Prewarpers

Prewarpers are people who were originally born and raised upon planets that have yet to develop Postech technology.

In Federation Territory
Prewarpers in Federation Territory are seen as children who need to grow more in order to be accepted into the galactic community. The Galactic Federation sees attempts to interfere with a Prewarper society's growing stages as a crime of the highest degree and will likely kill anyone who even attempts to get close to a pre-postech planet.

Federation ships who find Prewarpers are advised to return them to their planet of origin.

In Alliance Territory
Prewarpers in Alliance Territory are allowed much more freedom. Pre-postech planets in Alliance space are readily introduced to the galactic community by Alliance-orientated interests, and a significant number of spacefaring Prewarpers come from a planet in Alliance territory.

That is not to say that Prewarpers have it easy in Alliance space. Numerous accounts persist of pre-postech planets being assaulted by starships, having no method of easily countering such offences. The Alliance denies any involvement with these events, claiming that these attackers are lone wolves.