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")
- Has a single inhabited base (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")
- Holds various devoted subcouncils (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")
- Massive trees whose canopies comprise the totality of Nasat settlement (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")