- "Changes at Vervain Station, sir. All outgoing commercial ship traffic has been halted. Incoming are being denied permission to dock. Encoded transmissions on all military channels have just about tripled. And four large warships just jumped."
- ―Cetagandan invasion of Vervain begins[src]
Vervain Station (vr-VAIN) was a space station located in the Hegen Hub; it guarded the wormhole leading to Vervain. It was a starkly utilitarian place, but Gregor Vorbarra spent a fair amount of time there assembling a coalition of powers, the Hegen Alliance, to expel the Cetagandans from Vervain.