Binary Targos
A Cyber Sphere planet in the Beta Targos System.
Binary Targos is the only known Cyber Sphere world that exists outside the Unreachable Star Cluster near Arcturus. It is also perhaps the best known cyber sphere in existance, as it engineered the Harkas and Astromoeba species by sending probes to space, who would go on to conquer the rest of the Arkan galaxy. They would never develop any method of intergalactic travel, however, until the Hyperion Federation discovered the galaxy.
Binary Targos is also the only known Cyber Sphere with a lot of organic life. As such, many Harkas have evolved to survive on Binary Targos, having arrived on the planet from orbit (using the radiators as wings initially. The radiators would soon evolve into actual wings). Even many of the underground sectors of the world would contain life, including the core. Binary Targos would still not be perfect for life despite this. Like on most cyber spheres, it had strange weather patterns, often harmful to life. For example, very few species would evolve to withstand molten metal rain or extreme radiation storms. Sometimes, nanobot clouds would manifest, tearing all biological life apart, leaving no remains at all. These nanobots storms would leave everything that was not biological completely intact.
The Harkas subspecies that developed here are known as Binary Harkas. They are classified Midworldians. They vary significantly, some being able to survive some extreme conditions including the extreme heat and cold.
Life on this world has developed the ability to evolve more rapidly to account for the ever changing and often very dangerous nature of the planet. However, evolution was also improved by some sectors of the sphere. In some cases, nanobots would actively help some species to evolve, so it was nearly impossible to tell what sort of species could evolve at any one time, leading to extreme planetary genetic diversity. The vast majority of Binary Targos has been mapped by the Harkas over thousands of generations and this map was provided to the Hyperion Federation to explore. This makes this cyber sphere the best known planet of its type in existance. Also, it is part of a binary system with another planet of similar size, known as Panagia. Both worlds orbit their parent star within the habitable radius of the star.
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