ZPMs?

[Stargate-Atlantis]

Ok heres the thing. if the ancients built ZPMs wouldnt they leave behind the instructions to make one. I mean every single zpm they found is depleted. Why dont they use the zpm research in atlantis to make one. It cant be that hard

Thanks

Sheppard

[spg_1983]

Ok heres the thing. if the ancients built ZPMs wouldnt they leave behind the instructions to make one. I mean every single zpm they found is depleted. Why dont they use the zpm research in atlantis to make one. It cant be that hard

Thanks

Sheppard

Yes but see that would make sense. And appearently the writers have decided that the Ancients were idiots so they would never do something like leave instructions for as to where the ZPM production facility was for the people that came back to Atlantis. It could very well be in the city somewhere but since the team appearently is more interested in planet hopping and risking letting the Wraith know they are still alive, rather than exploring the big honking city, they will never find it.

[jonno]

There may be instructions - but that database was huge, and, as we know from Letters From Pegasus, it was coded, and we may not have deciphered it all:

McKAY: Well, I've included a ton of data that we've been able to decipher from the Ancient database.

[NakedJehutyV2]

" a ton" could only be a .00001%

[mrX225]

y dont they get a ton of hard drives and use that conpresion thing and take them back to earth and give it Daniel Jackson to figger out

[Blitz]

Because Daniel translates....and would you want to translate something that doesnt even make sense to you that was made over millions of years. The Database is HUGE. Imagine putting all of our technology into one database and tell me, would you be able to find oil in there? Just because we call the ZPM's ZPM's doesnt mean they did...for all we know the Ancients called it MEH and the team are looking under Z!

Plus even if we did know how to make them, doesnt mean we could. Could you make a nuclear power plant if you had the schematics? Understanding matters.

[NakedJehutyV2]

hell even the asgard have barely scratched the surface.

[Steven_the_Atlantean]

Ok this is the thing, even if the ancients left instructions that would make the shows really boring because if they got full power their going to have so many options for example flying or submerge the city (that’s if Rodney can figure it out which obviously he can) it and if they have one Zedpm that makes the options limited which makes it very interesting, but we all know that sooner or later more Zedpm will be discovered. It’s just how the show develops.

[Auralis]

Giving us the ability to build ZPMs would be collosal mistake. It would severely limit the shows futur grow potential and be just plain ridiculous.

[Anubis345]

Ok heres the thing. if the ancients built ZPMs wouldnt they leave behind the instructions to make one. I mean every single zpm they found is depleted. Why dont they use the zpm research in atlantis to make one. It cant be that hard

Thanks

Sheppard

they did not for a reason think about it they did not want the tech to fall into the wraith hands or the hands of the gaoul'd. because if it did then the bad guys could build them and use ancient tech against the people of both galaxies.

[V-MAN]

The main reason they didn't leave the "how to build a ZPM" book laying around is the same as the "why don't the Asgard send some ships to help out" or "why can't Rodney work around the Wraith jamming signal"

It would limit the growth of the story by making the wraith null and void pretty much as an enemy because Atlantis would be untouchable behind it's shield, the Daedalus could fly around willy nilly nuking every hive ship it came across with impunity or the Asgard's O'neil class ships would be doing the same but with their awsome directed energy weapons.

I'm sure there's some techno bable excuse like the data base is so huge blah blah and they can't find out how or it's encrypted etc etc but the main reason is what I have pointed out if they could make ZPM's then the show would suck unfortunatly. Unless there was something to balance things on the Wraiths side like they suddenly had a 1000 hive ships instead of 50ish. Or perhaps some other super powerful race raises it's head.

[Krendoshazin]

Unless there was something to balance things on the Wraiths side like they suddenly had a 1000 hive ships instead of 50ish. Or perhaps some other super powerful race raises it's head.

You may just get your wish, a new enemy will be coming to season 3. Remeber the virus from Hot Zone? Prepare to meet its maker, but what are they to the anterans (aka ancients) if the virus was not designed to harm them. All will be revealed.

[Peoples_General]

Ok heres the thing. if the ancients built ZPMs wouldnt they leave behind the instructions to make one. I mean every single zpm they found is depleted. Why dont they use the zpm research in atlantis to make one. It cant be that hard

Thanks

Sheppard

Here's another possibility. They DID leave behind instructions to create one and even if the Atlantis crew managed to translate what they find in the database about it... IT IS BEYOND our understanding and technology to manufacture it!

It'll be like giving the Bronze Age ancient Greeks the blueprint to construct a 21st century Nuclear Powerplant.

Sure they might translate the blueprint, but its beyond their current technological capability as well as mental capacity to understand and build it. They need to understand/learn other technologies first in order to build a nuclear powerplant.

IMO, it has NOTHING to do with plotholes.

BTW... I doubt Atlantis possess manufacturing plants to build ZPMs. It'll be like locating a nuclear weapons manufacturing plant inside New York City. You don't want an accident to occur and blow up the city. So its likely they built ZPMs and other things on other places. If those existed, its likely they might've been attacked and destroyed by the Wraith.

[knowles2]

I hate it when people say the show would be boring if the we get all this technology figure it out. If the douglas did find a way around the wraith counter measure it means we can take the fight to them more, destroy there ship attack there planets, but the writer could show that the wraith are adaptable and that they come with new and improve wounter measures. Remember the ancient technology advance but it could not defeat the wraith, so writer should start showing us why the ancient lost the war. The writer should show the wraith as quick, smart, adaptable. Instead of just showing the wraith as slow and always thinking about the bellies.

We now know that the ancients did leave instructions manuals around to explain how to operate and probably create and repair technology. Also we do not need doctor daniel jackson to translate the text, we have a translation programe which can translate the text through that. Also the database must have some search function on it, so instead of typing in ZPM we type in power sources, this should bring us up with all the power sources that the ancient ever develope.

[mrX225]

a pit of topic
but in tatics for killing wraith hive ships y dont they transport them just out side the wraith hive ship
that would destroy them most likly
or they could use the other way of transporting for a while before the wraith block that