At those words, the Deep Blue Star People were left numb once again.
From the probe reaching the Star Alliance's location to their first real conversation, in that brief span of time, they had learned information that humanity had spent thousands of years seeking.
It would have been a lie to say they were not shaken.
The Deep Blue Star People were not only shocked, but also won over by the goodwill displayed by the Star Alliance. It felt like elders earnestly instructing their juniors, and they respected the Star Alliance from the bottom of their hearts.
The Deep Blue Star People in the ground bases might not live for centuries, let alone millennia, but they would certainly remember the Star Alliance's teachings to all of Deep Blue Star Civilization and pass them down through generations by every means they could think of.
In the future, they would become spreaders of The Great Voyage just like humanity—if they could grow strong enough.
Deep Blue Star Civilization might also collapse midway through its growth, but a single spark could start a prairie fire. If one Deep Blue Star Civilization failed, there would be another. There were still plenty of Low-level Civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy...
Hope... sometimes came about just like that.
Human Civilization led the Star Alliance. As humanity learned more about the secrets of cosmic society, its attitude toward aliens kept changing. Of course, that did not mean humanity had turned into an alien-friendly civilization.
Human Civilization could no longer be described with such all-or-nothing labels as "extremely anti-alien" or "extremely pro-alien."
Human Civilization had the goal of The Great Voyage and was willing to share news of it in goodwill, but that did not mean humanity would be intimate with every alien civilization. Nor would humanity adopt