>>96094415
they absolutely are, I've been wanting to do a space opera with elves divided up into subraces depending on how far from the mainline "high" elves they've colonized.
So you got the really ancient high elf civilization, then younger and younger elf civilizations depending on how far from the high elf home system you go.

Of course I don't really like monocultures so I haven't really gotten a gimmick for the different types of elves except that they look different and their major states have different political standpoints depending on culture and their galactic neighbors.

Genned pic related as a member of one of the younger elf types (only a thousand or so years old) that are still expansionists and settle new planets, with or without previous inhabitants which tends to put them into conflict with various other species