Kaclla II

Stats

• it's orbit is approximately 217 million km from it's star
• a terrestrial planet with a diameter of 14,309 km (8,943 miles).
• a density of 4.5 and a gravity of 0.94 G's
• an axial tilt 15% resulting in minor weather changes due to seasonal changes
• temperatures are on average 33C during the day and dropping to 12C at night
• Seasonal changes may affect the weather by as much as +20 or -20 degrees
• approximately 67% surface water
• a standard atmosphere with a pressure of about 0.79 earth normal, with nitrogen 77%, oxygen 21% and other gases 2%
• with a year of 269 days, each day 23.7 hours long
• primary terrain features are mountains and tropical jungles

Resources

• unknown at this time

Moons

• it has 1 small moon and 1 medium moon
• Kaclla IIa: is 755 km (472 miles) in diameter, with a density of 3.1 and a gravity of 0.03 G's. It orbits the planets surface at a height of 35,772 km. (22,357 miles)
• Kaclla IIb: is 2,954 km (1,846 miles) in diameter, with a density of 3.6 and a gravity of 0.15 G's. It orbits the planets surface at a height of 38,627 km. (24,142 miles)

History

Avian Legend

Long ago we lived elsewhere. We lived in peace, at one with our world. It was a golden age. No poverity, hunger, disease or want, but we angered the gods and they banished us to the stars. For time beyond memory we wandered looking for a new world, a new home. Finally we found one that the gods would allow us to tread. Our homes dropped from the stars and we were finally allowed to soar upon the winds. Free from the confines of the space arks that had been our jail for countless years. We learned that we were not alone on this world. Others lived here who were not like us. They attacked and killed some of us. We were stunned, afraid. So we stayed away from them. Even when they stole the tablet of truth from us, we did not seek to retrieve it. But that was then, someday we will regain it. On that day the stars will weep and the gods will again show us the bounty of their favour.

Feline Legend

In ancient times the wise ones kept peace on Kallca, while they traveled through the skies. My people were happy and had no worries, but then the wise ones made a mistake and brought the Avians here, thinking that they would be a food source for the Felines. But although some of the early Avians were eaten, my people found them distasteful, so the Avians were freed and banished to the mountains. We co-existed in peace as long as they stayed in the mountains, but the wise ones were displeased with us for not accepting their gift of food and left us the machine.

Stone of Destiny

My father told me that using the machine we learned how to make the fisheries, and other things we needed. When the wise ones came, they mated with the early Felines, and as far as I know, all Felines are now descendants of the wise ones. So the machine was not hard for us to master, but it was my father who figured out the complexities of sky travel. His dream was to find the wise ones. When the revolution began, my father broke the stone key to higher calculations. He said it was too much temptation for any one person not to destroy the Avians. He put two of the pieces in places where I would have much difficulty getting to them. And in places where the Avians could not find them in case they succeeded in capturing the palace. Theo brought me one of them, and my father entrusted me with one. So now I have in my possession two of the stones. With all three stones I can open the calculations and bring peace back to Kallca, but that would mean the destruction of the Avians, and I don't want to do that.

True History

Kaclla II is the native homeworld of the Felines. The Avians did not appear until more than 500 years ago. They fell from the sky in enormas vessels that lite up the night sky for hundreds of miles. Over night the world now had 2 totally different intelligent races seeking to survive within 1 ecosystem. Fortunately their needs for survival were sufficently different that they were able to co-exist with fairly minor conflicts that never grew in size or degree.

Native Felines (Pifili)

The natives are a feline race who are on average 5' to 6' in height and weight between 175 to 225 lbs. The ears and head are atypical of Earth's domestic cats but with a face that has more human like characteristics. They still have the whiskers, fur and eyes of a feline but the other aspects of their faces appear extremely human like.

The upper body and arms are also humanoid, with the exception of the paws for hands. Even with that these paws do have 2 extra very short joints that allow them to pick things up and perform fairly delicate work when they need to. They have extremely sharp claws that they can retract or extend at will. From the waist down they are totally catlike with muscular legs that give the appearance of being extremely strong and agile. They can walk upright or on all fours with about the same degree of ability.

They are covered all over with fur that ranges in color from white to brown, black to orangish and just about every shade inbetween On most it is short but on the hereditary leaders it grows longer and appears to be more silky in nature. They have tails but these tend to only be a few feet in length.

Settlers (Aarakocra)

The new race to this world are an Avian species. They are taller and lighter than the felines being on average 5'8" to 6'6" in height and weighting between 135 to 175 lbs. The are very slim and covered in small, to tiny feathers everywhere except for their wings, chest and the top to back of their heads.

