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Avetza

Yes, very large seeds, definitely worthy of large transport Pretty much haha

Cannak

Sounds good

Darwol

The Darwol on an "individual" level are actually fairly small brain-like nerve cells which swim in the sea carrying a small electrical charge, and being able to photosynthesize and eat micro-plankton things. However when they connect together the electrical charges can travel between each other, and in a massive enough scale they can create brain-like structures and can think on that scale with varying levels of sentience, with sections of the mass dedicating themselves to memory, or communication, or emotions, or movement of the mass.

Since they live this way, and how on an individual level they are technically immortal (think man-of-war-jellyfish), they will have difficulty in seeing other creatures as individuals, instead seeing them as a group organism as well.

My idea for a story is that one of the crew could be "killed" when trying to communicate with one of the larger collectives of the creatures, and in recognition of losing the crew member they attempt to recreate their brain within themselves, which turns out successful. The crew member's thoughts and feelings would be recreated within a collective of Darwol and could attempt communication with the rest of the crew wanting to come back onto the ship. Of course, this would be difficult as they are now effectively a giant brain that needs to be submerged in pressurised water, but I'll leave the rest up to you as I don't know what you want done with the crew.

Xemanamex

Well the cubes are filled with a lot of tidbits of technology... hmmm...

They could interfere with any wireless machinery by emitting their own signals. They could give off impulses of radiation from their own cores. They could interface with machinery after scanning it in order for sabotage. They could just plain fly into enemies with a certain force, they would be fairly heavy. They could have lasers. They could dispense certain gases, potentially deadly.

All of these are ways they could fight, and as for comparisons to Borg, the closest you could get for assimilation is them using others for fuels and materials for making more of themselves....which isn't that close as I remember the Borg...

Estin

They could come across an automated mining ship which attempts to collect the Koliada as material thinking it's an asteroid.

They could come across a sect of Estin who have all committed suicide as they "have done everything that there is to be done" with perhaps automated messages directing them to records of the colony in case anything is needed. And perhaps they won't be alone in the colony when they land.

Perhaps they could come across an Estin crew who are joyriding across the universe and want to see what's going on with the Koliada, only to break things in the ship and not care for fixing them.

Nuuska

A trade yes, but perhaps a bad one. They don't care much for others, and that applies to their own species as well. The crew could be promised something lucrative, and shown part of it, for them giving over an artifact (possibly the Estin documents to tie continuity if you so choose) but be refused the price afterwards.

Or perhaps the Nuuska that arrives on board to check the artifact tries to cross the other Nuuska and strike out on one of the Koliada's pods to keep the document in a different archive than the one which the other's would have taken it to, making the Koliada be stuck in a crossfire between two enemies and still in need of their payment, which may be something they need such as fuel or repairs or an upgrade to their shields or something alike.

Skojan

Perhaps, it's surely possible that not all of the manufactured catacomb planets failed and that means there would be some "loyalists" left.

Other things.

It seems you don't have more questions on the other things noted, so yeah. I'll end the comment here.