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jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.6 cfd6ba973c fix(content): rename Vargr system to Sindri (GJ 3522)

Rename to avoid association with Traveller RPG species name.
GJ catalog ID unchanged. Updates system page, Drifter's Guide,
cross-references from Kensho and Renaissance, catalog, index,
and cultural migration design doc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-03-16 01:24:13 +01:00

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THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — THE CORE

The core is twenty-five systems within three gate hops of Gateway, and it is where the Reach keeps everything it considers important: its government, its archives, its fleet, its factories, its financial records, the company that decides who lives for centuries, and several extremely nice gardens maintained by people who would prefer you did not think too carefully about why they can afford them.

The core is stable in the way that old money is stable — not because nothing is wrong, but because the things that are wrong have been wrong for long enough that they have become structural features rather than problems. The institutions here have been running for three to five centuries. The people who founded several of them are still alive. The questions nobody asks have had time to develop root systems.

Every system in the core is well-supplied, well-documented, and accessible through the gate network without difficulty. The Commission maintains active offices in all of them. The food ranges from excellent to institutional. The social mobility ranges from technically nonzero to a polite fiction. The Guide's correspondents have found the core systems uniformly welcoming to visitors, which is a different statement than saying they are welcoming to residents.

Gateway (Hop 0)

System	Rating
Gateway (GJ 71)	Diplomatically Complicated.

The Inner Ring (Hop 1)

System	Rating
ACB (GJ 559B)	Thoroughly Documented.
Ran (GJ 144)	Pleasant. Do not ask questions.
Sirius (GJ 244A)	Important. Apologies.
Sol (GJ 0)	Historically Significant. Currently Stewing.
Struve (GJ 725B)	Full of Potential. Send Lawyers.

The Mid Ring (Hop 2)

System	Rating
Barnard's Star (GJ 699)	Residential. Surprisingly Thoughtful.
Cygni B (GJ 820B)	Load-Bearing.
Groombridge (GJ 380)	Discreet.
Keid (GJ 166A)	Pristine. Access Restricted.
Meridian (GJ 674)	Opportunity. Terms and Conditions Apply.
Parallax (GJ 280A)	Observant.
Prometheus (GJ 702B)	By Appointment Only.
Proxima Centauri (GJ 551)	Sacred. Filing Pending.
Renaissance (GJ 251)	Essential. Underpaid.
Tessera (GJ 3877)	Authoritative. Self-Certified.
Sindri (GJ 3522)	Productive. Do Not Descend.

The Outer Ring (Hop 3)

System	Rating
Arbour (GJ 338B)	Lovely. By Invitation.
Aurelius (GJ 783A)	Educational. In Every Sense.
Bastion (GJ 570A)	Prepared. For What Remains Unclear.
Kensho (GJ 1286)	Illuminating. Selectively.
Lacaille 9352 (GJ 887)	Functional. Do Not Linger.
Lu Ban (GJ 15A)	Affordable. One Exit.
Nova Roma (GJ 764)	Well-Built.
Ross 128 (GJ 447)	Beautiful. Surface-Level.

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