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Exo-Galactic Pandora Gate

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Exo-Galactic Pandora Gate
Had a thought, looking for some feedback on possible in-game reactions. So, all of the gates explored in the EP universe have thus far been in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, with the possible exception of Corse, way, way, waaay out on the Galactic Rim. But the gates are implied to be seeded throughout the entire Milky Way, if not further. And here's the thought: Want a nifty location to stick an exo-galactic gate that's not someplace extreme in distance, like Andromeda, or even the Magellanic Clouds? Use one of the 180-odd globular clusters in orbit around the Milky Way. The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy would be a good choice--it has passed through the Milky Way in the past, and is set for another collision with the galactic disk again sometime in the "near" future (astronomically speaking), but is still currently well above the galactic disk, but there are other options as well. So, what would be the response to finding a gate that is outside the galactic plane--a gate that enables a "top-down" view of the Milky Way, even if there's no other resources worth speaking of in the area? I imagine that the astronomers would go nuts at the very least--we'd probably see most if not the entire astronomy branch of the argonauts temporarily decamp if they have any access to the home gate (i.e. Pandora, Fissure, maybe Vulcanoid). But that's just my initial thoughts--a really big observatory. Anyone have any other thoughts and projections on what the transhuman reactions would be to finding this type of gate location?

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Sagan said it best
Reminds me of one of my childhood idols, and I'm not quoting Cookie Monster here: "But from a planet orbiting a star in a distant globular cluster, a still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns, the rising of the milky way." Being outside of the "light polution" of the ecliptic disc of the galaxy would open up a huge chunk of the sky to additional observation, not to mention better observation of the local galaxy. But I have to imagine that this (or a similar) opportunity exists with ANY exosystem. I imagine one of the first things they do when opening up a new gate is to put through some telescopes. They might use gate locations for this that are otherwise uninteresting, I got the impression from Gatecrashing that they catalogue all sorts of gate destinations that dont seem immediately viable to visit. I would think that, not only is observation hugely valuable, but you could learn amazing things about relativity and such. Measure the time offsets of different observed phenomena, figure out how separate different places are in time as well as in space, and the actual meanings of such. I would guess that with as few as two or three unique points of observation, we would be able to confirm or re-write huge portions of our understanding of quantum mechanics, m-string theory, holographic reality, and etc.