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Janus VI Mining colony.
The Janus VI colony was a Federation mining establishment on the planet Janus VI.
The colony was established in the 2210s to tap into the high amounts of pergium found on the planet, but also uranium, cerium, platinum, gold, and other rare ores. As Janus is not a Class M planet, the colony relied on life support systems to stay operational, which were powered by a PXK pergium reactor. The resources on Janus were so great that it was capable of supplying the mineral requirements of thousands of planets, but because of the difficulty of mining on the planet it was "only" possible to supply a dozen.
In 2267 the operation (administrated by chief engineer Vanderberg at that point) became threatened shortly after the automatic machinery opened up level 23, rich in pergium. Automatic machinery began to disintegrate, piece by piece. The metal was dissolved by an unknown corrosive agent. When a maintenance engineer attempted to make repairs, he was found seared to death by the same acid. Over the next three months, over fifty colonists were killed by the mysterious creature; only Ed Appel saw the creature and lived. Posting guards did no good; five of them were also killed (including Schmitter), and the creature's killings moved higher and higher. Production was shut down, and the planets depending on Janus VI were forced to close down their reactors.
On stardate 3196.1, the USS Enterprise arrived in answer to a distress signal from the colony. Commander Spock was able to deduce that the mysterious creature was actually a silicon-based lifeform, previously thought impossible, hence the reason it went undetected by sensors. When the lifeform stole the main circulating pump of the reactor, threatening the existence of the colony, finding the creature became imperative. Fortunately, Captain James T. Kirk succeeded in doing so, and Spock mind-melded with it, realizing it was a sentient being of a race called the Horta. The reason it had been attacking the colony was because in entering level 23, the miners had inadvertently entered the Chamber of the Ages and destroyed some of the eggs there – eggs to which this particular Horta was mother.
Kirk and Spock were able to negotiate an agreement between the miners and the Horta. The Horta agreed to return the the reactor pump, and the colonists to no longer harm the eggs. The Horta also began to assist the colonists in their mining operation, using their natural tunneling skills to locate and create access to rich deposits of minerals. As the Enterprise departed the colony, newborn Horta had already lead them to rich deposits of pergium, platinum, and gold. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark").
Pergium.
Pergium is a radioactive element that was used by thousands of worlds as a source of energy. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark").
History.
Pergium was used for power in 23rd century nuclear reactors such as the PXK. One key source of pergium for the United Federation of Planets was the planet Janus VI, where, in 2267, it was mined by a Federation colony in conjunction with the Horta. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
There were several pergium mines in operation in the Sappora system in the 24th century. One was owned by Yanas Tigan on New Sydney and one by the Ferengi on Timor II. The Orion Syndicate was also working its way into the industry in 2375. (DS9: "Prodigal Daughter")
Pergium was considered a rare commodity in some areas of the Delta Quadrant. In 2373, the crew of the USS Voyager attempted to acquire pergium from Bahrat's trading station near the Nekrit Expanse, to regenerate the filters of their environmental control systems. Neelix's friend Wixiban helped to procure twenty of the forty-five kilograms they needed. (VOY: "Fair Trade").
PXK pergium reactor.
A PXK pergium reactor was a nuclear energy source used in the 23rd century. In 2267, it was used in the Janus VI pergium mining colony to power all of the life support systems there.
In that year, the silicon-based lifeform known as a "Horta" stole the main circulating pump from the Janus VI reactor, an action which would cause the reactor to go supercritical. Captain Kirk asked Scotty if they had any replacement parts on board the Enterprise, but Scotty responded that the reactor had been out-of-date for roughly 20 years, forcing him to construct a makeshift replacement pump.
Eventually, Spock was able to make contact with the Horta via mind meld, and the Horta agreed to return the circulating pump. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark").
Silicon-based lifeform.
A silicon-based lifeform is a corporeal lifeform that uses silicon as the basis of its structure and life functions rather than carbon. Silicon-based lifeforms generally do not evolve on M class planets. (ENT: "Observer Effect")
In 2151, Captain Jonathan Archer of Enterprise NX-01 tried to convince Commander Charles Tucker III that Starfleet had sent them to a planet to meet with a silicon-based lifeform, when Tucker was hallucinating "people coming out of the rock face." (ENT: "Strange New World")
Silicon-based life was thought to be physiologically impossible before the discovery of the Horta of Janus VI in 2267. It is not possible for silicon life to evolve in an oxygen atmosphere. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
In 2269, the USS Enterprise encountered Yarnek, a representative of the Excalbians, a shapeshifting silicon-based species native to the planet Excalbia, described as being "almost mineral" and "like living rock with heavy fore-claws." (TOS: "The Savage Curtain").
In 2336, the Omicron Theta colony was destroyed by the Crystalline Entity. (TNG: "Datalore", "Silicon Avatar").
In 2364, the USS Enterprise-D discovered the microbrain, an inorganic lifeform found during terraforming of the planet Velara III.
