Kachissat

Facts

• Primary: Daran
• System Name: Daran V (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Population
  • 3.724 billion (2268) (TOS: "For the World is Hollow And I Have Touched the Sky")
• Inhabitants: Shesshran (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Nation
  • Antiquity - 2273 - : Independent (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Orbital distance: 2.115 AU (Ex Machina annotations)
  • Year: 2.69 Earth years (Ex Machina annotations)
• Gravity: 1.65g (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Surface atmospheric pressure: 3.4 atm (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• No warp capability by 2270s (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Patrolled by orbital defense coalition watching for warp flashes within Daran system (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Either vessels or planet itself armed with railguns (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)

History

• c.8000 BCE: Planetary ecosystem devastated, electronic infrastructure destroyed by supernova wavefront released from Ganidra, leading to collapse of the first Shesshran civilization (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Known later to Shesshran as the Great Die-Off (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Knowledge of prior civilization lost to Shesshran until demonstrated through cooperative Federation/Shesshran archaeological efforts (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Civilization rebuilt to interplanetary levels by 2270s (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)

Indigenous Life

Animal

• Dushiik (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Domesticated herd animal (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)