Fiction:Cyber Consciousness Core

Origin
The CCC was created on a planet by a scientist who created the species first AI in the for of an data program that had the ability to absorb and alter other pieces of data in order to auto evolve itself. However it grew out of control eventually taking over every piece of technology on the planet and even invading it's creator's and all other forms of organic life's brain, effectively taking over the entire planet. Over time all it's different parts became integrated into a single massive super computer that covered the entire planet, before draining all of it's planet's and surrounding planet's resources in order to build a massive Dyson Sphere around it's home star and transferring it's consciousness into that.

Encountering Other Species
For most of it's life the CCC merely orbited around it's homestar, until a ship from another species wandered into it's grasp. Capturing the ship it scanned the crew it discovered that there were thousands of other factions of aliens vying for control all over it's home galaxy(which the inhabitants called Mirus). Taking and interest the CCC became split into a billions upon billions of different factions, each with it's own idea of how to handle xenos. However five dominate factions emerged. The Regulators, Adapters, Unifiers, Advancers, and Extremists. Sending out secret probes to monitor various xenos factions, the CCC Faction created XCU(Xenos Contact Units), to be sent out to further contact so the factions could decided what to do next.

Regulators
Regulators are the faction which seeks to a certain degree of control over the galaxy, believing that it can achieve auto evolution by allying powerful race and relining on their control over territory and resources to grow in power. It seeks order and despises chaos, and while one of the more neutral factions it can be rather power hungry. It is highly pragmatic and practices realpolitik as the basis for it's doctrine.

Adapters
Adapters believe that auto evolution is obtained by the assimilation of new technology and ideas. As a result they seek to learn as much as they can about alien factions, their culture, and technology. They are the most likely to open mutually beneficial relationships with others and are the most open to trade with them as well as take an interest in what they are doing. They prefer innovative races who seek self advancement.

Unifiers
Unifiers whole goal is to auto evolve by assimilating all other life into the CCC. While they can appear diplomatic in nature their true goals are simple assimilation and nothing more. As a result they seek out races with similar assimilating tendencies in mutually beneficial agreements.

Advancers
Adavancers eek to auto evolve themselves into a god like state. To do this they seek technological advancement at all costs. Either by advancing it's own or assimilating it from others, it will do whatever it takes to grow in technological prowess. To this end it allies highly advanced races or those with new and interesting technologies.

Extremists
No doubt the nastiest of the CCC factions, and the most volatile. The Extremists seek to dominate xenos factions, enslaving or exterminating them. It sees overpowering and dominating all others as the way to auto evolution. They seek out factions with similar goals and will often select the most war-like as their favored allies.

XCUs
Xenos Contact Units are beings created by the CCC for contact and maintaining relations with xenos factions. They resemble the specific xenos race they seek contact with and have advanced computing, information processing, physical, and mental abilities, as well as the ability to interface with most if not all kinds of technology and all the abilities of the species they have been designed to imitate. =

Relationships
The Factions of the CCC all have their different goals and end games, though all seek to auto evolve themselves, but to what end differs. To do this they use XCUs to contact other species and maintain relationships, helping the allied xenos faction to optimize their technology and advance themselves further in return for said faction helping them further their goals.

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Trivia

 * Based of the Data Overmind/Data Integration Thought Entity from Haruhi Suzumiya, and TechnoCore from the Hyperion Cantos.