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[lizardbeth]

SG-1 Question.

Let's say you're a Goa'uld system lord, like Baal, for random example. You have a Stargate on your homeworld, near your palace, that you keep a coded forcefield on (like the SGC's iris), but with the access code fairly well spread among your upper level minions (who may betray you at any moment, so it's not super secure). However, you have not EVER been attacked at home. Presuming you're a bit smarter than the average Goa'uld, would you keep your Stargate inside your palace under guard, for convenience? Or would you put it outside the walls and rely on your ships if escape should ever be necessary?

I have, for example, always thought Apophis was pretty stupid for having his gate so far away from his palace on Chulak. It gave his enemies far too many opportunities for mischief unobserved.

And yet, OTOH, SG-1 also teaches us that having your Stargate too close to something you want to keep is a recipe for disaster, since gates malfunction, higher-level enemies find ways to attack it, etc.

Not that this is important, even in the fic, I just CAN'T DECIDE!

ETA: It occurs to me that there's canon that it can't be TOO far away, since Baal notices the gate's behaving strangely in Avenger and takes advantage of it, within minutes of it starting.

*back to writing*

Comments

[newroticgirl.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm. I can see good reasons for both. Maybe your stargate is in a different wing of your palace, so it's relatively close BUT an attacking force can be caught before they reach the main area? If you've never been attacked, no matter how smart you are, it's easy to get a little lax/overconfident.

Maybe your stargate is in a walled courtyard, inside the main palace but there's only one door in/out so you've got a choke point if an invasion comes?

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

and yes, it's the never been attacked part that makes me think he can't be TOO perfectly strategic and maybe a little overconfident.

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