The ultimate aim of this group is to make profit, either through galactic expansion, acquisition (see the Rules of Acquisition), or trade.

It had been opened as an agricultural world early in Man's galactic expansion, supplying food to fifteen nearby mining worlds.

However, this would not necessarily be so if other species were to be discovered during a galactic expansion.

We know they are getting further, and we know its because of galactic expansion.

Paraiso-Aqui is a planet that was settled during the first galactic expansion and only recently rediscovered.

They were built during the last wave of galactic expansion.

With this at stake, Anderson (and the character representing his point of view) turns against psychotechnics and for galactic expansion.

And in both, the protagonist finally decides to abort these efforts and opt for galactic expansion, even at the cost of instability and uncertainty.

In 1981, cosmologist Edward Harrison argued that such behavior would be an act of prudence: an intelligent species that has overcome its own self-destructive tendencies might view any other species bent on galactic expansion as a kind of virus.

The Drakulians method of galactic expansion is as simple and brutal as their Code of Victory and Honor in personal combat.