Bassar (Bassar III)

## History

The third planet of the *Bassar Star System*, in the *Bassar Sector* of the Lambda Quadrant. Bassar, or *Bassar III* is a mountainous world containing rugged plateaus, foothills and vast sprawling plains which resemble the continents of *Earth*.

Bassar III is the home planet of the Bassari species, a small mammalian-like species with a rich and ancient heritage that has existed in relative isolation for thousands of years.

Despite their ancient origins, the Bassari species did not discover warp drive until 2215, where a Black Eye Consortium crashed on their world, exposing the then feudal and stagnant Bassari with advanced technology and warp drive capability.

The planet entered a period of brief civil war following first contact with the Black Eye Consortium, leading many Bassari to believe that an invasion of their idyllic world was imminent. During this conflict, Hana Jovan emerged victorious and united the entire planet into the Bassari Socialist Republics in 2312.

In 2311, a trading vessel of the Kabbalis Consortium discovered Bassar III and provided the Jovan Republic faction of the Bassari people with plasma weapon technology in exchange for mining rights to one of Bassar's moons which contained a high source of the valuable and rare element, *Tempestrium*.

However in 2333, Hana Jovan successfully led a campaign to drive the Kabbalis from the moon and reclaim their territory. This campaign resulted in the deaths of over 2,000 Kabbalis miners and resulted in the Kabbalis never returning to the Bassar System as it was too far away in order to maintain effective security.

In 2389, Matis Kal, one of Hana Jovan's successors, instituted *The Bulwark Policy*, which isolated Bassar from any other civilisation, fearing that his citizens would be incensed from other free civilisations like the Black Eye Consortium and depose him. He also instituted the strict censorship of both the media and Bassar Information Network, with no external content being allowed to be viewed on Bassar under possible imprisonment or death.

In 2419, the entire planet of Bassar was engulfed by the Void. This was the corrected when the Q Continuum restored much of the Black Eye Galaxy in December 2419.

### Destruction

Bassar was cracked and heavily damaged from the Technology Project: Daybreaker in late 2421, when the Bassari Socialist Republics entered into an agreement with the Black Eye Dominion. However Assaris Silvermane betrayed them and detonated the weapon, blaming the crew of the U.S.S. Normandy (NCC-61944-A) instead, devestating the planet.

In March 2453, the U.S.S. Thunderchild-B participated in a joint operation with the Black Eye Dominion to locate and destroy an experimental nanotechnology research lab that was producing a new type of experimental nanotechnological virus which converted organic matter into metallic compounds, based on the experiments of deceased Chioni Commune scientist, Rannis Kratz.

Headed by General *Gexsis Zfera*, the incident resulted on the nanotechnology completely engulfing the entire planet after it was released by a digitised copy of Rannis's consciousness using illegal Strategos Collective technology.

## Environmental

The vast land expanses of Bassar III include plateaus, plains, basins, foothills, and mountains. Defining rugged plateaus, foothills and mountains as mountainous, they occupy nearly two-thirds of the land, higher in the West and lower in the East like a three-step ladder