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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 — LINDSTRÖM STATION
LINDSTRÖM STATION is named for a woman who authorized an ore extraction operation two hundred years ago, then had a company, then a station, then a star system, then a holding company restructuring that preserved her name while removing her descendants from any operational control.
The Corporate Founding
Margareta Lindström was the executive director of Lindström Extractives, a mid-reach company, when she authorized the permanent transit post after a mineral survey of this spur off Wolf 359 returned promising deep-strata readings. The planet in the inner zone is not habitable without significant life support, but it is rich in heavy-element deposits. Extraction operations began within a decade and have run continuously since. The company has been restructured, acquired, and restructured again; the current operator, registered as Lindström Resources — a name deliberately retained for brand continuity — is majority-owned by a holding company based in the inner reach whose consolidated reporting does not specify per-system output.
The station bears the founder's name. The community that formed around the extraction operation is Swedish in founder heritage — Lindström Extractives recruited from Scandinavian-heritage settlement pools, treating cultural continuity as an operational asset. Two centuries of immigration have diluted the founder character without eliminating it. Swedish is still spoken in some households. The governance structure retains traces of corporate paternalism from the founding charter era.
The Safety Reports
The Assembly's inspector's office has a mandate to oversee safety compliance. It receives safety reports. It does not receive production data, which is commercially confidential. The gap between what the safety reports describe and what conditions are like underground has been, according to someone on the workforce side who has been making discreet contact with an investigative journalist at Wolf 359, somewhat larger than the reports indicate. The most recent labor contract was signed three years ago without enthusiasm on either side. The twenty-year cycle of labor disputes has approximately seventeen years left to run before the next one.
What GJ 216B's stub aperture — the other end of this spur — is being used for is not discussed publicly on the station.
Practical Information
Lindström Station is four hops from Gateway at the end of a spur connecting to Wolf 359 and GJ 216B. The K7V primary is cool and stable. All supply lines run through Wolf 359; when Wolf 359's schedule is disrupted, Lindström Station notices immediately. The community is stable, economically functional, and not politically contentious by the standards of a place with a twenty-year labor dispute cycle. The extraction operation is vertically integrated. The yields are commercially confidential.
Adams of the Guide rates Lindström Station: Operational. Reports Filed.