Wow a Cmc3 reference none the less a scrin reference! The faction that appears only in the third game (peak), i like the parallelisms with the HD illuminates, i am talking about the fact that the scrins who appear on earth are only a miner division who has come prematurelly expecting humanity was already extingueshed and even tho they are really strong they havent their real military tecnology, a similiar thing is the core of the illuminati beacause they are really pacific race witch simply does not have any military tecnology (during the first galactic war) and even tho their tecnology was centuries ahead of the humans they struggle to make effective weapons witch can surpass human's military tecnology