Yep! Not quite as heavily as another group in the game, but he's part of a cultural group with the power to psychically control an artifact that essentially produces unlimited energy. So naturally the rest of the universe is kind of afraid of them and does everything possible to undermine their power, including trying to remove the artifact, which they've been guarding for roughly five thousand years, from their custody and trying to rob them of their sovereignty.

This and the resentment it caused eventually led to space!Vietnam, which in turn caused the only planet they had left to call their own becoming uninhabitable, everyone losing access to that artifact and Margulis' group being reduced to space nomads at war with everyone else.