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Bonus Question (Courtesy of @ignova): What role does the rumour mill play in your story?

In a galactic level or local.
Local people don't give much of a crap about it in a galactic level there are planets that do not have the abilities to communicate outside their systems or even with other planets. On this worlds facts are often less precise and people need to figure stuff out themself which often leads to widespread misinformation and such stuff.
The Union does its best to prevent auch isolated bubbles and tries to break them up as soon a species is capable of Interstellar/interplanetary travel.

The Eltaryn are sadly more mysts than fact despite being fought back regularly.

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587. How much does your SC value communication in their relationships and / or friendships? Are they prone to being misunderstood?

A lot.
In the Union open, honest & straight communication is the key. Little is "spoken through the flowers" (German Saying for a polite metaphor). All 6 core species had to learn this which was especially hard for the Asza'ni. Aszal their most native language is a language that in its style is more like a song or poem. It leans heavily on connotation & picture plus the right scent. A sentence like "feiend look a moon rise" would translate word for word into "my hunting mate feast your eyes upon the beautiful children of our benevolent forelders." And depending on the meaning the right amount of enzymes to create the right scent for the meaning. Aszatrell is the basic standardized combined language of the Asza'ni & the Trellwa'ni who don't communicate via scents.

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2/2 kinda complicated in terms of politics "inside" the Rim.
For our average citizens the 6 days are a flurry of colors, it's a quite fast celebration that, on a street levels would look a lot like a themed costume festival in which every day has another topic.
On bigger worlds the cities are filled with market stands that praise their foods & jewelry, music, fabrics, crafts, arts.
Students get a vacation to join the celebration. Parades take place. Every day focused on one core member of the Union. Especially dedicated people even speak the standard language of that days member, or at least try it. Some associated member worlds also started celebrating this by adding their own culture to it, which makes the inofficial festival even more of a flurry, now ~13 days long. The celebration isn't set on a date, but it is rolled around & sometimes dependent on the planet that holds the main celebration.

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