ocean_fishery,
+#           fermentation_cooperative, textile_craft_guild, heavy_industrial_manufacturer,
+#           industrial_staple_farming, biosphere_cultivation, deep_rock_extraction,
+#           corridor_freight_operator, gateway_transit_operator, perishable_chain_operator,
+#           commercial_law_firm, risk_underwriting_house, commission_certification_agent,
+#           medical_re_embodiment_clinic, distribution_clearing_hub, intelligence_network,
+#           destination_hospitality_operator, asteroid_belt_mining
+#
+# Commodity gaps filled here: drive_cores, lattice_grade_material, lattice_substrate,
+#           implant_hardware, entertainment (primary)
+# ==========================================================================
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# PRECISION MANUFACTURING — LATTICE & IMPLANT HARDWARE
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[changwon_neural_works]
+name = "Changwon Neural Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "precision_instrument_maker"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 860B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Changwon"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["implant_hardware"]
+secondary_commodities = ["electronics"]
+branded_products = ["CW-7 Neural Probe Array", "Changwon Interface Stack", "East Gate Sensory Module"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Grew out of Changwon's precision tooling tradition to become the east corridor's primary regional supplier of implant interface components. Does not manufacture complete implants — supplies sub-assemblies to Tier-1 integrators including Hanyang Precision."
+character = "Quiet, technically fastidious, uninterested in branding. Changwon Neural Works considers its tolerances to be its identity. Products come wrapped in technical documentation, not marketing."
+
+[yeongwol_lattice_works]
+name = "Yeongwol Lattice Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "precision_instrument_maker"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 268"
+headquarters_settlement = "Yeongwol Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["lattice_substrate"]
+secondary_commodities = ["lattice_grade_material"]
+branded_products = ["Yeongwol Grade-A Binding Substrate", "YLW Pale Lattice Binder", "Corridor Lattice Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The east corridor's primary lattice substrate refinery. Processes raw lattice-grade ore from deep east mining operations into Commission-certified substrate blanks used in gate construction and premium electronics fabrication. Operates on thin margins but high volume."
+character = "Meticulous, process-oriented, allergic to deviation from specification. Yeongwol Lattice Works lives and dies by certification numbers. Its people talk in tolerances."
+
+[matsue_optics]
+name = "Matsue Optics"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "precision_instrument_maker"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 687"
+headquarters_settlement = "Matsue"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["electronics"]
+secondary_commodities = ["implant_hardware"]
+branded_products = ["Matsue Long-Range Survey Array", "Tidal Lens Package", "East Reach Optical Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Founded on Matsue's tradition of fine optical craftsmanship, now the corridor's preferred supplier of high-precision sensor arrays and optical components. Makes the instruments that other companies use to make other instruments."
+character = "Deliberate, proud of heritage, faintly contemptuous of mass production. Matsue Optics will take three months to make something perfect. They do not understand why you would want it faster."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# HEAVY MANUFACTURING — DRIVE CORES
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[hwaseong_drive_systems]
+name = "Hwaseong Drive Systems"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "heavy_industrial_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1125"
+headquarters_settlement = "Hwaseong Industrial Orbital"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["drive_cores"]
+secondary_commodities = ["advanced_alloys", "heavy_equipment"]
+branded_products = ["HDS Series-4 Corridor Drive", "Hwaseong Modular Thruster Cluster", "East Gate Propulsion Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The east corridor's primary drive core manufacturer, supplying the mid-range propulsion market between Tier-1 volume producers and bespoke shipyard builds. Hwaseong focuses on reliable, serviceable drives rather than peak performance — the ones that keep freight moving across two-week transits."
+character = "Pragmatic, industrially competent, unemotional. Hwaseong Drive Systems considers poetry to be outside its core competency. The drives work. The warranty is real. That is sufficient."
+
+[kurashiki_fabrication]
+name = "Kurashiki Fabrication"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "station_module_constructor"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 205"
+headquarters_settlement = "Kurashiki"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["habitat_modules"]
+secondary_commodities = ["structural_panels", "heavy_equipment"]
+branded_products = ["Kurashiki Modular Habitat Stack", "East Reach Standard Bulkhead", "KF Pressure-Rated Transit Section"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Kurashiki Fabrication builds the station modules that the east corridor installs. Mid-range quality, proven designs, good documentation. Grows when the corridor grows — every new outpost or station expansion is potential business."
+character = "Solid, reliable, slightly boring. Kurashiki Fabrication does not innovate. It iterates on proven designs until they are as reliable as furniture. Its clients appreciate this."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MARITIME SALVAGE
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[dagat_salvage_works]
+name = "Dagat Salvage Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "maritime_salvage"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 482A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Dagat Anchorage"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["rare_minerals", "refined_metals"]
+secondary_commodities = ["metallic_ore"]
+branded_products = ["Dagat Recovery Survey Certificate", "DSW Reclaimed Alloy Bundle", "Archipelago Strip Grade"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Operates across Dagat's extensive orbital debris fields and derelict industrial zones. Dagat Salvage Works traces its lineage to the original settlement's orbital clearance operations. Now applies those same techniques to commercial recovery, with Commission licensing keeping most operations above board — most."
+character = "Weathered, transactional, culturally tied to the water metaphors of Dagat settlement culture. Speaks of derelict hulls as 'beached,' of good recovery sites as 'fishing grounds.' Not entirely unfriendly, but values information asymmetry."
+
+[dernier_quai_recovery]
+name = "Dernier Quai Recovery"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "maritime_salvage"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 49"
+headquarters_settlement = "Dernier Quai"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "unaffiliated"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["metallic_ore", "rare_minerals"]
+secondary_commodities = ["chemicals"]
+branded_products = ["DQR Far Anchorage Strip", "Quai Reclaimed Composite", "Last Berth Assessment Report"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The furthest commercial recovery operator in the eastern corridor. Dernier Quai Recovery works the edge: old claims, contested debris fields, recovery contracts that larger firms decline. Sells into both Commission-certified and informal markets depending on the material provenance."
+character = "Francophone cultural substrate from Dernier Quai settlement, with a fatalistic pragmatism about paperwork. 'Everything can be assessed. What changes is who writes the assessment.' Operates in the grey zone not from ideology but from geography — this far out, formal markets are inconvenient."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# DEEP OCEAN FISHERY
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[matsue_fisheries_cooperative]
+name = "Matsue Fisheries Cooperative"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "deep_ocean_fishery"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 687"
+headquarters_settlement = "Matsue"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["organic_compounds", "processed_food"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+branded_products = ["Matsue Cold Reef Pack", "Inland Current Protein Blend", "East Reach Preserved Pack"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Matsue's ocean world supports the largest aquatic harvest operation in the east corridor. The cooperative structure was established in the second generation of settlement to prevent Tier-1 extraction firms from cornering Matsue's biological wealth. Has held that independence for four generations."
+character = "Communally proud, protective of water rights, wary of outside investment. The cooperative meetings are genuinely democratic and sometimes genuinely contentious. What emerges from them tends to be durable."
+
+[dagat_pelagic_industries]
+name = "Dagat Pelagic Industries"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "deep_ocean_fishery"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 482A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Dagat Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["organic_compounds"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce", "chemical_feedstock"]
+branded_products = ["Bay of Plenty Protein Concentrate", "Dagat Deep Harvest Extract", "Pelagic Lipid Grade-2"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Dagat's high-gravity ocean world produces unusual biochemistry. Dagat Pelagic Industries specialises in harvesting high-value compounds from deep-ocean organisms that exist nowhere else in the Reach. Supplies pharmaceutical manufacturers and specialist food processors across the east."
+character = "Scientifically curious, commercially opportunistic about its biochemical uniqueness. Employs more xenobiologists than accountants. The accountants are catching up."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# FERMENTATION / AGRICULTURE
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[binh_trang_fermentation_works]
+name = "Binh Trang Fermentation Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "fermentation_cooperative"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 17"
+headquarters_settlement = "Binh Trang"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["processed_food", "chemicals"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+branded_products = ["Binh Trang Reserve Ferment", "Delta Culture Starter Package", "East Reach Fermentation Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Binh Trang's agricultural surplus found its highest value through fermentation — the settlement's cooperative preserves food surpluses, produces industrial enzymes, and exports cultural starter cultures to east corridor settlements that lack Binh Trang's specific microbial heritage."
+character = "Patient, culturally proud of biological knowledge, faintly evangelical about fermentation as a civilisational technology. 'Every settlement needs a culture library. We are the library.'"
+
+[jeonnam_agricultural_exchange]
+name = "Jeonnam Agricultural Exchange"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "industrial_staple_farming"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3728B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Jeonnam"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["processed_food", "organic_compounds"]
+branded_products = ["Jeonnam Staple Grade Certificate", "East Reach Agricultural Bond", "JAE Corridor Minimum Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Acts as the clearing hub for east corridor agricultural output, setting the corridor reference price for staple crops and operating grain reserve facilities at Jeonnam Station. Not a producer — a market-maker for producers."
+character = "Institutional, dry, the kind of organisation that produces annual reports that people actually read because they contain useful data. Essential and boring. Proud of being essential."
+
+[mabuhay_biosciences]
+name = "Mabuhay Biosciences"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "biosphere_cultivation"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1073"
+headquarters_settlement = "Mabuhay"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["organic_compounds", "chemical_feedstock"]
+secondary_commodities = ["processed_food"]
+branded_products = ["Mabuhay Cultivation Matrix", "Archipelago Bioreactor Standard", "MB Closed-Loop Extract"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Mabuhay's warm-world biosphere is unusually productive. Mabuhay Biosciences runs closed-loop cultivation systems producing specialty organic compounds for the pharmaceutical and food-tech markets. Founded by second-generation settlers who observed that the planet's biology was its best export."
+character = "Optimistic, technically sophisticated, community-oriented. Mabuhay Biosciences employs half the planet's university graduates. It considers itself a stewardship operation, not just a commercial one."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# TEXTILES
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[kurashiki_textile_guild]
+name = "Kurashiki Textile Guild"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "textile_craft_guild"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 205"
+headquarters_settlement = "Kurashiki"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["textiles"]
+secondary_commodities = ["consumer_goods"]
+branded_products = ["Kurashiki Woven Standard", "East Reach Canvas Grade", "KTG Settlement Cloth"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The east corridor's principal textile producer. Built on Kurashiki's established craft traditions, now producing everything from settlement-grade utilitarian fabric to premium woven goods exported to core worlds. Guild structure means quality standards are enforced by membership pressure, not just commercial incentive."
+character = "Traditional, quality-obsessed, socially cohesive. Guild membership has weight in Kurashiki — being expelled matters. Standards are argued about the way other communities argue about politics."
+
+[binh_trang_weaving_collective]
+name = "Binh Trang Weaving Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "textile_craft_guild"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 17"
+headquarters_settlement = "Binh Trang"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["textiles"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["Delta Silk Standard", "Binh Trang Handwoven Certificate", "East River Cloth"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Smaller than Kurashiki Textile Guild and deliberately so — the collective makes premium-market goods using traditional Vietnamese craft methods. Sells at higher margins into niche markets rather than competing on volume. Sister organisation to Binh Trang Fermentation Works, sharing cooperative governance culture."
+character = "Proudly small, aesthetically self-aware, occasionally fierce about authenticity. 'A label that says east reach handwoven means something. We intend to keep it meaning something.'"
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MINING / EXTRACTION
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[jeonnam_lattice_survey]
+name = "Jeonnam Lattice Survey"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "deep_rock_extraction"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3728B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Jeonnam Deep Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["lattice_grade_material"]
+secondary_commodities = ["rare_minerals"]
+branded_products = ["JLS Verified Lattice Ore Certificate", "East Gate Grade Material", "Pale Seam Survey Report"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The east corridor's specialist in locating and extracting lattice-grade mineral seams. Works under Commission survey contracts and private extraction licenses. Feeds Yeongwol Lattice Works and, indirectly, Tier-1 lattice processors like Takamori Lattice Works."
+character = "Methodical, data-driven, surprisingly philosophical about deep geology. Survey teams spend months at extraction sites. They develop strong opinions about rock."
+
+[hwaseong_belt_extraction]
+name = "Hwaseong Belt Extraction"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "asteroid_belt_mining"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1125"
+headquarters_settlement = "Hwaseong Industrial Orbital"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["metallic_ore", "rare_minerals"]
+secondary_commodities = ["chemical_feedstock"]
+branded_products = ["HBE Orbital Grade Ore Bundle", "Hwaseong Belt Survey Certificate", "East Corridor Raw Stock"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The sister operation to Hwaseong Drive Systems, extracting the raw materials the manufacturer needs from the local belt system. Financially separate but commercially integrated — long-term offtake contract with Drive Systems represents 60% of Belt Extraction's output."
+character = "Operationally close to Hwaseong Drive Systems in culture — practical, industrial, understated. Extraction crews and factory workers socialise in the same stations. This is the corridor without pretension."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# FREIGHT & TRANSIT
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[mabuhay_gateway_transit]
+name = "Mabuhay Gateway Transit"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "gateway_transit_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1073"
+headquarters_settlement = "Mabuhay Gate Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["transport_vehicles"]
+branded_products = ["Mabuhay Passage Charter", "Archipelago Express Freight Block", "MGT East Corridor Transit Bond"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Operates the transit coordination function at Mabuhay's gate junction, the east corridor's busiest routing point east of core. Manages gate queue allocation, freight coordination, and corridor scheduling for the eastern half of the reach."
+character = "Professionally calm under pressure, institutionally important, aware that it sits on a bottleneck. Mabuhay Gateway Transit does not need to be aggressive — the gate queue does its negotiating for it."
+
+[east_reach_freight_collective]
+name = "East Reach Freight Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "corridor_freight_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 860B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Changwon Freight Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["transport_vehicles"]
+branded_products = ["ERFC East Corridor Freight Certificate", "Collective Standard Manifest", "Corridor Load-Share Protocol"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "A cooperative freight operator formed by small independent haulers to compete with Tier-1 freight corps on east corridor routes. Members share load boards, maintenance facilities, and insurance pools. Keeps rates competitive without ceding control to outside capital."
+character = "Cooperative, somewhat combative toward Tier-1 freight corps, internally democratic in ways that produce occasional slow decisions. Members refer to the collective as 'the pool' and to non-members as 'outside.'"
