Tau Ceti V is the 5th planet orbiting the Tau Ceti System.

Tau Ceti solar system is found in the constellation Cetus with a sun that is similar to ours except it is only 78% of our Sun's mass. It is one of the few nearby star with a distance of 12 light years away from the Earth.

When the Von Braun left in February 3, 2114, it took barely 5 months for the ship to reach the Tau Ceti system. On June 14 of the same year, an unknown transmission was detected from the 5th planet of Tau Ceti.

Upon arriving on the surface, crewmembers found eggs lying in a semi-circle in the middle of what looked like a crash crater. Bayliss found an electrical wafer and knew that Dr. Polito would have some use for it.

Unknown to the entire crew, the eggs were actually from a garden grove on space station Citadel where SHODAN processing component 43893 was performing an experiment. The grove was jettisoned just before Hacker destroyed SHODAN's primary dataloop.

The climate on the planet surface is described as hot and humid as Hydroponic level was set to that temperature to simulate the conditions like on the surface.