One element I haven’t really seen utilised in post canon Cardassia stories is extreme climate change. Like, if we’re supposing a lot of dust got kicked up in the air and blocked out the sun (even if not totally), well that’s a recipe for cooling–mass plant and animal die offs, ice ages. If we’re supposing that with all the fires from the Dominion bombardment, a lot of carbon, methane, etc got released into the air, then things might heat up, and sudden and more powerful weather would become more common. Does Cardassia have an ozone to protect them from radiation? Disruption to that would fuck things up. The specifics are anyone’s game but ultimately, Cardassia’s weather is probably going to be pretty fucked for a while.
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