Dvenark Throne

The Dennan Standard, flown beneath each Claim's flag

Dvenark is a middle power of the Silky Way Gap, formed several hundred years ago by the political union of several of the system prominent states. The aggressive and xenophobic union exercises considerable soft, economic, and military power over the remaining Ttekhesa system and local stellar neighborhood.

## The Fourteen Claims

The **Dvenark Throne** is the most powerful office that can be held in the entire Ttekhesa System, it is so influential that the whole state is named after the office. The office is obtained by climbing the precarious ladder, established by the uneasy relationships between the systems fourteen entities, named the **Fourteen Claims**. The Monarchy is comprised of two Races the **Faksaau** {known more widely as the **Forlerre** due to **nYaucto/Apyey** influence) comprising two-thirds of the population and the **Kakhette** (better known as the **Khackle**) making up a vast majority of the remaining population. Other Races are also present but are marginal because they neither represent more than a single percent of the population and also because the **Faksaau** and **Kakhette** are suspicious of all other races, alien or domestic and each other.

## The Dennan

The **Dennan** both the Faksaau and the Kakhette are massive insectoid creatures. Adult Kakhette usually weigh a minimum 400 kilograms while adult Faskaau mass at least 600 kilograms. Each have dimensions of nearly five meters in length and two in height, although the Forlerre are another meter longer if you include their extended grasping forearms.

The Kakhle have a pair of large pronounced eyes at the front of their head and a pair of large mandibles, akin to those of the Faskaau. They also have two large wings on their back usually covered by a large separable shell.

## Foreign Affairs

As a general rule the Dennan are suspicious of outsiders to say the least. This distrust has nearly culminated to the point of interstellar war on several cases in the last few decades alone.

The official Dennan embassies, hosted by other states, have the unusual status of being treated as less important than a consulate general representing the states ruling claim at the time. And the state Embassy almost exclusively plays an important role during the transitions of power between one claim and another.

## Election Process

When the current Monarch dies or abdicates a process to select a new leading **Claim** is held. Each **Claim** is allowed to select one individual, often a very tedious process in and of itself. For example one of the claims on **Sakau** hosts a three day long race which travels into a jungle, through a ravine, and up a mountain side where the first still eligible candidate (has all of their body parts for example) to ascend the peak is declared the winner and selected to compete for the Claim in the monarchial selection process. A fixed tournament sequence then narrows the number of Claims to two which compete to the death for the Throne (Often the reigning Claim and another claim receive a first round bye. If a Claim's candidate wins a match but still dies an eligible runner-up is selected to compete for the Claim in the next round.

Once a candidate ascends the Throne of Dvenark their Claim forms a significant part of the incoming government.

## Statistics

* Population: 600 Billion
* Energy: K1.1