The Odonan Empire is a major interstellar political organization existing somewhat towards the rim from the United Federation of Planets. The Odonans were encountered by Federation explorers shortly after first contact with the Klingons. The Odonan Empire is adjacent to the Klingon Empire, and in their history, the two powers have fought four wars, each an increasingly lopsided win for the Odonans. Odona is approximately 1650 light years from Earth. The map shows the locations of the member planets of the Odonan Empire and the colony worlds as well. The current population of the Odonan Empire is estimated at almost twenty-eight billion individuals, making them numerically larger than any single race in the Federation. The following gives brief descriptions on the various planets and colonies in the Empire.
Ahlan
Ahlan is one of the newer member planets of the Odonan Empire, having had its status upgraded from colony to member planet over fifty years ago. Almost all of the population is Odonan, with an estimated 10,000 "silver" Korpeians living there. Korpeians tend to split themselves into cultural groups identified by a dominant colour, with silver being the term applied to "Odonanized" Korpeians in the sense that they have tended to adopt Odonan styles of dress and behaviour, and many speak Odonien (and the local Odonan languages) and some have even lost their ability to speak a Korpeian language. Other Korpeians tend to despise the silvers and view them as "traitors to the Korpeian way," and hence they can be killed without reprocussions.
Aj
Aj was a former Odonan planet that was destroyed in the Great War (the first Odonan-Klingon war) and was so heavily bombed that the former cities were not even archaeologically salvagable. Radiation effects lingered on the planet for hundreds of years. The reason for the Klingon wrath was that during the Great War, Aj was a leading site of biological research, and a powerful biological weapon, called "The Dread" was developed there. The Dread is an incredibly virulent disease that spreads readily and kills Klingons quickly, although other races are unaffected. It was believed that the secret of the Dread was lost when Aj was destroyed, but an Odonan team recovered the information and an attempt by Klingon intelligence to capture or destroy this information failed. In the present time, a population of about 500 lives on the planet, with the eventual aim of restoring Aj to its former glory.
Al Rashid
In many ways, the Al Rashid system is one of the most impressive systems in the Known Galaxy. The system held two class-M planets, and two more that the Odonans terraformed into class-M worlds, giving the system four inhabitable planets. The system star is a class-F8 stable star with a gathering of sixteen planets. The system is also very rich in a wide variety of mineral resources, leading to mining operations on virtually every non-gas giant planet in the system. In many ways, the Al Rashid system is the cultural and economic heart of the Odonan Empire, as almost one in five Odonans calls this system home. Al Rashid II, Alarashada, is the most heavily populated planet in the Empire with 2.45 billion inhabitants, and contains one of the galaxy's largest-known cities (outside of the planet-wide city that is Ilko), Rashad, with a population of over 110 million. Alarashada is also known for its spectacular scenary, its soaring mountain ranges, deep yet fertile valleys and the almost impenetrable highlands that is the home of a hearty culture of Odonans, a culture that is unusually heavily represented in the Odonan space service. The other naturally-occuring class-M planet in the system is Al Rashid IV, Ala Relform. The two terraformed planets are Al Rashid III and Al Rashid V.
Alfe Kree
Alfe Kree is the third planet in the Alfon star system, and is a jointly-administered world between the Odonans and the Korpeians. Settlement on Alfe Kree was originally designed as a base for the Odonan space service since it was at the extreme end of their space. For many years, an Odonan presence of about a hundred thousand co-existed with a group of "silver" Korpeians of the same population, but approximately seventy years ago, the Odonans and Korpeians signed an agreement that allowed other Korpeians to settle the planet and farm the rich soils. The original agreement allowed for a population of 100 million Korpeians, but the Korpeians themselves violated this agreement as eventually two billion Korpeians settled on the planet. Along with the native Korpeians came the organized Korpeian syndicates (identified by the colour black, not so much because the criminal gangs use this colour but because other Korpeians avoid it totally least they be identifed as part of the criminal element), and this made life difficult for the Odonans and the silver Korpeians, with many of the latter dying gruesome deaths. The Odonan population has been reduced to around 16,500, many of them associated with the starbase still located there. The Odonans and the silver Korpeians live in a heavily-armed and heavily-secured compound. Several votes by the population to turn Alfe Kree into a member planet of the Korpeian Confederacy have been unsuccessful since the original treaties give the Odonan governor veto rights on any such vote. It is expected that eventually, the Odonans will quit Alfe Kree.
