Maktanan

The Maktanan are a neo-sapient species of the Unified Council of Systems.

Description
The Maktana are small, hairy herbivores with small wide-set eyes, two legs, two arms, a tail, and plant chewing teeth. They are curious and intelligent, able to learn tasks proficiently, and largely calm on a species scale.

Culture
The Maktanan enjoy celebrations as well as ironic and juxtapositional comedy.

They have yet to undergo genetic "gentling" by the Lanaktallans.

History
The Maktanan evolved to the point of creating the radio, heard the signals from a nearby system, and talked back to that planet.

Thirty years later they had been conquered by the Unified Council and for the last hundred they have been neo-sapient wards of the Unified Neo-Sapient's Council.

They had resisted heavily, everything from passive resistance, where they just did not comply often laying about their houses, all the way to propaganda against the Lanaktallan. They had not engaged in violence, but they were still considered a difficult race in need of gentling by the Unified Council.

The Unified Council had another neo-sapient race, the Carikan, whose planet had suddenly started suffering destabilization and the entire race needed to be moved, the Council decided to relocate this species to the Maktanan homeworld. The Carikan were happy to be moved and oddly enough, got along with the Maktanan, their senses of humor matching well. The two species were still being intermingled when the current System Most High had arrived.

The Lanaktallan System Most High, Governor Mana'aktoo, is highly regarded by the xenospecies who live in the system under his governorship the civilian infrastructure is the highest yet seen in a Lanaktallan controlled system, the citizens highly educated (for their standards) eagerly support Mana'aktoo's stewardship.

The system is now wealthy enough that very few are born into poverty or debt, even the lowliest neo-sapient can get themselves out of debt within only a year or two.

In the sixteen months following Mana'aktoo surrendering the system, immediately without reservation, to TCSF Task Force 43 (Anvil), under the leadership of Admiral Keith Iktakiki Schmidt, the TCSF have built extensive repair and refit ship yards in the system.

Home System
Artcarik-482 (designated Nantaver-837 by the Terran Confederacy), a planet in the Neo-Sapient, or Outer Rim Boundary Systems. Three asteroid belts, rich and thick with elements, three super gas giants and two standard gas giants, filled with rare and important gasses, and eight solid worlds, three of which are inhabitable, full of easily extractable minerals.

The population is sixty percent Maktanan, 30 percent Carikan, eight point nine six percent Lanaktallan and one percent other xeno-species from the neo-sapient species.

Notable Members
Shonvlin -  the Maktanan leader