Sometimes, I have wondered if the iris got welded shut on the stargate after being pressured by the extreme heat. So they had to peel off the old iris to put in a new iris.
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I don't know why this didn't occur to me before, but a lot of people who have thought about how they could possibly move forward on Earth, when it comes to disclosure to the world what's been happening, and hopefully disclosure doesn't cause any conflict or some kind of crazy nonsense due to panic and culture shock of the revealing of the Stargate and other Technologies and other races.
Everyone has their theories on how this would take place, however after seeing the Ark of Truth again, I think I found one way that would convince everyone and then they wouldn't cause Wars or issues like that within our Society if the truth was revealed to them, now I'm not saying this is the right thing to do because ethically it's very unethical, however if you want to stop potential mass chaos in your Society this method would at least convince people to accept it without going crazy.
In the ark of Truth The Ark was meant to convince a population of religious zealots who were to destroy you because you didn't follow the Ori, well disclosure might be a hard thing to pass in our society today, but if the show were to come back and people want disclosure for a United Earth kind of deal, I believe the only way to do that would be to use the ark itself, we have all the technology of the Ori including all their telepathically connected linked staffs, if all of those staffs were somewhere all around the Earth and all we needed to do is open the ark connected to one of them it would link them all up and people would be told the truth all around the Earth in a matter of seconds, and depending on the message that we program into it, I believe that's the best case scenario, again it's unethical I agree with that, however it would also be equally unethical to not use it this way because you want to avoid chaos culture shock, you want to avoid Wars with other races or cultures who might think that you're just hoarding technology away from them because this was a secret for so long, the message would be straight and simple and it would give them a representation of what's been going on for the past 20 years in the show's lore of course of what has been going on and it will be presented in a way that's easy to accept and won't cause chaos, now I understand that the arc is kind of a program to convince people to believe in whatever's programmed into it, which is also kind of scary to think about if it were to get into the wrong hands and cause people to think a certain way, but for disclosure purposes and to avoid war with other nations, I believe this would be the right call by using the ark.
Let me know what you guys think on this.
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Personally, I didn't like the guy.
I once wanted a game for Stargate Universe, that would work very similar to have the TV show set everything out, basically the game would mostly play in first-person or third-person, except when using the ship's Mainframe display, which would Show the ship similar to have this shows up within certain damaged areas and unlocking those areas and fixing them to improve the ships capabilities.
In that show they have the unique opportunity to use Stargates, as one of them was on board the destiny already, and every single planet within its predetermined path.
And as the crew of this ship, it was your responsibility to stay alive, the ship would provide information of what the ship needed in order to sustain the life that was on board it, it would drop out of FTL and dialogue nearby planet where on this planet there were resources that we're needed on board the ship, the ship would create a timer two when the FTL Drive was ready to jump again, and because it was an automated ship at this point, you had to get your resources back in time before the ship jumps into FTL, when you get back using the gate on that planet, you can then take your resources that you collected on that planet and put them to work on board the ship where are the systems needed it.
Throughout your time on board this ship, you are to unlock secrets about the ship and its mission, keep the ship in good repair as much as possible, because the ship will frequently get attacked by other ships and it has been for millions of years as it was automated, but the ship is near its last leg, so it's up to the human crew to fix up this ship the best I can so that they could be ready for another attack, the ship will automatically turn on its Shields when it's about to be attacked by another ship, and it will turn on its defenses.
As the crew you'll run into these events by a certain chance Gap, whether it be on board the Destiny or offworld on some other planet that you're getting the resources on, as commander of the ship you are tasked to make sure the ship works like a well-oiled machine, which means you need to order the crew to do certain things on board the ship at all times.
You will need somebody who can become an expert at Hydroponics to make sure there is plenty of medicine and food on board the ship for the crew, you'll need somebody that is willing to learn the ancient language and decipher certain aspects of the ship to see if they can unlock them, to uncover the mysteries of the ship, you will need somebody who is a doctor and make sure they have the provisions they need in order to take care of people on board the ship, you will need your guards to rotate their shifts just in case something happens while the commander is sleeping.
Basically how the game would work, is most of the planets will be procedurally generated, except for maybe the resources that you need on them, the ship battles will be procedurally-generated based off of level and experience and capability of the crew and a chance gap, every time you and your team gate to a planet it should be at least four people of at least two soldiers one scientist and one Tech person in case something goes wrong at the gate, the Planet will also have procedurally-generated events such as the team possibly being attacked by an alien or an animal on the planet while they search for resources, maybe even use the animal as food for the crew or maybe find medicinal aspects off of the animal for the doctor to use.
If the crew needs help or information, they could either contact somebody via the communication stones, or use the ancient repository chair and unlocked the knowledge using that.
This type of game will never be made, but one could hope.
Normally I wouldn't touch this type of game, however recently something just happened, people started talking about this new device called the steam deck, this steam deck device I am actually personally excited about, because I have games like this timekeepers game being developed for Stargate that should play well for this type of gaming device.
