From f63d222ef3dcc81617fa5c0d8cf0527c90eed063 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeroen Schweitzer Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 15:19:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?fix(atlas):=20address=20PR=20#106=20review=20?= =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=203=20execution=20issues?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 1. GJ 111: spectral_class F5V → F5/F6V to match wiki (subgiant) 2. GJ 3943: spectral_class k-m → K5V+M3V (valid MK notation for binary) 3. GJ 903: write wiki prose — was empty stub with only body tables Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) --- docs/atlas/proposals/GJ111.json | 2 +- docs/atlas/proposals/GJ3943.json | 4 +-- server/data/systems.db | Bin 1036288 -> 1036288 bytes wiki/star-systems/GJ-3943/index.md | 5 ++-- wiki/star-systems/GJ-903/index.md | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/atlas/proposals/GJ111.json b/docs/atlas/proposals/GJ111.json index 9bf606e76..09b961ea9 100644 --- a/docs/atlas/proposals/GJ111.json +++ b/docs/atlas/proposals/GJ111.json @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "system_id": "GJ 111", "proper_name": "Helderoog", "star_type": "F", - "spectral_class": "F5V", + "spectral_class": "F5/F6V", "wiki_data": { "habitable_count": 1, "inhabited_count": 1, diff --git a/docs/atlas/proposals/GJ3943.json b/docs/atlas/proposals/GJ3943.json index 6c8315184..bef60495f 100644 --- a/docs/atlas/proposals/GJ3943.json +++ b/docs/atlas/proposals/GJ3943.json @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ { "system_id": "GJ 3943", "proper_name": "GJ 3943", - "star_type": "unusual", - "spectral_class": "k-m", + "star_type": "K+M", + "spectral_class": "K5V+M3V", "wiki_data": { "habitable_count": 1, "inhabited_count": 0, diff --git a/server/data/systems.db b/server/data/systems.db index b6e60ed14d0277a68ea6f70897d77399bc73929c..37d7f6265a10f6c4cdd88b7555106b06f32fbdb5 100644 GIT binary patch delta 351 zcmW;H%_{_P7zgnA&TnRCc4l@aFVonSmhx6pB+(v}K@r=cXmeXR$zfY1im*<~MJfGG z%N`ZU=H(Yj{({|HoLtn#Vav@;@#N|IspmO;d-BEMJmm&j07d8l#sFPRjlhCf7{#}V zD4(9jLyN{5kn~dhw*Y<7r4-KrWcL-PL$`% zaC!IZcYyyUv<;af{XOSE?W~ ZVMHM+2@#FxBuorq5{pDcrE2%p{s0q2at{Ci delta 385 zcmZozVBY{lTNv3L7#X*7I50XhZufO$&M|fZc*xA`8uqm+4WfW!AXF0+W#(bAKk9o47L(=qf zI~cR3=WSukn4YkMF>kuwUdHDvtp6GGfRb9JqU)fqrtDXc{T;?kPaH|}JV+8(}>QI?4*mwWnt z8)m8L)f*Y*rq9{PXv$Q;HT}bOM(OPncQejq+%CG0F+`0~dU`=4lj!vNCyY`&P# - **Hop Distance from Gateway:** 17 diff --git a/wiki/star-systems/GJ-903/index.md b/wiki/star-systems/GJ-903/index.md index c01c51720..4b03a5f52 100644 --- a/wiki/star-systems/GJ-903/index.md +++ b/wiki/star-systems/GJ-903/index.md @@ -14,21 +14,65 @@ --- +Errai is the settled system between two systems that are not. GJ 616 is one hop inward and empty: a world that meets settlement criteria and has nonetheless generated only archived proposals, each reaching the same conclusion about the cost of spanning the gap between arrival and viability. Orchard's End is one hop outward and occupied, a wave_4 agricultural community at hop 14 that has held its cooperative charter for 180 years. Errai, at hop 13, is the thread connecting them — the point through which every transit to and from Orchard's End must pass, and the only inhabited system in this section of corridor. + +The community on Ghadames is approximately 4,000 people distributed across the planet's temperate lowlands in the dispersed pattern common to agricultural settlements that have not yet accumulated the density that would make consolidation efficient. Errai Horizon, the system's transit station, holds another 120. Between those two numbers lies everything Errai is: a small farming population on a viable world, a transit stop for corridor traffic, and a system that is structurally significant without being economically large. + +The star is the system's most distinguishing feature. A K1IV — a K-type subgiant — is atypical for this depth. The deep frontier corridor running through hop 13 passes almost entirely through M-dwarf systems: dim, red, cool, with habitable zones close in and agricultural spectra that require adapted cultivars or supplemented lighting. Errai's star is brighter and warmer, its light closer to solar on the spectrum, its habitable zone wider. Ghadames receives more usable light than any comparably positioned world in the surrounding corridor, and the agriculture reflects it. The founding wave-4 cohort knew the survey data. They came because the star was good, and the star has not disappointed them. + +--- + ## Supply Dependency +Ghadames produces grain, legumes, and tuber cultivars at yields consistently above the baseline for deep frontier agricultural settlements. The surplus is not large by inner-Reach standards — the dispersed settlement pattern means labor is spread thinly and total cultivated area grows slowly — but it is reliable, and at hop 13, reliability is more valuable than volume. Orchard's End is the primary corridor market for Ghadames agricultural exports: the two communities have maintained an informal supply relationship since Orchard's End's founding generation was still alive, trading food for the manufactured goods and technical components that Ghadames cannot produce locally. + +The dependency is not symmetric. Ghadames exports a fraction of its surplus and imports what it cannot make; Orchard's End is 180 years into cooperative self-sufficiency and does not need Ghadames the way Ghadames needs the corridor. The genuine leverage point is transit, not agriculture: Errai Horizon's position as the only waypoint between GJ 616 and Orchard's End means that every inbound delivery, every outbound shipment, every person transiting this section of the corridor does so through Errai. The station's docking and reprovisioning income is modest but structurally reliable. Nobody can reach Orchard's End without passing through Errai. + +What Ghadames cannot produce and must import across eleven hops of corridor includes fabrication components, medical