jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.6
199770ee41
Adds Bodies and Population rows to System Profile tables across all 301 star-system wiki pages. Adds Industries, Exports, and Imports economic profile rows derived from systems.db economic_base + body type + topology. Includes 9 body/station name changes from cultural diversity remediation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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New Ballarat
GJ 667A | K-type | north_reach
System Profile
| Star | K4V · 22.3 ly |
| Bodies | 1 habitable · 4 inhabited |
| Gates | 3 aperture · junction |
| Settlement | wave_3 |
| Industries | fusion_fuel, metallic_ore, financial_services, insurance, legal_services |
| Exports | financial_services, legal_services |
| Imports | processed_food, electronics, consumer_goods, medical_goods, refined_metals, chemicals |
| Population | — |
Supply Dependency
New Ballarat sits at the junction between the inner-reach corridor (GJ 34A, Tanegashima) and the outer north branch (GJ 3991). It receives agricultural staples from Puerto Rivera (GJ 780) and processed goods from core fabrication, routed through Tanegashima, and passes them forward to the outer systems that depend on the junction for regular supply. In the other direction, ore concentrates and raw organics from GJ 3991 move through New Ballarat's bonding facilities before being cleared for inward transit. The local economy runs on junction fees, bonded warehouse services, and the retail that feeds two hundred years of transit-worker settlement.
Faction Notes
Governance is a bicameral parliament — a Senate of property-holding founders' descendants and a directly elected Assembly of Citizens — an arrangement that has been producing constitutional arguments for roughly a century and a half without resolving them. Commonwealth procedural instinct means those arguments happen in committee rather than on the streets, which is either admirable institutional maturity or a very effective method of avoiding any outcome.
The Concord Assembly's presence is structural: a transit compliance office, a delegate with voting rights at Gateway sessions, and a quarterly fleet patrol. New Ballarat does not resist Assembly governance; it engages it, sends sharp delegates, and has twice successfully petitioned for assessment reclassification. The system believes in working the process.
A Gate Corporation maintenance team is permanently stationed here, smaller than Wolf 359's base but sufficient to service three apertures and run a limited apprenticeship program for locals interested in gate work. Several New Ballarat graduates have gone on to Fremantle's full academy (GJ 273).
Silence Topic
The founding families' Senate seats are formally hereditary-elective: the Senate chooses among qualified descendants when a seat falls vacant. Over the past forty years, the Calloway-Osei consortium — a Wave 3 founding family alliance — has placed members in seven of eleven Senate seats. The Citizens' Assembly has passed three resolutions demanding Senate reform. All three died in joint committee, which is controlled by Senate appointees.
Narrative Hook
New Ballarat advertises itself as the corridor's most democratic junction; a closer look at the Senate composition suggests the founders' children have a different definition of the word.
Calibration Note
Wave_3 settlement at hop 4 is consistent with junction activation during the Working Reach expansion period, when establishing relay points ahead of frontier push was standard Assembly infrastructure policy. The bicameral governance form reflects Commonwealth parliamentary tradition adapted to a founding-family political settlement — a compromise made at charter time that was never meant to be permanent and now cannot be changed.
Celestial Bodies
| Orbit | ID | Name | Type | Inhabited | Pop | Mass | Gravity | Year (d) | Day (h) | Atmo | Biome | Hydro | Economy | Settlement | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GJ667Ab |
— | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.35g | 30 | 720.0 | none | barren | none | — | — | — |
| 2 | GJ667Ac |
— | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.50g | 70 | 22.0 | thin | arid | none | — | — | — |
| 3 | GJ667Ad |
Geelong | planet | yes | 600M | terrestrial | 0.92g | 160 | 22.0 | breathable | temperate | moderate | transit | urban | — |
| ↳ 3.1 | GJ667Ad-1 |
— | moon | no | — | dwarf | 0.06g | 10 | 240.0 | none | barren | none | — | — | — |
| 4 | GJ667Ae |
— | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.42g | 320 | 18.0 | thin | arid | none | — | — | — |
| 5 | GJ667Af |
— | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.35g | 830 | 16.0 | none | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
| 6 | GJ667Ag |
— | gas_giant | no | — | gas_giant | — | 2400 | 11.0 | dense | — | — | — | — | — |
| ↳ 6.1 | GJ667Ag-1 |
— | moon | no | — | dwarf | 0.06g | 5 | 120.0 | none | barren | none | — | — | — |
| ↳ 6.2 | GJ667Ag-2 |
— | moon | no | — | dwarf | 0.04g | 14 | 336.0 | none | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
| 7 | GJ667Ah |
— | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.22g | 5200 | 20.0 | none | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
| 8 | GJ667Ai |
— | planet | no | — | dwarf | 0.12g | 9500 | 22.0 | none | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
| 9 | GJ667A-belt |
— | asteroid_belt | no | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | GJ667A-oort |
— | oort_cloud | no | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Stations & Facilities
| ID | Name | Type | Orbits | Population | Economy | Governance | Docking | Gate | Districts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GJ667A-oort-S1 |
Portland | horizon | GJ667A-oort |
1K | transit | — | major | yes | 1 |
GJ667Ad-S1 |
Footscray | commercial | GJ667Ad |
25M | transit | — | major | no | 1 |
GJ667Ad-S2 |
Newport | industrial | GJ667Ad |
5M | coordination | — | standard | no | 1 |
Topology
- Hop Distance from Gateway: 4
- Adjacent Systems: GJ 873, GJ 34A, GJ 3991