GAMMA QUADRANT GLOSSARY
Changelings: MORE HERE SOON
Dominion War: The Dominion War was a major interstellar conflict, fought from 2373 to 2375, though related conflicts began earlier. The war involved all major powers of the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Alpha Quadrant Alliance (the Klingons, the Romulans, and the UFP) and the Dominion Alliance (the Breen, Cardassians, and the Dominion). Marked by massive military and civilian casualties, including the systematic destruction of the Cardassian population, and the mobilization of starship fleets on a massive scale, it was one of the bloodiest and most destructive wars in modern galactic history. Initially, the year 2371 was an anxious time for the powers of the Alpha Quadrant, as the threat posed by the Dominion on the far side of the Bajoran wormhole began to grow. The Jem'Hadar attacks in 2370, destroyed the Bajoran colony of New Bajor and the Starfleet ship USS Odyssey, and saw subsequent engagement between the USS Defiant and several Jem'Hadar fighters, revealed a ruthless, powerful empire determined to impose their version of order upon a chaotic galaxy. Although a full-scale invasion did not follow the initial first contact of the Jem'Hadar as was initially feared, war seemed to be inevitable. With these signs, the Alpha Quadrant powers immediately began to prepare for invasion. The United Federation of Planets (UFP) assigned the USS Defiant to Deep Space 9 at the mouth of the wormhole to bolster its defensive capabilities. The Federation also shared all of its intelligence with the Romulan Star Empire as per their treaty to allow a Romulan cloaking device to be installed on the Defiant. The Cardassian Union, occupied by its own internal and external concerns, remained relatively uninvolved but it was attacked by the Klingons in 2372. The Cardassian Unions' infrastructure was crippled by the Klingon invasion. This, coupled with political problems within the Cardassian Empire, prompted the general Gul Dukat to enter into secret negotiations with the Dominion. Acting as the Cardassian Empire's representative, Dukat negotiated Cardassia's entry into the Dominion and Dukat was named the new leader of Cardassia in 2373. The Dominion cold war would continue to escalate following this development, eventually culminating in the far-ranging Dominion War. MORE HERE SOON
Adaptogenics:
Aethernet
Allens' Giraffe: This giant animal is native to Allens' World, a planet located in the Candar Subsector. It has never been transplanted off-world but is popular for its mouthwatering meat; an adult slaughtered giraffe can yield up to 4 tons of meat and it freezes well.
Amniotic tank:
Andra System
Antiejects:
Arcturon: a major city-planet located in the ____ subsector. It is extremely high-tech and offers goods and services that cannot be matched on most planets. It is especially known for its total-rejuv technology.
Argratha: MORE HERE SOON
Automorphs: are a bizarre transhumanist movement situated on the high-population world ______. To the locals it is the art of self-transformation, usually using bioengineering and other genetic manipulation techniques. Some Automorphs go to extreme measures to stand out in their society, including many odd-looking appearances. Within the last decade, Automorphs on ______ have sadly become quite violent in expressing themselves.
Bandar-Bixx: an hyper-intelligent AI from Calafat Subsector, it immigrated to _______ and is now a freelance agent specializing in criminal behaviour.
Baen System: MORE HERE SOON
Baen Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Bajoran Wormhole: MORE HERE SOON
Battle Buddy: field AI for an individual soldier
Battle of Gerent III
Battle of the Omarion Nebula: this attack was the first major armed engagement between forces of the Alpha Quadrant and the Dominion, as well as the only large-scale conflict to take place in the Gamma Quadrant. Acting on a plan originating with former head of the Cardassian Obsidian Order Enabran Tain, a combined fleet of twenty Cardassian and Romulan warships under the control of the Order and the Romulan Tal Shiar organization launched a preemptive strike on the Founders' homeworld in the Omarion Nebula. However, the effort had long been infiltrated by a Dominion agent and shortly after attacking the fleet was ambushed and destroyed by the Jem'Hadar, with few survivors. More detailed information is located here.
