Spoiler:
In "First Contact," when the alien assault ship approaches Atlantis, Sheppard orders the shield raised to keep it from entering the city. Almost immediately, though, this measure is proven useless as the unidentified craft can pass right through the barrier. As the crew looks on, stunned, we hear this:
SHEPPARD: That's impossible... nothing can get through the shield.
OFFICER: Ancient ships can do that.
This implies that Ancient craft can move in and out of shields rather easily... something we should have suspected by now. We've seen several examples of this;
- The puddle jumpers move through the Atlantis cityshield in "Adrift" to shoot down the asteroids.
- A jumper easily passes through the shield in "Lifeline" to hyperspace to Asuras.
- When the Apollo is taking fire over Asuras, a jumper passes through the Asgard shields and enters the docking bay.
So we know that Ancient ships (and this alien vessel, assuming it is also of Ancient design) have specialized hulls or some form of technology that allows them to pass through shields as though they didn't exist. What does this tell us? That an Aurora-class ship could simply stick its neck through the shield and begin firing a barrage of energy blasts into the city.
Atlantis is far more vulnerable than we'd been led to believe, especially versus any enemy with Ancient technology.
Thoughts?
SHEPPARD: That's impossible... nothing can get through the shield.
OFFICER: Ancient ships can do that.
This implies that Ancient craft can move in and out of shields rather easily... something we should have suspected by now. We've seen several examples of this;
- The puddle jumpers move through the Atlantis cityshield in "Adrift" to shoot down the asteroids.
- A jumper easily passes through the shield in "Lifeline" to hyperspace to Asuras.
- When the Apollo is taking fire over Asuras, a jumper passes through the Asgard shields and enters the docking bay.
So we know that Ancient ships (and this alien vessel, assuming it is also of Ancient design) have specialized hulls or some form of technology that allows them to pass through shields as though they didn't exist. What does this tell us? That an Aurora-class ship could simply stick its neck through the shield and begin firing a barrage of energy blasts into the city.
Atlantis is far more vulnerable than we'd been led to believe, especially versus any enemy with Ancient technology.
Thoughts?
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