On this screen, sunlight blazed on the outer skin of the station. Slightly smaller and a than Earth's sun, the official name of the star was Epsilon Eridani, but the common people called it Marahati, or sun.
Similarly, the official name of the station that orbited its gas giant planet was Aurora, but everyone in Tier 2 knew it as New Jakarta. Every couple of days it would spew forth a flotilla of harvesting craft, which attacked the planet's outer ring without making a visible impression on it, the station's workers harvesting ice to be picked up by carriers. There were a few more stations like that, circling the gas giant like moons—New Hyderabad, New Pyongyang and New Calcutta.
The view—red planet, blue ice rings and scattered spots that looked like stars but weren't—calmed Ari's frazz