+
+[binh_trang_cold_chain]
+name = "Binh Trang Cold Chain"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "perishable_chain_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 17"
+headquarters_settlement = "Binh Trang Port"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["processed_food", "organic_compounds"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+branded_products = ["BTC Verified Cold Certificate", "East Reach Perishable Standard", "Delta Chain Transit Manifest"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Binh Trang's agricultural and fermentation exports require specialised cold-chain handling. The Cold Chain started as a logistics arm of the fermentation cooperative and spun out when its expertise became corridor-wide. Handles temperature-controlled freight for most of the eastern corridor's food sector."
+character = "Operationally precise, systems-focused, the kind of company that has opinions about crate seal tolerances. Food spoilage is taken personally."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# LEGAL / CERTIFICATION / FINANCIAL SERVICES
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[jeonnam_legal_house]
+name = "Jeonnam Legal House"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commercial_law_firm"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3728B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Jeonnam"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["JLH East Corridor Commercial Standard", "Jeonnam Arbitration Protocol", "East Reach Trade Instrument"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The principal commercial law practice for east corridor operations, providing contract drafting, trade dispute arbitration, and Commission compliance counsel. Jeonnam's position as the corridor's commercial hub makes the Legal House well-placed to observe and mediate between the many interests that flow through."
+character = "Formally composed, informationally well-positioned, commercially useful. Jeonnam Legal House does not express opinions. It provides frameworks for expressing them correctly."
+
+[east_corridor_certification_bureau]
+name = "East Corridor Certification Bureau"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commission_certification_agent"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 860B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Changwon"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["commission_certification"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["ECCB East Reach Certification Seal", "Corridor Compliance Assessment", "Assembly Standard Verification"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The Commission's regional certification infrastructure for the east corridor. Handles product certification, trade compliance assessment, and operator licensing. The Bureau's main commercial revenue comes from its certification seal — goods stamped with the ECCB mark can move through Assembly customs without secondary inspection."
+character = "Bureaucratically earnest, procedurally inflexible, useful to anyone who wants smooth passage through Assembly checkpoints. Corruption exists but is managed carefully — the seal's value depends on it being trusted."
+
+[changwon_risk_mutual]
+name = "Changwon Risk Mutual"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "risk_underwriting_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 860B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Changwon"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+secondary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+branded_products = ["CRM East Corridor Transit Cover", "Changwon Cargo Mutual Certificate", "Industrial Liability Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The east corridor's principal mutual insurance provider, covering transit risk, industrial operations, and commercial liability. Mutual structure means underwriting decisions are made by member committees — slower than commercial insurers but with lower premiums and better claims handling for established members."
+character = "Prudent, membership-focused, quietly judgmental about clients whose operations generate too many claims. Safety record matters here — the mutual notices."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MEDICAL / SERVICES
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[matsue_health_station]
+name = "Matsue Health Station"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "medical_re_embodiment_clinic"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 687"
+headquarters_settlement = "Matsue"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["medical_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["medical_goods"]
+branded_products = ["Matsue Full-Spectrum Health Assessment", "East Reach Medical Standard Protocol", "Tidal Care Rehabilitation Package"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Matsue's medically competent settlement grew a notable health services sector partly from necessity — ocean-world extraction work has specific injury profiles — and partly from the quality of Matsue's training facilities. The Health Station now serves the corridor beyond Matsue itself."
+character = "Clinically professional, culturally shaped by Matsue's cooperative traditions, slightly proud of being better resourced than the corridor average. Patients from other systems are welcomed but expected to respect Matsue's standard protocols."
+
+[mabuhay_entertainment_works]
+name = "Mabuhay Entertainment Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "destination_hospitality_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1073"
+headquarters_settlement = "Mabuhay"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["entertainment"]
+secondary_commodities = ["tourism", "hospitality"]
+branded_products = ["Mabuhay Festival Circuit Package", "Archipelago Experience Pass", "MEW East Corridor Booking Protocol"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Mabuhay's warm, high-habitability world attracts more discretionary visitors than any other system in the east corridor. Mabuhay Entertainment Works coordinates the corridor's festival circuit, music and cultural venues, and destination hospitality infrastructure. Started as a Mabuhay settlers' cultural organisation and grew into the east reach's entertainment sector."
+character = "Genuinely joyful, culturally effusive, commercially skilled at packaging warmth. Mabuhay Entertainment Works is the corridor's specialist in making people feel welcome. This is not cynical. They mean it."
+
+[binh_trang_distribution_hub]
+name = "Binh Trang Distribution Hub"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "distribution_clearing_hub"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 17"
+headquarters_settlement = "Binh Trang Port"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce", "processed_food"]
+secondary_commodities = ["organic_compounds", "consumer_goods"]
+branded_products = ["BDH East Corridor Agricultural Clearance", "Delta Distribution Standard", "Binh Trang Load Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The clearing hub for east corridor agricultural and processed goods. Binh Trang's position as the corridor's most productive farming system makes it the natural aggregation point for regional food trade. The Hub provides storage, commodity grading, and distribution logistics for goods moving toward core markets."
+character = "Commercially efficient, agriculturally knowledgeable, deeply embedded in the food economy of the east reach. The Hub's commodity graders are considered among the most reliable in the corridor."
+
+[jeonnam_east_intelligence]
+name = "Jeonnam East Intelligence"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "intelligence_network"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "east_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3728B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Jeonnam"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["JEI East Corridor Market Report", "Jeonnam Trade Intelligence Subscription", "Corridor Price Discovery Feed"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "A commercial intelligence and market research operation embedded in Jeonnam's trade hub position. Sells price data, shipping movement reports, and commercial due diligence assessments to east corridor operators who need to know what is happening two systems away before it affects their positions."
+character = "Discreet, precise in language about the limits of what it claims to know, well-networked. Jeonnam East Intelligence sells data, not opinions. The opinions are yours to form."

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+# ==========================================================================
+# Settled Reach — Tier-2 Corporation Catalog: North Reach Corridor
+# Source of truth. Compiled to economy.db via `make economy-db`.
+#
+# Coverage: terroir_specialty_agriculture, managed_forestry, biosphere_cultivation,
+#           industrial_staple_farming, fermentation_cooperative, commercial_law_firm,
+#           destination_hospitality_operator, risk_underwriting_house,
+#           deep_rock_extraction, medical_re_embodiment_clinic, corridor_freight_operator,
+#           commission_certification_agent, gas_giant_skimming, intelligence_network
+# Notable systems: Calloway Reach (GJ 3325), Braemar (GJ 475), Stillvakt (GJ 534/west_reach),
+#                  Dunbar (GJ 3991), Crown's Hollow (GJ 661A), Holgersen's Landing (GJ 880),
+#                  Havnfjord (GJ 3622), Ngata's Star (GJ 706), Fremantle (GJ 273)
+# ==========================================================================
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# AGRICULTURE AND FOOD
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[calloway_grain_syndicate]
+name = "Calloway Grain Syndicate"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "terroir_specialty_agriculture"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3325"
+headquarters_settlement = "Calloway Reach"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["Calloway Cold-Adapted Grain", "CGS Feed Standard", "Winter Barley Select"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Manages the collective agriculture that produces the cold-adapted barley sold to the Calloway Distillery. Not the prestige product — the supply chain behind it."
+character = "Quiet, competent, acutely aware that their only real customer is Calloway Distillery and that this is fine. They grow excellent barley. They have been doing so for four hundred years."
+
+[waterkant_agricultural]
+name = "Waterkant Agricultural"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "industrial_staple_farming"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 183"
+headquarters_settlement = "Waterkant"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["processed_food"]
+branded_products = ["Waterkant Bulk Grain", "WA Export Standard", "Northern Plains Staple"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "High-volume food production for the northern corridor, operating agricultural settlements on Waterkant's productive plains. The aquifer management situation is being monitored."
+character = "Results-oriented, slightly defensive about the aquifer question. Waterkant Agricultural produces excellent grain yields and does not want to discuss the hydrological survey."
+
+[holgersen_fermentation]
+name = "Holgersen Fermentation Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "fermentation_cooperative"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 880"
+headquarters_settlement = "Holgersen's Landing"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["processed_food"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce", "organic_compounds"]
+branded_products = ["Holgersen Cellar Reserve", "Holgersen's Standard Ferment", "North Reach Culture Pack"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The north reach's fermentation tradition in institutional form. Produces artisanal fermented food and beverage products through member-controlled processing."
+character = "Unhurried, locally famous, politely resistant to outside attention. Four months in a fermentation cellar at Holgersen's Landing is apparently not uncomfortable. The correspondent who reported this was enthusiastic about it."
+
+[singh_seed_co]
+name = "Singh Seed and Agri"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "industrial_staple_farming"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 879"
+headquarters_settlement = "Singh's Landing"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["organic_compounds"]
+branded_products = ["Singh F9 Variety License", "Northern Adaptation Seed Pack", "Singh High-Yield Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "High-yield agricultural genetics for the north reach's frontier farming systems. Develops and licenses seed varieties adapted to the north corridor's variable stellar spectra."
+character = "Scientific, contractual, aware that the intellectual property is the business. Singh Seed's varieties are subject to contract. The contract terms are available on request."
+
+[breevlei_agriculture]
+name = "Breëvlei Agricultural Cooperative"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "industrial_staple_farming"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 661B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Breëvlei"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["processed_food"]
+branded_products = ["Breëvlei Marsh Standard", "BAC Community Share", "Northern Settling Crop Pack"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Marsh-adjacent farming cooperative in the early-development zone north of Crown's Hollow. Produces staple crops while the marsh remains unexplored."
+character = "Optimistic, community-oriented, cheerful about the frontier context. Breëvlei Agri grows what it can and plans for more. The marsh has not caused problems yet."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# FORESTRY AND BIOLOGICAL
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[dunbar_cooperage]
+name = "Dunbar Cooperage and Timber"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "managed_forestry"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3991"
+headquarters_settlement = "Dunbar"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["timber"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["Dunbar Cooperage Oak", "Dunbar Structural Timber", "Century-Grade Hardwood Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The canonical north reach timber operation supplying cooperage-grade hardwood to Calloway Distillery, with structural timber for outer north construction as a secondary market."
+character = "Slow-moving by design, multi-century planning horizon. Dunbar Cooperage plants oaks for casks that will not be mature until people alive today are dead. This is the entire business model."
+
+[braemar_fiber_producers]
+name = "Braemar Fiber Producers Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "biosphere_cultivation"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 475"
+headquarters_settlement = "Braemar"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["organic_compounds"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+branded_products = ["Braemar Organic Standard", "Biosphere Extract Select", "North Reach Biological Grade"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "One of the brach-fiber adjacent cooperatives producing non-brach organic compounds from Braemar's biosphere. Not thrds — the supporting agricultural ecosystem that thrds depends on."
+character = "Community-first, genuinely wary of outside interest, protective of the biosphere in ways that go beyond commercial interest. The Collective has rejected acquisition offers from three Tier-1 corporations."
+
+[mossbank_organics]
+name = "Mossbank Organics"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "biosphere_cultivation"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 603"
+headquarters_settlement = "Mossbank"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["organic_compounds"]
+secondary_commodities = ["chemicals"]
+branded_products = ["Mossbank Fungal Extract", "Northern Biosphere Select", "MO Pharmaceutical Grade"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Pharmaceutical-grade biological extraction from Mossbank's unexpectedly rich biosphere, discovered when a survey botanist noticed a compound in the local fungi with no Reach-wide analogue."
+character = "Small, careful, slightly anxious about their land claim. Mossbank Organics has an excellent product and a complicated title situation. Both things are true at the same time."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# LEGAL, FINANCIAL, INSURANCE
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[crown_chancery]
+name = "Crown's Hollow Chancery"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commercial_law_firm"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 661A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Crown's Hollow"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["Crown's Hollow Precedent Brief", "CHC Commercial Opinion", "Chancery Arbitration Service"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The north reach's primary commercial law institution, operating under Crown's Hollow's distinctive working-monarchy governance structure with a precedent archive going back 300 years."
+character = "Formal in a specific hereditary way. Crown's Hollow Chancery speaks in established precedents and dislikes surprises. Their filings are architectural."
+
+[fremantle_legal]
+name = "Fremantle Legal Consortium"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commercial_law_firm"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 273"
+headquarters_settlement = "Fremantle"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+branded_products = ["Fremantle Archive Opinion", "FLC Title Resolution Service", "Colonial Claims Standard Brief"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The north reach's general-practice commercial law operation, with an unusual specialization in archive-based dispute resolution for long-running colonial title claims."
+character = "Methodical, patient, most comfortable with cases that take years to resolve. They have been in the same location for 400 years. They will probably still be there when your grandchildren need them."
+
+[havnfjord_insurance]
+name = "Havnfjord Mutual Insurance"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "risk_underwriting_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3622"
+headquarters_settlement = "Havnfjord"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+secondary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+branded_products = ["Havnfjord Agricultural Policy", "Northern Marine Cover", "Frontier Transit Insurance Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Agricultural and fishing cooperative insurance, north reach style. Member-owned, focused on agricultural risk and outer-north transit insurance."
+character = "Nordic pragmatism: thorough risk assessment, modest premiums, pays claims without drama. Has been serving the same north corridor families for six generations."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# EXTRACTION AND ENERGY
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[ngata_mineral_survey]
+name = "Ngata Survey and Extraction"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "deep_rock_extraction"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 706"
+headquarters_settlement = "Ngata's Star"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["rare_minerals"]
+secondary_commodities = ["metallic_ore"]
+branded_products = ["Ngata Deep Survey Certificate", "North Rare Grade Standard", "NSE Verified Deposit Report"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The north reach's primary rare mineral survey and extraction operation. Known for unusually deep seismic surveys that locate deposits the standard scan misses."
+character = "Technically excellent, somewhat secretive about methodology. Ngata Survey knows where the rare minerals are because they take the survey methods seriously. New deposits are not announced publicly until permits are secured."
+
+[old_prospect_quarry]
+name = "Prospect Hill Quarry"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "deep_rock_extraction"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 402"
+headquarters_settlement = "Prospect Hill"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["stone"]
+secondary_commodities = ["metallic_ore"]
+branded_products = ["Prospect Hill Standard Stone", "PHQ Structural Grade", "North Reach Building Stone"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The established stone extraction operation at the deep north's oldest settled system. Stone from Prospect Hill has built stations throughout the outer north corridor."