A little while ago I purchased a game called Homeworld off of steam, well I tried to play the game but I am a person who cannot stand using keyboard and mouse and I thought at the time that all I needed to do was to use a controller software and just create my own bindings, well long story short that didn't pan out as good as I thought it would, now with steam's steam deck I believe that problem will be a thing of the past, anyway I got that game because I saw someone on YouTube playing some mods that had Stargate stuff in them, I actually bought the game because it had a mod that I would have liked to enjoy for Stargate.
So when this Stargate timekeepers game comes out, I will be excited to try it out with the steam deck, right now the steam deck doesn't function with every single game and the entire network of steam, but given enough time and updates, that device will get over the years and possibly even by the time this Stargate timekeepers game comes out, I believe it'll be a better experience.
Anyway what will you guys do when this game comes out?
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So I wanted to start a conversation about how Goa'uld are described in the "Gender" section on their pages. I don't think "Agender" is the correct descriptor and I say this as an agender person myself. I also think that "Male" or "Female" personality isn't correct either.
From what we know the Goa'uld don't really have sexual characteristics because the symbiotes don't reproduce sexually. This would mean they can't be male or female. Hermaphroditic or intersex wouldn't be appropriate either because both those labels require the presence of sexual characteristics. The best descriptor for their sex is in fact "sexless".
As for their gender it's clear that when they inhabit hosts they choose to present their gender in specific ways.
Jolinar was said to take mostly female, women, human hosts. She was also described with she/her pronouns and other terms associated with women. So I would say that her gender would be "Woman".
Selmak I would describe as gender-fluid, as they performed the gender of the host that they took. This is likely in part that Selmak's relationship with their host was consensual and allowing the host to maintain their gender presentation was probably a part of this agreement.
Osiris is an interesting case. While Osiris as a historical god was a man and took male hosts, he took Sarah, a woman, as a host. They were still referred to as "he" in the series yet his clothing was arguably quite feminine. If I had to put a label on it I would say that Osiris is a gender-non-conforming man.
I was just musing on this as I continue my rewatch of SG-1. It's interesting to look back on all the missed opportunities to tell queer and trans stories in such an adventurous show. It doesn't dampen my nostalgia though.
[edit: obviously I know the meta reasons of why they weren't seen as trans or nonbinary in the show given the lack of awareness during the show's run. this post is more referring to how we look back on them and refer to them]
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So this thought came to me having recently rewatched "Rite of Passage"
Stargate (TV universe) and Canadian favorite "The Littlest Hobo" occur in the same universe.
The year is 1949. Nirrti frustrated by her repeated failures to engineer a Hok'tar, began to conduct enhancement experiments on one of the few non human mammals to have also been transplanted to many worlds - Dogs. She reasoned that the shorter life span of dogs would allow her to make alterations over multiple generations without having to wait for adolescence to see if the changes she made were successful.
IN 1958 she would achieve success.
Having managed to create a Hok'doge Nirrti would abandon her work on canines and move back to humans using what she learned from her earlier work.
However Nirrti had done her work too well...
Her greatest success who would one day be known as the Hobo, escaped from her lab one night and dialed the Stargate address for Earth.
With the Gate found in Giza having been put into storage after the disappearance of Earnest Littlefield in 1945 the Hobo was transported to the Antarctic Gate and made it's way through a small opening in the ice to the surface.
Having been given enhanced speed, stamina, intelligence, resistance to damage and 10 times the normal lifespan for a German Sheppard, Hobo made it's way north to first South America and then after about 2 years North America. Being a good boy Hobo would spend the next 40 years travelling from place to place helping those in need.
At some unspecified point Hobo learned of the now operational Stargate program located in Cheyanne Mountain in Colorado and decided to infiltrate the installation disguised as a guard dog. Once inside he would aid SG-1 in several as yet untold adventures off screen and grow close to Te'alc whom he shared an unspoken bond of friendship. Eventually Hobo decided he could be of better use in the fight with the system lords if he left the SGC so one day he travelled off world and never returned. It is said though that there is a legend of a friendly German Sheppard that travelled from world to world making new friends but turn around and once again he would be gone again.
Notes: This idiotic idea is not completely out of nowhere -
The Littlest Hobo season 5 2 part episode The Genesis Tapes featured a plot involving a scientist learning of Hobo's existence and positing that he was some sort of unique advanced dog.
I think my brain having watched Rite of Passage recently and having this old useless knowledge of Genesis Tapes decided that Chocolate+Peanut butter = 4
No doubt, they made advanced technology, but they've been around for at least around 50 million years, and the zenith of their technology is kind of sucky. Sure they made city-ships and very advanced battleships, but compared to the Asgard, which have have a "recorded history of 200,000 years", they really seem to have had a very, very, verrry slow technological growth. For comparison, humanity literally evolved from rats to becoming an interstellar species in that time, yet the Ancients barely inched along their technological path for millions of years. Its honestly surprising that the Ancients havent just evolved quicker than their technological growth at the snails pace they advance at. Maybe the Ancients we know (human form) only evolved relatively recently (5-10 millon years ago), and had a different humanoid bodyplan beforehand, and technologically advanced and regressed due to wars multiple times before, but that would be the only logical explanation to why they cant seem to advance at all.
