I only have one word for this.
Frick.
My main faction is tied down a massive civil war and I see this crap. Nevermind, the R-UPA picked some tricks up when it comes to collective minds, hiveminds and the likes. A few wars against the Cgynusian AI taught them well.
I'm in, but I'll set the R-UPA timeframe to 3 years after the Civil War so that I can still do the Civil War lore, events etc and have an advantage of well formed lore and ship base.
I think.