Hoku, as individual/culture
Expanse, as interstellar collective
THIS ARTICLE IS A STUMP | Last updated January 15th 2026
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COLLECTIVE SUMMARY
The Hoku Expanse flag
First contact with the Dominion in 17,198 CE (2548 AdF), Muhori System.
Joined the Dominion in 17,203 CE (2553 AdF) as an aligned neutral power.
Origin
The binary star system Paza (86, -34, 76), ~120ly from Argost, 77.6ly from Forzai.
Strong preference for Earth-like oceanic worlds with a warm climate, capable of living in a wide range of environments with aid of technology.
Description
Around 5 to 7ft tall bipeds with mammalian-bird-reptile traces, weighing between 60 and 120kg. Possess long conical faces, two pairs of eyes with a smaller and larger pair positioned further on front and back, respectively on the sides of the head, with rectangular-ish vertical pupils. Have three pairs of long ear-like appendages used for emotional communication and hearing on the back quarter of the head. Mostly covered by a fur-like plumage in various earthy colors plus white, black and red. Their hands have two thumbs on the same side of the hand, making them excellent grabbers and complex manipulators.
Besides their exotic upper body, their main feature are their running short-shinned digitigrade legs with zygodactyl feet (bird legs and feet), which has earned them the chelok species-tag, “Avipodan”. Their customs and small point teeth point to a mostly insectivorous but omnivorous diet. The hoku can be found across a spectrum of two sub-species, the base emotional hoku (Avipoda sapiens cer), and the calculating ingenious kahikoopafi (Avipoda sapiens sidus), the latter which was engineered for early space colonization, now the majority of its surviving population.
Spacetravel
Hoku technology across space can be found at various states of development despite efforts to modernize its fleet and arsenal. Interstellar vessels range from lightsails, ionic and proton rockets, up to the latest proprietary A-M/AM drivers. The hoku are one of the oldest client species to Chelok tech since around 15,780 CE (2400 years!). Typical travel speed between γ~1.025 and γ~6.5 depending on available proprietary transports.
Relations
Officially neutral to foreign powers. Non-territorial, pseudo-eusocial, curious. Fragmented, can be volatile/reckless or calculating/apathetic/psychopatic as individuals, variable degree of xenophobia.
Fleet size numbering the hundreds of thousands.
Population currently estimated at least 6 to 8 billion across the Dominion, could be closer to ~10bi as of 18,200 CE.
No other civilizational goals than reorganizing, power for hire.
Mixed relationships to everyone else, often very friendly to Chelok.
Negligible degree of historical interference.
OTHER LINKS
The Hoku Expanse (domain)
The Paza System (homesystem)
Hokushoku (homeworld)
The Fall of Hokushoku (short story)
History Overview (worldbuilding)
Hukat Mythos (worldbuilding)
