[ WP ] Humans are successful partly because we 're omnivores and this holds true on the galactic scale as well . In the future humans have quickly become feared throughout the Milky Way as our soldiers are ready to eat almost anything ... or anyone .

We're the peacekeepers, of a sort. 
 
 After the Starvation War, when they realized just how far humanity could adapt to survive, we were officially designated the Proclamation's peacekeeping force across the Lambda Arm. We were given a fleet of the best null-space ships and a considerable technological boost, in exchange for never colonizing outside the Nine Systems, and only taking up arms under orders or for protection. 
 
 To this day, only one race has gotten uppity in our sector and had designs on another race's systems. 
 
 We redefined their concept of hell on Aldebaran V. 
 
 They had some real zingers of weaponry, like the little projector that dropped you dead where you stood, or the null-cannon that zapped our supply ships as they came. You see, they figured that if they cut off our supplies, we'd surrender and go home, leave them to conquer in peace. 
 
 They cut off every natural resource the planet had, one at a time, and came for us in small attrition raids once they'd cut us off from the natural flora ( which, by the way, was delicious ). Well, we got hungry, and then one day the raid caught us roasting their fallen comrade and eating him. 
 
 The platoon ran, and we did n't even bother chasing them. We had Dirk and Nee, the two longsighters, pick a couple off, then sent a foraging detail out for the bodies and returned to our meal. 
 
 Man, I miss the taste of that meat.
