What if.
The FTL drive of Destiny is slower than the Ancient's hyperdrives?
In SGA, the Ancients had a ship moving near lightspeed using only sublight engines.
It is highly likely that they had a hyperdrive which was much faster than our current hyperdrives.
Given the timeframe, this seems a likely solution to the FTL/Hyperdrive issue.
The Destiny looks like it was build in some kind of industrial revolution of the Ancients. The design is far but ergonomic, and indicates old design. The same goes for the gate, which seems to be the oldest design of the known gates.
Given the possible industrial revolution, this might be the time when the ancients developed the gates and a means of traveling faster than light, where the FTL drive seems to be rather a bypass than the more advanced hyperdrive, which travels through a different layer of space. The ancients were just that good that they could have later on build a hyperdrive faster than the FLT drive, but that's information yet out of our reach. We do know of the possibility of those fast hyperdrives, since in SG1, in the replicator season, it was shown in the black hole episode where carter and tealc nearly get sucked in. Then to think that was a hyperdrive of goauld design.
Given that they need to seed the gates before they can use those to travel even faster, this could have been motivation for them to build the seeding ships - only unaware of the fact that just a single galaxy, hence even their home galaxy, could contain incredible amounts of things to learn from, let alone travelling to many, many galaxies. This could also mean the introduction of a smaller seperate network of gates in the Milkyway Galaxy, that of the older gates. Why wouldn't they explore their home galaxy first?
The FTL drive of Destiny is slower than the Ancient's hyperdrives?
In SGA, the Ancients had a ship moving near lightspeed using only sublight engines.
It is highly likely that they had a hyperdrive which was much faster than our current hyperdrives.
Given the timeframe, this seems a likely solution to the FTL/Hyperdrive issue.
The Destiny looks like it was build in some kind of industrial revolution of the Ancients. The design is far but ergonomic, and indicates old design. The same goes for the gate, which seems to be the oldest design of the known gates.
Given the possible industrial revolution, this might be the time when the ancients developed the gates and a means of traveling faster than light, where the FTL drive seems to be rather a bypass than the more advanced hyperdrive, which travels through a different layer of space. The ancients were just that good that they could have later on build a hyperdrive faster than the FLT drive, but that's information yet out of our reach. We do know of the possibility of those fast hyperdrives, since in SG1, in the replicator season, it was shown in the black hole episode where carter and tealc nearly get sucked in. Then to think that was a hyperdrive of goauld design.
Given that they need to seed the gates before they can use those to travel even faster, this could have been motivation for them to build the seeding ships - only unaware of the fact that just a single galaxy, hence even their home galaxy, could contain incredible amounts of things to learn from, let alone travelling to many, many galaxies. This could also mean the introduction of a smaller seperate network of gates in the Milkyway Galaxy, that of the older gates. Why wouldn't they explore their home galaxy first?
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