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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4953336" data-attributes="member: 54707">I finally got to see it last night at dinner-time in rerun. I noticed some other things. Rush is really doing a lot right, or is at least really trying to do what it is suggested by others he attempt. You can see it in his expressions, and then later something happens that someone else had mentioned needed to happen, but Rush takes no direct credit for it.I think that's about right if the ship were programmed or expected to reach a point and then await occupants. It would have to be timed really well though so as not to consume a whole lot of unnecessary power. But why the ship damage? Possibly damaged along the way, attacked, or it had been occupied, maybe even sabotaged. It also seems strange to me that large sections of the ship seem inaccessible. As if intentionally blocked off. And the damage to the shuttle and the open doorway to that shuttle area. If the shuttle had been damaged by disaster or attack from outside then the door should have either been damaged from the outside, crumpled or blown inwards, or simply still shut. Yet the door was open as if someone from inside had tried to access the shuttle. (Maybe if the ship was invaded or boarded the ship tried a ploy, to lure someone to the shuttle bay to expel them. but it all seems far more leaky either the ship itself were opening and shutting doors - maybe a lot because the mechanism was damaged or worn, or maybe had sabotaged itself, or maybe someone else had - but the pattern is one of internal occupancy. I can see a breach being made to the outside of the ship then entrance from outside by opening the internal door from outside. But that would mean either blowing the door, and it wasn't blown, or, someone had control access. But the ship itself, well, you don't open and shut doors, or leave them halfway open if your intent is to secure the ship, and you don't expose atmospheric leaks, you seal them. And you don't close off parts of the ship if you're simply expecting your normal crew to arrive. Something occurred in the intervening time and positioning of the ship. Something that looks at least very much like an intentional breach, an invasion, or a boarding.)I don't know about special, but when watched in rerun Rush said the gate was unique, several times. But he also made an interesting comment which I caught the second time around. He said, "that gate (the gate they dialed from) was the only way to dial this ship from our galaxy." (I'm paraphrasing I think.) Take that for what you will, but I suspect he choose his words carefully. I suspect he meant that only specific gates can dial into the ship. That's why the countdown. The ship has to make the contact, not the other gate from the other side. So the on-board gate has to remain open the entire time (using a lot of energy), if the connection is broken then the other gate probably can't re-establish the connection by itself. Most gates can't even receive from the ship (that part is entirely speculation based on just one bit of evidence), that's why the ship choose one gate out of five, and why Rush insisted they take that gate. The ship chooses what it knows it can work, of course it may also choose for other reasons as well, such as crew-need (which shows at least a rudimentary form of AI, as well as rudimentary Intel gathering capabilities and/or an established database, meaning it's sent Kinos through or someone else has fed it data or explored off of the ship before). So it takes a completely unique nine chevron gate to dial into the ship. But he also said from our galaxy. Leading me to conclude that other galaxies might also have gates capable of dialing into the gate. Instead of just receiving from it.Another odd thing I noticed. No furniture except on what they call the observation deck, and that looked more like a dining area. I'm not quite sure what to make of what that implies yet. No control area furniture, but standard, not regressed or missing or hidden eating (or very small, bare meeting/drinking tables) in one room. For a huge ship it looked like eating tables for maybe eight or ten people. Thats' very odd. Of course we don't know the layout of the rest of the ship yet. And we don't know the habits and customs of the designers. Maybe they didn't use much furniture. Maybe they reclined to eat, or slept on the floor. Just don't know yet.I still didn't get to see in rerun the original wave function disruption that would mean the ship started FTL after the crew arrived. I saw it too late. And I guess we can't really know any of these things for sure until more evidence develops and more of the ship and background is exposed. Right now though I'm gonna say the on-board ship cannot receive or send in FTL, that entirely unique gates are needed to dial into it, that it was boarded at one time, and that it has some kinda on-board AI, or at least a remote controlled one. I'm also not sure one way or another whether the other parts of the ship are occupied, and if so by whom. But right now I'm gonna say it looks like someone else has been aboard at least at some time in the past.For now though I'm just fishing though. We'll learn as it goes along I reckon.That's an interesting observation. Very probable too if he mentioned Russian (you guys with good hearing probably heard a lot in the dialogue I can't). Eli looks like the kinda guy who would know what's for about Russian cinema.</blockquote>

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