This is an theory that i have alone, we know when it comes to the milky way gates and the Pegasus gates that they are independently powered by the mineral known as nahquda.
but my theory of the SGU gates stems from how the destiny is powered, and i believe that the SGU gates are powered in the same way, except that they use the core of the planet they are currently occupying to power the gates through thermal power from the core of the planet, we know these gates are limited in comparison to the gates in the milky way and the Pegasus but noting the age of these gates and where they are found, usually on some planet, we don't see them floating in space and being used.
The gate onboard the destiny is also powered by the stars, so we do have proof that it's possible to power a gate with that kind of power source, although i do wonder if the gate that's onboard destiny has been modified to handle more as it seems to be the only gate that can connect to the other network of gate systems if enough power on the other side matches it's requirements.
Icarus base was an entire planet that was used as not only a power source for the gate that was tied to the planet, the stargate was an milky way gate that was powered by nahquda, but it also needed the extra power to make the connection to the destiny.
However i do believe that the destiny also took some part into the connection when it came to power reserves, we know from the show, that the destiny's power reserves were nearly depleted when they arrived onboard, and we also know that the destiny's power reserves were not holding as much power as the ship was once designed for, like an battery near the end of it's life in an smartphone, the destiny's ability to hold that power was significantly less capable and efficient at this point of it's life, and our arrival caused more stress on that battery's capability to store power.
The other part of my theory has to do with either restoring the ships battery, not really sure how to do this, or to find some way to dismantle the gate and find another nearby planet that has an working stargate and unplug that gate to it's power source that i assume is what i'm describing the power source is, i believe that all that is required is using this specific stargate and it being plugged into an outlet that is powerful enough to gate back to earth.
If the destiny was new it wouldn't have this issue, but it's been millions of years on it's journey and is falling apart the ship is soon to be scrap especially thinking back on that last episode of SGU when they were preparing for that jump across the gap of space between galaxies, they did the math in how long it would take for the destiny to make that jump and it was coming up short because of the destiny's issues with it's power reserves not able to hold enough power, the FTL drive could make most of the journey on it's own, but it would run out of power long before it could finish that gap and end up adrift instead, which is why they decided to put everyone within stasis pods at the end.
Now i didn't read the full comic, and i'm not interested in that ending at all, especially the part where they mention the ancient found in the stasis pods part.
Anyway, like it or don't like it. i just want to hear your thoughts on the subject, and i'm talking to anyone who comments on this wall of text of mine lol.
i have an theory that there are other stargate seeding ships similar to the SGU seed ships, still seeding planets and galaxies outside of their original perspective solar systems. for both the milky way styled gates and the Pegasus style gate systems.
they did this with SGU and the other seeding ships, why not with these other seed ships?
not to mention how many other galaxies could there be stargates within,
in SGU it was above 49 galaxies if i remember correctly, but the possibility's of the milky way styled gates as well as the Pegasus styled gate systems are more than likely seeded within many more galaxies. it would be silly for the alteran to only keep these gate systems only within their perspective galaxies and just stop right there.
if you look at an galaxy, there are all possible routs of an neighboring galaxy's that could exist in all directions. destiny and the seed ships that were sent before it were all sent on their path as predetermined based on the programmed rout of the seed ship or ships sent before it.
but there are galaxies all around our own within either direction, so it's possible that the second version of stargates are also still being seeded till this day, just like the seed ships that were sent out before destiny.
I would also consider that the Technology has advanced possibly a few thousand years since the first version of stargates existence, so the seed ships could be considerably faster and more advanced than the SGU seed ships, as well as the SGA seed ships.
the only example i know of that supports this theory points to the Asgard home world in the Ida galaxy, as it appears to be of the same model as the Milky Way network of gates.
I don"t know why scyfy ended stargate universe like they did. I see a possible reason why they did, though.Ending it with Eli the last one gives scyfy an opportunity to pick the series back up after the three year FTL jump. I just finally got to get to where they cut it off and I believe the story could be finished or expanded on after the conclusion of destinies trip. Spin-off after spin off could come at the relief of every scyfy/science-fiction/fantasy fan future and past. The journey that stargate escorts you on is one of wonder and amazement. For this reason scyfy should bring DESTINY back with new characters and a once tie in episode with the original crew being rescued by home command. Sounds like a good plan to me.
The window of opportunity episode establishes that earth is in the time bubble caused by that planets time device.
The ancients used it to try and cure themselves.
How long did they repeat the day? Earth has the potential to be far behind the rest of the galaxy timewise. The episode leaves the question on that time period as undefined, yet longer then months. Is earth a million years behind the rest of the galaxy age wise?
Am i just crazy thinking about these implications?