Man and his earth-born civilization were still too low on the scale of development to be admitted to awareness that a gigantic galactic culture existed.
But with appropriate direction, it means the salvation of galactic culture.
You can see why the only solution, from a Zeroth Law perspective, was to create a new, uniform galactic culture that might bring an age of peace.
The whole galactic culture was based upon the happy conviction that wars could never happen again.
That would have been technologically feasible for any mature galactic culture, especially one that had the galaxy largely to itself.
It gave Ethan a little breather, before being plunged into galactic culture.
It is a major source of news and information, and is central to much of galactic culture and history.
They'd comprised different facets of her indoctrination into galactic culture.
The interaction of the entire galactic culture at an end.
The stories are set in a far future galactic culture that is fragmented and without any central government.