User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The Democratic Imperium of Neohumanity/@comment-4867780-20150913113948/@comment-4867780-20150913223731

I see, so the outright annihilation of New Egypt was actually an inevitable necessity, as they were too deeply brainwashed at this point to be anything other than fanatical ennemies, especially after their worshipped Ramses was "martyrized" by Asteraoth, and the threat remained whole since he was ultimately just a replaceable avatar for the Starspawn Lords. Not much of a choice then, the Republic's safety comes first after all.

Too bad for the fungus part, I get the feeling it could have been a very interesting arc (I notably remember your creativity with vegetal technology ;) but it's true the Federation wouldn't have stood a chance in these circumstances. I wonder where the Reality Seed stands in terms of power-level compared to the Exalted Mysterium ? It was never mentioned, and the first being above the later would take a lot of the "Deus ex Machina" feel out of the events, with Asteraoth simply acting quickly and precisely before it's too late.

The favoritism feel mostly steemed from his completely unexpected apparence, single-handed neutralization/elimination of both the ultimate weapon and ruling caste of both New Egypt and the Federation (leaving them wide open for a massive stomping), and then vanishing as mysteriously as he appeared. It's all the more vivid considering he created the universe and pretty much built the U.R.H from behind the scene, essentially doing in-universe what you did from a meta perspective. His Callaghan origin and Exalted Mysterium power definitely offer strong in-universe justification to both his power and actions, but when reading the events one cannot help connecting the dots.

There isn't anything wrong with it in the end though, when you think about it all the leaders of our favorite fan-made civilizations are more or less representations of us (Cassius, Vallantro and Lawrence notably), so there is really no reason you shouldn't lead your own masterpiece :) If anything, it's only fair considering all the work you put in it.

True, when reading the "semi-sentient femtomachines" version of humanity with its plethora of technological perks, the word "neo human" immediately popped up in my mind as the perfect metaphore for the brand new species mankind had evolved into.