Name: Betazed
Alignment: Friendly, member of the Federation
Home to: Betazoid race
Capital City: Rixx
Orbital star: Beta Veldonna, yellow dwarf star
By all accounts a lush and beautiful world, Betazed is the only inhabitable (M-Class) planet in its solar system and is home to the race of telepaths known as the Betazoids. If you look up into the sky from the planet’s surface you will see a blue sky, like that of Earth, but with pink clouds. The weather is generally temperate and mild but can shift with alarming suddenness. There are beauty spots such as the Valley of Song, which is a popular place to spread the ashes of a loved one, Janaran Falls in the Jalara jungle and Lake Cataria. When the high mountain peaks of coloured crystal catch the rays of the morning sun, the patterns reflected back on the surface of the land are a most beautiful sight. One of the mountain ranges, the Loneel Mountains, is honeycombed with caves and has heavy deposits of a mineral which scrambles sensor signals, making this an ideal place for the resistance that sprung up on Betazed during its occupation by the Dominion.
Betazed is a matriarchal society, ruled by women, and has a long and proud dynasty of rulers. As they are telepaths, Betazoids frown usually on spoken communications, believing these to be beneath them, unless one of the parties is not of their race. They also have an odd custom which requires every guest at a wedding ceremony to be naked. The planet is somewhat unique, or at least similar to Earth, in that it hosts other races among its population, humans being among them. Even more similarities to Earth exist, as Betazed has an atmosphere breathable by humans and comparable gravity, has five continents and many hundreds of islands, and is more than seventy percent oceans.