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stargate - Why did the Goa'uld not invade Earth through the Beta gate?


The Beta gate, so far as I can tell, has been in Antarctica functioning for thousands of years. Why didn't the Goa'uld invade Earth through the beta gate at some point in time? Or am I just misunderstanding how two gates on the same planet work?



Answer



One good reason is - why? How were the goa'uld to know, of all the worlds with humans on them, that Earth would advance so far technologically?


The Stargate RPG sourcebook (which I believe at one point was canon but is not anymore) insinuates that the human uprising was part of a long period of internal struggle started by Egeria and the tok'ra. Probably dozens of worlds rebelled. Given that Ra (and the System Lords under him) controlled hundreds or thousands of worlds, if one day they find that the Earth gate is not dialing - so what? They know that humans originally came from Earth, but they have plenty of breeding stock for implantation elsewhere. If the planet is just going to give you trouble, you don't need anything there, and you've already got a civil war going, you're going to want to put resources where it matters.



In fact, Earth didn't advance that far - Tollana and presumably Serita, for example, advanced much further. Langara was almost as advanced, and far more resource-rich. There's nothing inherently special about Earth that they'd know which would make them want to go back. (The exception would be Anubis, who knew about the Ancients, but didn't act until much later.)


Finally, who's to say they didn't try? The beta gate was buried at Antarctica. If the goa'uld had tried to send some soldiers back, they would've ended up like O'Neill and Carter - stuck under a mountain of ice with an unpowered DHD, and it's unlikely they'd be smart enough to repair it. If the soldiers went through and didn't come back, that's all the more reason for the goa'uld to just write off the world as lost.


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