

A feudal society, there was continual strife between the families. ( Last Unicorn RPG module: All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook)Īccording to Elim Garak in 2385, early Cardassian society was dominated by very powerful families, which composed the supposed origins of the True Way. By the year 1670, the Cardassian race had developed warp drive technology. The Cardassian Union was officially declared as a single world government in the year 1591 with Urrent Gar becoming its first de facto ruler. ( New Worlds, New Civilizations short story: " The Glories of the Hebitians")īy the late 24th century, Elim Garak would look upon the pre-Cardassian Union time period as "dark ages." ( ST website: The Path to 2409)Ĭardassian Union From feudal society to a military state The artifacts and art at this site suggest that the first Hebitians were Bajoran, the later Hebitians being Cardassians influenced by Bajoran culture.


( DS9 novel: Avatar, Book One)Īlso that year, Dominion shelling of Cardassia opened the oldest known tomb of the Hebitian Age. This find interested Prylar Eivos Calan a great deal, as the material had previously been believed to have been exclusive to Cardassia and quantum dating of the artifact proved it predated the Hebitians. In 2376 a jevonite figure was discovered in city of B'hala on Bajor. ( TOS - Year Five - Experienced in Loss comic: " Issue 23") Not long after the destruction of Praxis however, the Union discovered the value of fascism and spread its influence to neighboring worlds within a decade of its discovery. ( Last Unicorn RPG module: All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook)Īccording to Gary Seven, the Cardassian Union was a peaceful religious plurality in the mid- 23rd century. In the year 1345, the Great Starvation begins on Cardassia and saw the end of the Second Hebitian Period. Disease killed millions and the survivors formed the militaristic and expansionist society known as the Cardassians. The Hebitian society eventually fell when Cardassia suffered catastrophic climate change, the rainforests and grasslands transformed into desert and scrubland. They were an advanced sophisticated culture on every level, they used solar technologies but also lived in harmony with nature, valuing the soil and living a sustainable self-sufficient life envied by the surrounding planets. The first civilization on Cardassia was that of the Hebitians. 7 Post-war recovery and allied occupation.2.1 From feudal society to a military state.
