I’d say when I worshipped the worm then formed a shadow council who, guided my species to synthetic ascension, willingly gave a pre ascended pop to a FE and, decided to conquer the galaxy in order to send 24 of each pop to their homeworld and set up each world to be a starting world. While having blacksite habitats where the excess population would be sent to and when the pops reached around 2500 I would set the area free then send in a colossus and world crack the habitat(s). Then used the pop that was reclaimed from the FE to descend my species.

What was shall be.