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Complete Drifter's Guide coverage for the Deep Frontier. 61 new entries from hop 3 (Cairnside) to hop 23 (Abzu), plus updated gttr-deep.md index with all 61 deep systems. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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THE DRIFTER'S GUIDE TO THE REACH — ENTREMEIO
ENTREMEIO is Portuguese — it means "between," and the community accepted its transitional identity from the day it was named and has spent 160 years being professionally in-between.
The Last Conventional Settlement
Hop 19, through_route, wave-4. Nova Estrada on one side. Dalim on the other, where the corridor enters territory that does not follow the normal logic of settlement. Entremeio is the last system on this route where a traveler can expect to find a community operating on recognizable frontier economics: supply chains, trade relationships, agricultural surplus, the ordinary mechanics of human settlement at distance. What lies beyond Dalim does not operate on those mechanics.
The community knows this. They see the travelers heading deeper — sparse, purposeful, rarely talkative about where they are going or why. The community provisions them. They do not ask questions. The founding cohort's south_reach heritage includes a hospitality tradition that extends to strangers passing through and does not extend to curiosity about their business. At hop 19, this is survival strategy rather than custom: a through-route community that asks too many questions of the people passing through will eventually ask a question someone does not want asked, and at this distance, the consequences of that are managed locally.
The Lakeside Community
The F9V primary is near-solar, warm enough to feel familiar. The habitable world has a thin atmosphere requiring supplemental pressure in lower elevations, so the settlement sits on the shore of the largest equatorial lake, where the microclimate makes supplemental pressure unnecessary and the adapted agriculture produces consistent yields. The lakeside quality is almost comfortable, almost inviting, almost enough to make a traveler consider staying. Almost.
The community of approximately 700 people has an elected municipal council with four-year terms — more formal than most deep frontier governance, reflecting the founding cohort's south_reach democratic tradition. Food production is partially local, with the community importing approximately forty percent of its caloric needs from the corridor behind. The dependency is slowly decreasing as agricultural development extends around the lake's perimeter. Nineteen hops to the nearest source of critical medical technology. The council's position is that the Assembly's jurisdiction is theoretical at hop 19 and the irrigation infrastructure needs the resources more than the Assembly needs the compliance.
Practical Information
Entremeio is nineteen hops from Gateway with two apertures connecting to Nova Estrada and Dalim. Provisioning services are available. The lakeside location makes this one of the more pleasant waypoints on the deep corridor. Visitors heading deeper are provisioned and not questioned.
Adams of the Guide rates Entremeio: Professionally in-between. Does not ask. Does not expect to be asked.