Shedai Hegemony

Facts

• Full name: Shedai Hegemony
  • Presumptive as no official name stated, but referred to repeatedly by the Apostate as a hegemony
• Center of government: Jinoteur IV (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• Central government for the interstellar empire of the Shedai c.600,000 (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• Spanned the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, encompassing over ten thousand star systems (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
  • Total population numbered in the trillions (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• Officially resurrected January 2, 2266 upon reawakening of the members of the Colloquium by the Wanderer (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• Members known as the Serrataal (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)

Bordering territories

• Tkon Empire

History

• Established by the Shedai as interstellar union (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• Collapsed upon the Awakening (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
  • Inadvertant uplifting of the Kollotuul through influence of the Conduit (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
  • Revolt and revolution of Kollotuul leads to collapse of interstellar network (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)

Political Structure

• Led by the Maker (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
  • Most powerful of the Shedai
• Essentially a democratic body
  • Apostate served as leader of the minority, most often dissenting from the viewpoints of the Maker (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• Originally consensual interstellar union (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)