wormhole
(An in-universe explanation as to why the Empire, et. al., prefer to use their special – i.e., yes, per here, space-magic enhanced – wormhole technology.) A common question among newcomers to the field of spacetime engineering, especially as it applies to wormholes, is the reasoning behind our use of dynamic wormholes
stargate
Or, the Difficult Worldbuilding Compromises that Result when You Didn’t Design Everything at the Same Time. It has been (entirely correctly) pointed out over on Google+ that this is not how wormholes, as we understand them today, would work. (Because they’d work like this.) This is one of
trope-a-day
No Warping Zone: You could, in theory, put a wormhole pair anywhere you liked – high mass notwithstanding. The traditional location out on the edge of star systems has more to do with size, ease of construction and transport, accessibility and defensibility, and minimizing the consequences of their extremely explosive, if