Vayle-haan makes a convincing arguement that I think far too many have been willing to discount because they are blinded by the promise of new technology and discovery. Far too many are willing to instantly see the Triglav as a race worthy of receiving the mantle of “sufficiently advanced precursor society to guide and teach New Eden” simply because they’re the first seemingly sentient, communicating race of hominids we’ve encountered since the Drifters started creeping their way across the cluster and they happen to hate the Sansha and Drifters as much as CONCORD does.
This is a pretty egregious mistake to make, even assuming our shaky understanding of Triglav culture is correct. Speaking three at a time to the point if making an unintelligible message as your point of first-contact that could be seen as anything from a declaration of war to a pledge of alliance due to its comically confusing and obtuse nature, creating a writing system based on triangles (because, like, we’re edgy and the number three is our thing dude) with no clear logic behind the phonetic structure, dwelling deadly
and unstable wormholes, using barely controlled singularities and mutaplasmids as your technological cornerstone, and deploying what is effectively an Iapetan titan in sovereign territory with the intention of invasion just to prove a point about your backwards culture of “proving” regardless of the damage and human cost are not indicators of a sufficently advanced or particularly wise society that we should covet.
It speaks to, at best, an immature naive society that has lived in isolation so long it’s incapable of understanding any sort of theory-of-mind outside of their own collective groupthink. At worst, it speaks stubborn society willing to deploy Iapetans (which in all other societies is a declaration of total war in and of itself due to the immense damage they are capable of) to… What? Prove a point rather than focus that material cost towards their war with Sansha or the Drifters?
The Triglav are either relatively uncivilized and barbaric compared to the cultures of New Eden that have been able to successfully develop complex and sane systems of diplomacy or are immensely pig-headed. Either way, I hope all of you consider this before you start waxing poetic about the majesty of their technology and “culture” any further.