settled-reach/wiki/star-systems/GJ-682/index.md

Taishan

GJ 682 | M-type | east_reach

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System Profile

Star	M5 · 16.6 ly
Bodies	0 habitable · 2 inhabited
Gates	3 aperture · junction
Settlement	wave_4
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

Taishan's three gates connect the inner east corridor to two significant branches: one running coreward to Changwon (GJ 860B), one reaching toward GJ 784 deeper into the mid-reach, and one opening toward GJ 434. The system has grown an industrial economy around the intersection — not the specialized precision manufacturing of Matsue (GJ 687) at the preceding corridor node, but the heavier, less refined work that junction throughput generates: cargo repackaging, transit equipment repair, structural components for habitat expansion, and the bulk processing of materials that arrive in one form and need to leave in another.

Wave_4 settlement at a three-gate junction means Taishan developed after the corridor's commercial logic was already established — the junction value was known before the settlement was built, and the founding design reflects that. The system was invested in deliberately rather than accumulated organically. Its settlement pattern reflects deliberate investment — the junction value was identified before the founding, and the infrastructure was built to meet a projected role.

Faction Notes

Taishan was settled under a Syndic development charter by a Chinese-heritage industrial consortium that chose the name after the sacred mountain in Shandong province — aspirational naming typical of wave_4 corporate foundations that wanted cultural gravitas without the specificity of a place-transplant. The founding consortium has since merged, been acquired, and dissolved across four commercial generations; its successor entity retains the Taishan Industrial designation as a legal continuity measure.

Current governance is a combined corporate-residential council, with corporate seats weighted toward the major industrial operators and residential seats elected by the general population. The Yongli Combine (headquartered at Haodu, GJ 566A) has a production affiliate here, representing one of the major industrial seats. The founding consortium's successor entity holds two others. Residential representation is genuine but the council structure means major decisions require corporate seat concurrence.

The Lattice Commission's presence reflects Taishan's junction status: a substantial customs and compliance office staffed with experienced personnel who handle freight inspection for the three-gate traffic volume. Gate Corporation operates a full junction maintenance team.

Silence Topic

What the corporate council does not discuss publicly: the environmental remediation liability.

One of the earlier industrial operations at Taishan — a bulk processing facility that operated for approximately sixty years before being shut down and transferred — left subsurface contamination in the habitat zone adjacent to the original development footprint. The contamination is documented in internal corporate records. A remediation assessment was commissioned by the Syndic successor entity eighteen years ago. The assessment recommended action. The action has not been taken, because the corporate seat holders cannot agree on proportional liability for a facility that changed ownership three times before it was shut down. The residential council has not been shown the assessment.

Narrative Hook

A remediation assessment for the contaminated subsurface zone beneath Taishan's original settlement district was completed eighteen years ago; the corporate council members who commissioned it have not shared it with the residential council and have not agreed among themselves on who pays.

Calibration Note

wave_4 at hop 5 for a three-gate junction is slightly late — most hub and junction systems at this hop distance were developed in wave_3. The explanation is corridor-specific: the gate path through Taishan was rationalized in wave_4 as part of the commercial expansion push that also settled GJ 566A (Haodu) as a hub. Before that rationalization, GJ 682's gate value was not obvious from the prior topology. The Chinese founding-heritage naming convention is corridor-consistent; the corporate founding structure is consistent with wave_4 east_reach settlement patterns.

Celestial Bodies

Orbit	ID	Name	Type	Inhabited	Pop	Mass	Gravity	Year (d)	Day (h)	Atmo	Biome	Hydro	Economy	Settlement	Industrial
1	GJ682b	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.27g	3	81.6	none	barren	—	—	—	—
2	GJ682c	Taishan	planet	yes	280K	terrestrial	0.78g	11	259.2	standard	temperate_terminator	liquid_water	manufacturing	urban_concentrated	heavy_processing
3	GJ682-belt	—	asteroid_belt	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	GJ682d	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.41g	72	21.4	trace	frozen	—	—	—	—
5	GJ682e	—	gas_giant	no	—	—	—	290	13.6	gas_giant	—	—	—	—	—
↳ 5.1	GJ682e-m1	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.10g	4	105.6	—	frozen	—	—	—	—
6	GJ682f	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.33g	880	28.2	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
7	GJ682g	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.25g	2500	36.4	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
8	GJ682h	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.11g	5800	23.8	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
9	GJ682-oort	—	oort_cloud	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Stations & Facilities

ID	Name	Type	Orbits	Population	Economy	Governance	Docking	Gate	Districts
GJ682-oort-S1	Taishan Horizon	horizon	GJ682-oort	1K	transit	—	major	yes	1

Topology

• Hop Distance from Gateway: 5
• Adjacent Systems: GJ 784, GJ 434, GJ 860B