The people residing in the Empress Teta system were known as the Tetans. A significant portion of their population had a taste for life's more extravagant pleasures and actively sought to improve their social standing either through career advancement or marriage. However, some Tetans, facing dire circumstances, resorted to activities such as blackmail or entered into agreements with various criminal syndicates, all in pursuit of a better life. A considerable number of Tetans interpreted the Qel-Droma Epics as a factual account of their system, which led to unsuccessful archaeological digs.