Inner Kaferia

Facts

• Primary: Tau Ceti
• System name: Tau Ceti III (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
• Class M
• Local name: Kohath-Seredi
• Commonly known as simply Kaferia since the destruction of the colony on Outer Kaferia (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
• Inhabitants: Kaferians
• First human charting by the Kaferi family
• Frequent asteroid impacts (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)

History

• By 2151: First contact with Humans (ENT: "Strange New World")
• 2156: Occupied by Romulan forces alongside Outer Kaferia following the destruction of Earth's colony on that world (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • Local inhabitants undergo hibernation to avoid/hide from occupying forces
• 2160: Occupation ends with the end of the Earth-Romulan War (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)

Indigenous Life

Animal

• Sea-hornets (ENT Novel: Live by the Code)
  • Lives in floating hive mounds (ENT Novel: Live by the Code)

Plant

• Kaferian apple (ENT: "Strange New World"; TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before"; VAN Novel: Harbinger; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight; SCE Short Story: "The Art of the Comeback", "Home Fires")
  • Red, spined fruit with a large pit, presumably named due to a similarity in flavor rather than appearance? (ENT: "Strange New World")
  • Considered a delicacy throughout the Federation