The earl icst versions of this portable desert dwelling were developed by the Zensumu nomads sent to Ishia (second planet of Beta iygn) in 5295 Although the Ishian environment was far gentler than that to which the nomads were accustomed-that of Salusa Secundus, where then- people had been held in slavery for nine generations-it was hot, and, and unforgiving Water in this desert ecology was a precious commodity, not to be wasted, the stilltents were intended to help minimize that waste Crude as the firs