The Zhodani of Zhdant are a technologically advanced Major Human Race with a humanoid appearance. The Zhodani inhabit the Zhodani Consulate, a sphere approximately 70 parsecs in radius about the world of Zhdant immediately to core-spinward of the Imperium, believed to include in excess of 80% of all racial Zhodani. Much of the remainder inhabits the Zhodani client states, although other sub-species of Humaniti are also to be found in the client states and the consulate.
The Zhodani are a discrete, though interfertile, sub-species of Humaniti, independently descended from human stock transplanted by the Ancients. In general, they tend to be taller than Solomani or Vilani, and lithe of build. Averaging 2.0 meters in height and massing upwards of 90 kilograms, they tend to be swarthy in complexion and dark-haired. The Zhodani gene pool is much less variegated than that of Terrans although thanks to the size of the Consulate and the intermixing of human gene pools, considerable variation exists in physical appearance.
