jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.6
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5 settled, 12 unsettled (71% empty): - Ouplaas (GJ 528A) — wave_2 Afrikaans, 400 years at hop 10 - Saudade (GJ 1267) — voluntary exile-adjacents near Recanto - Fluchtburg (GJ 428A) — Assembly military deserters - Fernlicht (GJ 61) — scholar-exile community, G-type at hop 12 - Einde (GJ 407) — industrial accident refugees, dead end Attractive unclaimed worlds: GJ 524 (G-type garden world), GJ 5, GJ 69, GJ 853A (mineral deposits), GJ 868 (disputed "Encontro" between two Portuguese communities). Marginal/unattractive: GJ 394, 146, 177, 3403, 354A, 656, 616. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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GJ 3403
GJ 3403 | K-type | deep_frontier
System Profile
| Star | K · 33.5 ly |
| Gates | 2 aperture · through_route |
| Settlement | unsettled |
GJ 3403 has been surveyed, found adequate, and left alone.
The K-type primary is a better star than most at this depth — warmer than an M-dwarf, more stable, producing something closer to what the human body expects from a sky. The primary world meets settlement criteria: breathable atmosphere, adequate warmth, reasonable water distribution, no significant geological instability. Survey assessments across multiple visits have reached the same conclusion each time: habitable world, meets minimum parameters, no compelling argument for or against.
"No compelling argument for or against" is how a world remains empty for generations. The positive case for settling GJ 3403 — it is adequate — runs directly into the negative case for not settling GJ 3403 at hop ten: it is only adequate. The inner-Reach settlement wave funded frontier development when the economics were favorable, and GJ 3403's economics were never favorable enough to compete with better opportunities at closer distances. The corridor needed a node here. Nobody needed a home here. The distinction is the whole story.
The system connects to Neugrund at GJ 675 on one side — the multicultural experiment, the self-conscious attempt to build something deliberately mixed — and GJ 656 in the other direction. The corridor exists. The horizon station processes transit. The habitable world turns below, meeting its parameters.
Supply Dependency
None.
Faction Notes
No faction presence.
Topology
- Hop Distance from Gateway: 10
- Adjacent Systems: GJ 675 (Neugrund), GJ 656