Well 2 hours later of catch up reading again and with a few surprises, also I wouldn't be surprised if some people kicked me around a bit for what I'm about to say:
For me it's this sort of thing that we need to do more with in game and these threads help vindicate that desire

As with other aspects of the game, it won't come all at once, but by lotting various story arcs we can work to support the new features needed to make them work. These can then be used in other areas of the game and for new stories.
I don't need to give you a hint because I know what is coming
Michael
Thing is about hints.......we've been told the hints are there in galnet and elsewhere but.....have you tried to reference those hints later on in galnet if we've "missed" them? Because if the hints are obivious when you know the answers or that little thing that makes them a hint, then they are very hard hints in my opnion as.....past expereience with other games and devs...is that they try to not give it away so badly that it makes the hints be a little story of their own that require knowledge to understand them and so hints are then needed of them. So in my mind one way to get the hints be noticed would be to reference them in updates to them maybe so that gets attention put back to them but doesn't ruin the hint as being a hint.....I don't know if this has been done yet or even if you'll see this or the staff members that can speak to you once in a while....but it's just something to think about unless it's been done already which I appologise for not seeing them :S
It is an continuation of the story and there will be a new mystery to solve - but that's all I'm saying
Michael
One could take this as being that the UA mystery is solved at some point....and that the next part just needs to happen...............the goverments recognise that we have the UA and put out a bounty for the UA holders? Would be the appropraite response for raiding their convoys....so I wonder then how many people may value their reputation and ranks in the goverments more than the UA.....
In part you've already triggered the next phase and that's some of what is coming. There's other aspects that haven't been found yet, so these will come in foreground a bit more.
Michael
As I said above......though it would be interesting if there was something to say what we did to partialy trigger the next phase....and you've hidden these other aspects very well or I'm blind here.....Thanks for dropping by though and posting a little while drinking a cup of coffe out of your......Alliance mug is it now?
Thanks MB! This is all I needed!
1. We have driven the story forward and all the hard work we have done has had an effect of some kind.
2. There are things that are CURRENTLY in the game about the UA that have not been found.
3. They will be trying to bring the things we are missing more into focus!
2...and 3......yeah......I was expecting that though I'm wondering how they'll do that as we already knew there was things we've missed. But 1....that's a surprise....
It would be interesting to know what we already did to trigger the next phase.
Yep and we may find out soonTM
The only thing the dev update said about UAs is that "the mystery for these is about to get deeper." How do we intimate that means it had nothing to do with Halsey?
Well for me in my opnion this is what puts them apart as it says about the imperial and federation story line and then mentions the UA completely seperately.....hey I could be wrong and probably am but just still thinking about it.