Or hell, it could be that the alien species isn't even sentient, but its vector species for Pluribus is. It could just be some dumb as fuck space cats somewhere managed to enslave some space faring civilization by chance thanks to parasites lmao, and it just keeps going.
You can imagine an alien species that evolved alongside such a parasite and doesn't really have any morals about seeding-
Or hell, it could be that the alien species isn't even sentient, but its vector species for Pluribus is. It could just be some dumb as fuck space cats somewhere managed to enslave some space faring civilization by chance thanks to parasites lmao, and it just keeps going.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM64...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM64...