[off topic]
My headcanon is that every time a new race joins the Federation, they have the option of designing the Star Fleet uniform.
The Betazeds are responsible for the miniskirts.
“The Federation is functionally the Human empire” has always been a far less interesting view than “The Federation is functionally the Vulcan empire”
Humans created the federation. The Vulcans had been around for hundreds of years just wondering around the quadrant not really doing anything other than antagonising the Andorians. Who, Humans managed to form an alliance with by not antagonising them, and claiming to be superior.
But why did the Vulcan join when their old antagonists are part of it? A pretty good answer is that they need to make sure humans don’t ruin everything.
This isn’t quite as cynical as it looks at first glance. They saw that humans could go either way. Keep them from turning too many stars into touruses, and they’ll be capable of greatness.
Humanity is God’s collective nepo-fail-upwards-son.
Same with D&D, humans are like this because OMG we have short ass lifespans and I already hit middle age by 19 gotta go go go!!! Press the red button!
Shorter lived species than humans should be even more widespread and rapidly developing
Great, now I have “I am the very model of a scientist Salarian” stuck in my head
I think that you still need to live long enough to at least be able to learn stuff and explore that knowledge. Too short a life and all you have time for is eat fuck breed kill someone else on your way out.
I don’t know much about Skaven though other than a dozen hours in Vermintide 2 and the player characters werent saying much other than “fuck rats” 😂
