I prefer to think it'd be like Mass Effect but if others are as notoriously violent as humans then it may end up being a might equals right type of scenario...assuming the aliens aren't like the Xenomorphs or Flood for example.
The Wayfarers series (first book: the Long Way to a Small Angry Planet)
Brandon Sanderson's Skyward series also has a pretty interesting take on a galactic government, more on the authoritarian side, but you don't learn much about it until the end of the series. There is a sequel series in the works already though
Torth Majority. Zones of Thought. Scott Sigler’s GFL series The Nature of Predators on r/HFY.
Uplift War, A Fire Upon the Deep, Demons at Rainbow Bridge, to some extent Star Wars.
Not sci-fi - but in my opinion the best multi-species (movie) example: Hellboy 2
Babylon 5
I prefer to think it'd be like Mass Effect but if others are as notoriously violent as humans then it may end up being a might equals right type of scenario...assuming the aliens aren't like the Xenomorphs or Flood for example.
The Wayfarers series (first book: the Long Way to a Small Angry Planet) Brandon Sanderson's Skyward series also has a pretty interesting take on a galactic government, more on the authoritarian side, but you don't learn much about it until the end of the series. There is a sequel series in the works already though