what they could have done.

[stargater1990]

when the ori assembled a fully functionall supergate, they should have gotten a stargate and placed it next to the supergate and dialed the blackhole or the water lifeform planet, and thus could have prevented the ori from dialing in because two wormhole cant be active right next to each other. it would have been a lot easier than doing the hole pegasus project thing. or they could have done that after they sent through the san gral. it would have prevented the ori from coming back through.

[2ndgenerationalteran]

you got a valid point, black hole could have worked in favor of destroying the gate too.

[Ouroboros]

Why not just park a Ha'tak or several from that waiting fleet in the center of it to prevent the wormhole event horizon from forming properly. It would be basically like burying a normal gate wouldn't it?

[Gmandex]

I think it would've just vaporized the Hataks because of the massive amounts of energy or something. I don't really know what I am talking about, sorry.

[stargater1990]

Why not just park a Ha'tak or several from that waiting fleet in the center of it to prevent the wormhole event horizon from forming properly. It would be basically like burying a normal gate wouldn't it?

i dont think so because the ramp on the sgc gate goes through the center of the gate yet it dosent make the gate act like its buried. and yet it dosent disentagrate either, theres another of those "why dosent it" , questions.

[2ndgenerationalteran]

i agree with gmandex, that entire "bury" the super gate with ships idea was just too costly and didnt seem plausible there would be cracks and it seems as if the gate would have dialed in and everyone would be screwed.

[stargater1990]

i agree with gmandex, that entire "bury" the super gate with ships idea was just too costly and didnt seem plausible there would be cracks and it seems as if the gate would have dialed in and everyone would be screwed.

i agree, it would be stupid to get vaporized trying to bury a space gate with ships. even though the hat'ak only lasted 1 shot a piece, but without them who else would have drawn their fire away from the 304s

[First]

A question: Was there anything preventing us from moving the supergate? eg towing it somewhere else, like a sun!
Opens up a whole lot of options.....

[stargater1990]

A question: Was there anything preventing us from moving the supergate? eg towing it somewhere else, like a sun!
Opens up a whole lot of options.....

im guessing from the fact that they moved pretty fast out of the gate, and they even plowed through and destroyed a hat'ak, that they have pretty powerful engines keeping them in place that would proboly resist and win, in a fight to move the gate from its pre programed position.

[Ouroboros]

What about clogging it with asteroids or just random crap then? We know that on principle there's some threshold you can reach where disrupting the formation of an event horizon is possible.

Doing it that way would of course take longer than clogging/disrupting it with ships though.

So long as we're going to spend a lot of time though we mind as well spend it by just linking a bunch of Ha'tak/Asgard shield generators together and creating a scaled up version of the Atlantis gateshield.

That'll come as a nasty surprise to the next wave of Ori reenforcements.

[wise one]

why use ships when you can create a shield like atlantis's and you dont have to worry about power because the black hole is there drawing power to the gate

btw its a little too late to block the gate

[Character]

Its a nice thought, but we cant make a shield, powered by the black hole, we're not ancients. There are basicly 2 problems with all the ideas proposed:
1) Very limited time. After they found the supergate, the ori arrived very quickly, we didnt even manage to dial out in time, let alone set something elaborate up.
2) After the ori passed through, seing how they decimated our defense fleet, any such atempt, like puting a rock, a ship, or a dialed gate inside the supergate wouldnt be worth the effort, as the ori toilets could easily destroy any of that.

[thekillman]

well, a gate is made of naquahdah. launch a naquahdriah nuke. problem solved. or just take a few gates and a naquahdriah nuke. or beam up earths entire supply of nukes and launch them at the supergate.

[Character]

well, a gate is made of naquahdah. launch a naquahdriah nuke. problem solved. or just take a few gates and a naquahdriah nuke. or beam up earths entire supply of nukes and launch them at the supergate.

As they intended to do, in, i dont remember which episode,but later decided they'd need the gate for AOT. And later there was a toilet ship constantly (more or less) guarding the gate. Dont know why didnt they use some in avalon though, maybe forgot to bring some along

[Crazy Tom]

Dialing a normal gate to a black hole, is the most cost efective, and fastest countermeasure they could have made at the time. But then there was plot.....