Botchok

Botchok, Geze, Delta Orionis VIII
INFORMATION
Quadrant:	Beta
Star System:	Botchok, Delta Orionis
Affiliations:	Independent; Orion Colonies
Natives:	Red Orion (native), Orion (dominant); Klingon (occupied)
ASTROMETRIC DATA
Star Type(s):	B:V
Estimated Age:	2.4 Billion Years
Number of Planets:	10
Orbital Period (Days):	1,777 standard days
Classification:	Class M (Iugoso-Calidic)
Number of Satellites:	Trojan with Gothei
PLANETOLOGICAL DATA
Atmosphere Type:	Breathable Oxygenated
Atmosphere Pressure:	Dense (Earth Sea Level is at 1,600 m)
Mean Temperature:	Warm to Hot
Hydrosphere:	Saturated
Dominant Terrain:	Marsh, cloud jungles, rocky outcroppings, eroded spires
Gravity:	0.89g (Earth=1.0)
Day/Night Cycle (Hours):	Tidally locked to Gothei; solar day is 24 standard days
LIFE DATA
Stage of Life Evolution:	Advanced multicellular life similar to the Earth's mid-Jurassic
Sentient Population:	2.4 Billion Orions; 610 Million Red Orions; approximately 18,000 Klingons and other Klingon Tribute Species
Capital:	Sirruda Kataan
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At a Glance

Botchok is one of the most ancient Orion Colonies and was once the homeworld of the Red Orions. Today, most of the population is Orion. Botchok is the larger planet found in a trojan orbit with Gothei. The natives of Botchok, the Red Orions, refer to their homeworld as Geze. Botchok is a world of dense cloud forests, jungles, and wetland marshes from which jut rocky mesas and outcroppings. Botchok mountain chains abruptly change altitude, often forming sheer cliffs. The Red Orions prefer the lower reaches while the Orions live in the mid-altitudes of the mountainous regions. The societies live more parallel than intermingling, though Red Orions may live in Orion cities or even join Orion Qaju for the benefits involved. Botchok, compared to other Orion core worlds, feels lightly populated and with much of its natural habitat intact.

Terrain

From orbit, Botchok is a hazy blue jewel about 90% the size of Earth, with vast zones of dark green lowlands and rockier higher altitudes.

Botchok is a story of three ecological zones. As a planet it has relatively shallow oceans with a lower saline content than Earth. This is because the amount of freshwater working through the hydrosphere is vast. These shallow oceans can be difficult to distinguish from marshy, brackish wetlands from orbit. The oceans teem with a spongy, moss-like alga. These waters are deeply affected by Botchok's close trojan orbit to Gothei. Tidal swells can vary by as much as twenty meters and storm tides can easily swamp land well beyond that.