Caparica (GJ 1002), Karoo (GJ 222A), Kumasi (GJ 86),
Rionegro (GJ 3250).
Iberian/Southern African corridor from hop 4 to hop 8, with
West African Early Arrival exception (Kumasi) and DSMC ore
hauler corridor through Van Maanen's Star.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fremantle (GJ 273), Athabasca (GJ 1289), Carnarvon (GJ 680),
Enugu (GJ 75), Ratnagiri (GJ 575A), Pemberton (GJ 194B),
Murchison (GJ 716), Moyale (GJ 1292), Rekohu (GJ 770).
Commonwealth corridor from hop 4 to hop 12, with Early Arrival
exceptions (Cape, Igbo, Indian, East African heritage) and a
Gate Silence Survivor at the terminus.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds Section 6.3 (Naming Variety) with guidelines for avoiding
theme-park naming — max 30-40% Earth transplants, mix in founder
names, local features, corporate designations, and evolved forms.
Also adds foundational note clarifying that culture, politics, and
economics are independent axes along corridors: systems can share
any combination with neighbours without cultural branding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
High-level design doc for outer sector system-writing. Covers:
- Four cultural corridors (Commonwealth north, Iberian/Southern African
south, East Asian east, Germanic/Scandinavian west)
- Five industrial corridors (MVG, Gate Corp, DSMC, Prometheus, Ag Syndics)
- Political philosophy gradient by sector and hop distance
- Compact of Westphalia breakaway coalition in the west_reach
- Central authority gradient from core to frontier
- Exception density guidelines and six exception archetypes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tessera (GJ 3877) — Compact/Records, institutional memory, 5-aperture hub
Vargr (GJ 3522) — Mining/DSMC, 3-aperture junction with MVG/GateCorp stakes
Written by Miri agents, reviewed by Paula with fixes applied:
- Registry authority reframed as accumulated soft power, not constitutional grant
- Perpetual/Syndic categories collapsed correctly
- Silence topic ambiguity signal added (directed vs undirected drift)
- Kensho description hedged (stub system, no established facts)
- Five centuries → three centuries (wave_2 timeline correction)
- DSMC observer-of-observers asymmetry made explicit
- Commission/Guardians misclassification mechanism expanded
- Capital investment discrepancy attribution deepened
All 28 core systems now have full prose. Stub section removed from index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move Parallax, Keid, Ross 128, Lu Ban from stub to fully written.
Add Tessera, Vargr, Cairn as remaining stubs needing prose.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Parallax (GJ 280A) — media world, narrative manufacturing
Lu Ban (GJ 15A) — failed corp mixed industrial bazaar
Keid (GJ 166A) — garden world, ecological reservation
Ross 128 (GJ 447) — ocean world, fishing/research/tourism
Written by Miri agents, reviewed by Paula with fixes applied:
star type headers corrected, silence topics sharpened, MVG
territorial language made precise, Institute timeline clarified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Renamed catalog-index.md to star-systems/catalog.md where it
belongs. Updated references in wiki root and star-systems index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gate builders don't place two horizon stations in one star system.
Binary pairs (A/B components of same physical star) split to
independent stars. Each "move" system keeps its connections and
content, only the host star changes.
Migrations:
- GJ 559A (Rigil Kentaurus) -> GJ 768 (Altair) — rewritten for new star
- GJ 725A (Renaissance) -> GJ 251
- GJ 820A -> GJ 3877 (Tessera — compact/records world)
- GJ 570B -> GJ 1156
- GJ 783B -> GJ 299
- GJ 663B (Guniibuu B) -> GJ 1286 (Kensho — university world)
- GJ 338A -> GJ 4053
- GJ 280B -> GJ 3991
- GJ 15B -> GJ 4274
New system names and roles assigned:
- Tessera: founding compact + institutional records
- Kensho: university world, largest Institute presence
- Vargr: mining (DSMC, MVG/GC minority stakes)
- Parallax: media world (was Procyon)
- Lu Ban: failed corp / mixed industrial (was Groombridge 34)
- Altair: southern gateway (was Rigil Kentaurus)
- Keid: garden world / ecological reservation
- Ross 128: ocean world (fishing, research, tourism)
Also adds docs/design/gj-catalog-full.json (3801 GJ entries from
HYG v4.2) for future star assignment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update wiki_sync.py and process-wiki-system-changes to remove
astronomical_id references. Add migrate-s-to-gj.py migration script.
Update generate-stubs.py and validate-ron for new schema.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add index.md to: star-systems, corporations, factions, technology,
contraband, concepts. Each lists its contents with brief descriptions.
Rewrite wiki/index.md to link to category indexes instead of inlining
all entries. Regenerate catalog-index.md from DB (remove redundant
System ID column after S-number migration).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gate Corporation (Renaissance/GJ 725A): span gate infrastructure
monopoly, Institute licensing relationship.
Mastroianni Vehicle Group (Nova Roma/GJ 764): transit vehicles and
trains for the gate network, Perpetual-class family dynasty.
Prometheus Labs (Prometheus/GJ 702B): longevity hardware and implants,
dead-end system, created the Perpetuals.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove S-number from page headers and replace S-number references in
topology sections with GJ astronomical IDs. Headers now show
"**GJ XXX** | type | sector" instead of "**GJ XXX** | S-NNN | type | sector".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace all S-XXX system identifiers with GJ astronomical IDs in
star-map.json nodes and edges. The astronomical_id field is removed
from nodes (now redundant with system_id). 301 nodes, 335 edges.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
founder-gates.md: account for dormant aperture activation (Struve).
span-gates.md: add Institute origin and Gate Corporation licensing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sol, Gateway (Tau Ceti), Sirius, Ran — core 4 with full prose.
