Another hypothesis...
Let me tell how this came to me.
First, it's an old necrotic question, which frequently bumps up in my mind, for several reasons.
I was considering, first, that shield generators, in Stargate, seem be usable to cast other things, like cloaks, assuming a few tweaks.
Secondly, we know that going to hyperspace requires the creation of a field that surrounds the spaceship.
We're also told that having shields up requires lots of power, and that's why most ships, even replicator ships, deactivate them to go into hyperspace.
Well, I can't say that I'm 100% fond of that explanation, but let's keep it.
In the general way, a shield should be put on idle, not draining much energy if there's nothing to fight against. However, maybe there's some kind of hyperspace drag that is very reactive with shields. An exotic friction of some kind.
Or there are those hyperspace radiations. Maybe they are also extremely reactive with shields, for some reasons.
Bwah, convulated explanations anyway.
From time to time, I wonder if Delmak has planetary shields. In that classical care to keep most of facts straight and consistent, I can't find another explanation as to how Delmak could have survived the destruction of Netu and experience no side effect. Of course, tides would be fux0red up, but I'm above all talking about the big rocky debris you know.
Apophis, at the end of the episode The Devil You Know, didn't seem that concerned when he looked through the window of his building on Delmak, nevermind if a moon just had popped out of existence several thousands of clicks away.
(well of course, Netu didn't explode - blooper inside)
So I was wondering what would be the point of theater/planetary shields, since in Stargate, apparently, you can jump underneath shields anyway.
At which point, I just wondered the usefulness of any shield, since all are bubbles, and leave enough room for any hyperspace capable small craft to sneak under and wreak havoc.
I remember also Exodus, where SG-1 and Jacob were in a Ha'tak, in the Vorash system, to coordonate the destruction of the sun to bust Apophis' fleet.
But they suddenly got attacked by an Al'kesh.
What is interesting is that the al'kesh was constantly flying very close to the ha'tak's hull.
Since would prove to be advantageous against the ha'tak's point defenses.
But what if the al'kesh did that to avoid being stuck outside of the ha'tak's defense perimeter if Jacob managed to put shields back online?
There's of course a flaw in this idea: season 7's Fallen. Without really any reason to believe this wouldn't work, Carter and co planned to jump underneath the shield of Anubis' ship.
My problem here, is that since this is particularily easy, and since there's lot of room for even an al'kesh to fly underneath a ha'tak's shield as well, I figured that we needed an explanation as to why they never do that.
So I came with two solutions...
In the end, it could be possible that this system use the shield projectors to create that field.
The difference? Well, you could make both systems work independantly. It would just be a question that the Goa'uld, most of the time, have both systems work hand in hand, and have the shield and the interference field be cast by the same generators.
The idea would also be that this interference field system is a relatively simple tech. Anyone can have it. Of course, assuming that it's a side effects of shields being activated, instead of being a whole independant and different system, eases the deal, in the sense that just coming with a shield technology would also come with the extra bonus of automatically casting those interference fields.
Thoughts?
Let me tell how this came to me.
First, it's an old necrotic question, which frequently bumps up in my mind, for several reasons.
I was considering, first, that shield generators, in Stargate, seem be usable to cast other things, like cloaks, assuming a few tweaks.
Secondly, we know that going to hyperspace requires the creation of a field that surrounds the spaceship.
We're also told that having shields up requires lots of power, and that's why most ships, even replicator ships, deactivate them to go into hyperspace.
Well, I can't say that I'm 100% fond of that explanation, but let's keep it.
In the general way, a shield should be put on idle, not draining much energy if there's nothing to fight against. However, maybe there's some kind of hyperspace drag that is very reactive with shields. An exotic friction of some kind.
Or there are those hyperspace radiations. Maybe they are also extremely reactive with shields, for some reasons.
Bwah, convulated explanations anyway.