Anarimander
This is one of the most unique and historical Odonan planets. The Anarimander system is a double-star system, with Anarimand A being a class F9 star and Anarimand B being a red giant star. Because of the relatively close spacing between the two stars, only three planets exist in the system, all close to Anarimand A. The first of these is Anarimander itself, with the second is the lighty-populated planet Anary (a world that is mostly desert). Anary was the original inhabited world, and shows signs of a previous habitation by an unknown group two to three million years ago. Anarimander was terraformed by the Odonans. The Anarimand system stands remote from other stars, with the nearest one almost twenty light years away. It was originally built as a supply base since it existed along the trade routes between the spinward and antispinward halves of the Empire. During the Great War, Anarimander staged its own demise, convincing the Klingons in particular that the planet and its population had been wiped out, when in fact it had not. This allowed the Odonan Second Fleet to use Anarimander as a refuel and resupply base as it looped around the main Klingon fleet in the decisive Battle of Home, the key battle of the Great War, when the Klingons were determined to break the will of the Odonans by sacking or destroying Odona itself. The Klingon fleet was ambushed by a new line of Odonan ships mounting a powerful new weapon that decimated the Klingon ships. When the Klingons attempted a retreat, they ran in the Second Fleet and were all but wiped out. This turned the war around, and eventually it was the Odonans sacking Qo'nos and (temporarily) driving the bumpy-headed Klingons from power. Anarimander contributed to the Odonan Empire in another way too, as its language was selected as the basis for the Empire-wide standard language, the language usually referred to as Standard Odonien or Odonien.
Anaxagoras
Anaxagora is a class K0 star with two class-M planets, Anaxagoras itself and a partly-terraformed planet, Anaxogora V, called Inquivelus.
Aristarchus
The claim to fame in the Aristarchus system is the large number of gas giants and ringed planets in the system, eight and seven respectively. The system also contains the small world of Intermern, the planet that the Odonans describe as the "where the rivers consist of molten rock." The planet orbits the sun from just 11.1 million kilometres out and completes one revolution around the sun in seven and a half days. Aristarchus IV, Aristarchus itself, is home to about 612 million people. One curious thing about the English version of Odonan planets is that the spelling and pronunciation is based on the "classical" form of the word, the way it was pronounced many millennia ago. The current pronunciation is somewhat different. If the name was transliterated from the modern pronunciation, it would be "Aazadaajhus." Similarily, Anaxagoras would be transliterated as "Anaqagoos."
Atlookyun
This is a small planet orbiting a dim class K7 star. The planet is barely class-M and is mostly glaciated, with only fifteen percent of the surface area clear of glaciers and ice. The planet was used as a refuge location during the Great War, and as a base for resistance activities during the Great War, simply because the Klingons totally ignored the star system. Atlookyun also served as a clandestine meeting place for factions opposing the Kwans during the Odonan Civil War period. The Odonan Civil War was a period of turmoil during which Tomas and Lora Kwan assumed control of the government with an agenda to invade and conquer the Federation, mostly to control pirate and organized-crime activity pushed in their direction by the expanding Federation. Most of the Odonan space service bulked at this new direction, and attempts to remove the most vocal critics of the Kwans, Dyan Pedeezen and Hualei Chiang, failed. The Kwans built a parallel fleet of ships to stage their invasion, but at the same time, Chiang and Pedeezen gathered support and eventually struck at the Kwans and their "Dark Fleet," eventually disposing of the dictatorial rulers.
Au
The Au system is another interesting one. The main star is a class-G4 star, but in the system is another large body, a bit more than a planet and a bit less than a brown or red dwarf star. This "semi-brown dwarf," called Auch, gives off enough heat that it supports its own mini-system of planets. Three of those worlds are class-M, having been terraformed and seeded with Odonan biology by the Kroosians over fifty thousand years earlier. The largest of these, Auchenminor, is home to almost thirty million Odonans. The fourth class-M planet in the system is associated with the main star, and is Auchen. Over a billion Odonans live on this planet, known for its tall, narrow gubba trees. An illegal project hundreds of years ago created new plant life based on genetic manipulation of existing vegetation, and the replacement of non-Odonan genes with Odonan ones in some plant life, including the gubba trees, to preserve the original non-Odonan flora on this world while making it safe for Odonans. It was an attempt at "flora-preserving terraforming," whereas most other terraforming attempts to remove the native xenotype and replace it with the imported one. Au is also well-known because this was the first system that the Ksassans struck at when moving out of their own space. After a bloody, destructive battle, the Odonans managed to hold Au and drive the Ksassans back. Despite this, a small number of Ksassans lives on Auchen, and their mission is almost religious, to convince the native Odonans that all the humanoid races are in fact descended from a primodal race that seeded many planets and guided their development, and that the Ksassans are the direct descendents of this primodal race and so are destined to rule the galaxy again.