technology above basic trauma care, and anything requiring industrial manufacturing capacity. The supply chain is long and slow. The community budgets for transit time the way inner-Reach communities budget for delivery windows: it is a known cost, not an uncertainty, and the planning assumes it. + +--- + ## Faction Notes +The Concord Assembly's administrative presence at Errai is a transit record entry and a periodic inspection visit, not a staffed office. At hop 13, the Assembly's jurisdictional machinery operates on the understanding that communities this far out manage themselves and request Assembly mediation when disputes exceed local resolution capacity, which at Errai's population scale is rare. The community's civilian council handles land allocation, infrastructure maintenance, and the occasional pricing negotiation with Orchard's End over corridor transport terms. It does not need Assembly oversight for these decisions and does not receive it. + +The Lattice Commission's interest in Errai is proportional to the transit volume through Errai Horizon, which is low. The station maintains Commission-compliant transit logs. An inspector visits on the corridor rotation, reviews the logs, finds nothing requiring intervention, and departs. Commission presence at this depth is too thin to be either helpful or intrusive; it occupies exactly the institutional space that a community of 4,000 at hop 13 with no significant contraband footprint generates. + +No corporate presence has established a formal stake in Ghadames agricultural output. The surplus volumes are too small to justify a supply contract against the cost of corridor transit and the administrative overhead of maintaining a procurement relationship at this distance. Informal trade operates through corridor traffic — small cooperative distributors, individual buyers, the commerce that does not require institutional infrastructure. The community's founding cooperative charter was specifically structured to prevent the governance concessions that a corporate supply contract at this scale would eventually require, and the structure has held. + +--- + ## Silence Topic +The K1IV designation means Errai's star has left the main sequence. A subgiant is a star whose core hydrogen fuel has been depleted and whose interior is reorganizing: expanding gradually, slowly brightening, the habitable zone migrating outward over geological timescales. On any human-relevant timescale — decades, centuries, millennia — the star's output is stable within agricultural planning parameters. The agricultural advantages are real and are not going away on any schedule that the present community, or their descendants for many generations, will need to account for. + +The community does not discuss the long arc. They discuss seasons, yields, rainfall patterns, the transit schedule, and Orchard's End's latest pricing for the corridor run. The subgiant classification appears in the founding survey documentation that everyone has access to and nobody reads after the first year. A visitor who mentioned stellar evolution timescales would not be corrected. They would be looked at with the particular expression of people who understand what is being said and have concluded that it is not relevant to anything that needs deciding this season, or this generation, or in the present lifetime. + +Whether this is organic pragmatism about a fact no one can act on, or a considered collective decision the founding cohort made about what their community's self-understanding would include, is not recorded anywhere. The survey documentation has a note in the stellar classification section. The community has not annotated it. + +--- + ## Narrative Hook +The founding survey's stellar evolution section contains a handwritten annotation below the K1IV classification — added after the survey lead's signature, in a different hand, with no attribution. + +--- + ## Calibration Note +`stellar_class: K1IV` (K-type subgiant) at deep_frontier and wave_4 requires explanation in both directions. The subgiant classification is not a disqualification for agricultural settlement — the star's output at this evolutionary stage is brighter and more stable than the M-dwarfs that dominate the deep frontier corridor, making Ghadames one of the better-lit agricultural worlds at this hop distance. The habitable zone is positioned and sized to support the temperate, liquid-water, standard-atmosphere profile the survey confirmed. The agricultural productivity that makes the system viable reflects the light availability: Ghadames grows cultivars that would underperform under an M-dwarf primary. The K1IV is the reason this system was settled and not the adjacent systems on either side. + +`topology: through_route` with 2 apertures means Errai is not a spur-end system. Both apertures carry purposeful traffic: one connecting inward to GJ 616 (unsettled, no terminal demand) and one outward to GJ 481 (Orchard's End, the corridor's spur terminus at hop 14). All transit to and from Orchard's End passes through Errai, which is the through_route designation's operational meaning at this depth: the system is a required waypoint, not an optional one. Transit volume is low because the systems it connects are small, but the structural dependency is complete. + +`settlement: wave_4` alongside `deep_frontier` and `population: ~4,120` reflects a founding that prioritized agricultural viability over proximity to inner-Reach infrastructure. Wave_4 deep frontier settlement in this corridor followed survey data indicating favorable conditions; the K1IV primary was the specific attractor. The population has grown slowly, as dispersed agricultural communities at this distance do, without the secondary economic drivers — mining, manufacturing, research — that accelerate population growth in other deep frontier systems. Four thousand people on a viable agricultural world after wave_4 settlement is the expected outcome of isolated farming at hop 13. + +--- + ## Celestial Bodies