7th Chevron

[archiver]

padders

Hehe..
nah we use talkkillhumans.com but hey the other one is good as well, better add it to the list.

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[Martouf]

It is Asgard isn't it or Askard?

 

[SGPflughaupt]

ASGARD.....but you can ASK gard them yourself

 

[padders]

Yeah asgard, i spelt it askard a couple of times bascially for the simple reason that i can't spell. Never have, probably never will but then we did they invent spell checkers for.

I think i prefere the light hearted way this discussion has gone as opposed to all that brain boggling maths at the start :smile:

 

[padders]

I still don't think enough Goa'uld have been acounted for. There are so many goa'uld larvae in all those jaffa that they must go somewhere when they mature. To work out how many...

Assume 1/5 Jaffa live long enough for the goa'uld inside to mature. How many million Jaffa? = 1/5 that number Goa'uld. That has got to still be millions. Can you imagine a planet with even 100 of them on it? nah, wouldn't work!

 

[MythingLink]

It might if we go back to the 'court' function of some of the Goa'uld. Since they are basically a feudal society they might have worlds where there are several hundred Goa'uld living the high-life as barons with a lot of innocent slaves running the land for them creating food, etc.

Cheers,

 

[padders]

But all the goa'uld would fight each other. Can you ever imagine them a) not being competitive b) not doing anything they can to control everyone

 

[MythingLink]

I'm not sure they would all fight each other. I don't think that every Goa'uld has to be a System Lord. You know the old adage: too many chiefs ... or too many cooks ...?

What's his name in Pretense was a SL, he was serving someone else. At least that is the impression I got. I still think that there is a finite number of SLs (reference Seth) and that they each have hundreds (maybe thousands) of retainers.

Cheers,

 

[imported_carter]

heheheh goa'uld poker night! no i think that it would be a prison 4 them unless they were related(and who does that work any way?).

 

[padders]

i guess they are related if they all come from the same "mother" like all those goa'uld that came from Hathor

 

[Thor_of_Othalla]

Originally posted by archiver
SGPflughaupt

If the 8th Chevron is used to "dial to another zip code". Then what might the ninth do? call-waiting or a speed dial function? But seriously,maybe it dials an alt. universe or sumthin. The show already showed that they exist. Maybe the Ancients (who forgot to publish a "Dummys guide to the Stargate") added that feature on for kicks (maybe that where the Ancients are...hmmmm). Or maybe it does nothing...the function was planned to be added to Stargate V2.0 but marketing forced them to ship the beta unit to meet a "street date"

When was it ever mentioned that there were 9 chevrons. If you`re referring to the Asgard planet in The Fifth Race, there are only eight glyphs in that address counting the point of origin. Where as a normal address is six glyphs for the destination and one for the point of origin, to dial out of our galaxy there are seven destination glyphs and one point of origin, totalling 8 chevrons for that address.
If you don`t believe me I`ve got a screen cap from Fifth Race somewhere showing the dialling screen with spaces for 8 chevrons. And if you watch the episode you will see that there is only one extra chevron added to the destination making the address seven for the destination and 1 for the point of origin.
This is a common mistake but it is explained quite clearly in the episode. Six for the destination, one extra glyph for dialling outside of this galaxy, and another glyph to signify the point of origin.
They all equal to 8 chevrons.

Sorry but it gets my goat when people think the Asgard world is nine chevrons mostly cos I love the Asgard and I`m one of those people who continually analyses what`s been said about the Stargate to try and make sense of it all and try to build a functioning Stargate using only parts from my TV and my Dad`s car.
I`ll tell you when it`s working and we can nip through and give Thor a visit.

Lt Colonel Jack
SG-5
Toke`mon (anti-Pokemon)

 

[padders]

Yup agreed. It was my mistake somewhere along the line. I think someone pointed it out but i am not sure.

Anyway, welcome to the site. I am another big Asgard fan as are quite a few people here i think. Oh and like the anti pokemon signature, does that show bug me or what.