+character = "Old, established, and quietly proud of how many walls are made from their output. Prospect Hill Quarry measures time in geological terms and finds human urgency slightly endearing."
+
+[dunmore_water_works]
+name = "Dunmore Deep Water Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "gas_giant_skimming"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 653"
+headquarters_settlement = "Dunmore"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["water"]
+secondary_commodities = ["chemical_feedstock", "fusion_fuel"]
+branded_products = ["Dunmore Deep Water Extract", "Far North Fuel Feedstock", "DDW Volatiles Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Gas giant volatiles extraction and water supply for the far north corridor. Running at the outer edge of Commission oversight with fully certified operations."
+character = "Isolated, competent, running at yield trend confidential rates. Dunmore Deep Water Works does not explain its yield projections. This is commercially rational."
+
+[koskinen_prospectors]
+name = "Koskinen Prospectors Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "asteroid_belt_mining"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 876"
+headquarters_settlement = "Koskinen's Reach"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["metallic_ore"]
+secondary_commodities = ["rare_minerals"]
+branded_products = ["Koskinen Belt Standard Ore", "KPC Cooperative Claim Certificate", "Northern Belt Mineral Extract"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Belt mining cooperative operating the Koskinen system's extensive asteroid resources. Self-contained and independent, filing the absolute minimum required paperwork."
+character = "Self-sufficient by design. The Collective has been managing its own affairs for two centuries without particularly needing outside assistance. Visitor timing is noted."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# FREIGHT AND TRANSIT
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[okafor_station_freight]
+name = "Okafor Station Freight"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "corridor_freight_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 139"
+headquarters_settlement = "Okafor Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+branded_products = ["Okafor Inner North Express", "OKF Standard Cargo Bond", "North Corridor Manifest Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The freight operation that grew out of Okafor Station's original transit role, now serving the inner-north as a general cargo handler."
+character = "Helpful, somewhat bureaucratic, very welcoming. Okafor Station Freight has the best customs officers in the north. They are also the only customs officers in the north you will not have to argue with."
+
+[lacaille_north_freight]
+name = "Lacaille North Freight"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "corridor_freight_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 825"
+headquarters_settlement = "Lacaille"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["consumer_goods"]
+branded_products = ["Lacaille North Standard Load", "LNF Certified Transit Certificate", "Far North Express Route"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The north reach's primary long-haul freight operation, running routes from inner north to far north systems. Principled operator with an unusual Commission-positive attitude."
+character = "Reliable, certified, proud of clean Commission paperwork. Lacaille North Freight considers its compliance record a competitive advantage. This is a personality trait as much as a business decision."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MEDICAL, CERTIFICATION, HOSPITALITY
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[uusi_vantaa_health]
+name = "Uusi Vantaa Health Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "medical_re_embodiment_clinic"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1230A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Uusi Vantaa"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["medical_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["medical_goods"]
+branded_products = ["Uusi Vantaa Community Health Program", "UVHC Basic Re-embodiment", "Far North Medical Access Package"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Medical cooperative for a developing outer-north system, providing accessible healthcare including basic re-embodiment to a community that cannot afford Somatic Futures."
+character = "Cooperative, not profitable, essential. Uusi Vantaa Health runs on member contributions and the conviction that accessible healthcare is not a luxury. The waiting list is long. The care is good."
+
+[outer_north_certification]
+name = "Outer North Certification Services"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commission_certification_agent"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 877"
+headquarters_settlement = "Holmgren's Passage"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["commission_certification"]
+secondary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+branded_products = ["ONCS Route-Rider Certificate", "Far North Compliance Package", "Outer North Filing Service"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The Commission certification intermediary for outer-north systems, running a route-rider service that brings certification to systems too small for a resident Commission office."
+character = "Pragmatic, honest about what they are. They are the Commission's convenience service for the outer north. The fee is worth it for operators who cannot lose a season waiting for a review appointment."
+
+[calloway_heritage_tourism]
+name = "Calloway Heritage Tourism"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "destination_hospitality_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3325"
+headquarters_settlement = "Calloway Reach"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["tourism"]
+secondary_commodities = ["hospitality", "entertainment"]
+branded_products = ["Calloway Heritage Tour", "Four Hundred Year Experience", "Distillery Circuit Pass"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The collective hospitality operation serving the Calloway Reach distillery tourism circuit. Manages accommodation, guided tours, and the carefully staged experience of 400-year-old whisky heritage."
+character = "Curated, atmospheric, slightly theatrical. Calloway Heritage Tourism packages the Calloway brand for visitors. The product is authenticity, carefully managed."
+
+[enugu_trade_house]
+name = "Enugu Trade House"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "distribution_clearing_hub"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "north_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 75"
+headquarters_settlement = "Enugu"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce", "consumer_goods"]
+branded_products = ["Enugu Commodity Consolidation", "ETH Far North Clearing Service", "North Reach Trade Deposit"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "A long-established north reach distribution and commodity consolidation operation, commercially essential to the far north supply chains."
+character = "Commercially essential and aware of it. Enugu Trade House has watched other operations come and go in the far north while it remains because it holds the relationships. Ownership is documented elsewhere, as noted."

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+# ==========================================================================
+# Settled Reach — Tier-2 Corporation Catalog: South Reach Corridor
+# Source of truth. Compiled to economy.db via `make economy-db`.
+#
+# Coverage: commercial_law_firm, commission_certification_agent,
+#           pharmaceutical_manufacturer, industrial_staple_farming,
+#           deep_rock_extraction, gas_giant_skimming, gateway_transit_operator,
+#           heavy_industrial_manufacturer, risk_underwriting_house,
+#           biosphere_cultivation, perishable_chain_operator, medical_re_embodiment_clinic,
+#           distribution_clearing_hub, corridor_freight_operator,
+#           destination_hospitality_operator, station_module_constructor,
+#           frontier_ice_mining, textile_craft_guild
+# Notable systems: Matamba (GJ 884), Altair (GJ 768), Zenzele (GJ 1111),
+#                  Confluência (GJ 566B), Inhambane (GJ 54), Nowa Huta (GJ 896A),
+#                  Mwangaza (GJ 693), Velha Guarda (GJ 4A), Fragua (GJ 567)
+# ==========================================================================
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# LEGAL AND FINANCIAL
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[matamba_legal_practice]
+name = "Matamba Legal Practice"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commercial_law_firm"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 884"
+headquarters_settlement = "Matamba"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+branded_products = ["Matamba Archive Opinion", "MLP South Corridor Precedent Brief", "Four Century Commercial Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Four centuries of being right, on the record. The south reach's primary commercial law institution, with an exceptional archive of south corridor precedent."
+character = "Calm, comprehensive, four centuries deep. Matamba Legal does not take shortcuts. They also do not lose. These facts are connected."
+
+[caparica_advocates]
+name = "Caparica Advocates' Cooperative"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commercial_law_firm"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1002"
+headquarters_settlement = "Caparica"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["commission_certification"]
+branded_products = ["Caparica Commercial Advocate Service", "Mid-South Resource Rights Brief", "Outer Corridor Dispute Resolution"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "A legal cooperative serving Caparica and the mid-south corridor, specializing in outer reach commercial disputes and resource rights."
+character = "Cooperative, meticulous, good at self-sufficiency in every dimension including legal. Caparica Advocates handles disputes that larger firms find too regional to bother with."
+
+[altair_certification]
+name = "Altair Certification and Inspection"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commission_certification_agent"
+behavioral_archetype = "monopolist"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 768"
+headquarters_settlement = "Altair"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["commission_certification"]
+secondary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+branded_products = ["Altair South Corridor Certification", "ACI Last-Stop Compliance Stamp", "Southbound Goods Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The Commission checkpoint for the south reach entry corridor. Controls certification throughput for southbound commercial traffic. Last stop means no appeals process if you failed to certify upstream."
+character = "Checkpoint psychology: the Altair team knows you need their stamp, and they are very thorough. Last stop means no appeals process if you failed to certify upstream."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MANUFACTURING AND EXTRACTION
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[confluencia_chemical]
+name = "Confluência Chemical Group"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "pharmaceutical_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 566B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Confluência"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["chemicals"]
+secondary_commodities = ["chemical_feedstock", "organic_compounds"]
+branded_products = ["Confluência Industrial Grade Chemical", "CCG Agricultural Solvent Standard", "South Reach Process Chemical"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "South reach pharmaceutical precursor and industrial chemistry production, operating in the shadow of SCV. Focuses on agricultural chemical and industrial solvent applications."
+character = "Industrial, correct, not prestigious. Confluência Chemical Group makes the fertilizers and industrial solvents that nobody writes about but everyone needs."
+
+[nowa_huta_drilling]
+name = "Nowa Huta Drilling Equipment"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "heavy_industrial_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 896A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Nowa Huta"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["heavy_equipment"]
+secondary_commodities = ["refined_metals", "structural_panels"]
+branded_products = ["Nowa Huta Deep Drill Series", "NHDE South Belt Excavator", "Nowa Standard Extraction Platform"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Every drill in the south reach has their name on it — or at least their design. Nowa Huta produces extraction equipment for the south corridor's mining operations."
+character = "Industrial pride, high output, strong opinion about the quality of competing designs. Nowa Huta Drilling does not have a marketing department. It has a quality record."
+
+[zenzele_metal_works]
+name = "Zenzele Metal Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "deep_rock_extraction"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1111"
+headquarters_settlement = "Zenzele"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["metallic_ore"]
+secondary_commodities = ["refined_metals", "stone"]
+branded_products = ["Zenzele Standard Ore", "ZMW South Belt Grade", "Zenzele Bulk Metals Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The operational extraction company that Baektu Mining Alliance relies on for Zenzele system ore processing. Technically independent but practically integrated into the Baektu supply chain."
+character = "Workmanlike, output-focused, not entirely comfortable with the Baektu relationship. Built to last and reluctant to explain the ownership structure."
+
+[fragua_metalworks]
+name = "Fragua Metalworks"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "heavy_industrial_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 567"
+headquarters_settlement = "Fragua"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["heavy_equipment"]
+secondary_commodities = ["advanced_alloys", "refined_metals"]
+branded_products = ["Fragua Precision Fabrication", "Eight-Generation Standard Frame", "Fragua South Build Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Eight generations of knowing exactly how it fits together. Heavy fabrication for the south reach's extraction infrastructure. Has refused corporate acquisition four times."
+character = "Generational expertise, family ownership, allergic to shortcuts. Fragua Metalworks has refused corporate acquisition four times. The quality record is worth more than the buyout offer."
+
+[dzimbahwe_construction]
+name = "Dzimbahwe Permanent Structures"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "station_module_constructor"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 4053"
+headquarters_settlement = "Dzimbahwe"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["habitat_modules"]
+secondary_commodities = ["structural_panels", "stone"]
+branded_products = ["Dzimbahwe Permanent Module", "DPS Four-Century Standard Frame", "South Reach Station Section"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Permanent by design. Station module and surface construction for the south corridor, operating with a philosophy that built things should outlast the reasons they were built."
+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"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "frontier_ice_mining"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1245B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Koeberg"
+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"]
+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."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# AGRICULTURE AND FOOD
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[inhambane_agricultural]
+name = "Inhambane Agricultural"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "industrial_staple_farming"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 54"
+headquarters_settlement = "Inhambane"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["processed_food"]
+branded_products = ["Inhambane Export Grain", "IA South Staple Standard", "Fed-First Agricultural Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Fed everyone else first, still has enough. South reach staple food production for export to the outer south and deep frontier systems."
+character = "Patient, productive, uncelebrated. Inhambane Agricultural has been feeding the south corridor for centuries and expects no recognition for it. It has its crop yields. It is fine."
+
+[inhambane_cold_chain]
+name = "Inhambane Perishable Distribution"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "perishable_chain_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 54"
+headquarters_settlement = "Inhambane"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["medical_goods", "processed_food"]
+branded_products = ["Inhambane Cold Freight Standard", "IPD South Perishable Express", "Outer South Food Supply Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The cold chain network that carries Inhambane's agricultural surplus to outer south systems, operating refrigerated freight capacity across multiple southern systems."
+character = "Temperature-obsessed, reliable, the kind of operation that sends daily transit updates nobody asked for. The food arrives cold. This is the product."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# ENERGY AND WATER
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[caparica_water_cooperative]
+name = "Caparica Water Cooperative"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "gas_giant_skimming"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1002"
+headquarters_settlement = "Caparica"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["water"]
+secondary_commodities = ["fusion_fuel", "chemical_feedstock"]
+branded_products = ["Caparica Self-Supply Water Standard", "CWC Gas Giant Extract", "Self-Sufficient Fuel Package"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Self-sufficient by necessity, disciplined by tradition. Caparica's water cooperative runs the gas giant extraction that has made the system genuinely independent of outer supply chains."
+character = "Cooperative, self-sufficient, politely closed to outside questions. They have what they need. It took four generations to build. The documentation of how is not public."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# BIOSCIENCES
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[mwangaza_applied_chemistry]
+name = "Mwangaza Applied Chemistry"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "biosphere_cultivation"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 693"
+headquarters_settlement = "Mwangaza"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["organic_compounds"]
+secondary_commodities = ["chemicals"]
+branded_products = ["Mwangaza Synthetic Biological", "MAC Novel Compound Extract", "South Reach Discovery Series"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Made something the universe did not have before — a suite of synthetic organic compounds derived from Mwangaza's unique biosphere chemistry, with pharmaceutical applications discovered after initial industrial use."
+character = "Quietly extraordinary, not very commercially sophisticated. Mwangaza Applied Chemistry has the compound. They are still figuring out what to charge for it."
+
+[kaapse_baai_biosciences]
+name = "Kaapse Baai Biosciences"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "biosphere_cultivation"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 213"
+headquarters_settlement = "Kaapse Baai"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["organic_compounds"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["Kaapse Reserve Biological Extract", "KBB Proprietary Compound Series", "Irreplaceable Grade Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Irreplaceable by definition — Kaapse Baai's unique biosphere produces organic compounds that cannot be synthetically replicated and have no analogues elsewhere in the Reach."
