Homeworld:

Cardassia Prime

Goverment:

Cardassian Union

Legislature:

- Detapa Council
- Central Command & Obsidian Order

Leader:

Legate

Military:

Central Command

Intelligence Service:

Obsidian Order

Judiciary:

- Ministry of Justice
- Supreme Tribunal

Society:

- Complete loyalty & servitude to the State & family was expected of all
- Enjoyed debate & conversation in general
- Females would color the ridge on their forehead & some rungs on their neck ridges, blue

Miscellaneous:

- Trial verdicts were always determined beforehand; typically, always guilty
- The military often tortured their prisoners

Highlights:

- 19th Century: The Cardassian Union & Obsidian Order are formed
- Their civilization fell into decay from a lack of natural resources;
- The military took control, began stealing other’s natural resources
- 2328-2369: Occupied Bajor, strip-minded the planet, forced Bajorans into labor camps
- 2347-2350s: waged war against the Federation
- 2370: The treaty with the Federation is signed, a Demilitarized Zone is established
- 2371: the Order planned a joint strike with the Tal Shiar against the founders;
- The attack failed due to a Changeling infiltrator, effectively ending the Obsidian Order
- Also in 2371, Legate Turrel negotiate the Bajoran-Cardassian Treaty
- 2372: Dissident movement overthrew the Central Command
- 2373: Gul Dukat leads his people to become a full Dominion member
- 2375: Cardassians rebel against the Dominion, 800 million Cardassians are killed
- Despite the devastation inflicted by the Dominion, the Cardassian people survived
- By 2384, they were considered a Federaton ally