Eagles Over the Kennebec

Ok. Puttin on the old thinkin cap. In addition to the excellent location guidelines of your other readers. May I point out that Surebleak was supposed to be a important location for a big Terran mining company. And so was scheduled for weather improvement satellites and such. But...a bigger mine of whatever was found closer to Terra, so cheaper to develop. Surebleak was abandoned to its own devices by that mining company for greener pastures. Then, on the other hand... Miri's grandmother when running from a marriage she hated ended up on Surebleak. She was from Clan Erob on Lytaxin, wasn't it? Clan Erob even though a High House, didn't live on Liad but on one of the outer planets of Liaden space. Miri's grandma was able to get to Surebleak, a Terran planet. Thus...probably Surebleak is on the border between the Terran sector and the Liaden sector. So draw a line straight from Terra to Lytaxin was it? Seat of Clan Erob and go maybe half way (?) between and there you have the location of Surebleak. As I remember a protrait of Miri's grandma hangs in the Erob clan house. Miri was pronounced to look exactly like her. That's my guess. Some people do cross word puzzles to preserve their memory in old age. I try and remember the long story of Clan Korval instead.