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I have a Stargate question that I'm hoping someone out there will know the answer to. I've checked a couple guides but no luck.

Okay. The Stargate. The DHD doesn't always work. I know this. If the DHD doesn't work, it will still receive a wormhole and they can still go through the Stargate, they just can't dial home, right?

Hmm. So. When the DHD hasn't worked in the past, what have they done other than have Sam fix it? What I think I'm ultimately wondering is how manual dialing works. I know they've done it (I can see Teal'c pushing the inner ring around in my mind) but have they used a secondary power source? I think they've used a naquadah (is that even spelled right? This fandom's so weird) generator in the past, so if the DHD is shot and they have no secondary power source, can they make the Stargate work?

In summary: what would it take to make SG-1 unable to make the Stargate work? (Other than y'know, burial by meteor shower or the likes.)

Thanks!

This is what happens when you come late to the fandom party.

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Arrgh! lj is driving me nuts with the up and down.

Uhm, a warning to you all; looks like my email may have been hacked and used to send email to people not in my address book. I don't know how either, but I got one returned to me with a (well deserved) WTF, so it's happened.

I've changed all my passwords: hopefully that's enough, but if I've recently send you a strange email? Not me. Well, it might have been, but I haven't sent a lot of email from that address, so, you know, probably not me.