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/What_Is_This_1 9d ago

I only recall them being operational near a gravity well….moon planet or sun…I love the show but can(and am a lot of the time wrong) definitely be wrong. Do you recall an episode in SG1 where it was operational outside of a gravity well?

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u/Thrawn89 9d ago

The ori mega gate?