Wxps, do you plan to explain the appearance of your xenos more?

Anyhow as far as Consortium relations go it will be fun to try to gain influence around ASTA's faction and fail miserably.

[@ASTA]
Interesting mechs you have.

Shame it is that your kind are incestuous freaks.

[@The Captain]
So, your emperor is the one and only true manifestation of the cosmic sovereign, THE TRUE emperor of emperors unquestionable and without limit to power or will?

We shall watch closely and see if it is so.

Very closely.

(they may not have this sentiment unless your pretender proves successful enough)

[@Senor Herp]
We may have mutual interests.

[@Raptorman]
More nepotism?  No wonder you've been around so long and can't even figure out how to make a decent biomech.  No progress, with mindsets like these.

Here, have some alien immigrants:

The Vargyn are steam breathing cylindrical alien beings who are like extremely sophisticated, higher order flat worms.  Their radial mouth is obscured by many tendrils.  The Vargyn don't have any actual orientation, often  being able to be vertical, horizontal or curved as needed.  The Vargyn come from a low gravity, highly volcanic world with a incredibly dense atmosphere where water tends to be scalding hot (their home world is literally translated to "The Steams of Life").  They seem to be adapted to the mountainous needle forests.  The specialized segments of a Vargyn can become more Vargyn given enough food and time, but intelligence requires a larger Vargyn .  The Vargyn have trilateral symmetry down their cylindrical body, with their limbs taking different tasks depending on how much food they can attain.  Arms with hands can only exist with well fed Vargyn. Less well fed Vargyn use their limbs as legs only and starving Vargyn are reduced to slithering about like snakes, shedding away their limbs to do so.  The Vargin come from a lower gravity world and the classes of Vargyn adapted to space have since become dominant among their kind, but the "other" classes of Vargyn still are around.   Vargyn can get huge and have dozens of limb sets in space, to the point where some Vargyn cultures will make protective suits to engage into direct combat with other spaceships.  
 
The Vargyn are reliant on detecting movement to catch prey, sensing vibrations and changes in air pressure along with sound.  They have very poor eye sight, being color blind and are unable to resolve detail well.  While their architecture is drab, the arrangement of their architecture is very suited towards their kind and generally is built to make echolocation a easy task.  They tingle about, very sensitive to changes in humidity due to needing to be in humid environments to breathe properly.  It's hard for them to breathe in dry mediums because they breathe mist and steam.  They tend to have steamy armor systems as a result often only interact with humans outside their suits in a sauna.
 
The Vargyn have a wide range of pressure tolerance with forms that can adapt to many kinds of worlds- in some worlds they can even "glide" about the place.  

The Vargyn don't really have any real "civilization" (or "state"), instead they associate with multiple other species and work within the systems of other civilizations.  Vargyn do have cultures, but these Vargyn cultures often are mixed with the traditions and norms of whatever civilizations the Vargyn is part of.  

(Here's an addition to the xeno library, no factions attached)