Originally posted by Platschu
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If there is going to be a Moon base (with an MW gate) then they could still make a direct connection to the SGC or Homeworld Security with ring transport. So SGC would be closed down / destroyed / suspended, while the Army would move their operative in a shielded carter of the Moon. That could be the new base for a new SG movie.
Just why would they build a Moon base if any of the X304 ships could fill a similar role? That is the reason I have said, maybe the MW gate could be moved to the Hammond, which would land on Mars / Moon from a safe distance from Earth.
Just why would they build a Moon base if any of the X304 ships could fill a similar role? That is the reason I have said, maybe the MW gate could be moved to the Hammond, which would land on Mars / Moon from a safe distance from Earth.
One, they'd be transforming a valuable mobile weapon into a largely static operation. Sure, they could technically send the 304 off the halt a Wraith invasion if they needed to, but then they're removing the very necessary access point between Earth and he rest of the Stargate network. Alternatively, they could leave the gate behind, but then they'd need a defensive backup facility that could house it, which they'd have to devote time and resources to maintaining for this particular scenario. Why not just devote all your resources to maintaining a single base?
Two, it is to be expected that any SGC is going to run into a foothold situation. That's one of the positives for moving it offworld; they can more easily contain invaders and destroy the base if need be. But a 304 is a valuable resource that shouldn't be under threat of self-destruct whenever a foothold situation happens, and it is also a honeypot of advanced technology that they don't want falling into the hands of their enemies. Those advanced beam weapons, shields, and hyperdrive engines are what give Earth a fighting chance despite having a much smaller fleet than their enemies. Running an active Stargate program out of one puts those technologies in added danger of falling into enemy hands.
If they want a base elsewhere in the solar system, they should just build a base. It wouldn't require as many resources as building a 304, its design could be built specifically with containment in mind, and if they have to blow it up, it's not as significant of a loss. Plus, it wouldn't be a mobile weapons platform that you can aliens can harvest technology from or take it over and use it to attack Earth with. Imagine that. They put the SGC in a 304 and send it to Mars because they think it's too dangerous to keep it on Earth, and the next thing they know the SGC is flying overhead, firing beam weapons and nukes at their defenses.
One might say that they could strip those things from it, but then they spent a year and billions of dollars building a 304 that serves no offensive or defensive purpose instead of building a proper base.
Or I had some fan fiction idea, what if they could discover a Furling "moon door" teleportation system on Earth (like in the Paradise Lost) which has connected Mexico-Egypt/Iraq-Tibet, but we could find out why it is not working nowadays.
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