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)
- Those expelled lose their epithet, are known as the Nameless (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)

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)

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)