Dialing Atlantis

[Archaeis]

They have made it clear that Atlantis is the only gate in the Pegasus Galaxy that can dial Earth, but what about vice versa? Is Earth the only gate in the Milky Way that can dial Atlantis?

[Major Tyler]

They have made it clear that Atlantis is the only gate in the Pegasus Galaxy that can dial Earth, but what about vice versa? Is Earth the only gate in the Milky Way that can dial Atlantis?

No. The Lanteans said in "Before I Sleep" that they would program the Atlantis gate to only accept wormholes from Earth, so that implied that before that time any gate could dial it. The fact that other gates can now reach Atlantis further implies that the program designed to only accept an Earth wormhole was a one-time-use deal and was automatically disabled once the Atlantis team dialled in the first time.

Now any gate in the Milky Way should be able to dial Atlantis provided they have an extragalactic control crystal (or in our case, and extragalactic dialing program provided by Jack when his head was filled with the Ancient library).

[Stevo]

any gate can probably dial to pegasus or other galaxies that have a network. weather or not they all have an 8th chevron chrystal, perhaps they all can but need a more powerful power source than the standard dhd power supply, and just removed the 8th chevron from pegasus due to the wraith.

[Cory Holmes]

any gate can probably dial to pegasus or other galaxies that have a network. weather or not they all have an 8th chevron chrystal, perhaps they all can but need a more powerful power source than the standard dhd power supply, and just removed the 8th chevron from pegasus due to the wraith.

Not quite. It's be stated over and over again that you need a special control crystal built into the DHD to dial an 8 cheveron address, otherwise the system locks up after #7 and says the Ancient equivalent of, "You suck! Dial a proper address and I might deign to work with you, pal!"

The good thing is that DHDs were designed to be plug and play, so all you need to do is rip the extra control crystal out of one DHD and drop it into another one and you have your intergalactic Stargate right there.

[Bragi]

Not quite. It's be stated over and over again that you need a special control crystal built into the DHD to dial an 8 cheveron address, otherwise the system locks up after #7 and says the Ancient equivalent of, "You suck! Dial a proper address and I might deign to work with you, pal!"

The Ancient equivalent of the blue screen of death?

[immhotep]

or white screen of doom. to make it gateworld forum canon

[Cory Holmes]

The Ancient equivalent of the blue screen of death?

Nah, not quite. The Blue Screen of Death always struck me as a childish throwing up the arms and sulking. The Gate is much more tempermental than that, and nowhere near polite. You get all the joy of dialing the gate, seeing the first six cheverons lock in, and then the drone of the gate powering down, the lights going out, and that ever-present feeling of having it laugh at you.

[TjomasC]

Ha ha.. it does seem to like doing the power-down-and-sulk thing. I'm guessing that taking the Earth dialing computer (all how many supercomputers exists of it) to another planet with a stargate would allow extragalactic dialing... I doubt though that the ancients left many extragalatic crystals lying around (imagine if somone had dialed their old home! Ori would have us trounced by now!).

They'd also need a significant power boost, something that you don't just get from a home grown DHD, which again isn't that easy to come by.

Thinking if the Ancients did do a crash screen, they'd probably put a better message on it than current OS's do.... or it could be they ascended solely to ponder what all the information on the crash screen meant.

[Ancient_Chemist]

I think that it has been implied that the Ori are capable of dialing the gate system intergalactically ... although we don't quite know how just yet. Logically we can infer that there are stargates in the ori home galaxy or that priors have stronghold planet in our galaxy that we are not aware. Since there are multiple times we have seen the priors leave through the gate.

Where are the going and coming from? Since regular gates don't have the capacity for an intergalactic wormhole.

[Jakebbq]

what i want to know is how the hell the ori know MW adresses because the alterians came by ship and put gates everywhere and then asended roughly the same time as the ori did and the acended alterians were shielding the MW from the ori so they wouldnt no any of our gate addresses so how do they have addresses for the MW

[Happy_Gate]

what i want to know is how the hell the ori know MW adresses because the alterians came by ship and put gates everywhere and then asended roughly the same time as the ori did and the acended alterians were shielding the MW from the ori so they wouldnt no any of our gate addresses so how do they have addresses for the MW

Well, they found out how to get to MW galaxy from Daniel and Vala's mind. So maybe they got some of the addresses from their memories.
Alternately, they might have a way of access more addresses from the DHD crystal memory of the stargates on planets they visit.
Finally, they might also have the technology of random dialling, kind of like how hackers search for open ports by going from ip to ip.

All speculation, feel free to disagree

[Jakebbq]

Well, they found out how to get to MW galaxy from Daniel and Vala's mind. So maybe they got some of the addresses from their memories.
Alternately, they might have a way of access more addresses from the DHD crystal memory of the stargates on planets they visit.
Finally, they might also have the technology of random dialling, kind of like how hackers search for open ports by going from ip to ip.

All speculation, feel free to disagree

yes this does seem most like;y because they didnt know the MW existed until daniel and vala showed up good explination

[carcatcher]

I think that it has been implied that the Ori are capable of dialing the gate system intergalactically ... although we don't quite know how just yet. Logically we can infer that there are stargates in the ori home galaxy or that priors have stronghold planet in our galaxy that we are not aware. Since there are multiple times we have seen the priors leave through the gate.

Where are the going and coming from? Since regular gates don't have the capacity for an intergalactic wormhole.

Many times the Ascended Ancients have been seen using the Stargate without touching a DHD, it be reasonable to assume that the advanced state of the Prior might give might give them simular control over the Gate