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Cardassia

Author : bdfd

Date : Jan 2023

Cardassia III view.jpg
Cardassia IV - Hutet view.jpg
Cardassia V - Minor view.jpg
Cardassia VI - Prime view.jpg

DESCRIPTION
Cardassia is an orange dwarf (K2V = HIP 3876) star in the Cassiopeia constellation.
The system has four M-class planets and is located only about 70.2 ly from Sun.
The star has around 0.90 percent of Sol's radius, and 0.32 percent of its luminosity.
Cardassia Prime is the 6th planet in the Cardassia system of the Alpha Quadrant.
Bajor system (HIP 7339) is at 5.28 LY.

Different datas come from internet and tell us :
The system has two asteroïd belts.
Cardassia I     : class B
cardassia II    : class B
Belt n°1
Cardassia III   : class M (hot like Vulcan)
Cardassia IV    : class M (tropical)
Cardassia V     : class M Earth-like
Cardassia Prime : class M Colder
Belt n°2
Cardassia VII   : Class Q (Neptunian gas giant)
Cardassia VIII  : class I (Jupiter-like)


 

Cardassian system.jpg

History
The inhabitants are cardassians (humanoids).
The ancient First Hebitian civilization on Cardassia Prime was a highly-developed civilization which once thrived on the planet.
The First Hebitian burial vaults were said to be magnificent and filled with many artifacts made of jevonite.
(TNG: "Chain of Command, Part II")


Epoch time is after dominion war (> 2390).

A journey from Sun to Cardassia gives with okuda table :
   At warp 5.0 : 119.8 days (Enterprise)
   at warp 7.0 :  39.1 days (Tos)
   at warp 9.0 :  16.9 days (Tng)
   at warp 9.9 :   8.4 days (USS DELESTREZ v4)
   at warp 9.9+:   3.6 days (Voyager)

 

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