Editing Shaltari Tribes (section)

==Relations with Man==

First contact was initiated by the Shaltari, who soon guided mankind towards the Cradle Worlds and helped them to expand and grow on them. However, this soon was revealed as far from benevolent, as this was all conducted by one Tribe who intended to use humanity as a subservient race in battle against another tribe. Humanity did not take kindly to this, and the history of interspecies relations since has been full of deceit and shifting alliances.

In the first and only direct contact between Scourge and the UCM, a Scourge communicator told the UCM that the Shaltari deliberately sent the Scourge towards humanity, believing that a war between the two would destroy both, removing them as threats to Shaltari dominance. The intended war never occurred due to the interference of the White Sphere weakening humanity enough that the Scourge swept them aside in the initial invasion. The Scourge speaker then claimed that the Shaltari were still operating under a similar plan, subtly assisting mankind to keep them on a level capable of threatening the Scourge.

Dealings between Shaltari and the Post-Human Republic also occur, but given the duplicitous nature of each faction, any alliance or coordinated efforts are temporary at best.