there was once a Cylon faction, they have long since "skeedaddled"
but it is in effect an import and those are generally unwanted additions to Discovery, hence why all the import ships are rapidly being phased out.
i personally would re-engineer the basic idea into something based in the Discovery Universe...rename them something else, give them a believable origin based in the Freelancer universe (basically meaning something in Sirius...no BSG origins)...ya know the usual "revamp"
maybe make them a Gallia version of the Harvesters?