From time to time, I wonder if Delmak has planetary shields. In that classical care to keep most of facts straight and consistent, I can't find another explanation as to how Delmak could have survived the destruction of Netu and experience no side effect. Of course, tides would be fux0red up, but I'm above all talking about the big rocky debris you know.
Apophis, at the end of the episode The Devil You Know, didn't seem that concerned when he looked through the window of his building on Delmak, nevermind if a moon just had popped out of existence several thousands of clicks away.
(well of course, Netu didn't explode - blooper inside)
So I was wondering what would be the point of theater/planetary shields, since in Stargate, apparently, you can jump underneath shields anyway.
At which point, I just wondered the usefulness of any shield, since all are bubbles, and leave enough room for any hyperspace capable small craft to sneak under and wreak havoc.
I remember also Exodus, where SG-1 and Jacob were in a Ha'tak, in the Vorash system, to coordonate the destruction of the sun to bust Apophis' fleet.
But they suddenly got attacked by an Al'kesh.
What is interesting is that the al'kesh was constantly flying very close to the ha'tak's hull.
Since would prove to be advantageous against the ha'tak's point defenses.
But what if the al'kesh did that to avoid being stuck outside of the ha'tak's defense perimeter if Jacob managed to put shields back online?
There's of course a flaw in this idea: season 7's Fallen. Without really any reason to believe this wouldn't work, Carter and co planned to jump underneath the shield of Anubis' ship.
My problem here, is that since this is particularily easy, and since there's lot of room for even an al'kesh to fly underneath a ha'tak's shield as well, I figured that we needed an explanation as to why they never do that.
So I came with two solutions...
- The first one is that going through shields, by using hyperspace, requires lots of power, for some reason. Say that the shield also affects subspace. This could explain how it took so long for O'neill to travel in hyperspace. It produced a drag of some sort.
It would mean that a fighter could achieve this feat only using naqahdria.
Say that the stronger the shield, the more interference it puts in subspace. Somehow, these disturbances can be modulated to avoid jamming communications.
So basically, your only chance to go through a shield would be that the shield is not very powerful. This would be very tricky against a ha'tak.
Secondly, you'd need lots of power to do that. The more powerful the shield, the more disturbances, and thus the more power you need.
Considering that the size of the hyperspace field affects power requirements (episode Fail Safe), this feat could only be achieved with very small vessels, like fighters.
We could also argue, simply, that the bigger the field that tries to go through the subspace disturbances caused by the shield, the more power it drains from the vessel that atttempts the trick.
Fortunately, the Goa'uld are unable to power hyperdrives on fighters.
So the explanation would be perfect here. An al'kesh, for example, would be way too big, requiring an al'kesh sized hyperspace field, which would simply require too much energy to go through the shield.
We could say that this barely worked against Anubis' ship, since at that time, his ship was also powered by the Eyes.
- Another solution, which was derived from the first one, was that the shields block hyperspace jump, a sort of subspace null-field that totally disrupts hyperspace.
Of course, it would require some explanation as to how this worked with Anubis' ship.
A possible explanation would be, for example, that the subspace null-field is a function that is power hungry, so one can deactivate it.
We could argue that Anubis didn't expect such a tactic to be used against him, especially from such a small craft. At that time, he didn't know about naqahdria, and couldn't imagine seeing a Tau'ri ship achieving this trick. So he deactivated, possibly to get more juice for his weapon, as he was about to fire at the surface of the planet and destroy the stargate.
In the end, it could be possible that this system use the shield projectors to create that field.
The difference? Well, you could make both systems work independantly. It would just be a question that the Goa'uld, most of the time, have both systems work hand in hand, and have the shield and the interference field be cast by the same generators.
The idea would also be that this interference field system is a relatively simple tech. Anyone can have it. Of course, assuming that it's a side effects of shields being activated, instead of being a whole independant and different system, eases the deal, in the sense that just coming with a shield technology would also come with the extra bonus of automatically casting those interference fields.
Thoughts?
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