Zabrak

**Zabraks** (Terran Scientific Name: **Homo Sapiens Cornua**), also known as **Iridonians** when referring to those native to the homeworld, are a carnivorous Near-Human species native to the planet of Iridonia, a planet located in the Mid Rim known for its inhospitable terrain and fierce predatory life. Thusly, they are a species known for having a fierce sense of self-determination and an equally dominant need for independence.

This independence and self-determinate nature also resulted in a diverse but divided society, almost on par with the Terran pre-Imperium but often not nearly as prone to conflict and bloodshed, with Iridonia split between hundreds of independent city-states with only one Nationstate among them, and even then, it was a loose confederacy of various city-states still running their own internal affairs. Predictably, the Zabraks did not have a unified state governing its' policies when it started to explore space in force, spreading across the galaxy and colonizing numerous worlds, with the closest thing to a unified government the species had was the Iridonian Alliance, and even then it acted much more like the United Nations of old Terra then its' successor, the United Council of Nations. This division ultimately the reason why the region of space occupied by the species became dominated by the interest of the superpowers of the Terran species during the Era of Terran Dominance, fracturing the species into various factions, as a result, cumulating into the Zabrak Unification War near the end of this era that resulted in the victory of the Zabrak Unionist, who were aligned with the Je'daii led Alliance of Free Planets. Once the superpowers or forced back into Terran space, the Alliance dissolved and the Zabrak Unionist went about to create their unified government for the Zabrak people, creating the Feldroni Confederation. The Confederation was simply a Confederation, each planet handles its' own affairs largely independent of each other, the only things that the Confederal government had control over were foreign policies and trade. As a result, the planets in the Confederation still retain their own unique identities, including their own culture, language, and social norms. Once the Republic expand into the Mid-Rim, the Feldroni Confederation held a Confederation wide vote on rather or not the planets of the Confederation, that now numbers over 1560 systems, should join the Republic. The result of this vote favored joining the Republic enmass, with over 67% of the vote on each planet throughout the Confederation, becoming yet another species in the ever-growing species diversity of the Republic, and in time, becoming one of the more populus Near-Human species found in the Republic.

The Zabrak technically doesn't have a single unified language among them, even to this day, the Zabrak are still split between a myriad of languages across the homeworld and the colonies. However, the closest thing to 'common tongue' used by the Zabrak is Feldroni, the majority language found on Feldrona, the former capital of the Feldroni Confederation. But Feldroni is not a trade tongue, rather it was a language largely used in the day to day affairs of the Feldroni Confederation, be they government, military, or trade, predictably, it became common for the various planets of the Confederation to have its' citizens learn Feldroni largely for convenient sake. Even after the Confederation's dissolvement, Zabraks still learn the language along with Basic and their group's tongue, mistaken believed to be the Zabrak's language rather than just another of the thousands of languages the Zabraks speak.