diff --git a/src/_data/site.json b/src/_data/site.json
index 52e8451..913ef9e 100644
--- a/src/_data/site.json
+++ b/src/_data/site.json
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 {
   "name": "River Rooks",
-  "title": "River Rooks | Technical Publication",
+  "title": "River Rooks | Homelab Gateway",
   "description": "Engineering Notes, CTF Write-Ups & Systems Architecture",
   "status": "SYSTEMS NOMINAL",
   "author": "River Rooks",
   "systemSpec": "IEEE STD 1003.1",
   "nav": [
     {
-      "label": "Dispatches",
+      "label": "Gateway 3",
       "url": "/"
     },
     {
-      "label": "Gateway 3",
-      "url": "/gateway/"
+      "label": "Dispatches",
+      "url": "/dispatches/"
     },
     {
       "label": "Git Forge",
diff --git a/src/_includes/layouts/post.njk b/src/_includes/layouts/post.njk
index 7d49e6b..efff893 100644
--- a/src/_includes/layouts/post.njk
+++ b/src/_includes/layouts/post.njk
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
       </div>
 
       <div style="padding-top: 10px; border-top: var(--border-width) solid var(--border-color);">
-        <a href="/" class="filter-tag-btn" style="width: 100%; justify-content: center;">
+        <a href="/dispatches/" class="filter-tag-btn" style="width: 100%; justify-content: center;">
           &larr; Return to Dispatches
         </a>
       </div>
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
   <article class="article-tile" aria-labelledby="article-title">
     <header class="article-header-block">
       <nav class="article-breadcrumbs" aria-label="Breadcrumb">
-        <a href="/">~/NOTES</a>
+        <a href="/dispatches/">~/NOTES</a>
         <span>/</span>
         <span>{{ (tags | filterTagList)[0] | default('DISPATCHES') | upper }}</span>
         <span>/</span>
diff --git a/src/_includes/partials/hero-tile.njk b/src/_includes/partials/hero-tile.njk
index 4107ce7..1dee47c 100644
--- a/src/_includes/partials/hero-tile.njk
+++ b/src/_includes/partials/hero-tile.njk
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   </p>
 
   <div class="filter-pills-row" aria-label="Topic Filters">
-    <a href="/" class="filter-tag-btn {% if not currentTag %}active{% endif %}">
+    <a href="/dispatches/" class="filter-tag-btn {% if not currentTag %}active{% endif %}">
       [All Dispatches ({{ collections.posts.length }})]
     </a>
     {% for tag in collections.tagList %}
diff --git a/src/dispatches.njk b/src/dispatches.njk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9eb3959
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/dispatches.njk
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+---
+layout: layouts/base.njk
+title: "River Rooks | Engineering Notes & Systems Architecture"
+---
+
+<!-- 1. Lander Hero Tile with Dynamic Filter Tag Buttons -->
+{% include "partials/hero-tile.njk" %}
+
+<!-- 2. Asymmetric Split Grid: Featured Lead Post (Left) & Telemetry Sidebar (Right) -->
+<div class="split-grid">
+  <div class="split-lead-col">
+    {% include "partials/featured-card.njk" %}
+  </div>
+
+  <div class="split-sidebar-col">
+    {% include "partials/stats-sidebar.njk" %}
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<!-- 3. Full-Width Chronological Dispatches Feed Tile -->
+<section class="tile" aria-label="Dispatches Feed Catalog">
+  <header class="tile-header">
+    <div class="tile-title">
+      <span class="status-indicator"></span>
+      RECENT DISPATCHES
+    </div>
+    <span class="tile-meta">ORDER: CHRONOLOGICAL DESC &bull; TOTAL: {{ collections.posts.length }}</span>
+  </header>
+
+  <div class="feed-list">
+    {% for post in collections.posts %}
+      {% include "partials/post-card.njk" %}
+    {% else %}
+      <p style="color: var(--text-muted); font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 0.85rem; padding: 16px;">
+        No published dispatches found in repository.
