Lorina

Facts

• Primary: Daran
• System Name: Daran IV (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Named after the Yonadan word for "promise", reflecting the state of the world as having been promised to the Fabrini by the then-dominant civilization of Kachissat (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Inhabitants: Lorini (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Colony established October 2269 following arrival of Yonada (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Final destination of Yonada asteroid vessel (TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"; TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Nation
  • 2270 - 2273 - : Independent (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • - 2360 - Present: United Federation of Planets (TNG Novel: The Buried Age)
• Head of State: Governor
  • 2270 - 2273 - : Natira
• Orbital distance: 1.62 AU (Ex Machina annotations)
  • Year: 1.81 Earth years (Ex Machina annotations)
• Day: 26.2 hours (Ex Machina annotations)
• Gravity: 0.86g (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Axial tilt: 14 degrees (Ex Machina annotations)
• Land-to-water ratio is slightly less than Earth's (Ex Machina annotations)

Locations

Surface

• Lorina City (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Settled 2270 upon Yonadi landfall (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • South of mountain range (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • North of wide river (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Only city as of 2273 (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)

Indigenous Life

Animal

• Konari (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Agricultural beast of burden (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Resembles a ceratopsian dinosaur (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)