Hoku (vulgar neutral, nonfaction specific)
Azapaxako Hoku (The Hoku Expanse, by themselves)
THIS ARTICLE IS A STUMP | Last updated June 20th 2026
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COLLECTIVE SUMMARY
The Hoku Expanse flag, the lotus and their seven member worlds
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, 78ly 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.
Known Major Colonies as of 3350 AdF -
- Sideshoku
- Voliloshoku
- Muhori
- Dekushashoku
- Qekohoshoku
Description
Around 5 to 7ft tall bipeds with mammalian-bird-reptile traces, weighing between 60 and 120kg, known viviparous with joeys as their young. 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.
Hallmark trait of Hoku is their vibrant sexual dimorphism - with males exhibiting redder skin, vibrant often brazen or golden neck plumage and varied bright feather patterns - and females exhibiting lighter skin with muted feather colors ranging from browns to bluish grays, with some sparingly orange, blue or green plumage.
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. Cybernetic augmentation is common place but deemed largely optional and cultural.
Hoku languages like Hukat, Sidessian and Entselari are common for Pankal humans to adopt as a second language due their vicinity and long trade history.
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 Pionic 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, politico-social clan-based society, curious. Fragmented, can be volatile/reckless or calculating/apathetic/psychopathic as individuals, variable degree of xenophobia.
Fleet size numbering the hundreds of thousands.
Population currently estimated at least 50 to 60 billion across the Dominion, could be a lot closer to ~80bi as of 18,000 CE due census imprecision.
No other civilizational goals than reorganizing, power for hire.
Faction-dependent loyalties, historically unanimously friendly towards Chelok and negative towards the Arrene.
OTHER LINKS
The Hoku Expanse (domain)
The Paza System (homesystem)
Hokushoku (homeworld)
Hukat Mythos (worldbuilding)
The Fall of Hokushoku (short story)
History Overview (worldbuilding)
