Taneth II (Planet)

Taneth II is a planet in the Outer Rim. Its planetary governor is Governor Rascon, under the jurisdiction of Moff Junta. It's total population is around 50 million.

 Settlements: 

Reer

Reer City, Taneth II's capital, is huge compared to the rest of Taneth II's settlements, but modest by galactic standards, with a population of 2-3 million, about 5% of the planet's population. It was originally a collective of ore mines, which eventually spread out so far they all connected together, and so has sprawling chaotic layout, with many individual community centers. Only the city center (built to the specifications of the first Republic governor when Taneth II first got absorbed into the galactic government 500 years ago) has any semblance of organization, or any major buildings. There are a dozen tiny landing ports spread throughout the city, and one major hangar for official use only in the city center.

About 6000 Domestic Security officers are employed throughout the city in everyday peacekeeping duties, in addition to an Imperial Army Garrison of about 1000 troops, all recruited from off-world, who are usually only deployed during civil unrest or against serious organized crime. The west side of Reer is on the coast.

Other Major Cities

There are about twenty other large cities on Taneth II, across its multiple continents. Most of them inland, and surrounded by farmland. In them live about a third of the planet's population.

Lesser Cities

Scattered across the archipelago reside another third of the population in oceanic communities ranging from island villages to underwater mining colonies. A huge vein of the rare mineral Chasmium was just discovered under the ocean crust, and both industrial businesses and the Imperial Government have set up exploratory submerged or semi-submerged facilities to exploit it.

The remaining thirds of the planet's population who do not live in the cities are scattered throughout tiny hermitic settlements, sometimes far from the urban areas.

The Nexus

The Nexus was originally just a big strip of empty land used by vessels too large to land elsewhere in the region, eventually built up into a spaceport with a small city (pop ~100,000) grown up around it. Compared to most of Taneth II's settlements, the Nexus is quite cosmopolitan, as it is the stop for many traders and passenger ships.

Betheben

Betheben is a village network about a day's march from The Nexus. It consists of a main village (population ~300) and half a dozen thorps (each ~100). The settlements are spread quite widely across a mess of forest, jungle, mountainsides, and riversides. Betheben is governed by an elected village council of 12 members, nominally answerable to the Planetary Governor, but in practice Rascon just leaves them alone as long as the annual taxes are collected.

Betheben's economy is primarily bartering with plants and animal products rather than Imperial credits, so in lieu of paying taxes in cash, the village pays its dues in a tithe of medicinal plants, which are preserved to be sent off-world to various Imperial medical facilities.