The Gates in SGU

[LtColCarter]

Actually I believe I posted this here before they posted it in the other thread .

Woo-hoo! You go with your speedy self!!

[Coronach]

Hey anyone noticed this before?
http://www.gateworld.net/gallery/dis...hp?pos=-255155

Holy hell...where did these come from? Even I've never seen them before

[LtColCarter]

Holy hell...where did these come from? Even I've never seen them before

I know...where did that come from? It looks awesome

[Elite Anubis Guard]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/0...argate-comics/

[Coronach]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/07/dynamite-to-publish-stargate-comics/

Thanks. I knew it had to be a relatively new find

[Quadhelix]

Hey anyone noticed this before?
http://www.gateworld.net/gallery/dis...hp?pos=-255155

Quadhelix cries in a corner about the homogeneity of Stargates throughout the universe.

[Coronach]

Quadhelix cries in a corner about the homogeneity of Stargates throughout the universe.

Am I missing something? It looks to be an off-world version of the one aboard the Destiny.

The Destiny gate is, as we've seen, much different than any gate that has come before (or...I guess "after" in-canon ).

[Inthenite42]

I know the question has probably been answered before but Im new? So why?

[Coronach]

I know the question has probably been answered before but Im new? So why?

Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning.

[Quadhelix]

Am I missing something? It looks to be an off-world version of the one aboard the Destiny.

Exactly. I'll explain below.

The Destiny gate is, as we've seen, much different than any gate that has come before (or...I guess "after" in-canon ).

Yes, however, with the exception of Milky Way and Pegasus, and perhaps a handful of other galaxies colonized by the Ancients, every galaxy in the universe that has a Stargate network (and by now, the number of galaxies has to be in the hundreds, if not the thousands or even millions) has Stargates that are 100% identical to the 'Gate on the Destiny: not only the same aesthetic design (which I could live with) but also the symbols.

This means hundreds, or thousands, or millions of galaxies whose Stargates are completely identical.

[Col.Foley]

Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning.

That is basically the gist of it. Theuy want it to look new, and cool, and different then either of the things that have come before it, so they are doing this. From a coolness standpoint it looked really cool in the trailer, but I do not see how it can be really practical at all.

[TrueLordOfNetu]

The tech level of the SGU gates is meant to be between that of the MW gates and Pegasus gates. Thus, they are old enough to still use the rotating central ring but will presumably have advanced features. Possibly things like lower power consumption, mabey even a shield.

[Coronach]

I see your point, but two things:

Yes, however, with the exception of Milky Way and Pegasus, and perhaps a handful of other galaxies colonized by the Ancients, every galaxy in the universe that has a Stargate network (and by now, the number of galaxies has to be in the hundreds, if not the thousands or even millions) has Stargates that are 100% identical to the 'Gate on the Destiny: not only the same aesthetic design (which I could live with) but also the symbols.

I don't know about you, but I certainly can't tell that those symbols are the same as the Destiny's.

Also, weren't you the one saying how it would make sense if the symbols did stay the same? It had something to do with X, Y, Z plane percentages. I think it was even earlier in this very thread.

This means hundreds, or thousands, or millions of galaxies whose Stargates are completely identical.

Even if this one is the same, we have no canonical reason to believe the others are. We know next to nothing about the seeder ship yet.

As a last point, which is more of a personal opinion than anything, I don't really mind if they are all the same.

[Coronach]

The tech level of the SGU gates is meant to be between that of the MW gates and Pegasus gates. Thus, they are old enough to still use the rotating central ring but will presumably have advanced features. Possibly things like lower power consumption, mabey even a shield.

Um...it was my understanding that the Destiny's gate came millions of years before the MW gates, which are older than the Pegasus gates anyways.

[TrueLordOfNetu]

Um...it was my understanding that the Destiny's gate came millions of years before the MW gates, which are older than the Pegasus gates anyways.

Where did you hear this?

I was under the impression that the Seeder Ship and subsequently the Destiny were launched from the Milky Way sometime after the gate network was established there but before the City ships were built and sent to establish the Pegasus network.

EDIT: As for the GDO question in the SGU Gate thread we've just been merged with. Don't all offworld personnel wear a GDO at all times? If so everyone would already have one and so a reciever on the Destiny itself would be all that is required to use the IDC system.