Pengalan I is a cold planet and eighty percent of its surface is covered with large ice fissures and canyons extending deep into the crust. With only a small amount of livable terrain around the equator, Pengalan I has been subjected to many attempts at colonization and mining with varying results. Some scientists believe that the habitable zone around the planet's equator was a terraforming experiment by the Ithorians at a relatively recent point in its history. Even though the race's interest in Pengalan I was inexplicably short-lived, its only biozone corresponds to the location of their one-time colony. Regardless of its possibly artificial beginnings, the region does have plant life and an extremely small variety of animal and insect specimens.