Their feet have 1 toe sticking out the back of their foot and 2 long toes sticking out the front. All these toes end in extremely sharp talons. They can use them to walk on or to grasp objects.

Their arms/wings are one complete limb extending from their shoulders. They have a 3 fingered hand with very long slender fingers about halfway along their wing. This is the location of a major joint that allows then to fold their wings back out of the way so they can function almost like other humanoids. These hands let them perform many delicate tasks even thou they look to be very clumsy. On average an adult male will have a wing span of 12 to 15 feet.

They have a chaste system that seems to be based on the colouration of the feathers on their chest and heads. This feathered ruff comes in many different colors. Some of them are deep purple (leadership), dull brown (security), jade green (managers), brilliant blue (engineers), blazing red (medical), pure white (prophets) and dull green (farmers).

Government

Pifili

The Pifili have a Hereditary system with the leader of the people being called the Overlord. This individual has supreme authority over the people's lives. The chief advisor is called the Viceroy.

Aarakocra

The Aarakocra have a Chaste system with the deep purple feathered Avians forming the government. The supreme head of the government has the title of Prothoa. Below this are the 50 Proth who govern each of the 50 cities of the Aarakocra Union.

Religion

Feline

Not much is know about this at this time.

Avian

Not much is know about this at this time.

Environment

The planet has a mild weather pattern with only a rare storm developing that is capable of creating damage. The growing season is more than sufficient to their needs.

Animals

They has a fairly diverse ecology with many different types of birds, reptiles, animals and sea life.

Economy

Not much is know about this at this time.

Population

According to the last set of cencus numbers they provided to the Federation the Felines number about 15 million and the Avians number around 10 million.

Communities

Felines

They prefer to build their communities on level ground with lots of large old growth trees all around. From above the trees almost conceal most comunities. Most buildings are less than 4 stories tall. Only a few buildings per community are usually bigger than this.

Avians

They have built all their communities and cities high in the mountains. They are built of native stone and tend to be built into cliff faces or the most extreme verticle slopes. Their ability to fly makes the entire city accessable to them. Over half of any communite is inside the mountain carved from the solid rock.

Technology

Both races seem to be fairly close tecnology wise. The Avians use to have a great advantage in certain areas but the Felines very rapidly closed the gap. Their are still a few major differences between them in this regard. The Avians have better flying, defensive and medical tech. The Felines have better offensive, transportation and material production tech.

Military Forces

Felines

While the Felines do have an airforce it is fairly small in comparison to that of the Avians. They only have about 5,000 single seater fighters and around the same number of 5 man fighter bombers. Their airships are fast and pack a bigger punch than those used by the Avians, however the Avians airships are even faster and much more manoverable.

The main might of the Felines military is their ground forces which number over 500,000 and that number does not include any reserve units and city peace keepers. The average feline ground soldier is extremely well equiped and trained. Nothing but the best gear for these soldiers. The older equipment is sold to the various city peace keepers or reserve units.

With a good mix of long range, high powered rifles, mortars, gattling style rail guns and razer sharp hand to hand swords, knives and other hand to hand toys they are easily capable of poring in a massive amount of fire into a small area in a short period of time.

Avians

The Avians have by far the largest air force of the two species. In fact they have over 25,000 single seater fighters and over 15,000 three man fighter, bombers. Both types of craft have VTOL capabilities. (VTOL - vertical take off and landing) Added to this is the fact that the Avian pilots excell at air combat, haveing a much greater resistance to high G's and greater targeting ability when in the air.

Their ground forces are primarily defensive and stationed in heavily armoured bunkers that control the various approaches to their cities. On average each city has around 15,000 soldier/peace keepers who can be called upon to defend the city.

Space Capability

On 238607.07 during a diplomatic mission to the system by the USS Challenger-A, the crew were able to perform a number of scans of the various vessels in the system. The results of thoses scans have been uploaded to the Federation data base. Prior to this very few details were known about their ships and their capabilities.

However due to a major space battle that occured while they were in the system all of the Avians space craft were destroyed and over 90% of the Felines ships were as well.

Federation Intelligence Files

On Stardate 238503.08 Fleet Captain T'Pen and the crew of the USS Challenger visited Kaclla II. This was in response to their request to join the Federation. However members with in the 2 different races liveing on the planet objected to the need for a unified world government first and joining the Federation as well. See Federation Intelligence File CHL-2385-0214.

On Stardate 238608.11 while Fleet Captain T'Pen and the crew of the USS Challenger-A were in orbit a war broke out between the Pifili (Felines) and the Aarakocra (Avians). The war started in space when a single Avian destroyer opened fire on 2 Feline destroyers. In the ensueing battle both sides suffered massive losses. See Federation Intelligence File CHA-2386-0352