again, the one species trait humans SHOULD get in a space opera is that we're chirpy, friendly super diplomatic social apes who WILL turn everything we meet into a client species or pet or domestic animal and everyone else thinks this is super creepy. https://twitter.com/Oceandiversity2/status/1185163907209392129

"They turned a major predator into a client species and they fucked their sibling species into extinction , look what they did to CORN, they don't realize they're biological colonialists cause they're so good at it. Its like fish and water."

Everyone *Likes* humanity in the big Space UN and they're a backbone of the diplomatic core but there's an agreement not to let them get too powerful cause dear fucking god.

except the eusocial space ants, they like us, oddly.

Humans aren't the default middle they're the PARTY RACE everyone else warns their children about. We're a frat house the size of a planet.

There's like a solemn consortium of crystalline entities and slime mold collectives and warish space hogs and symbiotic fungus groups and telepathic whales and gracile alien greys and just humanity going SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS

I like to think every new species that joins the space UN goes "Wow Humans are super fun and cool!" before everyone else takes them aside and goes "Do you WANT to end up colonized without you even knowing?"

the Eusocial space ants are on our side, "Wow they can do all of that without a caste system amazing, we can learn a lot"

in this space UN humans are not in charge, obviously, but a big part of the diplomatic service and controlling and major sector and everyone kinds of dances around how weird they are

so many conversations start with "Look, I KNOW the galactic service can't run without the contributions of the Humans BUT-"

Humanity has been largely *convinced* to just colonize its home system and deal with non-space faring intelligences like the Jovian gas creatures and the Encleadus under-ice whales and relics of a past civilization on Venus much to the relief of everyone else in the Space UN

everyone gets the panic sweats when a Human outfit wants to go explore

everyone got lucky cause the humans got fixated on Alpha Proxima which is a real dud of the system and after they focused on their own system and selling mineral rights to Space UN

Everything is running fine until a normally not noticeable human exploration vessel makes first contact with a new species .... which is a good game premise , yours for free

but have eusocial space ant crewmember. I insist they like us. They're also kind of outcasts in Space UN and have cozied up to humans