Bennites: A bug-like race from an massive volcanic world located in the Meramar Subsector, their homeworld (Bennaris) is completely inhospitable to most humanoids. The Bennites themselves are heavily armored with temperature-resistant chitin and most of the 2 billion population lives underground. Bennaris is a low-tech planet that trades exotic ores to offworlds.
Biotracer: a high-tech gadget that continually monitors the health status of the implanted person. On some worlds it is used by police forces and other authorities track the citizenry, and criminals.
Bioweapons: Genetic engineering has reached its peak within the Dominion, offering very scary results for their enemies. Bioweapons are used by the Dominion frequently and then only by the direction of the Founders. Genetically engineering biological weapons can be created to attack and kill specific groups of alien races and even sub-species of those races. Very few races in the Milky Way Galaxy have the expertise in this area like the Dominion does.
Bopak: MORE HERE SOON
Brotherhood, the: this is the largest organization in Idran Sector which deals in black-market goods and services. With over a million members, the Brotherhood is the largest criminal group near Dominion Space. While there are small groups of pirates and criminals, none are as large (and effective) as the Brotherhood. If anything is illegal, highly-taxed or government-controlled, the Brotherhood has it hands involved in it, especially in the shipment of such goods.
Callinon System: MORE HERE SOON
Callinon Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Cargorugger ship: a low-tech vessel that is able to land on worlds without a landing pad or field. This rugged spaceship is very popular with their crews.
Cernunnos: one of the most important worlds in Trallia Subsector, it produces the only sentient AIs in the region, and exports them at fantastic prices to offworlders. A high-tech monarchy, Cernunnos welcomes foreign galactic travellers and it has a substantial fleet in orbit to keep away raiding pirates.
Chaudri Subsector: MORE HERE SOON
Chelk
Chamra Vortex: MORE HERE SOON
Changelings: MORE HERE SOON
Coladri System: MORE HERE SOON
Coladri Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Coloron: a important high-tech world located in Klabba Subsector, this cyber-democracy is one of the few worlds that have shrugged off the regional economic collapse and has actually prospered. With a population of over 250 billion people, Coloron continually exports its unwanted excess population to nearby worlds. In addition, Coloron has an extremely high anti-criminal justice system: any career criminals are sentenced to death and executed within a month of their crime taking place.
Contoon III: this planet is the homeworld of the Contoon, a people who represent the ultimate in racial harmony. The Contoon have attained a highly advanced state of cooperation and peace. There are no wars among the Contoon and each of them treats every other person and race as an equal. The Contoon have no secret potion or magic solution for their enlightened state, saying that it took many millennia of hard work, understanding, tolerance and awareness to attain their present state of peace and wisdom. Rumors about divine influence and powerful alien intelligences are common among off-worlders.
Corpus System:
Credquake:
Cretos: a high-population world that erupted into civil war in _____. It was later discovered that the Dominion had a hand in the affair. Planetary casualties were in the billions.
Curzem (drug):
Cyber-jingoism:
Dathnis
D-Backwash: (rupture backwash)
Delenky Subsector: MORE HERE SOON
Dravot (illegal godling):
Dysart:
Declan Keogh (Captain): A human born on Earth in 2320 AD, he joined Starfleet early on and became a Captain in that organization in 2364 AD. He became known as a hard partying womanizer during that time. After being too hung over to participate in a important away mission, he sent his assistant security chief in his stead. Tragically the assistant and the entire team were killed in that mission: this led Keogh to decide that he needed to shape up, and he became a much more serious officer. During the 2350s Keogh was married, however that marriage ended prior to 2370 AD. Captain Keogh was eventually named Captain of the USS Odyssey (a Galaxy-class starship) in 2365 AD. In the past, Keogh was noted as a difficult Captain to work for, with none of his first officers lasting more than six months in the job. His final first officer was Lieutenant Commander Joseph Shabalala. In the next 5 years the USS Odyssey performed admirably for Starfleet and the Federation. In 2370 AD Captain Keogh and the USS Odyssey arrived at Deep Space Nine, only to learn that Sisko had been kidnapped by the Jem'Hadar and the Dominion while on a trip to the Gamma Quadrant. Unloading most of the Odyssey crew on to the station he led a mission to rescue Sisko. During the battle that ensued between the Federation and Dominion forces, the Odyssey took a direct hit to one of her warp nacelles and was unable to go to warp. As the Starfleet forces began their retreat, a Jem'Hadar ship rammed the Odyssey's secondary hull. Captain Keogh and his crew died seconds later as the Odyssey exploded, making them the first of many Starfleet personnel to die in battle against the Dominion. Captain Keogh's sacrifice did allow for the successful retrieval of Sisko, who returned to Starfleet and became critical in defeating the Dominion in the war between the two galactic powers.
