Let's start this off by noting the most important things aboleth in Pathfinder are known for: they're fishy, they consider asteroids a good reset button, and they have racial memories that extend all the way back to the beginning of the multiverse.
Now, let's consider the Gap: several hundred years have disappeared from everyone's memories, possibly even the gods. Presumably, this includes the aboleths (let's assume, for the sake of this thread, that some of them managed to get off of Golarion before it disappeared into the ether during the Gap).
How would the aboleths react to their missing memories? One of the most fundamental aspect of their species is that they possess perfect recall of everything their ancestors ever did. What happens to them when this stops being true?
Maybe the Aboleths made the Gap . . . .
Oh man. Either of those ideas is really good! Aboleths are the only creatures whose memories survived the gap, and they are using this to try and shape the spare faring races to their will. / Aboleths were also struck by the gap and now manipulate races from the shadows, using them as pawns to uncover what little information they can gather.
Two thoughts on this issue.
One, I now see there being a shadow council of Aboleth running the Starfinder Society. Because if you can't beet those pesky adventurers, then make them work for you.
Two, I now want to see a space whale sized Aboleth with an organic drift engine. An entire "pod" of them, in fact. Put a new spin on using asteroids as a form of planetary fumigation.
Regardless of what happened to most aboleths, I'd be shocked if some veiled masters hadn't made it off-world.
The question then becomes "what happens when you forget how you pulled off steps 17-46 of your master plan for universal domination?"
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Maybe Aboleths were all on Golarion when it disappeared...and every now and then an Aboleth shows up somewhere, spreading some sort of madness-inducing mental contagion whenever they attempt to communicate anything about where they come from.
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Regardless of what happened to most aboleths, I'd be shocked if some veiled masters hadn't made it off-world.The question then becomes "what happens when you forget how you pulled off steps 17-46 of your master plan for universal domination?"
Reassess. Reconsider. Replan.
You can't expect to be prepared for a universe-wide, centuries-long mass amnesia.
But then, neither can anyone else...
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Alternatively, the aboleth plan to reestablish their domination over Golarion was a complete success. A key part of that plan was to keep people from other worlds from finding Golarion and then coming in to liberate the place. The people on Golarion are now all happy, brainwashed slaves who do whatever the aboleths tell them to do.