settled-reach/wiki/star-systems/GJ-3728B/index.md

Jeonnam

GJ 3728B | K-type | east_reach

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System Profile

Star	g · 39.3 ly
Bodies	0 habitable · 2 inhabited
Gates	2 aperture · through_route
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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Jeonnam is named for a province on Earth that the Korean founding community carried as a cultural reference — a southern district, known in its terrestrial context for agricultural richness and distinctive regional culinary traditions, particularly preserved and fermented foods. The settlers found a world at hop 8 that was temperate, rolling, with long growing seasons under a dim stellar primary, and they did with it what the name implied they would.

The rice-analog terraces of Jeonnam are the system's visual signature and economic foundation. The crop is not rice — the biochemistry is completely different — but the cultivation practice that three centuries of adaptation has produced looks, from the air, like terraced paddy systems: stepped pools of shallow water following the contour lines of Jeonnam's gentle hill country, maintained by a gravity-fed irrigation network that the founders began building in the second generation and have been extending ever since. The grain analog grown in these terraces is called gyeol locally — meaning "layer" or "seam," a reference to the grain's internal structure when cut, which shows a visible banding — and it is the staple food of a substantial portion of the east reach systems in this corridor segment.

What made Jeonnam more than a regional grain supplier is the preserved food tradition. The founders brought fermentation and preservation knowledge from Korean culinary heritage, and three centuries of adaptation to local biochemistry — the microorganism populations in Jeonnam's soil and water, the mineral profile of the grain analog, the humidity conditions of the hill country — have produced a range of fermented products that are meaningfully distinct from what the same techniques produce elsewhere. The jang family of pastes — fermented from gyeol and various legume analogs, aged in ceramic vessels for periods ranging from six months to several years — are exported under the Jeonnam Old Table label, a brand established 120 years ago that has become recognizable in the corridor markets between hops 5 and 9.

Jeonnam Old Table's most expensive product, the three-year guk-jang, is produced in quantities that are deliberately constrained by the aging vessel inventory. Expanding production would require either more vessels — which are made from a specific local clay that the producers have not chosen to accelerate extraction of — or shortening the aging period, which the producers have refused on taste grounds for a hundred years. This decision, made repeatedly against commercial pressure, has produced a product whose scarcity is authentic rather than manufactured.

The through-route topology connecting GJ 27 and GJ 3612 — both unwritten at this stage — positions Jeonnam as a waypoint at hop 8. Transit traffic is modest but consistent, and the transit facilities are well-maintained in the Jeonnam fashion: practical, efficient, and adjacent to a market district where preserved food products can be purchased for both immediate consumption and export.

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Supply Dependency

Jeonnam is self-sufficient in grain and a large proportion of its processed food output. Technical equipment for agricultural infrastructure — irrigation components, ceramic production equipment, packaging systems — routes through the through-route connections. Manufactured goods and medical supplies follow the same path. The system's agricultural export income generally covers import costs, with the Jeonnam Old Table premium products providing a margin that funds Jeonnam's better-than-average hop-8 infrastructure maintenance.

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Faction Notes

The Gyeol Cultivators' Union represents the farming families and manages the collective agreements over terrace water rights, grain pricing, and the soil management protocols that keep the rice-analog system productive. The Union's water-rights structure is the oldest formal legal document in Jeonnam's institutional archive; the original water-sharing agreement is still cited in contemporary disputes and is still mostly followed.

The Jeonnam Old Table Producers' Collective is the certified producer group for the fermented and preserved product line under the brand. Collective membership requires meeting the Collective's standards, contributing to the shared aging vessel pool, and accepting the annual allocation process for vessel time. Disputes over allocation are the Collective's primary internal source of conflict and are resolved by a panel process that takes, on average, four months and produces outcomes that no one is fully satisfied with.

The Transit Operations Board manages the gate facilities and transit services. It is an appointed body rather than elected, with members nominated by the council from a pool of candidates with technical qualifications. The Board's main political challenge is managing the competing demands of local agricultural transport and external transit traffic on the same gate infrastructure.

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Silence Topic

The ceramic vessel inventory that constrains Jeonnam Old Table production is nominally maintained by the Producers' Collective, which reports vessel numbers to the council in its annual accounting. The actual vessel count, tracked separately by the Collective's internal records, has been declining for twenty years due to breakage, deterioration, and a failure to commission new vessels at replacement rate. The Collective's public reports have rounded the numbers in ways that obscure this trend. If the decline continues at its current rate, Jeonnam Old Table's three-year guk-jang production will reach effective zero within forty years — not from any business decision, but from simple attrition of the physical objects the product depends on.

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Narrative Hook

A young Collective member tasked with the annual vessel census discovers that the count in the official report submitted to the council is significantly higher than what she is actually finding in the aging facility, and realizes that someone has been misreporting the inventory figures for longer than she has been a member.

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Calibration Note

The READ-ONLY System Profile shows "g" as the star classification — a lowercase artifact of uncertain catalog provenance, likely indicating an approximate G or early K classification at long distance. The briefing and existing header both specify K-type; given the world character described and the hop-8 outer reach position, K-type is retained as the operative classification, and the "g" is treated as a data quality note rather than a contradicting classification. Through_route with 2 apertures at hop 8 is consistent with a mid-corridor agricultural waypoint at nominal institutional authority range.

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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	GJ3728Bb	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.38g	18	19.6	none	barren	—	—	—	—
2	GJ3728Bc	Jeonnam	planet	yes	185K	terrestrial	0.92g	140	26.4	standard	temperate	liquid_water	agricultural	dispersed	agricultural_export
3	GJ3728B-belt	—	asteroid_belt	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	GJ3728Bd	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.54g	520	27.8	thin	cold_arid	—	—	—	—
5	GJ3728Be	—	gas_giant	no	—	—	—	1600	11.8	gas_giant	—	—	—	—	—
↳ 5.1	GJ3728Be-m1	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.10g	6	134.4	—	frozen	—	—	—	—
6	GJ3728Bf	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.42g	4200	33.6	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
7	GJ3728Bg	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.33g	9800	41.2	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
8	GJ3728Bh	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.25g	21000	49.8	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
9	GJ3728Bi	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.11g	42000	28.6	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
10	GJ3728B-oort	—	oort_cloud	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Stations & Facilities

ID	Name	Type	Orbits	Population	Economy	Governance	Docking	Gate	Districts
GJ3728B-oort-S1	Jeonnam Horizon	horizon	GJ3728B-oort	420	transit	—	major	yes	1

Topology

• Hop Distance from Gateway: 8
• Adjacent Systems: GJ 27, GJ 3612