The Huvidu-Zaan Stellar Collective

NATION INFORMATION

Nation Name:
The Huvudi-Zaan Stellar Collective    
Government Type:
Neural Network Administration
Head of State:
Overseer Tarxis the Patient
Head of Government:
The Greater Zaan Collective.
Population:
About:
94,230,000,000 total
-81,980,100,000 Huvidu-Zaan
-9,423,000,000 Humans
-2,826,900,000 Misc. Other races, mostly uplifted species brought into the SC

Home/Capital Planet:
Huvidu

Home/Capital Planet System (if applicable):
Huv System, Zaanian Nebula
Majority Species:
Huvidu-Zaan (87%)
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PRIME ASSEMBLY

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List Prime Assembly Representative:
Deputy Overseer Leevan Starstrider
List Prime Assembly Representative:
Planetary Councilor Barlk the Gilded


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The Race

Huvidu-Zaan rose on a watery world in the outer rim of their galaxy, far from the rise and fall of stellar empires. Sometime a million years before the rise of the Huvidu-Zaan Stellar Collective, some sort of disaster ended up reducing these powers to remnants along the edges of the galaxy, with new races slowly taking up the mantle as they reached for the stars. It was from their homeworld of Huv that this species arose, and eventually the individual known as Varla Karlenian. Largely free of large predators, the planet would to most be considered a paradise. It is largely covered in water with only archipelagos forming the landmass of the world, leading most life to be oceanic or amphibious in nature.

A Huvidu-Zaan is a composite being, made up of a mammalian host body (termed the Huv), and a fungal symbiote(the Zaan). Separately, both are moderately intelligent, though not sapient organisms. Together though, their intelligences commingle and create a singular sapient individual. This is partially a result of countless years of evolution on their watery homeworld, and the fact their physiologies have become so closely linked that they even share a reproductive cycle, each Huv born with a Zaan already growing and spreading through its host. It’s a symbiotic relationship, the two uniting into one individual. Huv are strong and long lived hosts (Many last into two centuries of life going by Solar years), and Zaan dexterous and protective of their bodies. A Zaan’s tendril may be severed by the core is housed within the brain of a Huv. Indeed, the Huvidu-Zaan never even realized they were born of the union of two organisms until they reached their industrial age and began unlocking the secrets of their homeworld Huv.

Huv are strong, fast, and resilient by themselves, and long lived. Their exposure to Zaan created a longer lifespan and nursed their intelligence to bloom. They do the manual labor of the Huvidu-Zaan, the fungal tendrils not strong enough to lift the heavy things required for industry and logistics. Since they are the more mortal part of the body, most of the intelligence ends up being housed in the Zaan as they age, as well.

Zaan can, however, outlive their hosts. As the Huv body begins to decay and wither the consciousness slowly is transferred entirely to the Zaan. The downside of course is that they lose their mobility and strength. The Huvidu-Zaan have taken to using these leftover fungal tissues to construct biotic computers and systems which they can interface with directly. Most Huvid-Zaan colonies have a large mass of central Zaan working as one unit (usually with a single dominant personality), acting as colonial administrators. Huvidu-Zaan colonies as a result are usually named after the Zaan running the systems of the colony, for example Baldarak’s Freehold in the Wyltshyr system.


Government

Government in the nation is handled by a council selected by the Greater Zaan Collective, a biotic computer created by the Zaans left after the mammalian part dies. They're connected together to create a sort of supercomputer made of the collective minds of millions of the highest in HZ society. Great thinkers, scientists, and leaders who are given the honor of continuing to run the state after their 'death'. The Union Council is made up of what the Zaan collective decides are the leaders; scientifically, politically, militarily, and philosophically; of their species at the time, and usually the appointment is for life. The size of the council varies with time as well, though it never exceeds fifty members. At its head is the Overseer and his Deputy, the singular leader and his heir. 

The Overseer's role is mostly military, and administrative. Giving out orders for the fleets to follow and deciding what projects should be pursued. The Greater Zaan Collective does most day to day governance and running their space. With the invention of subspace connections of the HZ communication networks, the Collectives of their species were united across every planet, with even the most distant colonies able to make their voice heard through it. As such they're ruled through the decisions of the eldest of their race, as many of them as they can muster. Most of these Zaan networks administrate the planets they're located on, however, with the GZC dealing with the matters of state.

Most matters that involve foreign policy and things the GZC has no experience in falls to the Council however, and the Overseer. As such most governance is in the hands of the collective rather than the individuals running the nation, who do most of the politicking and deal with issues that need rapid responses, such as the military. Zaan collectives think slowly, and is similar to millions of HZ debating and arguing all the time. Living HZ are able to tap into these networks to communicate with them and over them however. 

The state doesn't have any sort of voting outside of the Zaan collectives, and most of the race bows to the wisdom of their ancients and ancestors in Zaan form. What is best for the Collective is more important, after all.

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