OverPack

The OverPack is the generally accepted name for the Akumahebi society. Takamagaharan scientists and authorities have a very limited knowledge of the Akumahebi society, and much of the information on them is gained from Zainichi Kuans. While it was initially believed that the Akumahebi were either a hive mind or otherwise had a highly advanced civilisation yet to be discovered, it has been revealed that the Akumahebi actually do not have a formal nation, by human or even other sentient races' standards. Instead, they have constructed a unique civilisation based around animalistic pack structures and violent competition.

Despite being highly intelligent and advanced in biotechnology, apparently the Akumahebi never developed the idea of a government or nation. Instead, Akumahebi society is structured in fluid, competing packs led by the strongest individual. Akumahebi society is cannibalistic, and pack members regularly attack and consume each other to advance in the social structure or attain mates. At the same time, packs continuously attack each other for supremacy in a global community termed the "OverPack", of which there is no known leader or coherent leadership. In such a wild and chaotic environment their biotechnological advancement was able to proceed at a startling rate, though the species as a whole is not known to have invented basic non-organic technologies like guns or mechanical vehicles.

The OverPack manages to work as lessers work to develop the pack to avoid being consumed by superiors, and the superiors work to avoid being replaced, until they inevitably are in a never-ending cycle. It is questionable what the long-term goals of the OverPack are, though it has been suggested that the Akumahebi view their conflicts with other species as a massive pack war, with the instinctive aim to become the superior species in the galaxy. The OverPack is the only non-Human race in Alliance space that has no affiliation with any side. All factions have little contact with the OverPack beyond its Kongōsho swarms.