I feel like a fun science-fiction dead gods trope is playing with the idea of gods bodies floating around in space. Are the bodies of dead gods a natural resource that are mined for the god-oil that is required for faster than light travel? Are they not dead, but just dormant, and there are factions trying to wake them up? Does one's proximity to a dead god affect the strength of one's space magic (close you can do Jedi stuff, but far away, your in no-magic hard sci-fi land)? Is it not the gods that are dead, but the people!? Etc.!