From the Encyclopaedia Galactica, 11th edition: TOKA: Brackney’s Star III. The sun (NSC 7-190853426) is of type G2, located in Region Deneb, approximately 503 lightyears 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,”
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 Slissii. 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 Slissii were bought out. Abandoning their home world en masse, they became free wanderers throughout civilization, much to its detriment. (See SLISSII. See also COMPUTER CRIME; CONFIDENCE GAMES; EMBEZZLEMENT; GAMBLING: Crooked; MISREPRESENTATION; POLITICS.)
