diff --git a/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.spec.ts b/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.spec.ts
index 508f28e..dbd3e3a 100644
--- a/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.spec.ts
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ const PROXIMA_B: ExoplanetRecord = {
   orbit: { semiMajorAxisAu: 0.0485, eccentricity: 0.02 }
 };
 
+// A microlensing planet, whose host the archive places 6.7 kpc out.
+const LENS_B: ExoplanetRecord = { id: 'KMT-2016-BLG-1107L b', hostStarId: LENS.id, hostStarName: 'KMT-2016-BLG-1107L', name: 'KMT-2016-BLG-1107L b', orbit: {} };
+
 const DEEP_SKY_OBJECT: DeepSkyRecord = {
   id: 'NGC0224',
   name: 'Andromeda Galaxy',
@@ -186,7 +189,7 @@ class FakeDataLoaderService {
   }
 
   loadExoplanets(): Promise<ExoplanetRecord[]> {
-    return Promise.resolve([PROXIMA_B]);
+    return Promise.resolve([PROXIMA_B, LENS_B]);
   }
 
   loadDeepSky(): Promise<DeepSkyRecord[]> {
@@ -237,6 +240,12 @@ describe('GalaxySystemSceneComponent camera-flight transitions', () => {
     await flushAsync();
   });
 
+  it('rings the systems inside the survey edge, and puts them first in the draw budget, not a host kiloparsecs out', () => {
+    const scene = fixture.componentInstance as unknown as { hostRings: { count: number }; hostStars: Uint8Array };
+    expect(scene.hostRings.count).toBe(2);
+    expect([...scene.hostStars]).toEqual(STARS.map((star) => (star === SUN || star === PROXIMA ? 1 : 0)));
+  });
+
   it('starts in the galaxy view with the system group hidden', () => {
     const component = fixture.componentInstance as unknown as { galaxyGroup: THREE.Group; systemGroup: THREE.Group };
     expect(component.galaxyGroup.visible).toBe(true);
@@ -296,7 +305,8 @@ describe('GalaxySystemSceneComponent camera-flight transitions', () => {
       expect(refocus).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
       const [focus] = refocus.mock.calls[0];
       expect(focus.view).toBeDefined();
-      // The Sun has Earth and Proxima its b, so both are hosts; the others have nothing catalogued.
+      // The Sun has Earth and Proxima its b, so both are hosts; the lens has a planet too, but 6.7 kpc
+      // out, past the survey edge; the others have nothing catalogued.
       expect(Array.from(focus.hosts ?? [])).toEqual([1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0]);
     });
 
diff --git a/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.ts b/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.ts
index 84b3cfc..35f48f1 100644
--- a/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/galaxy-system/galaxy-system-scene.component.ts
@@ -760,14 +760,15 @@ export class GalaxySystemSceneComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
       this.starsByBrightness,
       publishedTemperaturesK(exoplanets),
     );
-    this.hostStars = Uint8Array.from(stars, (star) =>
-      this.starIdsWithBodies.has(star.id) ? 1 : 0,
-    );
+    // Ringed, and drawn ahead of the brightness tier, only inside the survey edge. The 2 883 hosts
+    // the archive places past it, 916 of them beyond a kiloparsec, mostly the Kepler field's, were
+    // a band of 1 687 fixed-size rings over the opening view's lower right, on the 250-350 pc grid
+    // labels, and read as neighbours; they still compete for the budget by brightness, and search
+    // still enters them.
+    const ringed = (star: StarRecord): boolean => this.starIdsWithBodies.has(star.id) && Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z) <= SURVEY_EDGE_PC;
+    this.hostStars = Uint8Array.from(stars, (star) => (ringed(star) ? 1 : 0));
     this.galaxyGroup.add(this.starField.object);
-    this.hostRings = new HostStarRings(
-      stars.filter((star) => this.starIdsWithBodies.has(star.id)),
-      HUD_ACCENT,
-    );
+    this.hostRings = new HostStarRings(stars.filter(ringed), HUD_ACCENT);
     this.galaxyGroup.add(this.hostRings.object);
     this.jumpLinks = new JumpLinkRenderer(HUD_ACCENT);
     this.galaxyGroup.add(this.jumpLinks.object);