Alright so I am thinking of playing a civilization called "The Zoa" they are colonial creatures who live in massive space habitats, I'm still deciding on an FTL method, I was thinking either wormholes or "downloading themselves into subspace and uploading themselves to a different location, except sometimes data gets corrupted and the uploaded zoa are incapable of returning to realspace" 

For history I am thinking they are a fairly old race but are recovering from a major virus that utilized the FTL system in order to destroy zoa colonies