Sauria

Facts

• Primary: Psi Serpentis A
• System name: Psi Serpentis A IV (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
• Class M
• Surface gravity: 1.2G (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
• Local names: Lyaksti'kton, N'Ragolar (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
• Inhabitants: Saurians
• Nation
  • Antiquity - 2165 - : Non-unified (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
  • - 2270 - Present: Federation (DTI Novel: Forgotten History)
    • Councillor S'Kaa ( - 2270 - ) (DTI Novel: Forgotten History)
• Planet suffers frequent heavy storms (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)

Nations

• Global League
  • Spans all but M'Tezir by 2163 (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
  • Begins to lose membership to M'Tezir through actions of Maltuvis starting 2164 (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • Government:
    • - 2163: Federated representative democracy (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
      • Central ruling body: Executive Council led by Presider (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
        • - 2163 - : Presider Moxat (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
      • Executive Council Council convenes upon administrative barges in neutral waters (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
• M'Tezir (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
  • Spans continent of M'Tezir (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
    • Lilac-skinned Saurian race originally native to M'Tezir continent (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • Government:
    • - 2163: Hereditary monarchy (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
      • Title of head of state: the Basileus; monarch abandons birth name upon taking the title (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
    • 2163 - 2165 - : Dictatorship (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures, Tower of Babel)
      • First head of state Maltuvis, former Basileus (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
  • Military force known as M'Tezir Royal Command (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • High mineral concentrations (including dilithium, duranium, and tritanium) leading to great prosperity upon opening of offworld trade (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures, Tower of Babel)
    • The result of the massive upthrust of land forming the M'Tezir continent bringing rare earths in the mantle closer to the surface than anywhere else on the planet (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
• Former independent states
  • Lyaksti (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
    • Founding member of Global League mid-22nd century (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
    • Government:
      • c.1st millennium BC - mid-22nd century: Imperial state, possible monarchy (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
        • Dominant power on Sauria prior to formation of Global League (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
      • Mid-22nd century - : Global League (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
  • Narpra (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • Spans an archipelago running from the northern tip of M'Tezir to the west coast of Sauria's largest continent (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • Prior government:
      • - mid-22nd century: Independent state (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
      • - 2163: Global League (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
      • 2163 - : M'Tezir (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • Cities:
      • Patorco Harbor
        • Built on the largest island of Narpra
    • First inhabited c.6th millennium BCE (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)

Indigenous Life

Animal

• Bioluminescent insects of various species

Plant

• Bioluminescent algae of various species
• Rumweed
  • Kelp-like plant used in the brewing of Narpran rum