Cheyenne Mountain

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Cheyenne Mountain
Information
Location	Colorado, Earth
Galaxy	Milky Way
Builder	Tau'ri
Undercontrol of	Tau'ri
Current status	Active

Cheyenne Mountain, located a fairly short distance outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the home of several branches of the United States military.

History

It has long been public knowledge that Cheyenne Mountain is the home of NORAD, a joint American/Canadian organization devoted to maintaining the security of North American airspace. Its historic task was as watchman for the threat of nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. Unbeknownst to the public, however, Cheyenne Mountain has for the past decade also been home to Stargate Command.

Cheyenne Mountain contains nearly a skyscraper's worth of floors, but with one significant difference to a skyscraper; instead of going 20 or more floors up, it instead descends an unknown number of levels under the mountain. While the full extent of the facilities available to personnel within Cheyenne Mountain is unknown, it is at least certain that the complex sports several cafeterias and troop's barracks, at least one gym, a fully equipped infirmary, and several multi-purpose observation rooms, which are used for such things as complex surgery, interrogation, imprisonment, and volatile scientific experiments.

Cheyenne Mountain also appears to include several old missile silos, one of which now houses the Stargate. It is through the surface opening of the gateroom silo that the Stargate was originally moved into the facility sometime prior to the first mission to Abydos.

Alternate realities

File:Cheyenne entrance.jpg

The Cheyenne Mountain entrance

• In an alternate reality visited by Daniel Jackson in 1998, Cheyenne Mountain was the headquarters of the SGA, a program headed by Catherine Langford that discovered how to activate the Stargate. However, they made an enemy of the Goa'uld. In 1998, Apophis begun to systematically wipe out the Earth. Arguably futile efforts to combat him were headed through the mountain, which Apophis' forces eventually invaded. As many people as possible tried to escape through the Stargate to the Beta Site as possible before his forces captured the entire mountain. To prevent the facility from failing to Apophis' hands, Colonel George Hammond ordered Dr. Samantha Carter to set the mountain on auto-destruct. The mountain was destroyed just as Teal'c reached the gate room and the Dr. Daniel Jackson of our reality escaped. (SG1: "There But for the Grace of God")
• In another alternate reality, Cheyenne Mountain was invaded by Apophis' forces led by Teal'c. It was retaken with the help of the Asgard after they were contacted by Dr. Samantha Carter. (SG1: "Point of View")
• In another alternate reality visited by Samantha Carter in 2007, Cheyenne Mountain is used by President Henry Landry as his base of operations, with the General's Office serving as the Oval Office. (SG1: "The Road Not Taken")

Behind the scenes

In the real-world Cheyenne Mountain complex, there is actually a security door with blacked out windows labeled "Stargate Command". Behind it is a broom cupboard. (SG1: "True Science")

In the Stargate movie, the base of where the Stargate started out was at Creek Mountain, Colorado. It is possible they are one and the same place but the name changed between the movie and SG-1.

External links

• Cheyenne Mountain on Wikipedia