Ona

Facts

• Primary: Rashanar
• Also known as: Ontail (TNG Novel: A Time to Be Born)
• Class L (TNG Novel: A Time to Be Born)
• Inhabitants: Ontailian
• Nation
  • Mid-2373 - 2378 - : Federation (TNG Novel: A Time to Be Born, A Time to Die)
• Relatively low gravity (TNG Novel: A Time to Be Born, A Time to Die)
• Located within Rashanar Sector, approximately 1ly from site of Battle of Rashanar (TNG Novel: A Time to Be Born, A Time to Die)

History

• Mid-2360s: First contact with Federation (TNG Novel: A Time to Be Born)
• Mid-2373: Joined Federation (TNG Novel: A Time to Be Born)
  • Joined due to start of Dominion War, due to position near front lines (TNG Novel: A Time to Be Born)

Indigenous Life

Animal

• Six-legged animal (TNG Novel: A Time to Die)
  • About the size of a buffalo (TNG Novel: A Time to Die)
  • Tusked (TNG Novel: A Time to Die)
  • Back plated, spined (TNG Novel: A Time to Die)

Plant

• Massive fir trees (TNG Novel: A Time to Die)
  • Reaching heights of up to 200m (TNG Novel: A Time to Die)
    • "At least twice as high" as the tallest sequoias by text
  • Purple needles (TNG Novel: A Time to Die)
  • Center of construction for Ontailian villages (TNG Novel: A Time to Die)