Wormholes in Space

[Captain Joy]

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.

A wormhole near a gravity well?! Are you crazy? [Hand wave. Hand wave. Hand wave.]

Wormholes aren't mere doors you just open and walk through. They are a severe curvature of spacetime. You might as well ask why we don't put a solar-mass black hole on the surface of a planet.

Why are you asking about this? Is somebody planning something like this? If they are you better 'fess up right now, buddy.