Sauria

Facts

• Primary: Psi Serpentis A
• System name: Psi Serpentis A IV (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
• Also known as: Lyaksti'kton, N'Ragolar (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
• Class M
• Surface gravity: 1.2G (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)

History

• September 26, 2165: Maltuvis begins planetary invasion of Sauria from M'Tezir via orbital bombardment of opposing nations, declaring establishment of the Maltuvian Empire (ENT Novel: Live by the Code)
  • Majority of opposition forces falls overnight to Orion-provided spaceborne weaponry (ENT Novel: Patterns of Interference)
  • All but two nations yet to surrender by October 8 (ENT Novel: Live by the Code)
• January 24, 2166: Federation cuts off trade with Sauria, releasing an official statement decrying the sentient rights violations of Maltuvis against the Saurian people (ENT Novel: Patterns of Interference)

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 convenes upon administrative barges in neutral waters (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)

Individual Nations

• 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)
• M'Tezir (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
  • Initially spanned continent of M'Tezir through 2164 (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
    • Lilac-skinned Saurian race originally native to M'Tezir continent (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • Expansionist efforts under Maltuvis allowed M'Tezir nation to expand through annexation of other nations (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)
• 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)
    • Mid-22nd century - 2164: Global League (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • 2164 - : M'Tezir (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
      • Forced, alongside many other nations, to cut ties with Global League in order to allow M'Tezir military forces to distribute cure to Maltuvis's engineered plague, under the guise of having discovered a cure to a natural malady (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)
• Veranith (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • Historically enemies of M'Tezir (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • Government:
    • Some sort of representative democracy (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
      • Main legislative building Veranith Parliament Building (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • Military body Veranith Defense Force (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