Nasat (planet)

Facts

• One of the nearest Federation worlds to Tzenkethi Coalition (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
• Class M
  • Majority if not totality of the inhabited surface is made up of a single massive forest (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Air quite humid compared to most class M planets (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• At least one moon (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Has a single inhabited base (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
    • Has sufficient space to hold the full population of a single township (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Inhabitants: Nasat, Citoac
• Nation
  • - 2369 - Present: United Federation of Planets (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature"; Novel: Articles of the Federation)

History

• c.mid-1600s: The Nasat first migrate from the forest floor into the canopy (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• c.2370: Brief attempt by Tzenkethi Coalition at opening trade relations (Novel: Articles of the Federation)

Political Structure

• Overarching government directed by a Planetary Council (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Holds various devoted subcouncils (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
    • Planetary Science Council (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Forest divided into quadrants (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
  • Each led by quadrant governor (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature"; Novel: Articles of the Federation)

Locations

Surface

• Planetary forest (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Administratively divided into "quadrants" (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
  • Populated areas made up solely of canopy settlements, akin to massive treehouse-type structures (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
    • Individual settlements known as "townships" (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Pneumatic cross-forest travel system established c.2360 (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
  • c.2375, preliminary efforts at installing security netting between townships and forest floor begun (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")

Indigenous Life

Animal

• Bark beetle (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• C'kh fly (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Laito monkey (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Native to the canopy (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Unnamed keel-billed avian species (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Diet includes hermoorsia fruit (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Unnamed multiwinged avian species (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Native to the canopy (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")

Plant

• Greela (SCE Short Story: "Past Life")
  • Fruit (SCE Short Story: "Past Life")
• Hermoorsia (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Produces fruit with a hard yellow rind (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Jahang (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Produces berries (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Kaino (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Root vegetable (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Mother-tree (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Massive trees whose canopies comprise the totality of Nasat settlement (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
    • Original environment in which Nasat evolved (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
    • All settlements located in the canopies of mother-trees, with little to no descent to the ground (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Neophatra (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Small-leafed plant native to mother tree canopies (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Pledh (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Vining plant (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Produces edible fruit (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
• Zeeflower (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Flowering, fruiting plant (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")