r/Stargate • u/hunyadikun • 10d ago

Discussion The Fifth Race Spoiler

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The room that they gate into could very well be just a box in space, and I'm wondering if there's anything later to contradict this.

If the only purpose is to hold the Ancient archive then it wouldn't need to be ON a planet, right?

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u/EstherIsVeryCool 9d ago

no reason a milky-way gate can't work in space, as long as there's a DHD or something powering them (like the Pegasus space-gate modules which i imagine are cross-compatible.) The reason we don't see any in SG1 is that the Ancients didn't have puddle-jumpers when they made the milky way network, so there was no need for space gates. Also, the Goa'uld have been moving gates around to suit their needs for a long time, and since they don't use gate ship (any more) they'd most likely harvest any space gates they found and put them on a planet they wanted to colonise.

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u/orangechap 9d ago

Milky way gates explicitly do work in space, they're shown being used on spaceships and also while being thrown into a sun.

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u/EstherIsVeryCool 9d ago

that is what I said, i was explaining why we dont see space-gates in SG1 - its not a technical reason "there's no reason they can't work" - its because theres no logistical point for them

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u/orangechap 9d ago

It is not, you said "there's no reason they can't work in space" when we have textual information that they do work in space.

It's like saying "there's no reason the Seahawks can't win the superbowl" when you should be saying they have won a superbowl.

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u/EstherIsVeryCool 9d ago

the person was familiar with the gate bridge, they know milky way gates work in space. The can't is referring to space gates - gates that are left alone in space: they can exist in the milky way, but don't because neither of the factions that are responsible for placing them had any use for them.