Hapes Consortium
Basic Information
The Hapes Consortium is a matriarchal consortium monarchy of the near-human Hapans in the Hapes Cluster.
Hapans were the descendants of the Lorell Raiders, a group of pirates who had found routes through the Transitory Mists and used the Hapes Cluster as their base. The Lorell Raiders, along with any other treasure they would plunder, would abduct beautiful Human women from all over the Galaxy and bring them back to Hapes. The women would stay on Hapes and raise their children. The Lorell Raiders would take boys and make the raids only to return to Hapes to rest. Around 4050 BBY, however, the mostly male Lorell Raiders were devastated by the Jedi when they ventured out into Galactic Republic space. Hapes was forgotten, and the women left behind took control and vowed that a man will never rule them again. They formed the Hapan society, with a Queen Mother at its head
The Consortium often closed its borders to the rest of the galaxy and relied on the protection of the Transitory Mists to keep them in isolation. The debate to open borders is a long-standing source of strife among the people of Hapes. A recent civil war divided the people but in the end, the loyalists won against the isolationists and Hapes officially lent its support to The Silver Jedi Concord. The faction is now seeking to take its place in the larger galaxy under the leadership of their honored Queen Mother.