Kataan

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Kataan is a formerly-inhabited planet in the Kataan star system. This system is located within the Silarian sector.

Now a dead world, it was home to a humanoid culture until the late 14th century. After suffering through a protracted drought due to increased solar radiation, all life on the planet became extinct.


At the time of its demise, the culture of Kataan appeared to be on the cusp of post-industrial evolution. There was no strong evidence of heavy manufacturing, and the lifestyle of its citizens more closely
resembled a pre-industrial agrarian society. This planet and its people were sufficiently evolved enough to create interstellar probes, but could not yet send people into space.

Kataan surface
Ressikan town square
Launch of Kataan probe


Foods

Typical foods consumed by the natives were soups and vegetable stew.

Water had to be rationed as less and less was available.


Government

Councils, led by council leaders, made decisions regarding the fate of their communities.

  • An administrator was responsible for several communities.
  • The government was structured in a participatory manner, in which all citizens had a say.


Culture

A typical greeting on the planet was "Happy day"; a standard phrase when leaving was "Go carefully".
When a child was born, a naming ceremony took place shortly after birth. Many people on Kataan were interested in astronomy, art, botany, mathematics, and many other things.

Houses were arranged around open spaces and town squares where sparse vegetation was growing. Every house, window, and door was decorated with Kataan writing.


Final Years

The people of the Ressik community, located in the northern province, realized that their sun was about to go nova.

The death of the planet was predicted by scientists in the government, but hidden from the population at large.
They launched a probe containing a memory record of their civilization and a musical instrument, the Ressikan flute, native to their culture.

This probe later encountered Jean-Luc Picard and transferred its memory record to him.