Zatolla
A city planet of Suons and other Hyperion Federation species. As the 6th planet from the star system's local star, Tiact, it is quite warm. Life once evolved there millions of years before Tebburus, but it died out. However, recently the world was terraformed and made livable again. The world is much smaller in size than Tebburus and cannot hold as large a population.
Zatolla is remniscient of the Sol system planet Mars. It is comprised largely of iron compunds which give it a red-orange appearance and used to have life. It was too small to hold a significant atmosphere for long enough for a sentient species to evolve though. As the United Nations of Tebburus found traces of ice and water underground, that gave the Suons a good estimation that there was life. Strange carbon materials have been found underground - presumed to be remnants of dead life from carbon-based organisms. This was before the UN of Tebburus had any decent knowledge of alien life, but now it is well known that this theory was correct. Leosus Federation humans have called the material coal.
In more current times, well after the Suon - Saelian war, many materials on the planet have been mined and turned into matter plasma. Coal has proven quite useful for this - as there are few cases of large deposits of carbon in such a small area, other than large stars where the core is made of diamond which are both rare and dangerous to exploit. Eventually, the UN of Tebburus terraformed this world and constructed large cities on it. As it has virtally no biosphere other than this and various parks placed to improve morale, they have converted the planet into a eucenopolis world with a population into the trillions. Although mostly populated by suons, virtually all species of the Hyperion Federation are seen, at least the ones capable of surviving in such an environment.
Zatolla is also noticeably colder than Tebburus which orbits Tiact at a slightly shorter radius.
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