Didarea System: MORE HERE SOON
Didarea Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Diego Prang: one of the most notorious pirates of the Camorr Subsector, he is said to be based in either on Hedegany or the Nacozza System. Prang is infamous for ....MORE HERE SOON
Dominion: the Dominion was created in 372 AD by a race of shape-shifting aliens as they colonized their Omarion Nebula-based homeworld. It was established and led by a group of changelings called the Founders, who over some 2000 years conquered countless worlds across the Gamma Quadrant, maintaining order with their genetically modified minions and armies; the Vorta and the Jem'Hadar. Forming an empire approximately 10,000 light years long and 5,000 light years wide by the 34th century. Ruling a territory that was several times larger than all of the interstellar entities of known space combined in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants in the late 24th century....MORE HERE SOON
Dominion War: The Dominion War was a major interstellar conflict, fought from 2373 to 2375, though related conflicts began earlier. The war involved all major powers of the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Alpha Quadrant Alliance (the Klingons, the Romulans, and the UFP) and the Dominion Alliance (the Breen, Cardassians, and the Dominion). Marked by massive military and civilian casualties, including the systematic destruction of the Cardassian population, and the mobilization of starship fleets on a massive scale, it was one of the bloodiest and most destructive wars in modern galactic history. Initially, the year 2371 was an anxious time for the powers of the Alpha Quadrant, as the threat posed by the Dominion on the far side of the Bajoran wormhole began to grow. The Jem'Hadar attacks in 2370, destroyed the Bajoran colony of New Bajor and the Starfleet ship USS Odyssey, and saw subsequent engagement between the USS Defiant and several Jem'Hadar fighters, revealed a ruthless, powerful empire determined to impose their version of order upon a chaotic galaxy. Although a full-scale invasion did not follow the initial first contact of the Jem'Hadar as was initially feared, war seemed to be inevitable. With these signs, the Alpha Quadrant powers immediately began to prepare for invasion. The United Federation of Planets (UFP) assigned the USS Defiant to Deep Space 9 at the mouth of the wormhole to bolster its defensive capabilities. The Federation also shared all of its intelligence with the Romulan Star Empire as per their treaty to allow a Romulan cloaking device to be installed on the Defiant. The Cardassian Union, occupied by its own internal and external concerns, remained relatively uninvolved but it was attacked by the Klingons in 2372. The Cardassian Unions' infrastructure was crippled by the Klingon invasion. This, coupled with political problems within the Cardassian Empire, prompted the general Gul Dukat to enter into secret negotiations with the Dominion. Acting as the Cardassian Empire's representative, Dukat negotiated Cardassia's entry into the Dominion and Dukat was named the new leader of Cardassia in 2373. The Dominion cold war would continue to escalate following this development, eventually culminating in the far-ranging Dominion War. MORE HERE SOON
Ennis System: MORE HERE SOON
Ennis Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Enris: MORE HERE SOON
Epsimis Trion: A Starfleet outpost where research on the unique flora and fauna of the planet is taking place.
