What kind of starship did the Asurans use to attack Atlantis?

[Mister Oragahn]

Simply put, if they dissambled a +1000 m long warship to repair a portion of tower that was, at best, 150 meters high, where's the rest of the stuff?

[ManiacMike]

do we know for sure that they came in warships and not puddle jumpers?

[Ranlier]

Well, they did seem to have repaired the hyperdrive right after we droned it.

Let's just say they went for broke and repaired 10,000 years of dilapidation all over the city.

[SaberBlade]

Ranlier has a good theory here.

We do know that not all of Atlantis was operational, not just because of the power requirements, but because of the water damage. Just being on the surface wouldn't have fixed about 6,666 years of water slowly damaging everything (working on the basis that 3 ZPMs each worked for about 3,333 years before it died) and we did see parts of Atlantis were still flooded. If they had take apart their ship in some fashion to repair the tower, it's possible that they did decide to use what was left to restore the city to 100%.

However that said, it's equally possible they had already stripped most their ship to restore Atlantis anyway so just using what was left wouldn't have been much of a sacrifice. Anything left over, such as the actual engine could then have been used to restore hyperdrive.

do we know for sure that they came in warships and not puddle jumpers?

Well considering hyperdrives don't come standard with puddle jumpers, they wouldn't have used them because they wouldn't have the power or shielding capable to defend themselves if Atlantis attacked.

[Jarnin]

Ranlier has a good theory here.

It's a hypothesis.

We do know that not all of Atlantis was operational, not just because of the power requirements, but because of the water damage.

What water damage? The alloys Atlantis is made from doesn't seem to rust, and their data systems are optical, not electrical.

While there might have been a lot of sludge and grim to clean up, there wasn't a whole lot of damage to Atlantis.

Just being on the surface wouldn't have fixed about 6,666 years of water slowly damaging everything (working on the basis that 3 ZPMs each worked for about 3,333 years before it died)

Like I said, there doesn't seem to be any water damage.

and we did see parts of Atlantis were still flooded.

It's funny you should mention that, because the systems that were flooded still worked while they were flooded. Like I said, water doesn't seem to effect Atlantis' systems and materials as much as you think.

If they had take apart their ship in some fashion to repair the tower, it's possible that they did decide to use what was left to restore the city to 100%.

Assuming that they had enough raw materials in a single ship to repair Atlantis to 100%.

Anything left over, such as the actual engine could then have been used to restore hyperdrive.

Using the hyperdrive out of an Aurora class ship (assuming it was an Aurora class ship) to repair Atlantis' Stardrive would be like trying to use parts out of a car to repair a supertanker's engine. It's unlikely that they could do that, but the raw materials might be used to make make new parts in order to complete the repairs, again, assuming they had enough raw materials.

Well considering hyperdrives don't come standard with puddle jumpers, they wouldn't have used them because they wouldn't have the power or shielding capable to defend themselves if Atlantis attacked.

No hyperdrive is dead on, but jumpers do have the capability to shield themselves.

[2ndgenerationalteran]

Probably a small transport ship, all they needed was to infiltrate and gate the rest of their team over once they had control of the gate room. If it was a big ship, they could have been asses and pushed the rest overboard

[wise one]

well when the puddle jumper was meeting with the asuran ship jack or woolsey said that its a pretty big ship their up against...

and if the asuarns didnt have enough materials to fully restore the tower they could of used surrounded areas of the city and the fact they are replicators, they can replicate materials

[2ndgenerationalteran]

Probably a class that we have never seen before, but for the ones we have heard of, a small transport like the one in Before i sleep but smaller maybe.