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Your second suggestion also sounds good, but this means that your home system will have only one warp point link. Sounds great from a defensive standpoint, but not from attacking.
One would expect any empire to at least be able to hold one system outside of their homesystem.
And besides, as soon as the race discovers warppoint tech, their entire military will be moving into that next-door system.
Essentially you will have a single system with twice as many planets. (There's only one WP into the homesystem, and still only one into the combined pair)