Akylore

I'm having the exact same problem; I haven't researched anything in the military, defense or even diplomacy trees, but I can't seem to get the TEC Civilian researcher. I played it on random player pic, however (I wanted to kill two achievements with one stone,) and the other two opponents were set to easy difficulty. I didn't ally with any of them either. Did you set your opponents to easy or your player as random?