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While the Stargate franchise is not related to games, this is something i have a passion for and feel that this is a good medium to put forward some theories about this new show and give a run down for those in the audience that haven't been following along with the Nerd News.
The third series in the franchise is based around the 9th symbol on the stargate, 7 chevrons to dial a gate in this galaxy, 8 symbols to dial another galaxy and the 9th dials a ship, this ancient ship the "Destiny" is a scout ship sent out into the universe to follow a second ship sent earlier whose job is to seed stargate across the other unknown galaxies in the universe. The Destiny was suppose to be manned by an ancient crew to follow and document the planets found, but was abandoned after the ancients ascended or left for the Pegasus galaxy (it is unknown when this project was started the look of the interior of the ship suggest that it is pre-Atlantis technology, suggesting that the ancients had many more years before ascending, and that there may be another reason for the abandonment).
The series is based around a jumbled group of scientists, soldiers, IOA, and civilian, who were on a Stargate Command outpost. Working on a top secret project to reach the Destiny, i also believe that one of the Daedalus class ships (Most likely the Odyssey) is somehow being used or was used because of mention during season 5 that they were off on a top secret mission, (either relating to Icarus project (See below) or to finding the crew of the Destiny). In other word we don't know when Stargate Universe starts in relation to Atlantis or SG1.
From the teaser trailers and cast photos the name Icarus has popped up, either as the name of the outpost or the projects name. This suggest that the planet the base is on may be close to a sun or getting to the Destiny needs some kind of massive power output from the sun in some way. Using the knowledge that we have on the ancients we know that they haven't used any kind of solar generating technology on Atlantis, so my thought is that the ship is reached by sending a wormhole through the sun (Following the history behind the name Icarus), but we know that sending a wormhole through a sun does not do anything to the wormhole, but it will affect the sun in some way as seen in "Red Sky" (SG1 Season 5, Episode 5), suggesting that if is the case that there is some missing element to the "getting to the Destiny" puzzle.
The mismatched group of explorer did not mean to end up on the Destiny, when during some kind of catastrophe the entire base is evacuated, but they have just figured out the key to the Destiny, and Dr Nicholas Rush, the lead scientist decides to dial the Destiny instead of Earth, because it was the only chance for him to complete his life's work to find the Destiny.
Ending up in the group being stranded on the ship with no way to get home, and no choice to go forward and finish what the Ancients started, and try to find a way.... home... (Sound Familiar?)
The series has been green-lit for airing and will start airing in October 2009 on the American network SyFy (originally SciFi).
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What's with the codename Icarus for projects and the like? It seems to pop up all the time (the one that's foremost in my mind is the synthetic sun in Die Another Day (James Bond), was called Icarus.) Was Icarus some greek guy who did something special, or is it more geeky than that?
ReplyDeleteyeah its something to do with greek mythology, andrew knows a boat load on it and would just correct me on mything i said, im pretty sure icarus was given the ability to fly, but he flew too close to the sun and lost his wings. Or something like that
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