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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8089579" data-attributes="member: 19675">Operating from the idea seeds upthread about the gates being made in asteroids and also being part of a sentient mechanical race, tied with the Oan/Green Lantern type relationship, the KoO’s concealment issue becomes a bit easier.1);The fact that they’re inside asteroids makes gate activity harder to spot.  Most of the energy would be escaping from the ends, so if you’re looking at it a few degrees off center, it might be nearly undetectable from any real distance. Visually, they going to blend in with their surroundings, as well. 2) Assuming the portals are sentient means they don’t need to be at fixed points in space in order to create and maintain connections.  They keep in touch, updating their locations.  That means a portal could be drifting along in an asteroid belt alongside hundreds of billions of similar pieces of rock.3) If the sentient portals consider the KoO’s to be their agents*, they have a vested interest in keeping them safe.  That means that the locations of those portals in KoO controlled space wouldn’t necessarily be revealed by the other portals.Now, it wouldn’t take long for smart critters to figure out something hinky is going on when they try to follow KoO agents and wind up places where it’s patently clear the agents aren’t, but the portal technology predates the rise of pretty much every other sentient race.  They won’t know all the secrets.  They might figure it’s just a glitch.  Or that the KoO have figured out some kind of way to manipulate the transport data.Figuring out the portals are doing it themselves would be a shocking revelation.  “They‘re sentient?  They have free will?  What if they stopped cooperating with us?”* pets?</blockquote>

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