Betn Kilos

"Betn Kilos is the youngest, the smallest, and the loudest of all the colonies. It draws a disproportionate amount of news towards itself; it seems that everything is happening there."
Betn Kilos is the smallest and youngest of the major colonies of the Commonwealth of the Seddrath, officially declared to be colonised only 16 years ago. The government is officially a democracy, but in practise the richest rule and so the world is a plutocracy. 
Betn Kilos is a warm, humid world with large amounts of rainfall generated by its extremely long day - it takes 38 days to rotate once on it's axis. Large storm systems continuously bombard the coasts, providing sustenance for the abundant vegetation.
==History ==
Betn Kilos is relatively young - only 1 and a half billion years have elapsed since it was born. Orbiting a K-class star, Betn Kilos is routinely bathed in solar radiation emanating from Omnust. As a result, all life on Betn Kilos has developed extreme radiation resistance, which are currently being used to develop cures for the more aggressive forms of Seddrathi cancer. 
Once Betn Kilos formed, life immediately sprung up and covered the entire surface, even in the sky. Numerous ice ages almost killed of the life, but it clung on and developed, finally emerging into the complex multicellular life we see today only 200 million years ago. Since then, two asteroid impacts and a global atmospheric change have been the only things that stood in the way of global domination by organic life. 
==Biology ==
Betn Kilosian life is carbon-based and uses water as it's solvent. However, it is extremely resistant to heat, cold, radiation and malnutrition. Betn Kilosian life are all extremophiles, some being able to live even on other worlds, a feat that has not been matched without prior preparations. 
All life on Betn Kilos bear a astounding similarity to the indigenous life found on Ukardra, leading some to suggest that this may be the first observed incident of panspermia. More evidence is needed to conclusively prove or disprove this theory. 
==Orbit==
The Betn Kilosian orbit is relatively barren compared to other worlds in the Commonwealth. Nothing much is located here, with the exception of the odd ship arriving with new colonists. A large space elevator has been constructed and ferries colonists to the ground.
== Population ==
Home to 2.4 billion Seddrath, Betn Kilos is a relatively unpopulated world compared to Aolius. Most of the population is centred around the base of the space elevator, which defines the prime meridian on the Betn Kilosian map. Consequently, most of the population is clustered around the very centre of the Betn Kilosian map. Small settlements do exist outside of Hartuan, the name of the city, but they do not hold nearly as many people. Betn Kilos is often portrayed as a lush, verdant, untamed world to which the Seddrath are to tame. 
==Geography==
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