The Gates in SGU

[Athosian Death facilitator]

Atlantis gates were build million of years later then original ones, so I think that ancients just updated gate seeding machine, thats way atalntis gates does not have iner circle which moves. It's like Stargate v2.0 and NOTHING special about color.

To those who thinks that different color = range, so please explain why gates within pegasus all are blue? Planets are closer then galaxies, so for short range there should be red gates.

Anyway I expect that when team arives to destiny(or w/e it's called) there should be old design gates like in MW. Or even older design gates like beta gates.

Just because there have been no mention of visual indication of an orange colored shevron milky-way system gate(other than the pegasus project!!)
doesn't mean there aren't any.

Just saying... do not be so... skeptical.

[Athosian Death facilitator]

hows about this for a gate?
http://fc35.deviantart.com/fs24/f/20..._Mallacore.jpg

Mallacore is a talented 3D modeller, here is my favorite one
http://fc86.deviantart.com/fs25/f/20..._Mallacore.jpg

excalibur be the shiz!!!!!!

[Betelgeuze]

Maybe the Ida galaxy is one of the satellite galaxies of MW galaxy. If the Ida galaxy is relatively close to the MW it would explin why the Asgard were so involved in the affairs of the MW, and why the gates are the same.

[Darkstar 2.0]

Technically the MW Stargates and indeed the PG stargates to a greter or lesser degree are not made int their entirety of metal, they as you will probbly know are made of stone, the Naquahdah mineral that the Ancients discovered could work as a conductor of great power.
Is it possible that the glowing of the Chevrons of which their are 9 on the outer circumference of the Gate are said mineral conducting power from the other corrosponding gate and being apmlified as a visual glow at these points, now since the materials maye well differ slightly in the PG galaxy the Chevrons appear blue, also the colouration of the gate ring itself is the result of either alloyed materials of Naquahdah with something else.

On a side note, the PG gates don't seem from what I have seen, to have any special advantage over the MW gates even though they are newer and funky looking lol.

It's a shame they never went into too much detail as to what made the Gates, obviously we are not looking at some variation of metalurgy wherin the composition of the metals infused with Naquahdah gives off a similar glow in the same fashion as burning metals:

ie. copper burns green in which case a copper alloyed gate for whatever reason could glow green and be a rather detrimental electrical conductor to outside lightning but a good coduction of heat also.

If they really want to get tech savvy with the Stargate then why not have the symbols on the actual stargate be a visual display as opposed to a spinning or rotating analogue system, the symbols can be updated and chnaged where ever needed, also the DHD for the sake of being showy and tech savvy, not to mention blow a huge hole in the production budget of the show be a touch screen system wherin the Symbols on the can be viewed in 3D interactive and with a very clever corrosponding Starmap along side it, to show exacly where the location of the other gate is, since many subsequent civilisations powerful or capable enough use Hyperdrive and map the stars anyway...it only makes sense to fuse the two technologies anyway...the merging of two eras, one the analogue and tried and tested method of on foot Stargate travel, and the follow on advancement to powerful Starships?

Just a though

[ph30nix]

hows about this for a gate?
http://fc35.deviantart.com/fs24/f/20..._Mallacore.jpg

Mallacore is a talented 3D modeller, here is my favorite one
http://fc86.deviantart.com/fs25/f/20..._Mallacore.jpg

..... the fenrir and the pheonix are friggin vindicators from Wing Commander...

and the smalles ship is just a friggen bearcat

nice detail though

[rsanchez]

Why do you keep saying Ida gates? We only ever saw one gate from the Ida galaxy. For all we know, that particular gate was given to the Asgard by the Ancients when they met in the planet of the four races shown on Torment of Tantalus. If there was a gate system throughout the Ida galaxy, the Asgard would have had no need of advancing their hyperspace technology so far.

[stargabb]

well i have seen yellow and purple chevrons on some sgu concept art so we will just have to wait and see

[Puddle-Jumper]

Why do you keep saying Ida gates? We only ever saw one gate from the Ida galaxy. For all we know, that particular gate was given to the Asgard by the Ancients when they met in the planet of the four races shown on Torment of Tantalus. If there was a gate system throughout the Ida galaxy, the Asgard would have had no need of advancing their hyperspace technology so far.

Thats actually very true....

[flea247]

i hope they are green, i think it would go well with some of the concept art ive seen.

[Diablo_719]

So I was wondering...Is there going to be a massive cargo bay aboard the Destiny (or the ship ahead of it planting the Stargates) full of pre-Fabricated agtes, or will the ship(s) have the ability and intelligence (Onboard AI??) to mine Naquedah and fabricate Stargates from the raw materials?

[rarocks24]

It synthesizes raw Naquadah from other base metals from the planet its going to leave the Stargate at.

[4EverFree]

I would imagine they would have to locate planets or other celestial bodies with the raw materials to extract, and the ship would do the fabrication. Or maybe the ship can convert any type of matter into Naquedah. I also wonder if there will be any terra-forming involved.

[SG-17]

Or it has a matter converted.

[bfldworker]

From everything I have read about Stargate Universe. It seems that this ship was sent before Atlantis was built. If it has matter conversion technology. Wouldn't you think it would have shown up somewhere in either SG1 or Atlantis?

There may be terraforming involved being almost every gate that is Planetside is on a planet that is Minshara class (Star trek I know, but Scientists here and now are using it).

There are a TON of questions surrounding SGU that everyone wants to know the answers to and we can only guess until they are answered in the show (if ever)

[RepliVeggie]

I all ways assumed the first ship was just full of stargates. But now that I think about it. It would have to have some way of creating gates to go for a really long period of time.