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GJ 324A

GJ 324A | K-type | deep_frontier

The gates are here. The corridor was mapped. No one claimed it. GJ 324A is one of the frontier's unclaimed transits — a system with demonstrable habitability, a functioning horizon station, and a survey record that describes marginal agricultural potential accurately enough that every cohort that looked at it moved on to somewhere else. The system sees occasional traffic between Knotenpunkt and GJ 167 and nothing else.

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System Profile

Star	K · 34.1 ly
Bodies	0 habitable · 1 inhabited
Gates	2 aperture · spur_end
Settlement	unsettled
Industries	fusion_fuel, metallic_ore, hospitality, financial_services, legal_services
Exports	financial_services
Imports	processed_food, electronics, consumer_goods, medical_goods, refined_metals, heavy_equipment
Population	—

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Supply Dependency

None. No resident population.

Faction Notes

No permanent faction presence. The horizon station is self-maintaining by design. Automated relay hardware, installed during the wave_3 corridor mapping, continues to broadcast navigation data for transiting vessels. No one has been contracted to service it in living memory; the station's self-maintenance systems have not required human intervention.

The Lattice Commission's records for GJ 324A list it as surveyed, unmapped for settlement, and not under active review. No Commission personnel are assigned to the system. The survey record is 180 years old.

Silence Topic

None recorded. The system has no population and therefore no institutional silence. What is absent here is more significant than what is present — this is one of several deep frontier systems where the question of why no founding cohort ever committed is not answered by the survey record alone. Marginal habitability explains why GJ 324A was not first choice. It does not fully explain why, across three centuries of frontier expansion, it was never anyone's second choice either.

Narrative Hook

GJ 324A's 180-year-old survey record describes a habitable world with marginal agricultural potential; no cohort has ever claimed it, and no more recent survey has been commissioned to determine whether anything about that assessment was wrong.

Celestial Bodies

Orbit	ID	Name	Type	Inhabited	Pop	Mass	Gravity	Year (d)	Day (h)	Atmo	Biome	Hydro	Economy	Settlement	Industrial
1	GJ324Ab	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.44g	28	19.2	none	barren	—	—	—	—
2	GJ324Ac	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.82g	280	25.6	standard	temperate	liquid_water	—	—	—
3	GJ324A-belt	—	asteroid_belt	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	GJ324Ad	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.58g	720	27.4	thin	cold_arid	—	—	—	—
5	GJ324Ae	—	gas_giant	no	—	—	—	2200	11.6	gas_giant	—	—	—	—	—
↳ 5.1	GJ324Ae-m1	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.11g	6	139.2	none	frozen	—	—	—	—
6	GJ324Af	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.44g	5600	34.2	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
7	GJ324Ag	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.34g	12800	42.4	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
8	GJ324Ah	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.26g	28000	50.8	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
9	GJ324Ai	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.12g	58000	29.4	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
10	GJ324A-oort	—	oort_cloud	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Stations & Facilities

ID	Name	Type	Orbits	Population	Economy	Governance	Docking	Gate	Districts
GJ324A-oort-S1	GJ 324A Horizon	horizon	GJ324A-oort	—	transit	—	major	yes	1

Topology

• Hop Distance from Gateway: 8
• Adjacent Systems: GJ 1235 (Knotenpunkt), GJ 167