jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.6
f8b0b17252
High priority: - #763: Rewrite GJ1111/GJ54.1 prose for population rebalance (380K/320K planet + 1M/860K station = mid-tier systems, not megahubs) Medium priority: - #772: Author Brandpunt (GJ 3943) — Afrikaans agricultural research station, subverts pastoral/frontier stereotype - #753: Fix Mabuhay (GJ 1073) — GJ 482A is Dagat, not unsurveyed - #757: Fix Pereira's Rest population 800 → 42K - #758: Fix Langemark schema values (breathable→standard, rivers-lakes, west_reach) - #759: Fix Solheim topology disconnect - #764: Fix GJ1111 star_type unusual → M - #767: Fix GJ707 star_type/spectral_class swap - #769: Fix GJ-147 etymology passagem → Entremeio - #770: Fix GJ-875 header G-type → K-type Low priority: - #754: Update stale Calibration Notes (GJ1128, GJ136, GJ625) - #755: Fix GJ432A Punjabi-Canadian → Punjabi heritage - #756: Fix GJ541 header G-type → K-type (K2IIIp) - #760: Add F2III context to GJ601A notes - #761: Fix GJ4056 spectral_class g → M3V - #765: Add calibration notes for intentional small populations - #768: Reconcile GJ189 wave_2 at hop 8-11 - #771: Fix GJ-7547/GJ-6711 spectral class truncation Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
5.2 KiB
The Narrows
GJ 875 | K-type | deep_frontier
System Profile
| Star | K5 · 46.1 ly |
| Gates | 2 aperture · through_route |
| Settlement | unsettled |
The Narrows is the gap between Paso Largo and Travessia — two hops of corridor with nothing in between except a K5 star, two gate apertures, and the automated systems that keep them operational.
The name was given by Paso Largo's freight crews, who transit the system regularly and have developed the habit of naming the places they pass through whether anyone lives there or not. The Narrows refers to the transit window: the two apertures are positioned such that the optimal transit path between them passes close to the primary, closer than most through-routes, and the gravitational gradient at closest approach produces a perceptible deceleration that freight crews describe as "the squeeze." The effect is minor. The name stuck.
Survey data from three separate assessment waves describes a system that is technically habitable and practically unappealing. The single rocky body in the habitable zone has marginal atmosphere, no surface water, and mineral resources that the survey reports characterize as "adequate for local consumption, insufficient for export viability." Each assessment concludes with a recommendation that the system be maintained as a transit corridor rather than developed for settlement. The recommendations are not wrong. They are also not the reason no one lives here.
The reason no one lives here is simpler: Travessia and Paso Largo are each one hop away in opposite directions, both are settled, and neither community has produced a population surplus sufficient to justify founding a daughter colony in a system whose only advantage is that it exists between them. The corridor's economics do not support a third community at this density. The Narrows is empty because it is unnecessary, and unnecessary systems on the deep frontier stay empty because there is no institutional pressure to fill them.
Supply Dependency
Not applicable. No permanent population. Gate infrastructure is maintained remotely through automated systems with periodic servicing visits from Paso Largo's technical crews.
Faction Notes
No institutional presence. The Assembly's deep frontier transit authority has the system filed under automated corridor maintenance. Paso Largo's freight cooperative handles the servicing contract and bills the transit authority annually. The billing has been approved without review for the last forty years.
Silence Topic
The servicing crews from Paso Largo have noticed, over the past decade, that the automated gate diagnostics at The Narrows produce data logs that are slightly longer than equivalent logs at other automated through-routes on the corridor. The additional data does not correspond to any known diagnostic routine. It appears in a format that the standard monitoring software cannot parse. The crews have mentioned it in their service reports. The reports have been filed. No one has followed up.
Narrative Hook
A Travessia-based communications technician, running signal calibration through The Narrows as part of a routine relay test, received a response to a diagnostic ping from a source that the system's transponder registry does not list.
Calibration Note
The unsettled status at hop 14 on a through-route is consistent with the deep frontier's pattern of uninhabited transit corridors between settled communities.
Celestial Bodies
| Orbit | ID | Name | Type | Inhabited | Pop | Mass | Gravity | Year (d) | Day (h) | Atmo | Biome | Hydro | Economy | Settlement | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GJ875b |
— | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.40g | 18 | 20.2 | none | barren | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | GJ875c |
— | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.72g | 140 | 26.2 | thin | cold_arid | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | GJ875-belt |
— | asteroid_belt | no | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | GJ875d |
— | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.50g | 440 | 26.8 | trace | frozen | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | GJ875e |
— | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.40g | 1200 | 30.4 | trace | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
| 6 | GJ875f |
— | planet | no | — | terrestrial | 0.30g | 3400 | 36.2 | trace | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
| 7 | GJ875g |
— | planet | no | — | dwarf | 0.11g | 8800 | 23.4 | none | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
| 8 | GJ875h |
— | planet | no | — | dwarf | 0.07g | 22000 | 18.6 | none | frozen | ice | — | — | — |
| 9 | GJ875-oort |
— | oort_cloud | no | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Stations & Facilities
| ID | Name | Type | Orbits | Population | Economy | Governance | Docking | Gate | Districts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GJ875-oort-S1 |
The Narrows Horizon | horizon | GJ875-oort |
— | transit | — | major | yes | 1 |
Topology
- Hop Distance from Gateway: 14
- Adjacent Systems: GJ 282B, GJ 684B