SG-1 asked:
What is out there?
Atlantis asked:
What did the Ancients leave behind?
Universe asked:
Where were the Ancients going?
Langara can ask:
What did all of this become after they were gone?
That is a genuinely new Stargate question.
And perhaps the most important distinction:
The network doesn't have to become a god.
It may simply have reached the point where, after millions of years of carrying intelligent life between worlds—
it has begun to understand what a connection is for
