Cardassia Prime

Facts

• Primary: Cardassia
• System Name: Cardassia II
• Capital: Cardassia City (DS9 Novel: A Stitch in Time)
• Class M
  • Climate warmer, more arid than most Class M worlds, with slightly higher carbon dioxide concentration than average (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
  • Formerly incredibly arboreal world (DS9 Novel: Dawn of the Eagles)
    • Resource exploitation in early years of the Union led to planet-wide dustbowl conditions, reducing arable land (DS9 Novel: A Stitch in Time)
• Three moons
  • Cardassia II A - Letau
  • Blind Moon
  • Unknown
• Inhabitants: Cardassian
• Nation
  • c.19th century - Present: Cardassian Union

History

• c.19th century: Establishment of the Cardassian Union (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)

Locations

Surface

• Most of surface devastated in Dominion attack of December 2375
• Continents
  • South Forbella (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
    • Largest continent (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
  • Cities
    • Lakarian City (DS9: "Defiant", "What You Leave Behind"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
      • Population: ~2,000,000 (2375) (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
      • Considered one of the planet's top leisure destinations prior to its razing by the Dominion (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
      • Razed to the ground as the first strike in Dominion counterattack against the Cardassian Union (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
        • All inhabitants killed in the attack (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
      • Krendalee (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
        • Amusement park destroyed in Dominion attack (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
• Unknown location
  • Cardassian City (DS9 Novel: A Stitch in Time)
    • Devastated in 2376 Dominion attack (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
    • Munda'ar Sector (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
    • Unknown sector
      • Cardassia Institute of Art (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Indigenous Life

Animal

• Cardassian vole
  • Rodent-like pest animals (DS9)
  • Approximately 25cm long
  • Possibly similar reptilian/mammalian biology as Cardassians, given little fur, physical similarities