we need a new defence for the city of atlantis

[republicen_guard]

one way i'm thinking of if we ues the phase device from tollan an ues it instead of the cloak or shields. then they fire at us an they wont get anywhere, it's just an thought or we could ues the tollan weapons if we cold build them.

[.jolinar.]

Well IF we could backward enginner drones we'd be using those in Atlantis and our ships but we cant. nor can we build tollan Ion cannons

[IcyNeko]

one way i'm thinking of if we ues the phase device from tollan an ues it instead of the cloak or shields. then they fire at us an they wont get anywhere, it's just an thought or we could ues the tollan weapons if we cold build them.

YOu know what would be the greatest defense of the city of atlantis? Anti-run-on sentence shields and weapons.

[The Doctor]

one way i'm thinking of if we ues the phase device from tollan an ues it instead of the cloak or shields. then they fire at us an they wont get anywhere, it's just an thought or we could ues the tollan weapons if we cold build them.

Key phrase there: if we could build them! We can't, so there's your problem...

[Giantevilhead]

They could take the Ori satellite weapon, reverse engineer it and build a couple of them around Atlantis. It can't be that hard to reverse engineer since the civilization that built it had like 70's technology.

[eye of sauron]

They could take the Ori satellite weapon, reverse engineer it and build a couple of them around Atlantis. It can't be that hard to reverse engineer since the civilization that built it had like 70's technology.

I doubt a satellite build by a WWII era civilization ( even if its ori designed )
would cause much trouble for the asurans( who are basicaly evil ancients )

moving the city around could keep them guessing for a wile however

[.jolinar.]

two problems there.
1) we cant just 'go get' the satalite, they'd blow us out of the sky before we could and we cant afford to lose another ship.
2) We cant keep moving the city around.It takes three ZPM's to do that and even if we had them we wouldnt move because they would want to deplete the ZPM's so quickly.

[talyn2k1]

two problems there.
1) we cant just 'go get' the satalite, they'd blow us out of the sky before we could and we cant afford to lose another ship.
2) We cant keep moving the city around.It takes three ZPM's to do that and even if we had them we wouldnt move because they would want to deplete the ZPM's so quickly.

The weapon was controlled from that command center on the surface. The entire population of that planet was presumably wiped out after SG-1 left when the side without the satellite attacked the bad guys with nukes.
The Odyssey or Daedalus could drop out of hyperspace, see if the satellite is still there, and then if it even moves they can jump back to hyperspace before it can get a shot off.
If the command center was destroyed then the satellite will do nothing and we can take it to a safe planet (just incase its booby trapped) and examine it all we like.

[2ndgenerationalteran]

the problem with the phase shifting device is that the wall became out of phase, not the wearer, but if we got a larger version of merlins device that would be great. just have to makesure the energy requirements are met.

[Major Gambit]

Ok, the asgard were able to take a replicater destroyer gun and turn it into a gun that hit an entire planet.


Couldnt they do that with other things? like....


Sodan Cloak
any ancient technolegy
ZAT (lol imagine a planet sized ZAT gun....goodnight hannah!)

[miju]

I'm telling you all, the city has phasers - they're there we just can't power them yet .

[Ltcolshepjumper]

The weapon was controlled from that command center on the surface. The entire population of that planet was presumably wiped out after SG-1 left when the side without the satellite attacked the bad guys with nukes.
The Odyssey or Daedalus could drop out of hyperspace, see if the satellite is still there, and then if it even moves they can jump back to hyperspace before it can get a shot off.
If the command center was destroyed then the satellite will do nothing and we can take it to a safe planet (just incase its booby trapped) and examine it all we like.

Only the side without the satellite was destroyed.

[2ndgenerationalteran]

im sure there must be some fixed location energy weapon on atlantis, i mean there has to right?

[eye of sauron]

Only the side without the satellite was destroyed.

actualy Rand had the stargate and they couldent dial it so rand probely got destrpyed as well

recovering this weapon could be very useful for us as they have the same shielding and weapons tech as the ori ship, it may be more downgraded but has to work on the same princples so we may be able to design weapons and sjields to counter them

[dss202529]

im sure there must be some fixed location energy weapon on atlantis, i mean there has to right?

I'd have to say so, relying on drones as effective as they are would be very shortsited as you would be limited to the number you can manufacture and store.

2 or 3 ZPM's take up very little space and could probably power some stupidly suped up city based version of the ancient beam satelite weapon almost indefintley. I think if they could power a standard design and they were in the city they would have mentioned it.

Mckay alluded to other defensive systems in the Siege part 1 or 2 AFAIK as well, just said that they either hadn't figured them out or couldn't power them.