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    #61
    Originally posted by Shai Hulud View Post
    Was it just me thunking that the Destiny's repair bots have been in storgae until they got busted out to help with the FTL drive going KABOOM?
    Well, the repair bot we saw wasn't capable of doing repairs on it's own, it needed programmed instructions. Unless, the Icarus people haven't figured out the proper way to use it. But even then, what good are repair drones if they are in storage, on an unmanned vessel?

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      #62
      Originally posted by HaMm3r View Post
      Whether or not a ship was repaired centuries or millenia before the series even started would not fall into the latter category, IMHO. We get that it bothers you, but does it detract from the show? No.
      I disagree, it does detract from the show. If there was self repair in operation, that only recently stopped (for whatever reason), then it is a reasonable proposition that Destiny is still there. The alternative is that a divine miracle has happened, and that is just not a good story.

      And Shai Hulud, the robots in the crates, yeah I think you are right about that. Those robots have been in storage the whole time.

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        #63
        Originally posted by kwlafayette View Post
        I disagree, it does detract from the show. If there was self repair in operation, that only recently stopped (for whatever reason), then it is a reasonable proposition that Destiny is still there. The alternative is that a divine miracle has happened, and that is just not a good story.
        Alternatively, the ship is just really sturdy. It's not that the main systems have not suffered over time: the power reserves can only reach 40% design capacity, loosing one of the FTL nodes increased "fuel efficiency" by ~5-10% (indicating that they are all probably damaged, just this one worse), etc.

        Remember, the Stargates were able to last ~50 million years, as were the DHD power supplies, so a ship doing the same is not entirely out of the question.
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          #64
          yes and we have unobtanium and handwavium in the form of shields and trinium and naquahdah. besides the ship is severely damaged, it barely made the last 4-5 intergalactic trips

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            #65
            Okay to the OP,

            The ship is heavily damaged, the main systems are still functioning, but no where near their peak efficiency. This is beyond a doubt fact and established canon for the show. If there is an auto repair system. its completely out of commission and has been for some time
            I dunno what to put in here now..

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              #66
              I have to throw a bit of a monkey wrench into the "no prior evidence of self-repair" thing.... Replicators anybody??? Yes, I know that is way post-destiny tech, but the ancients DID create self-repairing machines, and got burned very badly by the technology, which is likely why there wasn't any sort of self-repair systems on Atlantis or later ships...

              Now for an example from SGU itself: The Seeder ships. The Seeder ships have automated manufacturing capability. They build stargates!!!! It would be virtually impossible for the seeder ships to continue their mission without being able to harvest resources and self repair.

              We also have some evidence for intelligence in the Destiny computer. It knew where to send the crew for the lime in Air. It knew where to send them for water. Once the repair robot was unpacked and told what repairs needed to be made, the robot completed the repairs on it's own. And we have evidence of manufacturing capability on Destiny: The Kino dispenser. Kinos are obviously disposable resources, and yet the dispenser is always full.

              Now as to why Destiny is in such bad shape... Any self repair that is on the ship has obviously failed. It could be due to lack of resources, it could be due to battle damage. Or it could simply be that the self-repair systems are unable to repair themselves.

              Here is one likely scenario: Over time the Destiny's energy storage system degraded to the point that it could no longer hold a full charge, kinda like the memory effect in NiCd batteries. The storage cells were made to be jettisoned and replaced by spares when their capacity degraded sufficiently, but eventually Destiny ran out of spares. It has to make a particularly large jump between galaxies and has to shut down all systems and run on momentum to carry it across the void. While it's in standby it hits a patch space debris. Maybe a meteor cloud or it glides through a comets tail. Either way the ship takes heavy damage. One of the systems damaged is the self-repair mechanism. The ship continues limping along as best it can.

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                #67
                Originally posted by HaMm3r View Post
                Whether or not a ship was repaired centuries or millenia before the series even started would not fall into the latter category, IMHO. We get that it bothers you, but does it detract from the show? No.

                If it makes you feel better, we'll all pretend that some time back the blue aliens found the ship floating dead in space from unrepaired damage. They started to fix it, but as soon as enough core systems came back online, Destiny jumped away on her own to continue the mission the BA didn't know about. Consequently, the aliens are chasing the ship because the BA Captain left his favorite screwdriver aboard and wants it back!
                You know, actually, that is a pretty plausible theory. It would easily explain a lot that has happened so far.

