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Devereux Point

GJ 1128 | M-type | east_reach

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System Profile

Star	m · 20.3 ly
Bodies	0 habitable · 2 inhabited
Gates	2 aperture · loop_member
Settlement	wave_3
Industries	fusion_fuel, metallic_ore, lattice_grade_material, hospitality, financial_services, legal_services
Exports	lattice_grade_material, financial_services
Imports	processed_food, electronics, consumer_goods, medical_goods, refined_metals, heavy_equipment
Population	—

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Devereux Point sits in the loop between Kovács Loop and Relay 7 — a navigational node that inherited its name from the survey team leader who first calculated the aperture geometry here, three hundred years ago. Marianne Devereux was French by heritage and methodical by training, and the name she marked in her survey log was simply "the point" — the coordinate where the loop closed. The "Devereux" came later, added by the first permanent settlers in the tradition of naming places after the person who found them, even when that person never intended to stay.

Devereux is the exception the east_reach acknowledges without fully explaining: an English and French-founded community embedded in a Korean and Chinese-dominated corridor, three hundred years old and fully naturalized into the corridor's technocratic culture while retaining its own distinct civic character. The founders arrived as part of a Wave 3 expansion wave that was, by that point in the settlement timeline, drawing from a broad pool of applicants rather than the linguistically and culturally coherent groups that had established the corridor's early character. Devereux Point was one of several "cross-corridor" settlements planted during this period, and unlike some of them, it survived and developed an identity.

That identity centers on what locals call the navigation tradition: a disproportionate concentration of transit engineers, aperture surveyors, and gate-logistics specialists who have made Devereux Point one of the corridor's quietly essential technical resources. The system's loop position — equidistant between Kovács Loop and Relay 7, able to route traffic in either direction — means that Devereux is perpetually involved in everyone else's movement, and the community has organized itself around that function. The governing body, the Transit Commission, is technically an engineering body and in practice the government.

The inhabited station, Devereux Platform, orbits a gas giant designated DP-Juno at a carefully maintained distance that the Transit Commission's founders calculated would minimize orbital perturbation over a five-hundred-year horizon. That the calculation turns out to have been correct is a point of civic pride the Commission mentions whenever the subject of institutional competence arises.

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Supply Dependency

Devereux Point imports food staples and consumer goods through both its adjacent connections. Kovács Loop (GJ 784) is the primary transit path for agricultural commodities arriving from further inward — a flow that has been stable for over two hundred years and is considered a permanent feature of the corridor's logistics. Relay 7 (GJ 438) provides technical components and manufactured equipment through its corporate supply chains. Devereux's exports are almost entirely services: transit routing calculations, aperture survey data, and the engineering expertise of its population, which is in continuous demand throughout the corridor.

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Faction Notes

The Transit Commission governs through an internally elected board of registered engineering professionals. Membership in the Commission requires passing a three-tier certification examination — a system that has effectively restricted governance to the technical class for two centuries and produced administrators who are genuinely expert in their domain and genuinely uninterested in anyone who is not.

The Heritage Society maintains Devereux Point's English and French cultural identity through language preservation programs, archive maintenance, and an annual survey commemoration. The Society has no political power and holds significant social influence; the two things are in tension in ways that surface periodically.

The Looper Guild is an informal association of independent transit operators who use Devereux's loop position to operate shuttle and small-freight services between the three loop systems. The Guild's relationship with the Transit Commission is transactional and occasionally adversarial — the Commission sets fee structures, the Guild negotiates them.

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Silence Topic

The first generation: Devereux's founding records show a community of approximately 400 settlers who arrived with better equipment and more institutional support than most Wave 3 settlements. Where that support came from — which corporate or institutional entity funded what should have been an undercapitalized frontier posting — is not reflected in the public record. The Transit Commission maintains that early corporate partnerships were standard and unremarkable. Independent researchers note that the level of early infrastructure investment at Devereux Platform was atypical for a cross-corridor settlement with no obvious strategic value in its first decade.

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Narrative Hook

The loop's geometry, Devereux's transit logs show, has shifted by a calculable fraction over three centuries — a drift no one can fully explain, and which the Transit Commission has been quietly compensating for in its routing calculations without filing a formal anomaly report.

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Calibration Note

M-type classification is correct — the primary is an M-dwarf, consistent with the header. Loop_member topology at hop 6 is consistent with a navigational waypoint system — the loop between Kovács Loop and Relay 7 gives Devereux strategic value disproportionate to its population. Wave_3 cross-corridor settlement is an acknowledged pattern in east_reach expansion history.

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Celestial Bodies

Orbit	ID	Name	Type	Inhabited	Pop	Mass	Gravity	Year (d)	Day (h)	Atmo	Biome	Hydro	Economy	Settlement	Industrial
1	GJ1128b	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.31g	5	115.2	none	barren	—	—	—	—
2	GJ1128c	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.58g	16	388.8	thin	cold_arid	—	—	—	—
3	GJ1128-belt	—	asteroid_belt	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	GJ1128d	DP-Juno	gas_giant	no	—	—	—	220	11.4	gas_giant	—	—	—	—	—
↳ 4.1	GJ1128d-m1	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.12g	5	110.4	trace	frozen	—	—	—	—
↳ 4.2	GJ1128d-m2	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.08g	10	235.2	—	barren	—	—	—	—
5	GJ1128e	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.38g	740	28.6	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
6	GJ1128f	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.29g	2100	36.4	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
7	GJ1128g	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.11g	5200	23.8	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
8	GJ1128h	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.10g	10400	18.6	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
9	GJ1128-oort	—	oort_cloud	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Stations & Facilities

ID	Name	Type	Orbits	Population	Economy	Governance	Docking	Gate	Districts
GJ1128-d-S1	Devereux Platform	commercial	GJ1128d	28K	transit	—	major	no	1
GJ1128-oort-S1	Devereux Point Horizon	horizon	GJ1128-oort	640	transit	—	major	yes	1

Topology

• Hop Distance from Gateway: 6
• Adjacent Systems: GJ 438, GJ 784