Cardassia Prime

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Facts

  • Primary: Cardassia
  • System Name: Cardassia II
  • Capital: Cardassia City (DS9 Novel: A Stitch in Time)
  • Class M
    • Climate warmer, more arid than most Class M worlds, with slightly higher carbon dioxide concentration than average (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
    • Formerly incredibly arboreal world (DS9 Novel: Dawn of the Eagles)
      • Resource exploitation in early years of the Union led to planet-wide dustbowl conditions, reducing arable land (DS9 Novel: A Stitch in Time)
  • Three moons
  • Inhabitants: Cardassian
  • Nation

History

  • c.19th century: Establishment of the Cardassian Union (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)

Locations

Surface

  • Most of surface devastated in Dominion attack of December 2375
  • Continents
    • South Forbella (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
      • Largest continent (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
    • Cities
      • Lakarian City (DS9: "Defiant", "What You Leave Behind"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
        • Population: ~2,000,000 (2375) (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
        • Considered one of the planet's top leisure destinations prior to its razing by the Dominion (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
        • Razed to the ground as the first strike in Dominion counterattack against the Cardassian Union (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
          • All inhabitants killed in the attack (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
        • Krendalee (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
          • Amusement park destroyed in Dominion attack (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
  • Unknown location
    • Cardassian City (DS9 Novel: A Stitch in Time)
      • Devastated in 2376 Dominion attack (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
      • Munda'ar Sector (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
      • Unknown sector
        • Cardassia Institute of Art (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Indigenous Life

Animal

  • Cardassian vole
    • Rodent-like pest animals (DS9)
    • Approximately 25cm long
    • Possibly similar reptilian/mammalian biology as Cardassians, given little fur, physical similarities
  • Scottril (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
  • Utoxa (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
    • Fist-sized winged predator (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)