+      </p>
+    {% endfor %}
+  </div>
+</section>
diff --git a/src/gateway.njk b/src/gateway.njk
deleted file mode 100644
index edccfaf..0000000
--- a/src/gateway.njk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,137 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: layouts/base.njk
-title: "River Rooks | Homelab Gateway"
----
-
-<!-- Main Hero Landing Tile -->
-<section class="hero-tile" aria-label="Gateway Declaration">
-  <div class="hero-pretitle">SYSTEM DECLARATION &bull; RACK-01 NODE GATEWAY</div>
-  <h1 class="hero-main-title">Engineering Sovereign Infrastructure &amp; Technical Notes</h1>
-
-  <div class="hero-landing-text">
-    <p>
-      My work centers on network forensics, self-hosted system architecture, low-level firmware exploitation, and zero-allocation Unix utilities.
-    </p>
-    <p>
-      This gateway functions as the frontend for my physical homelab cluster. Rather than hosting projects on opaque third-party clouds, everything here runs on bare metal in my personal server rack—orchestrated through Proxmox VE, partitioned across isolated VLANs via OPNsense, and protected by point-to-point WireGuard cryptographic meshes.
-    </p>
-  </div>
-
-  <div class="hero-directive-box">
-    <strong>PRIMARY DESTINATIONS:</strong>
-    <span style="color: var(--accent-cyan); margin-left: 8px;">[1] Technical Blog ({{ collections.posts.length }} Articles)</span> &bull;
-    <span>[2] Forgejo Git Repos</span> &bull;
-    <span>[3] Public Tools</span> &bull;
-    <span>[4] Cluster Telemetry</span>
-  </div>
-</section>
-
-<!-- Split Tiling Columns -->
-<div class="split-grid">
-  <!-- Left Column: Featured Service (Blog) + Dynamic Recent Articles -->
-  <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--tile-gap);">
-    <section class="tile" aria-label="Featured Service: Technical Blog">
-      <header class="tile-header">
-        <div class="tile-title">
-          <span class="status-indicator"></span>
-          // PRIMARY SERVICE: THE TECHNICAL BLOG
-        </div>
-        <span class="tile-meta">~/notes/ &bull; {{ collections.posts.length }} ARTICLES</span>
-      </header>
-
-      <div class="blog-service-feature">
-        <div class="blog-feature-top">
-          <span class="badge-core">[CORE PUBLICATION SERVICE]</span>
-          <span style="color: var(--text-muted);">{{ collections.posts[0].date | postDate }} LAST SYNC</span>
-        </div>
-
-        <a href="/" class="blog-feature-title">&gt; River Rooks Technical Notes &amp; Research</a>
-        <p class="blog-feature-desc">
-          In-depth security post-mortems, CTF write-ups, shell portability benchmarks, and bare-metal homelab architecture guides.
-        </p>
-
-        <div class="blog-sublinks">
-          {% for post in collections.posts | limit(4) %}
-            <a href="{{ post.url }}" class="blog-sublink-item">
-              <span>{{ loop.index }}. {{ post.data.title }}</span>
-              <span style="color: var(--accent-cyan);">[{{ post.templateContent | readingTime(post.data.readingTime) }}] &rarr;</span>
-            </a>
-          {% endfor %}
-        </div>
-      </div>
-    </section>
-  </div>
-
-  <!-- Right Column: Homelab Hosted Services & Node Telemetry -->
-  <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--tile-gap);">
-    <section class="tile" aria-label="Homelab Services Directory">
-      <header class="tile-header">
-        <div class="tile-title">
-          <span class="status-indicator"></span>
-          // HOMELAB SERVICES ROUTER
-        </div>
-        <span class="tile-meta">4 PUBLIC TOOLS</span>
-      </header>
-
-      <div class="services-mini-grid">
-        <a href="https://git.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="service-tile-item">
-          <div>
-            <div class="service-item-title">Forgejo Git</div>
-            <div class="service-item-tag">git.rooks.dev:2222</div>
-          </div>
-          <p class="service-item-desc">Self-hosted code repositories &amp; dotfiles.</p>
-        </a>
-
-        <a href="https://chef.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="service-tile-item">
-          <div>
-            <div class="service-item-title">CyberChef</div>
