The Galacticum has found that Terrans are the only species that can safely police other Terrans.
Terran military units are rotated through various Galacticum population centers to be "on call" when events require more than a SWAT team.
This is the story of 4th platoon, 183d Marines.
Phideaux was a good boy from southern Louisiana. He grew up and somehow managed to get out of college with twin PhDs (one in engineering and one in biology).
This was enough to get him a posting to a remote Galacticum scientific outpost as a maintenance man.
Captain S'Ploork eyed the display on his bridge and agreed with his first officer - this ship would be fine prize. It was an older "Elder Jewel" class cruise ship, so it was either the private property of some super-wealthy entity or was full of beings of lesser wealth.
I am Becheltan, a 3d level documentarian for the Galacticum Archives. I have been tasked with creating an informal introduction to our newest Galacticum members: humans(tyranosapiens terranus horrificus)
An amateur author friend of mine contacted me a while ago and linked me to some various websites set up to host amateur author's stories.
What she was concerned with was the predatory terms of service on some of them. Some of which went like this: "by hosting your content here, you license us the ability to use the content as we desire, including the ability to sub-license the content to third parties to use as they like".