Sheliak

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Sheliak


Four Letter Code	SHEL
Federation Status	Non-communicative
Planet of Origin	Unknown planet in the Shelia star system
Encountered	TNG: The Ensigns of Command
T/E Rating	T0/E0
Current Tech Level	NR
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"Speak carefully or your own words may doom you."

a Sheliak greeting.

The Sheliak are a species to whom precision is of ultra importance. They find most species to be sadly imprecise in both their actions and their language.

Home System

Quadrant: Alpha
Location: Sili Chon Sector (coordinates A27-0002-1300)
Proper Name: Shelia system
Star: It orbits a class M (Red) star
Distance from Star: it's orbit is approximately 101 million km
Companions: It is the only planet in the system

Home World

Proper Name: Shev’Unden
Diameter: 13,866 km (8,616 miles)
Gravity: 0.91 standard gravity with a density of 5.8
Axial Tilt: 15.3%, with normal terran seasonal changes
Orbital Period: 302 days
Rotational Period: 21 hours
Classification: H
- Surface Water: 43%
- Atmosphere: 0.98% is a standard pressure with 74% nitrogen, 26% oxygen, 2% trace chemicals
- Climate: Mainly a temperate planet with a large arctic poles region.
- Population: Just over 10 billion
  - The above planetary data was obtained by Starfleet Intelligence from the Breen. The accuracy of it has not been verified and as such it may not be accurate.

History

In 2255 there was a brief skirmish between the Sheliak Corporate and the United Federation of Planets. Eventually, peace was established through the Treaty of Armens.

The Sheliak valued precision highly, and therefore the Treaty of Armens contained 500,000 words and took 372 Federation legal experts to draft.

The Treaty of Armens was a diplomatic agreement between the Sheliak Corporate and the United Federation of Planets which set the border, along with a buffer zone, between the two powers. It was drafted in the year 2255 and contained 500,000 words which took 372 Federation legal experts to draft. As part of the dictates of the treaty, several Class H worlds were ceded from the Federation to the Sheliak.

There was virtually no contact with the Sheliak for over a century. In 2366, a dispute broke out between the Federation and the Sheliak, when the Sheliak discovered Federation colonists living on Tau Cygna V, a planet which they wished to colonize.

Apparently, they (like the Human colonists of that world) were immune to hyperonic radiation, as they were not concerned this would be a problem. The Sheliak colonists referred to themselves as "the Membership".

By the terms of the treaty, the Sheliak reserved the right to demand the removal of the colonists. Lt. Cmdr. Data played the lead role in trying to convince the colonists to evacuate the planet before Sheliak colonists arrived. At the same time Captain Picard and Counselor Troi were negotiating with the Sheliak ship director. Eventually, the matter was resolved and the colonists were removed.

Territory of the Breen Confederacy resided near the Sheliak. This was a source of conflict between the two empires. They have also had confrontations with the Yassengoro Confederacy.

Lieutenant Nog was able to procure shield modulator technology for the Sheliak designed to improve shield efficiency against radiation. It was deployed on the evacuation fleet sent to Europa Nova during the Gateways Crisis.

Government

Due to their xenophobic nature very little is known about their governing body besides the fact that it is called the Sheliak Corporate.

Description

A non-humanoid life-form of classification R-3. A reclusive race from deep space, the Sheliak are black, silicon-based semi-upright mounds with two arm like projections. Their appearance is therefore essentially a wrap of black, mucous-secreting folds appearing as at least a head and gesturing upper appendages (not too unlike the look of the creature Armus on Vagra II).

Physiology

Unlike most humanoids, the non-humanoid Sheliak preferred to exist in an environment that is the same temperature as their bodies.

Psychology

The Sheliak are xenophobic and avoided contact with the Federation whenever possible. This may have been due to the Sheliak attitude that humanoids were an unintelligent and inferior form of life (often pejoratively describing them as "creatures" and the presence of humanoid life as an "infestation").

The Sheliak consider humans a lower life form and have no qualms about destroying human "infestations". Still today they will "exterminate" those legally in their way -- as with the unknowing human "trespassers" on Tau Cygna V.