settled-reach/wiki/star-systems/GJ-117/index.md

GJ 117

GJ 117 | M-type | east_reach

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System Profile

Star	M1V · 33.8 ly
Bodies	0 habitable · 1 inhabited
Gates	2 aperture · through_route
Settlement	unsettled
Industries	metallic_ore, lattice_grade_material, hospitality, financial_services, legal_services
Exports	lattice_grade_material, financial_services
Imports	processed_food, electronics, consumer_goods, medical_goods, fusion_fuel, refined_metals
Population	—

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GJ 117 is an empty through_route at the edge of the east_reach — two apertures, one toward GJ 434 and through it toward Taishan, one toward GJ 211 in the deep corridor. The M-dwarf is a dim red primary with a stable habitable zone and no obvious settlement barrier. The surveys were done. Nothing was wrong. No one came.

The timing was unfavorable. The east_reach push extended this corridor during an era of confident expansion, but the systems that might have seeded settlement here had their populations absorbed into closer, more connected communities during the Secession period's economic contraction. GJ 117 remained on the charts as an open route rather than a destination.

At hop 7, it sees genuine transit traffic — vessels moving between the east_reach's outer corridors and the deep frontier systems beyond GJ 211. Most of that traffic passes through without slowing. The in-system passage between apertures is clean and unremarkable. Navigation broadcasts from the automated relay indicate no anomalies. The relay's most recent log entry is current; someone, somewhere, is still maintaining it — possibly the Commission through Taishan, possibly on automated schedule with human oversight in name only.

Supply Dependency

None. No population, no active resource extraction.

Faction Notes

No faction presence. Apertures and relay registered to Commission infrastructure. Maintenance accountability sits with the east_reach administrative structure rooted at the corridor's junction systems.

Silence Topic

Not applicable — no population to keep silence.

Narrative Hook

Transit logs at GJ 117 show a consistent but unexplained pattern: a vessel identifying as a Commission survey ship has been transiting the system once every three months, on a precise schedule, for at least the past seven years. No survey program matching the identifier exists in the public register.

Calibration Note

Unsettled through_route at hop 7 with no settlement barrier is a mild anomaly; justified by historical timing rather than physical obstacle. The transit connection between GJ 434 and GJ 211 makes it structurally significant despite being empty.

The outer planet Doi Kaeo (Thai: 'crystal peak') was named by a Thai-heritage survey team that passed through GJ 117 during the east_reach corridor-mapping runs — one of several teams who left Thai place-names on unsettled bodies along the route. Survey teams name what they find; the names outlast the teams. Doi Kaeo has been on the charts under that name for over two hundred years without anyone living there to use it.

Celestial Bodies

Orbit	ID	Name	Type	Inhabited	Pop	Mass	Gravity	Year (d)	Day (h)	Atmo	Class	Hydro	Economy	Settlement	Industrial
1	GJ117b	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.36g	9	225.6	none	barren	—	—	—	—
2	GJ117c	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.82g	56	26.8	standard	temperate	liquid_water	—	—	—
3	GJ117-belt	—	asteroid_belt	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	GJ117d	Doi Kaeo	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.48g	190	24.4	thin	frozen	—	—	—	—
5	GJ117e	—	planet	no	—	terrestrial	0.38g	560	28.6	trace	frozen	ice	—	—	—
6	GJ117f	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.11g	1600	21.8	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
7	GJ117g	—	planet	no	—	dwarf	0.08g	4200	17.4	none	frozen	ice	—	—	—
8	GJ117-oort	—	oort_cloud	no	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Stations & Facilities

ID	Name	Type	Orbits	Population	Economy	Governance	Docking	Gate	Districts
GJ117-oort-S1	GJ 117 Horizon	horizon	GJ117-oort	—	transit	—	major	yes	1

Topology

• Hop Distance from Gateway: 7
• Adjacent Systems: GJ 434, GJ 211