Andor
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Facts
- Primary: Fesoan
- Also known as: Andoria
- Population: 90,000,000 (2381)
- Capital
- - 2156 - 2381: Divided
- Industrial: Laibok (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Political: Laikan (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, Live by the Code; TNG Short Story: "The Captain and the King")
- 2381 - Present: Lor'Vela (TP Novel: Paths of Disharmony)
- - 2156 - 2381: Divided
- Class M
- Two moons (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Inhabitants: Andorian, Aenar (extinct by 23rd century), Arkenite
- Nation
- Antiquity - 19th century: Non-unified (DS9 Novel: Andor: Paradigm)
- 19th century - Present: Andorian Empire
- Andorian magnetic field weakest at the poles, solar wind reaching even to the surface in regions (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Obscures sensors even more strongly than on most worlds as a result (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
History
- The icecutter Kumari is the first vessel to circumnavigate Andor, crewed by the explorers Shetthius, Shintral, and Chorna. (ENT: "United"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)
- Andor united by Thalisar the Last, the planet's last monarch. (DS9 Novel: Andor: Paradigm)
- c.1850: First contact with Vulcans, leading soon after to the development of warp drive in response to what is seen by Andorians at an attempt at pacification. (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
Locations
Surface
- Zhevra (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Continent (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Northern island chains
- Harbortown
- Laibok (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Established by 2156 (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Industrial capital (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Laikan (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, Live by the Code)
- Established by 2156 (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
- Political capital (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, Live by the Code)
- Northern Wastes (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Northernmost region of Andor
- Former location of Aenar settlement prior to their extinction (ENT: "The Aenar"; ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Unknown
- Andorian Art Academy (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
- Dreshna
- Khyzon Sea
- Lor'Tan
- Lor'Vela
- Musilla province (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
- Weyzhiss Mountains
Indigenous Life
Animal
- Andorian bull (DS9: "Fascination")
- Atlirith (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
- Eagle analogue (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
- Eel (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Native to the lakes of Zhevra (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- F'sherr beetle (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
- Frost boar (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Hibernates (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Ice-bore (ENT: "The Aenar")
- Worm which generates heat through an internal exothermic process to burrow through ice
- Redbat (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures; DS9: "Invasive Procedures")
- Eaten for food
- Tathrac (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
- Mountain-dwelling animal capable of easily navigating difficult terrain (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
- Zabathu (TNG: "Pen Pals")
- Riding animal
- Unnamed riding animal (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Used in the ancient past by Andorian cavalry soldiers (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Possibly the zabathu?
Plant
- Andorian tuber root (DS9: "Second Sight"; TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
- Presumably a potato analogue
Protist
- Andorian amoeba (VOY: "Tuvix")
- Noted for reproducing symbiogenetically rather than through mitosis
- Unnamed bio-luminescent microorganism (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
- Source of natural lighting in Aenar caverns within the Northern Wastes (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)