President reverses a Biden-era decision to keep it at temporary headquarters in Colorado Springs
President Donald Trump’s decision once again to move U.S. Space Command out of Colorado drew immediate condemnation across party lines from the state’s congressional delegation on Tuesday — and raised the specter of a legal challenge.
More than seven months after his return to office, Trump’s long-expected announcement that his administration would move the command to Alabama reversed a Biden-era decision to keep its headquarters in Colorado Springs. A military review previously had recommended the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, but the Republican president also invoked politics by saying one of the considerations was that voters in Colorado largely vote by mail.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said he was planning a legal challenge to try to stop the relocation. And in a joint statement, the state’s entire congressional delegation said the president’s decision “will directly harm our state and the nation.”
Space Command, the lawmakers stated, is “already fully operational” in Colorado Springs and relocating it “would not result in any additional operational capabilities.” The move “sets our space defense apparatus back years, wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, and hands the advantage to the converging threats of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea,” the delegation wrote.
Cheyenne mountain right?
Also Peterson Airforce Base and Shrever. Not to mention all the R&D that goes on at the Air Force Academy with students. It’s also the central satellite hub. I think Hawaii is the next closest one.
Yeah, it would be a pretty big task to move the Stargate and the entire Stargate project to another state. It makes zero sense to have Space Command be that far away from our primary access to space.
Nah, we know they can move gates. Russia had the second gate and we had to rent it for a while if you remember.
Sure you can physically move the gate. The intergalactic gate bridge proves that in spades. But there’s more to it than just the gate. It’s also all the supporting hardware. Without a DHD you need so much hardware to make it work. Then there’s all the security issues. Being inside a mountain is a huge plus when it comes to safety. Not just from a foothold situation, but also when being connected to a black hole for example. And having a failsafe device is also something easier done inside a mountain. You can destroy the entire base without basically setting off a nuke without warning in the mainland US. Possibly even destroy the base without anybody on the outside knowing about it, or with the option to say it’s an accidental collapse. Then there’s moving all the personnel, who are all stationed at that base. With other programs like NORAD being stationed there, it’s easy to hide what you are doing. This is much harder on other sites, especially to cover up the huge energy hookup needed to establish the wormhole before it can draw power from the other side.
Bottom line it would cost probably a billion dollars or even more. That’s if a good enough site already exists, otherwise it would cost way more. And in the end be worse off in every possible way. Yeah no, you are right, that sounds exactly like a Trump move.
Why would we care about this?
With the BC-304 class ships (or even O’Neill-class ship), we can travel to any random gate (pick any dead planet) and pick up their DHD and take it home. The problem for infrastructure only comes if there’s no ZPM and you need grid hookup to power inter-galaxy dialing.
I don’t think that there’s any need to worry about the supporting hardware considering the access capable with the intergalactic ships (edit to pick up any needed “real” hardware /edit)… They could even import an Atlantean gate for the automatic irising features to drop that requirement too (and should fix the black hole issue… probably? I guess we don’t know if the new Atlantean gates have the same issues). Actually I would suspect importing an Atlantean gate at all would resolve most of the problems that you’ve outlined. But it doesn’t require a whole mountain to seal a gate closed. We’ve seen that just a small amount of dirt/debris burying the gate will stop a connection from being made, and we also already know that if a connection is already active that dropping a shitton of debris on it doesn’t stop the active connection.
We’ve also seen episodes “in the future” (alt-timeline nonsense aside) where the gate was exposed for consumer travel. Which presumes that these issues could be solved.
God I wish the show would have continued to explore some of these other concepts before ending.
The rest of your post… yeah moving a shit-ton of personnel sucks. But the Military does it all the time. I don’t think that the general population would notice much of anything.
Edit: I just realized… we only see the Atlantean “iris” on Atlantis itself… It’s probable that the other gates don’t have it. They would have to retrofit/clone that functionality I suppose.
Yep, although Cheyenne Mountain is only part of it. I believe you got a reply with the others included.
Nah, all astronauts love the Denver Nuggets for some reason 🤷