Excerpts from "Terfreya," article in the Standard Encyclopedia, YP 748, Landfall, Iryala.
Terfreya, or Karnovir 02, is a trade planet. Local tradition has it colonized early in the prehistoric era, in the 15th millennium before Pertunis. There is abundant evidence that mining was extensive there for centuries and possibly millennia.
By the historical era, however, mining had ceased. A native spice, kressera, had become almost the sole export. It was popular throughout the sector, and Terfreya became or remained a prosperous world. However, in the 2nd century before Pertunis, a substitute "kressera," growable on many worlds, preempted much of the market. . . .
During the prehistoric era, probably in the early years of human settlement, Terfreya was nicknamed "Backbreak." This nickname is sometimes used in the literature, and was the vernacular usage both on Terfreya and Confederation worlds. Presumably it derived from the rigors of hard labor in Terfreya's gravity of 1.19 gee. . . .
The Terfreyan year contains 434.471 Terfreyan days, each day being 26.551 standard hours long, making the Terfreyan year 1.316 times as long as the Standard year. The orbit is somewhat eccentric, the maximum radius being 134 million miles and the minimum 118 million miles. . . . The axial tilt is 24.19, making the swing of the seasons almost as great as on Iryala, but as virtually the entire human population of recent millennia lives in the equatorial zone, axial tilt does not directly impact the lives of Terfreyans. . . . The relatively low solar constant makes Terfreya, overall, somewhat cold, but the temperature regime of the equatorial zone is comfortable year-round, if one disregards occasional chilly periods of winter rain. . . .
In YP 741, the planetary population was restricted almost entirely to a single region, and numbered only 87,911. It consists largely of farm families scattered in locales especially favorable for the cultivation of kressera. There are few villages. The administrative seat, Lonyer City, serves as the center for trade and services. . . .
General Kartoozh Saadhrambacoora14 had been awake and mostly on his feet since landing on the planet with two of his four regiments at approximately 0830 local time. He'd gotten them bivouacked on farmland near the ridiculously small town which seemed to be the capital of this world. And harangued his officers with the importance of strict discipline. Troops were to stay within the hastily fenced base except as otherwise ordered, keep away from the local females, and in general avoid incidents.
A small crowd had approached the base to stare. And from the way the troops had ogled the women, you'd think they'd been conscious and dreaming of copulation the whole two years, instead of unconscious in stasis chambers. Or did they dream in stasis? He hadn't, but it was hard to be sure about peasants.
The women here were attractive, many of them: light-skinned, and either they had little hair on their arms and legs, or they shaved.
With a guard company, he'd personally marched to the most important-seeming buildings, taken the prisoners the commodore wanted, and sent them on a shuttle to the Blessed Flenyaagor, where DAAS would develop a translation program for their language and they could be properly interrogated.
At least he hoped DAAS would. The language here sounded more foreign than anything in the empire.
Now he sat down heavily in a camp chair, had his orderly pull his boots off, and his stockings. He wiggled his toes and regarded them with a certain glumness. It was easy for the commodore to say "no incidents." With 4,000 men on the ground, most of them peasants, it was something else to ensure it. But he would try. And Kargh take the soul of the man who caused one, for his head belonged to his general.