settled-reach/wiki/star-systems/GJ-684B/index.md

Paso Largo

GJ 684B | K-type | deep_frontier

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System Profile

Star	K3 V · 46.0 ly
Bodies	0 habitable · 2 inhabited
Gates	2 aperture · through_route
Settlement	wave_3
Industries	fusion_fuel, metallic_ore
Exports	—
Imports	processed_food, electronics, consumer_goods, medical_goods, refined_metals, heavy_equipment
Population	—

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Paso Largo is a waypoint that became a home because waypoints, occupied long enough, do.

The K3V primary provides amber light — warm enough for agriculture under glass, dim enough that the community's circadian rhythms have drifted toward long waking hours and late starts. The settlement sits on the larger of two moons orbiting a ringed gas giant, a configuration that produces complex tidal patterns and a sky that is never entirely dark. The ring-light reflects off the gas giant's upper atmosphere in a pale band that the founders called the "long stride" — paso largo — for reasons that are lost to everyone except the oldest families, who disagree about whether the name refers to the visual effect, the founding expedition's final approach trajectory, or the distance they had come.

Wave_3 settlers arrived three hundred years ago along the corridor from GJ 354A, following a route that connected the outer south_reach to this section of the deep frontier. The founding cohort was small — fewer than two hundred people, predominantly Brazilian and Mozambican heritage, carrying cooperative agricultural traditions that they adapted to the moon's particular conditions with the specific competence of people who had been farming marginal land for generations before they ever left Earth's gravity well. The cooperative structure they established has survived three centuries without fundamental revision, which is either a testament to its design or evidence that nothing has changed enough to require revision. Both readings are accurate.

The settlement's economy is subsistence-plus: enough agricultural output to feed the community and produce a modest surplus that enters the corridor trade network. The surplus is not large enough to attract Syndic attention and not small enough to create dependency. This calibration is not accidental. The founding cooperative's charter includes provisions that cap production expansion at levels the community's own labor can sustain without external hiring. Three centuries later, the provision remains in force, enforced by social pressure rather than legal mechanism. The community does not want to grow. Growth at hop 13 means dependency, and dependency at hop 13 means vulnerability to supply chain decisions made by people who have never seen the ring-light on the gas giant's atmosphere.

Transit traffic passes through. The corridor connects GJ 354A to GJ 875 and beyond, toward the deeper frontier. Paso Largo's residents are accustomed to travelers and uninterested in them. The settlement maintains a small anchorage with basic reprovisioning capability — water, atmosphere cycling, simple food stores — because a community on a through-route that cannot offer basic services to transit vessels is a community that will eventually be asked to explain why, and the founding cooperative decided early that providing minimal services was less disruptive than answering questions about why they did not.

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Supply Dependency

Technical components and medical supplies from the mid-Reach via the corridor. The community produces its own food and basic manufactured goods. The dependency is narrow but irreplaceable: fabrication parts for atmospheric processors and agricultural equipment cannot be manufactured locally. Supply intervals average eight to twelve months. The community maintains a three-year reserve of critical components, a practice established after a supply interruption during the founding century that the cooperative's records describe without elaboration.

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Faction Notes

No institutional presence. No Commission post. No Syndic operations. The cooperative governs by consensus with a rotating administrative council drawn from the founding families and their descendants. Assembly affiliation is nominal — the community files the minimum paperwork required to maintain corridor transit legitimacy and has not sent a delegate to any Assembly proceeding in living memory. The Guardians of Autonomy have no presence here because there is nothing to guard against: the community's autonomy has never been tested by anyone with the interest or the logistical reach to test it.

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Silence Topic

The supply interruption during the founding century. The cooperative's records describe a period of approximately eighteen months in which no supply vessel arrived through the corridor. The records note the duration and the measures taken. They do not describe why the interruption occurred, whether it was the result of a corridor disruption further inward or a deliberate decision by the supply partner to discontinue service. The three-year component reserve that the cooperative now maintains was established immediately after normal supply resumed. The founding families know what happened. The subject is considered closed.

Narrative Hook

A cooperative that has capped its own growth for three centuries, on a moon where the sky is never dark, maintaining a component reserve calibrated against a supply interruption whose cause the founding records decline to name.

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Celestial Bodies

Orbit	ID	Name	Type	Inhabited	Pop	Mass	Gravity	Year (d)	Day (h)	Atmo	Biome	Hydro	Economy	Settlement	Industrial
1	GJ684Bb	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.42g	22	19.8	none	barren	—	—	—	—
2	GJ684Bc	—	gas_giant	no	—	—	—	180	14.2	gas_giant	—	—	—	—	—
↳ 2.1	GJ684Bc-m1	Quelimane	moon	yes	2K	terrestrial	0.62g	8	201.6	standard	temperate	liquid_water	agricultural	dispersed	—
↳ 2.2	GJ684Bc-m2	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.08g	19	446.4	none	barren	—	—	—	—
3	GJ684B-belt	—	asteroid_belt	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	GJ684Bd	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.56g	560	27.4	thin	cold_arid	—	—	—	—
5	GJ684Be	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.44g	1500	30.6	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
6	GJ684Bf	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.34g	4200	36.8	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
7	GJ684Bg	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.26g	10000	44.2	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
8	GJ684Bh	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.12g	24000	28.4	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
9	GJ684Bi	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.08g	50000	22.8	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
10	GJ684B-oort	—	oort_cloud	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Stations & Facilities

ID	Name	Type	Orbits	Population	Economy	Governance	Docking	Gate	Districts
GJ684B-oort-S1	Paso Largo Horizon	horizon	GJ684B-oort	80	transit	—	major	yes	1

Topology

• Hop Distance from Gateway: 13
• Adjacent Systems: GJ 875, GJ 354A