ACB, Struve, Cygni B, Arbour, Groombridge, Bastion — inner orbit 6.
Each page has DB-generated infobox (READ-ONLY) plus 5 authored prose
sections: supply dependency, faction notes, silence topic, narrative
hook, calibration note. Cross-system relationships established
(Bastion-ACB adjacency, Institute geographic pattern, Cygni B design
rights connecting to Gateway silence).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
D-095: clarify inter-system gates are alien-determined (humans cannot
add/remove apertures). Intra-system span gates are Institute-derived
human tech licensed to the Gate Corporation. Dormant activations
(Struve) are alien infrastructure events, not human actions.
Q-039: resolved — 301-system star map generated with alien-determined
topology (334 edges, hub/junction/loop/spur distribution).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces flat star_systems table with 7 normalized tables: star_systems,
system_gates (with hop_distance_from_gateway), system_history,
historical_events (1:N), system_economy, system_factions, system_culture.
Primary key is now the GJ astronomical ID (e.g., "GJ 244A") — S-number
identifiers removed entirely. The astronomical_id column is dropped as
redundant. Database moved to server/data/systems.db (ships with game).
10 core systems fully populated with structured data.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New data flow: wiki → star-map.json + SQLite.
- tooling/process-wiki-system-changes: unified script that reads
wiki, updates star-map.json topology, syncs to SQLite
- tooling/db/wiki_sync.py: wiki frontmatter parser + SQLite upsert
- generate-stubs.py: updated for full-frontmatter wiki format
- Removed extract-csv.py (replaced by SQLite queries)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
star-map.json now only carries topology fields (system_id,
astronomical_id, gate_topology, aperture/connections, hop distance)
plus edges. All per-system data lives in wiki frontmatter.
Added Sol as S-000/GJ 0 connected to Gateway. Added star_systems
table to schema for wiki sync mirror.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wiki pages are the single source of truth for all per-system data.
Each stub contains all 68 columns in YAML frontmatter, pre-filled
from star-map.json for identity/infrastructure fields. Includes
Sol (S-000/GJ 0) and Van Maanen's Star (S-057/GJ 35) with Sova
station content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
System S-057 assigned to real star GJ 35 (Van Maanen's Star, DG white
dwarf at 13.9 ly). Renamed across all content, server code, docs,
decisions, wiki lore, and config files. 224 files updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Standardized YAML frontmatter on all 13 docs/assets/ files covering
audio, visual, and video pipeline docs, palettes, and templates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Standardized YAML frontmatter on all 115 sprint briefing files across
sprints 1-26 with title, description, type, status, sprint number, and
team fields.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Standardized YAML frontmatter on all 38 files with title, description,
type, workshop, agent, and round fields.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaced fabricated designations with real Gliese-Jahreiss entries
sourced from HYG Database v4.1. Selection: 215 G/K/F + 75 M + 10
unusual (white dwarfs, flare stars, subdwarfs) = 300 systems.
Habitable star types (G/K/F) are preferred at each distance shell,
spreading usable planets wider through the network. M-dwarfs fill
remaining slots — station economies, mining, frontier outposts.
Distance range: 4.2-46.8 ly. 51 named stars including Tau Ceti
(Gateway), Alpha Centauri, Delta Pavonis, Barnard's Star, Sirius,
Procyon, Arcturus, Pollux, Vega, Fomalhaut.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Master reference of all Gliese-Jahreiss designations with links to
individual wiki pages. Grouped by catalog range (main, southern,
supplement 3/4, post-settlement). Includes named stars quick reference
with distances and spectral classes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All systems use Gliese-Jahreiss (GJ) designations as primary catalog.
35 real nearby stars assigned by proximity to Gateway; 265 fabricated
across GJ sub-catalogs (main, southern, supplement, post-settlement).
Notable assignments:
- Gateway (S-001): GJ 71 / Tau Ceti
- Alpha Centauri A/B (S-090): GJ 559A, binary junction at hop 3
- Delta Pavonis (S-265): GJ 780, core dead_end at hop 2
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Standardized YAML frontmatter on all 23 files in the art direction
workshop with title, description, type, workshop, agent, and round
fields.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six sector maps (core, N/S/E/W reach, deep frontier) plus overview.
Generated from star-map.json — currently stale after topology tuning,
will be regenerated once naming pass is complete.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
300-node gate network with 334 edges, generated from seed config then
hand-balanced and tuned. Gateway (S-001) is the first hop from Earth
with 4 active + 1 dormant Sol aperture.
Final topology: 20% dead_end, 14% spur_end, 31% through_route,
10% loop_member, 19% junction, 6% hub. Frontier sectors have
distinct linear corridors; core is densely interconnected.
Includes generation pipeline (generate, sculpt, patch-core, tune),
seed config, and star-map-plan.md with algorithm documentation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Canonical framework (systems-framework.md) defines 66 columns for all
300 star systems, organized as wiki-ready sections. Covers colonization
waves, cultural archetypes, tone framework, economic distribution, and
Krenn validation criteria.
Includes all iteration rounds: Miri/Paula originals, cross-pollination
synthesis, Gestalt mechanical review, and final revisions removing grand
conspiracy in favor of fear-driven Earth-Reach secession narrative.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
