Mike wrote:
> Non-habitable worlds, also cheap form of execution?
Only for James Bond villains. The enormous cost of executions
e.g. in the US come from the legal process to make sure that
the ultimate punishment isn't used by mistake[1]. A bullet
doesn't cost much, and desperately resisting victim is harder
to handle than a corpse.
Unless a slow death by exposure is the intention of the
system. A world where people die slowly and suffer all the
way. But in that case, why wouldn't the Evil Overlord so
something much more visible in the town square, to impress
the serfs.
[1] IMHO the process is dysfunctional, but this thread is
about stargates, not legal systems.
> Test lab for various experiments?
Maybe.
> Testing equipment in extreme climates? Enviro suits for instance.
That gives a chicken-and-egg problem. If you have enough earthlike
worlds, why test equipment for bad ones?
> New tech to terraform planets?
Same point.
> Some place on planet might be habitable? See Haven the planet
> with a valley that is habitable but the rest of the planet is
> not.
Haven has marginally habitable valleys and borderline-inhabitable
highlands. If you had a choice between a valley on Haven and, say,
a jungle on Tanith or a forest on Sparta, which would you choose?
> Maybe life on it useful to the Ghaould? I once had silicon life
> forms that floated in the "air" due to helium/hydrogen gas
> pockets and their structure being not solid but pourous. And the
> local lords built their cities on top of them.
Life or something else which isn't available on any nicer world.
Regards,
Onno
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