>>20929403yeah so ideas I like:
insectoids originally spread via shooting spores into space and these spores landed on nearby planets in nearby star systems
the various spores evolved to adapt to their relative planets.
more bugs that release spores means exponential expansion
eventually the galactic republic and these bugs meet. and the bugs eat evolve and adapt to that too
and now, these buggos can produce space ships which are just giant buggerinos