jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.6
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Five inner stubs (hops 3-4) written with extra care for topographic position and narrative opportunity: - Travessia (GJ 1156): core/south_reach gateway junction, home of Mercado Travessia supermarket chain - Crown's Hollow (GJ 661A): British monarchy in exile, European royalty purge refugees, Kiyomi-Battenberg-Windsor dynasty - Cairnside (GJ 892): wave_5 materials science research settlement in the Cairn pocket, studying variable star conditions - Nová Tržnice (GJ 105A): Czech free-port commercial bazaar at east_reach junction, hundreds of small manufacturers - Schuilhoek (GJ 68): wave_3 Dutch farming community hidden in Cairn pocket for 300 years across four cultivated worlds GJ 68 settlement_wave updated from wave_5 to wave_3 in database. Mercado Travessia corporation doc and index entry added. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Corporations
Major commercial entities operating at civilizational scale in the Settled Reach. These are Syndic-tier organizations whose products are so fundamental to the Reach's infrastructure that they operate beyond the normal commercial register.
Corporations
| Corporation | System | Product | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gate Corporation | Renaissance (GJ 251) | Span gate infrastructure | Every inhabited system |
| Mastroianni Vehicle Group | Nova Roma (GJ 764) | Transit vehicles, trains, haulers | Reach-wide fleet |
| Prometheus Labs | Prometheus (GJ 702B) | Longevity hardware, implants | Every Perpetual |
| Adams & Ford Publishing | Parallax (GJ 280A) | The Drifter's Guide to the Reach | Every data terminal |
| Mercado Travessia | Travessia (GJ 1156) | Grocery and household goods chain | Hop 2 to hop 7 |
| Calloway Distillery | Calloway Reach (GJ 3325) | Single malt whisky | North reach export, cult following |
| thrds | Braemar (GJ 475) | Cold-weather technical clothing | North reach and beyond |
Key Relationships
- Gate Corporation ← Veil Institute: Institute reverse-engineered span gate tech from alien horizon stations, licensed it to the Gate Corporation. The founding commercial relationship of the Reach.
- MVG ↔ Gate Corporation: Gates constrain vehicle design; vehicles constrain gate specifications. Deeply interdependent.
- MVG ↔ Cygni B combines: Competitors on hull structures, collaborators on specifications. The line between "vehicle" and "ship" is where contracts get interesting.
- Prometheus Labs → Assembly: The founding Assembly members are still alive because of Prometheus Labs. Neither institution discusses this dependency.
- Prometheus Labs → Veil Institute: Institute researchers are Perpetual-class. Five centuries of continuous study is possible because of Prometheus Labs technology.