I am considering an insidious group along "Manpower Incorporated / Mesan Alignment" style from the Honorverse or just "Kaminoan" from the Star Wars prequels.
I want them to go all the way back 150 years to the War and probably before that. With some feeling the War lifted considerable "restraints" upon their studies. Maybe sympathizers to Eugenics, of which, there were considerable numbers in the U.S.A..
Giving them links to some of the other encounter groups in anon. Providing soldiers, servants, and slaves for less savory purposes.
Cohorts of child soldiers to Krell raised in creche to be obedient soldiers, as an example.
Bed slaves for the wealthy. Hardy miners or resilient scrappers for the Overlords. Artists and Ballerinas trained from childhood to entertain.
This hides in plain sight efforts to build "better" Men.
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