As I understand it, the current story is that the Destiny gates are the 1st Generation (prototypes); the Milky Way/Avalon gates are the 2nd Generation; and the Pegasus gates are the 3rd Generation.
I have something of a problem with this. If the Alterans arrived in the Milky Way Galaxy and established first on Dakara already with the capability to build Astria Porta, then it doesn't really make much sense for them to use conventional space travel to re-establish themselves on Earth in order to build a ship containing "prototype" Stargates without first utilising them for their own interplanetary means.
(I also have a theory about the Giza gate being taken by Ra initially from Dakara, where there were two: a prototype twinned with the Abydos gate, and an upgraded version...).
Instead, I find it far more likely that they arrived in Avalon/Milky Way and first established statehood there using the MW Gates, and then made Terra/Earth their capital planet, or at least a shipbuilding yard where they constructed Destiny. Since the Stargates in the MW need to be built of naquadah to produce enough energy to create a stable wormhole, surely a Stargate built of a different material or considerably less naquadah suggests technological advance, not regression? Plus, Destiny's gates would have to be manufactured in transit using limited resources.
I also question the idea that the Antarctica gate is older than the Giza gate, although only by a few years. My explanation about Dakara's two gates sort of ties up the issue of language (how MW races can be understood due to a language program in the buffer, which didn't exist in the Dakara/Abydos prototypes, and therefore why the Abydos Expedition needed to translate the local tongue), and why the point-of-origin symbol is still the circle-topped lambda (representing instead the mountain in which the superweapon was located).
Thoughts?!
I have something of a problem with this. If the Alterans arrived in the Milky Way Galaxy and established first on Dakara already with the capability to build Astria Porta, then it doesn't really make much sense for them to use conventional space travel to re-establish themselves on Earth in order to build a ship containing "prototype" Stargates without first utilising them for their own interplanetary means.
(I also have a theory about the Giza gate being taken by Ra initially from Dakara, where there were two: a prototype twinned with the Abydos gate, and an upgraded version...).
Instead, I find it far more likely that they arrived in Avalon/Milky Way and first established statehood there using the MW Gates, and then made Terra/Earth their capital planet, or at least a shipbuilding yard where they constructed Destiny. Since the Stargates in the MW need to be built of naquadah to produce enough energy to create a stable wormhole, surely a Stargate built of a different material or considerably less naquadah suggests technological advance, not regression? Plus, Destiny's gates would have to be manufactured in transit using limited resources.
I also question the idea that the Antarctica gate is older than the Giza gate, although only by a few years. My explanation about Dakara's two gates sort of ties up the issue of language (how MW races can be understood due to a language program in the buffer, which didn't exist in the Dakara/Abydos prototypes, and therefore why the Abydos Expedition needed to translate the local tongue), and why the point-of-origin symbol is still the circle-topped lambda (representing instead the mountain in which the superweapon was located).
Thoughts?!
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