Planet Krishana

==Planet Krishana==
Krishana, an Andorian Colony world.  it well-populated,  
Note recently the Starship USS Kongo made history by rescuing a lost Andorian 20th-century sleeper ship.  The old Andorians are surprised but happy at the state of their target world and are learning how to be Federation people. 
It's a major archaeology find and academics will be poking into it for 3 metric lifetimes. 
Krishana, an Andorian Colony world.It is run by Andorians along Andorian lines but has a sizable population of Humans, Klinzai, and Orions who populate the area,  
Name: Krishana (Kree-Sha-na)
Created by: Jay
Summary:Krishana, an Andorian Colony world.  it well-populated,  
It is run by Andorians along Andorian lines but has a sizable population of Humans, Klinzai, and Orions who populate the area,  
Game Role: An inhabited Federation World
World Role: An inhabited Federation World
Affiliation: Federation    
Locations: Grabthar's  Landing.  Where the Colony ship first set down in the 20th century.  Now a built-up city, with a historical preservation site in the middle
 Glacier-ville, in the Northern Latitudes, In some steep forbidding mountains, ancient Glaciers that grind slowly down.  Looks to most like a frozen hellscape. To Andorians, it looks like home.  Now the location of a Ski-lodge. 
 Vulcan Settlement 83. A Vulcan town located on the edge of a burning desert.  Also Homey.  From 2092 to 2150, this settlement was cut off from official contact with the Vulcan Government due to rising tensions between the Andorians and the Vulcan Government.  Vulcan Settlement 83 Deliberately turned their back on the Vulcan Government and swore fealty to the Andorians. 
 Once the Anti-Romulan Alliance was set, Vulcan Settlement 83 resumed normal contact and relations with the Vulcan Government. 
 Tradetown. Located in a lush farming valley,  Trade town started out as town for local farmers to get services.
 The numbers and kinds of services were...  varied due to the fact that many of the Farmers were Human, Klinzai and Orion immigrants. 
 Trade town became a center of commerce, culture and crime.  Andorian attempts to quash the crime are now the stories swashbuckling and derring-do for Holonovels and games. 
 Factions of Humans, Orions, and Klinzai assisted the Andorians or flipped and flopped as their interests dictated. 
 Andorians of the day considered the Humans, Orions and Klinzai to be treacherous, untrustworthy, and sketchy, a racial bias that took a long time to die down. 
 The Singing Forests - Alien trees that grow into peculiar shapes - the shapes are intended to channel winds and spread pollen and seeds far and wide.  The side effect is the trees are natural horns and woodwinds and make haunting, evocative noises. 
 The Old Ship - an ancient Starship embedded in a lava flow. Was visited and looted in antiquity, is still subject of Archaeology.  Has become a tacky tourist spot as well.  The identity of the ship and its builders is obscure and the subject of testy academic argument. 
Environmental notes: A Class M world has a lot of different environments. 
 His invasive species from Orion, Human, and Klinzai ecospheres from older times when such things were not as carefully monitored.  Also, have a grab bag of agricultural plants and animals from all over the Galaxy. 
 Krishana is the opposite of virginal in this regard.  Her ecosphere has gotten around and is now heading for a new balance. 
General Tech level: Star Trek.  Once the Federation began moving into the area, Krishana was an anchor point and got a lot of support. 
Government The Ruling Body is the Krishana Council.  This body is elected and managed along Andorian lines. 
 In the 2160s and 2170s the system was reformed aggressively. Previously it was intensely Andorian-Ocentric.  Non-Andorian people had fewer seats and their political influence was always second to the Andorians. 
 The Andorian heavy power structure was a design feature, meant to keep Krishana firmly under Andorian control. 
 One feature that continues the upper council where members are selected by dint of previous service or by dint of representing important power blocks.
 This is widely regarded as anti-democratic but serves the purpose of assuring various factions that their voice will be heard in the decision-making process.  
Economy: Mostly Standard Federation Energy economy.  There is a strong black market that runs in Gold Pressed Latinum.  The government cracks down periodically but never to the point of criminalizing latinum.  There is still a strong farming layer. This is cultural, a culture that prizes hard work, making do, and being self-sufficient.  This is not race-specific, the Farming Community has members from all the races known on the planet.  The idea is that you can drop out of galactic society and live a sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle and opt-out of the troubles of the larger galaxy. 
Population:350 million
Races presentHumans 25%  87.5 millionAndorians 18% 63 millionOrions 14%  49 millionKlinzai 12% 42 millionRigellian 7%  24.5 millionBajorans 5%  17.5 millionBolians 4%  14 millionTellarite 4% 14 millionSulliban 3% 10.5 millionDenobulan 3%  10.5 millionCaitian 2%  7 millionVulcans 1% 3.5 millionOther 2% 7 million
There is an Ane Colony there and a Green Orion colony.  
