Hunterminator: If you want to get in on this, I do have a thought for you. They're approaching meanignful individuals, but they may well also be approaching likely looking clumps of mid-rangers. Given your hordes of robots (and their capitalist tendencies) you probably slot in at the "oh, yeah. I know who that guy is" level with a fair number of folks, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that one of the more individually charismatic of the SOS-dan might see a clump of people of about your bracket and grab the opportunity to talk to you all at once. Of course, this would mean you'd have to throw together about three or four semi-meaningful independant captain NPCs to be talkign *with*, but we can always use more bit parts.
Alternately, you could wait for the announcement like everyone else.
Alternately, you could wait for the announcement like everyone else.