The Roving

The Roving is an M-class planet, the homeworld of the First Breed and of the Rover. It is located in the Alpha Quadrant, in the Lupus Minor System. It has three moons, one of which is L-class. It is the largest terrestrial planet in its system.

The planet used to by ruled by the Rover, but upon their extinction it was left to the First Breed.

Environment
The Roving is similar in climate to the Earth, though it is on average about five degrees Kelvin colder than Terra is. The gravitational field strength of the Roving is 13.403 m/s^2. The First Breed have always called their sun The Sun, but it is called Lupus Minor by other species, as a reference to the First Breed appearance. Lupus Minor is an M3V type Main Sequence Star, with a mass of about 0.3 solar masses, meaning it is classed as a Red Dwarf star. It rotates more slowly than most M-type stars, which helps to prevent the changes in luminosity that make it difficult for life to evolve around other M-type stars. The Roving's semi-major axis is 35,000,000 km and its orbital eccentricity is 0.005465. This puts it in the outer third of the habitable zone of its star, and far enough away not to be tidally locked. Its terrain is widely varied, from mountain ranges to lowlying plains hundreds of kilometres wide. The atmosphere consists of 64% nitrogen, 18% oxygen, 17% Argon and 1% trace elements including water vapour and carbon dioxide. The air pressure at sea level is 83 KPa; Earth's is 101KPa. Only 45% of the Roving's surface is water, as opposed to 70% on Earth.

The Roving has less natural plant and animal diversity than other M-class worlds due to ecological damage, though technically invasive plants and animals have assimilated well into the environment.

Early History
Roughly three million years ago, a species of quadrupedal creatures which had evolved grasping appendages to pluck fruit from high trees began to use these appendages to create and use simple tools. Over the next few million years they evolved into several branches of sentient, intelligent creature of which only one remained by one hundred thousand years ago. These creatures would eventually call themselves the Rover. They developed language around a hundred and fifty thousand years ago, and developed the ability to tell stories, and by extension make plans and construct large organisations, thirty thousand years ago.

They reached the agricultural stage of their development four thousand years ago, and quickly advanced, by the seventeenth century launching their first space probes. In the mid nineteenth century their genetic engineering was advanced enough to take members of their closest evolutionary cousins, and create the First Breed, a species closely resembling the Rover who had been uplifted for service as slaves.

Early interstellar interaction
In 1923 by the human calendar, a sublight interstellar space probe reached the closest system to Lupus Minor. In 1925, the Rover received the telemetry. The other similar probes sent out at the same time confirmed their conclusions; the galaxy was a place at war.

In fact, while the Lupus Minor system was between two warring factions who had developed warp travel in the past couple of decades, this era was one of unusual galactic peace.

The Rover did not know this, however. They saw a warring galaxy which they did not wish to join, and so stopped their space programs.

Decline and extinction of the Rover
Over the next few centuries, the resources of The Roving began to run out. Wars broke out over the scarce resources, culminating in that the same technology used to create the First Breed was used as a biological weapon of war, tuned to harm the Rover only. But the disease spread more than expected; instead of being a weapon of assassination against a hostile leader, it became a civilisation-ending plague. Those the plague did not kill it made sterile. 160 years is a long time for a race to die of old age.

The Roving under the First Breed
When the final One Who Commanded died, the two hundred and thirty million First Breed held debates to decide what to do now. After seven months they concluded they now owned themselves, and within weeks they had restarted the warp program; they wanted to expand beyond the Roving even if that meant expanding into a warzone.

Instead of a hostile empire, they were greeted by the United Federation of Planets in 2334. As part of the diplomatic process that all hope will lead to the Roving joining the Federation, two prides of First Breed have joined Starfleet. Because of their nature as a pack animal, it is rare for fewer than a dozen of these to be assigned to any ship or facility(though this is no longer always true; a few of the First Breed have been assigned alone, such as Iron Forge Emphatic Coerce Third Lake Northern Islands).