Az Meko
Az Meko is one of the newer member planets in the Odonan Empire. It was for most of its existence a small colony, but during and after the Great War, the planet became the new home to many of the survivors and refugees from the worlds lost or destroyed during the Great War. As a result, the planet is a hotbed of activism with groups dedicated to retaking those lost planets. The Az Meko star is a stable G2 star, much like Earth's sun, and the planet is the lone class-M world in a system with eight planets. The eighth planet, Ixo, is almost pure ice with a larger-than-expected ratio of deuterium to hydrogen. It is a major processing source for deuterium for starship impulse drives.
Deti
At one time an obscure location, almost an Odonan "backwater," but this changed dramatically when contact with the Federation was first made. The Odonans decided to keep their relations with the Federation, especially trade relations, organized by funnelling all traffic through one location. Deti was selected as the location, resulting in the construction of the Deti Transfer Station, the second-largest space installation in the Empire (after the Chaki Naval Yards). This is a relatively open civilian space station, and races from all over the galaxy can be seen there, working in trade and commerce. At the station, cargo from incoming non-Odonan ships are transferred to Odonan cargo ships, and vice versa. The system itself supports three class-M planets in orbit around the sun, and a fourth one in orbit around a large brown-dwarf-like body. This particular planet, Ampelor, has been terraformed and used at one point as a prison site. Now, it is used as a temporary holding area for non-Odonans convicted of crimes in the system. Deti itself (the third planet) is home to almost 900 million people, and has the largest number of non-Odonans living on any Odonan planet. The other two class-M planets, terraformed by an unknown race millennia earlier, are home to just under 300 million people each. Deti V, Ghans, is limited to Odonans only.
Eratosthenes
Despite having just five thousand people, Eratosthenese is a full member planet in the Odonan Empire. It is almost a relic of the old Odonan Empire, and exists (with Intranz) as a bubble of Odonan space surrounded by the Klingon Empire. A starbase in the system supports a fleet of at least fourty of the Empire's most powerful warships (currently Photon-II-class ships) and other support vessels. The planet itself is the lone planet around a M3-class red dwarf, and is barely class-M, and that was due to terraforming efforts by the Odonans. Why is this planet so valuable? It is the only known source in the galaxy for natural tam-ulk-yr, the substance that is central and key to Odonan culture, as well as driving their starships. It is possible that the tam-ulk-yr was desposited in a remote, out-of-the-way red dwarf system by an unknown alien group that manufactured it hundreds of millions if not billions of years earlier. Red dwarf systems are known as hiding places for material such as this and other secrets because there are so many of them and they have very little of value on their own. The Klingons claim Eratosthenes for themselves, but the Odonans vow to hold on to this world with everything they have.
Exoneration
Exoneration is the second planet in the red dwarf system headed by a class M1 star. This out-of-the-way planet was terraformed by a Kroosian survivor group that settled on the planet and hid from the aggressors that destroyed the Kroosian Empire. Once the Kroosian Empire was destroyed, civilization on Exoneration spread. They lacked the resources to build fast warp-capable ships (no dilithium or higher materials), so they terraformed the fourth planet in the system, Twitsen. At the peak, the Exoneration system contained almost seven billion people. Population pressures forced the Exoneratese to explore space and find a neighbouring star system to settle on. They found the Inquiator system, which contained a planet upon with the Kroosians had settled, and so had already adapted it to the Odonan xenotype. Over time, this planet as well became heavily populated, so the Inquiatorians terraformed two more planets in the system. Because Inquiator was a richer system with greater potential than the red dwarf system of Exoneration, the population here swelled to over ten billion, and Inquiator came to dominate Exoneration and the region of space that came to be called the Exoninqui Empire. On Inquiator itself, the third planet in that system, was extensive Kroosian ruins that the Inquiatorians studied and excavated for clues on their ultimate origin. This led to the belief that there could be other Kroosian survivor groups out there, and that it might be possible to reunify these groups into a New Kroosian Empire. Unfortunately, they just found one group--and that led to disaster. That group was the Odonans. Naturally, the Odonans did nothing actively to destroy the Inquiatorians, and were as enthralled at finding another Kroosian survivor group as the Inquiatorians were. However, the Inquiatorians did not develop out of the old Kroosian science caste, like the Odonans, and so their immune systems did not have the genetic coding to resist the overhimpenyon disease that is endemic in all Odonans. In fact, overhimpenyon in Odonans has mutated to the point that it is indispensible to their powerful immune system. The deadly disease, believed originally created by an enemy of the Kroosians to destroy them (or nearly all of them; some survived and became the Odonans), ravished the Inquiatorians and Exoneratese, and wiped out all twenty billion of them in the span of several months. The Odonans were understandably shocked at this turn of events, and it became almost their dark secret, this racial denial of an accidental genocide that they could do nothing about. This particular historical event is not generally known even among Odonans, and even among the Odonans who have settled in these two systems. Inquiator in particular had an already-developed sophisticated infrastructure, so Odonan colonists, with their much-faster ships, moved right in. Exoneration, however, because it is a red dwarf system, has less appeal. Fifty-five million hearty souls, however, make Exoneration home, and the culture htere is somewhat unique.
