Ash'lie

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Ash'lie
Four Letter Code	ASHL
Federation Status	Members
Planet of Origin	Ash'lie IV
Encountered	USS Chernobyl
T/E Rating	T0/E0
Current Tech Level	M to N
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Ash'lie

Home System

• Quadrant: Alpha
• Location: Draco Sigma Sector (coordinates A24-0002-1300)
• Proper Name: Ash'lie system
• Stars: It orbits a class M (Red) star
• Distance from Star: its orbit is approximately 86 million km
• Companions: It is the 4th of the 7 planets in the system

Home World

• Proper Name: Ash'lie IV
• Diameter: 13,733 km (8,583 miles)
• Gravity: 1.10 standard gravity with a density of 5.6
• Axial Tilt: 9.6% minor tilt with minor seasonal effects
• Orbital Period: 377 days
• Rotational Period: 25.2 hours
• Classification: M
• Surface Water: 41%
• Atmosphere: a standard atmosphere with a pressure of about 1.08 earth normal, with nitrogen 72%, oxygen 23% and other gas 3%
• Climate: Tropical zones cover all areas with the exception of high altitude regions and the

extreme latitudes (polar regions are average). Ocean currents are warm, contributing to the heavy amount of precipitation across the entire surface. Seasonal changes are minor.

• Population: About 3 billion

History

Their recorded history is over 25,000 years old. In that time they have never fought a war among themselves, crime is almost unheard of and they have developed at a slow even pace. They first developed space travel over 5,000 years ago but few ever went to the stars. Those that did traveled and observed from a distance the races and worlds around them.

It was because of these observations and the subsequent debates among the representatives in their government that they adobted an isolationist attitude. While they still travel among the stars they avoid contact with all other races. In fact they seldom leave their own solar system any more.

While the concept of war and violence is totally alien to them they learned that other races could and would employ force. This resulted in further debates. The result was the creation of a completely automated defence system.

Government

They have a strangely effective government that consists of a council with 300 representatives. They seldom fight and each takes his turn to bring forward any new issues that need to be considered. They will then discuss it and take a vote. Majority rules.

Description

The native people, the Ash'lie are tall, slim and graceful. They have long blonde hair and pale skin. They are on average about 5'9" to 6'2" and weight between 140 lbs and 180 lbs. The males tend to be slightly taller than the females as well as being slightly heavier.

They prefer to wear sandals and pastel colored robes. They will also wear loose billowing shirts, body hugging vests with no sleeves and loose comfortable pants.

Facial tattoos are small, decorative and aesthetic to the eye. These are found on the ears, near the eyes and on the neck. Other tattoos can be found on the arms, chest and legs. All tend to be more decorative than anything else.

Physiology

They are a very hardy species with very few illness's and tend to be exceptionally healthy. This may be due to their vegetarian diet or the large amount of exercise they get on a daily basis.

Psychology

They are curious, friendly and tend to be shy around strangers. Among themselves they are energetic, relaxed and generally happy. No known form of mental illness has ever been recorded among their people.

Religion

They have no true religion other than a deep love of nature and the world around them. In this respect they care for and nurture both the wildlife and the plants. Great effort and much time is spent on projects to protect and care for all forms of plant and wildlife.

Mythology

They have stories about older beings that have traveled from world to world tampering with them, creating life, seeking even greater knowledge. They are to be feared and avoided.

Society

They have a peaceful society geared towards harmony and love towards all liveing things. They spend their lives in search of an even greater understanding of their world around them and in the hopes of creating or participateing in the wonder to be found in art, song and music.

Culture

Music of many types and instruments of all kinds are used by them for recreation. This will usually result in danceing and singing. They express themselves with many types of art and enjoy visual beauty, especially that which can be found in nature. This is also the only off world products they are interested in.

Customs

Many and varied. Most deal with some form of art expression.

Technology

Their technology is highly advanced. They grow their buildings out of a pastel building material that resembles crystal. Most of their buildings are tall graceful towers. Some of the towers in their cities stand as tall as 5,000 meters. Travel between towers can be achieved in a couple of methods. First are the bridges. Almost every 10 levels will have at least one bridge connecting it to another tower. These bridges are wide enough for two to walk beside each other and have no railings. They can be as long as 100 meters and are usually semi- transparent. The other method is small 1 meter by 1 meter floating platforms that are activated and controled by foot pressure on the surface of the platform. These devices are flat with no railings, about 6 inches thick and can travel very rapidly from ground level to the highest point in the city or from one end of the city to the other.

They have an extremely effective, none polluteing, renewable energy source that can be built into incredibly small devices such as the flying platforms, weapons systems and even larger ones that provide power to each tower.

For transport craft they mave many. All are sleek, graceful, fast and highly manouverable. For space craft they now use what looks like a graceful yacht. It is usually powered by a majestic set of solar sails. However these can be rapidly retracted to allow for a much more rapid form of transport.

Economy

They are completely self sufficient and have no interest or need in any outside products or material. However their incredible love of all forms of art, artistic expression and music has sparked a limited form of trade. However they will only trade art for art. No other trade deals have been considered by them so far.

Military

While no member of their race would ever use a weapon for any reason they do have an extremely effective military defense system. This system consists of 3 primary systems or devices.

Personnel Protection

When ever any member of this race goes off world for any reason they take with them 3 flying disks. These disks are almost 1 meter round. One disk will have a series of what looks like antenna projecting from the bottom of it. This is a shield drone. The other two will have a pair of linked blaster weapons on a single arm protrudeing from the bottom of it. These are weapon drones. They are extremely intelligent and are programmed to protect and obey their controler.

Planetary Protection

In space around their world are thousands of disk shaped vessels that seem to orbit the planet with out any reason. However if any hostile action is detected they will raise shields, power up weapons and move to attack and defend. They have a hive mind and are extremely intelligent.

Onworld Protection

Built into the roof of every tower are holding tubes for the small weapons disks. Hidden in underground hangers are thousands of the larger disks just waiting to be activated. Added to that is the fact that any time an alien is allowed to set foot on the planet he has 3 disks assigned to him. However they are not for defense. They are to guard, detain and if nessassary eliminate the visiter.

Starfleet Intelligence Files

To this date no actual contact, however their are records of visual sightings of their space craft by both Bajoran vessels and the USS Chernobyl. In fact it is one of the only records from the Equinox to survive totally intact prior to it vanishing from the Alpha Quadrant.

Sources

This is an original Starbase 118 species created by Cmdr. Tal Tel-ar. I used my oldest daughter as my inspiration. This species is dedicated to her.

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