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Antica is the sixth planet in the Beta Renner System, located in the Alpha Quadrant. It is a cold world known for its snow-bound forests and is one of two planets in the Beta Renner system to host intelligent life. Its native intelligent species, the canine humanoid Anticans, fought constantly with their neighbors the Selay for generations until Federation negotiators helped end the war. Federation commercial interests value Antica for its native timber resources.
Climate
Antica occupies an orbit farther out from Renner than Selay, so its climate is colder. Permafrost covers much of its sub-arctic bands, as well as its polar regions. Typical daytime temperatures exceed freezing only during the spring and summer in Antica's tropical band, and only during the summer in its sub-tropical bands. Turbulent snowstorms lash the sub-arctic bands, and sometimes they dip south to torment the tropics and sub-tropics as well. In spite of its hostile climate, Antica boasts a diverse collection of native flora and fauna, most of which have heavy coats of fur.
Geography
Antica's landmass is divided into eight large continents, two of which are completely covered by north and south polar ice, respectively. The remaining six are heavily forested, although as you get closer to the equator you are more likely to find broad, flat plains. All of Antica's agricultural activity takes place in these equatorial regions.
Places of Interest
The capital of the Antican government varies from generation to generation, as each new Maximum Pack Leader holds court in his own regional base of power. This means, inevitably, that the seat of power is an improvised affair, with the physical infrastructure needed to support a planetary government flung up in a hurry, or on top of the remnants of a past administration. This usually means a period of administrative inefficiency at the beginning of a Maximum Pack Leader's reign, as his underlings scramble to assemble the infrastructure of government.
The forests that blanket the northern and southern sub-arctic and sub-tropical bands are noteworthy because of the sestap trees that flourish there. Almost all species of sestap are valuable for their hardwood, which is both aromatic and exceptionally dense and durable. These properties make them valuable for construction, as well as furniture and other consumer items (goods made out of sestap wood costs 30% more than similar items made of ordinary hardwood). Entrepreneurs and traders began to visit Antica shortly after it joined the Federation. Dealing with regional Pack Leaders and their followers who controlled the sestap forests can be difficult, even dangerous if you get on their bad side, but by the mid-24th century sestap logging was widespread enough so that depletion of the forests became a legitimate environmental concern.
Reference(s)
- Burns, Eric, Kenneth A. Hite & Doug Sun. Star Trek Roleplaying Game Book 7: Worlds, Decipher, 2005. ISBN: 1582369097.