Alaris

Alaris is an overcast, damp and mostly warm world. Metallic sulphides in the native plant life give Alaris vegetation a striking red tinge, though clouds constantly obscure the surface from space.

Alaris was a former Orion world that was later controlled by the Klingons. In the late 23rd century, a small number of Orions lived on Alaris (only 30.8%) but the cumulative toxicity of the environment slowly weakened them. The Klingons imported other, more durable servitors, while they themselves immigrated in large numbers, until they became the dominant race.

The world was a valuable source of rare drugs and exotic, expensive foodstuffs. A Klingon Imperior Transporteer had offices here with the exclusive task of shipping food and pharmaceuticals for the Emperor's household's own use.

Starfleet Intelligence tried for years to help the Orions of Alaris throw off the Klingon yoke, but they were too few and too weak and in no shape to revolt. It paid well for cargoes of drugs and food from Alaris, though opportunistic traders were warned that the Klingon world was legally off-limits to Federation traders. If a ship ran into trouble there, the Federation could send no help of any kind.

Alaris had a technological/socio-political index of 999794-75 and a planetary trade profile of BDEBCDF/C(D). It has a total surface area of 764,537,960 square kilometers and, with 50% land mass, a total land area of 382,268,980 square kilometers. About 37% of its makeup is normal metals, 8% is radioactive elements, and 12% is gemstones, with trace amounts of industrial crystals and other special minerals. It has a warm temperate climate, a thick class M atmosphere and a 17 hour-long day.