My stream of thoughts as I read:
1. Alright so the Tamearins still have psionics as part of their racial attributes. That raises the question of how we're going to handle psi in this runaround. Similar to the XCOM rps diagram, or something different?
2. "Wait if the Shinso are in how would they be in a federation while they have slav-" "Zmby's explanation: they're not." That feels blindingly obvious in hindsight.
3A: An important question for
@ZombieSplitter53 that is coming to me in general: how pervasive is the influence of the GFP's government? Is law and order largely maintained everywhere, are there gaps in it (such as on frontier areas), or does the GFP mostly handle macro matters of inter-species exchange and external interactions/exploration, leaving sector/system/planetary governance to the localities.
3B: What are the crime rates at? Do they vary to do an answer to the first part of the question, or is it generally low/medium/high?
4. Ah, you didn't forget my question about A.I. Neat.