Cytherians

The Cytherians were a species of extremely powerful aliens from Star Trek who at first seemed to be typical antagonists but were in reality peaceful explorers who sought out life just as the Federation did, only their methods varied, in the end the Cytherians would leave on good terms with Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise.
==Overview==
The Cytherians were an unusual but vastly advanced alien species who took to exploring the universe without ever leaving their own home-world, instead they would bring other species to their system and engage in First Contact via projecting themselves to the crew, while this was rather disruptive it was never done out of malice and indeed upon revealing themselves the Cytherians showed that they were curious, peaceful and honorable by nature.
The Cytherians simply wished to learn about the Federation and after ten days of hosting the crew (in which they shared freely knowledge that would advance Starfleet by generations (though would take years to study properly) ) they happily returned Enterprise back to its proper place and left on good terms.
== Society ==
While not much is known of the specific structure of the Cytherians as a whole they were confirmed to be many generations ahead of even the most advanced species in the Federation, they were very curious about the Galaxy but unlike Starfleet they opted to stay on their home-world and bring other species to them in order to start First Contact.
Once First Contact was established they showed themselves to be kind and gentle, if somewhat socially awkward (likely due to not understanding social norms of humans) - for example the Cytherian Ambassador was quite surprised at Picard demanding to know what they wanted and why they had taken his crew to such a distance location (over 30, 000 lightyears off course).
Once the initial awkwardness was removed however the Cytherians showed that they were gracious hosts (although we never see what happened in the ten days long encounter Picard confirms the Cytherians shared knowledge and happily returned him and his crew to Federation space with no ill-will).
== Species Abilities ==
The true extent of the Cytherians powers is unknown but they were extremely powerful, able to take a ship as advanced as the Enterprise and send it over 30,000 lightyears off course, they could project giant images of themselves, bypassing all shielding or other security measures and while their technology was incompatible with many forms of Federation computers they were able to counter this by using living humans as a means to communicate and guide others.
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