**First Appearance:** #book9 Located in [[The Deep Shadows]], it has become an arms bazaar.  This turns out to be both more and less of a shithole than it was made out to be. About twice the size of earth, it has a considerably lower density, with a surface gravity only about fifteen percent higher than Earths. Also a very busy place. Reminiscent of [[Fulcrum]] in the [[Tau Ceti]] system. The planet was broadly divided into three types of demographic zones. The most distinct was a blue belt following the equator, where the weather was consistently nice, the population density is low and the wealth density is high. The rest of the planet, short of the frozen poles, was a patchwork of the other two types of zones, drab, cheerless suburbs sprawled around grimy, overpopulated industrial blights full of factories, power planets, ramshackle tenements crisscrossed by polluted, trash-laden canals.