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#the milky way stargate system is still running MS DOS
mylittleredgirl · 2 years
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today's stargate thought is how much i LOVE that everyone in the pegasus galaxy uses the stargate.
like all through SG-1, 90% of the cultures we meet either have no idea what the stargate is or believe it's reserved for godly use only. basically no one but us uses it to explore. for the first few seasons, it took so much math to calculate the stellar drift that all the supercomputers in the SGC could only spit out a few addresses a month. even the super-advanced aschen thought it only went like ten places!
so it was such a genius choice to make stargate travel so common in pegasus that no one even remarks on it. yes, demons pour out of it sometimes and try to eat you, but the rest of the time it's like hopping on the light rail. people use it to go shopping. teyla has personal friends on fifteen planets. the first twelve-year-old john sheppard meets knows more valid gate addresses off the top of his head than SG-1 knew after like four months of gate travel and that will always always delight me.
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