( R E F E R E N C E ) O R I O N S

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P H Y S I O L O G Y

• all: verdant skin and blood ( ✖ ), physically more assuming than humans ( ✖ ), heart located low center of ribcage; varying skin, hair and lip colorations depending on region
  
• females: pheromones ( ✖ ), heightened sensitivity when aroused, extremely low chance of conception with disparate biologies
  
• males: typically bald ( ✖ )

C U L T U R E

• pantheon: one thousand gods ( ✚ )
  - sworn to (and with) but not worshiped
  - goddesses outnumber gods
  
• afterlife: nine hells ( ✚ )
  
• society: matriarchal ( ✖ ), blood class system ( ✚ ), males as second-class citizens ( ✖ )
  
• family: one mother + multiple fathers/husbands, males sold/given to labour
  
• language: sibilant quality, soft consonants ( ✚ )
  - regional dialects [yrevish, etc] ( ✚ )
  - high orion + low orion( ✚ )
  - trader's tongue + trader's script + trader's measure ( ✚ )
  
• privacy: continued personal contact with the federation means excommunication
  
• colonies: varying customs across colonies + planets, increased black market trade relative to distance from federation space + planets

M I R R O R V E R S E

• subjugated ( empire + alliance ) ( ✖ ), patriarchal ( ✚ )
  
• sub-caste: wild orions ( ✚ )
  - larger
  - more hirsute
  - less intelligent
  - uncommon
  - females sold as slave women
  - illegal genetic alterations ( normal to counterfeit wild )
  
• organisations: ( ✚ )
  - the orion cabal: 10% of all orions, q worshippers, high-caste assassins
  - the procurer's guild: responsible for the training, selling, and occasionally counterfeiting of wild orion slave women
  * regular culture section does not apply to mirrorverse
  * regular physiology section applies to mirrorverse with supplementary data

✖ ( canon: information from memory alpha )
✚ ( noncanon: information from memory beta )
unmarked ( personal canon/conclusions )

C A N O N

• the original series: the menagerie ( part 2 ), whom gods destroy
  
• the animated series: the pirates of orion
  
• enterprise: borderland, bound, in a mirror darkly ( part 2)

N O N C A N O N

• rpg guides
  - fasa: the orions: the book of common knowledge + the book of deep knowledge
  - decipher: aliens, worlds, mirror universe: through a glass darkly
  
• star trek novels
  - the original series: first frontier, prime directive
  - the next generation: survivors
  - deep space nine: wrath of the prophets
  - general: excelsior: forged in fire
  
• interview: star trek xi with roberto orci