Panic Erupts In Galactic Council As Humans Reject All Negotiations

She said calmly, you want to know why humanity isn't jumping to join your grand alliance. Every species that joins your alliance becomes dependent on your technology, your trade systems, your rules. We didn't fight our way from stone tools to starships just to play it safe. We're busy because we're building our own way. When we join the galactic community and we will, it'll be as equals who earned our place not as children grateful for your leftovers.