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/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/BladedDingo 9d ago

Gates don't need to be on a gravity well, just powered. Gate addresses are not exact. Like the gate address for Earth doesn't tell the wormhole to go to the 3rd planet in the solar system, it just tells it to head towards this star or general location in space. When the wormhole gets there it locks onto the powered gate and makes the connection.

A gate floating in the void of space could be dialed just as easily so long as the coordinate system is accurate enough to create the wormhole in the general relative area of the gate and the gate itself is powered/has a DHD.

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u/What_Is_This_1 8d ago

You are correct. There are Milky Way gates used as the gate bridge.