Rend Collective Senate

The Rend Collective Senate, also referred to as the Rend Senate, Collective Congress, was the legislative and executive branch of the Rend Collective Triumvirate that was located on Shikaakwa. Its primary duties were to mediate any disputes between star systems, worlds and cultures, to regulate trade between systems, to protect and care for citizens in need and to provide mutual defense in face of threats to the Triumvirate.

History
The Rend Collective Senate was a place where all the Triumvirates elected and appointed senators and representatives from the farthest reaches of the galaxy would discuss major problems and come to decisions. The Galactic Constitution invested the Senate with the power to regulate trade, maintain maps of the galaxy's hyperspace routes, and to maintain the Triumvirates military. One of the privileges a Triumvirate Chancellor still possessed was his or her ability to call an Extraordinary Session. The senate only allowed representatives or members voted in by the populace of the planet they where representing which reduced the amount of weak and greedy senate members present in the Triumvirate. The Senate was composed of seated Senators with full rights of address, and unseated Senators, who had to petition for such rights. That made the Senate viable but bred corruption since unseated Senators traded most of their votes.

Organization
The Senate was led by the Triumvirate Chancellor, elected by a vote of the Senate from amongst its delegates. He had little real authority over the Senate other than prerogative to call for a special session and could be removed by a vote of no confidence. The Vice Chair, also elected and removed by the Senate, wielded far more power being empowered to open, close and moderate debate on each motion, which allowed him to control agenda within the Senate.

The Rend Collective Senate was made up of a various number congressmen, senators  and representatives, representing sectors, systems, individual planets, or even Corporations or Guilds. Some were elected directly, while others were appointed by a planet's ruler (or even were the planet's ruler). Diplomats, religious figures, local political leaders, and other prominent people could also address the Senate as part of a senatorial delegation.