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Cardassia Prime

The formal name of the Cardassian homeworld—although natives often informally dropped the “Prime.”^[1] Its capital city was awash with giant and continuous state-controlled messages extolling self-sacrifice, order, and subservience to the government—with a characteristic emphasis on the family and children. The central prison was located on the planet.^[2] An ancient Bajoran solar sailor’s crash site on the planet was kept secret out of pride until Commander Sisko and Jake’s historic trip recreating the accomplishment in in 2371.^[3] Cardassia Prime was one of dozens of worlds devastated economically with the old order’s collapse and the subsequent Klingon invasion a few months later.^[4]