In 2374, a Hirogen hunter boasted to Tom Paris about tracking a silicon-based lifeform through the neutronium mantle of a collapsed star. (VOY: "Prey").
Horta.
Not to be confused with the Vorta, one of the members of the Dominion.
The Horta was a silicon-based lifeform from Janus VI. It was composed of a material similar to fibrous asbestos.
Horta physiology was very different from the carbon-based norm more commonly found in the galaxy. Horta were difficult to detect with tricorders, and were invulnerable to type 1 phasers, though they could be injured with an adjusted type 2 phaser. They fed on rock, and thus they were nourished just by tunneling. Horta tunneled through rock like most humanoids walked through air, moving with the aid of an extremely corrosive acid. They left perfectly round tunnels in their wake. This acid was so corrosive that it only left fragments of bone and teeth if used on a Human. Although Hortas did not evolve in an oxygen environment, they seemed able to exist in it for extended periods of time.
The Horta species possessed (as compared to carbon-based lifeforms) an unusually long life span. Every fifty thousand years, all of the Horta died out except for one, the so-called mother Horta, who then watched the eggs until they hatched, and mothered and protected them. Horta eggs were spherical in shape, and they seemed to mostly consist of silicon, aside from a few trace elements. They were stored in the Vault of Tomorrow in the Chamber of the Ages.
It was in the midst of one of these temporary phases of extinction that the Federation colonized Janus VI in the 2210s. The mother Horta tolerated the Federation presence up until the miners established a new, lower level in 2267, where they first encountered Horta eggs. Thinking them nothing more than balls of useless silicon, the miners' automated equipment destroyed thousands of them. The mother Horta defended her children by carrying out actions of sabotage and murder against the Janus VI colony.
It was only when Commander Spock of the USS Enterprise mind-melded with the mother Horta that he was able to determine that the Horta was actually an intelligent lifeform. In fact, before the discovery of the Horta, silicon-based life had been thought a fantasy by Federation scientists.
The mother Horta reached an accord with the miners, who were distressed at the destruction they had caused. The miners would leave the Horta young alone on the lower levels once they began hatching, while the Horta would use their abilities to locate and construct access passages to choice mineral deposits for the miners. Just as the Enterprise departed the planet, the first baby Horta hatched and began tunneling rapidly. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
Information about the Horta was displayed by a computer, as an okudagram graphic, in Keiko O'Brien's schoolroom on Deep Space 9. (DS9: "A Man Alone", "The Nagus").
Memorable quotes.
"NO KILL I"
- Horta Mother
"I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!"
- Dr. McCoy
The Janus VI colony was a Federation mining establishment on the planet Janus VI.
The colony was established in the 2210s to tap into the high amounts of pergium found on the planet, but also uranium, cerium, platinum, gold, and other rare ores. As Janus is not a Class M planet, the colony relied on life support systems to stay operational, which were powered by a PXK pergium reactor. The resources on Janus were so great that it was capable of supplying the mineral requirements of thousands of planets, but because of the difficulty of mining on the planet it was "only" possible to supply a dozen.
In 2267 the operation (administrated by chief engineer Vanderberg at that point) became threatened shortly after the automatic machinery opened up level 23, rich in pergium. Automatic machinery began to disintegrate, piece by piece. The metal was dissolved by an unknown corrosive agent. When a maintenance engineer attempted to make repairs, he was found seared to death by the same acid. Over the next three months, over fifty colonists were killed by the mysterious creature; only Ed Appel saw the creature and lived. Posting guards did no good; five of them were also killed (including Schmitter), and the creature's killings moved higher and higher. Production was shut down, and the planets depending on Janus VI were forced to close down their reactors.
On stardate 3196.1, the USS Enterprise arrived in answer to a distress signal from the colony. Commander Spock was able to deduce that the mysterious creature was actually a silicon-based lifeform, previously thought impossible, hence the reason it went undetected by sensors. When the lifeform stole the main circulating pump of the reactor, threatening the existence of the colony, finding the creature became imperative. Fortunately, Captain James T. Kirk succeeded in doing so, and Spock mind-melded with it, realizing it was a sentient being of a race called the Horta. The reason it had been attacking the colony was because in entering level 23, the miners had inadvertently entered the Chamber of the Ages and destroyed some of the eggs there – eggs to which this particular Horta was mother.
Kirk and Spock were able to negotiate an agreement between the miners and the Horta. The Horta agreed to return the the reactor pump, and the colonists to no longer harm the eggs. The Horta also began to assist the colonists in their mining operation, using their natural tunneling skills to locate and create access to rich deposits of minerals. As the Enterprise departed the colony, newborn Horta had already lead them to rich deposits of pergium, platinum, and gold. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark").
Pergium.
Pergium is a radioactive element that was used by thousands of worlds as a source of energy. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark").
History.
