PJ drone power

[Salas1]

As Atlantis now has quite alot of drones, they need not obsess over the Wraith coming to destroy them, they can swat them like the bugs (iratus) that they truly are.

Also, we see in one episode, cant remember which, one drone from a downed PJ pretty much cripples a Wraith cruiser. Seeing as how Atlantis now has approx 10-15 jumpers, and the people to fly them, they should just cloak around the next Wraith Hive ship/s that come to visit, and once the Wraith darts are set off, the PJs pummel into the Hive ship/s with say 1 tactical drone from each of them aiming for the Wraith weapons, then just pummel into the rest of it.

[Wraith_Hunter]

It's not as simple as that, in every engagement that the PJ's have been in, we've never once saw them fire while cloaked.

Also while they may have restocked a large bunch of new Drones, it woulnd't be anywhere near enough to take out every Wraith ship. There'd only be a handful of them taken out, before they start pummeling the shield again & in a few days, they'd be toast.

The episode in question was 'Condemed', it didn't actually cripple the Cruiser because it could still fly perfectly fine. Simply it was caught unexpectedly, when it scanned, it didn't detect any power. So came in close, they got power running again for a sec. Fired while it was a couple hundred feet from the ground, it got damaged & decided it'd be safer to get the heck out of there. Then a replacement one came in.

Another major problem, is that in firing all those Drones, then it'd severely deplete the ZPM, then the shield could be gone in a matter of hours instead of days.

So either way, they have nowhere near enough Drones or ZPM's to even want to make any sort of engagement with the Wraith, especially over Lantia. At least away from the planet, then Daedalus/Orion or PJ's can get away & their position can be changed. Atlantis can't, so they should still be very worried everytime Wraith are sniffing around their quadrant of the galaxy.

[qingdom]

It's rather dangerous to cloak too because shields are not activated. They'll be a sitting duck.

It's either choose cloak or shields. Cannot have both on at the same time. Both draws power.

Flying with cloak on, wraith can send asteroids or shoot blanks into space hoping something would hit too to prevent cloaking as a tactic on our end.


They can rewire drones to draw power from another power source like the Mark II/III(?) naquada generators or a solar battery reserve.

The ship powers up in the presence of a person with the gene... So, PJ's have to have a battery somewhere in it. Drones have a battery in it too, but recieves instructions from some terminal/network connection (i.e. atlantis, outpost, jumper, etc)... so it has to be rigged to shoot from whichever it launches from.

Not doing so would cause interferance and confusion ... say, if atlantis was instructing drones 1-4 to attack target A... then PJ shoots 5-8 to attack target B... if drones 5-8 doesn't attach itself to recieve instructions from the PJ rather than atlantis, then all 8 drones would attack target A instead of split attack like target B. or vice versa.. all attack Target B instead of A..

[ancientaction]

its not that the Drones themselves require power. the drowns have there own small powersource. (probally a dozen AA batteries ) the ZPM only powers the main computer system that is telling the dronse what to do. if power is cut from the computers, the command tower shuts down, drones don't know what to do. the only other power needed for the drones is the initial power sourse from the salvo, which launches the drons.

[Pasankoon]

Drones do serious amount of dammage to big ships because they eat through meters and meters of armor before hitting vital areas ('its good to be king', 'Condemned'). However when it comes to darts they have self destructs to destroy the drone and prevent the drone from targetting other darts once it eats through one. However the darts wouldn't be much of a problem anyway against the atlantis shield.

[Gate Master]

Drones do serious amount of dammage to big ships because they eat through meters and meters of armor before hitting vital areas ('its good to be king', 'Condemned'). However when it comes to darts they have self destructs to destroy the drone and prevent the drone from targetting other darts once it eats through one. However the darts wouldn't be much of a problem anyway against the atlantis shield.

Which ep is that from cause ive always wondered why drones get destroyed from contact with one dart but that does sound plausable.

Also does any one know what actually causes drones to get destroyed cause they can go through energy shields and alot of matter. But in other eps they explode on contact with the ground and what is the limit to how much matter they can penertrate. Does it depend on what constitutes the matter or something else such as whats powering them.

[Schrodinger's Cat]

Which ep is that from cause ive always wondered why drones get destroyed from contact with one dart but that does sound plausable.

Rising pt. 2

[Salas1]

I wasn't necessarily talking about over Atlantis as such, it could be done while a Hiveship is culling as well as it would be on it's own, then the darts would go culling, the cloaked Jumpers around the Hive could then uncloak, fire at vital systems before the Hive could shoot them, then if weapons had been taken out completely they could recloak, change positions, uncloak, fire at engines, recloak, change positions, uncloak, and then pummel the ship in it's middle section hoping it breaks apart like the Prommie did.

[freyr's mother]

Using tech available on the daedalus.... We could disable the vital systems (ie) weapons turrets, sub light systems, and other stuff we deem vital by putting some drone launchers on the daedalus. After the primary assult we move in because the darts cant do anything to deddy's shield. Since we dont want to waste drones. We beam a MK IX nuke into space like 200m away from the hiveship detonate it. We don't want to risk jumpers when we dont need to.

[ancientaction]

the drone do denonate when they determine they will do more damage where they hit. so hitting a dart, not much to go trough so they detonate.

either that, or the piolet of the PJ hasn't really mastered the ablilty to command the darts to pummle trough and seak another target. piolet is problay just telling the drone to destroy that one dart.

[freyr's mother]

the drone do denonate when they determine they will do more damage where they hit. so hitting a dart, not much to go trough so they detonate.

either that, or the piolet of the PJ hasn't really mastered the ablilty to command the darts to pummle trough and seak another target. piolet is problay just telling the drone to destroy that one dart.

In Sanctuary sheppard destroys launches two drones at the same time and destroys two darts.

[ancientaction]

In Sanctuary sheppard destroys launches two drones at the same time and destroys two darts.

yea, two drones, two darts.

one drone per dart. , thats what i said.

[freyr's mother]

This looks like somewhere we could put some drones and launch them from for my plan. Theres no need to put pj's at risk when you can install drones on the new ships coming out. Im sure we could rig up some secondary power source so we wouldn't need the zpm.

[Schrodinger's Cat]

yea, two drones, two darts.

one drone per dart.

There's a huge difference between one drone per dart, and two drones per two darts...

one drone per dart - two drones per two darts = negative one drone per negative one dart.