Humans in Sci-Fi settings

says who?

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Humans are the slave race, used mostly for entertainment purposes such as acting, music, and prostitution.

Humans are a prosperous uplifted race who serve their advanced alien masters as loyal soldiers and lesser companion life-forms. Together they cut a swathe through the galaxy in the name of eradicating the invasive aliens who planted themselves there while the human's masters were away.

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Humans were uplifted by an alien republic as part of a proxy-war with space monarchists. Most humans have mixed feelings on aliens, but they're too dependent on them to do much about it. Aliens are big xenophiles though - human culture is quickly become pervasive.

Okay, you can, it would just be a terrible idea. Do you seriously want MUTANTS shitposting?

I fuckin knew /pol/ was involved.

Pretty much every race is some variation of sustainable metropolitan xenophiles. You got their capital worlds where they are the majority with a tiny splattering of aliens.

All the races that weren't nuked themselves into the stoneage or choled themselves on their greed.

Humans are dead. They were the first to span the void and make it across the black gulfs between stars. Some uploaded their minds into another dimension/universe equivalent of heaven the first chance they got. Some caught the wanderlust so bad they left the galaxy to keep exploring. The remainder picked up the spear when the time came and fought the Others to a standstill. It cost those humans everything, but it was worth it.

What remains are their children, their creations, and their wards. Some machines claim they can still remember talking to humans in person. To some races they were gods and to others they were demons. They created, uplifted, or simply observed most of the remaining species. They made the gates.

The remaining sophonts now can only marvel at what was left behind. Sometimes the artifacts are still functional, often they are dead as humans are. If the sophonts are lucky the relics are close enough to their own technological base that they can be copied or at least understood. If they aren't lucky... well, xenocides have happened.

Sorta. Humans resembling present humanity still do exist in other universes.

so like the forerunners?

Kill everything in the galaxy to stop the enemy?

Depends on the person.

>Would they do anything it took to get Earth a vital mineral it needs?
HAHAHAHAhahahahahaha!

No. As the resources burned out we started hauling out of that shitter. And once FTL was discovered we hauled out even faster! Anyone who didn't get off in time was doomed to a few decades or centuries of scraping together the last dregs of usable resources that crusty hole still had and beating the other survivors to death over them.

Besides, all these aliens need hard workers for their modern economies. The human job market is booming! Why would I hate aliens?

Kill or isolate so that others won't know of the phenomenon. Merely knowing the phenomenon attracts it.

Honestly I'd be more worried about the locals bringing their horrible horrible flora and fauna with them in an attempt to preserve the animals that nature went out of its way to ensure remained trapped on a single point of the planet. It's all fun and games until they escape and someone ends up finding the wrong kind of king brown in their toilet.

we know, son

>nobody will avoid aussie space ports like the damn plague because the fuckers never checked their luggage before going space walkabout so now they're almost universally infested with huntsman who can grow larger and faster in the microgravitatic environment or nope ropes of all spades who learned they can lunge across the entire hull if they want
>we'll never lose a whole habitat because the space emu's broke containment and the highly trained marine squad was too busy eating crayons to function properly
>we'll never have to worry about space who's napping on the interstellar highways because they're the only bit of space around that's clear of micrometeorites
>we'll never a hyper evolved space kangaroo confederation
Sad times.

>Xenophile\xenophobic
Humanity is pretty factionalized and can get away with that because most other space faring species are also factionalized. Getting FTL inevitably causes a diaspora so you always get a bunch of factions.

Exactly how xenophobic or philic these factions are varies.

>Would they do anything it took to get Earth a vital mineral it needs?

Not really, once you establish extra solar colonies there's this sentiment of "Fuck Earth" that leaks into politics.

Xenophobic of what? There's literally no one else. Any alien is nothing more than a purposely uplifted species.

Humans are basically the dwarves of my sci-fi setting.

>We build things to last a fuck long time
>our designs are considered beautiful in a highly utilitarian sort of way
>xenos think humans are kind of weird for being able to hold grudges that outlast individual lifespans
>major alcohol culture (not that various xenos complain, booze is a major export from earth)
>we're also some of the physically tougher beings in the tri-galactic area and among the few things that have a small chance of surviving being hit by a kinetic or energy weapon without external protections.
>We're also generally admired for our strong work ethics as a species (at least at our comparative stage) since most species admit they effectively ruined their original home planets with shitty ethics and a complete disregard for their environment and became space-faring out of pure necessity.

Galactic society is currently having a bidding war for proper first contact and therefore first rights to trade, both commercial and cultural. This process involves 'choosing non consenting diplomats for the purpose of determining physical, cultural, and psychological comparability.' In truth, bidding species may select up to 3 individuals for abduction, mechanical implantation(universal translator, toxin scrubbers, etc), and training a culturally savvy escort.

The race that produces a 'diplomat' that can best explain and demonstrate humans as a whole with the fewest adverse effect to the subject psyche or body wins the contract. Humans have shown an incredibly strong capacity to adapt and change compared to the galactic norm for such measures, but that same quality has hastened the timetable for determining the chosen species. The fear is that humanity will either destroy or uplift itself before a choice is made, which would upset galactic politics drastically.

Some of the abducted humans are fine being glorified pets and others have suffered so terribly they hope WW3 begins soon. This speaks to the vast gulf between the various space faring races and how they perceive the universe around them.

Humans are a minor player, currently, on the galactic "south". They are split in two big factions after human Empire got a civil war due to over-controlling technologies. Now there is a lot of piracy and both factions gear up for a second war.

Though they are strong enough to go toe to toe with most of their neighbours. Problem is two closest major factions are way out of their league and the only thing that saves everyone is that both of them are not really that expansionist. Still "otters" could be real dicks.