Now one thing to point out is that unlike many science fiction scenarios, Gates in the Consortium are their own separate thing when compared to how ships move otherwise. They are also extremely risky as a single misstep while using the Gates can result in the entire ship becoming lost. Most ships, even the Consortium's Corewards use more Warp technology, of bending space around the ship and moving that way. When entering a Gate, one is effectively put into an extra-dimensional space the Gates are able to access, where the speed of the ship is multiplied by one thousand times the speed of light. So this makes travel potentially extremely quick between systems with a Gate. But the only way to leave this space is also through a Gate, and if you miss the Gate then your ship is stuck unless it can manage to correct and find the gate again. But sending a message through a Gate is effectively instant.

The primary purpose of the station is for all of the races to have a central location that will track and monitor the location of every Coreward in the sector, so that all the member races can stay out of their way. Everything else was done secondary to that initial purpose. So naturally when a Coreward is changing directions, it is important for this station to know it. That is one of the terms of all the member races agreed to, that anyone knowing of a Coreward position or changing directions that it reports it to the station.

And finally we get to see the first interaction between Mige and Kinou. As I had said previously Kinou was not marked as being an important character, but when I decided to give him an actual role in the story, there was no way that Mige would not come to taunt him at some point. Especially since throwing Mige at Kinou actually ends up makes a lot of the plot lines further in move more smoothly.

Episode 1

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