The corridor over-represented southern-African heritage (afrikaans on 15
systems; arab=2, persian/turkic=0) as an artifact of the earlier
name-balancing overcorrecting. Convert five genuinely-thin afrikaans
systems — whose distinctive threads are heritage-agnostic — into
Arab/Persian/Turkic founders so the cultural cascade is built on a
balanced set. Load-bearing mystery systems (Eerste Wacht / Helderoog /
Brandpunt etc.) are left untouched.
Droëland (GJ 914A) -> Marib (arab)
Stilwater (GJ 508A) -> Sawad (arab)
Koeberg (GJ 1245B) -> Akhgar (persian)
Skuilplek (GJ 722) -> Siginak (turkic)
Carnarvon (GJ 680) -> Golestan (persian; Mostert dynasty -> Farahani)
Result: afrikaans 15->10; arab 0->2, persian 0->2, turkic 0->1.
Full narrative retouch (not just names): gttr.md + index.md prose,
body/station proper_names, cultural_specialization, gttr_hook,
atlas_city_names, and the four brand-corps named after the converted
systems (corp IDs kept stable; only display names + products renamed).
Cross-references in neighbour systems, the catalog, the aggregate
drifter guides, and the atlas proposals are updated to match.
arab/persian/turkic added to _CULTURAL_HERITAGE so the values validate;
the full canonical 47-value migration remains #1016.
Also fixes a pre-existing canon bug: Sawad (GJ 508A) no longer claims
GJ 914A is "unsettled" — it is Marib, a three-century settlement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
"Biome" describes per-zone vegetation classification (Whittaker table).
"Planet class" describes overall planetary character. The conflation
caused the planet generator to misclassify ~270 bodies as barren.
Scope: systems.db column, schema SQL, Rust atlas code, wiki table
headers (Biome → Class), atlas proposal JSONs, all docs/decisions,
tooling scripts. Also normalizes atmosphere vocabulary (breathable →
standard) and expands planet class mapping to all 26 wiki values.
Unknown classes default to temperate for modder safety.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
20 changes across 18 systems implementing the approved remediation plan
from the cultural diversity audit (docs/design/cultural-diversity-audit.md).
DB changes (15 bodies/stations in systems.db):
- Thai bodies: Saikaew (GJ 635B), Nakhon Sung (GJ 667C), Doi Kaeo (GJ 117)
- Khmer bodies: Banteay (GJ 434), Srok Thmei (GJ 866A)
- Ukrainian: Chornozem body + Svoboda station (GJ 729)
- Caribbean: Lavenille body (GJ 873), Accompong Works station (GJ 406)
- Malay: Pulau Baru body (GJ 555), Balai station (GJ 449)
- Scientists: Huygens Platform (GJ 251), Ramanujan Station (GJ 699),
van Leeuwenhoek Station (GJ 820B), Turing Survey (GJ 663A)
Wiki calibration note additions:
- GJ 635B/667C/117/434: Thai cultural presence (survey teams, founding cohorts)
- GJ 866A/873: Khmer/Caribbean community naming origin
- GJ 729: Ukrainian founding cooperative in west_reach
- GJ 1245A/75: Igbo/Nigerian heritage explicitly acknowledged
- GJ 172: Malay kelong dual-heritage in Kaelong name
- GJ 601A: Russian secondary founding stream in Ostmark
Horizon stations not renamed. No corridor reassignments.
Conservative: systems with existing identity untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 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>
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>
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>
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