That's hilarious. And damn, exploding planets sure do emphasize the sheer random, uh, "creativity" of users. If there's a way, they'll find it. And if there isn't, they'll make it. I wonder if Temit was an ascended being, because surely near-omniscience is the only explanation for his ability to predict some of the crazy things gate users would try.
Anyhow, one minor issue: the gates were thought of by a guy named Amelius the night before they left the Alteran Home Galaxy, long before they ever reached Earth. :)
> Temit was an ascended being, because surely near-omniscience is the only explanation
Any sufficiently advanced QA department is indistinguishable from ascension.
> for his ability
Stop misgendering my werewolves. >:(
> Anyhow, one minor issue: the gates were thought of by a guy named Amelius the night before they left the Alteran Home Galaxy, long before they ever reached Earth. :)
Yeah, I had the timeline slightly wrong for how long it took them to get to earth. In my defence there's no evidence of them making Stargates pre Milky Way (he came up with the idea in the Ori home galaxy but they then spent a few thousand years looking for somewhere to settle), and we don't know how long the Alterrans lived, so it's just about plausible, but it's a bit of a reach.
The show Stargate Universe is set on a alterran Galaxy seeding ship. The stargates in that show are definitely an earlier design than the milky way ones, demonstrated by their ability to only dial other gates within a few dozen light years instead of across the galaxy
The seed ships (SGU) had stargates though - I don't think those came out of the Milky Way, and I'm very sure they predate the Milky Way stargate system
Or AI. That would explain the ability to exhaustively think of scenarios and problems, while possibly not having already come up with the technology themselves (depending on whether you believe creativity is semi-distinct from intelligence in some respects).
Anyhow, one minor issue: the gates were thought of by a guy named Amelius the night before they left the Alteran Home Galaxy, long before they ever reached Earth. :)