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GJ 616

GJ 616 | K-type | deep_frontier


System Profile

Star K · 38.1 ly
Bodies 0 habitable · 1 inhabited
Gates 2 aperture · through_route
Settlement unsettled
Industries fusion_fuel, metallic_ore
Exports
Imports processed_food, electronics, consumer_goods, medical_goods, refined_metals, heavy_equipment
Population

At hop eight, GJ 616 would be settled.

That is the complete summary of every assessment that has been conducted on the system. The K-type primary is adequate. The habitable world meets settlement criteria: breathable atmosphere, stable geology, acceptable water distribution, no significant biological hazard. The transit connections to GJ 853A and GJ 903 give the corridor good bones. At any hop distance up to about nine, the logistics of founding a settlement here would be manageable, the economic case for the agricultural potential would be plausible, and some combination of farming families, opportunists, and idealists would have found their way here by now.

At hop twelve, the logistics of supplying a founding cohort over that distance defeat every proposal before they progress to earnest planning. A founding cohort needs to bring enough to establish themselves before they can produce enough to sustain themselves. At hop twelve, the supply chain for that initial period is expensive, slow, and vulnerable to any disruption in the intervening eleven transit hops. The risk is not the world. The world is fine. The risk is the distance between the world and the point at which the founding cohort no longer needs consistent external supply.

Every settlement proposal for GJ 616 has done the same math and reached the same conclusion. The proposals are archived. The world is still there, meeting its parameters, waiting for someone to solve the distance problem rather than the world problem.


Supply Dependency

None.


Faction Notes

No faction presence.


Celestial Bodies

Orbit ID Name Type Inhabited Pop Mass Gravity Year (d) Day (h) Atmo Biome Hydro Economy Settlement Industrial
1 GJ616b planet no terrestrial 0.46g 28 20.2 none barren
2 GJ616c planet no terrestrial 0.86g 200 26.2 standard temperate liquid_water
3 GJ616-belt asteroid_belt no
4 GJ616d planet no terrestrial 0.58g 580 27.6 thin cold_arid
5 GJ616e gas_giant no 1800 12.2 gas_giant
↳ 5.1 GJ616e-m1 moon no dwarf 0.11g 6 148.8 none frozen
6 GJ616f planet no terrestrial 0.44g 4800 34.4 trace frozen ice
7 GJ616g planet no terrestrial 0.34g 11000 42.8 trace frozen ice
8 GJ616h planet no dwarf 0.12g 26000 28.6 none frozen ice
9 GJ616i planet no dwarf 0.08g 54000 22.6 none frozen ice
10 GJ616-oort oort_cloud no

Stations & Facilities

ID Name Type Orbits Population Economy Governance Docking Gate Districts
GJ616-oort-S1 GJ 616 Horizon horizon GJ616-oort transit major yes 1

Topology

  • Hop Distance from Gateway: 12
  • Adjacent Systems: GJ 853A, GJ 903