Chelok, as individual (neutral vulgar, nonfaction specific)
No single collective term
No single collective term
THIS ARTICLE IS A STUMP | Last updated May 28th 2026
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COLLECTIVE SUMMARY
The Kal'rev dynasty instituted a simple, yet unique flag design for its empire.
It can only be reproduced by a human.
Known history extends only as far back to ~7600 CE (7,000 BdF).
Joined the Dominion in 14,650 CE (0 AdF) as original signatary (coalition).
Origin
The oldest known origin point is the brighter star of the Udun system (98, 67, 28) — called Samash, about 122ly from Argost. Its sun-like pair is the star Adat in a wide binary configuration.
While overall a mystery to Dominion scholars - as chelok only share their DNA with another handful of satellite domesticated species - they are often referred to their oldest known settlement within the boundaries of the Dominion, the planet Dhégom, in the Udun system. An oceanic terrestrial world with a large moon, inhabited by them since 5000 CE.
The chelok sphere of influence is a collection of worlds and governments known as the Pancalestia, or Pankal - often reduced to 'Chelok Empire' by less informed foreigners. Since 15,700 CE, the Pancalestia has held its largest extension ever (27 worlds with population greater than 1 million inhabitants, 12 over 100 million, 3 over four billion), but power seems diluted into a stagnant core against the many powerful human houses across the human sphere. Tensions are awkward at best. The Pankal is technically reigned by the Veroh Emperor, an appointed political and religious figure, but most of the Pankal's interstellar nations are only loosely aligned with the imperial authority - which claims unity of all chelok across the Dominion.
Chelok legend speaks of a mythical place that is the true place of origin of mankind, Soleil and its paradise world, Arde — but those are sacred names, so they're commonly referred to as The Cradle by the Nastiche faith - the most common faith amongst them and prominent part of their culture.
Description
It's humans. They are baseline humans.
Given the mostly 'puritan' nature of cultures regarding any degree of body modification and transhumanism in the modern world - most human lineages can be traced to a historical bottleneck which took place between 4000 and 5000 CE, roughly matching the oldest date estimates for the early settlement of Dhégom and a few other worlds in the region. An older lineage is marked by two types of colorblindness, tritanopia and deuteranopia, which seem closely related to an even earlier period of human evolution between 2000 and 4000 CE - those who possess it form a combined 15% of the population - attributed to an intriguing artificial selective pressure.
Known prominent factions include the Pancalestia, the Goll Unity, the Ar-Rahhalam Ithnajmyu (ARI or Voyager’s Guild, in common), the Nastiche Church, and the various minor interstellar nations across space.
Spacetravel
Variable degree of mobility, Chelok technology is all over the place. Common methods of travel range from proton rockets to hybrid fusion / A-M/AM drivers. Typical human scout-ships and freighters travel between γ~4 and γ~6, however rumors speak of some ancient starships capable of γ~10 speeds.
Relations
Officially neutral to foreign powers. Non-territorial, pseudo-eusocial, curious. Fragmented, volatile, reckless as individuals, variable degree of xenophobia.
Fleet size numbering the hundreds of thousands.
Population estimated at 18 to 25 billion within the Dominion, maybe totalling to 30-40 billion if accounting for lost colonies beyond the Dominion.
No civilizational goals, power for hire.
Mixed relationships to everyone else, just ask instead of assuming.
Unknowable degree of historical interference.
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