From Sol III, Earth, to Carsten's Star III, Nerthus, on the Sagittari frontier of the Stellar Union is two months by the fastest hyperdrive.
From Rendezvous, beyond the frontier, to Nerthus is about three weeks in the Peregrine.
From Nerthus to Erulan, also beyond the frontier, is another three weeks at full cruising speed for the Peregrine.
Maybe we are starting to get some sense of directions and distances. Rendezvous is beyond the frontier because it is the secret Nomad meeting place. Erulan is beyond the frontier because its native population has been enslaved by the crews of two Nomad ships who merely do to the natives what those natives had already been doing to each other.
This is very different from the idea in "The Acolytes" and "The Green Thumb" that human beings had explored the whole Galaxy before colonizing Nerthus.
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Kaor, Paul!
"The Acolytes" and "The Green Thumb" were narrated from very youthful POVs, by boys sometimes speaking too loosely and inaccurately. Thought of like that, that would save the "appearances" in these stories.
Ad astra! Sean
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