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                  #68
                  Originally posted by Merlin's_Legacy View Post
                  I have to throw a bit of a monkey wrench into the "no prior evidence of self-repair" thing.... Replicators anybody??? Yes, I know that is way post-destiny tech, but the ancients DID create self-repairing machines, and got burned very badly by the technology, which is likely why there wasn't any sort of self-repair systems on Atlantis or later ships...

                  Now for an example from SGU itself: The Seeder ships. The Seeder ships have automated manufacturing capability. They build stargates!!!! It would be virtually impossible for the seeder ships to continue their mission without being able to harvest resources and self repair.

                  We also have some evidence for intelligence in the Destiny computer. It knew where to send the crew for the lime in Air. It knew where to send them for water. Once the repair robot was unpacked and told what repairs needed to be made, the robot completed the repairs on it's own. And we have evidence of manufacturing capability on Destiny: The Kino dispenser. Kinos are obviously disposable resources, and yet the dispenser is always full.

                  Now as to why Destiny is in such bad shape... Any self repair that is on the ship has obviously failed. It could be due to lack of resources, it could be due to battle damage. Or it could simply be that the self-repair systems are unable to repair themselves.

                  Here is one likely scenario: Over time the Destiny's energy storage system degraded to the point that it could no longer hold a full charge, kinda like the memory effect in NiCd batteries. The storage cells were made to be jettisoned and replaced by spares when their capacity degraded sufficiently, but eventually Destiny ran out of spares. It has to make a particularly large jump between galaxies and has to shut down all systems and run on momentum to carry it across the void. While it's in standby it hits a patch space debris. Maybe a meteor cloud or it glides through a comets tail. Either way the ship takes heavy damage. One of the systems damaged is the self-repair mechanism. The ship continues limping along as best it can.
                  Very plausible. I definitely think they have hinted that at some point, there was at least one distance to bridge that Destiny could not complete with FTL. Like you say, it would logically calculate the reserve it would need to power up and refuel once it arrived, figure out how long it could stay in FTL and how long it would need to drift, and you laid the rest out pretty well.

                  Probably, it was something like a trip between two super clusters, or even between galactic strands. Incidentally, this means that Destiny is far closer than it otherwise would be. I image a few hours at FTL is the equivalent of hundreds or even thousands of years of drift at sublight.

                  I really like you theories.

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                    #69
                    Originally posted by kwlafayette View Post
                    You know, actually, that is a pretty plausible theory. It would easily explain a lot that has happened so far.
                    Except that there is no evidence of prior habitation, no half -finished repairs, no tools or parts laying around, no stranded alien bodies. There's nothing to indicate a surprise exit by Destiny. I just said the BA because of your other theory.

                    Now maybe if some other race besides the BA used the gate to get onboard, repair the ship and then cleaned up after themselves, I might buy into my own sarcastic theory. But, that would pretty much mean that some surviving colony of Ancients come aboard to make repairs every now and then, which is a fairly preposterous notion.

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                      #70
                      Originally posted by HaMm3r View Post
                      Except that there is no evidence of prior habitation, no half -finished repairs, no tools or parts laying around, no stranded alien bodies. There's nothing to indicate a surprise exit by Destiny. I just said the BA because of your other theory.

                      Now maybe if some other race besides the BA used the gate to get onboard, repair the ship and then cleaned up after themselves, I might buy into my own sarcastic theory. But, that would pretty much mean that some surviving colony of Ancients come aboard to make repairs every now and then, which is a fairly preposterous notion.
                      Well, it has been mentioned that Ancient tech is quite robust. It could have been long enough ago that the bodies have all turned to dust. It would explain the CO2 scrubbers being all used up.

                      Imagine, some time long ago, an alien race finds Destiny drifting, nearly powerless, extensively damaged. They board it, get life support working. Actually live on it for decades, or centuries, slowly gleaning its secrets. Their race advances by leaps and bounds. Then one day, someone repairs the wrong junction (or maybe war between competing factions, and it is deliberate; they know the ship will leave). Perhaps the aliens remained aboard for centuries more, but cut off from the rest of their race? Eventually, leaving their home galaxy far behind. Then one day, they take the chance, and abandon ship on a suitable looking planet, taking everything they can with them. A million years later, we figure out Icarus...

