Nile-Delta II
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- BASIC INFORMATION: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Official Name in Standard: Nile-Delta II National name: Nyl ["y" pronounced as in "eye"] Title of Head of State: High Priest/ess of the Temple of Umonra at Febs [Umonra = oo'-mon-rah; "Febs" as in "february"] Title of Head of Government: same as above Political system: Theocracy (of selected priests/priestesses) Technology level: Late bronze/early iron age (cf Terran history) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GEOGRAPHY/POPULATION ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nile-Delta system, alpha quadrant Non-eclipsing binary suns (hot blue, white dwarf) Five (5) planets in system Four small moons (3 equidistant about equator, 1 not in ecliptic) Capital city: Febs Nile-Delta II is a mostly arid environment punctuated by multiple oases of varying size and several important river systems. Of exceptional note is the presence of an equatorial river belt. This river belt circumscribes the entire planet (though at many places the system may move underground and be of varying sizes) and remains at a mainly constant volume due to water evaporation and transportation at high (stratospheric) altitude to the small polar ice caps, from where it returns again to the equator after only a few centuries. The majority of the population is present at these river valleys where they live a mostly agrarian lifestyle with 90% of the population involved in crop production. The mineral resources of Nile-delta II are very few and what little there are tend to be located far from populated area in the mountainous chains running longitudinally between the river systems. The intense light received from the larger and brighter of the two stars coupled with the proximity of Nile-delta II to the centre of the solar system has made for a nearly climateless environ. However, soil fertility limits the population to the 30th parallel except in very limited locales. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ECONOMIC SUMMARY ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nile-delta II exhibits an extensive pre-industrialized economy. The lack of mineral resources, however, has retarded growth of the economy and also the invention of technology required for interstellar trading. Due to a privacy treaty (see next section) we have been unable to determine if any resources useful to it are present on Nd2 and have not been permitted to establish our own interstellar trading facilities. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GOVERNMENT/HISTORY ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nile-delta II was contacted--prior to the advent of the first General Order when culture contamination was still an arguable quantity and ship's captains were given much reign in negotiating treaties and compacts -- by the USS Outreach (Captain: Arnold Jack). Following exposure of the ship's XO to the paralytic resin of the kalach tree while part of a first contact landing party (archaic term for _away team_) the none too ignorant High Priest Alach-Del negotiated a privacy treaty and Associate Member status for his planet in return for saving the officer. All information in this report has been discerned from this original brief encounter and the subsequent emergence of a small number of Nilen citizens from the planet 10 years ago. The history of the Nilen people starts ten thousand years ago when it is claimed that the Nilen people were transplanted from earth by a group of extraterrestrials from -- reportedly -- the legendary continent of Atlantis, prior to the great Deluge. Since that time the technology level of the planet has remained approximately constant. Other than this there has been little of interest in the history other than the secrecy of the people which, of course, inflames interest. Speculation is rife amongst historians--foremost among this number at the present time is Galen Maxfield, PhD, DSc -- at how USS Outreach XO Carmen Walters came into contact with the kalach resin and how was Captain Jack persuaded so readily into signing a treaty totally preventing surveillance/reconnisance of the planet and its populace in perpetuity. Dr Maxfield theorizes that the planet's technology has not progressed but actually regressed, citing Ignatius Donnelly, Edgar Cayce and Karosh of Altair as evidence that Atlantis actually possessed highly advanced technological accomplishments and the lack of disease witnessed amongst the population on Nd2 bespeaks of advanced medical technique. Karosh of Altair is more reasonable in his treatment stating that the lack of illness is only to be expected amongst a population transposed to an entirely alien biosphere, where the blue sun with its high frequency radiations (particularly ultraviolet) would have had a sterilizing effect upon any bio-organisms introduced with the transplanted human specie. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- RACE/SOCIETY/CULTURE ----------------------------------------------------------------- The populace of Nd2 is primarily agrarian and illiterate. The 1-in-10 of the population who is not involved in the production of grain crops are mainly craftsmen, traders, soldiers and priests. Whilst the head of government is uniplanetarily recognised as the High Priest to Umonra there are a number of petty kingdoms who engage in small scale warfare all accross the planet. At any time there is at least one small skirmish taking place or soon to be doing so. Primary to Nilen culture is the worship of Umonra, taken to be the Supreme Form in the universe. Doctrinal notes on this religion are extremly scarce and fragmentary and have not been forthcoming, even with the comparatively recent expedition of a number of Nilen citizens into wider Federation space. The one consistent theme is that it is necessary that one either believe that Umonra is the Supreme Form or, of secondary benefit, one have an _advocate before Umonra_. This advocate takes the form of one who has been a friend in life and who is a worshipper of Umonra. The advocacy happens after the advocates death, irrespective of the time of death of the _defendant_. It is uncertain why, if everyone of Nd2 is a worshipper of Umonra, this concept of an advocate is necessary. The two schools of thought on the matter hold that either the same religious texts that speak of the Elder Brothers also speak of _younger brothers_ on other planets who need rescuing from themselves, or, not everyone on Nd2 worships Umonra. Clarification on this point has not been forthcoming from any of the wandering Nilens. Other information is sparse at best but will be made available when recorded. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Creator(s)/Adaptor(s) Email Address Creator: Scott Maxfield scott.maxfield@xtra.co.nz Created for/First Use (if known): Biography of character _Enchartis-Deon_, May 1998 (played by the creator, Scott Maxfield) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Please check one: __ Canonical - All rights reserved by Paramount. __ Semi-Canonical - All rights reserved by Paramount. __ Non-Canonical - All rights reserved by companies specified: ______________________________________________________________ X_ Original - All rights reserved by creator named above. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-