Name: Bespin
Type: Gas Giant
Temperature: Temporate (in the Life Zone)
Atmosphere: Type I (Breathable) in the Life Zone
Hydrosphere: Moist (in the Life Zone)
Gravity: Standard (in the Life Zone)
Terrain: Gaseous
Length of Day: 12 Standard Hours
Length of Year: 14 Standard Years
Sapient Species: Humans, Ugnaughts
Starport: Stellar (Fully Serviced)
Population: 6 Million
Planet Function: Tibanna Gas Mining, Gambling Resort
Government: Guild
Tech Level: Space
Trade Routes: Ison Corridor
Major Exports: Tibanna Gas, Tourism, Cloud Cars
Major Imports: Foodstuffs, Mid Tech, High Tech
Settlements: Chinook Station, Cloud City, Ugnorgrad
Points of Interest: BesGas Three, Bespin construction platforms, Cloud City, Floating health spas, Rethin Sea, Tibanna gas platforms, Ugnaught Surface
Flora: Algae
Fauna: Air shrimp, Beldon, Crab glider, Rawwk, Velker
System Data
Region: Outer Rim Territories
Sector: Anoat Sector
System Name: Bespin System
Star Name: Bespin
Star Type: Yellow
Background: Bespin was a gas giant in the star system of the same name. Forming a part of the Anoat sector, its riches manifested in the form of rare tibanna gas. Attracting mining interests and remaining unaffiliated in galactic affairs, Ugnaughts were employed to extract tibanna from repulsorlifted facilities whilst Bespin’s mostly human population resided in the open upper levels, exposed to a thin layer of breathable atmosphere in an area known as a “Life Zone.”
Bespin was an immense gas giant located in the vicinity of the Anoat sector, a desolate sector of the galaxy. Bespin had two moons, and its gaseous mass contained a thin stratum of habitable atmosphere above a source of rare and costly tibanna gas, although there was no habitable land or water on the planet. The planet completed a full orbit around its star every 14 standard-years and a full rotation every 12 standard-hours. Viewed from the upper levels of Cloud City, in the breathable layer of the world, sunsets lasted 2 hours.
Tibanna gas was harvested and refined in several mining complexes, including Cloud City, an opulent metropolis suspended in the planet’s huge billowing clouds, and Chinook Station, a fuel depot and refueling station. The Ugnaught city of Ugnorgrad also was located over the planet, being ruled by King Ozz in the time after the Battle of Endor. Cloud City processed tibanna to be sold off-world.
Bespin was home to many types of life, which was rare for a gas giant. The planet had two sister worlds, from which it was separated by an asteroid belt called Velser’s Ring.
Swimming pools were considered a rare luxury on Bespin.