+character = "Understated about its uniqueness, aggressive about its patents. Kaapse Baai Biosciences does not advertise what it makes. It has waiting lists."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# TRANSIT, INSURANCE, HOSPITALITY
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[crux_station_routing]
+name = "Crux Station Routing"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "gateway_transit_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1061"
+headquarters_settlement = "Crux Station"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["Crux Junction Transit Certificate", "CSR South Routing Priority", "Essential Junction Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The transit hub at the south reach's essential junction. Legally optional, operationally indispensable."
+character = "Essential, slightly amused by its own necessity. Crux Station Routing watches operators pretend they have alternatives and waits. They do not have alternatives."
+
+[matamba_risk_mutual]
+name = "Matamba Risk Mutual"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "risk_underwriting_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 884"
+headquarters_settlement = "Matamba"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+secondary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+branded_products = ["Matamba Cargo Mutual Policy", "South Reach Agricultural Cover", "Outer South Transit Indemnity"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "South reach mutual insurance cooperative, specializing in cargo and agricultural risk across the volatile outer south region."
+character = "Practical, claims-focused, built by communities that had been underserved by core underwriters. They pay promptly because their members need prompt payment."
+
+[porto_fechado_storage]
+name = "Porto Fechado Storage and Clearing"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "distribution_clearing_hub"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 785"
+headquarters_settlement = "Porto Fechado"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["consumer_goods"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce", "refined_metals"]
+branded_products = ["Porto Fechado Bonded Storage Certificate", "PFSC South Clearing Service", "Closed Port Consolidated Cargo"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Commodity storage and clearing for the outer south, operating behind the deliberately quiet posture that Porto Fechado's commercial reputation requires."
+character = "Closed in name, efficient in practice. Porto Fechado Storage moves a great deal of commodity and does not talk about it. This is by design."
+
+[velha_guarda_heritage]
+name = "Velha Guarda Cultural Heritage"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "destination_hospitality_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 4A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Velha Guarda"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["tourism"]
+secondary_commodities = ["hospitality"]
+branded_products = ["Velha Guarda Heritage Experience", "Four Hundred Year Visit", "VGCH Deep South Tour"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Four hundred years still there, always will be. Cultural destination operator for one of the oldest south reach settlements. Manages the experience of four centuries of continuous occupation."
+character = "Four hundred years and no hurry. Velha Guarda Heritage is not optimizing its offerings. It is maintaining them. Visitors come for the permanence, not the novelty."
+
+[morales_end_medical]
+name = "Morales' End Medical"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "medical_re_embodiment_clinic"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 412A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Morales' End"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["medical_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["medical_goods"]
+branded_products = ["Morales' End Re-embodiment Protocol", "Far South Medical Standard", "MEd Emergency Procedure"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Far enough out that Commission certification for re-embodiment is a two-year waiting list. Morales' End Medical fills the gap with licensed procedures — barely."
+character = "Pragmatic, slightly harried, doing what needs doing. Far enough. No further."
+
+[karoo_textile_works]
+name = "Karoo Textile Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "textile_craft_guild"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "south_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 222A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Karoo"
+currency_preference = "tractus"
+bloc_affiliation = "assembly"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["textiles"]
+secondary_commodities = ["consumer_goods"]
+branded_products = ["Karoo Standard Functional Textile", "KTW South Grade Fabric", "Comfortable Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Functional textile production for the south reach, operating at scale in a system comfortable with not being examined too closely."
+character = "Comfortable, efficient, not forthcoming. Karoo Textile Works makes good textiles. Why they are comfortable is not examined."

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+# ==========================================================================
+# Settled Reach — Tier-2 Corporation Catalog: West Reach Corridor
+# Source of truth. Compiled to economy.db via `make economy-db`.
+#
+# COMPACT FRAMING NOTE: High intensity corps here reflect principled non-compliance
+# with Commission authority, not criminality. Mark-denominated trade, Compact
+# customs arrangements, and Commission-avoided supply chains are normal commerce
+# in this corridor. shadow_connections = true reflects opacity to Commission audit,
+# not criminal operations.
+#
+# Coverage: financial_clearing_house, corridor_freight_operator, gateway_transit_operator,
+#           heavy_industrial_manufacturer, commercial_law_firm, deep_rock_extraction,
+#           precision_instrument_maker, distribution_clearing_hub, frontier_ice_mining,
+#           industrial_staple_farming, intelligence_network, deep_ocean_fishery,
+#           station_module_constructor, fermentation_cooperative, risk_underwriting_house,
+#           perishable_chain_operator, destination_hospitality_operator, asteroid_belt_mining
+# ==========================================================================
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# FINANCIAL SERVICES (COMPACT ZONE)
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[hansestadt_mark_exchange]
+name = "Hansestadt Mark Exchange"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "financial_clearing_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 832"
+headquarters_settlement = "Hansestadt"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+branded_products = ["Hansestadt Mark Clearing Certificate", "HME Compact Settlement Slip", "Free West Exchange Bond"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The commercial financial hub for the inner Compact zone, providing Mark-denominated clearing and credit for west corridor operators at Hansestadt, the zone's principal trade junction."
+character = "Financially pragmatic, cooperative governance, overtly comfortable with the Compact framing. The Mark is not the second-best currency here; it is the currency. Tractus is accepted at a fee."
+
+[ostmark_credit_cooperative]
+name = "Ostmark Credit Cooperative"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "financial_clearing_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 601A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Rand"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["Ostmark Credit Account", "OCC Mark Deposit Instrument", "Compact Zone Credit Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The financial institution of the Compact's institutional anchor — a cooperative credit and clearing operation that operates entirely in Mark and explicitly refuses Assembly-certified banking protocols."
+character = "Mark-denominated, principled, aware of its symbolic importance. Ostmark Credit Cooperative is the bank that the Compact founding members use. This is not incidental."
+
+[marktfeld_trade_house]
+name = "Marktfeld Trade House"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "distribution_clearing_hub"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 643"
+headquarters_settlement = "Marktfeld"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["consumer_goods", "agricultural_produce"]
+branded_products = ["Marktfeld Rate Card", "MTH West Clearing Protocol", "Free Rate Commercial Settlement"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The outer west's commercial clearing hub, where the rate card is indeed a starting point. Multi-commodity distribution and informal financial services at the Compact's commercial edge."
+character = "Commercial, negotiable, comfortable with ambiguity. Marktfeld Trade House does not have fixed prices. It has starting positions. Everything from there is a conversation."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# LEGAL
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[neustadt_commercial_bureau]
+name = "Neustadt Commercial Bureau"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "commercial_law_firm"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 526"
+headquarters_settlement = "Neustadt"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["commission_certification"]
+branded_products = ["Neustadt Dual-Framework Brief", "NCB Cross-Zone Commercial Opinion", "Border Law Consultation Package"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "Legal and commercial intermediary services at the Compact's inner border. Sovereign enough to navigate both Assembly and Compact legal frameworks without losing either client."
+character = "Ask the broker — genuinely neutral between the two legal regimes, which makes it valuable to both. Neustadt Commercial Bureau has survived sixty years by being useful to people who don't agree on much else."
+
+[gammelstad_commercial_archive]
+name = "Gammelstad Commercial Archive"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "intelligence_network"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1232"
+headquarters_settlement = "Gammelstad"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+branded_products = ["Gammelstad Historical Trade Record", "GCA Deep Archive Access", "Ancient West Corridor Dataset"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Ancient, pending translation — literally. Gammelstad's commercial archive contains west reach trade records going back centuries, in formats that require specialist interpretation."
+character = "Institutional memory as commercial product. Gammelstad Commercial Archive sells access to information that does not exist anywhere else. The translation service is extra."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS (COMPACT)
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[kapteyn_freight_company]
+name = "Kapteyn Freight Company"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "corridor_freight_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 191"
+headquarters_settlement = "Kapteyn's Star"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["consumer_goods"]
+branded_products = ["Kapteyn West Standard Load", "KFC Compact Route Certificate", "Free Haul Freight Bond"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The outer west corridor's most efficient freight operator, running cargo on the inner Compact zone's routes with a clear-eyed focus on throughput."
+character = "Efficient, not equally so for everyone — Kapteyn Freight's route priorities favor the Compact's trade infrastructure over Assembly-directed freight."
+
+[krakow_junction_transit]
+name = "Kraków Junction Transit Authority"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "gateway_transit_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "intermediary"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1116B"
+headquarters_settlement = "Kraków Junction"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = []
+branded_products = ["Kraków Junction Priority Routing", "KJTA Compact Transit Certificate", "West Hub Standard Transfer"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = true
+backstory = "The junction routing operation at the west reach's primary inner-zone hub, transparent about its routing rules because the summary, anyway, is public."
+character = "Systematic, slightly political, transparent up to a point. Kraków Junction Transit Authority publishes its routing priorities. The full prioritization matrix is available on request."
+
+[westmark_cold_distribution]
+name = "Westmark Cold Distribution"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "perishable_chain_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 601A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Rand"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["medical_goods", "processed_food"]
+branded_products = ["Westmark Cold Freight Standard", "WCD Compact Medical Supply Chain", "Free Corridor Perishable Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The Compact's cold-chain logistics for food and medical supply, running through Compact customs arrangements without Commission certification requirements."
+character = "Compact-internal, Mark-denominated, very clear about its political positioning. Westmark Cold Distribution does not deal with Commission paperwork. This is a feature."
+
+[brennans_freight_company]
+name = "Brennan's Freight Company"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "corridor_freight_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "distributor"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 628"
+headquarters_settlement = "Brennan's Drift"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["freight_haulers"]
+secondary_commodities = ["consumer_goods", "agricultural_produce"]
+branded_products = ["Brennan's Standard West Load", "BFC Consistent Freight Certificate", "Drift Route Bond"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Consistent freight service on the inner west corridor, ownership history on request. Has been running the same routes with the same reliability for three generations."
+character = "Consistent, ownership-complicated, professionally excellent. Brennan's Freight Company moves cargo. The ownership structure is available on request. The cargo moves either way."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MANUFACTURING AND EXTRACTION (COMPACT)
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[dokkum_mechanical_works]
+name = "Dokkum Mechanical Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "heavy_industrial_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 506"
+headquarters_settlement = "Dokkum"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["heavy_equipment"]
+secondary_commodities = ["transport_vehicles", "refined_metals"]
+branded_products = ["Dokkum West Standard Machine", "DMW Compact Industrial Series", "Dokkum Extraction Platform"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Industrial machinery production for the west corridor's extraction and manufacturing base, operating in a zone where Commission certification is technically required and practically negotiated."
+character = "Industrious, curious about the specs (technically), not very interested in Commission approval timelines. Dokkum Mechanical makes good machinery and does not want to discuss the certification backlog."
+
+[freiholt_alloy_works]
+name = "Freiholt Alloy Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "heavy_industrial_manufacturer"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 453"
+headquarters_settlement = "Freiholt"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["advanced_alloys"]
+secondary_commodities = ["structural_panels", "refined_metals"]
+branded_products = ["Freiholt Compact Alloy Standard", "FAW West Junction Series", "Freiholt Structural Panel Grade"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The industrial manufacturing operation that makes Freiholt a Compact manufacturing center — alloys, structural panels, heavy equipment from the junction system's industrial base."
+character = "Principled, exportable, aware that its manufacturing output is the Compact's hard argument for self-sufficiency. Export destination is at buyer's discretion. This is a political statement."
+
+[eisentor_metallurgy]
+name = "Eisentor Metallurgy"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "deep_rock_extraction"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3454"
+headquarters_settlement = "Eisentor"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["metallic_ore"]
+secondary_commodities = ["refined_metals", "stone"]
+branded_products = ["Eisentor West Grade Ore", "EMG Gate Junction Standard", "Compact Ore Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Essential extraction and primary metals processing at the outer west's principal gate junction. The hardware question — whether to use Commission-certified gate components or Compact equivalents — is under review."
+character = "Essential, hardware-minded, in the middle of a political question it did not ask to be in. Eisentor Metallurgy makes metals. The political question is above its weight class."
+
+[torsby_precision_works]
+name = "Torsby Precision Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "precision_instrument_maker"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 442A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Torsby"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["electronics"]
+secondary_commodities = ["drive_cores"]
+branded_products = ["Torsby Precision Instrument", "TPW West Corridor Standard", "Torsby Compact-Grade Electronics"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Patent-pending-sort-of instruments for the west corridor's technical manufacturing base. Makes precision components that may or may not comply with Commission certification, depending on how one reads the requirements."
+character = "Technically meticulous, legally creative. Torsby Precision Works makes excellent instruments. Whether they are Commission-certified is a question that has produced several memos."
+
+[bakshi_spur_mining]
+name = "Bakshi Spur Mining"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "deep_rock_extraction"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 631"
+headquarters_settlement = "Bakshi Spur"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["rare_minerals"]
+secondary_commodities = ["metallic_ore"]
+branded_products = ["Bakshi Spur Mineral Certificate", "BSM Compact Rare Grade", "Eighty-Year Reserve Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Mineral-rich for another eighty years or so. Compact-affiliated extraction in the outer west, operating on a timeline everyone understands but no one announces."
+character = "Productive with awareness of the timeline. Bakshi Spur Mining knows the reserves have a horizon. It is making the most of the remaining eighty years and planning accordingly."
+
+[bergtor_belt_operations]
+name = "Bergtor Belt Operations"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "asteroid_belt_mining"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 505A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Bergtor"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["metallic_ore"]
+secondary_commodities = ["stone"]
+branded_products = ["Bergtor Belt Ore Standard", "BBO Compact Belt Certificate", "West Belt Grade Consolidated"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Extractive belt mining for the inner Compact zone's heavy industry. Infrastructure plans are under revision after the last geological survey returned unexpected results."
+character = "Extractive, not communicative. Bergtor Belt Operations extracts ore. The infrastructure plans are under revision. Why is also not disclosed."
+
+[kopparhytta_mining_guild]
+name = "Kopparhytta Mining Guild"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "deep_rock_extraction"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 542"
+headquarters_settlement = "Kopparhytta"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["metallic_ore"]
+secondary_commodities = ["rare_minerals"]
+branded_products = ["Kopparhytta Guild Grade", "KMG Deep Seam Certificate", "Craftworthy Standard Ore"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Craftworthy extraction at the deep west's most mineral-rich system. Geological projections are held proprietary because the deposit projections are the business's primary asset."
