Zhurite Alignment
Once slaves and pets to the Akhaale, the Zhurite are a hivemind of lithoids that have survived the demise of their masters. Enlightened in the mysteries of the beyond, they now seek their own place among the stars.
Structure
The Zhurite are a true hivemind. That is, they do not follow trope of a single mind controlling its individual units as a master. Rather, the Zhurite 'hive' consists countless Drones and Nodes all working in unison, communicating via an expression of the Holzmaan Effect. As such, it can be decoupled and descyned should significant distance form between parts of the network. To combat this, the Zhurite make use of large "Node" forms that it uses as broadcast towers.
History
The exact origins of the Zhurite are lost to history, from what it has learned from acquired records, the Akhaale theorized the Zhurite actually originated from a moon of Zhuur, that an older civilization destroyed, scattering its remnants across the planet.
Regardless of origins, the Zhurite’s oldest memories is that of a sort of slave or play thing of the Akhaale colonists. Though originally coming for the planet’s resources, the semi-sapient Zhurite was a curiosity of the natives. Still, despite the abuse doled out by its Akhaale masters, the Zhurite learned and expanded its cognitive capabilities in ways it would not have done otherwise.
One day, the conflict between the Akhaale reached Zhuur. The planet was thoroughly bombarded from orbit, and biological weapons were unleashed to kill anything that had somehow survived. The Zhurite burrowed deep into the planet to avoid the purging fire, their lithoid forms being immune to the carbon-aimed biological weaponry.
Still, the Zhurite was pushed to the brink of extinction, taking thousands of years to venture once more to the surface. There, it slowly rebuilt its network, encountering other splinter networks that fought for a time, before synchronizing their frequencies and becoming one.
Overtime, the unified Zhurite spread across the ravaged surface of Zhuur, before turning its interest to the beyond, the place it's cruel Akhaale masters had come from, but in thousands of years, had never returned.
Reaching out into the void, it discovered the wreckage of the planet’s defense forces. Though most of it was ancient slag, the Zhurite would uncover an intact Hyperspace Core amidst the twisted shell of a Starliner.
Government System
Hive-mind
Location
Controlled Territories
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