Should I reveal myself to a Pre-FTL civilization I've been monitoring?

[tank16365]

So, I've been watching this civilization with a cloaked station and science ship for about 600 years.
There's been many close calls for them, on their evolution, including wiping themselves out in an atomic war, rebuilding, then a civil war, followed by rebuilding.
An asteroid I should've let hit the planet before...
Mad science followed by a technological enslavement of their entire race by a sentient computer they made themselves.
A slaver smuggling base that needed Marine intervention before they got discovered, and a science vessel crashing and needing rescued before discovery.

My awareness has gone from 1-4 and back to one multiple times, but this is the first time its giving me the option to reveal myself to them.

Should I? Edit: Also, I just checked, the species is still "Splintered"

[Grev]

The benefits of having a pre-ftl trading partner are next to zero compared to the possibility of the unique techs you can get from studying them. That being said, if you want to play you civilization as "nice" you could choose to give up that advantage or even help them advance technologically.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Side note: There's no real difference in the termnology as before the Early Space Age all pre-FTL's are splintered as its a term for a planet that has not united under a single banner yet, in this case basically it displays how say, earth would be a splintered situation as it effectively is not united.

Now that said, you can reveal yourself for some funny situations, for example disabling a cloak and setting to aggressive will sometimes result in the Pre-FTL thinking your some kind of evil god or demon, had a super funny one that..well did lead them to nuking the station so I just returned the favor by cracking their world in half, but realistically the only real functions to the cloak of the observation stations is that it negates all outcomes that may result in the stations destruction, good and bad. You can still reveal yourself to the civilization without uncloaking altogether, however its worth noting that depending on the civics it may result in some unwanted things

Like if its fanatic spiritualists then there's a chance it will actually kill the FTL race and turn the planet into a tomb world which is based off of basically the actual empires, they feared and hated aliens so much that they tried to shoot your...clouds down and ended up sending themselves to hell lol