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Some planets cannot be colonized despite having a resource-producing type. These planets are either significant to the lore of New Eden, or are located in systems with very heavy player traffic (Jita, for example).

[[File:BarrenLarge.png|right|Barren Planet]] Barren planets are archetypical "dead terrestrials": dry, rocky worlds with a minimal atmosphere and an unremarkable composition. They are commonly etched with flood channels, which are often broad enough to be visible from orbit; most such worlds have accumulated significant quantities of ice over their lifetimes, but cannot retain it on their surface. Generally surface liquid evaporates rapidly, contributing to the thin atmosphere, but occasionally it will seep back into the ground and refreeze, ready for another breakout in future when the local temperature rises.

[[File:GasLarge.png|right|Gas Planet]] Gas planets are characterized by a deep, opaque upper atmosphere, usually composed primarily of light elements such as hydrogen or helium. Simple chemicals can add a range of hues and shades in the visual spectrum, and the interaction between upwellings and rapidly circulating pressure bands result in a huge variety of visible surface structures. A similar level of diversity can be found beneath the cloud-tops: the inner composition of a given gas planet might belong to any one of a dozen broad groups, with no two planets entirely alike in this regard.

Resources on a Gas planet will typically be found in narrow bands running east-west at various latitudes.  Base metals are generally in bands around the equator, Aqueous Liquids and Ionic Solutions in mid-latitudes bands, with the Noble Gas near the poles.  Reactive Gas will be found in small pockets at all latitudes. Gas planets are normally larger than most other types of planets, so connecting links between structures will generally take more power grid and CPU.

Ice planets typically have high amounts of Heavy Metals and Aqueous Liquids available. Micro Organisms and Noble Gas are less abundant, with Planktic Colonies being somewhat thin. Aqueous Liquids tends to be found more in the polar regions of Ice planets, Planktic Colonies in the temperate latitudes and Micro Organisms in the equatorial regions.  Noble Gas and Heavy Metals are more randomly distributed with Heavy Metals more towards the equator and Noble Gas more towards the poles but with large areas of overlap and intermingling.

[[File:OceanicLarge.png|right|Oceanic Planet]] Oceanic worlds are a class of terrestrial world covered entirely by liquids, usually in the form of mundane water. While the liquid surface is exceptionally smooth, the ocean floor on most worlds of this type exhibits significant topographic variety. It is this subsurface irregularity which causes the formation of complex weather systems, which would otherwise revert to more uniform patterns.

Resource distribution on Plasma planets generally follow the pattern of the whitish plasma "storms" visible on the surface. Base and Heavy Metals tend to be found in the darker spots on the planet, while Noble Metals and Suspended Plasma are found in the actively boiling areas. Non-CS Crystals are found mostly in the polar band, excepting the pole itself.

Storm planets tend to have equal amounts of Aqueous Liquids, Base Metals and Suspended Plasma in decent amounts, with Noble Gas running a close 4th and Ionic Solutions as a distant 5th and somewhat sparse.  Ionic Solutions tend to be distributed in the middle latitudes, Noble Gas anywhere but the equator and Suspended Plasma tending towards the equatorial regions.  Aqueous Liquids and Base Metals will appear on broad swaths across all latitudes in giant swirling patterns.

The physical appearance of these planets also has a high impact upon the resources available.  Temperate planets with large amounts of water coverage will have an increased supply of Aqueous Liquids whilst having a reduced supply of Complex Organisms and Micro Organisms, planets with large amounts of land mass coverage show an increase in the supply of Micro Organism (and occasionally Complex Organisms), and a significantly reduced amount of Aqueous Liquids.

Following the extreme stellar event of Turnur system, the former barren planet Turnur I have been scorched by the high-energy radiation with complete lose of life and destruction of POCO and all colonies on it, now no longer available to planetary industry.