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    Which is Faster HyperDrives or Warp Drives?

    Ok i know a Hyper Drive opens a gate inot subspace and allows a ship to travel through it .Where as a Warp Drive pushes a ship up to 9 x the speed of light or faster depending on the power source .So who is faster .

    And what about Fold Drive systems .Wouldn't that be the ultimate drive system.

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    Originally posted by MacGuyverThis View Post
    Ok i know a Hyper Drive opens a gate inot subspace and allows a ship to travel through it .Where as a Warp Drive pushes a ship up to 9 x the speed of light or faster depending on the power source .So who is faster .

    And what about Fold Drive systems .Wouldn't that be the ultimate drive system.
    Hyperdrive pwns warp.

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      #3
      Warp Drive isn't even a close second. It's like comparing a snail to a Jet x a Trillion.

      The Daedalus can transverse galaxies in days. Warp drives can't even cross the Milky Way within a century.
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        #4
        Definately hyperdrive, warp is extremely slow by comparison.

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          #5
          Unless you go warp 10, which is infinite speed.

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            #6
            all dipends on power so i would have to say hyper>warp>nuclear fussion drive> solar sail

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              #7
              oh yeah...hyperdrives are definitely way faster than warp drives. As mentioned previously hyperdrives allow travel between galaxies whereas warp drives still take forever, relatively, to just cross the galaxy. of the sci-fi shows i've seen, the fastest drives are probably dune's foldspace systems. andromeda's slipstream is pretty fast too, the only trick is you can't just travel from one system to the next. you have to criss-cross all over the place to get anywhere. star trek's borg transwarp conduits are pretty fast too. star trek's slipstream drive (from voyager) is roughly analagous to regular borg transwarp drives. star wars hyperdrives are pretty fast too, but they are still confined to one galaxy. battlestar galactica's FTLs are sorta like dune's foldspace systems, allowing instantaneous travel, but they are extremely short range in comparison. of all the shows i've seen, star trek's regular warp drives are probably the slowest of the means of travelling faster than light.
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                hyperdrives hands down
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                  #9
                  I remember that Prometheus's unbuffered Naquadria drive traversed almost 1200 Light years in about five minutes.

                  (C is the speed of light)

                  Warp 9 = Cx9
                  Naquadria hyperdrive: Cx51,840,000

                  Seriously, no comparison.

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                    #10
                    Folding space technology hasn't really been developed in the Stargate universe. The Tollan are supposed to have something like it, but we have no idea if it could be used for anything more than communication.

                    However, Hyperdrive is most definitely the faster.

                    An good example would be to compare Atlantis to Voyager.

                    VOY: 75,000 lightyears at full speed in Voyager = 70 years
                    SGA: 3,000,000 lightyears with Asgard engine = 18 days.
                    SGA: 3,000,000 lightyears with ZPM boosting = 4 days.

                    The closest Star Trek could really come to that would be transwarp drive, but even then it's not as fast. Warp 10 is a possibility but since you end up right where you started, sort of pointless.

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                      #11
                      I would have to say the hyperdrives from STARGATE would utterly crap over the warp drives used by the Federation in STARTREK. With the possible exception of races from both shows like the Orii (whom have a Supergate to travel near-instanteously from their galaxy to ours), the Voth/Borg (from Startrek) & other highly advanced forms of technology from the two shows (such as ZPM-powered/boosted Asgard hyperdrive or a Qauntim Slipstream drive or Borg/Voth transwarp drive); the warp engine is definately slower by comparision to the hyperdrive.

                      A hyperdrive opens a doorway to sub-space/'hyper' space, allowing a vessel to travel faster-than-light (the qaulity/desgin/advancement of the engine seems directly propotional to the speed at which it can travel @ FTL), where as a warp drive surrounding a ship in a sub-space bubble which the ship 'moves' in, dropping out of wrap to 'emerge' at it's destination (baisc theory of how it works is that time moves fatser in the bubble than it does outside of it; kind of like a time dilation field; allowing a vessel to reach it's destination much faster than would be possible @ slower-than-light speeds).

                      Anyone interested in exploring this, or other scientific theories would be wel ladvised to buy 'The Science of the X-Files'; which explores the science & theories used & put forward in The Files T.V. series, including the possibility of the warp drive & FTL travel, as well the supposed existence, or likelyhood, of extra-terrastial life (aliens) elsewhere in the universe. All in all a good book, & one I would recommend any sci-fi nut -especially those interested in theortical applied phsyics, other theories & science & tech - has in their collection (certinaly makes all the stuff Sam & McKay alittle more sense to me); especially since it's all in as plan as english as possibel for those less 'brillant' of us.

                      As for the theory of Fold Drives, or folding space:

                      (1) It would require massive ammounts of energy (not to mention technological know-how & other sci-tech knowledge not currently available to us @ our current level of technology, even Earth in the STARGATE universe doesn't have access to that kind of knoweldge/technology with the newly accquired Asgard knowledge base & associated technologies), &;

                      (2) Any species capable of folding space (we know the Tollan can fold subspace fields @ least on a mininature level, as demonstrated by their long-range commincations device in Season 1's 'Engima') on such a massive scale to encompass entire ships the size of the one's on the show - let alone an entire planet (I loved the idea of a planet capable of travelling thru hyperspace from The New Jedi Order series, quite clever I thought) - would have a massive advantage over other races, not to mention be able to travel pretty much anywhere they wanted instanteously (althou this is sort of made a moot point in Stargate, since we have Stargates for planet-to-planet travel & now the Orii Supergate for travel to & from the Orii & Milkyway galaxies); & would have be technologically advanced enough to achieve such goals. The only species which even come close to this kind of level of technological advancement, @ least IMHO, from both shows are the Alterrans (Ancients)/Orii/Asurans from Stargate & the Borg/Voth/Q from Startrek.

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                        #12
                        Logically a Hyperdrive is faster then Warp drives.

                        Warp drives are for mainly in-galaxy travel whilst Hyperdrives can travel from one galaxy to another
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                          Originally posted by Ranlier View Post
                          I remember that Prometheus's unbuffered Naquadria drive traversed almost 1200 Light years in about five minutes.

                          (C is the speed of light)

                          Warp 9 = Cx9
                          Naquadria hyperdrive: Cx51,840,000

                          Seriously, no comparison.
                          that's not how warp speed is scaled! Every 0.01 is actually a significant increase in speed! Warp 9 is many many many times the speed of light...

                          though hyperdrive is obviously still much faster...

                          Transwarp could be compared to the average hyperdrive e.g Goa'uld, with the use of transwarp conduits Transwarp is easily faster than even asgard hyperdrives across the Mw in minutes...
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                            Originally posted by Ripple in Space View Post
                            Warp Drive isn't even a close second. It's like comparing a snail to a Jet x a Trillion.

                            The Daedalus can transverse galaxies in days. Warp drives can't even cross the Milky Way within a century.
                            It'd take 70 years from Voyager's starting position in the Delta Quadrant to the Orion Arm.

                            It takes 18 days for the Daedalus to traverse between Pegasus and the Milky Way, 4 with ZPM.

                            On that note, whereas Warp drives and hyperdrives are fundamentally different, the both allow for the traversing of subspace. This was what the warp field was about and why it was so critical for a vessel in the ST universe to maintain this warp field or drop out.
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                              #15
                              I'm not sure but the transwarp drive could be comparable to the hyperdrives in SG. They never did explain how fast that the transwarp drives were capable of going. Also what was the other type of drive in Voyage? There was an episode where Chakotay and another were survivors 15 years later and sent a message back to save voyager from getting destroyed from this drive.

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