Gisch
Gisch is one of the more interesting planets. The star it orbits is a big B3-class white-blue supergiant, and it is part of a double-star system, with the second star being a smaller K2-class star. However, because the stars orbit each other at a large distance, Gisch B is nothing more than a really bright star in the sky of Gisch. Gisch itself orbits so far from the big star that its year is seven hundred and twenty-nine and a half days long, and yet it is the hottest of the planets in the Empire. The planet is also mostly water, with land making up only nine percent of the surface area, and that land mass is split up into many small islands. The population is rather small, only around seven and a half million people. During the Great War, it was the only Odonan world extant at the time not to be attacked, and so as the war went bad for the Odonans, it became the seat of the government and the location for the shipbuilding yards and research centres that developed the weapons and the tactics used by the Odonans to turn the war around. In some respects, those activities continue at Gisch. It is the location of the most cutting-edge research, especially weapons and defense research and some research that might be considered unethical. It is also the administration and training centre for Ileo, the Odonan intelligence agency. As a consequence, Gisch is the most closed system in the Empire. Odonans have to have a very good reason to travel there when applying for a permit, and non-Odonans simply are never given permission to head to Gisch. The Odonans maintain a starbase at Gisch and a fleet of ships (the Tenth Fleet) is based there. So closed is this system that maps of the Odonan Empire generally available outside of the Empire do not even list Gisch nor show its location.
Hiebs
This is a relatively new colony with only about twenty-five thousand people. It is the site of an Odonan starbase, and is designed to ultimately increase Odonan presence and control in that region of space.
Ibn Daud
The star in the Ibn Daud system is a class A2 white giant star with four class-M planets. None of the class-M planets are natural, with the three planets around the main star terraformed by the Kroosians fourty-two thousand years ago. The fourth class-M planet was terraformed by the Odonans, and is located in orbit around a gas giant planet, Basonnee, in the system. This planet, Tasholet, has historical significance because it was the test site for Odonan terraforming technology, much of which was actually developed from Kroosian terraforming secrets learned in this system. The fourth planet, Ibn Daud itself (called Ibensea by the locals), was a major planet in the Kroosian Empire, occupied at one time by over five billion, and its peak population of Odonans was about the same. The Kroosians built extensive cities, some of which were architectural monuments, and much of that survived the fall of the Kroosian Empire. In fact, a small group of Kroosian survivors, the Daudi, continued to exist on Ibn Daud until the Odonans arrived, and they maintained and repaired the ancient monuments with almost religious fervor. The Daudi never numbered more than ten thousand, and devoted their entire existence to preserving Kroosian knowledge and technology and understanding, as well as the monuments. Their entire existence was work and devotion that they followed with almost religous zeal. Of course, when the Odonans did arrive, the Daudi were not immune to the overhimpneyon disease and quickly died out. However, the High Leader used Kroosian technology to transfer his memories and identity into a computer, which continued to exist until the Klingons came and attacked and sacked the planet. Perhaps at no place in the Empire was the heritage of the Odonan Empire and its predecessor group destroyed than at Ibn Daud. It was almost as if the Klingons were determined to wipe out the Odonans and any trace of their existence, and they started at Ibn Daud. Nevertheless, Ibn Daud did contribute to the history of the Odonan Empire since the memories of the High Leader stored in the computer helped the Odonans learn about the Kroosians and gave them the key to deciphering the ancient Kroosian written language. After the war, Ibn Daud was resettled, and because it was such a rich world with extensive resources and large areas of very pleasant climate, the population has grown to almost 1.8 billion people. Much of the pre-war splendor of the planet has slowly been restored and rebuilt. The other class-M planets in orbit around the star are major planets too, with Ibn Daud V, Ibnphentra, having almost half a billion people. "Ibn Daud" is a Kroosian word that the Odonans have retained for this system.
