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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

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

Since the palace was presumably built to defend against Goa'uld attackers, I'd think it'd be smarter to keep it away from the palace. Their MO of attack is either a) disabling the gate, or b) sending something through the gate. It won't matter where the gate is in the former case, but it matters a lot in the latter...

I also have a feeling that, despite how well they use a lot of the technology, the Stargates freak out the Goa'uld a little. Not consciously, maybe, but I think they're not all ready to clasp them to their bosoms unless it's way obviously strategic.

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

yeah, it makes a pretty poor escape route, actually, since any attacker with two brain cells is going to start by dialing in and making sure you have 38 minutes in which you can't use it. So, like the SGC, if you've got a shield over it, you block them, but they also block you from leaving. But then, most Goa'uld (and not even Baal sometimes, though he does at least do it occasionally) don't shield the gate.

The Goa'uld seem pretty averse to technological change/advancement in general, with a few exceptions. So yeah, I don't know if it's intimidation or disinterest, or a combo, maybe. But heh, 'clasping the stargate" to their bosom... no.