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

• Cardassian City (DS9 Novel: A Stitch in Time)
  • 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