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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 8683424" data-attributes="member: 40176">It's a very inhabited setting, in which space just happens to be the backdrop against which the thrilling action happens. This isn't a setting in which 99.9% of the star systems you visit are devoid of life.The reason why there needs to be fast, easy travel is that this is a setting in which scale doesn't really matter. The protagonists may travel across half a galaxy, and find entire planets to visit, but we'll only see around 1-3 locations on any particular planet - for all that it matters, it might as well be the size of a city, or even a small town.Stargate SG-1 is a great example of this, with a McGuffin that plays right into it. The heroes visit a whole range of different worlds, but on any one of those worlds they'll rarely see anything beyond a 1-2 mile radius of the location of the Stargate - and since the Stargates are travel hubs, it even makes sense in-universe that most of the interesting stuff on a planet will be near by to them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 8683424, member: 40176"] It's a very inhabited setting, in which space just happens to be the backdrop against which the thrilling action happens. This isn't a setting in which 99.9% of the star systems you visit are devoid of life. The reason why there needs to be fast, easy travel is that this is a setting in which scale doesn't really matter. The protagonists may travel across half a galaxy, and find entire planets to visit, but we'll only see around 1-3 locations on any particular planet - for all that it matters, it might as well be the size of a city, or even a small town. Stargate SG-1 is a great example of this, with a McGuffin that plays right into it. The heroes visit a whole range of different worlds, but on any one of those worlds they'll rarely see anything beyond a 1-2 mile radius of the location of the Stargate - and since the Stargates are travel hubs, it even makes sense in-universe that most of the interesting stuff on a planet will be near by to them. [/QUOTE]

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