There are a number of Klingons and mixed-race Klingons.  Many of them fight alongside the Guard to defend their homes. These folks are numbered in the tens of thousands.  
Governing Organization(s):The Krishana CouncilThe Krishana GuardKrishana Law Enforcement
Relative Influence:As Federation planets go, bigger than it's size, it helps form a hard boundary for the Sword worlds and a base for Federation activities in the area. 
Publicly Stated Goal:To live and grow in the Federation
Relative Wealth:About Average for Federation worlds. 
on the economic scale below about 850K, mainly due to being relatively new and having a lower population than, say Earth
Proposed Economic scale
0 – No wealth at all. 0
1 – Lower class living 1
2 – Middle class living 10
3 – Wealthy living 100
4 – Larger corporations, cities, small states -1000
5 – Huge Corporations, larger states, established colony world 10,000
6 – Planets without energy economies or space travel. 100,000
7 – Single star planet systems with galactic economies. 1,000,000
8 – Small Multi star system political units. 10,000,000
9 – Mid sized multi star system political units 100,000,000
10 – Federation, Romulus Empire, Klingon Empire 1,000,000,000
Group advantages:The People of Krishana LIKE their world the way it is and work to keep it that way. 
Even black marketeers and smugglers prefer Krishana as a Federation world
Group disadvantages:Being a neighbor to the Sword worlds, their drama occasionally comes to visit. 
The Krishana Guard works to keep this under control.
Headquarters Location:Grabthar's Landing, named for the Brave Andorian Captain who led their ship to its landing point. 
Public Face:Andorians, stiff about law and order and protecting their boundaries. But also, because of their friends, they have good music, food, and dancing. 
Cultural notesThere's a constant tension between the Law and Order Andorians and the fact that to make the Law and Order stick, they feel like they have to dominate.
Human, Klinzai, and Orion members of Krishana Guard are rewarded lavishly, and there is a strong feeling of supporting and preferring law and order among these folks. 
On the flip side, there is a strong black market and ties into the Sword worlds. So there is a flow of commerce, knowledge, and culture between these worlds.  
Languages:AndorianFederation StandardMultiple offshoots of Orion human and Klinzai languages
Military:The Krishana Guard is a spin-off from the Andorian Guard. Ranks and organization are borrowed from the Andorian
But the processes and training look more Starfleet,  refined into a more Military and search and rescue mission profile. 
About 1 million people from Krishana are in Starfleet at any one time. Another 1 million people are in the Krishana Guard Proper. 
Klingon House scaleMilitary 300Economy 485Agility 500Intelligence 600Readiness 350Honor 650
Vorshalar's Station is the HQ of the Krishana Guard.  It is built into Krishana's smallest Moon.
Vorshalar's Station supports and services Starfleet and Krishana Guard ships.
The Krishana Guard keeps a collection of Escorts, Frigates, and SAR cruisers. These are older ships but upgraded to the limits of their resources.  The Krishana Guard ships are Dilithium. They plan to buy Disodium as these become available. 
The Starfleet ships at the base and in the area are Disodium. They just haven't finished building in the fleet strength yet.
The Krishana Guard Marines are a small force but notorious for beating superior odds. 
Pirates don't mess with these guys unless they have no other choice.  
Scale 0 to 1000.*Military -- How strong is the House in ships and men. Their current front line ability.
*Economy -- How rich are they as a political unit, the GNP? This also represents their ability to replace losses.Mobility -- Given red or blue how fast can they mix purple? What is their agility when the plan comes apart?
*Intelligence -- Ear to the ground. Spy-craft, and general awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of neighbors and foes. Have they heard the news?
*Readiness -- Reserves and Defense. While Military defines the ability to make a blow, this defines the ability to take a blow.
*Honor -- How do other Houses regard them, and likewise how is the House Lord seen within the House? The two are closely linked. A powerful House can have little Honor and a weak one much. It is possible to have negative Honor, a dishonored house for example.
Strategic Importance:Above Average
Relations:Federation, a member in good standing.
Klingon Empire. Good. Many houses have their ships stop by while doing patrols of the sword worlds and the Orion Frontier.  There are plans on Q'onoS to attack and reduce Krishana in the case of a war against the Federation. They're dusty.
Orions: The Orions maintain political neutrality.  But there is cultural contact and interchange between the Orions living on Krishana and Orions in the colonies.  The Orion Syndicate has conducted operations on Krishara with mixed success.  The Krishana Guard-Law Enforcement Division is dogged, stubborn, and intrepid.  So Syndicate ops are designed to be goal-driven, limited, and abandoned once the Guard gets on their tail. 
Sword Worlds: The Sword worlds, like the Orions, are neutral.  Various worlds negotiate trade relations as they go. Krishana works to draw Sword Worlds into deeper economic interdependence. 
There are occasional dramas of espionage and corruption, but the Federation considers this small scale and temporary. 
