Mathenite

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Mathenite
Four Letter Code	MATH
Federation Status	Neutral
Planet of Origin	Unknown
Encountered	DS9: "Second Skin"
T/E Rating	T0/E0
Current Tech Level	N, Unknown but space-faring
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A neutral race who agree to provide asylum to Legate Ghemor after his rescue with Major Kira.

Home System

• Quadrant: Alpha
• Location: Tzen Poga Sector (A24-0003-1300 )
• Proper Name: Disputed
• Star: It orbits a class G (Yellow) star
• Distance from Star: it's orbit is approximately 158 million km
• Companions: 7 other planets. It is the 4th planet in the system

Home World

• Proper Name: Disputed (Most often used term is "Edghtan", though "Tanne" is considered the 'Politically Correct' term)
• Diameter: 12,749 km (7,968 miles)
• Gravity: 1.02 standard gravity with a density of 5.8
• Axial Tilt: 0.87%, no appreciable tilt and no seasons
• Orbital Period: 371 days
• Rotational Period: 26 hours
• Classification: M
  • Surface Water: 68%
  • Atmosphere: 1.07 is a standard pressure with 75% nitrogen, 24% oxygen, 1% trace chemicals
  • Climate: Cool and stable, with the hottest temperatures being no higher than the Mediterranean on Earth.
  • Population: 3.2 Billion

History

Introduction

A people long fractured and divided, even after achieving both First Contact and Warp Flight, the Mathenites unified under a single government forty years ago in the face of Cardassian aggression as they had done before, when faced with an external threat. Against all odds, what was supposed to be a temporary and weak alliance, was turned into a viable world government with a vision to turn the Mathenites into a single, unified people. However, just because this new government has the potential to unify the highly diverse tribes of the Mathenites, does not necessarily mean it can, or even will, as if faces strong backlash from various groups of people determined to hold on to their own unique identities and reject a singular, unifying Mathenite culture. Also a problem, are the interstellar colonies of the various nations that independently sent settlers out into space to colonize different nearby worlds, which were often split up between multiple nations. These far flung territories submitted to the Colonial Authority of the Confederacy both for their own protection and for greater economic opportunity, forming cohesive administrative blocs out of disparate lands made up of dozens of ethnic groups. Another question of their Imperialist policy concerns their settlements on worlds where intelligent life already existed in some cases, often at a much lower stage of advancement. The Mathenite Colonial Authority has, in the absence of direct power at home, decided to flex all of the political muscles it can elsewhere, and form the Colonies into cosmopolitan wonders, uplifting the 'lesser' races and unifying the Mathenite colonists for the common good. This blatant colonialism went unchecked in the region for centuries, and only now, after the discovery of the Bajoran Wormhole, conflicts with the Cardassians and the Dominion, and a new Federation Frontier opening up, has Starfleet and the Federation Council turned their eyes to the Mathenite situation. More specifically, the situation on the planet Nuradem, where Mathenite Colonialism is at its finest, and the complex situation of the colonists and natives threatens to involve not only the Federation, but the surrounding powers such as the Breen, Cardassians, and Tzenkethi.

Early History

Since Mathenites value telling the history of their own particular sub-culture or ethnic group, rather than that of their entire race in general, (Indeed it is debatable how many events are of racial importance other than conflicts such as wars and rivalries), any history of the species would have to tell the story of every individual group and how they relate (if at all). In an effort to condense the history of the Mathenites, one has to look at the broader trends of the various larger cultural blocs ( Like East versus West on Earth), rather than the individual histories of all the groups that encompass those larger categories.

Suffice to say though, modern Mathenites evolved on the eastern continent of their homeworld (Like the name of the planet, the name of the continent is also disputed) where some crossed the narrow sea between the north-Western continent of Dantehvon, and others still island hopped from Dantehvon to the south-Western continent. Across all three continents, the Mathenites created grand cities to form grand confederations of city-states and eventually nations, and then Empires, fueling their racial predilection for the pursuit of glory.

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