Garrida

The garrida were found by human explorers in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way. In the midst of an industrial revolution, electrical power was just becoming widespread and "technology" was the word on their minds, with massive advancements in both civilian and military technology including early magazine-fed firearms, the internal combustion engine, early air travel, and growing urbanization gave much of the young a wide-eyed fascination for the future while older generations became stubborn and unwilling to accept these advances. 
The arrival of humans at their homeworld Galla, the moon of a gas giant, was seen as a great boon to their civilization by most. Many of their people wanted to visit their territory and bring back ideas to continue their own advancement. This was not encouraged or dismissed, but they would not be given any blueprints or designs directly, only being allowed to consult with humans for correction of their scientific theories. 
The division between human-obsessed progressives and hardline traditionalists caused tensions on their world to rise until a world war was started. A war that would not have occurred when it did had humans not made contact with them. The war was fought for a total of seven years during which the majority of their population was killed due to the rapid advancement of their technology via human intervention. After the war, surviving governments begged humans for help. It was provided in the form of reconstruction of destroyed cities and surgical reconstruction of severely wounded individuals. 
The planet was annexed and modernized following the reconstruction efforts, becoming a member of the Orion Confederation as a vassal under Revant in an effort to prevent their extinction. This scenario caused a change in GSF first-contact protocol when interacting with species that have not yet established themselves in the galaxy. 
Changes made stated that unless intervention would be required to prevent an otherwise unavoidable cataclysm leading to extinction, any species who...
* Is undergoing widespread social or political instability.
* Possesses a majority devoting themselves to indigenous religion with radical and/or violent tendencies. 
* Has not yet established at least one sustainable colony. 
...is to be monitored until such a time as those conditions no longer apply. These restrictions are intended to...
* Avoid a collapse of civilization. 
* Avoid the escalation or creation of violent conflicts.
* Avoid the creation of religions based upon the worship of humans as deities.