[quote=Big Al Jefferson]
I'd like it to be known that if only one Human nation is available, I totally called it first.If two are though we should totally have an entwined history.
[/quote]

Definitely. I plan on making mine meritocratic in nature, and generally very advanced - Possibly xenophobic if their early history of first contact is a bad one, but, regardless, my plan is to flip the trope of humans being the un-advanced stellar newbies on its head.