Dumb Question

[Not_Pennys_Ship]

Maybe my lack of knowledge of Stargate shows through with this question but why did:

 

(A) The first event started at Chevron 7 (why not 1 etc)?

( Why does each subsequent event's name increase by 0.1 (and not by 1)?

 

Is there any significance?

[Queen_Sindel]

The chevrons are the symbols on the gate.

 

Each location in the Stargate universe has its own unique "address", which is a combination of seven or more non-repeating symbols appearing on the dialing stargate.

 

Standard addresses have 7 chevrons, hence likely the name. (I wasn't involved with name finding, so this is a more or less edcuated guess.) An 8th chevron comes into play for the Atlantis spin off and a 9th for Universe.

 

If they wouldn't go with .1 steps we'd have left the gate addresses that make sense a long time ago.

[adriangill]

Maybe my lack of knowledge of Stargate shows through with this question but why did:

 

(A) The first event started at Chevron 7 (why not 1 etc)?

Probably because at the time ME were not sure if there would be a second event. Retrospectively I always refer to it as 7.1 rather than 7

 

 

Standard addresses have 7 chevron, hence likely the name. (I wasn't involved with name finding, so this is a more or less edcuated guess.)

That is what I have always assumed as well.

 

Edsit: Thought - imagine if it was based on the number of symbols on the gate itself. It would have been Chevron 39.1

Edited April 28, 2011 by 1of2

[Too Tall]

It was indeed based on the fact that a standard Stargate address is 7 Chevrons.

 

And I think it's pretty clear that Chevron 7.6 is the 6th event, so no big issue

[Christoff]

I've always wondered what would happen after Chevron 7.9 (assuming there are that many)?

• Chevron 8?
  
• Chevron 7.10? (Though technically that's the same as 7.1 )
  

[adriangill]

Hopefully there will be that many. I suspect that it would be 7.10

[timelord81r]

chevron X

[adriangill]

chevron X

That just makes me think of Wormhole X-Treme.