#And it'd give us a lens on what really happens when a demiurge finds a new gate.

[irradiate-space]

GATE: Thus The JSDF Fought There was okay, but it could have had a better opponent for the JSDF.

Now, don't get me wrong, seeing a modern military curbstomp Generic Magical Rome #34534 can be grimly entertaining. But Gate's best fights and best conflicts are the ones where the JSDF technical advantage doesn't give them a hand up. A similar portal fantasy, 1632, which sent a West Virginia coal-mining town to 1632 Germany, had similar writing problems and solutions.

I think a peer conflict portal fantasy would have been a better JSDF-driven war story.

So what's on the other side of the Gate?

Throne, The Red City, The Center of The Omniverse, The Tower Within The Wheel, from Kill Six Billion Demons.