A Logistos was bureaucratic chief of Komos, below the Exarch. There were 10 Logistoi, one for each administrative districts of the planet. Each Logistos was chosen from the population of the administrative district he directed. His chief responsibility was to provide the central government in Pylos, the capital city of Komos, with accurate estimates of the harvest of his district each year and to oversee the collection of the tribute when the harvest was in.