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| location = [[Beta Quadrant]]
| capital = New Arcadia
| head of state = Lord President Monarch of Dhar'hyyk
| head of government = Lord President of Dhar'hyyk
| legislature = Parliament of Dhar’hyyk
| intelligence service = Dhar'hyyk Special Intelligence Service
| language = English
| currency = Dhar'hyyk CreditPound
}}
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===Early History===
Colonised sometime in the late 21st- or early 22nd -Century by low-warp Sleeper Ships launched by the British Commonwealth Space Agency with representatives from Earth’s United Kingdom, Canada and Australia the planet became a prime site for archaeological study following the discovery of the ruins of an ancient undersea civilisation. Archaeologists came from all over the Empire to study what appeared to be highly advanced aquatic mammals only to find themselves stranded as particles in the air clogged their primitive Impulse Engines and rendered them useless. Unable to return home, the settlers disassembled the majority of their ships and used their parts to begin to rebuild and repair some of the ancient cities that still floated on the planet’s calm oceans.
Contact with the universe outside of the neighbouring systems was sparse in the first two centuries of Dhar’hyyk’s Human colonisation. Occasionally a Federation probe would enter the system and then exit, largely ignored by the planet’s growing population. As more was learned about the ancient civilisation that had occupied the planet centuries before the Human expedition had landed, the colonists began to build newer, better cities and develop a new type of propulsion unit that would allow craft to safely travel through Dhar’hyyk’s skies and enter low orbit. These advances in technology also saw the beginning of Dhar’hyyk’s colonial and military expansion, with a colony being established on the planet’s first moon and a large military shipyard and base being constructed on the second.
Since colonisation, the colonists of different backgrounds have mixed and dispersed – giving many inhabitants a distinctive accent. Some cities, however, remain almost totally inhabited by descendants of the same nationality and have done for decades – such is the case in the aptly-named New Vancouver. Inhabitants in these areas retain a similar accent to those their ancestors would have had.
The inhabitants of Dhar'hyyk take great pride in their heritage; the planet retains a Royal Family descended from the Terran House of Windsor who act as the public face of the government yet has no real executive power beyond approving appointments to Orders of Chivalry. Commonwealth Day is still celebrated every year, and the planetary flag is a modification of the British Union Flag, replacing the blue backing with black.
The inhabitants of Dhar’hyyk are wary of outsiders and treat them with a certain amount of distrust or in extreme cases hostility; especially those from Federation worlds or Starfleet vessels. However once an individual or group has shown they can be trusted or have something of value to offer, they are usually embraced as if long-lost friends or family.
