History

      The Stargate, originally found in 1928 in Giza, Egypt, was stored in various locations by the United States Air Force (including Washington DC) before it was brought to the Creek Mountain facility. While the Stargate had been previously tested (most notably in the 1940s), no one could make it reliably function until Egyptologist and Archeologist Daniel Jackson was summoned in the 1990s. Jackson intuited that the strange symbols around the Stargate device were actually representations of constellations (rather than hieroglyphs), and that the device could 'dial' another Stargate by 'locking' seven (or, much later, up to nine) of its chevrons onto these symbols, somewhat like a combination lock. This 'dialing' activates a wormhole between the dialer's Stargate and one of millions of other Stargates across the cosmos, allowing for near-instantaneous travel to other planets.

      Subsequently, USAF Colonel Jack O'Neill and a team of soldiers with Daniel Jackson were sent from the Creek Mountain Facility through the Stargate to Abydos, where they encountered Ra. Ra was a Goa'uld, an alien race that uses Stargates to transport slaves and goods throughout the galaxy.

      At some point between 1994 and 1997, for reasons unknown, the Stargate and Dialing Computer were relocated to Cheyenne Mountain. It is in this period that the Stargate Program was mothballed (the Air Force innaccurately believing the only connecting point for the Stargate inaccessible).

      The Stargate and any related programs remained dormant until 1997, when Goa'uld Apophis dialed the Earth Stargate, and kidnapped one of the Air Force personnel assigned to guard it. When it was confirmed that Apophis had not arrived via the Abydos Stargate but instead a planet called Chulak, it was realized that the Stargate was capable of connecting with multiple destinations. O'Neill headed the attempted rescue mission, where he convinced Teal'c, Apophis' First Prime, to defect from the service of the Goa'uld.

      Realizing the Goa'uld threat, Stargate Command (SGC) was quickly formed with a set of SG teams, of which the primary team, SG-1, consisted of Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter and Teal'c. Their standing orders, along with the SGC, were to acquire weapons or technology that could help Earth in the fight against the Goa'uld, including establishing allies.

       From that point forward, the SGC began exploring thousands of worlds, and after encountering a few advanced races, researching and developing many alien/human-hybrid devices, such as fighter-jets capable of spaceflight, and Earth-designed battlecruisers, late in 2002.

       About a year and a half after the first activation of the Stargate and the mission to Abydos (about half a year after the creation of the SGC and the SG teams), a second Stargate was found on Earth, in Antarctica. This Stargate was sealed until 2000, when it was unsealed after the original Giza gate had crashed into the Pacific Ocean aboard the Asgard vessel Beliskner. Russia, performing deep-sea research in the area, discovered the Giza gate and began using it in conjunction with the DHD they had captured from Germany after World War II. Eventually, the Antarctic gate was destroyed by a device controlled by Anubis, and the Giza gate was returned to the United States from Russia for rent and an agreement to share plans for the F-302 space fighter-interceptor and BC-303 interstellar battlecruiser. This agreement also called for the formation of a Russian SG team at the SGC. Renewal of this agreement in 2005 led to Russia acquiring a Deadalus-class vessel.

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