Galactic Law
The rest of the galaxy is very arrogant toward any noncontacted world based on the fact that they aren't ready to be contacted and should just be left to do whatever. They're more concerned with the worlds already in the consol. Official contact isn't made until a species achieves true space flight capability.
The Galactic Consol has no problems with people visiting Earth as long as they aren't doing things .... like the Littans did. They see it as more of an inspiration to humans to work on their space capability. They won't make any sort of formal contact though until they actually manage to make real space worthy vessels.
They don't consider lost items a problem because any technology they leave laying around is so far out there and in such a different make that by the time any human scientist could go through the trouble of figuring out the hardware, how it fits together and then decipering the programming language, not to mention... the alien languages and mental thoughts that go into the design of something as simple as a dataplate, which even though they're small are extremely extravagant in the amount of information stored in them,... and not even noting the energy source... humans could make their own more easily.
Headshots are illegal across the Galaxy. Projectiles are never to be used against another creature where their eyes or mental capacities are stored. It is considered quite barbaric to target these areas. It just isn't fair or proper to shoot someone there.
Education is done by age 16 or 17. 'Public education' is for those who can't afford a real education or don't have desired skills - they will never be in a professional position.
The body and mind are really the ONLY things any Rishan has that cannot be taken control of. There are laws, which are actually enforced concerning such things, and with their level of technology any violation of mind or body is easily tracked back.
There is a Galactic Registry which keeps records of everyone who was born and died, along with DNA tracers. The records cannot be altered, although some information can be restricted. [1]
Clones are cheap to produce. The only problem was that they looked exactly the same and it had long since been discovered that if you tampered with the DNA to make them look different, even with their expertise, other things changed as well. There was also a galaxy wide ban on cloning of complete beings and more than one corporation had been brought down because of it. The cost if they were caught far outweighed any savings. [2]
