Ha'tak Motherships Staff Cannons

[jnadreth]

Throughout SG-1 the Ha'tak class ships has been seen engaging many enemies like the other Ha'taks, the Ori etc etc etc but there have been some major inconsistencies relating to the staff cannons rate of fire like in the Battle between Yu's forces where each ship fire a single shot salvo in Full Circle in season 7 and when Gerak bombards Kallana in Beachhead season 9 with a very high rate of fire. This really bugs me that these ships can pummel a heavily shielded planet with many blasts but can only fire 1 or 2 shots in a salvo against a ship. Is the rate of fire directly proportionate to the commander's mood or something-please discuss

[Jeffala]

The rate of fire could be directly proportional to the age of the ship or the weapons technology deployed on them. The design of the ship may not have changed for thousands of years and if a System Lord is powerful enough, he may not have lost (and replinished) the ships he originally had.

If I had a ship 600 years ago and that ship has yet to be destroyed in battle, would it be as good as a ship built 5 years ago with the latest advances in Goa'uld weapons technology?


Another possibility could be differences in the level of proficiency of the weapons officer or the battle tactics that they're using.

[jnadreth]

Most system lord would upgrade thier ships regularly as they would be fighting each other all the time-your point about the weapons officer is a good one but this problem appears to be very widespread throughout the Ha'tak users of the galaxy. The Lucian Alliance ships that blew up Netans Ha'tak after the Battle of Camolet displayed a similar ability to rapid fire their cannons to destroy his ship(funny thing about that is he left its shields up-netan must not be the sharpest one in the Galaxy when it comes to destroying your own ship)

[jhkplaya888]

maybe they use slower fire rate too "charge" the weapons so it does more damage then rapid fire, and maybe its more accurate and it allows the person on the weapons console to aim

[jonos101]

prob just some dumbass jaffa as weapons officer

[wise one]

its possible the ones gerak used belonged to anubis's upgraded hataks

if that was the case then they seem to be useless to ori segments coming at them

[Mister Oragahn]

It's directly proportionate to the mood of the guy who's clicking on the mouse.

Other than that, maybe higher ROF means less energy per bolt.

[Athram]

You also may have to take into acount the power of the staff blast. Lower yield = higher rate of fire, higher yield = lower rate of fire. Taking into acount the age of the vessel and the skill of the jaffa at the weapons console.

[garhkal]

maybe they use slower fire rate too "charge" the weapons so it does more damage then rapid fire, and maybe its more accurate and it allows the person on the weapons console to aim

Good point, or it is linked to how the ship is angled... In beach head those ships seemed to be firing from all over the place WITH both side and bottom mounted weapons... In most of the ship to ship combats i have seen they were only firing sideways..

[Mister Oragahn]

The heavy guns above and beneath are the same.

[umopapisdn]

Have only read the first post-

It could very possibly be due to the amount of power they want to put into it, if they want to spray a planets surface they will use hundreds of shots but if they're trying to damage a ship as much as possible they could fire the most powerful shots possible at a slower rate of fire, that or it is due to ship design, maybe some are rapid fire and some not.

[Inubis]

I think the level of technology is a more resonable idea, however power is an option, a Ha'tak would use up large amounts of energy firing rapid fire as well as full sheilds etc. In more long term fights/campaigns the Jaffa\Goa'uld commander may decide to try and preserve his energy sources, naquada(?) is not a renewable energy source, it would run out after a while.
Also a System Lord would probably not replace the ship that helped him/her gain power over the system he/she rules, possible bonds (or personalised chambers etc) or a sarcophagus might mean that they never change ship, like Ra... just a though
also addition of a fleet of other Ha'taks under their command or lesser ships might make the system lord arrogant enough to think it didn't need upgrading... its happened before