Roy
Speaker-Second Foundation
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: San Diego
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I don't think that the rationale "striving for the betterment of the younger races" is likely. That would be based on assumptions such as: 1) The ancients care, and 2) The ancients were able to predict which planets would (in the future) support races that could use/figure them out. Remember, humans are the only underdeveloped race that can use the thing so far. So if the Ancients intended to better all these younger races, then they've failed thus far.
Ships and gates have one common function... transportation. However, they have very different purposes. Ships are not made mearly to move people, they move armaments, food, equipment, people, etc. Ships do this very efficiently, more so than a gate.
Gates are small in comparison, and were obviously designed to transport people and small amounts of stuff. If you're going to start a colony, you don't use a gate, you use a ship... but if you want to simply travel (vacation, business, etc.) to another world, you use a gate - not a ship, because that would be inefficient. I can just see it - Thor wants to take a vacation on that tropical world, so he jumps on a warship and soaks up the sun... NOT LIKELY!
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Last edited by Roy on 12-10-2002 at 10:03 PM
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