Um, what?

They become a bit less difficult to swallow if you assume that the Drengin are indeed, very patient, possibly incredibly long lived (they sat around on Drengi for millenia with a world wide empire, I think the pursuit of immortality would come up once or twice), and were willing to look millenia ahead for the opportunity to conquer new lands.

[Ahem] (Fictional) reality check here. You are talking about...Drengin.
(The great Frog God did given them an alignment setting of...1...after all.)

drrider

(LOL at this whole debate on how the game creator's own backstory got the functional realities wrong for the stargates he invented as props for his story.)

The whole knowledge of this "wormholes" and spacetravels, is just based on theories.

who really knows?

till one person has made the first stargate and flow through it, I wouldn' care about what game creators think of a stargate. He just made a new Theory of his own, well try to prove that his theory is wrong^^ and please.... no new theories^^

-Stefan

i am not arguing that the Stargate is better than the hyper drive.

it takes forever and a day to get the gates installed. but then it is instant travel between gates. that is the problem you have to travel between gates.


the hyper drive on the other hand is slower the gate system after the gates are installed. but you can go wherever you want to.

daniel:





actually this has been brought up before. I think you, like many other people, are confusing GC "Stargates" with the TV show/movie.

I beleive Brad has actually stated elswhere that his gates do not allow instant travel from point a to point b, like Stargate. rather the GC hyperspace stargates took care of traving at hyperspace for the spaceship, ie the ship could now move 1 square per turn (game wise). original concept, the older races did not have the tech to shrink hyperspace drives onto a ship, ships only had standard reaction/sub-hyperspace drive (however you like to term it).

Think of the stargates as a highway system. Just because you have a stargate between Altair and Toria doesn't mean it takes no time to use it. Think of it as an Interglactic Highway, you still have to "drive" from Toria from Altair, but now the can go "65" instead of "35".

GC has tweaked the "common" rules about "Stargates" to suit their purposes. It's not perfect, but if you remove fictional TV show tech from a great fictional computer game it makes a lot more sense.

the only other show with gates was bab 5 and those were called hyper gates not stargates.

i still play the game.

but if i had a choose to travel the highway or go where ever i wanted. in space i think i would go where ever i wanted.

Actually, you have your dates mixed up. The original GalCiv came out in 1993, a year before the movie Stargate.



The back story says that by being confined to their planets, with out the advent of fusion power the civilizations stagnated. It wasn't until the humans invented fusion power that the others managed to get out of their technological rut.



You are crossing ideas between "universes", and expecting GalCiv to comply with ideas put forward by other franchises. In the GalCiv universe Stargates don't provide instant transport, and that is all that matters. Your argument makes as much sense as insisting that the Battlestar Galactica tie in with Star Trek.

because the federation is based in the 13th colony. it was the other 12 colonies that were wiped out by the cylons.


remember their trying to get to earth.

The origin of the galactic civilization stargates is actually a fair bit earlier then that. As Draginol mentioned here WWW Link the galactic civilizations universe originated from a series of manuscripts he wrote in the late 1980's and early 1990's so it's safe to assume that the star gates preceded the movie by a sizable margin.

Hmmmmm.



And where's Dr Who while all this is going on.
Some hero last minute savior he turned out to be, Bloody Skiver.

he is where he always is lost in time.


and ontop of all of that he usually only saves earth.