Erabius: MORE HERE SOON
Founder Homeworld: MORE HERE SOON
Founders, the: : MORE HERE SOON
Gaia System: MORE HERE SOON
Gaia Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Gavara System: MORE HERE SOON
Gavara Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Grum: a species indigenous to the Dominion-occupied world Grummus.
Harn-class Passenger Liner: this spaceship is the most produced people mover in the Gamma Quadrant, carrying up to 300 sentient beings. It is fast, economical, and easy to repair.
Helper (drug): a drug widely used in the Gamma Quadrant to eliminate feelings. Anger, joy, fear, lust, and so on can be lifted (or flattened) into a pleasant, clear-headed, flexible emotional state. Helper is mostly used to reach a state of rational judgement.
Holots: a highly-intelligent species native to a rare quadruple-star system, this alien race is aquatic and massively psionic, with both telepathy and telekinesis being their favored forms of communication. Discovered over 1,000 years ago by the Founders, the Holots have never expanded beyond their homeworld but they are sometimes used by the Dominion for interrogation purposes.
Idran System: MORE HERE SOON
Idran Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Jenkata Nebula: MORE HERE SOON
Jem'Hadar: MORE HERE SOON
Jereshti Tobacco: a lucrative trade good that is in heavy demand on many high-population worlds. The mildly-addictive tobacco plant only grows on the agricultural planet Jereshti.
Juedy Cavallo: one of the very first humans to explore out of the Bajoran Wormhole....MORE HERE SOON
Justria: A triple-star system with over 80 planets, Justria has several fabulously wealthy mineral-rich asteroids belts (3 immense belts) and is the location of the Justria Wormhole Nexus. There are no habitable worlds located in Justria, nor any terraformable ones either, thus dozens of wheelworlds, cylworlds, rings, toroider habs, toroids, and orbital cols have been constructed over the last 200 years. Justria Prime is a red supergiant with a green stellar companion (Jacketh), and a distant red dwarf (the Jerrod System). Allied with the Dominion, it became an associate member in _____ AD and has a significant military fleet.
Kartan: MORE HERE SOON
Kar Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Karemma: MORE HERE SOON
Knife-class patrol craft: a standard patrol ship designed by the Tyndal-Maiz Combine over thousand years ago, this small swift vessel has been adopted by hundreds of nearby star systems because of its easy ability to be repaired, as well as its combat effectiveness in space against pirates and small enemy escort warships.
Kremenna: MORE HERE SOON
Kar-Telos: MORE HERE SOON
Kendi: MORE HERE SOON
Kendari Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Klaxinoth System: MORE HERE SOON
Klaxinoth Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Kurill Prime: MORE HERE SOON
Kurill System: MORE HERE SOON
Kurill Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Kurs: A vast cloud of asteroids circle this F6 star in numbers so great the star itself seems lost in a thick, smokey haze. Several hundred asteroid colonies have been established in the outer fringes of the system, which sustains itself by mining various ores for export, primarily to nearby high-population worlds. Of particular interest are the ruins, artifacts, and anomalies discovered on numerous planetoids within the belt. None can be identified, and the intelligence behind them is unknown. Examples include a featureless 20-cm sphere of unknown alloy and purpose, pyramidal buildings with no accessible entrances, and a 50-km asteroid which has been cored by some process which left only a ring of nickel iron with mirror-polished inner walls. It has been suggested that the artifacts are the product of an alien civilization inhabiting asteroids deeper within the Belt, but the theory remains unproven and speculative.
Kylata: MORE HERE SOON
Kyprios: a city-planet located in the ____ subsector. Highly advanced, it exports many technological goods and services to anyone that can pay.
Lizurd: a popular pet in the ____ subsector.....MORE HERE SOON
Masan System: MORE HERE SOON
Masan Sector: MORE HERE SOON
M'Brii: MORE HERE SOON
Meechee: this cute arboreal creature is one of the more popular pets in the... MORE HERE SOON
Merik: MORE HERE SOON
Mynas: a heavily glaciated world, the only known location of the vital mineral _____. A dozen races contest ownership of the system.
