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    #16
    Thats if the 'EM field' could be generated while the shield is up. All it takes is a couple of hits to get through while are shields are down and we'd have possibly a disabled Hive which would be operation pretty quickly I'd imagine and one seriously dead Earth battle cruiser.
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      #17
      well if we are able to produce that field and it runs separately from the other systems and our shields fail, which often happens, we pretty much screwed our selves.

      You know we've had threads on why there isn't cloaks on nukes and stuff like that, but has someone really ever asked why not let modify a jumper to fire a nuke close to the hive, and retreating after? at max speed the jumper can escape the EMP, and its pretty hard to hit something that just disappeared.
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        #18
        Originally posted by immhotep View Post
        Better idea would be to fire a decoy nuke which would produce a hive sized EMP blast if it hits a dart enroute. Then time it exactly so that the jamming devices would be off, and beam a nuke on board.
        How about a real nuke to burn the dart screen away followed by another dozen or so real nukes a second later.

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          #19
          Originally posted by Alendra View Post
          Watch the episode again, McKays says it's highly unlikely that they can reproduce that kind of EM field since it's keyed to the special magnetosphere of the said planet.
          Exactly! We know that ancient tech is impervious to EM, and wraith tech being organic may be as well.

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            #20
            Originally posted by from_orion View Post
            Exactly! We know that ancient tech is impervious to EM, and wraith tech being organic may be as well.
            It was only the magnetospheric contribution to the EM field that made it effect lantean/wraith tech.

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              #21
              Originally posted by from_orion View Post
              Exactly! We know that ancient tech is impervious to EM, and wraith tech being organic may be as well.
              Exactly. EM pulses only have an effect on electronic things. For example an EM pulse was able to disable the nanites that infected Weir, but had no effect on any of her organic tissues. Since Wraith technology is primarily organic in nature an EM pulse could have a reduced effect, or no effect at all.
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                #22
                Originally posted by Gate-builder View Post
                Exactly. EM pulses only have an effect on electronic things. For example an EM pulse was able to disable the nanites that infected Weir, but had no effect on any of her organic tissues. Since Wraith technology is primarily organic in nature an EM pulse could have a reduced effect, or no effect at all.
                Makes sense.

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