Skagaran colony
The Skagaran colony was site of a failed colony established on a planet located in the Delphic Expanse by the 
Skagarans during Earth's 1860s.

History
To help facilitate the construction of the colony, the Skagarans kidnapped a Human settlement, originally located in the western United States of America, and transported them to the planet aboard their starship to work as slaves. The Humans taken were purposely chosen as they lived in America's rocky desert regions, and the Skagarans reasoned that they would be the best adapted to the new planet's identical environment. 

After a violent uprising led by Cooper Smith, the Skagarans were overthrown and the Humans emerged as the dominant species. With all of their technology purposely destroyed by the Humans so it could not be used to enslave them again, the stranded Skagaran survivors, and by proxy, their descendants, had no choice but to adapt to the Humans' way of life.

By the 2150s, the planet had a population of six thousand Humans and less than one thousand Skagarans. There were several settlements, spread over an area of a few hundred kilometers near the edge of a mountain range. Humans and Skagarans mostly separated, one of the Skagaran encampments being Skag town, whereas a mainly Human town was North Star. The region south of North Star was mainly used for raising bluehorns, with the land there not suitable for much else.

Having not developed beyond the mid-19th century American culture of the Humans' ancestors over the past three centuries, the planet had a justice system incorporating juries, and practiced the death penalty by hanging. Skagarans were treated differently under the law, for example killing a man was considered a hanging offense for a Skagaran, whether it was in self-defense or not. Lynchings also occurred on the planet.

The planet was visited by  in 2153, during the Xindi incident. ()

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Colonies
Delphic Expanse