This can be anything from Hyperspace in Star Wars, Warp Drive in Star Trek, travel through the Warp in Warhammer 40k or anything else.
I’ve always liked “slow” FTL travel, where going a few light-years still takes a few days or so. I also really like travel through an alternate dimension like in 40k, Event Horizon, Witchspace in Elite Dangerous.
I wanna know your favorite versions, or do you prefer stories that obey the laws of known physics, like the Expanse or Rimworld?
thats why sg1,sga, sgu had the foresight of using probes, so they wouldnt be ambushed, they rarely are. the biggest limitation for a gate is how long it can stay open, unless you have unlimted power sorce, like black hole or zpms, or anubis gate destroying device.
ori solves this issue by using a supergate powered by a small blackhole, can be a natural one too. asgard solely use thier very fast intergalatic hyperdrives, so they dont need stagates all the time. aside from the zpm power atlantis, they can fly across the galaxy in a matter of minutes or seconds. while even the deadalus takes some time because its a weaker powered ship.
What annoys me about the SG universe is how inconsistent the gate addresses are.
They talk about how every gate address in the Milky Way is made up of five coordinates and the sixth glyph is the point of origin.
I am sorry but that sounds smart but is actually dumb.
I love SG1/SGA, but once you start thinking about it, it get annoying.
Ok, so the it is established that the last glyph in the address is the point of origin.
This makes me wonder why the address system is needed at all.
Think about it, if every planet has a different glyph as a point of origin, why not just use that glyph as the entire address?
In Children of the Gods, Til’q asks SG1 where they come from and Daniel draws the Å symbol, which Til’q recognizes, meaning that the Å symbol is only connected to earth.
So ever since then, it was established that a single glyph can be understood as a single planet. So why not use it as the actual address for a specific planet,
the other 6 points are coordinates to basically zero in to the planet your dialing, i think its explained more in the first few season, gotta rewatch the first few seasons where carter explains why they use 6 other costellation, and the "planet your own unique symbol is probably the constellation unique to that part of the space. the pegasus is this way too, but the SGU ones is based on a different system