+character = "Craftworthy, secretive about projections. Kopparhytta Mining Guild has worked these deposits for centuries. How much remains is information it is not sharing."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# ENERGY AND WATER
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[rodvik_geothermal_works]
+name = "Rødvik Geothermal Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "frontier_ice_mining"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 581"
+headquarters_settlement = "Rødvik"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["water"]
+secondary_commodities = ["chemical_feedstock", "fusion_fuel"]
+branded_products = ["Rødvik Geothermal Water Standard", "RGW Compact Fuel Feedstock", "Outer West Energy Supply Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Geothermally reliable energy and water supply for the outer west corridor, until someone actually investigates the deep geology. The reliability is real; the duration is uncertain."
+character = "Confident about its output, less confident about its projection models. Rødvik Geothermal Works delivers consistently. How long this will continue is a matter on which it declines to speculate."
+
+[kapteyn_ice_cooperative]
+name = "Kapteyn Ice Cooperative"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "frontier_ice_mining"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 191"
+headquarters_settlement = "Kapteyn's Star"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["water"]
+secondary_commodities = ["fusion_fuel"]
+branded_products = ["Kapteyn Ice Standard", "Inner West Ice Extract", "Free Fuel Feedstock Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The inner west's fusion fuel feedstock supply, running ice and Oort-capture extraction from Kapteyn's Star's outer system as a cooperative resource for the corridor's energy needs. The M0V primary's outer formation is cold and ice-rich; the cooperative has worked these bodies since Wave 4 settlement."
+character = "Energetic in the most literal sense — provides the energy supply. Keep your helmet on."
+
+[grunfeld_self_supply]
+name = "Grünfeld Self-Supply"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "distribution_clearing_hub"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 1"
+headquarters_settlement = "Grünfeld"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["consumer_goods"]
+secondary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce", "processed_food"]
+branded_products = ["Grünfeld Self-Supply Standard Pack", "GSS Internal Distribution Certificate", "Compact Self-Reliance Bundle"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Self-sufficient, defining 'self' carefully. The cooperative clearing and distribution operation that keeps Grünfeld genuinely independent of Assembly supply chains."
+character = "Self-sufficient to the point of institutional identity. Grünfeld Self-Supply does not want external supply chains. It has designed itself around not needing them. This is the Compact framing in its most literal form."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# AGRICULTURE AND FOOD (COMPACT)
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[sonnwend_grain_collective]
+name = "Sonnwend Grain Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "industrial_staple_farming"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 320"
+headquarters_settlement = "Sonnwend"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["processed_food"]
+branded_products = ["Sonnwend Reserve Grain", "Compact Breadbasket Standard", "SGC Deep West Staple"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The Compact's breadbasket, organized as a grain cooperative because that is what the west reach does with food production. Reserves compensate for corridor price volatility."
+character = "Self-sufficient, organized, aware that its agricultural output makes it strategically important to the Compact. The Collective does not advertise this. It holds the reserves."
+
+[groenland_export_cooperative]
+name = "Groenland Export Cooperative"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "industrial_staple_farming"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3333"
+headquarters_settlement = "Groenland"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["processed_food"]
+branded_products = ["Groenland Export Grade Grain", "GEC Compact Agricultural Standard", "Pragmatic Member Supply Certificate"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The Compact's pragmatic agricultural export operation — the specific economic entity that made Compact membership arithmetically attractive for Groenland."
+character = "Self-sufficient, planning for others' emergencies. Groenland Export Cooperative knows it joined the Compact for trade economics. It is comfortable with this. The grain keeps the option open."
+
+[traagwater_organic_collective]
+name = "Traagwater Organic Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "industrial_staple_farming"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 370"
+headquarters_settlement = "Traagwater"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["organic_compounds"]
+branded_products = ["Traagwater Slow Standard", "TOC Organic Collective Pack", "Provisionally Complete Harvest"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Unhurried agricultural production in a system that has been establishing itself provisionally for long enough that 'provisional' has become an identity."
+character = "Unhurried, not yet finished. Traagwater Organic Collective grows food at a pace consistent with its governance model. The governance model is also not yet finished."
+
+[halvoy_aquaculture_cooperative]
+name = "Halvøy Aquaculture Cooperative"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "deep_ocean_fishery"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 624"
+headquarters_settlement = "Halvøy"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["agricultural_produce"]
+secondary_commodities = ["processed_food", "organic_compounds"]
+branded_products = ["Halvøy Sea Harvest Standard", "HAC Deep Shelf Produce", "Halvøy Ocean Select"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Halvøy thrives on its shallow productive seas. The Aquaculture Cooperative manages the fish farming and processing operations that make Halvøy genuinely self-sufficient."
+character = "Content in a way that surprises outsiders. Halvøy Aquaculture Cooperative does not need to be discovered. It is fine. The seas produce. The cooperative manages. This is enough."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# CONSTRUCTION AND HOSPITALITY
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[steinfeld_construction_works]
+name = "Steinfeld Construction Works"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "station_module_constructor"
+behavioral_archetype = "producer"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 454"
+headquarters_settlement = "Steinfeld"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["habitat_modules"]
+secondary_commodities = ["structural_panels"]
+branded_products = ["Steinfeld Compact Module", "SCW Stable Structure Standard", "Deep West Habitat Section"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Stable, some geography still unaccounted for. Station and surface construction for the deep west, using local extraction and western corridor supply chains."
+character = "Stable in the way that things built properly are stable. Steinfeld Construction Works does not cut corners. Some of its geography is indeed unaccounted for. This is a surveying problem, not a quality problem."
+
+[nyrheim_builders_collective]
+name = "Nyrheim Builders Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "station_module_constructor"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 3737"
+headquarters_settlement = "Nyrheim"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["habitat_modules"]
+secondary_commodities = ["structural_panels"]
+branded_products = ["Nyrheim Compact Build Standard", "NBC Principled Construction Certificate", "Under-Construction Habitat Unit"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Principled construction for a system still under construction, in both the literal and governance senses. The Collective holds Compact values and builds things to Compact specifications."
+character = "Principled about everything, including construction standards. Nyrheim Builders Collective uses Compact technical specifications, not Commission standards. The buildings are structurally sound. The specifications debate is ongoing."
+
+[lichtung_arts_collective]
+name = "Lichtung Arts Collective"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "destination_hospitality_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 356A"
+headquarters_settlement = "Lichtung"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["tourism"]
+secondary_commodities = ["entertainment", "hospitality"]
+branded_products = ["Lichtung F-Type Experience", "LAC Chromatic Arts Program", "Lichtung Residency"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "The Reach's only F-type arts colony in the west corridor. Managing the chromatic environment and cultural experience operations that Lichtung's unusual stellar spectrum enables."
+character = "Genuinely unusual, slightly resentful that the lawyers have arrived. Lichtung Arts Collective creates experiences that cannot be replicated in normal stellar light. The lawyers are discussing the IP."
+
+[brueckenau_hospitality_cooperative]
+name = "Brückenau Hospitality Cooperative"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "destination_hospitality_operator"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 798"
+headquarters_settlement = "Brückenau"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["hospitality"]
+secondary_commodities = ["tourism", "entertainment"]
+branded_products = ["Brückenau Farmhouse Stop", "BHC West Corridor Hospitality", "Talbreu-Adjacent Experience"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Worth stopping for, recent events unexplained. Franconian heritage hospitality in the deep west — farmhouse tradition, local products, the genuine west reach stop on the Compact's cultural circuit."
+character = "Worth stopping for. The hospitality is genuine, the food is from here, the lager is Talbreu-adjacent, and the recent events are not being discussed."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# INTELLIGENCE
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[seidramadr_analytics]
+name = "Seiðrmaðr Analytics"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "intelligence_network"
+behavioral_archetype = "specialist"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 809"
+headquarters_settlement = "Seiðrmaðr"
+currency_preference = "mark"
+bloc_affiliation = "compact"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+secondary_commodities = ["legal_services"]
+branded_products = ["Seiðrmaðr Deep Compact Analysis", "SDA West Reach Intelligence Brief", "Exceptional Analysis Service"]
+shadow_connections = true
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Exceptional in ways that are not publicly available. Commercial intelligence operation for the deep Compact zone, providing market analysis that the Commission's tools cannot generate."
+character = "Exceptional, opaque about method. Seiðrmaðr Analytics knows things. How it knows them is not available. Its analysis record is exceptional."
+
+[port_makela_marine_mutual]
+name = "Port Mäkelä Marine Mutual"
+tier = 2
+lore_archetype = "risk_underwriting_house"
+behavioral_archetype = "cooperative"
+corridor = "west_reach"
+headquarters_system = "GJ 229"
+headquarters_settlement = "Port Mäkelä"
+currency_preference = "mixed"
+bloc_affiliation = "independent"
+scope = "regional"
+primary_commodities = ["insurance"]
+secondary_commodities = ["financial_services"]
+branded_products = ["Port Mäkelä Marine Policy", "PMM West Freight Cover", "1953 Terms Insurance Standard"]
+shadow_connections = false
+gate_energy_dependent = false
+backstory = "Marine and freight insurance for the inner west corridor, running on terms set in 1953 (adjusted for Compact norms) because the original terms were good."
+character = "Convenient, traditional, unapologetically stable. Port Mäkelä Marine Mutual has the same rate schedule it has always had, adjusted for inflation, not complexity."

wiki/economics/currency_zones.toml

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+# ==========================================================================
+# Settled Reach — Currency Zone Assignments
+#
+# Source of truth for per-system currency zone flags (D-172).
+# Systems not listed default to TRACTUS_PRIMARY.
+# Sol (GJ 0) is set directly by the import pipeline (already MIXED).
+#
+# Zone flags:
+#   TRACTUS_PRIMARY  — Default. Assembly-compliant systems. Tractus is the
+#                      only accepted currency.
+#   MARK_PRIMARY     — Compact of Westphalia member systems. Mark is the
+#                      primary currency; Tractus accepted at punitive rates
+#                      (~3% conversion cost on cross-zone trade). Gate energy
+#                      defaults to gate_energy_connected = false (D-186).
+#   MIXED            — Compact-sympathetic systems at the transition zone
+#                      (west_reach hops 5-6). Both currencies accepted,
+#                      neither dominant. Formal Assembly compliance maintained
+#                      for pragmatic reasons (proximity to enforcement range).
+#
+# Assignment basis: political affiliation, NOT hop distance (D-172).
+# Hop distance correlates with Compact membership but is not the rule.
+#
+# Pipeline: tooling/economy-db/import_economics.py → set_currency_zones()
+# Server ticket: #805 (wires this file into the import function)
+#
+# Decisions: D-171 (three-currency system), D-172 (zone initialization),
+#            D-186 (gate energy off-grid default for MARK_PRIMARY zones)
+# Cross-ref:  wiki/factions/compact-of-westphalia.md
+# ==========================================================================
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# LORE NOTE: Freiholt system ID discrepancy
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The Compact wiki article (wiki/factions/compact-of-westphalia.md) lists
+# founding member "Freiholt (GJ 624)". This is an authoring error:
+# GJ 624 = Halvøy (aquaculture dead-end, hop 8).
+# GJ 453 = Freiholt (manufacturing junction, hop 7) — the correct system.
+# Freiholt's wiki page (wiki/star-systems/GJ-453/index.md) confirms it is
+# a Compact signatory. The Compact wiki article cross-reference link needs
+# correction (should point to GJ-453/, not GJ-624/).
+# GJ 624 (Halvøy) is still a Compact member but is not a founding system.
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+[meta]
+authored_by    = "Miri"
+sprint         = 33
+date           = "2026-04-07"
+decision_refs  = ["D-172", "D-171", "D-186"]
+total_mark_primary = 32
+total_mixed        = 14
+# Compact article states ~30-40 member systems; 32 MARK_PRIMARY is within range.
+# Count does not include Sol (GJ 0) which is MIXED for unrelated Earth-legacy reasons.
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MARK_PRIMARY — Compact of Westphalia formal signatories + frontier extensions
+# All west_reach systems at hop 7+. ~32 systems.
+# Basis: these systems are formal signatories to the mutual recognition
+# framework or are frontier extensions founded by Compact-culture settlers.
+# Internal Compact trade moves at zero conversion friction.
+# Gate energy defaults to off-grid (Compact energy sovereignty policy, D-186).
+# ==========================================================================
+
+# --- Hop 7 — Formal Compact territory (12 systems) -----------------------
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 103"
+proper_name = "Bestevaer"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+notes = "Dead-end system off the outer west corridor; formal Compact signatory."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 1232"
+proper_name = "Gammelstad"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+notes = "Through-route node; one of the longer-established outer corridor systems; governing body has century-long institutional continuity."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 208"
+proper_name = "Pereira's Rest"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+notes = "Dead-end system; Compact signatory."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 231"
+proper_name = "Thorvaldsen's Circuit"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "loop_member"
+notes = "Loop member in the outer west corridor; Compact signatory."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 320"
+proper_name = "Sonnwend"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "spur_end"
+notes = "Spur-end system; Compact signatory."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 356A"
+proper_name = "Lichtung"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+notes = "Dead-end system; Compact signatory."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 370"
+proper_name = "Traagwater"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+notes = "Dead-end system; Compact signatory."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 3737"
+proper_name = "Nyrheim"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "loop_member"
+notes = "Loop member; Compact signatory."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 453"
+proper_name = "Freiholt"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "junction"
+membership   = "formal_signatory"
+notes = "Compact signatory at the geographic center of the Compact zone. Manufacturing and extraction junction. Governor sits on the Compact rotating council. Founded as deliberate rejection of Assembly corporate absorption; founding principle of worker ownership and local sovereignty makes Compact alignment structural, not ideological. See lore note above re: wiki article ID discrepancy (GJ 453 is Freiholt, not GJ 624)."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 505A"
+proper_name = "Bergtor"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "spur_end"
+notes = "Spur-end system; Compact signatory."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 534"
+proper_name = "Stillvakt"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+notes = "Dead-end system; Compact signatory."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 635A"
+proper_name = "Stilmark"
+hop_distance = 7
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+notes = "Dead-end system; Compact signatory."
