The pics ive seen of the new gate make it look like the chevrons spin around the gate, not the symbols. Anyone else get that impression?
Is it just me or.. (universe Gate)
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Which in itself sounds a bit silly and OTT
This is what I mean, the inner ring looks to be static, while the outer gate parts spin.
The entire gate spins. The symbols line up with the ball at the top and that is how "chevrons lock" instead of an inner track lining up with the top chevron.
This is the oldest gate that we know of and it is a specially designed one at that, hopefully the gates on the planets they visit are more normal.
This is the oldest gate that we know of and it is a specially designed one at that, hopefully the gates on the planets they visit are more normal.
^ I never thought about that, actually. We know that the Destiny was the ship the Ancients sent to check up on the original ship they had sent to seed planets with Stargates. But do we know anything about those stargates?
Interesting, id just thought that ball was a light above the thing... makes sense for an ancient gate to not function as efficiently as a later gate...
This gives a good rundown on how the gate operates:
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/07/heres-how-the-destiny-stargate-dials/
It states:
In this link you can see the gate spinning fully:
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/07/new-sgu-teaser-survive/
I quite like the design of the new (old) gate.
Indeed, these are older gates, older than the Milky Way gates, probably their first fully working design, so I would expect things to not work as efficiently. In the article I posted above, it states that steam will exhaust out the floor of the gate.
BTW, I love your avatar, I need to find me an SGU/Destiny one to use now, I'm getting excited about the new show.
Actually, the Milky Way gate network came first, then this Destiny version, with the Pegasus gates afterwards. The Seeder ship and Destiny were supposedly launched at the height of the Ancient's civilization here on Earth.
And in The Fifth Race, the Asgard had a MW version gate, which makes things even more head spinning (from an in universe perspective, while we know, of course, that the producers never considered different gate models until the newer shows cropped up).
And in The Fifth Race, the Asgard had a MW version gate, which makes things even more head spinning (from an in universe perspective, while we know, of course, that the producers never considered different gate models until the newer shows cropped up).
Are you sure? Cause to me, it seems like the Destiny gates are older than the Milky Way. To me, that makes more sense.
They would have gone from a completely full spinning gate, to a half spinning gate (Milky Way) to a non-spinning gate (Pegasus.) That seems like a natural progression to me. Also, the Destiny gates exhaust steam out of the floor after dialing, also showing their technological earliness.
To me, it makes sense that the Destiny gates were first. The Ancients came over to the Milky Way via ships, and while here, they developed their first fully working gate model. They put it on a ship, and sent a ship out to the far reaches of the universe on a journey to seed the universe with gates. While that was going on, they further advanced their design and seeded the Milky Way with those gates. Then of course later on the Pegasus with even newer gates.
The Destiny is one of their oldest ships we've ever seen from the Ancients, and is supposed to be steampunkish to show its relative technological primitiveness.
See I think the Destiny and its Stargates were sent out before they made contact with the races like the Asgard, Furlings or Nox. And it was only during the age of the Milky Way gates that they had their great 4 race alliance.
That is how I see it, perhaps I'm wrong, but that is how I see it unless I'm terribly mistaken.
I was only going by the info that was put out over the last few months. Reading the Gateworld link however, it appears new infomation was been added that does suggest the Universe gates came first.
Yet more retconning/fleshing out of the Ancient's backstory. Previously, we were lead to believe they left the original home space, later dubbed the Ori Galaxy, and came to Dakara, then found Earth with no mention of stopping anyplace else...
It would also make sense because nine chevrons have to be dialed in order to reach Destiny; and knowing this, the later stargate designs (Milky Way, Pegasus) had nine chevrons.
I'm not quite sure how that implies what you said at all...Yet more retconning/fleshing out of the Ancient's backstory. Previously, we were lead to believe they left the original home space, later dubbed the Ori Galaxy, and came to Dakara, then found Earth with no mention of stopping anyplace else...
My recollections are most likely off...It often feels like this backstory changes every 10 secs...Keeping it straight in my head is a chore. They arrived at Earth first then branched out from there. Since Dakara was mentioned as one of their earliest settlements, that always stuck out in my mind for some odd reason.
As I said, the early info put out implied that Destiny and the Seeder were sent out after the Milky Way gate system was constructed, as it was launched from Earth before Atlantis was built. Now, in the text I just read today from the Gateworld link, it seems as if they are suggesting that this gate was developed first, before they built the MW network.It would also make sense because nine chevrons have to be dialed in order to reach Destiny; and knowing this, the later stargate designs (Milky Way, Pegasus) had nine chevrons.
I'm not quite sure how that implies what you said at all...Yet more retconning/fleshing out of the Ancient's backstory. Previously, we were lead to believe they left the original home space, later dubbed the Ori Galaxy, and came to Dakara, then found Earth with no mention of stopping anyplace else...
No worries, I can see how there might have been confusion based on the early reports.As I said, the early info put out implied that Destiny and the Seeder were sent out after the Milky Way gate system was constructed, as it was launched from Earth before Atlantis was built. Now, in the text I just read today from the Gateworld link, it seems as if they are suggesting that this gate was developed first, before they built the MW network.It would also make sense because nine chevrons have to be dialed in order to reach Destiny; and knowing this, the later stargate designs (Milky Way, Pegasus) had nine chevrons.
I'm not quite sure how that implies what you said at all...Yet more retconning/fleshing out of the Ancient's backstory. Previously, we were lead to believe they left the original home space, later dubbed the Ori Galaxy, and came to Dakara, then found Earth with no mention of stopping anyplace else...
Maybe they just pinched a few from the Milky Way network?
The Tau'ri weren't above using Asgard teleporters to stockpile idle gates, to give one example...
