I feel everyone is failing to forget all of this is spurred from 3 sentences in a book translated into thousands of lines of game code, years of time spent on searching and theorizing, many hours of gameplay, great interaction and stories, brought hundreds if not thousands of commanders from all across the globe together.
And ended with a simplistic easter egg hunt leading to a random piece of standard game content in a random system and a bit more padding to a story we already mostly knew.
WAY BETTER THAN TV!
Fair point, well made.