text: Travel to one of the most amazing collection of planetary vacation opportunities you will ever have a chance to see. The **Telix planetary system** is comprised of eight roughly earth sized planets, three with breathable atmospheres. With a little something for every one, you are sure to find the beauty and excitement that is the **Telixian** experience. Owned and operated by **United Container** the leader in commercial storage for more than 400 years, some of the **Telix** system has been adapted to a luxury resort for recreational travel. Set up a consultation for your visit as soon as you can. Shuttles leave from **The UC** Starbace every standard day. The **Telixian** star is almost identical to the Earth sun in almost every way. Being a short, 37 Standard L.Y. trip from Earth, you can be at the **UC Starbace** in less than one standard month. And it is only 14 Standard L.Y. from Venaos. Telix is a rare gem. **Telix 1** One of the most desolate, bleak and driest places in the known galaxy. Used mostly for long term storage, **Telix 1** has no detectable weather of any kind. It is a smooth spherical planet with a hard featureless sandstone like surface. It is described article in *Planet Hopper's guide*: "Places I Wish I Never Went" , as "*a giant gray ball monotony broken up by storage containers*." It is utterly devoid of any life other than the company employees heavily suited up in hazardous environmental equipment. Some extreme sports enthusiasts still travel there to experience the sport of container jumping in the two thirds Earth gravity. Over 400 deaths are reported per standard year, although body retrieval is not always possible. Sand storms will blow at some 100 km for up to one standard day, then stop for no apparent reason. The sand, being made of sharp micro silica particles often polishes everything metallic to a high luster , leaving it gleaming in the glow of the terrain. Container delivery is a constant source of exhaust gases. Making the planet's atmosphere forever unbreathable. Yet the glow of the fire trails of incoming and out going deliveries against the night sky is said to be an amazing sight, and well worth the trip alone. **Telix 2** , In contrast to the previous, this is a planet with an abundance of plant life. Yet, early archeological excavations have found only six different species of animal fossils on the entire planet. Only two surviving species are left on the surface of this lush world. The Zotten is a heavily scaled, seven armed vertebrate having one large center aligned mouth. It averages some three meters in height. Having an obnoxious smell, and making a loud sound as they move through the forest of vegetation feeding on plant life. It strips plant life continually stuffing it into it's mouth in a blur of speed. Listed as the most obnoxious organism ever discovered in Adventures in Space Travels, the Zotten do not fair well in captivity due to a high metabolize rate. The last attempt died in transit to the offworld zoological park, before it could be loaded for travel, from starvation. Their mating season is only five minutes , ever two standard years. This keeps the population down for this voracious eater that would otherwise strip the planet to a desert. They lay one egg per mating season. The second species is a small fur covered disc shaped creature averaging one half meter in diameter called a Gob. Lacking any mobility of their own, a Gob has a very low metabolize rate to avoid starvation. A gob may spend most of it's life never coming in contact with another of it's own kind. The continued existence of the gob species is thought to be directly due to the zotten's eating habits. Gobs have a very bitter taste to zotten. As a hungry zotten shoves almost everything into it's mouth while passing through, gobs are also picked up. A zotten will spit a gob up to half of a kilometer upon tasting one. Travelers baring the noise and smell can delight at the fantastic sight of the flinging of the gobs as infuriated zotten spit them in all directions. It has been theorized that all other animal life forms have either been trampled to death or died of shock. Fossels of early life forms appear to have a shocked look to them. **Telix 3** A world covered entirely with ocean. Surprisingly, it is crystal clear and has a purity that revels any body of water yet found. The diverse life forms found in the water are very delicate, and are all invertebrates. The average water depth is twenty meters. Although there are fourteen moons around **Telix 3**, there is no noticeable tidal effect on the planet wide sea. **Telix 3** is also the the only planet in the system with moons. A scientific observation station was placed on the planet over fifty standard years ago. To avoid contamination supplies as well as personnel exchange is handled by electromagnetic rail sling, and capture. A famous contamination leak of cooling fluid took place some 10 standard years ago. The cost for containment and clean up had almost put United Container out of business, threatening to shut down the very productive **Telix 1** operations. There is of course a permanent ban on all travel to this planet to anyone with out science clearance. Illegal exportation of any of the indigenous life form of **Telix 3** is punishable by life imprisonment . One poacher was caught off world selling a Dieso, which is an organism similar to an earth Jelly fish. It has a neurotoxin that can kill most of the current population of Earth, per micro gram. Dieso carry on average up to four litters of a two part mix that becomes the toxin when frightened. **Telix 4** A frozen world, with snowy mountainous terrain, for winter sports with out end. The snow never ends, but in a scenic calm. There are no blizzards, or oceans on **Telix 4**. Every winter sport that has every been thought of is here, and waiting for you to enjoy. There are over 400 U.C. hotels with connecting high-speed rail . **Telix 5 through 8** These are gas planets and are only useful for scientific observation. Prior approval is needed before travel in U.C. rated craft to observe them. Inquire about rates, and reservations. **United Container , 2189** *At U.C.