Jack of Harts

The Hyades Cluster was a truly complex and difficult region of space to navigate. Depending on where you assume the exact core is, there were around forty star systems within ten lightyears of its center, and nearly a quarter of those were giants or subgiants. There were in fact around twenty star systems in total that contained giants or subgiants within fifty lightyears of the core. And every single one of those massive stars complicated stellar navigation, whether in normalspace or hyperspace. There were another three hundred or so star systems within fifty lightyears of the core, and over a 1,000 star systems within a hundred lightyears. That is far more stellar real estate than all of humanity had colonized when the Peloran made Contact, and navigating it was not an insignificant affair.