Dokkaran

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Dokkaran
Four Letter Code	DOKR
Federation Status	Unknown
Planet of Origin	Unknown
Encountered	TNG: Hero Worship
T/E Rating	T0/E0
Current Tech Level	N
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The Dokkarans are a culture and race characterized by harmony, as reflected in the design of the temple that the orphaned Timothy tried to build with Lieutenant Commander Data's help in 2368 aboard the USS Enterprise-D.

Name

• Proper Name: Arcadian
• Pronunciation: Ar'Cad'ian

Home System

• Quadrant: Beta
• Location: Nausicaa Sector (coordinates B27-0002-1300 )
• Proper Name: Arcada
• Pronunciation: Ar'Cada
• Star: It orbits a class G (Yellow) star
• Distance from Star: it's orbit is approximately 158 million km
• Companions: 5 other planets. It is the 4th planet in the system

Home World

• Proper Name: Arcada
• Pronunciation: Ar'Cada
• Diameter: 12,749 km (7,968 miles)
• Gravity: 1.06 standard gravity with a density of 5.8
• Axial Tilt: 0.87%, no appreciable tilt and no seasons
• Orbital Period: 471 days
• Rotational Period: 36 hours
• Classification: M
  • Surface Water: 58%
  • Atmosphere: 1.07 is a standard pressure with 75% nitrogen, 24% oxygen, 1% trace chemicals
  • Climate: Warm semi-tropical with tropical at the equator.
  • Population: Just over 750 million

Introduction

Otherworldly and remarkably harmonious, the Dokkarans are amongst the most unique and utterly alien life forms humans and otherwise have encountered. A race of sentient, highly evolved plants, Dokkarans emerged two hundred and thirty years ago after an encounter with the USS Elysium. Dokkarans are born fully mature beneath the branches of the great Vizinyian Trees, which in turn spawned from the lone sentient Vizinyian Tree called The Lady by the Dokkarans. The physiology of these two sentient plants is not well understood and the link between The Lady (And all other Vizinyians) and the Dokkaran is likewise enigmatic save that it appears that The Lady created the Dokkarans to be her ambassadors to the greater galaxy.

History

The events surrounding the discovery of The Lady and the creation of the first Dokkarans is known as the ‘Elysian Encounter’ in Federation records, and as the ‘Awakening’ among the Dokkaran. While on a deep space mission in 2165, the USS Elysium came across the planet now known as Ceata and encountered it’s unique, nebulous atmosphere of vibrant blues and purples. Sending down an away mission consisting of about 25 personnel, the team fanned out across what is now known as The Pale, where The Lady resides. The two crewmen to reach The Lady first were Lieutenant Evangeline Dell, and Ensign Christian Allanzar, where they began to observe strange movements among the plants surrounding the gigantic tree. Ensign Allanzar proposed that the plants were reacting to their presence but Lieutenant Dell dismissed the idea.

Eventually the plants physically uprooted themselves and moved towards the pair, proving that these plants either had some sort of previously unobserved intelligence or were being controlled by another entity. Reporting their findings back to the Elysium, the rest of the away mission was recalled to help observe these strange plants. Lieutenant Dell and Ensign Allanzar would not live to see the arrival of the team however, and just as their transmission ended, they were both mauled to death by a local feline predator, the Hesseragh.

Upon discovering their bodies, the away team also discovered the body of the Hesseragh strangled to death by vines. Eventually the plants surrounding The Lady created a barrier between the rest of the away team and the bodies of their crewmen. Later these plants dragged the bodies closer to The Lady and were apparently absorbed into the bark of the tree.

Astonished by this display, the away team did not even try to reclaim the bodies of their fallen and elected to wait and see what The Lady would do next.

Eventually two ‘seeds’ emerged from the vines of The Lady and opened to reveal two seemingly human life forms (One male, one female), though exhibiting the same features as Ensign Allanzar and Lieutenant Dell though of distinct likeness. These two ‘seeds’ of The Lady were the first Dokkarans and spoke for The Lady in the dealings with the Elysium crew. The Elysium remained in orbit of Caeta for three months as the number of Dokkarans multiplied and their civilization developed. All Dokkarans seemed to hold the experiences of Lieutenant Dell and Ensign Allanzar in their minds and hold the two officers and The Lady in deep reverence, for both gave them life. Eventually the Elysium left and the Dokkarans asked to be left alone while they discovered their existence on their own for a little while. A few years later, the Dokkarans contacted Starfleet through subspace radio that had been left behind and opened their borders to a limited number of visitors. Over time as the Dokkarans evolved as both a species and a civilization, the number of offworlders permitted grew, but as of 2390 is still strictly controlled.

Dokkarans have not expressed an interest in joining the Federation but many believe it is an eventuality, though not one to be fulfilled in the near future.

Description

Dokkarans appear externally human, but are very far from it internally. Externally though, Dokkarans are passable as humans and were modeled after them though there isn’t any natural variance in hair, eye, or skin color, with all appearing as pale, true blue eyed, and black haired (For males) and white haired (For females).

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