On a larger scale, Harrison ( 2000 ) has speculated that, as humanity builds relations with an extraterrestrial civilization, humanity may be given an invitation to a " Galactic Club " with numerous other civilizations.

Galactic civilization holds humanity's claim of having evolved to sentience independently to be highly controversial at best, and an offensive heresy at worst.

After the defeat of the Posleen on Earth, Humans discovered the extent of the Darhel duplicity, manipulation and actions against the Human Race, the majority of the Darhel are wiped out by Humans in the aftermath of the Posleen War, leaving them the underclass of Galactic civilization.

* The noosphere concept of ' unification ' was elaborated in popular science fiction by Julian May in the Galactic Milieu Series.

Players could take on any number of possible roles in the setting but the default was to act as hired agents of the Pan Galactic corporation in exploring the Frontier and fighting the aggressive incursions of the alien and mysterious worm-like race known as the Sathar.

also spelled Xemu, was, according to the founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the " Galactic Confederacy " who, 75 million years ago, brought billions < ref name = thmill > As 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, or thousands of millions in Long Scale of his people to Earth ( then known as " Teegeeack ") in a DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs.

Hubbard wrote that Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy 75 million years ago, which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as " Teegeeack ".

Teegeeack was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a pariah " prison planet " to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien " Invader Forces " since that time.

They land on there and find R. Daneel Olivaw, who explains that he has been paternalistically manipulating humanity for many millennia, and indeed, since Elijah Baley's time, which was long before the Galactic Empire or Foundation.

One of the prominent features of Trantor was the Library of Trantor ( variously referred to as the Imperial Library, the University of Trantor Library, and the Galactic Library ), in which librarians index the entirety of human knowledge by walking up to a different computer terminal every day and resuming where the previous librarian left off.

Hindsight observers might recognize that it was therefore the tik-tok uprising, perhaps more than any other single event, that set the stage for Trantor's sack and the final collapse of the Galactic Empire.

However, when Asimov decided decades later to retroactively integrate the universe of his Foundation and Galactic Empire novels with that of his Robot stories, a number of changes and minor discrepancies surfaced — the character R. Daneel Olivaw was established as having existed for some 20, 000 years, with the original Robot novels featuring the character occurring not more than a couple of millennia after the early-21st century Susan Calvin short stories.

Asimov later integrated the Robot Series into his all-engulfing Foundation series, making R. Daneel Olivaw appear again twenty thousand years later in the age of the Galactic Empire, in sequels and prequels to the original Foundation trilogy ; and in the final book of the Robots series — Robots and Empire — we learn how the worlds that later formed the Empire were settled, and how Earth became radioactive ( which was first mentioned in Pebble in the Sky ).

Some contortion was required to explain how the robots of the Robot series are almost completely absent from the Galactic Empire novels.

The Imperial Navy, also referred to as the Imperial Starfleet, was the military arm of the Galactic Empire in charge of maintaining security, peace and order in the galaxy.

In addition to Nazi Germany, there was also at least one portion of the Galactic Empire that was based on the Soviet Union, which is the various military personnel and TIE Fighters are flying in formation as Palpatine arrives on the Death Star in Return of the Jedi.

A fleet of SpaceShipTwos operated by Virgin Galactic planned to begin reusable private spaceflight carrying paying passengers ( space tourists ) in 2008, but this was delayed due to an accident in the propulsion development.

The best known to the general public today is probably the empire from Star Wars, which was formed in turn from the Galactic Republic.

In 1984 an area of was acquired by the Galactic Resources Ltd. subsidiary Summitville Consolidated Mining Company, Inc. ( SCMCI ).

Riley was charged with abusive language for allegedly using profanity on stage while performing with the band Galactic in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia, in the city's annual Bayou Boogaloo Festival at Town Point Park in June 2008.

Probably the longest OVA series ever made was Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which spanned 110 main episodes and 52 gaiden episodes.

He was commissioned to design the Virgin Galactic " spaceport " in New Mexico ( Foster and Partners are its architects ).

Darkseid had been portrayed as a villain in Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians in the 1980s, but in this series, he was closer to the enormously powerful, evil cosmic emperor originally envisioned by Kirby.

A member of the amphibious Mon Calamari species, Ackbar was the foremost military commander of the Rebel Alliance who led major combat operations against the Galactic Empire.

