Equality Cages 117 - Equality Chaos: Our First Galaxy Variant Sudoku

Today's Puzzle:

Continuing gUBBLOR's excellent series with a collaboration with Isamook. Today's variant fusion is Chaos Construction, or 'Galaxy' variants. An incredible fusion of the two if a difficult one with a 3* difficulty rating for this exceptional puzzle.

Link to Play Along:

Equality Cages 117: Equality Chaos by gUBBLOR & Isamook https://tinyurl.com/SudokuSleuthEqualityCages117

Rules:

Chaos Construction: Place the digits 1 to 9 once each in every row, column, and region. The regions are orthogonally connected and the shapes must be deduced by the solver. No constraint may cross region borders.

Equality cages: Cages must have an equal number of low (1,2,3,4) and high (6,7,8,9) digits AND an equal number of even (2,4,6,8) and odd (1,3,7,9) digits. Equality cages can never contain 5. Digits may not repeat in a cage.

XV: Adjacent cells connected with an X must sum to 10. Adjacent cells connected with a V must sum to 5. Not all X's or V's are shown.

Kropki dots: A black dot between cells indicates cell values with a 2:1 ratio. A white dot between cells indicates cells with consecutive values. Not all dots are shown.