What's Quo'noS like?

[Whirligig Girl]

In terms of it's surface gravity, atmosphere pressure, and size? I have some pretty neat plans if I can get a good answer. Also, if anyone has some kind of canonical map of Quon'oS that'd also be great. Really really great.

Quo'noS = Klingon homeworld in Star Trek.

I'm really not entirely certain if it should go here or the Space Lounge, we'll see how this thread evolves and if it needs to be moved a mod will surely do so.

Edited January 28, 2015 by GregroxMun

[Bill Phil]

Probably very similar to Earth. I mean VERY similar...

[KerBlam]

The world orbited an orange bright sub-giant (Type K1 IV) star and possessed two moons: Corvix and Praxis, the latter of which became remnants that circled the planet after it exploded in 2293. The planet itself possessed a single landmass that comprised the entire habitable surface. The terrain consisted primarily of high, rocky mountains, jagged cliffs, and rivers of lava, which were the result of unstable tectonics. A greenhouse effect caused by the volcanic ash kept the planet's surface warm and trapped its oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. The interaction of cold air over the ocean and extremely hot air over the continents gave rise to sizable storms; with no land on the planet's far side to halt their growth, hurricanes the size of Earth's North America formed over the sea and slammed into the land like a sledgehammer. Visitors to Qo'noS found it difficult to move around in the high gravity (1.23G) and thick atmosphere causing fatigue among those who visited the planet.

[Norpo]

I haven't found any specifics, but the Memory Alpha page says "The planet was described as being only marginally larger than Earth." It also says "The planet has a single large land mass, and the planet is dominated by a vast ocean. The tilt of the planet's axis has created wild seasonal changes and the atmosphere should appear turbulent and showing extremes of both warm and frigid weather on the planet."

Also, is this with Praxis, or without Praxis? In the alternate reality (JJ abrams movies), it was a moon destroyed by over-mining, and the debris poisoned Qo'Nos' atmosphere (according to Memory Alpha)

It is a class M planet, which, according to Memory Alpha: "The atmosphere on these worlds was Earth normal. The atmosphere, as measured in milibars, might be slightly less or slightly more."

From this we can discern:

• in at least one reality, at one time, it had a natural satellite, and it was the only one it had
  
• it's marginally larger than earth, has an ocean, and an atmosphere similar to earths.
  
• it is a planet of extremes, with warm and frigid tempetures, thus life may have to adapt to match
  

Hope this helps!

[Newt]

Praxis' destruction occurred in both Abrams and Prime, earlier in Abrams' Universe (Sulu's coffee spilled when the shockwave hit the Excelsior).

The atmosphere changes color: from green, to grey-green, to cyan in the new films.

From The Next Generation. Looking at the Abrams image, we should have been able to see Praxis in TNG, but we did not.

From Enterprise

From the 2013 Film, with Praxis.

Thus the views from space suggest that either it changes regularly with seasons or something of that sort, that it is not one single planet, or that the cameras are somewhat odd. I am hesitant to place much stock in views from the surface as descriptors of the planet as a whole, as if some alien landed in the Atacama desert, they would pretty well not know the Earth overall. Gravity, overall, and atmosphere, appear consistent in magnitude to those of Earth, however. The atmosphere is also far more turbulent that elsewhen, but may be the result of seasonal variation. You could make a similar, but strained argument for coloration.

As far as the single continent hypothesis, I know only of non-cannon references to support it. The Worlds of the Federation, for example, describes it as being nearly one landmass with small shallow seas, this is of course inconsistent with large hurricanes, and possibly with canonical image references. The book also describes it as being substantially larger than the Earth, and being in a binary star system. Star Trek Star Charts also disagrees, stating that it is a single K type star.

As for specific locations on the planet, it had, or has some volcanic activity, as referred to in certain Kahless legends. It has water, which was visited, plains which were referred to, mountains visible, rivers, and various other thing, though details are lacking for all specific surface positions.

The same confusion abounds in the Vulcan system, where attempts at reconstructions of the system try to accommodate inconsistent images and verbal descriptions, the planet may have lakes, moons, multiple stars, et cetera.

[KerbMav]

I have some pretty neat plans if I can get a good answer.

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[Tommygun]

So Quon'oS isn't a sandwich shop?

Anyways, does this help any:

[Whirligig Girl]

So Quon'oS isn't a sandwich shop?

Anyways, does this help any:

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj133/tomweave/Misc/QonoS_grande.jpg

Almost. I wish it were a cylinder map. I'll have to reconstruct it manually.

From that map it appears that there are glaciers which stick around for more than just seasonally. (As maps that include Iceland will include ice and snow, but not maps of Canada or Northern US) This implies that Quo'noS is colder than Earth is currently. It's oceans are probably more salty to explain the lack of ice caps.

I found this concept art that I really like, and assuming city lights are on the coastline, it kinda matches the continent on that map.

I'm going to assume a higher atmospheric pressure, 1.2 atm. Gravity of 1.23 gees, and two large Moons, a small one in low orbit (as shown in the above picture) called CorviX, and another in a Quonosyncronous orbit, probably broken up, called PraxiS.(The two are tidally locked) They have to be tidally locked, because they're so close to each other. The orbital mechanics probably don't work properly, but it doesn't have to in a patched conics approximation. I've said too much already.

In the image, it also appears to have at least on more moon, which I'm going to retcon into a gas planet in orbit of the star, which I've found has two names: K'lai Klinzhai and K'thar. I'm going to assume that these are not indicative of a binary star, but instead are like the difference between Sun and Sol.

Edited January 28, 2015 by GregroxMun