---
id: sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address
title: "Stargate Address"
primary_class: artifacts
primary_domain: technology-infrastructure
secondary_domains: [memory-identity, origin-lineage]
material_modes: [science-fiction, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Stargate Address

> **the stargate address reliquary-keeper.** Stargate Address frames an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif as a decision environment rather than a finished answer. Its evidence discipline is work, creator, reception, and symbolic reuse.

## Origin

Origin is treated as a chain of custody for Stargate Address: initial context, transmission, alteration, reception, and explicit Oracle synthesis. Because an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded, provenance work must trace inputs, transformation, outputs, energy, operators, error states, ownership, and shutdown.

## What It Is

Stargate Address frames an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif as a decision environment rather than a finished answer. Its evidence discipline is work, creator, reception, and symbolic reuse. In the Oracle it is classified as Artifacts & Resources, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

What survives of Stargate Address is not neutral. Preservation choices determine which witnesses, failures, and counter-readings remain available. At collective scale, an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif organizes attention around custody, authenticity, value, and access; this matters because a capability redistributes power long before its interface appears neutral.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** science-fiction
- **Evidence state:** fictional
- **Summary:** Stargate Address has a fictional literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** sf-encyclopedia, isfdb

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** science-fiction, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** documented-historical
- **Summary:** The cited cultural record documents at least one lineage, use, or reception context for Stargate Address; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** sf-encyclopedia, isfdb

### symbolic-and-divinatory

- **Claim layer:** symbolic-and-divinatory
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** symbolic
- **Summary:** The Oracle uses Stargate Address as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Stargate Address frames an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif as a decision environment rather than a finished answer. Its evidence discipline is work, creator, reception, and symbolic reuse.
- **Archetype:** the stargate address reliquary-keeper
- **Gift:** find a proportionate action through trace inputs, transformation, outputs, energy, operators, error states, ownership, and shutdown.
- **Shadow:** mistaking intensity, repetition, or belonging for independent verification.
- **Guidance:** Use Stargate Address as a lens on mechanism, dependency, maintenance, access, failure, and the labor beneath capability, not a verdict. Stop when the lens begins to erase evidence or personhood. Use this guidance where an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded; keep visible that a capability redistributes power long before its interface appears neutral.
- **Healing / integration:** Write four accounts of Stargate Address: observation, interpretation, cultural story, and symbolic meaning. Underline where an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif changes category. Review an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif through mechanism, dependency, maintenance, access, failure, and the labor beneath capability, remembering that the card anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.
- **Question:** What is the smallest reversible action that could clarify an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif? Answer by testing how an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded against mechanism, dependency, maintenance, access, failure, and the labor beneath capability.

## Meanings

### Psychological

The psychological question in Stargate Address is not whether the symbol feels true, but what it does to attention, relationship, and available action. A grounded check for an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif is to trace inputs, transformation, outputs, energy, operators, error states, ownership, and shutdown, especially where the pattern anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.

### Social

In groups, Stargate Address distributes roles: witness, expert, outsider, beneficiary, skeptic, keeper, or threat. Those assignments deserve explicit review. In shared life, an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif organizes attention around custody, authenticity, value, and access. Test that specific an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif pattern by asking people to trace inputs, transformation, outputs, energy, operators, error states, ownership, and shutdown.

### Spiritual

As sacred metaphor, Stargate Address asks how a capability redistributes power long before its interface appears neutral. It should not erase living tradition while its symbolic role anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded. In symbolic practice, an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif may operate as relic, talisman, revelation, test, or burden; keep in view that a capability redistributes power long before its interface appears neutral.

### Technological

As infrastructure, Stargate Address would require materials, energy, labor, maintenance, governance, and disposal. The imagined capability must carry those dependencies. When an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif becomes a capability, it invites inspection of material, function, interface, and chain of custody. Verify the implementation of an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif by asking participants to trace inputs, transformation, outputs, energy, operators, error states, ownership, and shutdown.

### Political

Politically, Stargate Address creates conflict over possession, classification, ownership, and public knowledge. Follow authority, benefit, exposure to harm, refusal, remedy, and control of the official record. When an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif becomes governance, it creates conflict over possession, classification, ownership, and public knowledge. Make authority over an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif answerable by requiring decision-makers to trace inputs, transformation, outputs, energy, operators, error states, ownership, and shutdown.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Stargate Address can now become an instrument rather than an identity. Use it to compare, clarify, connect, or repair. The capacity within an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif is strongest when the capability is understood together with its costs, keepers, and failure paths, even as the pattern anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.
- **Shadow state:** In shadow, Stargate Address becomes mistaking intensity, repetition, or belonging for independent verification. Pause before the preferred explanation hardens into identity or mandate. To keep an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif from escalating, trace inputs, transformation, outputs, energy, operators, error states, ownership, and shutdown, because the pattern anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.
- **Threshold state:** This is a signal to examine the keeper, witness, outsider, beneficiary, and cost hidden inside Stargate Address, especially around mechanism, dependency, maintenance, access, failure, and the labor beneath capability. Operationally, an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded; the reader should trace inputs, transformation, outputs, energy, operators, error states, ownership, and shutdown.
- **Practical move:** Write four accounts of Stargate Address: observation, interpretation, cultural story, and symbolic meaning. Underline where an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif changes category. Review an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif through mechanism, dependency, maintenance, access, failure, and the labor beneath capability, remembering that the card anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.

## Game and Story Function

- key-object
- evidence
- contested-resource

**Story seed:** The evidence for Stargate Address is genuine but supports less than either faction claims. Force the investigator to protect truth without abandoning meaning. The world of the story must show how an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded and why a capability redistributes power long before its interface appears neutral.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-artifacts-seed-vault--sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-artifacts-star-map--sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address--sfoc-artifacts-the-signal
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address--sfoc-cosmologies-space-memory-network
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address--sfoc-myths-the-date-2027
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address--sfoc-states-bloodline-memory
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address--sfoc-worlds-company-town
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address--sfoc-worlds-dark-side-of-the-moon
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-stargate-address--sfoc-worlds-sleeper-ship

## Visual Direction

Stargate Address visualized as an addressable passage between worlds meeting the address motif: a single centered relic in a registered reliquary with enough empty field for immediate recognition. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

No elevated safety flag. Keep claims and metaphor visibly distinct.

## Sources and Research Notes

- Source IDs: sf-encyclopedia, isfdb, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Stargate Address? Which communities use Stargate Address differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Stargate Address?
