Grrl Power #1418 - Karmedy (Patreon)

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Destra eventually gets it. "Oh, because they are slaves! Yes, this amuses." 

Garamm and Lapha aren't in a position to quit their current employment arrangement, but they are getting housed, fed, trained and paid, (albeit in U.S. dollars,) but you try explaining the difference between that and slavery to a Hell Arch Duchess. 

I don't know about you, but telling me that the ringer you want to enter into the giant battle royale might cause the galactic government to sanction the ringer's planet because she's just that powerful is a pretty decent sales pitch. I'd be like, "Yeah, I'll put a sawbuck on her."

I think I've said this before, but the Xevoarchy isn't a capital T "The Galactic Government," they're more like a mandatory UN slash NATO slash INTERPOL and a Federal Reserve. Everyone's welcome to govern themselves however they see fit, but as soon as you start flying into someone else's space or try and sell your particular space bread at market or try to borrow money from a species the next star system over, that's the Xeevoarchy's bailiwick. Every space faring race has to contribute a portion of their navy to the Xeev fleet, which makes maintenance and refueling and all that a prime example of Why Not To Do It That Way, but keeping every race invested in the set up is important. There are loose formulas dictating how many ships a race is required to contribute. It's not a flat percentage, because the race with the most ships would accrue undue pecking power, and races that only have 20 ships to their species probably need every one of them. Also it's kept a bit loosie-goosie so races don't try and game the system by skirting ship tribute rules by not building that one hundred and first ship, which they would then need to contribute, or by decommissioning an old scout ship the same day they launch their new Planet Crusher Meganaut class vessel. 

And they're generally not over-reactive and calling for Exterminatus or even crazy sanctions at the drop of a hat. If anything they tend to be a little slow to react, but there's no harm in being a little cautious. Between Supers presenting a new galactic enigma and Sydney sporting her by-now-everyone-assumes Nth tech baubles in Earth media and a video with about a grillion views on UniverseTube, Terra's secrets are more or less out there.