However, before the May 1983 debut of that film, the character made his first chronological appearance in a series of Star Wars newspaper comic strips by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, where he was portrayed as the leader of the alien species Mon Calamari, who were allies of the Rebel Alliance in their conflict with the Galactic Empire.

* Galactic astronomy-the study of our Milky Way Galaxy

Galactic astronomy is the study of our own Milky Way galaxy and all its contents.

Galactic cosmic rays ( GCRs ) are cosmic rays that have their origin inside our Galaxy.

Our own Milky Way has recently ( in the 1990s ) been confirmed to be a barred spiral, although the bar itself is difficult to observe from our position within the Galactic disk.

* Galactic cosmic ray, the high-energy particles that flow into our solar system from far away in the galaxy

This child, Joseph Samuel T ' Kol T ' Lan Kirk ( called Joseph ), proves instrumental in preserving the Galactic Barrier from destruction, protecting all life in our galaxy from invasion by hostile would-be conquerors from the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy, known as the Totality, in the ninth novel of the series, Captain's Glory.

After this, most of the Galactic Empire had left our galaxy, leaving only a scattered few.

From our Sun's point of view, it is situated towards the Galactic Center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Two LDS authors have published books speculating that Kolob is a star at the Galactic Center, Sagittarius A *, of our own Galaxy.

Omri-Tas is the ruler of the Violet Planet that is closest to Earth and which is responsible for transmitting the violet flame from the Great Central Sun of the Cosmos via the Galactic Logos to planets in our sector of the Milky Way Galaxy.

The Galactic plane will also be extensively studied with VST, which will look for signatures of tidal interactions in the Milky Way, and will provide astronomers with data crucial to understand the structure and evolution of our Galaxy.

The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is classified as an irregular galaxy and is now thought to be the closest neighbouring galaxy to our location in the Milky Way, being located about 25, 000 light-years away from our Solar System and 42, 000 light-years from the Galactic Center.

It is hinted within the series that, rather than a Military-Industrial Complex such as evolved in our society, almost all military research and production is managed by civilian employees of the Galactic Patrol, rather than by independent contractors.

Commonly observed classes of objects include star-forming molecular clouds in our own and other galaxies, highly redshifted galaxies, evolved stars, and the Galactic Center.

On May 1st, 2012, Amos announced the formation of her own record label Transmission Galactic, which she intends to use to develop new artists.

The Mule sets up his own short-lived Galactic Empire, the " Union of Worlds ", styling himself " First Citizen of the Union " and making Kalgan its capital planet.

As a stalwart and patriotic defender of the original Galactic Empire, Riose was shocked by the legend of Hari Seldon's plan to create a new Empire which would take over from his own ; the Foundation was a real threat.

By this time many of the First Ones moved beyond the Galactic Rim to explore the vast emptiness between galaxies, and to allow the younger species to evolve on their own.

But the sacrifice is spoiled thanks to a riot caused by the Shamed Ones, who save many of the Galactic Alliance captives much to their own detriment as Shimrra has many Shamed Ones and workers executed as capital punishment.

However, their own ship was destroyed as it passed through the Galactic Barrier surrounding the galaxy and now they need the Enterprise to make the 300-year return journey home.

When Palpatine becomes chancellor of the Galactic Republic, he phases out the Senate Guards in preference for his own Royal Guards.

The Rebel of Rhada is an expansion, with many changes including a significantly different ending, of " The Rebel of Valkyr ," published in 1950 under his own name and included in Brian Aldiss's collection Galactic Empires.

This came in the form of General Bel Riose, a loyal servant of the Galactic Empire, when Riose learned of the Foundation's eventual plan for its own Empire.

Under his own name and under the pen names James Darke, James McPhee, and James Axler, he also wrote books for the series " Dark Future ," " Earth Blood ," " Galactic Security Service " and " Survival 2000 ," as well as a number of independent novels and short stories.

Birdy appeared again when Morgana launched her all out attack on the Power Rangers, informing them that Galactic Command could not respond on such short notice, and that they were on their own.

Galactic Mining had its own defence system — battle helicopters operating in the stormy atmospheres of the moons — but it was cancelled as too many of its pilots died during training as they had to navigate in extreme weather conditions on Moon 44.

The Dark Nest Crisis and the Swarm War conclude, with the Killiks now a harmless race ; the Chiss go back to their own business in the Unknown Regions, and the Galactic Alliance returns to its normal duties in peacetime.