SG-1 Canon
In the interests of making stargates a practical transportation device
in Minecraft, not all details of SG-1 canon are strictly followed.
Configuration options are provided to change some of these if you want
a more authentic SG-1 experience.
Travelling Direction
In SG-1, matter is only able to travel in one direction through a
stargate wormhole, from the initiating to the receiving gate. By
default, SG Craft stargates permit travel in either direction. This can
be changed using the oneWayTravel configuration option.
Closing Connections
In SG-1, only the initiating stargate is able to close a wormhole. By
default, SG Craft allows a connection to be closed from either end.
This can be changed using the closeFromEitherEnd configuration option.
Opening Time
In SG-1, a stargate is able to stay open for a maximum time of 39
minutes. Since a Minecraft day and night is only 20 minutes, some
scaling down seems to be called for. The default maximum opening time
in SG Craft is somewhat arbitrarily set to 5 minutes. This can be
changed using the secondsToStayOpen configuration option.
Power Source
It's not entirely clear where SG-1 stargates get their power from, but
a naquadah-powered generator seems a likely candidate, since naquadah
is used as a power source for other technology in the series.
Furthermore, it seems likely that the generator is located in the DHD,
since Earth's stargate in SG-1 that was missing its DHD needed to be
powered in an ad-hoc manner.
Number of Chevrons
Quite a number of people have pointed out that stargates are supposed
to have 9 chevrons, not 7. I hadn't noticed this before, because the
stargate in SG Command had two of them hidden behind the ramp, and
since they mostly only used 7-symbol addresses in the original series,
it never occurred to me that there might be more.
It turns out that 7 chevrons is a much more convenient number for SG Craft,
because it fits evenly around a 5x5 ring with a gap at the bottom. The
current solution is to build a gate initially with 7 chevrons, and add
two more using an upgrade to allow 9-symbol addresses to be dialled.
Address Symbols
As of SG Craft 0.8, address symbols are constellations, not hieroglyphs. Canon wins.
Points of Origin
In SG-1, one of the symbols in each dialled address was supposedly a
"point of origin" indicating where the connection was coming from. SG
Craft does not incorporate this element, since it serves no purpose and
would only reduce the available addressing range.
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