settled-reach/wiki/star-systems/GJ-66A/index.md

p Eridani

GJ 66A | K2 V · east_reach

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System Profile

Star	K2 V · 26.6 ly
Bodies	0 habitable · 2 inhabited
Gates	3 aperture · junction
Settlement	wave_2
Industries	fusion_fuel, metallic_ore, financial_services, insurance, legal_services, rare_minerals, chemical_feedstock
Exports	financial_services, legal_services, rare_minerals
Imports	processed_food, electronics, consumer_goods, medical_goods, refined_metals, chemicals
Population	—

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Supply Dependency

p Eridani is a junction that kept its catalog designation because no one could agree on anything else. The system was settled in wave_2 by a consortium of three distinct founding groups whose interests aligned well enough to establish a gate facility but not well enough to agree on a name. By the time any individual group had accumulated enough local standing to impose a preference, two generations had passed and the catalog designation had become the community's de facto identity. Later attempts to hold formal renaming votes have all produced the same outcome: the vote passes for a new name, the name is used in official documents for a few years, and then the community drifts back to p Eridani because that is what the gate charts say and gate charts are what ships use.

The three gates connect outward toward Novaya Zarya (GJ 137) on one branch, down to Korhonen (GJ 412B) on the dead_end extraction branch, and toward GJ 1125 on a spur that reaches deeper into the outer corridor. That last connection defines p Eridani's primary economic function: it is the sole external link for Korhonen's ore shipments, which gives p Eridani's freight brokers and transit operators structural leverage over the extraction system's pricing that has been a source of resentment in Korhonen for three generations. p Eridani's logistics operators regard this as commercial arithmetic. Korhonen's council describes it using different terms.

Faction Notes

The three founding groups — a Finnish mineral survey cooperative, a Chinese-heritage transit infrastructure firm, and a mixed-heritage agricultural community that underestimated how little agricultural potential the K2 star's habitable zone would offer — have long since blended into a general local population. Their descendants hold no formal privileged positions and there are no founding-family governance provisions. What persists is a cultural pattern of factional negotiation: p Eridani's governance by elected committee has always featured competing blocs, and the community has developed elaborate informal norms for managing those competitions that are deeply opaque to outsiders.

The Lattice Commission junction office is substantial — three-gate systems generate enough commercial complexity to justify it. Gate Corporation maintains a standard junction team. Neither has leverage over the committee's internal politics; both operate within the community's external compliance requirements without friction because p Eridani's commercial operators understand that friction with the Commission creates documentation problems downstream.

The Assembly's presence is institutional. The committee sends delegates, pays assessments, and treats Assembly governance frameworks as background law rather than active management.

Silence Topic

What p Eridani's committee does not discuss in public session: the Korhonen transit fee schedule.

The fee schedule for Korhonen-originating freight has been revised upward three times in the last forty years, each time justified by infrastructure maintenance costs that the committee's records show are real but which independent analysis would reveal to be a fraction of the fee increase. The gap between infrastructure cost and fee revenue flows into p Eridani's general operating fund, where it is not labeled as a markup on Korhonen's commercial isolation. Korhonen's council has raised the issue in formal correspondence. p Eridani's committee has responded with detailed infrastructure cost documentation that is accurate and incomplete. The Assembly framework provides a dispute mechanism that would require both parties to open their full accounts to Commission review, which neither party has invoked, apparently for different reasons.

Narrative Hook

p Eridani has been overcharging Korhonen's freight operators for forty years under documentation that is accurate enough to survive a surface review and incomplete enough that a full Commission audit would raise uncomfortable questions about what the committee's infrastructure fund is actually paying for.

Calibration Note

wave_2 at hop 5 as a K2 V junction with 3 apertures is consistent with an early-settled corridor position where gate infrastructure was established before commercial consolidation gave any single entity naming authority. The catalog designation as community name is a Section 6.3 event-category naming exception — named after what happened (no one could agree) rather than a heritage or founder attribution. The Finnish/Chinese/mixed founding blend produces a cross-corridor heritage exception consistent with the cultural framework's guidance that inner-hop junctions are among the most demographically mixed systems in the corridor.

Celestial Bodies

Orbit	ID	Name	Type	Inhabited	Pop	Mass	Gravity	Year (d)	Day (h)	Atmo	Biome	Hydro	Economy	Settlement	Industrial
1	GJ66Ab	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.44g	22	18.4	none	barren	—	—	—	—
2	GJ66Ac	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.68g	95	26.4	thin	hot_arid	—	—	—	—
3	GJ66Ad	p Eridani	planet	yes	520M	terrestrial	0.90g	240	23.8	standard	temperate	liquid_water	transit	urban_concentrated	logistics
4	GJ66A-belt	—	asteroid_belt	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5	GJ66Ae	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.56g	720	27.2	thin	cold_arid	—	—	—	—
6	GJ66Af	—	gas_giant	no	—	—	—	2800	10.6	gas_giant	—	—	—	—	—
↳ 6.1	GJ66Af-m1	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.13g	6	139.2	trace	frozen	—	—	—	—
↳ 6.2	GJ66Af-m2	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.08g	13	302.4	—	barren	—	—	—	—
7	GJ66Ag	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.45g	7200	35.4	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
8	GJ66Ah	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.36g	15600	43.8	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
9	GJ66Ai	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.13g	34000	28.6	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
10	GJ66A-oort	—	oort_cloud	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Stations & Facilities

ID	Name	Type	Orbits	Population	Economy	Governance	Docking	Gate	Districts
GJ66A-oort-S1	p Eridani Horizon	horizon	GJ66A-oort	2K	transit	—	major	yes	1

Topology

• Hop Distance from Gateway: 5
• Adjacent Systems: GJ 137, GJ 1125, GJ 412B