Andor

Facts

• Primary: Fesoan
• Also known as: Andoria
• Population: 90,000,000 (2381)
• Capital
  • - 2156 - 2381: Divided
    • Industrial: Laibok (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
    • Political: Laikan (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, Live by the Code; TNG Short Story: "The Captain and the King")
  • 2381 - Present: Lor'Vela (TP Novel: Paths of Disharmony)
• Class M
• Two moons (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
• Inhabitants: Andorian, Aenar (extinct by 23rd century), Arkenite
• Nation
  • Antiquity - 19th century: Non-unified (DS9 Novel: Andor: Paradigm)
  • 19th century - Present: Andorian Empire
• Andorian magnetic field weakest at the poles, solar wind reaching even to the surface in regions (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
  • Obscures sensors even more strongly than on most worlds as a result (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)

History

• The icecutter Kumari is the first vessel to circumnavigate Andor, crewed by the explorers Shetthius, Shintral, and Chorna. (ENT: "United"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)
• Andor united by Thalisar the Last, the planet's last monarch. (DS9 Novel: Andor: Paradigm)
• c.1850: First contact with Vulcans, leading soon after to the development of warp drive in response to what is seen by Andorians at an attempt at pacification. (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)

Locations

Surface

• Zhevra (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
  • Continent (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
• Northern island chains
  • Harbortown
  • Laibok (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
    • Established by 2156 (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
    • Industrial capital (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
  • Laikan (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, Live by the Code)
    • Established by 2156 (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
    • Political capital (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, Live by the Code)
  • Northern Wastes (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
    • Northernmost region of Andor
    • Former location of Aenar settlement prior to their extinction (ENT: "The Aenar"; ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
• Unknown
  • Andorian Art Academy (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Dreshna
  • Khyzon Sea
  • Lor'Tan
  • Lor'Vela
  • Musilla province (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Weyzhiss Mountains

Indigenous Life

Animal

• Andorian bull (DS9: "Fascination")
• Atlirith (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
  • Eagle analogue (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
• Eel (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
  • Native to the lakes of Zhevra (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
• F'sherr beetle (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
• Frost boar (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
  • Hibernates (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
• Ice-bore (ENT: "The Aenar")
  • Worm which generates heat through an internal exothermic process to burrow through ice
• Redbat (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures; DS9: "Invasive Procedures")
  • Eaten for food
• Tathrac (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Mountain-dwelling animal capable of easily navigating difficult terrain (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
• Zabathu (TNG: "Pen Pals")
  • Riding animal
• Unnamed riding animal (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
  • Used in the ancient past by Andorian cavalry soldiers (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
  • Possibly the zabathu?

Plant

• Andorian tuber root (DS9: "Second Sight"; TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
  • Presumably a potato analogue

Protist

• Andorian amoeba (VOY: "Tuvix")
  • Noted for reproducing symbiogenetically rather than through mitosis
• Unnamed bio-luminescent microorganism (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
  • Source of natural lighting in Aenar caverns within the Northern Wastes (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)