Remember that it was a directed energy blast from a piece of alien technology that took out a small section of the gate; not your average rock slide. I doubt many natural hazards could damage a gate, aside from the huge disasters, obviously, despite them being weaker than MW gates.
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Originally posted by Major_Griff View PostMy point was that if they were that easy to take out would they have lasted for the thousands of years or however far ahead the seed ships are. If that little hit would take it out than any number of things should have destroyed most of these gates in the thousands of years they've been there.
Also the elements, in most cases, likely pale in comparison to a direct hit from an high-impact energy weapon.
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Originally posted by actuallyliam View PostWow these are some weak stargates it was shot once. We've seen the Milkyway and Pegasus gates withstand Volcanoes, suns, McKay, being shot, being blown up. etc.
And they take these gates out in one shot, I think the ancients might be buying some fake knock-offs. Seriously are these gates even made of the same material. Maybe sub-par material is why they don't work long distances.
Seeing the gate broken is pretty metaphorical, isn't it? Since we just got the news that the Stargate franchise is, for now, dead
It could also have something to do with the gate being active at the time, maybe a small overload in a gate segment?
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Speaking of the seeder ships, right.... has there ever been a mention that there are still ships seeding the Pegasus and/or Milky Way galaxies?
From my recollection of Baal's solar flare lab, the Milky Way is still ever growing with countless numbers of stars in the outer perimeter. No mention if they had gates or that there were satellites that lit up near them... just the center ones.
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I agree with what has been previously stated about the Universe gates. The Ancients obviously intended to follow up on Destiny but never did; and I assume that they built the seeder ships to take into account that they might not have a stream of high-quality materials to deal with, which would mean sacrificing quality in order to ensure that gates could be built and deployed out of what they found. Then there is the fact that the MW may have originally had Universe-type stargates before they got upgraded to version 1.0; just as Pegasus may have started with 1.0 gates when Atlantis arrived, but were later upgraded to the 2.0 model...
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i was wondering if it had anything to do with naquahdah.
no not that.
naquahdah is the building block of all advanced technology. yet in a ship battle, a hyperdrive always fails first, despite the fact that it has been built to withstand megatons of energy pumped into it.
the same with any advanced piece of tech. energy weapons do miracles, but against something as stupid as a piece of armor or *agh* soil, they're just mild, useless impacts.
could it be that whatever energy present in the plasma bolt -not thermal since it would have to cause nuclear-level explosions- affects naquahdah only?
which isn't as strange as it sounds since Naquahdah by any modern standard can't exist, even if it had a double magic number. the size of the atom would -by quantum physics- simply rip itself apart into protons and neutrons.
so whatever exotic forces present in naquahdah, which also give it it's insane energy density -also not possible by any standard- might be affected by whatever exotic energies are present in the plasma bolt.
a whole slew of technical information later, this is essentially the end result:
Plasma bolt + advanced tech = miracles
plasma bolt + normal tech = useless.
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Not all gates are created with the same material. Back in SG-1, Orlin created a single person stargate using like microwave parts and copper coils in that one episode on Earth where he first meets Sam.
The Ori Supergate was constructed using a different design... like 244 pieces/pods to form a circle, using the same fundamental circular ring design.
Then, there were the Nox who can harness some magic power and just create an event horizon without dialing or the kawoosh... Figuring all they would need is a gate that has stored power and dialing capabilities and instantaneous wormhole without the kawoosh.
Either that or we have some biiiiiiiiig plotholes unanswered. ::still connecting the dots::
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Originally posted by thekillman View Post...
naquahdah is the building block of all advanced technology. yet in a ship battle, a hyperdrive always fails first, despite the fact that it has been built to withstand megatons of energy pumped into it.
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Originally posted by thekillman View Postnaquahdah is the building block of all advanced technology. yet in a ship battle, a hyperdrive always fails first, despite the fact that it has been built to withstand megatons of energy pumped into it..
Originally posted by qingdom View PostSpeaking of the seeder ships, right.... has there ever been a mention that there are still ships seeding the Pegasus and/or Milky Way galaxies?
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