Hi, welcome to the boards.
You make a good point (I think it was mentioned about thread one or two, but in all the bantering back and forth in the seven threads since then, I see no problem with bringing our attention to it again, now).
It depends on the plot, of course, but if the intention is to link the plots of K1 and K2 together, then it really only makes sense to set the next game mainly beyond the Outer Rim worlds.
I would like that setting; especially if it took on the perspective of a first-person French / Dutch resistance fighter of WW2 ...