                      It actually sounds like another spin off... They should start paying you.

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                        #71
                        Originally posted by HaMm3r View Post
                        Except that there is no evidence of prior habitation, no half -finished repairs, no tools or parts laying around, no stranded alien bodies.
                        They, uh, tried jamming something into the shuttle doorway to keep it open long enough to let the person inside get out.
                        ^Thats from the transcript of Air Part 2. Seems that someone was trying to fix the shuttle air leak before the Tau'ri got to Destiny. Evidence of prior habitation?
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                          #72
                          Well, finally managed to see Subversion, despite the fact that the satellite signal kept dropping off. And that I get Internet off the same satellite as I get TV. That was pretty annoying I tell you. Spacecast's online viewing website is so bad that it is actually impressive.

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                            #73
                            Originally posted by Shai Hulud View Post
                            ^Thats from the transcript of Air Part 2. Seems that someone was trying to fix the shuttle air leak before the Tau'ri got to Destiny. Evidence of prior habitation?
                            Only if that quote is taken out of context:

                            JOHANSEN: They tried jamming something into the shuttle doorway to keep it open long enough to let the person inside get out.

                            ARMSTRONG: But it ... it just opens again. Some sort of safety mechanism like an elevator.

                            JOHANSEN: Rush says he can't override it.
                            In other words, "they" refers to members of the Icarus evacuees.



                            Also, if any race had boarded the Destiny at some point in the past, the Icarus evacuees would have suffocated on arrival: the ship (re?)pressurized itself in response to their arrival, but there is only so much air that the ship could carry in reserve. In other words, it seems rather unlikely that the ship had been boarded in the past.
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                            "And can we lose the ten thousand year old dead plants?!"
                            - Stargate: Atlantis (1x03) "Hide and Seek"

                            "Hammerheads do not load/unload units immediately – they must descend to ground level first. Initial experiments involving jump-jetting infantry into the Hammerhead’s cargo compartment met with unfortunate results."
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                              #74
                              That is another thing that does not make sense. One door being stuck open is not going to allow all the air in a space ship to escape. It would be designed like a submarine, any area of the ship could be sealed off to prevent the loss of the entire ship. Every room has a door that can seal off that room, every hallway has doors to seal off all or part of the hallway. The ship would be sectioned off such that one door could be closed and it would seal off a whole group of rooms.

                              Except for that one super critical door to the shuttle. For some reason, all areas of the ship are open to that door. Not a very good plot device in my opinion.

                              Another thing that clearly does not make sense, is how they have not opened and cataloged the contents of every container they have access too. The Ancients clearly left some supplies around, but they just seem to be, for the most part, ignoring them.

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                                #75
                                Originally posted by kwlafayette View Post
                                That is another thing that does not make sense. One door being stuck open is not going to allow all the air in a space ship to escape. It would be designed like a submarine, any area of the ship could be sealed off to prevent the loss of the entire ship. Every room has a door that can seal off that room, every hallway has doors to seal off all or part of the hallway. The ship would be sectioned off such that one door could be closed and it would seal off a whole group of rooms.

                                Except for that one super critical door to the shuttle. For some reason, all areas of the ship are open to that door.
                                Well, as we can see here (original here), the damaged shuttle (red) is fairly close to the 'Gate room (blue). It is also important to remember that they had just begun exploring the ship, so they might not have found any place to relocate themselves other than in the sections that were connected to the shuttle.




                                Originally posted by kwlafayette View Post
                                Another thing that clearly does not make sense, is how they have not opened and cataloged the contents of every container they have access too. The Ancients clearly left some supplies around, but they just seem to be, for the most part, ignoring them.
                                They found the Ancient spacesuits in "Water" and the robot in "Faith," so they might have just been doing this off-screen.
                                "From East Middle School. Suzumiya Haruhi. I have no interest in ordinary humans. If there are any aliens, time travelers, sliders, or espers here, come join me."
                                - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya; Best Character Introduction Ever.

                                "And can we lose the ten thousand year old dead plants?!"
                                - Stargate: Atlantis (1x03) "Hide and Seek"

                                "Hammerheads do not load/unload units immediately – they must descend to ground level first. Initial experiments involving jump-jetting infantry into the Hammerhead’s cargo compartment met with unfortunate results."
                                - Command&Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath Hammerhead Unit Spotlight

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