+
+# --- Hop 8 — Established Compact depth (8 systems) -----------------------
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 1248"
+proper_name = "Haltefenn"
+hop_distance = 8
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+notes = "Dead-end system; Compact member."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 302"
+proper_name = "Lichtbrücke"
+hop_distance = 8
+gate_topology = "spur_end"
+notes = "Spur-end system; Compact member."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 3333"
+proper_name = "Groenland"
+hop_distance = 8
+gate_topology = "spur_end"
+membership   = "formal_signatory"
+notes = "Named in Compact faction article as a pragmatic member — joined for trade economics, not ideology. Agricultural surplus became commercially viable via the Compact's mutual recognition framework. Exactly the kind of membership the Compact's economic infrastructure was designed to attract."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 414A"
+proper_name = "Vindkast"
+hop_distance = 8
+gate_topology = "loop_member"
+notes = "Loop member; Compact member."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 454"
+proper_name = "Steinfeld"
+hop_distance = 8
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+notes = "Dead-end system; Compact member."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 542"
+proper_name = "Kopparhytta"
+hop_distance = 8
+gate_topology = "loop_member"
+notes = "Loop member; Compact member."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 624"
+proper_name = "Halvøy"
+hop_distance = 8
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+notes = "Aquaculture world; Compact member. Not a founding system (Compact article erroneously assigns 'Freiholt (GJ 624)' — see lore note above; GJ 624 is Halvøy). Joined for trade access; content and self-sufficient community."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 798"
+proper_name = "Brückenau"
+hop_distance = 8
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+notes = "Through-route node; links Altmark corridor to Ostmark (GJ 601A). Compact member."
+
+# --- Hop 9 — Deep Compact (2 systems) ------------------------------------
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 601A"
+proper_name = "Ostmark"
+hop_distance = 9
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+membership   = "founding_signatory"
+notes = "Founding member of the Compact of Westphalia. Wave_1 system; five centuries of uninterrupted self-governance predating the current Assembly. Institutional anchor; founding-member standing on the rotating council. The Compact's original mutual recognition framework was co-drafted by Ostmark's representatives. Assembly authority has never been practically exercised here."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 775"
+proper_name = "Randsholm"
+hop_distance = 9
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+notes = "Through-route node beyond Ostmark; Compact member."
+
+# --- Hop 10 — Frontier extensions (2 systems) ----------------------------
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 3586"
+proper_name = "Eisfeld"
+hop_distance = 10
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+membership   = "frontier_extension"
+notes = "Frontier extension system. Adjacent to Ostmark (GJ 601A); settled by communities with Compact political culture internalized. Compact member by founding."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 395"
+proper_name = "Confluent"
+hop_distance = 10
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+membership   = "frontier_extension"
+notes = "Frontier extension system; Compact member by founding."
+
+# --- Hop 11 — Deep frontier (2 systems) ----------------------------------
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 615"
+proper_name = "Dunkelholz"
+hop_distance = 11
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+membership   = "frontier_extension"
+notes = "Deep frontier dead-end; Compact member by founding."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 771A"
+proper_name = "Alshain"
+hop_distance = 11
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+membership   = "frontier_extension"
+notes = "Deep frontier through-route; Compact member by founding."
+
+# --- Hop 12 — Deep frontier (1 system) -----------------------------------
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 4056"
+proper_name = "GJ 4056"
+hop_distance = 12
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+membership   = "frontier_extension"
+notes = "Deepest unnamed system in the west_reach; through-route node. Compact member by founding."
+
+# --- Hop 13+ — Furthest reaches (5 systems) ------------------------------
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 127B"
+proper_name = "Echternach"
+hop_distance = 13
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+membership   = "formal_signatory"
+notes = "Named in Compact faction article as a deep-corridor member with medical hardware import dependency. Participates in the Compact specifically because the mutual recognition framework is the most reliable channel for the medical hardware its isolated community depends on. Economically motivated membership with genuine institutional loyalty."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 42"
+proper_name = "Langemark"
+hop_distance = 14
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+membership   = "frontier_extension"
+notes = "Frontier extension; Compact member by founding or early accession."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 282A"
+proper_name = "Bout du Chemin"
+hop_distance = 15
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+membership   = "frontier_extension"
+notes = "Furthest corridor node; 'end of the road' by name. Compact member by founding. High shadow economy expected (D-174 frontier bands)."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 807"
+proper_name = "Grenzstein"
+hop_distance = 16
+gate_topology = "through_route"
+membership   = "frontier_extension"
+notes = "'Boundary stone' — near the outer limit of the settled corridor. Compact member by founding."
+
+[[mark_primary]]
+system_id   = "GJ 529"
+proper_name = "Yttermark"
+hop_distance = 17
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+membership   = "frontier_extension"
+notes = "Outermost dead-end in the west_reach corridor. Compact member by founding. Frontier premium on all imported goods is structural (D-187 fusion fuel cascade)."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# MIXED — Compact-sympathetic systems (west_reach hops 5-6)
+# 14 systems. Formal Assembly compliance maintained for pragmatic reasons.
+# Both Tractus and Mark accepted; neither dominates.
+# Shadow economy elevated relative to core (D-174 mid-reach bands).
+# These systems have NOT formally signed the mutual recognition framework
+# but politically align with Compact principles and benefit from its
+# trade arrangements.
+# ==========================================================================
+
+# --- Hop 5 — Inner transition zone (5 systems) ---------------------------
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 1116B"
+proper_name = "Kraków Junction"
+hop_distance = 5
+gate_topology = "junction"
+notes = "Junction node at the inner edge of the Compact-sympathetic zone. Mixed commercial traffic between Assembly-compliant inner corridor and Compact outer systems."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 229"
+proper_name = "Port Mäkelä"
+hop_distance = 5
+gate_topology = "spur_end"
+notes = "Spur-end system; Compact-sympathetic."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 506"
+proper_name = "Dokkum"
+hop_distance = 5
+gate_topology = "loop_member"
+notes = "Loop member; Compact-sympathetic."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 526"
+proper_name = "Neustadt"
+hop_distance = 5
+gate_topology = "loop_member"
+notes = "Loop member; Compact-sympathetic."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 832"
+proper_name = "Hansestadt"
+hop_distance = 5
+gate_topology = "hub"
+notes = "Major commercial hub (6-gate hub); seat of the Merchant Assembly (west_reach commercial body, distinct from the Concord Assembly). Compact-sympathetic but commercially invested in Assembly trade frameworks. Both currencies in active use due to high through-traffic volume from inner and outer corridor systems."
+
+# --- Hop 6 — Outer transition zone (9 systems) ---------------------------
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 150"
+proper_name = "Rana"
+hop_distance = 6
+gate_topology = "junction"
+notes = "Junction node; outer edge of the transition zone. Compact-sympathetic."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 3454"
+proper_name = "Eisentor"
+hop_distance = 6
+gate_topology = "junction"
+notes = "'Iron gate' — junction connecting inner and outer west_reach. Compact-sympathetic."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 357"
+proper_name = "Altmark"
+hop_distance = 6
+gate_topology = "hub"
+notes = "Five-gate hub; Assembly trade delegate is based here (Assembly's furthest permanent diplomatic outpost in the west_reach). Formally MIXED despite significant Assembly diplomatic and corporate presence. Silence note: Altmark's financial sector has been processing Compact-registered commercial instruments for ~15 years at higher volume than Assembly-registered instruments on outward routes. Commercially, it has already integrated. Politically, it maintains the appearance of balance. MVG maintains its largest outer west footprint here."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 442A"
+proper_name = "Torsby"
+hop_distance = 6
+gate_topology = "loop_member"
+notes = "Loop member; Compact-sympathetic."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 502"
+proper_name = "Meridian"
+hop_distance = 6
+gate_topology = "junction"
+notes = "Junction node; Compact-sympathetic. Connects Freiholt corridor toward Hansestadt."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 581"
+proper_name = "Rødvik"
+hop_distance = 6
+gate_topology = "loop_member"
+notes = "Loop member; Compact-sympathetic."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 631"
+proper_name = "Bakshi Spur"
+hop_distance = 6
+gate_topology = "spur_end"
+notes = "Spur-end system at hop 6; Compact-sympathetic despite non-Germanic name suggesting mixed heritage community."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 643"
+proper_name = "Marktfeld"
+hop_distance = 6
+gate_topology = "spur_end"
+notes = "Spur-end system; Compact-sympathetic."
+
+[[mixed]]
+system_id   = "GJ 809"
+proper_name = "Seiðrmaðr"
+hop_distance = 6
+gate_topology = "dead_end"
+notes = "Dead-end system; Compact-sympathetic. Norse-heritage name."
+
+
+# ==========================================================================
+# SOL — Special case (documentation only)
+# Already set directly by import pipeline: import_economics.py line 255.
+# Listed here for completeness and cross-reference.
+# ==========================================================================
+
+[sol]
+system_id    = "GJ 0"
+proper_name  = "Sol"
+zone         = "MIXED"
+set_by       = "import_pipeline_direct"
+notes = "Earth legacy system. MIXED because Sol-denominated currency (Sol) has residual presence here for Earth luxury trade and untraceable transactions. Not a Compact-affiliated system — Sol's MIXED status derives from Earth currency legacy, not Compact political alignment. Do not change in pipeline; already handled before this file is loaded."

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+# ==========================================================================
+# Settled Reach — Shadow Economy Seeding Parameters
+# Source of truth for shadow_economy_intensity initialization.
+# Compiled to systems.db via `make economy-db`.
+#
+# shadow_economy_intensity: float [0.0, 1.0]
+#   Measures the gap between formal (Commission-audited) and real economic
+#   activity at each node. This is NOT a crime index. A system with
+#   intensity 0.8 has roughly 20% of its economy visible to the Assembly
+#   lattice audit trail — not because 80% is criminal, but because 80%
+#   is conducted through channels the Commission does not count.
+#
+# The official_coverage_ratio signal (D-181 signal 7) derives directly
+# from this initialization parameter:
+#   official_coverage_ratio ≈ 1.0 - shadow_economy_intensity
+# A system with intensity 0.7 → official_coverage_ratio ≈ 0.3, meaning
+# the Commission's economic picture understates reality by roughly 3×.
+#
+# Seeding algorithm:
+#   1. Look up geographic band by hop_distance_from_gateway
+#   2. Sample uniformly within [band.intensity_min, band.intensity_max]
+#   3. Apply active modifiers (additive, order-independent)
+#   4. Clamp result to [0.0, 1.0]
+#   5. Apply system_override if present (replaces formula result entirely)
+#
+# Sol (the currency) is the shadow medium of exchange — untraceable,
+# no issuer to cooperate with enforcement, no lattice audit trail.
+# Sol is NOT a currency zone; it is modeled as a shadow commodity (D-171).
+# Shadow_economy_intensity controls how active the Sol shadow layer is:
+# higher intensity → higher Sol black-market premium above Tractus par.
+#
+# Contraband types (canonical, from D-174):
+#   - Unlicensed lattice components (D-037)
+#   - Sol-denominated luxury goods (Earth imports)
+#   - Unregistered commercial intelligence
+#   - Unlicensed re-embodiment
+#
+# Decisions: D-174 (shadow economy layer), D-171 (Sol as shadow commodity),
+#            D-172 (Compact currency friction → structural driver),
+#            D-181 (official_coverage_ratio signal)
+# Authors: Paula (narrative framing), Miri (geographic distribution),
+#          Mellanie (file structure and prose)
+# ==========================================================================
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# THE COMPACT FRAMING — READ THIS BEFORE MODIFYING (D-174)
+#
+# The Compact of Westphalia's shadow economy is PRINCIPLED ECONOMIC
+# RESISTANCE to Assembly currency friction on enforcement costs.
+# It is NOT frontier lawlessness. This distinction is architecturally
+# critical for NPC dialogue, faction reactions, and the inspect verb.
+#
+# WHY THE COMPACT HAS HIGH INTENSITY:
+#
+# Commission certification fees and enforcement assessments are
+# Tractus-denominated. Compact systems operating in the Mark zone pay
+# these costs at the ~3% cross-zone conversion rate (D-172). Over time,
+# rational actors in Compact systems structure their transactions to avoid
+# Commission audit requirements: Mark-denominated domestic trade, supply
+# chains routed through Compact customs arrangements, Sol for cross-zone
+# transactions that benefit from anonymity. None of this is criminal.
+# It is economically rational behavior in a zone where Commission authority
+# is both politically contested and economically punitive.
+#
+# Intensity in Compact systems reflects the GAP IN THE ASSEMBLY'S
+# ACCOUNTING, not the behavior of the people. A Compact system at
+# intensity 0.75 is not more criminal than an inner system at 0.1 —
+# its economy is simply less legible to the Commission because its
+# residents have decided, as a matter of political principle, not to
+# organize their commerce around Assembly certification requirements.
+#
+# CONTRAST — WHY FRONTIER SYSTEMS HAVE HIGH INTENSITY:
+#
+# Frontier systems (hop 10+) have high intensity for structurally
+# different reasons: genuine Commission absence, sparse enforcement,
+# actual contraband networks, unlicensed re-embodiment operations, Sol
+# black markets filling gaps in formal medical and technical supply.
+# The frontier shadow economy is a CAPACITY GAP (the Commission cannot
+# physically reach here), not a deliberate choice to operate outside it.
+#
+# WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE INVESTIGATE VERB (Phase 3):
+#
+# An investigator who treats Compact opacity as criminality will lose
+# trust rapidly and find closed doors. The Compact's "shadow" economy
+# is visible to anyone who operates within Compact commercial frameworks —
+# it is only opaque to the Commission's audit tools. Gaining access to
+# a Compact system's real economic picture requires building relationships
+# within the Compact network, not finding criminal informants.
+#
+# An investigator who treats frontier opacity as principled politics will
+# miss actual criminal networks operating in the enforcement vacuum. The
+# frontier's shadow economy includes actors who are genuinely dangerous
+# and genuinely hidden. Finding them requires different tools than finding
+# Compact commerce.
+#
+# The inspect verb should reflect this distinction. Framing it as a
+# binary "formal/informal" misses the politics. The right question is:
+# "Informal by whose accounting? Principled non-compliance or operational
+# concealment?"
