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Addresses in Stargates

· by Kernic
Category: Multimedia

Stargate is one of the best science fiction series for me. I liked the humorous and grounded approach. Space battles are secondary, the main method of travel are the eponymous stargates. But how do the addresses actually work?

Sudden Confusion

It was one of those evenings when I didn’t fall asleep within 10 seconds. Instead, a question popped into my head:

How does the address system of the Stargates actually work?

I remembered that a Stargate address, at least within the Milky Way, consists of seven symbols. Six symbols for the destination, one for the point of origin. There are 36 symbols available.

Wait? If there are 36 symbols and one of them is mandatory for the origin, how can there be more than 36 Stargates?

Wrong Assumption

I fell asleep without a solution to the problem. The next morning, however, the problem was still spinning through my head and I started researching on the internet.

I quickly recognized my mistake. I had assumed that the Stargates in the Milky Way are all identical. But it seems that only 35 symbols are identical and the 36th symbol differs from gate to gate. Because it represents the planet.

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