I had inherited some sort of significant position in a galactic trade alliance. I guess I just somehow had never realized all along that I was the heir to a star-spanning corporate interest. All of a sudden, I had to deal with human government interference, try to figure out how to network with a peer group that was, for the most part, hundreds of light years away, unbury my starship-pyramid from where it had lain buried for millions of years, and bunch more little details...
(We used leaf-blowers to uncover the starship-pyramid.)