The article notes Vega’s presence in lots of sci-fi. To add one more: Karl Schroeder’s Virga series is placed within the Vega system (not a spoiler, so far as I know.) I’m still reading through the series, but I came across them through a recommendation from Cory Doctorow — which is high praise. What appear to be fun light adventure novels (and they’re very good at that) hide stronger insight and criticism, political especially.