Negallians: a pacifistic people whose homeworld was occupied by the Dominion 70 years ago, causing widespread difficulties for the local population. A mass exit of refugees into surrounding subsectors of space generated problems on many neighboring worlds. The invasion of Negallia by the Dominion sparked widespread hatred of the Dominion to expand across the sector.
New Bajor: MORE HERE SOON
New Founder Homeworld: MORE HERE SOON
New Yadera: MORE HERE SOON
New Yadera Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Numbz (drug): a first-aid kit drug widely used in the _____ subsector. It painlessly blocks portions of most alien nervous systems and can be used externally or internally. Numbz never repairs damage.
Octo-Monster: This immense sea creature is from the ocean-world Paluga, and this beast is infamous for its vile temper. It is highly territorial and is on top of the food chain on the oceanworld it inhabits. Only harebrained offworld hunters try to pursue this beast.
Olop: a animal-vegetable alien race native to the planet Champra II.
Omarion Nebula: MORE HERE SOON
Proteck (drug): one of the first drugs developed by the Dominion, this drug combats viruses by raising the body's immune system for a week. It works on a vast majority of aliens in the Gamma Quadrant, making it very popular and widely available.
Quartermaster-class Spaceship: this vessel is.....MORE HERE SOON
Rakhar System: MORE HERE SOON
Rakhari sector: MORE HERE SOON
Sigma Epsilon: MORE HERE SOON
Soberup (drug): useful for instantly curing hangovers, for recovering quickly from recreational drug use, and for some poisons.
Stakaron System: MORE HERE SOON
Stakaron Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Taskmaster-class Spaceship: this vessel is.....MORE HERE SOON
Tautine: MORE HERE SOON
Telosar: MORE HERE SOON
Telos Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Teplan: MORE HERE SOON
Torad System: MORE HERE SOON
Torad Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Torga: MORE HERE SOON
Trialus: MORE HERE SOON
T-rogoron: MORE HERE SOON
Tusked-Rhino: Evolved on the savannah-world Loclaw Minor, this beast is well-known for its tasty meat but it only thrives on this lone world, making the planet an important destination for trader starships, who turn around and sell the high-priced meat on wealthy high-population worlds. Since they are difficult to hunt by native predators, they are a prolific species.
Umbral Sector: MORE HERE SOON
USS Odyssey (NCC-71832): a Galaxy-class starship... MORE HERE SOON
Varaka: MORE HERE SOON
Vedeth: MORE HERE SOON
Vorta: MORE HERE SOON
Wadi: MORE HERE SOON
Wadi Homeworld: MORE HERE SOON
Xannel: MORE HERE SOON
Yadera System: MORE HERE SOON
Yadera Sector: MORE HERE SOON
Yadera II: MORE HERE SOON
Zentari: MORE HERE SOON
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Emotional Terrorism
Ethical Consultant
Feedout:
Felida Homeworld
Feneerian:
Forensic AI:
Ftanss:
Gerent III
green-belt worlds:
Ha-acka Ro Dyson Swarm
Hisloa Subsector: MORE HERE SOON
Iduron: metal
Inax Homeworld
Inomata Subsector: MORE HERE SOON
In'sallet Pirates:
Irogash
Julian Navarro:
Kalember Trade Route:
Karaban Prime:
Khoshort-Huq Subsector: MORE HERE SOON
Killgun:
Local Megacorps
Local Years:
Memplant:
Mental Reformatting:
Micractor:
Nanagriculture
Nanengineers
Oceanic worlds:
Omoziik Subsector: MORE HERE SOON
O'Neill Orbital Colony:
Organo-Molecular Assembler (OMA):
Paluga: ocean world
Parades:
Pashtali Homeworld
Philyra
Pitzone:
Precision Crafted Soldiers (PCS)
Primrose Dynasty:
Pyper Lion:
Quilla
Recaf
Rosebeer
Sloth-Bear:
Smallcred:
Smart Gloves:
Spore Mines
Technoparasites
Trallian League:
Traynor