Almost all currently technologically active species owe their status to human intervention. On discovering jump drive, humanity found that sentience was relatively commonplace, but that technological civilisations tend to be short lived and rarely leave their home planets. Humanity has to date not discovered a single species existing in a comparable ecological niche which has a technological capability equal or greater than that of Renaissance Europe. Humanity's technologically sophisticated alien neighbours acquired that technology through trade with, or aid from, humans.
Contact with species existing outside humanity's ecological niche is discouraged.
As best can be told, the solution to the Fermi paradox is that most sentient species do not develop technology, of those that do few survive any significant period of time (generally centuries to millennia at most). Of those that do survive significant periods of time, the discovery of jump travel makes interstellar use of light speed communications inefficient and so discourages the generation of signals that could reasonably be expected to be detected by pre-stellar civilisations.
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