How long would it take a wormhole drive to reach Destiny's location?

[lordofseas]

You are forgetting that we also have Atlantis database and some of our own brainiacs (McKay, Amanda Perry if I remember correctly, Sam, etc.)

So I think that we could build a copy of Wormwhole drive. And if not Wormwhole drive we could at least build a drive engine, that could get us to Destiny in mather of very short time.

Wormhole drive is impractical because of the power requirements, and the equation uncertainty. The next best thing after that, in drives, is hyperdrives. And that would be far too slow. So, what drive are you talking about?

[comperius]

Well the thing is that Rodney designed that drive that jumps from one universe to the other and charges itself with a buffer...

At the momement that drive does not help us much, but the FTL also uses a buffer / countdowdn, so maybe there is a chance that something usefull can come from this.

Hyperspace is to slow for now, but if we create Wormwhole drive with a buffer, which can move us like several mio LY per jump and this jumps happen like 2 times per day, than we could meet Destiny in mather of 12 to 18 months, depending on their location in space.

[thekillman]

it's not just power, it's a gambling machine. the equations need to be extraordinarly precise to jump 100 000 LY's. what do you expect when travelling billions of lightyears?

additionally i stick to my original opinion: it either costs too much or it takes too long.

[lordofseas]

Well the thing is that Rodney designed that drive that jumps from one universe to the other and charges itself with a buffer...

At the momement that drive does not help us much, but the FTL also uses a buffer / countdowdn, so maybe there is a chance that something usefull can come from this.

Hyperspace is to slow for now, but if we create Wormwhole drive with a buffer, which can move us like several mio LY per jump and this jumps happen like 2 times per day, than we could meet Destiny in mather of 12 to 18 months, depending on their location in space.

The Subspace Capacitor. To begin with, that's Atlantis tech, any noobs watching Universe and not Atlantis would find that far too much of a Deus Ex Machina, and I would tend to agree. Another thing is that it would need to output ZPM levels, not "near-ZPM" levels of energy, which the capacitor does. And finally, the Wormhole drive is too unstable for that many successful jumps. (Of course, this can all be bloody well blown out of the water by McKay "fixing" something, so my points do get moot)

[comperius]

well we can still try to build new gen hyperdrives which would move fast enough to cross 1 galaxy per day

[Col.Ads]

I think the wormhole drive is never going to be the answer for SGU, really its down to some sort of stargate or supergate somehow, first though we need control over the ship!

[lordofseas]

well we can still try to build new gen hyperdrives which would move fast enough to cross 1 galaxy per day

A very long time, nevertheless. Destiny has had over 1 million years to travel over thousands, if not tens of thousands of galaxies.

[comperius]

My point was that we can try to make our hyperdrives as good as the Asgard had them for their O'niell class ships. They where able to move our X-303 and their ship from somewhere in MW to Earth in mather of few seconds. If that's not fast, I dont know what is.

If we use Asgard Hyperdirves I know that we can reach Destiny in mather of a year or faster.

[lordofseas]

My point was that we can try to make our hyperdrives as good as the Asgard had them for their O'niell class ships. They where able to move our X-303 and their ship from somewhere in MW to Earth in mather of few seconds. If that's not fast, I dont know what is.

If we use Asgard Hyperdirves I know that we can reach Destiny in mather of a year or faster.

That's within a galaxy, and we don't know the distance between Earth and where the Prometheus was (at least I don't think we do).

[thekillman]

it was a few hundred lightyears i believe, crossed in seconds.

which made the asgard speed somewhat like 120 Ly per second

[Buba uognarf]

Asgard ship speeds have debatably been retconned though.

Even so it would take a long period of continuous travel to reach the Destiny, can hyperdrives handle months of use at their top speeds? Can we provide the power to do this without a ZPM?

A ZPM is worth more than the hundred or so people on Destiny...

[fugiman]

Guys all we need to do is make a flux capacitor and we can use the Wormhole Drive safely, right?

[Makenshi]

As I said in another thread: reverse engineer the solar powering thing, then reverse engineer the wormhole drive and create a method of using stars itselfs to make the wormholes stable; in other words, turn them into Star-gates, literally.

Enter a star, use its energy to activate the wormhole drive and appears inside another star somewhere else, like in the Smurf Galaxy (we know the distance from here and the position of the stars there, thanks to Destiny's database).

Actually, just go ahead and do all this fancy Deus Ex-Machina into a BIG, brand new BS-305 DSD (Battleship 305 Deep Space Dreadnought). With docking clamps on it's "belly" or it's "wings" for 2 of our BC-304 DSC's (Battlecruisers 304 Deep Space Carriers) as escorts. Like this baby:

Spoiler:

Don't forget to give it Hyperdrive and Warpdrive as well, for full mobility choice, and basic stuff like Asgard Plasma of Doom, IMBA Drones, Beam Teleport, Rings for back-up, Railguns and Missiles for a pinch, F-302's, etc etc.

Now THAT's a great fleet to acompany Destiny

[Mike.]

Guys all we need to do is make a flux capacitor and we can use the Wormhole Drive safely, right?

Nah, just make the wormhole drive controllable from the chair. The pilot will use the force to navigate safely. That or get him high on spice.

[lordofseas]

Nah, just make the wormhole drive controllable from the chair. The pilot will use the force to navigate safely. That or get him high on spice.

Being in a tank for the rest of your life isn't exactly the most desirable thing. Well, except for McKay...