Solar SystemStar Krishana-Motar
Inhabited planets:Krishana
Other planets:13 orbits
Orbit 1 The core of a former gas giant.  Has weird composition, about the size of Earth. A collection of contient size diamonds eroding into diamond sand, spiked with various superheavy metals and weird stuff. Has second-order elements.
Orbit 2  Water world.  The atmosphere is a mix of water vapor and unbreathable gasses.  Too hot for conventional life forms.  Site of a science station that sends submarine drones to explore the hot, deep exotic oceans
Orbit 3A terrestrial world about 1/2 the size of Earth. The entire surface of the world was rendered molten about 650 thousand years ago. Because of the disaster that happened at that time, this world is less than useful for mining. All useful ores were liquified and sank beneath the silicon crust. 
There have been plans floated to destroy the planet, rendering it an asteroid belt so that useful minerals metals and ores can be gathered at will. 
These are proceeding at a "Dead Slow" pace, to make sure all details can be examined minutely. 
Obit 4 Krishana, Class M planetHas 4 moons 1 large, 2 small, one tiny
The tiny moon is Vorshalar's Station, a Military starbase built into the Asteroid like moon. 
All three Moons show signs of ancient mine works and violence with craters and garbage from previous mine works exploded by advanced weapons. 
But there's still plenty of minerals and metals to make mining worthwhile, 
All for moons have pushed each other into stable resonating orbits and stablized each other.
The Orbits areSmall MoonLarge MoonSmall MoonTiny moon. 
The orbital period of the big moon is aproximately 32 days.  The inner small moon orbits every 16 days, and the outer small moon orbits once every 64 days.  the tiny moon orbits once every 128 days. 
The moons push and pull on each other and Krishana keeping the whole thing stable. 
Orbit 5Uranus sized Gas giant.  Semi water world.  A plentiful supply of Deuterium and other volatiles. Has just over 1 g gravity and several bands of atmosphere that are survivable-ish.  
Strong ring system, with numerous small shepherd moons.  
Home of three huge cruise ships and that travel from Krishana to the Water Giant and then cruise into its atmosphere and among its ring. Picturesque. 
Orbit 6 Terrestrial Iceball.  The size of Earth, rocky core, frozen layer on the top.  It was never class M and the chemicals are all wrong for that.  Also has mining ruins and war craters, but much has been lost to the ever-changing ever grinding ice layer.
Orbit 7Asteroid belt. Used to be a planet.  Orbital recreation shows all the pieces were in one place 650k years ago.
Good for mining heavy stuff. Strong asteroid mining presence.  Prospectors claim a rock and then set it on a slow course to Krishana where it's caught and rendered down. 
Orbit 8 Gas Giant.  In between Saturn and Jupiter in size.  ordinary moon collection.  Has captured a lot of asteroids from Orbit 7
orbit 9 Gas Giant.  Also generic
orbit 10
A pair of super large gas giants orbiting each other.  Moons orbit funny, either closely orbiting one or the other or orbiting the bary-center. 
Scattered former moons into the outer solar system, in eccentric orbits. 
This all happened 100 million years ago, so anything that was going to be disaster movie worthy has already come and gone
Orbit 11An iceball.  used to be like Europa. once it was flung loose. the gravitational flexing that kept the core warm disappeared.  Froze solid.  There are the dead bodies of ancient, primitive life forms frozen in the ice kilometers down. 
There are a few extremophiles that have evolved to survive the cold and low energy state.  Single-celled organisms that live very very slowly
Orbit 12Iceball.  Used to be like Io.  Sulpher, Methane,  Ick, and crap.  Was active, but when thrown loose, froze solid.  Now a frozen layer cake of poisonous elements. 
Orbit 13Ice pile.  Was two other moons.  They collided, breaking each other to a million pieces and then coalescing. Ice held together by ice. 
Could be mined for volatiles, except there are easier sources. 
Stations and other objectsVorshalar's Station, built into the large asteroid/tiny moon orbiting Krishana.  It's an orbiting fortress using megatons of rock to anchor an armored station, big guns and  defensive systems
There are docking pits in the surface of the moon, where Starfleet and military ships can dock and get closed in for detailed repair work. 
They can repair any damage to a Starfleet unit.  They have built two frigates just to prove they could, but the construction yard is currently mothballed.  They can break it out and begin construction in 4 to 6 months. 
Has three anti-matter refineries and rings of sensors to watch for intruders. 
Has a complex network of satellites that use artificial gravity. and sense gravitational waves. 
The broadcast weak encrypted gravity waves across the system.
This system makes cloaked ships obvious since they return proper strength and frequency of gravity waves, but failing the encryption makes them stand out. 
There is a small scale arms race between opposition forces and the Krishanans to keep grav-net satellites encryption ahead of efforts to break it. 
Ship Facilities:Besides the Pits on the moon Vorshalar, there are a number of commercial docking cages and shipyards in orbit.  These can be adapted to Starfleet Use if necessary but mostly support Commercial ships coming and going.
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