Inquiator
Much of the history of this planet was discussed in the section on Exoneration. However, after the Inquiatorians were destroyed by the overhimpenyon disease, the infrastructure was mostly intact, and the Odonans settled in. Now they number almost one billion on Inquiator III (also called Fasoneda) and almost fifty million on the fourth planet, Ahlisonsa. The Odonans retain, in a sense, the memory of the race they accidentally destroyed in the tongue-twisting placenames found on this planet, all of which were from the original Inquiatorian language.
Intranz
Intranz at one time was a major Odonan planet near Eratosthenes, and before the Great War was a major shipbuilding site. The Klingons attempted to capture the planet and use the population as slaves to build ships, but the Odonans destroyed the shipyards and other importatn infrastructure. The Klingons, thus, first encountered the concept that the Odonans were more willing to be destroyed rather than be ruled as a conquered people, and gave emphasis to the belief that when cornored and threatened, Odonans, either singly or as a society, would commit suicide. In response for destroying the shipyards, with the loss of lots of Klingon lives, the Klingons retaliated by irradiating the planet, eradicating all life and seriously damaging the environment of the terraformed planet. In the present time, Intranz is protected by the same extensive fleet used to guard Eratosthenes. A starbase is located here, as well as a research facility that conducts widespead tests and experiments. Some have complained that the experiments and work conducted here devastates the environment and leaves hideous scars on the planet, to which the Odonans reply that the environment has already been destroyed. A small number of biologists have studied the wildly-mutating plant life that still exists on the planet. Unlike most other planets, those who call Intranz home actually live in orbiting space cities. Hardly anybody lives on the planet itself.
Korvus
This is a relatively recent colony world, only fifty years old and with a population of five thousand. It is close to the Peyombe system, a system with two class-M planets equally distant from Odonan and Federation control, and which the two space powers had been negotiating on how to use. The Odonans want to establish a colony on Outer Peyombe, which is more suitable to them, while the Federation wants a colony on Inner Peyombe, which is more suitable to humans. This all became moot, however, when a Ksassan renegade group used a modification of the Genesis Device on Inner Peyombe, destroying the ecology on that world.
Lesthern
At one time, the Lesthern system and its two class-M worlds, Lesthern itself and Erekade, were major Odonan worlds, with each planet supporting two and a half billion Odonans, or more. However, this planet was heavily attacked and its population destroyed or driven off. The Klingons committed major war crimes here, including the use of deadly neurotoxins and biological agents with metagenic properities (in other words, diseases that would break down after killing all of their victims). This left much of the infrastructure intact, so the Klingons began settling the planet, even as the tide of the war changed. Now it was the Odonans' turn for war crimes. They counterattacked the planet, destroying passenger ships filled with thousands of Klingon civilians. Odonan forces landed on the planet and began to herd the Klingons into central locations and massacred them. In their mind, it was justified, since the Klingons had done a similar crime but to an order of magnitude greater. It is estimated that about four to five million Klingons were massacred in the counterattack, and to this day, the Klingons will rail and rant about that crime. They conveniently forget the five billion Odonans they wiped out on the two worlds in the system. In the present time, the Odonan presence is minimal, just a quarter of a million on Lesthern itself and half of that on Erekade. In both cases, the colonies were established on smaller land masses not originally occupied.
Ninhching
Considered the most remote Odonan colony and settlement from the central regions of the Odonan Empire, some find building and maintaining this colony risky. The original colony, with 2500 people, was wiped out in a Tyrannian raid. The Odonans, of course, retaliated and convinced the Tyrannians that such raids were not in their best interest. The modern colony also has 2500 people, and primarily exists to service a starbase. This starbase has become rather important, and was the target of a Breen attach towards the end of the Dominion War, an attack that was repulsed, from a distance.
Norg
Originally, Norg was a colony consisting of settlements of small agricultural communities. Unfortunately, an unknown race once existed there, and some of their technology continued to exist and function, unbeknowst to the farmers and minors who lived on the planet, the third in a G2-class star system. When the technology was accidentally accessed, it mass-transported the entire population of one village to a planet in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud. An attempt to retrieve the population failed and the survivors were trapped on that distant world. Because of the danger of other shielded and hidden technology, the Odonan government ordered the other villages evacuated. Now, only four hundred people are on the planet, carefully studying the ancient ruins, to learn who built them and how to retrieve those sent to the Lesser Magellanic Cloud.
