William Stepp
Journeyman Builder
That sounds like a case of time travel paradox ala DSR
That sounds like a case of time travel paradox ala DSR
I prefer linking it on Fanfiction dot net since Archive of Our Own doesn't really play well with random browsing in my experience. To even consider reading anything on there you need to be a member. To become a member you need to be invited. Which could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few eternities. I'm still waiting for an invite after submitting a request for one a few years ago.
Yeah, but wouldn't you even try it? I mean, they salvaged a ton of crap for Area 51. You would think snagging a control device for your magical portal network would be a top priority, and one of the things you try is plugging it into your own gate to see if it works.
Please remember that while DHDs are fairly fail-safe, they also have the Ancient's typical security, ie: none. Because of that Earth's unique (crappy) dialing system is one of the most secure systems in the galaxy. God help them.
Actually, it was the Alpha Gate they were using it on; they'd recovered it from Thor's crashed vessel after SG-1's introduction to the Replicators. And they didn't 'override' the SGC gate so much as keep their gate and DHD powered down when they knew SGC was using theirs (thank you, Maybourne).IIRC the DHD for the Alpha Gate ended up in Russian hands when they took it from Nazi Germany, who took it from Egypt. I remember that being a plot point, because the Russians were able to use the DHD to 'override' one of the stargates and allow them to clandestinely send and retrieve teams without anyone knowing.
I'm sorry for your difficulty. When available though I would say the AO3 version of a fic is better since you can load the entire fic at once instead of having multiple tabs.I prefer linking it on Fanfiction dot net since Archive of Our Own doesn't really play well with random browsing in my experience. To even consider reading anything on there you need to be a member. To become a member you need to be invited. Which could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few eternities. I'm still waiting for an invite after submitting a request for one a few years ago.
I prefer linking it on Fanfiction dot net since Archive of Our Own doesn't really play well with random browsing in my experience. To even consider reading anything on there you need to be a member. To become a member you need to be invited. Which could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few eternities. I'm still waiting for an invite after submitting a request for one a few years ago.
Actually, it was the Alpha Gate they were using it on; they'd recovered it from Thor's crashed vessel after SG-1's introduction to the Replicators. And they didn't 'override' the SGC gate so much as keep their gate and DHD powered down when they knew SGC was using theirs (thank you, Maybourne).
What I want to know is, since obviously the Antarctica DHD worked (since the NID teams used the Antarctica DHD and gate to do their larceny runs) why they didn't hook it up when they installed the Antarctica gate after the Replicators mission.
One of the dropped plot elements was the revelation that the Gate symbols were also vocal sound. So you have 6 syllable words/phrases that exactly encode the addresses.Edit: They should have come up with some shorthand for worlds besides P#X-### blah blah blah. Instead, I'm stuck thinking of them as rapey-Mongol world or zappy-crystal world.
Sounds like something the Ancients would do; clever and efficient and entirely useless to anyone who isn't an Ancient and knows what they know.One of the dropped plot elements was the revelation that the Gate symbols were also vocal sound. So you have 6 syllable words that exactly encode the addresses.
Pro-cla-rush Te-o-nas ...... and the Earth's "pyramid with single moon" having "at?" as a sound.
36 phonemes isn't a bad set.
You do? I've literally never had trouble reading anything on AO3 despite only being aware of it's having a log in in the vaguest sense, and not even knowing it was invite only.
Every time I tried in the past without having a link directly to a specific story I could view the top page. But if I tried going any deeper, it insisted I was trying to access a Members Only section, and thus needed to log in. Which was impossible since you needed an invite to become a member, and I wasn't getting one. I eventually gave up. Tried 3 or 4 times to submit a request for an invitation. Nothing came of it. So I stopped bothering with AO3.
Security. having a working dhd hooked to a gate anyone that knows a planet and can access it can punch in and leave. By having it controlled by a computer they control the security so you have to be able to bypass it before you can dial out.
Put the DHD in a secure location. Like, not directly in front of the gate.Can you secure the DHD sure but until you know everything it can do are you sure you fully secured it?
And if the DHD happens to be a receiver for a remote dialing device? I'm not sure if we ever see the puddle jumper that was in the Milky Way dialing the SGC gate, but it can "remote dial" others. What if it does that through the DHD instead of direct to the gate? Then the DHD being in a "secure location" doesn't matter, if it can dial the gate then anyone with a remote dialer can do the same.Put the DHD in a secure location. Like, not directly in front of the gate.
First you need a remote dialer on earth.And if the DHD happens to be a receiver for a remote dialing device? I'm not sure if we ever see the puddle jumper that was in the Milky Way dialing the SGC gate, but it can "remote dial" others. What if it does that through the DHD instead of direct to the gate? Then the DHD being in a "secure location" doesn't matter, if it can dial the gate then anyone with a remote dialer can do the same.
A railway car can hold about 100 tons. In 38 minutes, you could pretty easily send several dozen full-sized freight trains worth of cargo through, assuming they were up to speed prior to the gate opening.
Or, you could do it like the Aschen, who simply turned the gate on its side in order to dump bulk grain through, presumably to fall into a waiting hopper on the other side. The advantage there is that gravity does all of the work as a motive force for the cargo. That only works for some types of cargo, of course, but is wonderful for bulk items.