User blog comment:Tiredman2/Mass Effect Plot Holes and Contradictions/@comment-1900300-20120821064837/@comment-5379655-20120821132005

True, but it is a garden world, which means it is far easier and cheaper to colonize than a world that requires terraforming. And since we see several planets in the series that are being terraformed or have been terraformed by the council races, it doesn't make sense why they didn't colonize Bekenstein before moving on to far more costly ventures. Also, if the world was tied up in political squabbles, then how was humanity able to acquire it so easily. On another note, the gas giant within the system is the one that the citadel fleet uses as a refueling station, so I don't see how Bekenstein wasn't developed before hand. Again, I'm not trying to be nit picky, I'm just trying to see what other people have noticed.