Talk:Stasis Rifle/@comment-70.127.149.143-20151019130210/@comment-101.127.86.145-20170214022732

As far as I can tell, the phasegates are built in space, not on a planet. There isn't any requirement for even landing on a planet, let alone terraforming it.

" Actually messing up the ecosystem by killing off all the large predators would be a GOOD thing from your perspective. It would mean less danger for you and an abundance of food as the herbivore's population exploded. Since your goal is to leave not stay long term the possible damage it could cause in the future wouldn't matter at all."

Even if you are not particularly concerned about ecology, you don't know how long you will have to survive in the wild before rescue/escape. Long term effects like resource depletion from unchecked population growth would make survival more difficult on a fundamental level, something which cannot be solved by killing things. Very often we don't care about the consequences as long as they don't affect us, but how sure are we really?