When Canum was first discovered, just a few years before the war began in earnest, it was significant because of its unexhausted fruit-bearing forests. The planet slogan was literally, "Go Tinanas for Canum." Someone back on Old Earth had taken one look at the tiny plantain-like harvest that was Canum's claim to fame and pronounced them tiny bananas. The name had mutated and then stuck: tinanas, squishy little sugar bombs, were instantly popular the galaxy over.

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