Mestiko

Facts

• Primary: Hertex
  • System name: Hertex III (MA Short Story: "The Darkness Drops Again")
• Inhabitants: Payav
• Two moons (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
• Nation
  • Antiquity - 2265: Non-unified (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
  • 2265 - 2283 - : Unified (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")

History

• c.2190: A devastating global conflict comes to an end, leading to the formation of the Zamestaad. (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
• Early 2264: Mestiko becomes warp-capable following the launch of an experimental FTL vessel from the nation of Gelta. Its warp signature is detected by a passing Andorian passenger transport
  • Team of first contact specialists embed themselves by mid 2264 as a prelude to official contact. (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
• January 2265: The detection of approaching rogue pulsar PSR 418-D/1015.3 leads to an accelerated contact time-table in efforts at averting the pending global catastrophe. (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
• July 2265: The majority of radiation from passing PSR 418-D/1015.3 is blocked through efforts of the USS Enterprise; though over a billion Payav were killed in the disaster, planetary extinction was averted. (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")

Political Structure

• Zamestaad established c.2190 (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
  • Three Payav generations prior to 2265 per text
  • Initially a global security council devoted to averting wars (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
    • Seats held by individual councillors, representatives of each Mestiko nation (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
  • Established following a devastating world conflict (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
  • Following devastation of the Pulse, became de facto global government body (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")

Locations

Surface

• Nations
  • Gelta (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
    • Capital: Yabapmat (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
      • First established as capital c.1260 (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
        • Thirty-eight Payav generations prior to 2265 per text, Payav generation ~25 years per other sources
    • Head of state: First Consul (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
      • - 2264 - 2265: Flen etHamwora (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
  • Larenda (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
    • Executive
      • Divided into councils (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
        • Atmospheric and Astronomic Council (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
          • - 2265: NFN Umeen
    • Legislative
      • Larandan Convocation (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
        • Three hundred members (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
        • Individual members known as Servants (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
          • Full title is "Servant <personal name>" (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
        • Led by Presiding Servant (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")

Indigenous Life

Plant

• Noggik tree (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
  • Incredibly culturally significant to Larenda (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
  • Rendered near-extinct following the effects of PSR 418-D/1015.3 (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")