252 Derrax the Dull

"So, what do you know about Derrax? I haven't had time to start researching it yet." Max asked over dinner.

"There really isn't much to know. It is an isolated nation, a minor shipbuilder of merchant freighters a few generations back of Kepler technology, and kept deliberately neutral by its neighbors." General Yaakov shrugged. 

"They view color as frivolity, so all their buildings are plain concrete, even the houses. Everyone on the planet covers themselves from shoulders to ankles at all times, and they don't do physical greetings. 

I am told that it is due to fear of foreign diseases, but the habitable planets aren't exactly a vacation spot, they had fully industrialized them before recovering advanced technology and environmental illnesses are still rampant." Admiral Drake added.