Wraith Darts weak against EM

[Paddy17]

The main reason the Daedelus, Apollo or Odysea can't do much damage to a hive is because thier nukes never reach the hive, they are intercepted by the darts. We know from the episode "Childhood's End" that wraith darts are disabled by electromagnetic interference. So why not equip the X-304's with an EM pulse generator? We know Earth has this technology from the episode "Redemption". This would clear out the darts swarming Earths vessels, and clear the path for a nuke. One ship dewraithified...completly

[Atlantis_Man]

BOOM BABY!!!

Mwahahahahaha!

[Alendra]

Watch the episode again, McKays says it's highly unlikely that they can reproduce that kind of EM field since it's keyed to the special magnetosphere of the said planet.

[Paddy17]

Yes, but McKay is brilliant He is good at doing the seemingly impossible. Besides, we don't know if any EMF would work againts darts, if it did it would be cool... Just a theory anyway

[The_Carpenter]

Yes, but McKay is brilliant He is good at doing the seemingly impossible. Besides, we don't know if any EMF would work againts darts, if it did it would be cool... Just a theory anyway

Sometimes when McKay says something is impossible then occasionally it is impossible and not him wanting to give his ego a stroking, and this is one of those times.

[Paddy17]

Shoot me down in flames then ill just come up with another cool theory

[jelgate]

Remember the Puddle Jumper was affected by th EM pulse. If we launched an EM puluse it would also affect the systems from the Daedelus/Apolio

[Wraith_Boy]

They won't do it for the same reason they haven't attempted putting a PJ's cloaking generator on Daedalus.

The same reason they won't use Merlins phase shifting tech to combat Wraith or Asurans etc.

The same reason why we don't see them using cloaked PJ's to sneak aboard Hives, then deploy the retro-virus to take over the ship or a nuke to destroy it.

The writers leave these things out to make it easier to write their stories & play the series out.

If Daedalus had a cloak, it could sneak up on Hives, then nuke it in a single shot & jump back into HS before they've even had a chance to react.

Whereas if they leave all these techniques out, then Daedalus goes in as the underdog against the Wraith & always gives them the upper hand. Resulting in an ass kicking for the Earth ship.

So EM probably could work, but we'll probably never even see it attempted. Especially now as the Asurans are the biggest threat.

[Heaven]

I think that EM device was different
remember in Hot Zone Shep blew a naquadah generator that created an EM pulse like 100 times bigger than our EMP devices and it didn't effect the jumper
but the EM device on that planet took it down easy

[Mister Oragahn]

Yes, but McKay is brilliant He is good at doing the seemingly impossible. Besides, we don't know if any EMF would work againts darts, if it did it would be cool... Just a theory anyway

That field worked against everything. Even more, EM is rather vague. There's a wide range to tap into.

[Ouroboros]

It's not a conventional EMP we know that. If the tech was vulnerable to EMP in the first place it wouldn't be magically switching back on later, it would be permanently fried.

It's a technobabble field. McKay already gives off one significantly more powerful and we've seen it has no direct effect on darts.

[immhotep]

Better idea would be to fire a decoy nuke which would produce a hive sized EMP blast if it hits a dart enroute. Then time it exactly so that the jamming devices would be off, and beam a nuke on board.

[wise one]

i think it was ties that bind

when vala controlled the modified cargo ship it had ghost ships and some sort of em generator that shut off 2 alkeshs from its blast wave


if we had somethihng like that but directed it from the earths ships without having them to shut all systems off then that would leave the darts sitting out there like ducks.

[Bugi]

There is a one problem with the EMF generator on board thing because if we want to use it we would have to turn off all eletrical things on board. SO we would not have shield weapons or anything that defences us so Hive could just shoot to death.

[wise one]

There is a one problem with the EMF generator on board thing because if we want to use it we would have to turn off all eletrical things on board. SO we would not have shield weapons or anything that defences us so Hive could just shoot to death.

well if we have like a inside shield then the em wouldnt effect the systems so it would have to outside the ship directed to the target with everything behind it shielded somehow.

thats if they can 'penetrate' through shields like how a rep discrupteor does