Maps: Edge of Midnight Base Map Progress

Okay, so I've been having fun reading this serialised Star Trek-linked fan-fiction dressed up as a history book called Edge of Midnight by John Concagh AKA "Seamus Devenish". So much so that I've started working on a "base map" to show his version of the affected regions of the Federation-Klingon border.

If you're interested in keeping an eye on my progress and you're not already on the relevant Discord or Facebook pages, I've got a thread running over at the Affinity forums, since Affinity Designer is what I'm using for this project.

Jobs: Town Grouch?

I am thinking that I might have said "yes" if the local municipality had offered the job of "town grouch" to me. It might have been amusing for some time. I'm not entirely sure how much time I'd have spent being amused by living such a role.

Star Trek mapping query: two options for Betazed homestar:

Yes, this is for the Edge of Darkness project.

Right now, I'm re-reading Star Charts and Stellar Cartography

1. GJ 3414
2. HD 10226

The latter is 150+ ly below "galactic equatorial". The former is 21 ly above it.

Other considerations for my choice?

Needs to be close to the core systems because of events in the DS9 episode "In the Pale Moonlight" where Betazed is taken by Dominion forces. Quoting Memory Alpha: "With Betazed captured, other nearby worlds, including Vulcan, Tellar, Alpha Centauri, and Andor, were at risk of Dominion attack."

(If you've got those systems within striking distance, Sol's in range, too, right?)

Also, it needs to be on the "roads" between those systems and Bajor/Cardassia's neighbourhood, which is roughly 100 ly above "galactic equatorial". If you look up from Earth towards the Ursa Major-Draco constellation border with a strong enough telescope, you should see the alleged home stars of those planets.