Hagoshan

The Hagoshan is the name given to the typical autocratic rulership structure of the Goshawnar. Rulership of Lodshar is critical to possessing legitimacy enough to rule the Goshawnar as a whole.

Tribal Stucture
There are two key levels of community recongised by the Goshawnar - the "flight" of three-to-five families who work and live together, and the "tribe" of many flights, akin to a village or town. Tribes can vary wildly in size, with some of the larger tribes exercising very considerable political power.

The Old Ways
While most Goshawnar tribes are relatively opening and pluralistic, there are a number of tribes that hew to "old ways". These are the most aggressive and reckless of the population. In order to keep these under control, the Hagoshan will almost always funnel them into the United Lodshar Fleet, while taking great care to hold the logistics reins. The benefit, of course, is to give them a population largely inured to crew losses. The more mixed blessing is that it gave them crews largely inured to crew losses as well.

The Capital
The great megalopolis of Rha Lodkahn is the seat of power for the Goshawnar, a sprawling city of high spindly towers and great arcs of glass and metal. The government building is the Lodkahn Apex, the highest point in the city, serviced by constant flights of shuttles.

Around the city are a variety of ground-to-orbit defences, plus shields powered by banks of fusion reactors. The Goshawnar wish to take no chances that a temporary loss of control of the fleet could end their rule.

Cardassian Intervention
For all of their scheming, eventually the Goshawnar were gazumped by the Cardassian Obsidian Order, who supported and then placed upon the throne a puppet named Atsh Edhjo. This autocrat seized power and has held it against all comers with Cardassian aid. The resulting gratitude has greatly benefited the Detapa Council.