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** '''Population''': Just over 2.28 billion <br> | ** '''Population''': Just over 2.28 billion <br> | ||
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Cendo Prae is located so far from Earth that maps which show the bulk of the Federation's member worlds cannot display it. Its relative isolation has protected it to a significant extent from both Borg and Dominion incursions in recent centuries. There are rumours that the Federation may have begun to secrete caches of critical knowledge and assets in the vicinity of Cendo Prae, as seeds for recovery in the event of another Federation-scale threat, but no such activity has been confirmed by any reputable public source.<br> | |||
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Even after centuries of careful coastline reclamation and near-continuous seawall construction, the amount of land above sea level on Cendo Prae is significantly below M-class norms. Nearly all land that isn't entirely vertical (and some that is) has been adapted for Catullan use. Above the water, virtually no wilderness or other apex predators native to the planet still exist. Seen from orbit, Cendo Prae seems entirely domesticated, terraced and bermed and groomed and fenced and walled everywhere but on sheer cliffsides and the steepest, narrowest mountain valleys. <br> | |||
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Although woodlands remain, they too are monitored and coppiced, and the species which shelter within have survived because they are considered either useful or harmless. Now that Catullans can afford to look beyond the limits of their world for resources, a few factions within Catullan society have called for a concerted effort to preserve and revive the few remnants of Cendo Prae's original biodiversity-- even to the extent of advocating time travel to acquire viable specimens. But a public policy defining the steps to be taken in regards to this issue has yet to emerge. <br> | Although woodlands remain, they too are monitored and coppiced, and the species which shelter within have survived because they are considered either useful or harmless. Now that Catullans can afford to look beyond the limits of their world for resources, a few factions within Catullan society have called for a concerted effort to preserve and revive the few remnants of Cendo Prae's original biodiversity-- even to the extent of advocating time travel to acquire viable specimens. But a public policy defining the steps to be taken in regards to this issue has yet to emerge. <br> | ||