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>
"Twilight evening" — fits the corridor position (hop 22, one before
Abzu at terminus) without looking cartoonish next to the gravitas
of the deep frontier. Updated index.md etymology, GTTR entry,
Abzu references, and deep frontier regional index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Complete Drifter's Guide coverage for the Deep Frontier.
61 new entries from hop 3 (Cairnside) to hop 23 (Abzu),
plus updated gttr-deep.md index with all 61 deep systems.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Write 21 new Guide entries for all core systems (24 total with the 3
existing), plus the Guide index with preface and 6 sector chapter files
(core complete, cardinal stubs in Guide voice).
In-universe publication by Adams & Ford Publishing Syndicate. Voice
inspired by Douglas Adams — homage, not pastiche.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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