Pergium was used for power in 23rd century nuclear reactors such as the PXK. One key source of pergium for the United Federation of Planets was the planet Janus VI, where, in 2267, it was mined by a Federation colony in conjunction with the Horta. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
There were several pergium mines in operation in the Sappora system in the 24th century. One was owned by Yanas Tigan on New Sydney and one by the Ferengi on Timor II. The Orion Syndicate was also working its way into the industry in 2375. (DS9: "Prodigal Daughter")
Pergium was considered a rare commodity in some areas of the Delta Quadrant. In 2373, the crew of the USS Voyager attempted to acquire pergium from Bahrat's trading station near the Nekrit Expanse, to regenerate the filters of their environmental control systems. Neelix's friend Wixiban helped to procure twenty of the forty-five kilograms they needed. (VOY: "Fair Trade").
PXK pergium reactor.
A PXK pergium reactor was a nuclear energy source used in the 23rd century. In 2267, it was used in the Janus VI pergium mining colony to power all of the life support systems there.
In that year, the silicon-based lifeform known as a "Horta" stole the main circulating pump from the Janus VI reactor, an action which would cause the reactor to go supercritical. Captain Kirk asked Scotty if they had any replacement parts on board the Enterprise, but Scotty responded that the reactor had been out-of-date for roughly 20 years, forcing him to construct a makeshift replacement pump.
Eventually, Spock was able to make contact with the Horta via mind meld, and the Horta agreed to return the circulating pump. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark").
Silicon-based lifeform.
A silicon-based lifeform is a corporeal lifeform that uses silicon as the basis of its structure and life functions rather than carbon. Silicon-based lifeforms generally do not evolve on M class planets. (ENT: "Observer Effect")
In 2151, Captain Jonathan Archer of Enterprise NX-01 tried to convince Commander Charles Tucker III that Starfleet had sent them to a planet to meet with a silicon-based lifeform, when Tucker was hallucinating "people coming out of the rock face." (ENT: "Strange New World")
Silicon-based life was thought to be physiologically impossible before the discovery of the Horta of Janus VI in 2267. It is not possible for silicon life to evolve in an oxygen atmosphere. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
In 2269, the USS Enterprise encountered Yarnek, a representative of the Excalbians, a shapeshifting silicon-based species native to the planet Excalbia, described as being "almost mineral" and "like living rock with heavy fore-claws." (TOS: "The Savage Curtain").
In 2336, the Omicron Theta colony was destroyed by the Crystalline Entity. (TNG: "Datalore", "Silicon Avatar").
In 2364, the USS Enterprise-D discovered the microbrain, an inorganic lifeform found during terraforming of the planet Velara III.
In 2374, a Hirogen hunter boasted to Tom Paris about tracking a silicon-based lifeform through the neutronium mantle of a collapsed star. (VOY: "Prey").
Horta.
Not to be confused with the Vorta, one of the members of the Dominion.
The Horta was a silicon-based lifeform from Janus VI. It was composed of a material similar to fibrous asbestos.
Horta physiology was very different from the carbon-based norm more commonly found in the galaxy. Horta were difficult to detect with tricorders, and were invulnerable to type 1 phasers, though they could be injured with an adjusted type 2 phaser. They fed on rock, and thus they were nourished just by tunneling. Horta tunneled through rock like most humanoids walked through air, moving with the aid of an extremely corrosive acid. They left perfectly round tunnels in their wake. This acid was so corrosive that it only left fragments of bone and teeth if used on a Human. Although Hortas did not evolve in an oxygen environment, they seemed able to exist in it for extended periods of time.
The Horta species possessed (as compared to carbon-based lifeforms) an unusually long life span. Every fifty thousand years, all of the Horta died out except for one, the so-called mother Horta, who then watched the eggs until they hatched, and mothered and protected them. Horta eggs were spherical in shape, and they seemed to mostly consist of silicon, aside from a few trace elements. They were stored in the Vault of Tomorrow in the Chamber of the Ages.
It was in the midst of one of these temporary phases of extinction that the Federation colonized Janus VI in the 2210s. The mother Horta tolerated the Federation presence up until the miners established a new, lower level in 2267, where they first encountered Horta eggs. Thinking them nothing more than balls of useless silicon, the miners' automated equipment destroyed thousands of them. The mother Horta defended her children by carrying out actions of sabotage and murder against the Janus VI colony.
It was only when Commander Spock of the USS Enterprise mind-melded with the mother Horta that he was able to determine that the Horta was actually an intelligent lifeform. In fact, before the discovery of the Horta, silicon-based life had been thought a fantasy by Federation scientists.
The mother Horta reached an accord with the miners, who were distressed at the destruction they had caused. The miners would leave the Horta young alone on the lower levels once they began hatching, while the Horta would use their abilities to locate and construct access passages to choice mineral deposits for the miners. Just as the Enterprise departed the planet, the first baby Horta hatched and began tunneling rapidly. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
Information about the Horta was displayed by a computer, as an okudagram graphic, in Keiko O'Brien's schoolroom on Deep Space 9. (DS9: "A Man Alone", "The Nagus").
Memorable quotes.
"NO KILL I"
- Horta Mother
"I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!"
- Dr. McCoy
