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Complete Drifter's Guide coverage for the North Reach corridor. 49 new entries from hop 3 (Crown's Hollow) to hop 12 (Rekohu), plus updated gttr-north.md index with all 55 north systems. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — DUNMORE
DUNMORE has been a mining settlement with a community on top for three hundred years, and the community knows that if it thought too clearly about what happens when the mine runs out, people would leave before they had to.
The Through-Route
The name means great fort or great hill in Gaelic, depending on which tradition you use, and nobody has cared enough to settle the matter in three hundred years, which is itself a kind of character description. Dunmore connects Prospect Hill to Caledonia's End, which means it sees whatever traffic travels between a transit-contested spur system and a dead end. That traffic is not much. The gate infrastructure is functional and unglamorous. There are no commercial hospitality operators oriented toward transit traffic because transit traffic has never justified investment.
Dunmore's extraction exports route through Prospect Hill's connection to Ashworth Junction, which means that Ashworth Junction's forty-year-old institutional complications have been making Dunmore's export routing slightly more expensive and complicated without Dunmore having meaningful input into why. The community assembly has noted this with displeasure. No formal intervention has followed.
The Trajectory
The extraction yields have been declining slowly for 60 years. Not catastrophically — the operation remains viable. The trajectory is known to the Cooperative's senior committee. The public framing is that yield variability is normal at a mature extraction site. The private framing, in the Cooperative's internal planning documents, uses words like "terminal grade decline."
The community has not had a serious conversation about what Dunmore is when the extraction is gone. The Cooperative's committee has consistently assessed that such a conversation, if held, would produce emigration before the timeline actually requires it.
A geological survey team from an inward corridor firm has arrived with equipment noticeably more sophisticated than routine survey work would require. Their contract description, filed with the community assembly as required, describes their work as "secondary resource mapping" without specifying which secondary resources or who commissioned the contract.
Practical Information
Dunmore is seven hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to Prospect Hill and Caledonia's End. The K5V primary is dim and stable. Three centuries of the same family names working the same rock. The school is functional, the medical facility is better than expected, the social fabric is intact. Supply stockpiles are sized for extended disruption.
Adams of the Guide rates Dunmore: Persistent. Yield Trend Confidential.