Odona
Odona is the Odonan homeworld. It is discussed in the next section, on the Odonan Core.
Ori
Ori is the third planet in the Ori system, which has a G1-class star at its centre. Ori III was once home to an ancient and extinct civilization, believed to be reptiloid, that parished an estimated seventy million years ago. The Odonans rehabilitated the planet to suit them, and now occupy it to the number of 865 million.
Phille
Phille is the most remote major Odonan star system. It consists of two planets, Phille I (Antree Zee) with a population of 85 million and Phille II (Unzachu), with a population of 40 million. The star is a warm G0-class star, making Phille I in particular a rather warm world. The major significance of Phille I is that it is a rich source of high-grade dilithium, so much in fact that the Odonans safely trade the material with the Federation and the Kemons. The planet was terraformed by an unknown race millions of years ago, and there is extensive evidence that this race mined some kind of material from this planet, something that was very valuable to them. Whatever it was, it was not dilithium, however. Some of the ruins of that long-gone race remained on the planet, but the Odonans have built on Phille I. Phille II was terraformed by the Odonans, and was considered the beginning of a major presence spinward of the core, to develop a balance between the antispinward development of the Empire.
Pusedchou
In many ways, this is an interesting planet. The original class-M planet was modified by the Kroosians and adapted for the Odonan xenotype, but never settled there. Apparently, they were scared off by the pecularity of the system. Pusedchou is in a double-star system, with the main star being a class G7 star. The other star is a white dwarf that orbits almost perpendicular to the planetary plane of the main star. The orbit is highly elliptical, bringing the white dwarf close to the planets every twelve and a half years. The mechanics of the orbits of the other planets have all shifted so that they are multiples of this twelve and a half year period, and so are never close to the white dwarf when it passes through. The white dwarf, however, gives off radiation and is variable in some respects, and this radiation, when the star is close to the planet, plays havoc with the atmosphere of the terraformed world, causing intense storms during the period of close approach. These storms and the associated radiation make through-the-air transports risky, so the people of Pusedchou have built the most extensive and comprehensive planet-wide, closed-circuit transporter system in the Empire, which has become about the only way intercity travel is handled. Other planets have similar systems, but none are as detailed, as comprehensive and as planet-wide as the one on Pusedchou. The powerful city forcefield domes were also designed to protect the cities from the storms. The domes were strong enough that during the Great War, a period when the white dwarf was on close approach, the Klingons could not crack them, despite repeated attempts. They also had to use landing vessels to get to the surface because transporters were unreliable, but the Klingons were caught unprepared for the weather. One division was wiped out by the savage storm. Odonans moved in and scavanged the weapons. All they needed was one functional disruptor rifle, since with one, they could replicate more. The weapons and the knowledge spread rapidly through the planet-wide transport system, so when the Klingons attacked again, they found themselves being counterattacked by Pusedchou citizens wielding improved versions of the Klingons' own weapons. The Klingons, as was known, much preferred to use blade weapons in their combat, but the Odonans did not co-operate by remaining in the vicinity. As a result, they had to resort to directed-energy weapons, none of which were all that good. The Pusedchou citizens improved the weapons and counterattacked, driving the Klingons off the planet. This little historical fact was not known by the Dominion when they attempted to invade the planet. Again, the city domes held, except in one location where the Dominion got through one of the gates, and the powerful Dominion forces were driven off by a combination of a small military, still being trained, a few system patrol ships, a planet-wide forcefield device under construction, and one visiting Federation starship. It had to be the Dominion's most humiliating loss in the war, and made worse by the fact that at that time, the white dwarf was far from the planets and its effects minimal.
Rheodon
Rheodon II is the latest colony in the Odonan Empire. Terraforming on this world, originally settled by an unknown race a hundred thousand years ago, is ongoing, so this particular world has no permanent residents yet.
