diff --git a/src/app/features/hud/hud-dock.component.spec.ts b/src/app/features/hud/hud-dock.component.spec.ts
index 31fb3ad..0ced268 100644
--- a/src/app/features/hud/hud-dock.component.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/hud/hud-dock.component.spec.ts
@@ -210,6 +210,21 @@ describe('HudDockComponent', () => {
     expect(host().querySelector('[aria-label="Forget Sirius"]')?.getAttribute('aria-pressed')).toBe('true');
   });
 
+  it('keeps the one system whose catalogue id is zero, which truthiness would have lost', () => {
+    // The Sun is star 0. A `@if (id; as ...)` reads that as "no star" and hides the control.
+    const bookmarks = TestBed.inject(BookmarksStore);
+    setReadout();
+    fixture.componentRef.setInput('title', 'Sol');
+    fixture.componentRef.setInput('keepableStarId', 0);
+    fixture.componentRef.setInput('defaultTab', 'readout');
+    fixture.detectChanges();
+
+    host().querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>('[aria-label="Keep Sol"]')?.click();
+    fixture.detectChanges();
+
+    expect(bookmarks.has('star', 0)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
   it('offers nothing to keep where the readout is a scale rather than a place', () => {
     setReadout();
     fixture.componentRef.setInput('defaultTab', 'readout');
diff --git a/src/app/features/hud/hud-dock.component.ts b/src/app/features/hud/hud-dock.component.ts
index d0da8bc..3c9ae97 100644
--- a/src/app/features/hud/hud-dock.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/hud/hud-dock.component.ts
@@ -94,16 +94,19 @@ function isWideViewport(): boolean {
               <p class="type-label text-muted">{{ eyebrow() }}</p>
               <div class="mt-1 flex items-start gap-2">
                 <p data-testid="hud-title" class="min-w-0 flex-1 text-lg font-bold tracking-[0.04em] text-text uppercase">{{ title() }}</p>
-                @if (keepableStarId(); as starId) {
+                <!-- Against null, not against falsiness: the Sun's catalogue id is 0, and a
+                     truthiness test is what would quietly make the Solar System the one
+                     system nobody could keep. -->
+                @if (keepableStarId() !== null) {
                   <button
           type="button"
-          [attr.aria-label]="(bookmarks.has('star', starId) ? 'Forget ' : 'Keep ') + title()"
-          [attr.aria-pressed]="bookmarks.has('star', starId)"
-          (click)="bookmarks.toggle({ kind: 'star', id: starId, name: title() })"
+          [attr.aria-label]="(bookmarks.has('star', keepableStarId()!) ? 'Forget ' : 'Keep ') + title()"
+          [attr.aria-pressed]="bookmarks.has('star', keepableStarId()!)"
+          (click)="bookmarks.toggle({ kind: 'star', id: keepableStarId()!, name: title() })"
           class="shrink-0 p-1 transition-colors focus-visible:outline-1 focus-visible:-outline-offset-1 focus-visible:outline-accent"
-          [class]="bookmarks.has('star', starId) ? 'text-accent' : 'text-muted hover:text-accent'"
+          [class]="bookmarks.has('star', keepableStarId()!) ? 'text-accent' : 'text-muted hover:text-accent'"
         >
-          <app-bookmark-icon class="h-3.5 w-3.5" [kept]="bookmarks.has('star', starId)" />
+          <app-bookmark-icon class="h-3.5 w-3.5" [kept]="bookmarks.has('star', keepableStarId()!)" />
         </button>
                 }
               </div>