The ninth planet of the system of Endani A, known prior to the Butlerian Jihad as Komos diameter at equator 40,000 kilometers, 50% land area, freshwater lakes 10%, salt oceans 40% Very restricted polar ice mean annual temperature 22 average low 2, average high 34 Unusually deep soil base planet average 5 meters to 8 meters Average annual rdinfdll one meter Planet is ideal for production of grain crops over much of surface, drier sections capable of sustaining large herds of grazing animals Estimated annual production in excess of 100 billion bushels of various grains annual, livestock 200,000 head annually After the Butlenan Jihad, Ix became the secret source of sophisticated technology Before the Great Revolt the planet Komos 349 was a province of its neighbor, Rtchese, which appointed a planetary governor, or "Exarch " to rule at the discretion of the home government The Exarch was given a small gamson, but the domination of Komos did not depend upon actual military force Rather, Richest: controlled Komos through the threat of force the population of Richese was close to five hundred million, and their army was larger than the total population of Komos Richese forbade Komos space vessels, while maintaining a sizable steller army of its own The Exarch was charged with few responsibilities by the home government, but these were specific 1) Ensui&-the tiibate, 2) Keep thepeace The order of these charges reflected the priorities of the government To Richese, nothing was more important than the flow of grain and livestock from Komos Since Richese produced no foodstuffs itself, the population depended for its very existence on die bounty provided by their province Beyond the office of Exarch, the planet was divided into ten administrative districts, whose bureaucratic chiefs were called "Lo-gistoi Each Logistos was chosen from the population of the administrative district he directed His chief responsibility was to pro vide the central government HI Pylos, the capital ctty of Komos, with accurate esti mates of the harvest of his district each year and to oversee the collection of the tribute when the harvest was m The grip of Richese's domination of Komos was loose There was no attempt to enforce the legal system of Richese on Komos, nor was the religion or language of the dominant planet pressed on the Komans Except for the collection of die tribute, Komos was left almost entirely alone The citizens of Richese, when they thought of Komos at all, consid ered their exploitation of the planet to be benevolent and geatte While it is true that the control of Komos was far less merciless than it might have been, die population of Komos did not think of their overlords as benevolent In fact, had it not been for the restraint Richese showed m their relations with their province, the revolt