Talk:Stargate/@comment-92.52.23.13-20181225024017/@comment-46.148.198.222-20181225155714

I believe you missing the main point of Stargate system - until using 9-glyphic adresses, you're not calling gates, you're calling points in real space (generally planets, but technologically it's not limitation, you can place gate in space, on the spaceship for example, no problem). The point of origin (unique for a place in some kind of superlibrary) is a zero point for the gate to calculate calling procedure to provided six-point coordinate system. When dialing is done, it's "searching" the closest active gate within system. Gate definitly doesn't know where is it until you say it.

That's explaining things you're see as "stupid".

1. Zero is hardly needed for any system of coordinates, so point of origin takes this role. Essentially, dialing, you're asking: "please call point, which is X marks "left" of me, Y marks "up" and Z marks "forward", and I'm just here". So if you don't provide a point of origin, system simply not respond. If you provide incorrect point of origin (whereever you obtain the symbol), though, it's possible, if you're VERY lucky, to establish a gate - if in the same "X marks "left" of me, Y marks "up" and Z marks "forward"" from the point you're shown there is active gate. But, as space is empty, and list of combinations is very great, and looks like point of origin symbol is taken randomly, I wouldn't bet you'll be so lucky.

2. Every planet had it's own point of origin, but gates and DHDs aren't glued to planets. You can take a gate with DHD, travel to other place, replace point of origin symbol (presuming you have tech aptitude to do so) on gates and DHD, and you're solid. If DHDs and gates had it's symbol hardlocked, it would be quite harder (and some parasitic snakes wouldn't be able to inherit a network, by the way). I believe, though, it's possible to create a gate limited to one place.

3. Quite the opposite, system of costellations is actually very nice thing. It's not a viability, quite the opposite, it's safeguard. A person who use Stargates supposed to have "address book", knowing codes for places he wants to get, so for him this glyphs aren't different from numbers, letters, pictographics, anything. He can have no idea they're constellations, actually. But imagine you're a person who knows how system works and is stranded in the middle of nothing, with starmap of capital world of empire (Earth was a capital of gate builders in Milky Way, and Ancients looked very fond of stars, so it's not something impossible). So you can recalculate correct address with a big kind of astronomical research, which is better then nothing.