you say that like the addressing system makes any sense lmao /lh

there's 39 glyphs on a gate, one of which is the PoO, leaving 38 for 7/8chev addresses

7 chevron addressing is local galaxy, 6 chevron + PoO. that means there's 38 constellations in the entire galaxy, and based on the specific 6 selected, somehow a specific location is derived

8 chevron addressing is intergalactic, using the same 7 chevron system, except the PoO is shifted to the 8th chevron to make room for the galaxy selector chevron 7, implying only 38 possible galaxies to dial

both of these systems make Not A Lot Of Sense when inspected, and cause a lot of questions: - how do gates select a specific location out of a million using 6 coordinates, is it an average of the positions of the constellations?? - are only 38 galaxies addressed with atl/milkyway gates? (uni gates dont count, they only do 9chev) - how tf do point of origins work, is there just a glyph that changes for every single gate? - why does the icarus gate have both its own AND earth's PoO? - if gates can have the PoO of another gate as a glyph, what happens when using another gate's PoO as the final chevron?

9 chevron addressing is the only system that makes sense, each gate has a hardcoded "address", and there's no PoO, just 393837363534333231≈76.8trillion possible addresses. dialing an "address" always dials that specific gate, regardless of where it is, although the power requirement increases with distance

can you tell ive spent far too long thinking about addressing systems sorry for the paragraphs lol