Jack of Harts

The Aesiran do not have a single national military or diplomatic or economic services or even a government in the ways we know them. Individuals, families, or inter-family corporations focus their specialties along any of those missions, but everything from an individual soldier up to a trading vessel or even a warship belong to them. Not any central government. The closest our diplomats have come to understanding the Aesiran governmental system is that there are one or more families with sufficient honor to generally direct what the Aesiran as a whole will do. Because they have earned the honor by leading through success. Which family or families these may be are more than the diplomats can guess at, since they appear to change based on what needs doing.

The Aesiran are still largely unknown to us. Even the decades after Wars End have not changed that. They have not turned away Earth diplomats sent to their borders, but have not invited them any closer to their homeworlds. They are kept quite comfortable on the border worlds with the other races that fill them, and the locals are happy to talk with them about whatever they want to talk about. But the Aesiran do not appear to have a diplomatic service of their own. If they want to talk to us, they generally skip the diplomats entirely and send a representative directly to Earth to deal with our heads of states. They have even offered to take the diplomats home on these trips, much to the chagrin of the various diplomatic services of Earth.