Category:Homeworlds

The term "Homeworld" refers to the planet, stellar location or habitate from which a certain species originates. It does not have to be the site where a species evolved, but where the cultural and social origin of the certain species lies, as is the case with the Romulans, who actually evolved on the planet Vulcan but moved to their current homeworld Romulus generations ago, or Colonials, who are one species but have lived on their twelve worlds long enough to become cultural identified with them.

Homeworlds tend also to be the capital planet of interstellar states. A homeworld does not have to be the planet which the species evolved on, the term can also be applied to adoptive homes such as Humanity, the location of their ancestral homeworld has been lost in time when they migrated to the Milky Way. Avalon, Lantea, Charum Hakkor, Erde-Tyrene (Kobol and later Hiigara), Earth and the Twelve Colonies have each been successively considered the homeword to Humanity.

In some cases more than one intelligent species originates from the same planet. An examples of this was Xindus, home to six extant Xindi species of sentient beings