No matter the sources you use for Star Wars, films only or the whole EU, that doesn't make a single difference once you've chose the kind of data you acknowledge from Stargate.
Simply put, it all boils down to the ZPM.
If the Odyssey's asgard shields and weapons can tap into a ZPM at even a minuscule fraction of how fast Atlantis could (2% per second), say e-12, it would still have access to a tremendous level of power.
Let's see. There are various ways of estimating the amount of energy a ZPM holds.
If we consider the idea that an exploding ZPM half full, releasing all of its energy, is able to destroy our solar system, with a non-star centric explosion, we're talking about a power source that holds the equivalent of, at least, two supernovae.
Therefore, a ZPM should contain, at the very least, twice 10e44 joules of energy.
You can't even start to imagine the scope of that amount of energy, even used at 0.0000000001%.
It's true that most fans immediately assume that the Daedalus and Odyssey could use the ZPMs at their full power.
Fact is, those ships are mostly human made, and use materials and techniques that would be considered advanced by now, but largely inferior to alteran tech.
There's just no way ours 304 could use ZPMs in such a way as Atlantis could.
However, this was before the events of Unending.
We know, that from this date, an upgraded Odyssey could deplete a ZPM within 50 years.
Assuming the ZPM was near full (that it was recently assembled by the replicators), that's still a power of 1.2675235125611580094810758739575 e35 W, with a draining percentage of 6.3376175628057900474053793697873 e-8 %.
Basically, the minimal amount of energy necessary to overcome Earth's gravitational binding energy is around 2~3 e32 joules.
Imagine, just for once, that the Odyssey can direct even only 1% of the power, which it gets from a ZPM, to energy guns. It still gives the ship the ability to obliterate Earth to bits many times.
Figures would become largely less huge if you suddenly considered that a 50% full ZPM could only destroy a planet, if exploding, yet they would remain insanely impressive.
For example, assuming a minimal amount of energy around 2.2e32 joules, the Odyssey would have been able to tap into the ZPM at a rate of 139,427,586,381,727,381,042,918.34613531 watts, or 139.4 zettawatts.
Even 1% of this power directed to beam weapons is more than enough to engage the whole imperial fleet if necessary, plus any other ship and planetary defenses of Star Wars's galaxy as far as we've seen.
These amounts of energy can appear to be insane, but it's all relative, especially once you consider that in theory, one cube meter of a ZP field would contain 10e92 joules.
So the amount of a ZPM able to erase a stellar system from the map would only a negligible portion of this, and if we're talking about smaller figures, like simple planetary obliteration, it's not even worth the notice.
That said, 139.4 zettawatts is a reliable figure to play with. That would be around 33.324 petatons per second, as the quantity of energy the Odyssey takes from the ZPM per second.
Enough to sneeze at a star destroyer and ravage the entire surface of a world in the same shot, leaving a big outrageous crater.
Simply put, it all boils down to the ZPM.
If the Odyssey's asgard shields and weapons can tap into a ZPM at even a minuscule fraction of how fast Atlantis could (2% per second), say e-12, it would still have access to a tremendous level of power.
Let's see. There are various ways of estimating the amount of energy a ZPM holds.
If we consider the idea that an exploding ZPM half full, releasing all of its energy, is able to destroy our solar system, with a non-star centric explosion, we're talking about a power source that holds the equivalent of, at least, two supernovae.
Therefore, a ZPM should contain, at the very least, twice 10e44 joules of energy.
You can't even start to imagine the scope of that amount of energy, even used at 0.0000000001%.
It's true that most fans immediately assume that the Daedalus and Odyssey could use the ZPMs at their full power.
Fact is, those ships are mostly human made, and use materials and techniques that would be considered advanced by now, but largely inferior to alteran tech.
There's just no way ours 304 could use ZPMs in such a way as Atlantis could.
However, this was before the events of Unending.
We know, that from this date, an upgraded Odyssey could deplete a ZPM within 50 years.
Assuming the ZPM was near full (that it was recently assembled by the replicators), that's still a power of 1.2675235125611580094810758739575 e35 W, with a draining percentage of 6.3376175628057900474053793697873 e-8 %.
Basically, the minimal amount of energy necessary to overcome Earth's gravitational binding energy is around 2~3 e32 joules.
Imagine, just for once, that the Odyssey can direct even only 1% of the power, which it gets from a ZPM, to energy guns. It still gives the ship the ability to obliterate Earth to bits many times.
Figures would become largely less huge if you suddenly considered that a 50% full ZPM could only destroy a planet, if exploding, yet they would remain insanely impressive.
For example, assuming a minimal amount of energy around 2.2e32 joules, the Odyssey would have been able to tap into the ZPM at a rate of 139,427,586,381,727,381,042,918.34613531 watts, or 139.4 zettawatts.
Even 1% of this power directed to beam weapons is more than enough to engage the whole imperial fleet if necessary, plus any other ship and planetary defenses of Star Wars's galaxy as far as we've seen.
These amounts of energy can appear to be insane, but it's all relative, especially once you consider that in theory, one cube meter of a ZP field would contain 10e92 joules.
So the amount of a ZPM able to erase a stellar system from the map would only a negligible portion of this, and if we're talking about smaller figures, like simple planetary obliteration, it's not even worth the notice.
That said, 139.4 zettawatts is a reliable figure to play with. That would be around 33.324 petatons per second, as the quantity of energy the Odyssey takes from the ZPM per second.
Enough to sneeze at a star destroyer and ravage the entire surface of a world in the same shot, leaving a big outrageous crater.
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