How Toby "Tricky 'Radiation' Tony" Fox will be unironically drafting all the batshit insane contacts he managed to adquire over the years for that Chapter 7 to make damn sure that the ending of that dream he had once gets turned into the video game equivalent of crack cocaine:
The Aon Collective is the most advanced known spacefaring xenosophont in the Epitaph galaxy. Most of its keystone technologies including FTL communication, curvature propulsion, and relativistic macron weaponry are reverse-engineered from the ancient hypertech left behind by humanity
Even so, Aon scientists still consider their own technology embarrassingly crude and primitive compared to the original human designs