We now have much information to work with so lets have a go at hypothetically building our own Stargate network.
The simple premise is we have the technology to create artificial stable wormholes between two points, how would you design the Stargate network? What adjustments would you make to it, given that we know some canon elements to skip continuity at some points (like Teal'c dangling from a rope through an active wormhole, when we know that the gate will transmit matter as discreet units, waiting for every component before sending).
First off, we should discuss the targetting system and see if we can refine that a little more, the ancients developed the gates to be used by anyone, otherwise they would have used their neural interface as a control system. So it stands to reason that a way would be included for anyone to be able to dial it, the addresses we know of have been collected from two sources, the Goauld cartouche, and the Ancient repository. But if a race has just happened upon the Stargate they would not be aware of such addresses and so it would be next to impossible for them to be able to use it via the process of random dialing, even if they did connect somewhere they would have no idea where their home planet would be in relation to where they have arrived and so wouldn't be able to dechiper the correct address back.
Although I believe an address format is the most logical way to go, maybe we could refine the actual idea of it so I'd like to see your thoughts on that.
Lets start with a connection from here to our closest star, Alpha Centauri (4.37 Ly). With a Stargate currently located on Centauri B in our hypothetical scenario.
What method of targetting would you think we could use?
The simple premise is we have the technology to create artificial stable wormholes between two points, how would you design the Stargate network? What adjustments would you make to it, given that we know some canon elements to skip continuity at some points (like Teal'c dangling from a rope through an active wormhole, when we know that the gate will transmit matter as discreet units, waiting for every component before sending).
First off, we should discuss the targetting system and see if we can refine that a little more, the ancients developed the gates to be used by anyone, otherwise they would have used their neural interface as a control system. So it stands to reason that a way would be included for anyone to be able to dial it, the addresses we know of have been collected from two sources, the Goauld cartouche, and the Ancient repository. But if a race has just happened upon the Stargate they would not be aware of such addresses and so it would be next to impossible for them to be able to use it via the process of random dialing, even if they did connect somewhere they would have no idea where their home planet would be in relation to where they have arrived and so wouldn't be able to dechiper the correct address back.
Although I believe an address format is the most logical way to go, maybe we could refine the actual idea of it so I'd like to see your thoughts on that.
Lets start with a connection from here to our closest star, Alpha Centauri (4.37 Ly). With a Stargate currently located on Centauri B in our hypothetical scenario.
What method of targetting would you think we could use?
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