This is how I felt during CCA with the Psychoframes and whatnot. Doesn't seems surprising to me too that this one has UC connection when the colony itself got far flung for centuries without connection then suddenly became that reutrning like a boomerang probably filled with Neos (Mutant Newtypes)
Well I was OK with that. In my view, watching CCA was like coming straight out of Zeta (not even double Z). So it wasn't like a sudden in-your-face mystical stuff. The first time I ever watched it was somewhat before the age of the real internet, so I didn't know how it would end. But I still expected CCA to end somewhat like it did.
I mean, I expected it to finish Lalah's storyline...which it did, sort of. But I also expected her to appear more. Either way, that brought the expectation for more of that side of UC.