After the military's soldiers spread the news, the people of the New Prosperity Galaxy began discussing whether the Humanoid Civilization could truly be considered one of their own.
Simply put, quite a few people in the galaxy already knew about the Humanoid Civilization's recent movements—people like Leirfan had long known that the asteroid attacks on systems such as the auxiliary capital had most likely been the Humanoid Civilization's doing.
Of course, Leirfan held great power and status, and there were not many in New Prosperity better informed than him. But banks... and even manufacturers of certain sensitive materials, roughly knew about it as well.
Thus, while the proportion of people who knew how ruthless the Humanoid Civilization was remained small, their absolute numbers were far from insignificant. Some of them also lacked a strong sense of secrecy, which led to even more people learning of it.
Now that everyone had learned the Humanoid Civilization had actually helped deal with the Insect God Cult, their impression of it improved considerably.
The discussion was incredibly heated, filling local forums everywhere and even drawing traffic from other star systems. By rights, the Federation should have considered controlling it—was it really appropriate to keep praising an alien civilization?
What if the Federation intended to deal with the Humanoid Civilization someday? These people might raise dissenting voices!
Yet the Federation had no plans to control public opinion. It even tried to stir up arguments to further heat the topic.
For example, some people argued that believing in the Insect God Cult was certainly wrong, but those people were Federation citizens and should naturally be dealt with by the Federation. The Humanoid Civilization could issue warnings, but directly killing Federation citizens... who the hell did they think they were? What right did they have to kill