(Second attempt at posting this. My first attempt vanished into the void. Apologies if this ends up being a near-duplicate.)
Patrick (orthonormal), I’m pretty sure “Earth” is right. If you’re in the Huygens system already, you wouldn’t talk about “the Huygens starline”. And the key point of what they’re going to do is to keep the Superhappies from reaching Earth; cutting off the Earth/Huygens starline irrevocably is what really matters, and it’s just too bad that they can’t do it without destroying Huygens. (Well, maybe keeping the Superhappies from finding out any more about the human race is important too.)
(Second attempt at posting this. My first attempt vanished into the void. Apologies if this ends up being a near-duplicate.)
Patrick (orthonormal), I’m pretty sure “Earth” is right. If you’re in the Huygens system already, you wouldn’t talk about “the Huygens starline”. And the key point of what they’re going to do is to keep the Superhappies from reaching Earth; cutting off the Earth/Huygens starline irrevocably is what really matters, and it’s just too bad that they can’t do it without destroying Huygens. (Well, maybe keeping the Superhappies from finding out any more about the human race is important too.)