Wormholes in Space

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Originally Posted by Sindri

In a space game using wormholes for FTL what are good excuses to keep the wormholes in space rather than on the surface of planets.

Stable Wormholes may (possibly must) require massive negative mass equivalents (like negative Jupiters even for throats a few meters in diameter). Obviously putting that much negative mass on a planet would be disastrous.