Games of Chance by X-parrot (second verse challenge) 1/2

[xparrot]

Title: Games of Chance (~12,000 words)
Author: xparrot
Characters: Rodney, Sheppard, Team, etc.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Season 4 cast/spoilers (post-BAMSR, pre-The Kindred)
Notes: Many thanks to gnine for ironing out key plot wrinkles, and naye for beta/cheerleading far above and beyond the call of duty

Comments

[emeraldsword]

I am loving this so far, so much that it seems really mean to point out that you can't have two Stargates on the same planet - that's what the cliffhanger at the end of S3 was about. I'm not going to stop reading it because of that though - I want to see what happens!

[sholio]

Well, you *can* have two Stargates on the same planet, but since the same address opens both gates, the wormhole can jump from one to the other -- when you dial, you can never be 100% sure which one you're going to get. Earth had two Stargates and they didn't even know about it until season 2(?) of SG-1 when the wormhole jumped to the Antarctic gate. I'm not sure if the show ever explained why they got the same gate 99% of the time, though -- maybe there can be a primary and a secondary gate? But Earth continued to have two gates for several seasons, until they blew one of them up.

[xparrot]

Yup, what friendshipper said. SG-1's s1 ep "Solitudes" established the existence of a second Earth gate in Antarctica, which the Russians got hold of, but weren't using at the SGC's insistence. You can have two gates, but since they have the same address they cannot be in use simultaneously - in "Adrift" that's why Atlantis was trying to dial out when the 38 minute window is up, because that would've blocked the replicators from dialing back (it didn't work since the replicator gate didn't shut down