Two reasons...
1st...they are made of biomatter. That stuff isn't flamable, certainly not explodable.
2nd...the mass involved. A ship the size of a hive ship would see tiny explosions at best. Whoever drew up the graphics of hive ships getting killed was operating off of a smaller ship mentality. Things that large don't explode, they break up. Most of the time they just suffer damage and keep on moving.
We see this problem with most space combat in stargate. Metal or biomatter bulkheads don't simply explode, they are torn apart by weapons fire or internal explosions.
This isn't Star Trek with the magical 'dissintegrate' setting that completely ignores where the matter would go. Though it would never happen, I wish they'd go back through the series and fix the visuals much the way Star Trek did with the original series.
1st...they are made of biomatter. That stuff isn't flamable, certainly not explodable.
2nd...the mass involved. A ship the size of a hive ship would see tiny explosions at best. Whoever drew up the graphics of hive ships getting killed was operating off of a smaller ship mentality. Things that large don't explode, they break up. Most of the time they just suffer damage and keep on moving.
We see this problem with most space combat in stargate. Metal or biomatter bulkheads don't simply explode, they are torn apart by weapons fire or internal explosions.
This isn't Star Trek with the magical 'dissintegrate' setting that completely ignores where the matter would go. Though it would never happen, I wish they'd go back through the series and fix the visuals much the way Star Trek did with the original series.
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