The thoughts behind the gate network... well, there were a couple reasons for doing it.
First of all, I wanted to spread some deeper weirdness and mysteries into the Fenspace galaxy. The Gatebuilders were always going to be just the beginning of it; I had an incomplete (& honestly awful) piece about a gate expedition coming across a wrecked Byzantine starship somewhere in the further-flung reaches of the network, which would then serve as a lead-in to one of the crazier bits of lore I was hoping to use.
Second, I wanted to give the writers the opportunity to get out of the solar system and go somewhere they wanted to go. Clearly the frontier-as-developed, which interesting in a worldbuilding sense just doesn't generate stories the same way that running across, oh I don't know, let's say Westeros in the gate network would. If nobody wants to go write about Little-House-On-The-Prairie shit in the Alpha Centauri system well fine, we can background that and set up a way for troubleshooters to go shoot trouble elsewhere in the galaxy.
But apparently I misjudged. So, yeah, um, sorry.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
First of all, I wanted to spread some deeper weirdness and mysteries into the Fenspace galaxy. The Gatebuilders were always going to be just the beginning of it; I had an incomplete (& honestly awful) piece about a gate expedition coming across a wrecked Byzantine starship somewhere in the further-flung reaches of the network, which would then serve as a lead-in to one of the crazier bits of lore I was hoping to use.
Second, I wanted to give the writers the opportunity to get out of the solar system and go somewhere they wanted to go. Clearly the frontier-as-developed, which interesting in a worldbuilding sense just doesn't generate stories the same way that running across, oh I don't know, let's say Westeros in the gate network would. If nobody wants to go write about Little-House-On-The-Prairie shit in the Alpha Centauri system well fine, we can background that and set up a way for troubleshooters to go shoot trouble elsewhere in the galaxy.
But apparently I misjudged. So, yeah, um, sorry.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"