-            <div class="service-item-tag">chef.rooks.dev:443</div>
-          </div>
-          <p class="service-item-desc">Hex decoding, cryptography &amp; forensics.</p>
-        </a>
-
-        <a href="https://pdf.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="service-tile-item">
-          <div>
-            <div class="service-item-title">Stirling PDF</div>
-            <div class="service-item-tag">pdf.rooks.dev:443</div>
-          </div>
-          <p class="service-item-desc">Private document OCR and manipulation.</p>
-        </a>
-
-        <a href="https://status.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="service-tile-item">
-          <div>
-            <div class="service-item-title">Uptime Kuma</div>
-            <div class="service-item-tag">status.rooks.dev:443</div>
-          </div>
-          <p class="service-item-desc">High-frequency ping &amp; latency monitors.</p>
-        </a>
-      </div>
-    </section>
-
-    <!-- Infrastructure Telemetry Tile -->
-    <section class="tile" aria-label="Infrastructure Nodes Telemetry">
-      <header class="tile-header">
-        <div class="tile-title">
-          <span class="status-indicator"></span>
-          // CLUSTER TELEMETRY
-        </div>
-        <span class="tile-meta">3 NODES ONLINE</span>
-      </header>
-
-      <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 8px;">
-        <div class="node-stat-row">
-          <span class="node-name">RACK-01 (Proxmox Primary)</span>
-          <span class="node-load">ONLINE &bull; LOAD: 0.24</span>
-        </div>
-        <div class="node-stat-row">
-          <span class="node-name">NODE-02 (Storage TrueNAS)</span>
-          <span class="node-load">ONLINE &bull; POOL: 98% HEALTH</span>
-        </div>
-        <div class="node-stat-row">
-          <span class="node-name">OPN-01 (Routing Gateway)</span>
-          <span class="node-load">ONLINE &bull; WIREGUARD ACTIVE</span>
-        </div>
-      </div>
-    </section>
-  </div>
-</div>
diff --git a/src/index.njk b/src/index.njk
index 9eb3959..d6f714e 100644
--- a/src/index.njk
+++ b/src/index.njk
@@ -1,39 +1,137 @@
 ---
 layout: layouts/base.njk
-title: "River Rooks | Engineering Notes & Systems Architecture"
+title: "River Rooks | Homelab Gateway"
 ---
 
-<!-- 1. Lander Hero Tile with Dynamic Filter Tag Buttons -->
-{% include "partials/hero-tile.njk" %}
+<!-- Main Hero Landing Tile -->
+<section class="hero-tile" aria-label="Gateway Declaration">
+  <div class="hero-pretitle">SYSTEM DECLARATION &bull; RACK-01 NODE GATEWAY</div>
+  <h1 class="hero-main-title">Engineering Sovereign Infrastructure &amp; Technical Notes</h1>
 
-<!-- 2. Asymmetric Split Grid: Featured Lead Post (Left) & Telemetry Sidebar (Right) -->
-<div class="split-grid">
-  <div class="split-lead-col">
-    {% include "partials/featured-card.njk" %}
+  <div class="hero-landing-text">
+    <p>
+      My work centers on network forensics, self-hosted system architecture, low-level firmware exploitation, and zero-allocation Unix utilities.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This gateway functions as the frontend for my physical homelab cluster. Rather than hosting projects on opaque third-party clouds, everything here runs on bare metal in my personal server rack—orchestrated through Proxmox VE, partitioned across isolated VLANs via OPNsense, and protected by point-to-point WireGuard cryptographic meshes.
+    </p>
   </div>
 
-  <div class="split-sidebar-col">
-    {% include "partials/stats-sidebar.njk" %}
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<!-- 3. Full-Width Chronological Dispatches Feed Tile -->
-<section class="tile" aria-label="Dispatches Feed Catalog">
-  <header class="tile-header">
-    <div class="tile-title">
-      <span class="status-indicator"></span>
-      RECENT DISPATCHES
-    </div>
-    <span class="tile-meta">ORDER: CHRONOLOGICAL DESC &bull; TOTAL: {{ collections.posts.length }}</span>
-  </header>
-
-  <div class="feed-list">
-    {% for post in collections.posts %}
-      {% include "partials/post-card.njk" %}
-    {% else %}
-      <p style="color: var(--text-muted); font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 0.85rem; padding: 16px;">
-        No published dispatches found in repository.
