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You really, really aren't a geneticist. You ultimately decide to allow the different Vetuck races to coexist- but separated and isolated. Mixing them together into one racial superstructure would lead to much more stability and you could pick and choose what traits you want but... perhaps it is better this way. In fact, having the Vetuckers being not unified in race and culture may actually prove beneficial. Any energy they expend in power struggles or against themselves is not being spent against the Hegemony.
Of course, conflict may arise between these different populations in the future. The Vetuck still live on a planet with relatively low population and wide open space; the Jaxtians and Hegemony farmland will gobble up some of the land here and in time their population will grow- eventually forcing the races closer together and into conflict.
Speaking of; the many diverse forms of life across your empire and beyond it. Your alien affairs office (mostly just Bluey) gives you a quick refresher on what has been happening.
The <span class="mu-s">Swall</span> are still isolated from the Hegemony proper- and our values are very slow to be accepted, if at all. This could be because their rapid rate of technological advancement seems to give credence to their current democratic, capitalist ideology as the best choice for their people. The computer has been miniaturized and the first AIs in the form of assistants and simulators are starting to be brought to the market. The Swall are in high spirits and still live in high trust, highly cooperative communities. This may not last forever though- a similar period of rapid advancement and cultural richness occurred among the Jaxtians too in this era- until the technological automation lead to few opportunities for the average Jaxtian and the ultra-rich <span class="mu-i">bourgeois</span> began to control the democracy from the shadows. It is only a matter of time until the Swall suffer the same fate. Except, thanks to the Hegemony, they won't blow themselves up with nukes!
The <span class="mu-s">Hazaar</span> crossbreeds of Vetuck and Swall aliens are also being wrapped up into the Blue Haazar population on Xin. While the yellow Hazaar are extraordinarily rare, due to the lack of difficult of getting implantation hosts, green Haazar are slowly growing in number as Vetuck aliens are being implanted and experimented on. In truth, the Green Hazaar are better laborers then the yellow and blue Hazaar- though they lack some of the high level abstract though the Blue Hazaar are capable of.
Finally- the <span class="mu-s">neighbors</span>. With your new advancements in FTL speeds and fusion power; the distant star system of rival and friendly nations become closer. Unfortunately, you seem surrounded by enemies- only the Seekers were any way close, and that was mostly just mutual hatred towards the worms. The opportunity for trade, exploration, and warfare between space empires is here.
