The Extraterrestrial Alliance, comprising several extraterrestrial civilizations, is constructed on a series of working principles agreed to by the members. This largely keeps things orderly but, as you are thinking, there are inevitable points of disagreement, whether due to finding personal agendas needing to be deferring to the group and the agreed rules, and chafing under the constraint, or simply having something stir up old animosities, perhaps a resentment when something works out to greater advantage of one extraterrestrial civilization than another. We have likened this before to a den of thieves where the criminals are working together, but there can always be points of contention and a falling out, if only briefly. That can lead to many disruptions in plans and humans might be caught in the middle if there is pressure applied unilaterally to force things to go in a certain direction—it might be at human expense if that happens.
As always, the origins of the shifting energies will be kept hidden but the suffering will continue of humans as the victim. Much of the intercommunication and the generation of the planning is done via artificial intelligence, but that does not protect against the political disputes that arise because the extraterrestrials are using their own technologies as a priority. There will be times when their results, projections, and perspectives will be rejected by the technologies of the other races. But, as a practical matter, whether it is AI or the whims of a physical being wanting to be in charge and impose their will on the decision-making, will not matter. Points of friction happen and need to be dealt with and, as always, humans are helpless bystanders and may get stepped on.
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