-      </p>
-    {% endfor %}
+  <div class="hero-directive-box">
+    <strong>PRIMARY DESTINATIONS:</strong>
+    <a href="/dispatches/" style="color: var(--accent-cyan); text-decoration: none; margin-left: 8px;">[1] Technical Blog ({{ collections.posts.length }} Articles)</a> &bull;
+    <a href="https://git.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">[2] Forgejo Git Repos</a> &bull;
+    <span>[3] Public Tools</span> &bull;
+    <span>[4] Cluster Telemetry</span>
   </div>
 </section>
+
+<!-- Split Tiling Columns -->
+<div class="split-grid">
+  <!-- Left Column: Featured Service (Blog) + Dynamic Recent Articles -->
+  <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--tile-gap);">
+    <section class="tile" aria-label="Featured Service: Technical Blog">
+      <header class="tile-header">
+        <div class="tile-title">
+          <span class="status-indicator"></span>
+          // PRIMARY SERVICE: THE TECHNICAL BLOG
+        </div>
+        <span class="tile-meta">~/notes/ &bull; {{ collections.posts.length }} ARTICLES</span>
+      </header>
+
+      <div class="blog-service-feature">
+        <div class="blog-feature-top">
+          <span class="badge-core">[CORE PUBLICATION SERVICE]</span>
+          <span style="color: var(--text-muted);">{{ collections.posts[0].date | postDate }} LAST SYNC</span>
+        </div>
+
+        <a href="/dispatches/" class="blog-feature-title">&gt; River Rooks Technical Notes &amp; Research</a>
+        <p class="blog-feature-desc">
+          In-depth security post-mortems, CTF write-ups, shell portability benchmarks, and bare-metal homelab architecture guides.
+        </p>
+
+        <div class="blog-sublinks">
+          {% for post in collections.posts | limit(4) %}
+            <a href="{{ post.url }}" class="blog-sublink-item">
+              <span>{{ loop.index }}. {{ post.data.title }}</span>
+              <span style="color: var(--accent-cyan);">[{{ post.templateContent | readingTime(post.data.readingTime) }}] &rarr;</span>
+            </a>
+          {% endfor %}
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </section>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- Right Column: Homelab Hosted Services & Node Telemetry -->
+  <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--tile-gap);">
+    <section class="tile" aria-label="Homelab Services Directory">
+      <header class="tile-header">
+        <div class="tile-title">
+          <span class="status-indicator"></span>
+          // HOMELAB SERVICES ROUTER
+        </div>
+        <span class="tile-meta">4 PUBLIC TOOLS</span>
+      </header>
+
+      <div class="services-mini-grid">
+        <a href="https://git.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="service-tile-item">
+          <div>
+            <div class="service-item-title">Forgejo Git</div>
+            <div class="service-item-tag">git.rooks.dev:2222</div>
+          </div>
+          <p class="service-item-desc">Self-hosted code repositories &amp; dotfiles.</p>
+        </a>
+
+        <a href="https://chef.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="service-tile-item">
+          <div>
+            <div class="service-item-title">CyberChef</div>
+            <div class="service-item-tag">chef.rooks.dev:443</div>
+          </div>
+          <p class="service-item-desc">Hex decoding, cryptography &amp; forensics.</p>
+        </a>
+
+        <a href="https://pdf.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="service-tile-item">
+          <div>
+            <div class="service-item-title">Stirling PDF</div>
+            <div class="service-item-tag">pdf.rooks.dev:443</div>
+          </div>
+          <p class="service-item-desc">Private document OCR and manipulation.</p>
+        </a>
+
+        <a href="https://status.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="service-tile-item">
+          <div>
+            <div class="service-item-title">Uptime Kuma</div>
+            <div class="service-item-tag">status.rooks.dev:443</div>
+          </div>
+          <p class="service-item-desc">High-frequency ping &amp; latency monitors.</p>
+        </a>
+      </div>
+    </section>
+
+    <!-- Infrastructure Telemetry Tile -->
+    <section class="tile" aria-label="Infrastructure Nodes Telemetry">
+      <header class="tile-header">
+        <div class="tile-title">
+          <span class="status-indicator"></span>
+          // CLUSTER TELEMETRY
+        </div>
+        <span class="tile-meta">3 NODES ONLINE</span>
+      </header>
+
+      <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 8px;">
+        <div class="node-stat-row">
+          <span class="node-name">RACK-01 (Proxmox Primary)</span>
+          <span class="node-load">ONLINE &bull; LOAD: 0.24</span>
+        </div>
+        <div class="node-stat-row">
+          <span class="node-name">NODE-02 (Storage TrueNAS)</span>
+          <span class="node-load">ONLINE &bull; POOL: 98% HEALTH</span>
+        </div>
+        <div class="node-stat-row">
+          <span class="node-name">OPN-01 (Routing Gateway)</span>
+          <span class="node-load">ONLINE &bull; WIREGUARD ACTIVE</span>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </section>
+  </div>
+</div>