I don't think that the actual discovery of the network needs to be put off, after a point you've got to fire Chekhov's Gun, right? A good bit of what I want to use the gate network to explore would be helped with a decent-sized timeskip. (I've got some awesome ideas, but I can't quite articulate them, argh.) Of course the timeskip brings its own frustrations to bear and its... I don't know.
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