"Diplomatic missions to other planets," she says, still trying to wrap her head around the ease of interstellar travel everyone seems to have. "What, you mean for military? In Japan, we had the Ministry of Defense, so army, navy, and air force were under them, once they were reestablished after the second world war. In the states, the same three plus marines and a whole shitload of mostly-covert agencies."

None of which particularly like mutants with potentially militaristic capabilities, or protecting mutants with potentially militaristic capabilities either.