Solar system of Taygeta

Elena Danaan's diagram of the Taygeta ("Ashaara") system in A Gift From The Stars (2020), naming its planets Erra, T'mar, Alkhorat and Dakoorat.

The solar system of Taygeta (also known as 19 Tauri to human astronomers) is a purported planetary system of the star Taygeta in the Pleiades open cluster, described as home to four inhabited worlds settled by Lyran-origin colonists following the Great Expansion. The system's star has a binary companion — Sadicleya (19 Tauri B), a white dwarf — whose pale blue light functions biologically for the system's four planets as the Moon does for Earth. Elena Danaan describes the system as containing ten planets of which four are inhabited and names its local designation as "Ashaara." Darryl James, who claims 17 years of service with the Solar Warden program working alongside Taygetan crews, stated that "there were two worlds in the Solar system that they inhabited" — Erra and Temmer — while noting that other worlds in the system exist at non-physical density levels.

Settlement

A small group of Lyrian refugees arrived at Taygeta after approximately 300 years of flight from the Orion aggressors following the fall of Lyra. Swaruu of Erra described the four-planet configuration directly in a 2019 Cosmic Agency video: "Four planets, three M type and one P type planet" — with Dak (Dakote) being the P-type cold planet furthest from the star, and Procyon being "controversial" because its name resembles the unrelated star. That planet — Temmer — became the first Taygetan settlement; from there, the colonists (now calling themselves Taygetans) expanded to the three remaining planets. See Ahel for the full history of the Lyrian-origin settlers.

Inhabited worlds

Temmer

Temmer is a near-Earth-size planet with over 90% of its surface covered in ocean and no large land masses — only islands scattered across the globe. Gravity is 0.8 g and the average temperature is approximately 30°C; the climate is stable and major storms are rare. The largest island, Toleka, contains contrasting landscapes from tropical beaches to snow-covered central mountain peaks. The planetary capital, Toleka City, was founded at the delta of the Toleka River on Toleka island's eastern shore; its coastline is characterized by large quartz crystal outcrops and cliffs that refract sunlight into color displays at dawn. Toleka City has an extensive above-ground magnetic rail network, wireless zero-point electricity generation, and anti-gravity personal vehicles.

Erra

Erra is covered in dense woodland over nearly its entire surface, with innumerable mountain ranges reaching permanent snow at their peaks. Unlike Temmer, Erra has no large oceans — three small seas, none larger than the Mediterranean — but thousands of lakes, rivers and creeks. The ecological model on Erra, as on Temmer, is predominantly symbiotic, with few predators. In spring, photoluminescent plants and animals illuminate Erra's forests at night under the pale blue light of Sadicleya. Erra's highly elliptical orbit produces extreme planetary seasons — winters reaching −80°C at the poles — which affect the entire planet simultaneously rather than by hemisphere.

Procyon

The third planet — whose name has no connection to the star Procyon — is the largest of the four and characterized by hot humid jungle, gravity of 1.2 g, and numerous dangerous indigenous species. It is largely left to its own natural processes.

Dakote

The outermost planet, Dakote, is a permanently frozen tundra world with gravity of 0.7 g and an average temperature of −40°C. It functions as a military base, housing underground fighter-ship installations and long-range sensor arrays guarding the system's outer perimeter; it is also used as a high-security detention facility.

A Gift From The Stars account (the "Ashaari")

In Elena Danaan's A Gift From The Stars the Taygeta system is called Ashaara - "the bright daughter of wisdom," the "wisdom" being the preserved knowledge of the Man (Lyran) cultures. Danaan's account likewise gives the system ten young planets, of which the Man colonists terraformed three and populated four; the four inhabited worlds and their peoples (the "Ashaari"), named on her diagram from the inner orbit outward, are Erra, T'mar (Temer), Alkhorat and Dakoorat - corresponding to the four worlds described above (Temmer, Erra, Procyon and Dakote) under differing source-naming.

The second planet, Erra - "the shrine of knowledge" - is, in Danaan's telling, her own people's homeworld and the place where "the physical archives and records of the whole Man civilization are preserved." It is settled by the Errahel ("Ahil of Erra"), the fair-skinned, blue-eyed, blond Ahel colony originally from the planet Maya in the Man system - a deeply spiritual people devoted to the arts. The arks that settled the Pleiades carried three of the four original Lyran racial groups - Ahel, Noor and Taal - and the colonists named the cluster "Manahai," "the daughters of the Mother," casting its stars as seeds of Man's original world, Mana.

Taygetan society: sex ratio and warrior caste

Darryl James, a U.S. Navy veteran who claims 17 years of service alongside Taygetan crews aboard a Solar Warden starship, described Taygetan social structure as shaped by sustained inter-civilizational conflict with reptilian species. He observed a 30-to-1 female-to-male ratio, which he attributed to biological regulation: Taygetans control their reproductive cycle in ways Earth women cannot, including choosing the sex of offspring. Regular Taygetan males produce predominantly female offspring; the warrior caste — a separate, more militarized social class — produce exclusively male sons. Warrior caste males are distinguished by discipline, technical body augmentation, and a strong father-son authority structure: boys enter formal warrior training at puberty requiring parental permission for major decisions. The warrior caste were described as more relatable to Earth military personnel in culture and humor. All of Taygetan society is governed by a strong feminine leadership in spiritual and religious roles, with priestesses presiding over ceremonial marriages of the warrior caste.

James further noted that the Taygetan Solar Warden mothership he was assigned to as pilot was a four-kilometer-long starship resembling the vessels from Battlestar Galactica in profile — dark haze-grey with buttress structures on the sides for propulsion. Though constructed from Earth-equivalent titanium materials, its propulsion and other core systems used Taygetan technology. His executive officer Robert, who was fifth-density Taygetan, confirmed to him that Billy Meier's accounts of Taygetan (Pleiadian) contact — including the visual appearance of the bean-shaped shuttle craft he was initially transported in — were accurate.

Language

The Taygetan people of the Ashaara system share a single language across all four inhabited planets, with only minor localisms insufficient to constitute distinct dialects. Other Pleiadian races speak different languages: the Cleo race (from Alcyone) speak Celeste, and also a secondary language called Elo — noted by Swaruu of Erra for its etymological connection to the name "Elohim."

Interstellar relations

Among the Pleiadian races, the Taygetans maintain the closest relations with the Antarians (also called "Ags"), whose civilization is described as "very exotic and rich." Both cultures are physically similar enough to socialize freely; however, biological incompatibility prevents reproduction between the two species. Taygetan exploration teams — described as the "explorer race" — venture to uncharted planetary systems using dedicated exo-archaeological ships, though these missions — reminiscent of the ecological and geological diversity documented across the system — carry a high fatality rate: "many ships never return as they encounter the unknown."

See also

• Galactic Federation of Worlds
• Thor Han Eredyon

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