TOKA: Brackneys Star III. The sun (NSC 7-190853426) is of type G2, located in Region Deneb, approximately 503 light-years from Sol… The third planet appears Earthlike, to a sufficiently superficial observer… There are three small moons, their League names being Uha, Buha, and Huha. As is customary in the case of inhabited planets, these derive from a major autochthonous language (see nomenclature: Astronomical). It was discovered too late that they mean, respectively, “Fat,” “Drunk” and “Sluggish.”…
At least “Toka” means “Earth.” However, indigenous tongues have become little more than historical curiosities, displaced by whatever Terrestrial speech suits the role of the moment…
Two intelligent species evolved, known today as the Hokas and the Slissü. The former are quasi-mammalian, the latter reptiloid… Conflict was ineluctable… It terminated after human
explorers had come upon the system and the Interbeing League took charge… In effect, the Slissü were bought out. Abandoning their home worlden masse , they became free wanderers throughout civilization, to its detriment. (See slissü. See also computer crime; confidence games; embezzlement; gambling: Crooked; misrepresentation; politics.) The ursinoid Hokas generally stayed in place. No nation of theirs refused to accept League tutelage, which of course has had the objective of raising their level of civilization to a point where autonomy and full membership can be granted. Rather, they all agreed with an eagerness which should have warned the Commissioners…
