Delta Sigma IV
Facts
- Primary: Delta Sigma
- Class M
- Inhabitants: Bader, Dorset
- Nation:
- 2278 - c.2280: Joint occupation
- c.2280 - 2378 - : United Federation of Planets
- Tectonically stable from 20th to 24th century (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Major exporter of food for general area (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
History
- c.20th century: First charted by Confederacy of Vulcan (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- c.2250: Planet first discovered by the Bader (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- August 2278: Colony established by the Bader (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Second colony established by the Dorset shortly after (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- c.2280: Shortly after establishment of colony, declared independence from Bader and Dorset homeworlds, gained admittance to Federation (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
Government
- Led by an elected council of four Bader and four Dorset (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Leader of the council known as Speaker for the People (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
Locations
Surface
- Four large continents (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Relatively equal in size (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Two northern continents inhabited largely by Bader (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Two southern continents inhabited largely by Dorset (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Fith (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Various islands (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Anann (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Mineral-poor island (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Osedah (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Island (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Further north than Tregor (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Tregor (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Island (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Further south than Osedah (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Anann (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Unknown locations
- Testani (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- City (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Testani (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
Indigenous Life
Animal
- No indigenous avian life; animal and fish only (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
Plant
- Liscom
- Native plant which produces liscom gas as a byproduct of photosynthesis (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Bonds with chromosomes of Bader, Dorset, resulting in shortened lifespans (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Found on all four continents, 87% of islands (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Inedible for Bader or Dorset consumption (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)
- Native plant which produces liscom gas as a byproduct of photosynthesis (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)