One thing we should also bear in mind is that the Devs have a habit of putting us through a loop - so that things we anticipate do not appear as we may expect.
I wouldn't put it past the them to put in a story line that we actually dealt with the Coming Storm almost by accident - in a similar way that the alien invasion fleet in HGG which was swallowed by a small dog.
"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?" Thelonious Monk
One thing we should also bear in mind is that the Devs have a habit of putting us through a loop - so that things we anticipate do not appear as we may expect.
I wouldn't put it past the them to put in a story line that we actually dealt with the Coming Storm almost by accident - in a similar way that the alien invasion fleet in HGG which was swallowed by a small dog.
Thelonious Monk