settled-reach/wiki/star-systems/GJ-205/index.md

Kurashiki

GJ 205 | M-type | east_reach

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System Profile

Star	M1V · 18.5 ly
Bodies	0 habitable · 2 inhabited
Gates	2 aperture · through_route
Settlement	wave_4
Industries	fusion_fuel, metallic_ore, rare_minerals, chemical_feedstock, hospitality, financial_services, legal_services
Exports	rare_minerals, financial_services
Imports	processed_food, electronics, consumer_goods, medical_goods, refined_metals, chemicals
Population	—

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Supply Dependency

Kurashiki processes what Matsue (GJ 687) manufactures. The relationship is direct: the two systems share a gate, and the supply chain that connects them is the shortest possible — one hop. Matsue produces components and intermediate goods; Kurashiki refines, assembles, and finishes them for downstream distribution. Kurashiki's processing capacity was specifically developed to handle Matsue-origin inputs, and that dependency has created a bilateral economic relationship that both communities find valuable and neither fully controls.

The habitable body has modest raw material extraction, but the primary economic function is processing and finishing. Matsue sources its feedstock from extraction systems in the deeper corridor; by the time material reaches Kurashiki it has already been processed into components and intermediate goods. Kurashiki adds value through finishing and quality certification, and ships product coreward through its outer gate connection toward the mid-reach.

Faction Notes

The founding community was a Japanese-heritage industrial cooperative that chose the name after the historic manufacturing city in Okayama prefecture — a place with a cultural association with traditional craftsmanship, specifically the high-quality textile and artisanal production the city was historically known for. The naming is aspirational and ironic in roughly equal measure: Kurashiki in the Reach is an industrial processing facility with no artisanal tradition, but the founders wanted the name to carry the quality-association they intended to build.

Wave_4 founding means the industrial character was established deliberately by a community that knew what role the system would play in the corridor's supply chain. The cooperative governance structure reflects the founding community's traditions — rotating administrative boards, cooperative-share ownership of major processing facilities, and credentialed advancement through a formal technical qualification system that the Yongli Combine has occasionally attempted to integrate into its own credentialing framework without success.

The Lattice Commission's presence focuses on quality certification compliance — Kurashiki's position in the supply chain means its output documentation requires Commission-certified provenance records for downstream buyers who need traceable components. This makes Commission compliance a commercial necessity rather than a political imposition, which is a governance dynamic the cooperative council manages carefully.

Silence Topic

What the cooperative council does not discuss openly: the Matsue supply contract terms.

The bilateral supply relationship with Matsue is governed by a long-term contract that was renegotiated approximately thirty years ago. The current terms include a pricing floor that protects Kurashiki's processing margin under normal supply conditions, but also include a volume-reduction clause that allows Matsue's industrial operators to reduce their contracted supply if corridor pricing shifts. The volume-reduction clause was not fully understood by the council members who signed the current contract. If Matsue's corridor pricing environment changes — which it would if, for example, the Yongli Combine's Matsue affiliate expanded its own finishing capacity — the clause would allow Matsue to reduce the supply Kurashiki's facilities are built to process, at a time when Kurashiki would have the least economic flexibility to adapt.

Narrative Hook

Kurashiki's entire processing economy was built around a supply contract with Matsue that includes a volume-reduction clause the council members who signed it did not fully understand, and the Yongli Combine has been quietly expanding finishing capacity in Matsue for the past eight years.

Calibration Note

wave_4 at hop 5 as a through_route is consistent with deliberate industrial siting: the system was developed for its processing function once the corridor's commercial logic made that function valuable. Japanese-heritage founding community is consistent with the east_reach corridor. The naming convention — a historic Japanese manufacturing city — reflects Section 6.3's Earth-geography transplant category, kept under 30-40% of any given corridor path. The M1V star classification is consistent with an industrial processing economy; surface agriculture exists but is not the system's primary function, and M-dwarf energy profiles suit processing facilities that have controlled energy input requirements.

Celestial Bodies

Orbit	ID	Name	Type	Inhabited	Pop	Mass	Gravity	Year (d)	Day (h)	Atmo	Biome	Hydro	Economy	Settlement	Industrial
1	GJ205b	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.34g	7	163.2	none	barren	—	—	—	—
2	GJ205c	Kurashiki	planet	yes	420K	terrestrial	0.79g	95	2280.0	standard	temperate_terminator	liquid_water	manufacturing	urban_concentrated	component_finishing
3	GJ205-belt	—	asteroid_belt	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	GJ205d	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.48g	140	22.4	thin	frozen	—	—	—	—
5	GJ205e	—	gas_giant	no	—	—	—	580	11.4	gas_giant	—	—	—	—	—
↳ 5.1	GJ205e-m1	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.12g	5	115.2	trace	frozen	—	—	—	—
↳ 5.2	GJ205e-m2	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.08g	10	244.8	—	barren	—	—	—	—
6	GJ205f	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.37g	1800	33.6	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
7	GJ205g	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.28g	4600	41.2	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
8	GJ205h	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.11g	9200	26.8	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
9	GJ205-oort	—	oort_cloud	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Stations & Facilities

ID	Name	Type	Orbits	Population	Economy	Governance	Docking	Gate	Districts
GJ205-oort-S1	Kurashiki Horizon	horizon	GJ205-oort	860	transit	—	major	yes	1

Topology

• Hop Distance from Gateway: 5
• Adjacent Systems: GJ 3135, GJ 687