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# GEOGRAPHIC BASE RANGES
+#
+# Applied by hop_distance_from_gateway (system_gates.hop_distance_from_gateway).
+# The import pipeline samples uniformly within [intensity_min, intensity_max]
+# to produce the base value before modifiers.
+#
+# Miri: geographic distribution of specific systems within these bands,
+# and whether any band boundaries need adjusting based on actual system map.
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[bands.core]
+hop_range = [0, 2]
+intensity_min = 0.00
+intensity_max = 0.20
+note = """
+Gateway and immediate core systems. Commission enforcement capacity is at maximum density;
+lattice audit coverage is comprehensive. Formal-channel compliance is the economically
+rational choice here — certification costs are low, enforcement risk is high, and formal
+alternatives exist for nearly every transaction category.
+
+Sol black market exists (Earth luxury goods have always moved through informal channels)
+but is thin relative to the formal economy. Prosecution risk and the ready availability
+of certified alternatives keep the shadow layer suppressed. The gap between official and
+real economic activity is narrow enough that Commission economic statistics are largely
+reliable at this range.
+"""
+
+[bands.inner_reach]
+hop_range = [3, 4]
+intensity_min = 0.10
+intensity_max = 0.35
+note = """
+Established inner corridor. Commission presence is significant but geographically uneven —
+major trade nodes are well-covered; secondary systems increasingly rely on periodic
+enforcement visits rather than resident Commission staff. Shadow market exists and is
+commercially viable for contraband and Commission-contested goods, but formal-channel
+alternatives are still competitive for most transaction categories.
+
+Tractus is hegemonic in this band; Mark is accepted at a premium in systems with
+west_reach trade relationships. Sol circulates for high-end Earth imports and as a
+prestige payment mechanism for services that benefit from untraceability.
+"""
+
+[bands.mid_reach]
+hop_range = [5, 6]
+intensity_min = 0.30
+intensity_max = 0.55
+note = """
+Commission enforcement becomes increasingly expensive and selective at this range.
+Resident Commission staff is rare; enforcement relies on periodic inspection of
+high-volume transit nodes with secondary systems going largely unchecked.
+
+MIXED currency zone begins here (sympathetic Compact systems at hops 5–6, per D-172).
+Shadow market for luxury goods, unlicensed services, and Sol-denominated transactions
+is commercially viable and commonly used. In Compact-sympathetic systems, informal
+commerce is beginning to reflect principled non-compliance rather than purely
+opportunistic avoidance.
+
+Miri: identify specific systems in this band for Compact-sympathetic classification
+and apply the compact_membership modifier accordingly.
+"""
+
+[bands.outer_reach]
+hop_range = [7, 9]
+intensity_min = 0.45
+intensity_max = 0.70
+note = """
+Commission presence is minimal. Assembly observation thins sharply at this range —
+the furthest sustained Commission post (Altmark, GJ 357) sits at mid_reach (hop 6),
+one band inward. In outer_reach systems, enforcement is intermittent and practically symbolic.
+
+Compact member systems dominate this band. Mark-denominated commerce is the norm;
+Tractus is accepted but priced at a premium that reflects currency friction and
+political signaling. The base band intensity (0.45–0.70) reflects the structural
+enforcement gap; Compact membership raises this further via modifier (see below).
+
+IMPORTANT: High intensity in this band does not indicate elevated criminality relative
+to inner systems. It reflects that Compact-internal trade is not Commission-audited
+and that the Commission's tools for measuring economic activity do not reach this deep.
+The economy is real, organized, and commercially sophisticated — it is simply operating
+under different governance than the Assembly recognizes.
+
+Miri: flag systems in this band that are NOT Compact members (Assembly-compliant
+outer systems) — they should not receive the compact_membership modifier.
+"""
+
+[bands.deep_frontier]
+hop_range = [10, 99]
+intensity_min = 0.60
+intensity_max = 0.90
+note = """
+Commission authority is theoretical at this range. Enforcement capacity does not
+exist in any meaningful sense — the cost of projecting enforcement to hop 10+
+exceeds any plausible revenue from compliance enforcement.
+
+High intensity at this range reflects two overlapping realities that must be
+distinguished in NPC generation and dialogue:
+
+1. PRINCIPLED NON-COMPLIANCE: Systems founded by settlers from Compact member
+   communities carry the Compact's political culture from founding. Their informal
+   commerce is structurally similar to outer_reach Compact systems — organized,
+   Mark-denominated, non-violent, operating through well-established commercial
+   relationships. The Compact framing applies here.
+
+2. ENFORCEMENT VACUUM: Where Compact culture has not taken root, the enforcement
+   vacuum is filled by actors who are genuinely operating outside any recognized
+   governance framework. Unlicensed re-embodiment operations, unregistered
+   commercial intelligence networks, Sol black markets in contraband, unlicensed
+   lattice component trade — these are the canonical contraband categories and
+   they are real at this depth.
+
+The investigator must determine which reality is present in a given system.
+Both can coexist. A deep frontier system may have principled Compact commerce
+in one economic sector and genuine contraband networks in another.
+"""
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# SEEDING MODIFIERS
+#
+# Additive adjustments applied to the sampled band base. Multiple modifiers
+# can apply simultaneously. Final value is clamped to [0.0, 1.0].
+#
+# Modifier sources (system_factions table fields):
+#   compact_membership:  currency_zone = 'MARK_PRIMARY' (per D-172)
+#   commission_strong:   commission_presence = 'strong'
+#   commission_moderate: commission_presence = 'moderate'
+#   commission_absent:   commission_presence IS NULL or 'none'
+#   gate_dead_end:       system_gates.gate_topology = 'dead_end'
+#   gate_transit_hub:    system_gates.gate_connections >= 3
+#
+# Server team (#808): implement modifier lookup from these fields.
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[modifiers.compact_membership]
+delta = 0.15
+cap = 0.90
+field = "currency_zone"
+field_value = "MARK_PRIMARY"
+note = """
+Compact membership elevates intensity independently of hop distance. A hop-6
+Compact system is elevated above a hop-6 non-Compact system. A hop-4
+Compact-sympathetic system (MIXED zone) shows moderate elevation even though
+the Commission is physically present.
+
+This captures the structural currency friction: Commission certification costs
+trigger Tractus-to-Mark conversion at ~3% overhead per transaction, making
+informal-channel transactions economically rational even for actors who have
+no objection to formal compliance in principle. Over time, informal channels
+become entrenched not through choice but through accumulated economic logic.
+
+The cap of 0.90 prevents Compact membership alone from pushing intensity to
+maximum — even the most committed Compact systems maintain some formal-channel
+commerce, particularly for intra-Compact transactions that benefit from the
+Compact's own customs infrastructure.
+
+Narrative: Compact intensity is PRINCIPLED. Do not conflate with criminality.
+"""
+
+[modifiers.commission_strong]
+delta = -0.20
+floor = 0.05
+field = "commission_presence"
+field_value = "strong"
+note = """
+Strong Commission presence suppresses the shadow economy. Enforcement risk rises;
+formal-channel compliance becomes competitive because informal operators face active
+prosecution. Certification costs are worth paying when the alternative is Commission
+scrutiny.
+
+The floor of 0.05 acknowledges that no system is fully opaque to informal commerce.
+Sol-denominated transactions for premium Earth goods persist even under heavy
+enforcement — the demand for untraceability at the high end of the market does not
+disappear when enforcement intensifies, it just becomes more expensive and discrete.
+"""
+
+[modifiers.commission_moderate]
+delta = -0.10
+floor = 0.05
+field = "commission_presence"
+field_value = "moderate"
+note = """
+Moderate Commission presence. Selective enforcement: high-value contraband is
+prosecuted; low-level informal commerce is tolerated or ignored. Typical for
+mid-corridor systems where the Commission maintains a registered office and
+resident staff but lacks the capacity to audit routine commercial activity.
+
+The shadow economy is commercially viable but carries some risk premium —
+informal operators price enforcement exposure into their margins.
+"""
+
+[modifiers.commission_absent]
+delta = 0.10
+floor = 0.0
+field = "commission_presence"
+field_value = "none"
+note = """
+No Commission presence. Formal certification is not locally available, which means
+it is not economically accessible even for actors who would prefer it. Elevates
+intensity because some actors shift to informal channels by necessity, not choice.
+
+Note: commission_absent does NOT imply that the system is lawless. In Compact
+systems, the absence of Commission presence reflects the Compact's own governance
+filling the regulatory function. In frontier systems, the absence may be genuine
+governance vacuum. The modifier value is identical; the narrative interpretation
+differs depending on political context.
+"""
+
+[modifiers.gate_dead_end]
+delta = 0.10
+floor = 0.0
+field = "gate_topology"
+field_value = "dead_end"
+note = """
+Dead-end gate topology (single outbound connection). Low transit volume means fewer
+Commission inspection opportunities and reduced economic incentive for formal-channel
+compliance. Smuggling routes are well-established in dead-end systems — a gate with
+one connection is easier to predict, easier to avoid, and once controlled, provides
+a reliable informal transit corridor.
+
+Dead-end systems also tend toward economic captivity: their single gate makes them
+dependent on the transit node that gate connects to, and that dependency creates
+commercial relationships that may be structured informally regardless of political
+disposition.
+"""
+
+[modifiers.gate_transit_hub]
+delta = -0.05
+floor = 0.0
+field = "gate_connections"
+field_comparison = ">="
+field_value = 3
+note = """
+Multi-connection transit hub. High freight volume attracts Commission inspection
+infrastructure; formal-channel compliance has commercial value (faster clearance,
+bonded carrier status, access to Commission-certified logistics networks).
+
+Partial suppression only — major transit hubs also attract contraband passing
+through en route to secondary systems. The hub's formal economy is more competitive,
+but the volume of traffic means that informal operators have more cover. Net effect
+is modest suppression compared to the stronger commission_presence modifiers.
+"""
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# EFFECTS REFERENCE
+#
+# How shadow_economy_intensity affects simulation parameters at runtime.
+# These are read by the economics simulation; not authored here, just
+# documented for cross-reference.
+#
+# intensity_band   sol_premium   contraband_discount   formal_service_quality
+# 0.0 – 0.2        none          none                  high
+# 0.2 – 0.4        +5–15%        5–10% below cert.     moderate
+# 0.4 – 0.6        +15–30%       10–20% below cert.    moderate-low
+# 0.6 – 0.8        +30–60%       20–35% below cert.    low
+# 0.8 – 1.0        +60–120%+     35–50% below cert.    degraded
+#
+# sol_premium: Sol black-market price above Tractus par (Sol scarcity)
+# contraband_discount: informal-channel price vs. Commission-certified price
+# formal_service_quality: Commission-certified service availability and
+#   reliability (lower = queues, delays, unofficial fees demanded)
+#
+# Server team (#808): these are guidelines for the behavioral layer, not
+# simulation parameters. Actual calibration belongs in the sim binary.
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# SYSTEM-SPECIFIC OVERRIDES
+#
+# These take precedence over the band + modifier formula. Used for named
+# systems with historically exceptional shadow economy conditions that
+# the general formula would not capture correctly.
+#
+# Required fields per override:
+#   intensity  float [0.0, 1.0] — replaces formula output
+#   rationale  string — required; import pipeline rejects undocumented overrides
+#
+# Miri: add additional Compact member systems with exceptional conditions.
+# Miri: cross-reference against compact-of-westphalia.md and individual
+#   system pages for systems that may warrant override treatment.
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[system_overrides."GJ 0"]
+# Sol — Earth system, hop 0
+intensity = 0.40
+rationale = """
+Sol is the origin point of the currency that underpins the shadow economy — Sol-the-
+currency was Earth's before the Reach existed. But it is also the most heavily
+regulated system in the Reach. Assembly authority is at maximum density; the
+Commission's enforcement apparatus is headquartered here; arrival screening and
+commercial monitoring are comprehensive.
+
+The elevated intensity (above core band maximum of 0.20) reflects Sol's structural
+role as the entrepôt for two shadow economy flows: (1) premium Earth goods
+entering the Reach as Sol-denominated imports — wines, foods, artisan goods that
+the producer community never routes through Commission certification because Sol
+buyers specifically value the chain-of-custody opacity; (2) Reach luxury exports
+moving to Sol buyers through informal channels that preserve seller anonymity and
+avoid Tractus conversion.
+
+This is a sophisticated shadow economy, not a disorganized one. The actors are
+experienced, the routes are well-established, and the transactions are deliberately
+structured to avoid Commission visibility. Sol's informal commercial sector is more
+legally complex and commercially advanced than any frontier shadow economy —
+it simply has the resources to operate discretely rather than visibly.
+"""
+
+[system_overrides."GJ 357"]
+# Altmark — Assembly trade delegate post, hop 6, mid_reach/Compact border
+intensity = 0.48
+rationale = """
+Altmark hosts the Assembly's permanent trade delegate — the furthest sustained
+Commission presence in the west_reach corridor. Its intensity is above the
+mid_reach band midpoint (0.30–0.55 = midpoint ~0.42) because Altmark sits at
+the edge of the Compact zone: outbound freight heading deeper into Compact space
+passes through here, and a meaningful fraction of that commerce enters Compact
+customs arrangements that Commission audit cannot follow.
+
+The delegate's presence introduces informal scrutiny that suppresses the most
+visible informal commerce. Operators in Altmark understand that the Commission
+watches here; high-profile informal commerce that would be unremarkable in a
+deeper system draws attention in Altmark.
+
+However, Altmark is not truly an Assembly-compliant system. It is the border.
+Both currencies circulate in daily commerce. Both sets of customs rules are
+applied negotiably. The shadow economy is real but structured: informal-channel
+operators have adapted to the delegate's presence, which means Altmark's shadow
+economy is more disciplined and harder to observe than a typical hop-6 system —
+but it is not suppressed. What you will find at Altmark is not absence of informal
+commerce but absence of visible informal commerce.
+
+The Assembly delegate files commercial intelligence reports after every visit to
+Compact systems. Operators in Altmark know this and factor it into their behavior.
