Banished by the Galactic Council Humanity Forged’a Galactic Empire

Humanity, he declared, has been found guilty of aggressive expansion, cultural interference, and disturbing the balance of galactic civilization, effective immediately, all human colonies beyond the soul system are to be evacuated. Rebecca looked around at the representatives of the other races, the VRN who had taken for millennia just to colonize three star systems, the courtish, who after 6,000 years still hadn't managed faster than light travel, and dozens of old, slow species who had become too comfortable, too afraid of change. What the council failed to realize was that humanity's greatest strength had never been its technology or military power. But unlike the council, humanity opened its doors, refugees from oppressive worlds, scientists seeking freedom, and merchants tired of corruption, all found a new home in human space. Humanity had been exiled for being too ambitious, so they built an empire that turned ambition itself into their greatest strength.