Hestos

Our own system under another name — one star, eight worlds, a belt between the fourth and the fifth, and the third one blue.

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What the books say

Hestos is Sol. The chart renames it; the architecture is ours, down to the belt and the ringed sixth planet.
Hestonians run big — two of them are trouble enough to shape a bad dream.
About fifty parsecs from Charlon, a short hop by the standards of this chart.
Merchant traffic out of Hestos crosses the Rainbow Nebula almost constantly, which is precisely why the piracy is there.

Read out of Rogue Fleet.