XI
Current intellectual establishments, ancient or modern, by pay and charter of the civilised planet nations have oft pursued an scholarly fascination with the numbers of their species who exist within the boundaries of the galaxy, but no single enterprise of scholarly endeavour concerned with the place of the species in the galaxy has proved to be as extensive, as funded, as popular and ground-breaking as the most recent census, known as the “Houxiahtrix.” Though it was permitted by simple peculiar interest of a single technocrat of the 12,255th Supreme Hyinoan Imperial Synod, Meisius Erkokai, it proved to become the definitive hallmark of rigorous, interstellar academia of the modern era.
Under the direction of the Imperial Seat, 1029 years before the fall of Primalarity, it was convoked in full by the Zuinama dynasty, and with such esteemed and absolute recommendation, soon gained the vested interest and support of the entire Hyinoan academic world.
Conducted under the auspices of those savant Hyinoans, and in communion, good-will and inter-planetary cooperation, found the number of the species to have reached at least (rounded to the nearest giant integer); One Hundred and Thirty Five Quadrillion /135,000,000,000,000,000/ individuals who inhabit the galaxy.
This number is, aside from several minor planet-scale anomalies, (the accurate number of which is still disputed, 40,000 years later) evenly dispersed over a consensually accepted number of 355 million worlds, 10 million orbitals, 9 million world rings, 4 million geologized starships, and 1 hundred thousand small to large dyson and Anderson spheres The census, itself now an aged agency, has become the primary record of all nations of the galaxy in matter of demographics, ecographics and the record of the number of civilians.