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Bespin
Bespin is a gas giant known for its Tibanna gas mining industry. Its residents live on floating mining platforms, where gas is purified and packaged for export.
- Zone
- Zone Herf
- Climate
- Temperate
- Type
- Planet
- Anchor world
- Yes
Galactic record
Bespin has no ground. It is a gas giant, so everything on it floats: Cloud City and the smaller platforms hang in the one narrow band of atmosphere people can breathe. Ugnaughts do the work of pulling tibanna gas out of the depths, which is the only reason anyone came here at all.
- Region
- Outer Rim Territories, Western Reaches
- Sector
- Anoat sector
- System
- Bespin system
- Class
- Gas giant
- Terrain
- Gaseous
- Atmosphere
- Breathable (in the life stratum)
- Diameter
- 118,000 kilometers (73,322 miles)
- Day length
- 12 standard-hours
- Year length
- 14 standard-years
- Moons
- 2
- Immigrated species
- Human, Ugnaught
- Languages
- Galactic Basic Standard, Ugnaught
- Population
- 6,000,000
- Major cities
- Chinook Station, Cloud City, Storm Basin, Ugnorgrad
- Exports
- Tibanna
- Affiliation
- Galactic Empire, Ubrik Adelhard's Imperial remnant, New Republic, First Order
- Flora
- Algae
- Fauna
- Air shrimp, Beldon, Crab glider, Rawwk, Thranta, Velker
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