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The star is mentioned in the Honorverse, a series of military science fiction novels written by David Weber, as the headquarters of Technodyne Industries of Yildun, a major Solarian League shipbuilding corporation with rather questionable ethics (e.g. business ties with Manpower Incorporated and Jessyk Combine, both of Mesa), though the star system is described as including only a (highly mineral-and-metals-rich) purple asteroid belt.
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