so we know stargate universe is set on a ship called destiny,but what i was wondering is how they will use the stargate its self. will they use it to go down to the planet when the destiny Arrives in orbit?
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Originally posted by lwf View Postso we know stargate universe is set on a ship called destiny,but what i was wondering is how they will use the stargate its self. will they use it to go down to the planet when the destiny Arrives in orbit?A word of advice... there are creatures that live between this dimension and the next, fiendish creatures that feast on the suffering of an entire world to satiate their eternal hunger. Support the Gateworld Cantina or suffer the fate of all who fall into the clutches of the 'Eladrith Ynneas'
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Originally posted by VSHARMA View PostThey'l use the stargate what it was designed for……… rapid travel between two distant locations
"Earth discovers that the Stargate's mysterious ninth chevron can be utilized to gate directly to the Ancient ship, opening up literally the whole universe to explore. But the team will soon discover that they have no way back to Earth, and must ride the ship on its programmed course."
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I'm sure they'll explain everything, but from what we know so far, if they are gating from a ship and it moves, they'll have a completely new gate address when the Destiny reaches its next destination. Unless the Destiny can spit out the new gate coordinates in advance, if you don't gate back to the ship before it leaves, you won't know the new gate address of the gate on the ship, leaving you stranded on that planet.
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^^ Yeah that's pretty much it from what I understand.
They are basically on a ship which they can't steer, which every now and then passes a planet where there's a Stargate. So they use the gate on the ship to go down to these planets (Probably to get supplies and stuff, I can't imagine a million year old unmanned ancient vessel will have much food on it), but they have a time limit because once the Destiny gets too far away, the coordinates for the gate on board change so they can't get back to it.
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Originally posted by jrd231 View PostI'm sure they'll explain everything, but from what we know so far, if they are gating from a ship and it moves, they'll have a completely new gate address when the Destiny reaches its next destination. Unless the Destiny can spit out the new gate coordinates in advance, if you don't gate back to the ship before it leaves, you won't know the new gate address of the gate on the ship, leaving you stranded on that planet.
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Originally posted by The_Carpenter View PostMy understanding is that they wll use it to explore worlds that have been seeded by the preceding ship. How that ties in with the leaving people behind comment though I don't know
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2008/0...has_a_go.shtml
Stargate Universe is set on board a massive Ancient ship called the Destiny, millions of years older than even the city of Atlantis (story). The Ancients launched the automated ship millions of years ago to seed Stargates throughout many galaxies, with a second ship planned to follow it up and explore those planets. But they got busy with ascension, and never followed through on the plan.
If this is the case, why would an automated ship have life support or any kind of living space for people? Possible explanation - the Ancients wanted to send the occasional maintenance crew to make sure everything was running correctly. This is the reason why the 9th chevron takes people to the ship. So why can't they get back? Maybe the maintenance crews took a portable DHD just in case there were nasty aliens in other galaxies who might figure out how to use an onboard gate.
I'm wondering what the ship's power source is if it's been flying across the universe seeding stargates for millions of years. ZPMs don't last that long and there haven't been any Ancients around lately to replace depleted ones. Is there an automated gate factory on board? If so, where do the raw materials to make the gates come from?
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Originally posted by jrd231I'm sure they'll explain everything, but from what we know so far, if they are gating from a ship and it moves, they'll have a completely new gate address when the Destiny reaches its next destination. Unless the Destiny can spit out the new gate coordinates in advance, if you don't gate back to the ship before it leaves, you won't know the new gate address of the gate on the ship, leaving you stranded on that planet.Last edited by ciannwn; 25 August 2008, 06:37 AM.sigpic
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I was under the impression that the gate address for the Destiny was some generic address and the 9th chevron was a universal key that allowed for direct connect to the ship regardless of what the original 6 reference points are. Perhaps there is a command crystal that is required to activate the 9th key much like the 8th chevron.
I would think that the Destiny has extra crystals on board that allow the Ancients to gate back to Atlantis.
I am sure it will be explained, but I imagine the "cannot get back" will have more to do with the gate dialing to the ship not having enough power to actually dial out rather than our people not having the ability to gate out. Our teams would need a ZPM level power device to activate the gate if the Destiny jumped to the next planet.
Perhaps this series will finally explain the creation of ZPMs, it would be a perfect time to do so, give humans a ZPM making machine on the destiny but have no way of getting them back to Earth, the control crystals on board the destiny are used only to dial the Destiny, not the return trip crystals needed to get back to Atlantis. It would be perfect! (except for the stranded in the delta quadrant)
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Originally posted by ciannwn View PostIf the Destiny really is the ship which is doing the seeding the Ancients somehow arranged for people to be able to board it via the 9th chevron in spite of it being continually on the move and getting new addresses.
We don't know, but we will find out.
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Originally posted by mizzoueng View Postbut I imagine the "cannot get back" will have more to do with the gate dialing to the ship not having enough power to actually dial out rather than our people not having the ability to gate out. Our teams would need a ZPM level power device to activate the gate if the Destiny jumped to the next planet.
I could understand an ordinary Stargate not having enough power to dial the Destiny if it had moved on to a new galaxy but how often is it going to do that? Surely it will be seeding galaxies with a number of Stargates because one per galaxy wouldn't be much use.
Originally posted by mizzoueng View PostPerhaps this series will finally explain the creation of ZPMs, it would be a perfect time to do so, give humans a ZPM making machine on the destinysigpic
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I wonder if this is a possible clue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(device)
The show has never featured a nine-symbol address, so the purpose of the ninth chevron is unknown. However, Robert C. Cooper has stated that the purpose of the ninth chevron will be revealed in the upcoming series, Stargate Universe.[27] One of the purposes proposed for the new series is that the ninth chevron connects it with an Ancient ship that seeds stargates throughout the galaxy, and was abandoned after the ancients ascended. It is unknown if this will be the final idea.[28] The extra chevrons are so rarely used that stargates are often seen with those two chevrons embedded within the stone platforms that hold many of the gates upright (see the image at the top of this article).
So there you are. All the Stargates seeded by the Destiny will have the essential 9th chevron embedded in the stone platforms. Unless the left behind crew member happens to have a pickaxe he/she will never be able to free it so it can move.
PS: Another daft suggestion. The Destiny no longer has any Stargates to seed because -
a: They weren't manufactured on board but sent from a 'Stargate Factory' on some distant planet which has long been abandoned. The factory Stargate plus the one on the Destiny are bigger than the usual Stargates otherwise a normal sized Stargate would never get through.
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b: They used to be manufactured on board but, after millions of years, this part of the ship is no longer operational.
In both cases the Destiny continues on it's programmed mission to find a planet, stop there long enough to plant a Stargate and then move on. If somebody gets left behind they don't have a Stargate available to dial the Ship.Last edited by ciannwn; 25 August 2008, 07:47 AM.sigpic
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