+"""
+
+[system_overrides."GJ 601A"]
+# Ostmark — Compact of Westphalia founding member, institutional anchor, hop 9
+intensity = 0.75
+rationale = """
+Ostmark is the institutional anchor of the Compact of Westphalia — a wave_1
+settlement with five centuries of self-governance history, the founding signatory
+whose representatives helped draft the mutual recognition framework sixty years ago.
+Its intensity of 0.75 is the canonical expression of the PRINCIPLED framing.
+
+Ostmark's commercial relationships are conducted almost entirely through Compact
+customs arrangements. Its transactions are Mark-denominated as a matter of cultural
+identity, not merely economic calculation. Its supply chains run through the
+Compact's internal trade network. The Commission audit trail does not reach
+Ostmark by deliberate political design — not because Ostmark lacks the
+organizational capacity to interface with Commission frameworks, but because
+Ostmark's governance has formally refused to recognize Commission authority over
+its internal economic affairs.
+
+The official_coverage_ratio at Ostmark (≈ 0.25 — roughly 25% of economic activity
+Commission-visible) reflects the institutional depth of Compact non-compliance here:
+even transactions that could be Commission-certified (export commodities that inner
+corridor buyers might want certified) are routed through Compact channels that avoid
+that certification because the certification requirement itself is considered an
+illegitimate imposition.
+
+An investigator arriving at Ostmark to investigate "informal commerce" will find that
+the informal sector IS the economy. There is no smaller shadow sector sitting outside
+the main economy — the relationship is inverted. The Commission-visible portion is
+the thin exception; the Compact-organized economy is the full picture.
+"""
+
+[system_overrides."GJ 453"]
+# Freiholt — Compact founding member (GJ 453, hop 7, west_reach)
+# Note: GJ 624 = Halvøy (aquaculture world) — do not conflate.
+intensity = 0.72
+rationale = """
+Founding Compact member with strong self-governance heritage. The principled
+framing applies fully — Freiholt's high intensity reflects organized Compact
+commerce, not criminal activity.
+
+Marginally lower than Ostmark (0.72 vs 0.75) because Freiholt maintains more
+active commercial traffic with MIXED-zone systems at hops 5–6, introducing a
+degree of formal-channel compliance for those cross-zone transactions. Where
+Ostmark has structurally withdrawn from Commission-adjacent commerce, Freiholt
+maintains selective formal compliance at the border of its commercial relationships
+as a pragmatic accommodation to inner corridor buyers who require certification.
+This creates a visible dual structure: a fully informal internal economy and a
+thin formal-channel interface for outbound trade.
+"""
+
+[system_overrides."GJ 3333"]
+# Groenland — pragmatic Compact member, joined for trade economics
+intensity = 0.62
+rationale = """
+Groenland signed the Compact for economic access, not ideological commitment. Its
+agricultural surplus became commercially viable when Compact customs arrangements
+reduced import costs enough to make long-haul transport economical. The membership
+was arithmetic, and the economic behavior reflects that.
+
+Groenland actors operate a mixed strategy: formal Commission channels when selling
+to inner corridor buyers who require certification (the agricultural surplus exports
+better with quality certification in Tractus-zone markets), and Compact informal
+channels for domestic and intra-Compact commerce. This mixed strategy produces lower
+intensity than founding Compact members — the formal-channel interface is genuinely
+used, not performatively maintained.
+
+The intensity gap between Groenland (0.62) and Ostmark (0.75) is the mechanical
+representation of the Compact's internal tension: founding members who signed for
+principle versus new members who signed for commercial access. That tension has
+governance implications (newer members push for institutional development; founding
+members resist accretion) and economic implications (members with active formal-
+channel commercial relationships have incentives to maintain Commission-compatible
+practices that founding members do not share).
+"""
+
+[system_overrides."GJ 127B"]
+# Echternach — deep-corridor member with medical supply dependency
+intensity = 0.82
+rationale = """
+Echternach presents a more complex picture than other Compact systems. Its high
+intensity (above the founding-member range) reflects a combination of principled
+Compact commerce AND genuine contraband in the medical sector.
+
+The community depends on medical hardware imports that carry Commission certification
+requirements. At Echternach's depth, certified medical hardware is expensive, often
+delayed by months, and subject to Commission allocation priorities that may not
+match community needs. Unlicensed re-embodiment facilities and unregistered medical
+devices fill this gap. The community does not consider this criminal — the Commission-
+certified alternatives are economically and logistically inaccessible. But from the
+Commission's perspective, this is canonical contraband (unlicensed re-embodiment is
+explicitly listed in D-174's contraband catalog).
+
+The investigator will encounter both realities in the same economic space: the bulk
+of Echternach's commerce follows the principled Compact framing (Mark-denominated,
+Compact-channel, non-violent, politically organized); the medical sector operates
+in a genuine enforcement vacuum with actors who are doing things the Commission
+classifies as criminal and the community classifies as necessary.
+
+This makes Echternach a useful case study for the inspect verb: the same high
+official_coverage_ratio (≈ 0.18) describes two structurally different informal
+sectors. Understanding which is which requires qualitative investigation, not just
+intensity metrics.
+"""
+
+# --- MIRI GEOGRAPHIC ADDENDUM ---
+# Addresses outstanding questions from band notes above.
+# Cross-reference: wiki/economics/currency_zones.toml (Miri, Sprint 33)
+
+# OUTER_REACH BAND QUERY (hop 7-9, "flag non-Compact outer systems"):
+# Answer: there are NONE. All 22 west_reach systems at hops 7-9 are Compact
+# formal signatories per currency_zones.toml. The outer_reach band formula
+# reliably represents Compact territory for this corridor. Systems in other
+# sectors (east_reach, south_reach) at comparable hops are TRACTUS_PRIMARY
+# and receive a lower base before modifiers.
+#
+# MID_REACH BAND QUERY (hop 5-6, "identify Compact-sympathetic systems"):
+# All 14 west_reach systems at hops 5-6 are MIXED zone (Compact-sympathetic).
+# See currency_zones.toml [[mixed]] table for full list.
+# The compact_membership modifier applies to MARK_PRIMARY zone only (not MIXED).
+# MIXED-zone systems at hop 5-6 do NOT get the +0.15 modifier; their elevated
+# intensity relative to inner-reach systems is captured by the band range itself
+# (0.30-0.55 vs. 0.10-0.35 for inner_reach).
+
+[system_overrides."GJ 832"]
+# Hansestadt — Merchant Assembly hub, west_reach, hop 5, MIXED zone
+intensity = 0.38
+rationale = """
+Hansestadt is the commercial center of the west_reach corridor and the seat of
+the Merchant Assembly — a west_reach commercial governance body that is distinct
+from and coordinates with (but is not subordinate to) the Concord Assembly.
+Its five gates make it the busiest transit node between inner corridor and
+Compact territory.
+
+The intensity of 0.38 is above the inner_reach band and at the lower edge of
+the mid_reach band. Both currencies are in routine use; the formal economy is
+sophisticated and commercially dominant. However, the volume of Compact-direction
+freight (moving outward through Altmark toward Freiholt and beyond) means that
+a substantial fraction of goods passing through Hansestadt are in the process of
+entering the Compact zone, where they will disappear from Commission audit
+visibility. The gap between goods entering Hansestadt from inward and goods
+reported as delivered to Compact-zone recipients is structurally permanent.
+
+This is not criminal in Hansestadt — goods are properly manifested to the point
+they cross into Compact customs territory, at which point manifesting ceases. The
+informal layer at Hansestadt is commercial transit, not commercial origin. The
+Sol premium here is modest (Earth goods available through established import
+merchants); contraband shadow pricing exists but is not the dominant commercial
+story. Hansestadt's shadow economy is volume-driven, not intensity-driven.
+
+The Merchant Assembly's governance role creates formal commercial frameworks that
+can accommodate both currency zones without requiring informal channels for most
+transaction categories. This keeps intensity below what raw hop distance and
+transit volume would otherwise suggest.
+"""
+
+[system_overrides."GJ 529"]
+# Yttermark — outermost dead-end in west_reach, hop 17, MARK_PRIMARY
+intensity = 0.91
+rationale = """
+Yttermark is the outermost settled system in the west_reach corridor — a dead-end
+at hop 17, where the name (Swedish: 'outermost boundary') describes the lived
+reality. Commission authority is not theoretical here; it does not exist as a
+meaningful concept. There is no periodic enforcement. There is no Commission
+inspector. There is no certified supply chain for most transaction categories.
+
+The intensity of 0.91 reflects the operational reality: formal-channel commerce
+requires infrastructure that Yttermark does not have and cannot obtain at
+commercially viable costs. This is the extreme of the frontier enforcement vacuum.
+
+The PRINCIPLED framing still applies — Yttermark was founded from Compact-culture
+communities and its self-governance is organized and stable, not anarchic. The
+high intensity does not indicate disorder; it indicates comprehensive Commission
+invisibility. The official_coverage_ratio at Yttermark (≈ 0.09) means the
+Commission's economic picture of the system is built almost entirely on what the
+two gates transmit in transit manifests. Everything else — all local commerce,
+all service provision, all production and consumption at the single inhabited body
+— is invisible to the Assembly.
+
+The intensity cap of 0.90 from the compact_membership modifier is exceeded here
+by the accumulation of enforcement vacuum and dead-end topology effects, plus
+the base deep_frontier range. Pipeline: clamp to 1.0 if formula exceeds it.
+"""
+
+[system_overrides."GJ 807"]
+# Grenzstein — 'Boundary stone', west_reach, hop 16, MARK_PRIMARY
+intensity = 0.88
+rationale = """
+Near-identical conditions to Yttermark. Grenzstein sits one hop inward from the
+outermost settled node and shares the structural characteristics of the far
+frontier: no Commission presence, no certified supply alternatives, Compact-culture
+self-governance, and through-route topology connecting to Yttermark.
+
+The through_route topology provides one degree of differentiation — Grenzstein is
+not a dead-end, which means slightly higher transit volume and slightly more
+commercial interaction with systems inward. Through-routes create informal customs
+functions (goods pass through, some transit commerce develops) that partially
+substitute for formal Commission infrastructure. This keeps intensity marginally
+below the dead-end Yttermark, but the conditions are structurally equivalent.
+
+The name is deliberate and ironic — the community at the boundary stone is not
+at a boundary of civilizational capacity but at a boundary of Commission legibility.
+They govern themselves, they trade through the Compact, they maintain the gate.
+They simply do not report to anyone who would file Commission paperwork.
+"""
+
+[system_overrides."GJ 282A"]
+# Bout du Chemin — 'End of the road', west_reach, hop 15, MARK_PRIMARY
+intensity = 0.85
+rationale = """
+'End of the road' is the literal translation and the accurate description. At hop
+15, Bout du Chemin was the furthest point of the settled corridor before Grenzstein
+and Yttermark extended the reach. Its founding name reflects that original status.
+
+Through-route topology connecting to Grenzstein means Bout du Chemin serves as an
+informal transit node for goods moving between the inner corridor and the truly
+outer frontier. The shadow economy here includes a transit function that the two
+outermost systems do not have: goods are moving through, not just being produced
+and consumed locally.
+
+This transit function introduces a layer of Sol-denominated brokerage that makes
+Bout du Chemin slightly more commercially sophisticated than the two deeper systems.
+The actors here who are managing the informal transit economy are experienced. They
+know how far Commission authority reaches (not here), what the exchange premium on
+Sol is at this depth, and what can be moved through a system where no one is
+counting. The intensity of 0.85 reflects this: high but not maximum, because the
+transit sophistication creates pricing discipline that pure enforcement-vacuum
+systems lack.
+"""

wiki/factions/compact-of-westphalia.md

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ What the Compact has built, over sixty to eighty years of careful, incremental w
 
 The west_reach corridor has been developing its autonomist character since the first wave of settlement pushed past hop 6. The corridor's Germanic and Scandinavian founding communities carried a cultural orientation toward local governance and institutional self-sufficiency that intensified with distance from the Gateway. By the time wave_3 settlements were being established at hops 7 and 8, the practical reality was that most outer west_reach systems governed themselves without meaningful Assembly oversight — not because they had rejected the Assembly, but because the Assembly's authority attenuated with distance until it became theoretical.
 
-The Compact formalized what was already true. Approximately sixty to eighty years ago, representatives from a group of outer west_reach systems — including founding members [Ostmark](../star-systems/GJ-601A/index.md) (GJ 601A), [Freiholt](../star-systems/GJ-624/index.md) (GJ 624), and several other wave_1 through wave_3 systems with centuries of self-governance history — drafted the mutual recognition framework. The document was not a declaration of independence. It was an agreement among neighbors: we recognize each other's governance as legitimate, we coordinate our commercial arrangements, and we do not accept that a distant Assembly has authority over our internal affairs.
+The Compact formalized what was already true. Approximately sixty to eighty years ago, representatives from a group of outer west_reach systems — including founding members [Ostmark](../star-systems/GJ-601A/index.md) (GJ 601A), [Freiholt](../star-systems/GJ-453/index.md) (GJ 453), and several other wave_1 through wave_3 systems with centuries of self-governance history — drafted the mutual recognition framework. The document was not a declaration of independence. It was an agreement among neighbors: we recognize each other's governance as legitimate, we coordinate our commercial arrangements, and we do not accept that a distant Assembly has authority over our internal affairs.
 
 The drafting process was deliberate and unhurried. The founding systems had been governing themselves for centuries. They were not in crisis. They were formalizing an arrangement that the Assembly's absence had already created, and they did so with the institutional patience of communities that measure decisions in generations rather than political cycles.
 
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ The internal tension — treaty versus government, founding members versus new m
 
 **Cross-References:**
 - [Ostmark](../star-systems/GJ-601A/index.md) (GJ 601A) — Founding member; institutional anchor; wave_1 at hop 9
-- [Freiholt](../star-systems/GJ-624/index.md) (GJ 624) — Founding member
+- [Freiholt](../star-systems/GJ-453/index.md) (GJ 453) — Founding member
 - [Altmark](../star-systems/GJ-357/index.md) (GJ 357) — Assembly trade delegate; diplomatic outpost at Compact's edge
 - [Groenland](../star-systems/GJ-3333/index.md) (GJ 3333) — Pragmatic member; joined for trade economics
 - [Echternach](../star-systems/GJ-127B/index.md) (GJ 127B) — Deep-corridor member; medical supply dependency