Delta Sigma IV

Facts

• Primary: Delta Sigma
• Class M
• Inhabitants: Bader, Dorset
• Nation:
  • 2278 - c.2280: Joint occupation
    • Bader
    • Dorset
  • c.2280 - 2378 - : United Federation of Planets
• Tectonically stable from 20th to 24th century (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)

History

• c.20th century: First charted by Confederacy of Vulcan (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
• c.2250: Planet first discovered by the Bader (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
• August 2278: Colony established by the Bader (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
  • Second colony established by the Dorset shortly after (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
• c.2280: Shortly after establishment of colony, declared independence from Bader and Dorset homeworlds, gained admittance to Federation (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)

Government

• Led by an elected council of four Bader and four Dorset (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
  • Leader of the council known as Speaker for the People (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)

Locations

Surface

• Four large continents (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
  • Relatively equal in size (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
  • Two northern continents inhabited largely by Bader (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
  • Two southern continents inhabited largely by Dorset (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
    • Fith (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
• Various islands (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
  • Anann (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
    • Mineral-poor island (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
• Tregor (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)

Indigenous Life

Animal

• No indigenous avian life; animal and fish only (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)

Plant

• Liscom
  • Native plant which produces liscom gas as a byproduct of photosynthesis (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
    • Bonds with chromosomes of Bader, Dorset, resulting in shortened lifespans (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
  • Name presumptive