Ona

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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)

Locations

Surface

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)

Protist