The Indigo Five Chronicles

First Contact happened... and a lack of marketable skills or exports means that if humanity wants to make something of itself among the stars, it's going to have to help others 'make something of themselves' too, so to speak.

What rare quality does humanity bring to the wide-ranging, immensely crowded Society with its tens of thousands of species? It's what's inside that counts, and it looks like Society wants to get inside.... in any way they can.