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While your political situation might have gone from “new kid on the block” to “total outsider”, you seem to have found another major player in your section of the galaxy.
This is a conglomerate of several races, similar to the Consortium... or perhaps yourself. You aren't sure if racial conglomerates are this common for a reason- the Esaal are large but don't seem to have multiple alien species making up their ranks- perhaps they are merely ground up for the military machine...
The <span class="mu-s">Seekers</span> are a curious group of united alien species. They share technology between each other, and seem to value a strange quasi-religious spiritualism that envelopes their ideology and politics. Even more strangely, this empire is united underneath artificial intelligence. Not like the way the Hegemony does it- the AI isn't doing all the work while the people make the decisions. In their society, the <span class="mu-i">AI</span> is in charge, and the living people follow their commands. While that seems foolish, if the AI themselves are making the decisions, does that meant the AI keep themselves from being compromised? Machines can only have a purpose or drive to do anything at all if people made them that way- how intelligent did they make their own computers?
<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-g">”We had ADVISED your species to refrain from Faster-Than-Light travel many years ago- but at least now you understand our position a little more. Hyperspace communications are terribly insecure however- perhaps if you had a <span class="mu-i">presence</span> that could match one of ours, we could <span class="mu-i">talk</span> more candidly.”</span></span>
Your data analysts note that no records or serious analysis of the Seekers existed at this point in time yet. Even with your worm advisor telling you of all the major players near you, they never mentioned them. The Seekers aren't irrelevant though; their society is powerful- a serious rival to the consortium! In fact, their technology may even be the best of any species you know. Then why have you only heard of them now?
>Question them on something (Most voted 3 will be answered)
>Ask to join their collective
>Tell them to fuck off
>Offer a trade of valuable resources or technology for some of their own
>Other (write in)