Intergalactic Travel

[Dev Corvin]

Okay, so we've seen the difficulties in travelling between one galaxy and the next; namely, power, time, etc etc.

However, we've already seen (in season 4) a way to travel to a completely different galaxy in a matter of seconds.

Here's a potential way to travel to Pegasus / the Ori home galaxy in a matter of seconds: plot a course, and align yourself between a star and your destination, detonate the star, and then jump into hyperspace, the supernova shockwave pushing the velocity of the traveller past standard hyperspace into that trippy "green" Hyperspace corridor, and thus travelling millions of light years in a matter of seconds.

Return travel would be a reverse of the forwards journey. With a sufficiently powerful shield (such as the Odyssey with its ZPM driving the shield), there would be little to no risk involved either, since the ship never comes into direct contact with the blast wave.

[jds1982]

That seems a tad wasteful.

[fugiman]

Well I know there are a lot of stars but I have to agree with jds1982 it is a waste plus we would have to find stars that aren't being used and then its hard to aim and not how much power is needed so its a little tough to actually do that

[Jimbo-DR]

uhhhh what happened in season 4 was completely random. They plotted a course one way and got knocked a couple million light years in the other direction. seems not only wasteful but downright dangerous. Also... blowing up stars everytiem we wanna go somewhere could have really bad side effects in the future, couldn't it?

[Dev Corvin]

uhhhh what happened in season 4 was completely random. They plotted a course one way and got knocked a couple million light years in the other direction. seems not only wasteful but downright dangerous. Also... blowing up stars everytiem we wanna go somewhere could have really bad side effects in the future, couldn't it?

Not really, they just got pushed to a higher velocity along their current path (so in the right direction).

And I suppose you could say it's a bit extreme, but I'm not suggesting they use this for REGULAR travel, just to travel immense distances without the use of a ZPM. There are millions of stars in our own galaxy alone, I doubt one near the outskirts would be missed much tbh.

[Jimbo-DR]

Your purely speculating on that. You have no idea where they were actually headed when they got thrown off course. Regardless, the fact is, they were thrown wildly off course. Also, they were actually IN hyperspace when this effected them, which means it wasn't the explosion itself, but some sort of subspace shockwave.
As far as side effects, there are theories that say a gamma ray burst could have been responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs. This results from two massive stars colliding and basically exploding. Blowing up stars probably shouldn't be on our list of things to do.