Also I understand this kind of sci-fi nerds fascination with spaec and all but putting saturn next to a moon, crescent at that, doesn't seem very spaecy to me. The only way to be more blatant would be to put a sun in there as well.
Still great series though. Maybe it had primed me to go into the the-fuck-is-that-the-fuck-is-this territory later on in my life.