Wave Attacks - Exo Galactic Gate not working

[Wanderer]

Can someone help me understand this?

I'm getting a wave to when I've got a single point of entry, down at Kirk, from Earth.  The exo-gate acts as a wave gate, but the AI is still sending to never never.  I've attached screenies of the wormhole map and one of the homeworld showing the wave and the wavegate there.

This is odd.  I've got a savegame if need be.

[Wanderer]

Nevermind, I understand the confusion.  It'll only react if you have a presense in system, it doesn't warp-attack neighbors.

Which is kinda wonky.  I guess it's to make sure you can still control the whipping boy if you choose to not take their home system.  It should probably have a note on it or something to make that clearer.

[_K_]

1: You can hold down ctrl or alt or something to display all your system names. Always use it when makind screenshots of the system map.
2: You triggered a raid engine, right? These things dont work like the regular waves. "" ,eans the suystem the AI is going to attack has no warp sensor.

[Wanderer]

Nope, thanks though K.  I'd wiped out the AI Command center already, thus Raid and friends were dead.

It's because the exo-gate only spawns against the local cmd center, not a neighboring system.  I'd forgotten that.  I need to rethink my plan.  I got hammered on that game because it was the equivalent of getting a 1500 CPA every wave.  Was ugllllyyyyy....