Stargate Command

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Fictional universe - Stargate

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In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Command (more commonly the SGC, or, rarely, Area 52), is a top-secret military facility located in the Cheyenne Mountain complex in Colorado. It houses the fictional Stargate device, an alien device capable of creating a wormhole that allows instant transportation of people or objects to the position of any of a vast number of complementary devices throughout, and beyond, the Milky Way.

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Science fiction - Television series - Stargate SG-1 - Secret - Military - Cheyenne Mountain - Colorado - Stargate - Alien - Wormhole - Milky Way

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The SGC is located one thousand meters beneath the Cheyenne Mountain. This protects it from all forms of attack, including nuclear detonations, and also prevents any diseases caught from escaping into the world (the base may be 'locked down' - anyone that tries to leave in such a situation is shot on sight). However, in an alternate universe (seen via the use of an alien device in the episode "There But For the Grace of God"), it was unable to withstand a large-scale attack.

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Cheyenne Mountain - Alternate universe - There But For the Grace of God

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The SGC also serves as a place for researching alien technology, but larger or longer term research projects are usually handed over to Area 51. On more than one occassion, SGC personnel have had to leave the base to recapture alien technology that has escaped into the outside world. Personnel of the SGC are kept under a secrecy act, and sleep on base. They are allowed to leave the base and lead personal lives as the base permits. Many cover stories have been generated to keep the general populace unaware of the goings on within the SGC.

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