Seriously, the fall and destruction of Asuras has to be the worst case of planetary defense I've ever seen.
Let's consider what we have seen in all Stargate thus far:
No matter the Asgard wank beams, how is it possible that, with having an entire fleet of Aurorags, said off show to be of poorer conception, but they can't be that bad really, and with a fleet of cloakable cruisers, plus a formidable industry... they failed that much?
Please consider the urbanization of Asuras: there were cities everywhere. Plenty of ZPMs to spare. Where we the gazillion puddle jumpers you'd expect there?
How didn't they come to fortress up their world in no time, as fast as we've seen them build their ships, since they proved to adapt smartly after the Horizon attack?
Where were the planetary shields? The drone outposts? The pulse-guns with homing bolts as seen in Trinity? The yellow/green slicing beams? The ZPM draining red beams?
If that lack of military defenses was not enough, how could it be that anyone could beam down without interference anywhere in their city, move freely without being stopped by sealed doors or internal shields, remain unspotted by internal sensors? How could someone have such a free walk in their buildings months after they got attacked by surprise with near teraton nukes?
I know, some of you would say they were dumb, but please, did they really look that dumb?
How could the Asurans, capable of having a discussion like any human, showing intelligence like any human, having their agressive code unlocked, and obviously possessing a lot of high technology, like in the medical field for example, not come up with a fraction of all the known Lantian resources they would know about in order to defend their planet, and yet still think, on their own, of building various warships?
So considering the completely unlikelyness that the Asurans were that impotent, I came to think that they got hacked on a massive scale in a way or another.
I've been initially thinking of Weir, but perhaps there was another program at play or some other force? A Wraith virus maybe?
Let's consider what we have seen in all Stargate thus far:
- We've seen that newly relocated Tollans could, with a handful ion cannons and homing bolts, vapourize Ha'taks in no time.
- Earth, with one single outpost and a single drone platform, wiped out the entirety of Anubis thirty plus updated Ha'taks, including his superior Ha'tak.
- One single cannon, powered by the equivalent of a power source that could go as far as provide the power of two dozens of ZPMs, completely annihilated a Wraith fleet to such an extent no other Wraith fleet even bothered coming back.
- We know that Atlantis alone, with 3 ZPMs and a defensive system certainly not meant to do so, stretched its shield to cover a large portion of a planet.
- We've seen that a few drones powered by a puddle jumper can dramatically damage any Wraith cruiser and hiveship, and ignore near all tried shields.
- The Lantians had defense satellite platforms housing a beam weapon system, capable of destroying three Wraith hiveships in no time while powered by a measly naqahdah generator Mk I.
- The Asurans proved to be very adaptive after the Tau'ri's devastating surprise attack on their planet, with one of the most compact and effective weapons ever seen, the satellite-gate: small, barely bigger than a stargate, mounted with its own hyperdrive and shield generator, tapping from the energy sent through the wormhole and firing a low power beam still capable of bringing down Atlantis' shield in 29 hours, by draining its ZPM in a most mysterious way.
- The Lantians also built a sanctuary, a valley enclosed within a time dilation bubble that would literally rip apart, due to time tides, anything approaching it. Rodney estimated this place was running on one ZPM.
- In Inferno, we've seen that the Lantian shipyard/base could drive energy out of the magma to power a shield that would protect the planet from a Wraith fleet.
- The Asurans could obviously spare one ZPM and set it up to destroy anything in orbit of that planet. The Asurans' memories and knowledge were saved, as proved with Oberoth.
No matter the Asgard wank beams, how is it possible that, with having an entire fleet of Aurorags, said off show to be of poorer conception, but they can't be that bad really, and with a fleet of cloakable cruisers, plus a formidable industry... they failed that much?
Please consider the urbanization of Asuras: there were cities everywhere. Plenty of ZPMs to spare. Where we the gazillion puddle jumpers you'd expect there?
How didn't they come to fortress up their world in no time, as fast as we've seen them build their ships, since they proved to adapt smartly after the Horizon attack?
Where were the planetary shields? The drone outposts? The pulse-guns with homing bolts as seen in Trinity? The yellow/green slicing beams? The ZPM draining red beams?
If that lack of military defenses was not enough, how could it be that anyone could beam down without interference anywhere in their city, move freely without being stopped by sealed doors or internal shields, remain unspotted by internal sensors? How could someone have such a free walk in their buildings months after they got attacked by surprise with near teraton nukes?
I know, some of you would say they were dumb, but please, did they really look that dumb?
How could the Asurans, capable of having a discussion like any human, showing intelligence like any human, having their agressive code unlocked, and obviously possessing a lot of high technology, like in the medical field for example, not come up with a fraction of all the known Lantian resources they would know about in order to defend their planet, and yet still think, on their own, of building various warships?
So considering the completely unlikelyness that the Asurans were that impotent, I came to think that they got hacked on a massive scale in a way or another.
I've been initially thinking of Weir, but perhaps there was another program at play or some other force? A Wraith virus maybe?
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