Stantsu
This system could be called the Odonan Empire's "backwoods system," since it is the system settled by those who want to live a simpler, less technologically advanced lifestyle. Stantsu IV, Stantsu itself (called Asonda by the locals) has over a billion people, but by standards of the Empire, this is a backwards place, with extensive practicing agriculture, small, low-rise cities and no comprehensive system of closed-circuit transport systems. Suborbital "hyperplanes" provide most of the planetary connections, and electrically-powered wheeled vehicles are the primary means of local transport. Nevertheless, Stantsu is part of the Empire, with an orbital station and subspace communications connections to the rest of the Empire, along with regular passenger runs to the other systems. There are some pockets of more conventional high-technology societies on the planet, as well as some that attempt to live very basic, very simple lives, with almost religious overtones. The other inhabited planet is Stantsu II, Sansillphi, and this is home to almost seventy million. It practices an even more backwards lifestyle, and is the only Odonan planet where animals are still used as beasts of burden. Although Sansillphi has a seat in the Grand Council, the supreme ruling body of the Odonan Empire, its representative rarely attends the council meetings.
Stretefo
Stretefo III is a relatively recent colony, established within the last fifty years. It is home to six thousand people. It was originally a refugee colony during the Great War, and some of the hastily-built prefabricated structures remain as a monument to that war.
Thales
Thales was once home to an unknown society that left its mark on the northern continent, building massive pyramids, some of which were three kilometres tall. The city itself, which the Odonans named Thales, is one of the most massive archaeological sites in the Known Galaxy, and has been studied for years. Little is known about the race that built those monuments, except that they were not humanoid. The southern continents were untouched by the monument builders, so the Odonans have their colony there. It exists primarily to support the archaeological evacuations. The second class-M planet, Thales Minor, is a mining colony of about one thousand.
Uma
Uma has been called the "Risa of the Odonan Empire," a planet where leisure and recreation is a way of life. This is a relatively recent colony, but so many people are attracted to the high-tech and leisure life of this lush, beautiful world. The star orbits Uma A, a B7-class blue supergiant, and for reasons unknown to biologists, the Odonan flora put on this planet seemed to really take to the world. The planet is a combination of wonderful beaches, flat lands for the agriculture and the city, and towering mountains. The year is about eight hundred days long, however. Uma is the only planet in this system, as there is a second star, Uma B, a class G4 star that orbits relatively close, leading to periods when Uma A lights the day sky and Uma B the night sky. The population is almost seven hundred million, with a substantial presence of "silver" Korpeians.
Volunoch
This is another relatively new colony, and was built at this location to replace the starbase the Odonans plan to abandon at Alfe Kree. The colony there is designed for those Odonan and silver Korpeians eventually expected to move from the increasingly uncomfortable situation at Alfe Kree.
Vonokoy
The colony at Vonokoy is a combined science outpost and starbase. The colony itself is located on the third planet of the second star, which is a class F8 star. The other star is a red supergiant star known for its unusual stable properties. Evidence exists that a sentient species once lived on a planet in orbit around the primary star before it became a supergiant, and that this species once controlled a volume of space that encompasses most of the modern Odonan Empire.
Wao
With three class-M planets around the first of a double-star system (the other star a distant red dwarf), including two being terraformed to fully accommodate Odonans, this system is seen as the next big system in the Empire. The planets are rich in resources and lush, so over the centuries, the population is expected to grow. The Odonans are rushing to develop this system before the Kemons, who are nearby, can move in and stake a claim. They expect Wao to anchor this section of the Empire in the centuries to come.
Xalau
Xalau is a system with a class-G7 star and two class-M planets, both of which had been terraformed and seeded with Odonan biology by the Kroosians. In fact, there are Kroosian plants and animals found here that had long been extinct within the Odonan system and which were known only by the Kroosian records. The two planets, Xalau III (Xalau itself) and Xalau IV (Xalautu) are each home to about half a billion people. On Xalau, some of the cultural groups are rather traditional with an old-fashioned view of life, much like the groups on Stantsu. However, Xalau is also home to one of the more unusual Odonan cultural groups, the Sotapu. The Sotapu have an unusual percentage of albinos in their population, almost twenty percent (the overall percentage of albinos in the Odonan population is around three and a half percent), and these albinos have, over the years, so influenced the culture of this group that all Sotapu use a chemical treatment to turn their hair white and their skin pale. Fortunately for the Sotapu, the system star, named Xalai, has very low levels of ultraviolet radiation.
Xamanduziona
The Xamanduziona system consists of two class-M planets orbiting an orange dwarf K7-class star, resulting in a year that is just 253 days long. The fourth planet, commonly called Xam, is home to over one and a half billion Odonans, and is an important world economically and socially in the Odonan Empire. Xam was a planet fully terraformed by the Odonans, as at the time they did not wish to settle on planets previously occupied by other races and wanted to develop their own world. The other class-M planet, although it barely qualifies, is Xeme. This world is extremely cold, with a mean temperature of only six degrees, and about six hundred people live in equatorial settlements. Xeme was not supposed to be like this, but is an example of terraforming gone bad.
