@boz
OOC: Yeah, that’s why i was thinking it felt a bit, pointed almost since, well he’s from a species that is god knows how many millions of years old, who used to rule the galaxy before a war of incomprehensible destruction from our frame of reference brought them low.
And then there’s more basic stuff like how they seem to be able to live forever assuming outside injury doesn’t get them thanks to their suits which also let them go without sleep among several other effects like the AI(Ancilla) that interfaces with them through it that would serve to form, barriers i guess to the bonding with them since there would be these base psychological differences.
I mean, picture the difference in the thought processes between someone who’s lived 20 years, and 2000, or even 20’000 before getting in to what their society having a dedicated caste system that involves specialized biological mutation to suit the person for that caste, like warriors having increased strength, reflexes, toughness and likely alterations to brain chemistry to make them more resistant to psychological trauma with their ancilla further aided with that.