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Yah, but the Stargate only ever crossed realities when something else was happening too. Black hole fun, timeline shifting, etc. It couldn't do it on it's own.
Interesting - the Icarus base planet had a core composed of naquadriah, a super-powered, unstable version of naquadah. SG-1 ran into this a couple of times, noting that it does not occur in nature. So, it's possible everyone was thinking that the planet HAD to have been left behind by the ancients as a unique power source to be able to unlock the ninth chevron.
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Yah, but the Stargate only ever crossed realities when something else was happening too. Black hole fun, timeline shifting, etc. It couldn't do it on it's own.
Oh I realise that, but it's still physically capable of doing it, even if it's not supposed to, just like time travel.
Which raises a point; don't DHD's have a safety feature to prevent accidental solar flare/time travel connections? Perhaps that was included much later as they hadn't happened on the phenomena when the Destiny gates were designed. Makes sense as Janus & co were new to time travel when Wier popped in on them and that was right when they were about to leave Pegasus, much later.
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I'm thinking so, though OTOH they seemed pretty capable of using the stargate in "1969" by manually dialing it and not modifying it. OTOOH, the DHD may contain the safeties required to abort establishing a wormhole in the event of a flare.
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Well, you'd have to think that the much older remotes don't have nearly the amount of safeguards built into them as the bigger and more advanced DHDs.
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I'd say test runs with the Destiny proved that a DHD with safeguards was necessary.
They say that the Destiny was sent out to follow up on seeded gates in the universe, but what if they originally used Destiny to put the gates in the Milky Way?
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It's possible... They seem to think that the Destiny gate system predates the Milky Way. It's possible they seeded our home galaxy with this kind of gate first, then much later they replaced them with the more familiar red chevroned rings. But Rush thinks so far that the Destiny was expressly sent out on this mission followoign up on its seeder ships. In the pilot we do see the path of the Destiny passing through Pegasus, for example, but did they stop over and seed that galaxy with older gates before Atlantis got there?
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That's what I've assumed... because the Pegasus gates are the most advanced out of all the gates that we've seen, it would make sense that the Destiny-era ships first seeded the galaxy, and then when the Ancients got out there and started settling, they replaced the gates with upgraded models.
And I think the same would make sense for the Milky Way, too.
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