" Do you know how rare life in the Universe really is? For every populated galaxy, we find dozens more incapable of supporting life. Whenever we encounter a civilization that hadn’t reached the means to travel the stars and accept the existence of other life forms, we protect it and observe its evolution. It’s what’s at the very base of The Union. "

― Rhea V. May , Reshaping Eliza (Interstellar Hereafter, #1)