Yaborukhun
This is another colony, with Hiebs, at the spinward end of the Empire to strengthen Odonan presence in that region of space. The population is only 1300.
Yaja
Officially, the planet is named Yaja, and is the third planet in a system headed with a G6-class yellow-orange dwarf star. The people refer to the planet as "Colony One," even though it has achieved full member status in the Odonan Empire. Yaja was the first colony established by the Odonans after the Great War. The planet was originally class-M with an indigenous xenotype of lifeforms, but they had not evolved far before the Odonans replaced them with their own xenotype. This was the first of a planned series of colonies to replace planets lost in the Great War. A second planet in the system, Yordes, is undergoing terraforming and is expected to be a second fully class-M planet in the system. The current population is one and a quarter million, in small settlements scattered throughout the planet.
Zornst
Zornst is a new colony around a new starbase built to replace conventional fleet operations at Gisch, since Gisch itself has basically become a closed system even to most Odonans.
There are a number of planets with a signficant or slight Odonan presence that are outside the Odonan Empire. Two of these three worlds are unsanctioned colonies and generally not supported by the Empire, although if in distress, the Odonan space service ships will intervene.
Monjhor
This is a colony with about seven and a half million Odonans living on it, along with about a hundred thousand non-Odonans, that is intentionally outside of the control of the Odonan Empire. The planet maintains its own defense forces and fleet of ships, and does not recognize the Grand Council or the administration of the government of the Empire. There are, however, trade and travel connections. Odonans who do not wish to be part of the Odonan Empire, for whatever reason, often can find a home on Monjhor. The Federation has actively courted the Monjhorians to join their organization, but they refuse.
Toshia
This is a small colony intentionally kept in a backwards, primitive state. It is occupied mostly by survivor groups and their descendents from the lost planets across the stellar void. Their ultimate mission is to regain those planets, although their tasks are certainly difficult. This colony is unsanctioned since the system is located in space that might end up in Klingon control as part of the on-going negotiations attempting to establish a permanent peace between the two powers (negotiations that have been going on for seventy-five years, however).
Philenthropia
This is a Federation colony, but not a full member world because the population is divided about joining the Federation. The population is about a hundred million, and is one of the most racially diverse planets in the Known Galaxy. About eighteen million of these people are Odonan. The Odonan population has earned the right to send a member to the Grand Council, but according to the rules, this member is just an observer and cannot vote. However, the Odonans on Philenthropia have the right to name this planet as their home system. Humans at twenty million make up the largest group on Philenthropia, but fourty-two different races have at least ten thousand people living on this world. The various groups do not live in separate sections of the planet either, but mixed together in the small to medium-sized cities scattered over a planet devoted mostly to agriculture and mining. The main ecological problem on Philenthropia is that the Odonan botany is spreading at the expense of other floral xenotypes, including the native one. The inhabitants of the planet also cannot agree on the spelling of their planet. At various times, it has been called Phelinthropia and the second part of the name has alternatively been -trophia or even -throphia. The current fashion is "Philenthropia," but this could change.
In the Great War against the Klingons, the Odonans lost a number of planets to the invadors. In particular, they lost the section of their Empire that was antispinward from the stellar void at Eratosthenes (in other words, across this void from the bulk of the Empire). These planets (shown in red on the map) were the first ones invaded and captured, and as a result, most of the inhabitants were either killed or enslaved and very few got the chance to flee. Some of these worlds were significant, such as Matasee, which was the home planet to several of the Empire's most distinguished leaders before and during the war. Another was Paro, a major world that had the main civilian shipbuilding yards. The Paroian-inspired triple-hulled freighter ships are still used throughout the Empire. Rhoeoslad and Leyind were heavily-populated worlds so viciously attacked that their ecologies were destroyed and the planets no longer inhabitable. Several of the other planets, including Tyr and Wokins, were taken over by the Klingons, and their people settled on them. There is also Ambartsumia, which at the time of the Great War was a lightly-populated world that apparently capitulated with little struggle. Most of the population was enslaved, and remain enslaved to this day. The Klingons even genetically tampered with these Odonans to destroy their immunity to the overhimpenyon disease, thus making contact between the Ambartsumians and the rest of the Odonans impossible. The Klingons have closed Ambartsumia, and deny the existence of slaves, but an Ambartsumian survivor group who fled the planet has proof that the slaves exist and what their condition is.
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