Iceball

Star travel capable and more or less unified since roughly 8,000 BBY, Iceball (a name given by the JEAF) is the homeworld of the Cold, a warm-blooded but arachnoid species. It is one of only two worlds on which the Cold have ever lived. The location of the other is unknown.

Most of Iceball's cities and facilities are buried beneath snow, ice, permafrost or rock, making intelligence gathering difficult. Even most of their shipyards are underground; their ships are modular, so these shipyards are believed to be relatively small and dedicated.

Most of Iceball's surface military presence was destroyed from orbit by elements of the Jade Empire Armed Forces in early 17 ABY. Certain emplacements were deemed too close to subterranean population sectors for such treatment: SpecOps took care of those most likely to pose a threat to the planetary quarantine satellites.