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Not exactly. There was a race that was observing humanity 50,000 years before called the Protheans that the series until 3 posited that they were a super enlightened democratic society, until 3 dropped that they were actually marauding imperials who were planning to enslave humanity and the other modern dominant species to fight their fascist wars until they got owned by the Reapers who imo rightly slaughtered them. Humanity accidentally discovered modern day space NATO because they just aggressively activated Mass Effect relays and colonized other planets until they accidentally ran into a turian patrol fleet, immediately attacked them, fought like a 2 month war over nothing, got owned, then got invited to space NATO as one of the shittier races. So PRETTY much how I envision a future confrontation with an alien species assuming we have a united space military headed by the west.
