One of those countless Unending related threads saw a member reveal that an official magazine had the following information:
The shields of Ori warships (toilet ships/crusaders/else) absorb the energy of enemy fire.
Now, I don't consider the info from such magazines to be particularily reliable, and certainly not canonical.
That said, it was something I strongly expected since Beachhead, so here's a few things I have to say.
If the the Ori ships' shields absorb energy, which I kinda expected considering the way their planet crushing shields work, then the asgard beam weapons could be a very specific and low yield weapon, meant to weaken such shields, without feeding them too much with energy.
This could be related to an exploitation of the shields' fluctuations.
The Beachhead shield did have fluctuations, and was weakening everytime it stretched, but it was also compensatedly resupplied in energy by the stargate and the Ha'taks' & Prometheus' bombardment, and finally by the gatebuster.
The idea is probably to have the fluctuations happen without feeding the shields too much, then you saturate it somehow, and you cut through it.
That said, if the ships' shields do absorb enemy fire, there's two things to say.
1. At least, something that would make the Ori really terrific. It is logical to see such a feature.
2. There's just no way to destroy them safe with exotic and specific weaponry, or with insane amounts of power.
Actually, thinking about it, it's possible that the pulse weapons are used to bleed off energy, and that's possibly why we saw them used in the only most intensive spacebattle the Ori have fought thus far. A bit like the pulse cannon seen in Trinity.
Pet hypothesis, but at least it helps, somehow, to make more sense about the lack of use of such weapons in later engagements against ships which didn't provide much firepower.
The shields of Ori warships (toilet ships/crusaders/else) absorb the energy of enemy fire.
Now, I don't consider the info from such magazines to be particularily reliable, and certainly not canonical.
That said, it was something I strongly expected since Beachhead, so here's a few things I have to say.
If the the Ori ships' shields absorb energy, which I kinda expected considering the way their planet crushing shields work, then the asgard beam weapons could be a very specific and low yield weapon, meant to weaken such shields, without feeding them too much with energy.
This could be related to an exploitation of the shields' fluctuations.
The Beachhead shield did have fluctuations, and was weakening everytime it stretched, but it was also compensatedly resupplied in energy by the stargate and the Ha'taks' & Prometheus' bombardment, and finally by the gatebuster.
The idea is probably to have the fluctuations happen without feeding the shields too much, then you saturate it somehow, and you cut through it.
That said, if the ships' shields do absorb enemy fire, there's two things to say.
1. At least, something that would make the Ori really terrific. It is logical to see such a feature.
2. There's just no way to destroy them safe with exotic and specific weaponry, or with insane amounts of power.
Actually, thinking about it, it's possible that the pulse weapons are used to bleed off energy, and that's possibly why we saw them used in the only most intensive spacebattle the Ori have fought thus far. A bit like the pulse cannon seen in Trinity.
Pet hypothesis, but at least it helps, somehow, to make more sense about the lack of use of such weapons in later engagements against ships which didn't provide much firepower.
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