Hull Retg

[VSHARMA]

Quote from StarGate Atlantis BAMSR.

'Transferring power from non critical systems to Hull Regeneration'

What systems and non critical i.e Wraith Power Showers and what the Hell does Hull Regeneration do being that a Hive is Organic?

ps-can someone edit the 'Hull Retg' to 'Hull Regeneration' i pressed enter by mistake

[Gate-builder]

Wraith ships are organic in design, and it has been mentioned several times that they can regenerate. Maybe if you shoot a (small) bit off a Wraith ship it is able to grow itself back. I think hives use their regenerative abilities to recover from the radiation of hyperspace. This suggests that the ships are actually living, and that radiation damages them.

[peragrin]

the wraith do use organic technology. What we don't know is how advanced is it and what it takes to maintain that organic technology. The organic material may require a specific type of power to feed off of. By increasing that power they may be able to stimulate regeneration of the skin/hull.

how it works is all guesses beyond that.

[Tomouse55]

Since the Wraith ships are partly organic then those organic parts should be able to heal damage to themselves (whether that be from weapons fire or from the damaging effects of hyperspace radiation) however just like in an organism, that requires energy. Organisms would get that from the food they have eaten but a ship can't eat so they must have developed a way to provide power to the organic components from the inorganic power generators which is also used to power everything else.

[umopapisdn]

Do we know how much of the wraith ships are organic? If they are 90% organic then it would make sense that they would be able to grow it instead of fixing it in the same way as a normal ship. It's not like you can put to incompatible materials together and by doing this they are growing it back to it's full strength. Perhaps by non critical systems they mean everything except weapons, life support and engines.

[RepliVeggie]

Do we know how much of the wraith ships are organic? If they are 90% organic then it would make sense that they would be able to grow it instead of fixing it in the same way as a normal ship. It's not like you can put to incompatible materials together and by doing this they are growing it back to it's full strength. Perhaps by non critical systems they mean everything except weapons, life support and engines.

I believe the frame and all systems are inorganic. After the frame is made the the hull, walls, rooms and such are grown around it.



Also what protects the people inside of any ship from the radiation?

[Mister Oragahn]

There are obvious parts of the structure which are inorganic.

[peragrin]

Do we know how much of the wraith ships are organic? If they are 90% organic then it would make sense that they would be able to grow it instead of fixing it in the same way as a normal ship. It's not like you can put to incompatible materials together and by doing this they are growing it back to it's full strength. Perhaps by non critical systems they mean everything except weapons, life support and engines.

Superglue works well to close deep cuts in tissues. We currently have organic stitches that dissolve over time so that they don't have to be removed. Platelets in your blood seal cuts in your hull(skin). Certain reptiles can regrow things like tails and legs. If you are an arbitrarily advanced race who depended on organic vessels you would have a method for at least rapidly repairing hull breaches from the inside. How that actually works depends on how the hull is made.

[umopapisdn]

^^ Now I can't stop thinking of hive ships covered in scales lol. But true.

[Crazy Tom]

^^ Now I can't stop thinking of hive ships covered in scales lol. But true.

why scales?

[umopapisdn]

Reptiles and the regrowing of limbs, it also reminds me of the old spiderman cartoons, damn these cues and neural networks.

[peragrin]

^^ Now I can't stop thinking of hive ships covered in scales lol. But true.

Honestly it makes sense. I wonder if Hive ships grow through their lifetimes? Cruisers are teenage hives and they shed their skin every so many centuries? It would explian why we have several different lengths for them

[wise one]

feed something a huge amount of energy in stargate and it will grow bigger


like in unatural selection when sg-1 wanted to blow up the prometheus to destroy the replicators, fifth said it will only feed them more energy to grow

must be the same as giving energy to the wraith organic regenaration thing

[Crazy Tom]

feed something a huge amount of energy in stargate and it will grow bigger


like in unatural selection when sg-1 wanted to blow up the prometheus to destroy the replicators, fifth said it will only feed them more energy to grow

must be the same as giving energy to the wraith organic regenaration thing

but te replicators wer inorganic.

[SoulReaver]

and what the Hell does Hull Regeneration do being that a Hive is Organic?

regeneration makes all the more sense than the structures are organic
organic stuff grows, so logically it should be able to regenerate (ie. regrow)

the same way your hair & nails regenerate, and non-vertebrates such as cephalopods can regrow lost limbs, starfish can regenerate *almost* their entire selves, and hydra have reached the apex of regenerative capability (being biologically immortal)