 

[Thor_of_Othalla]

Originally posted by archiver
MythingLink

LOL! Here's a question for you? What if the Arctic Gate was put here by the Ancients before the ice started to build up there? Since they abandoned the Gate System, no one knew it was there. Along comes RA. He moves a Gate from another world to here so that he can start taking people to Abydos and where ever. The uprising occurs, the Gate is buried. Only someone, say Sokar, doesn't know that. One of his Jaffa Gates in and instead of going to the Giza Gate which is buried, he gets taken to the Arctic Gate instead. Ah, new world he thinks. Cold, but hey we can always bundle up, go exploring, maybe 'thread the needle' and bring in a couple of Death Gliders and fly around. <G>
Cheers,

I so have to reply to this. Basically the explanation to the Which Gate was there first? question is below
***WARNING***SPOILERS***














As established in the season 4 episode Watergate, the Giza Stargate was the first gate to be placed on Eath. When this became lost, the Goa`uld, for some reason, put a Stargate in the Antarctic, most likely to avoid another uprising and stop anyone from being able to bury it.
It is explained that an incoming wormhole will default to the Alpha Stargate of that planet, which was the Giza Gate. The Russians, who got their greasy hands on it after Thor`s ship crashed, were using it and disconnected it whenever they weren`t using it to avoid any American SG teams from being sent there. With no Alpha Stargate available, the wormhole jumped to the Beta Stargate, which was and still is in use at the SGC.

Now here`s a new question for ya. If anyone here has seen the season 4 episode, why is the triangle with the dot point of origin on the Stargate when it should be the circle-line glyph. I know this is just an oversight by the series producers but can there possibly be a plausible explanation for this in the series? I don`ty think so but I`m sure someone will figure it out.

 

[Thor_of_Othalla]

Anti-Pokemon

Originally posted by padders
Yup agreed. It was my mistake somewhere along the line. I think someone pointed it out but i am not sure.

Anyway, welcome to the site. I am another big Asgard fan as are quite a few people here i think. Oh and like the anti pokemon signature, does that show bug me or what.

Glad you like the anti-Pokemon signature. It`s actually the name of my unit at the Showtime Stargate website. I think it`s http://www.stargate-sg1.com. You can join up and do training exercises to earn points and get ranks. Lt.Colonel is my rank aswell, only 194 points to Colonel!

 

[MythingLink]

Hi Thor,

Small misunderstanding, I think. SGP wasn't saying that the 9th chevron is used to dial to the Asgard planet. He was wondering what the 9th chevron does. I haven't checked but several people have said that there is a 9th one that can be seen in Nemesis when the Gate is on Thor's ship.

Cheers,

 

[padders]

oh yeah, and we came up with time travel

 

[Thor_of_Othalla]

Originally posted by MythingLink
Hi Thor,

Small misunderstanding, I think. SGP wasn't saying that the 9th chevron is used to dial to the Asgard planet. He was wondering what the 9th chevron does. I haven't checked but several people have said that there is a 9th one that can be seen in Nemesis when the Gate is on Thor's ship.

Cheers,

Oh sorry I misunderstood a bit. I actually think that the bottom two chevrons are just duds as we never actually saw the eight chevron glowing in The Fifth Race and if it did I`m sure the producers would`ve found a way for us to see it (a camera under the ramp or something)
Maybe the Ancients (the gate builders) just put them there to complete the pattern or something.

And if you are right about those chevrons being used that means there is a nine chevron address out there somewhere. The ninth chevron could be a dimensional coordinate, allowing you to gate to planets in an alternate reality...

 

[ananias]

8/9 chevrons?

I'm thinking of running an LRP Stargate game. So being the twisted being I am, I thought if the 9th Chevron could dial time or indicate a time shift then redialling the other chevrons again would give you the shift of the stars forward or backward giving you an indication of the number of earth years you are about to be displaced.
This could be used in the series, as in my LRP game to reuse sets and props for all sorts of time periods.
Alternatively I agree with the alternative dimension idea. Another easy cop out for original plots.

 

[jsc]

Welcome ananias!

I like your idea ananias,
Welcome to the forum. As you can see there are a great many places to visit and chat. Be sure to drop in an visit us at the General forum as well as posting here. Many minds give birth to many ideas. We enjoy a good conversation and many of us are interested in games with our Crew of SG-1. Sounds like it will be an interesting one. Have you checked into copywrites and et cetera yet? The Companies that market the Stargate items might be interested, if not you might have to pay them revenue to allow you to develop the game! Good Luck and keep on posting.

 

[snaller]

Originally posted by Martouf
It is Asgard isn't it or Askard?

Originally posted by SGPflughaupt

ASGARD.....but you can ASK gard them yourself

Actually, if it's supposed to correlate with the old Norse langauges, it should be with two A's (well 3 in all), like thus: Asgaard

Or in modern terms: Asgård

Yep, Norwegian and Danish have use the symbol for Earth in their langauge: Ã…




(For some reason the swedes have decided to have TWO dots over the A instead: Ä )