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Gliese 667

GJ 667C | M2.5 · east_reach

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System Profile

Star	M2.5 · 22.7 ly
Gates	1 aperture · dead_end
Settlement	wave_5

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Supply Dependency

Gliese 667 imports almost everything. Wave_5 activation means the settlement is recent enough that its productive base is still being established, and the dead_end topology means all imports and exports flow through the single gate connection to Shenwei (GJ 3379). The relationship with Shenwei is therefore not just geographic but existential: every supply shipment, every outbound research package, every personnel rotation passes through Shenwei's administrative systems. The Gliese 667 research consortium negotiated a transit agreement with Shenwei's administrative council before the settlement was activated, and that agreement's terms are the most consequential document in the new system's founding archive.

What Gliese 667 produces — or intends to produce — is data. The system's multiple rocky planets in or near the habitable zone generated significant pre-settlement astronomical attention when the gate survey confirmed what the remote observations had suggested. The founding consortium is a research partnership of Veil Institute affiliates and independent planetary scientists who want access to those planets as study subjects. Whether this produces commercially valuable findings within a timeframe that justifies the settlement costs is an open question that the consortium's five-year review is scheduled to address.

Faction Notes

The decision to keep the scientific catalog name was made by the founding consortium over the objection of one faction that wanted to honor a founding benefactor. The catalog-name faction won on the argument that the system was being settled specifically because of its pre-settlement scientific reputation, and that reputation was attached to the Gliese 667 designation in the scientific literature. Changing the name would, they argued, make it harder for researchers elsewhere in the Reach to find the community's publications in the literature networks. This argument was sound enough that even the faction that wanted the benefactor honored conceded it.

The settlement is governed by a research council — five elected representatives, one from each founding partner institution. The Veil Institute's representative holds structural weight because the Institute's funding constitutes the largest single share of the settlement's operating budget. This creates a governance dynamic the other partners are aware of and manage carefully: the Institute's representative does not vote disproportionately, but the Institute's budget share means its representative's concerns receive proportionate weight in deliberations that technically require consensus.

No Lattice Commission office. No Assembly presence beyond a registration filing. Wave_5 systems at dead_end topology exist at the outer edge of institutional reach.

Silence Topic

What the founding consortium does not discuss publicly: the relationship between Gliese 667's founding and Shenwei's classified wave_1 anomaly report.

Shenwei (GJ 3379) holds a classified wave_1 anomaly report describing a geological formation on one of the system's outer bodies that the original survey team considered inconsistent with natural formation processes. That report was filed against Shenwei but the outer body in question is at the edge of the survey team's mapping range — within what subsequent charting confirmed is the Gliese 667 system's gravitational neighborhood. At least one member of the Gliese 667 founding consortium is a Veil Institute affiliate who has read the Shenwei anomaly report summary through Institute archive access. Whether the settlement was partially motivated by interest in that anomaly is a question that member has not answered in any forum accessible to the other founders.

Narrative Hook

Gliese 667 was settled by researchers with legitimate scientific reasons to be here, and at least one of those researchers has access to a classified wave_1 document describing an anomaly in this system's neighborhood that has never been publicly discussed.

Calibration Note

wave_5 at hop 6 as a dead_end with 1 aperture is consistent with recent research-motivated settlement — the system's pre-settlement astronomical reputation would attract a dedicated founding consortium in the Activation Edge wave. M2.5 classification matches the stub. Keeping the scientific catalog designation is a Section 6.3 functional-designation exception, here justified by research community norms rather than commercial logistics (as in Relay 7) — the system's identity is its astronomical designation in the literature. The Veil Institute connection threads back to Shenwei's established faction notes.

Celestial Bodies

Orbit	ID	Name	Type	Inhabited	Pop	Mass	Gravity	Year (d)	Day (h)	Atmo	Biome	Hydro	Economy	Settlement	Industrial
1	GJ667Cb	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.35g	7	172.8	none	barren	—	—	—	—
2	GJ667Cc	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.82g	28	672.0	standard	temperate_terminator	liquid_water	—	—	—
3	GJ667Cd	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.76g	42	1008.0	standard	temperate_terminator	liquid_water	—	—	—
4	GJ667Ce	Gliese 667	planet	yes	320	terrestrial	0.70g	62	1488.0	standard	temperate_terminator	liquid_water	research	dispersed	—
5	GJ667C-belt	—	asteroid_belt	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
6	GJ667Cf	—	gas_giant	no	—	—	—	380	13.4	gas_giant	—	—	—	—	—
↳ 6.1	GJ667Cf-m1	—	moon	no	—	dwarf	0.09g	6	139.2	—	frozen	—	—	—	—
7	GJ667Cg	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.36g	1200	30.4	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
8	GJ667Ch	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.11g	3400	24.6	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
9	GJ667C-oort	—	oort_cloud	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Stations & Facilities

ID	Name	Type	Orbits	Population	Economy	Governance	Docking	Gate	Districts
GJ667C-oort-S1	Gliese 667 Horizon	horizon	GJ667C-oort	80	transit	—	major	yes	1

Topology

• Hop Distance from Gateway: 6
• Adjacent Systems: GJ 3379