Vedros XIV

Vedros XIV was the fourteenth moon of the planet Vedros and the first colonized by the Golden Empire.

Geography
Temperate Vedros XIV was similar in constitution to Vedros VI, but while it had sufficient arable land to feed its own population, it was unable to become a major foodstuff exporter. However, it had numerous valuable mineral deposits in its mountain ranges, including a vein of. Climates varied greatly over the moon, with sweltering equatorial jungles and deserts and frigid polar ice caps.

The ice caps were roughly ten percent of Vedros XIV's surface water; the remainder was concentrated in oceans, rivers, and lakes. Rainfall was heaviest in the regions between the poles and equator, although equatorial rainforests experienced annual monsoons.

Society and culture
The Iscali were the first species on Vedros XIV, but the Vuuls followed shortly thereafter and s arrived within a decade of the Great Liberation's end. As such, the planet had no species-specific character, but rather a general entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to work.

Some companies on XIV built and supplied mining equipment both to their own ore miners and the miners operating from Vedros IV. Unlike Vedros's other two inhabited moons, Vedros XIV was generally considered economically and resourcefully self-sufficient by the Empire.

History
A colony was established on Vedros XIV immediately after Vedros itself was discovered by the Empire in 101 ABY. Once settlers built up a colony on Vedros IV, however, that site took over tibanna mining and XIV continued to exist due to its other industries, such as ore mining and manufacturing. It stayed out of IV and VI's dispute over tibanna mining profits in 112 ABY.