stargate destroyer question.

[timstro59]

Why(and i emphasize WHY) would the Ancients create a weapon that can destroy stargates.

It just doesn't seem like something they would do.
i can understand why the goa'uld would use something like it.
but what use would the ancients have for it.

[thekillman]

it wasnt intended as a weapon. Anubis just modified it to work like that

[Aer'ki]

Why(and i emphasize WHY) would the Ancients create a weapon that can destroy stargates.

It just doesn't seem like something they would do.
i can understand why the goa'uld would use something like it.
but what use would the ancients have for it.

1. It wasn't designed for that, just some gigantic power transfer system.
2. They had enemies we haven't seen, and built it to deal with a 'foothold' situation on one of their worlds.
3. Or, more likely, TPTB needed a superweapon and just put the sticky label 'ancient' on it without thinking it through first.

[timstro59]

3. Or, more likely, TPTB needed a superweapon and just put the sticky label 'ancient' on it without thinking it through first.

that one seems the most likely.
they made a good sized plothole when they labeled it "Ancient technology".

[Control_Chair]

1. It wasn't designed for that, just some gigantic power transfer system. (

I would agree with that

Maybe when Anubis ascended he

1. Learned the location of the device.
2. Learned how to modify the device (by placing a stargate inside the ring) to turn it into a weapon that could blow up stargates.

[garhkal]

I have thought about it for a while, and maybe they were using it as a means to try and boost a gates power therefore how far it can go. BUT they got hit with the disease before they could complete it.

[Alx]

1. It wasn't designed for that, just some gigantic power transfer system.
2. They had enemies we haven't seen, and built it to deal with a 'foothold' situation on one of their worlds.
3. Or, more likely, TPTB needed a superweapon and just put the sticky label 'ancient' on it without thinking it through first.

That would fit with the overall stupid apraoch TPTB has had throughout both SG1 and SGA im quite curious if this will countinue in SGU.. in all liklyhood it will as TPTB are the same....

[Laxian of Earth]

Why(and i emphasize WHY) would the Ancients create a weapon that can destroy stargates.

It just doesn't seem like something they would do.
i can understand why the goa'uld would use something like it.
but what use would the ancients have for it.

that was just a - i admit it - nasty side effect (that's why they shut the damned thing down - well i would not have: i would have let it one, finished of the hives and rest wraith and then would have repopulated the galaxy. if someone now tells me that i am cold and indifferent because of so many dead people: if my race faces extinction, i will not start to care about others, after saving my race, we can talk about saving others.)

greetings LAX

[sunrek]

that was just a - i admit it - nasty side effect (that's why they shut the damned thing down - well i would not have: i would have let it one, finished of the hives and rest wraith and then would have repopulated the galaxy. if someone now tells me that i am cold and indifferent because of so many dead people: if my race faces extinction, i will not start to care about others, after saving my race, we can talk about saving others.)

You're thinking of the Attero device from "The Lost Tribe"

The OP is talking about the device Anubis used to destroy the original Earth Stargate in "Redemption Parts 1 & 2"

[thekillman]

or maybe anubis found out more about gates (or found out about the radiation) and built a device using that knowledge to blow up stargates.

or he modified the original device, which might have been some ancient experiment into observing the radiation

[gummyworms]

if you are going to argue that the machine simply supplies energy through the gate, then that could make sense if we use the episode where the Ori was supplying energy though the gate to shield that planet to make that supergate. Similar tech maybe?

[techwork]

Maybe antiOri weapon made for the case when Ori find Alteran. Then made when there was no other effective means of defense.