Questions you want answered in S4

[VSHARMA]

I want to know what the beam thing was from 1x17.

The Hive was taking a crap

[mcbarr]

Energy beam crap?

Cool image, btw:

[Wraith_Boy]

I've used this example before, but who do you think will win if I throw you into a giant pit of fire ants?

Take your time...

On bare or lightly protected skin, then the ants obviously. However with appropriate protection, then they would be unable to sting you. Allowing you valuable time to kill as many as you could before fleeing.

I agree with mcbarr that in the end they should have won. Granted the Lantean ships were outnumbered & so were rarely in what would be considered a fair fight. The warships wouldn't have enough Drones in their armoury to take out more than 2/3 Hives at any one time I'd imagine. Consider Hives are unshielded, then in comes the energy weapons. Look at what a single weapon did in 'Trinity', while the sat weapon in 'The Siege 1' cut open a Hive with a single shot. If not damaged it should have taken out all 3 Hives.

Install either on a Lantean warship & you'd murder the Wraith. Jump in, fire a few shots, take out a few ships. Then jump back in hyperspace within a few seconds. Use it enough times & the Hives would be decimated, with thousands on the Hives, their population would soon start to decimate.

The comes Atlantis. It was able to withstand Wraith bombardments for years. Why not install energy based weapons in the city, something like they did in 'The Siege 2' with the rail guns or in 'Trinity'. Wraith ships jump into orbit around the planet. You open up & take out the fleet, all from the safety of being behind the shield. The Wraith send more ships, you keep taking them out. If the Wraith stop sending ships, you expand to installing these weapons platforms on other planets throughout the galaxy.

End result is the Wraith are gone.

[Mitchell82]

I'd green you, but I give you far too much love it seems. That was great, and just as cringe worthy as Bea Arthur naked.

Bea Arthur naked? *runs to bathroom to puke*

[Mitchell82]

One thing I'd love to see is how exactly is wraith technology constructed, and what that beam was in Leters from Pegasus. Also are there any more ancient defense satelites.

[mcbarr]

The warships wouldn't have enough Drones in their armoury to take out more than 2/3 Hives at any one time I'd imagine. Consider Hives are unshielded, then in comes the energy weapons. Look at what a single weapon did in 'Trinity', while the sat weapon in 'The Siege 1' cut open a Hive with a single shot. If not damaged it should have taken out all 3 Hives.

That's another interesting question. Do Aurora-class starships have energy weapons, or just drones?

[Wraith_Boy]

One thing I'd love to see is how exactly is wraith technology constructed, and what that beam was in Leters from Pegasus. Also are there any more ancient defense satelites.

Lol, obviously didn't you read page 1!

Go read the link below:

Wraith Beam

Question answered.

[Wraith_Boy]

That's another interesting question. Do Aurora-class starships have energy weapons, or just drones?

Logically speaking it would be insane not to have them considering what they would be facing every single time in battle.

They always knew they'd be outnumbered in any potential engagements. Drones are very effective, the problem is you need too many of them to take out a Wraith fleet. They are limited by the numbers that they can carry at any one time in their armoury. It would be stupid to fight, knwoing you only had ammo to take out half the ships you'd be facing, then after that your nothing more than a sitting duck. At least with energy weapons, they have the luxury of having virtually unlimited ammo, which when used against unshielded tagets would be nothing more than 'cannon fodder'. Installing the beam weapon, would have allowed them to take out a Hive in a single shot.

If you look at pics of 'Orion' from "Inferno", you can see what looks to be a few dozen weapons turrets running along most of the hull surrounding the bridge. I see these as being used to take out the waves of incoming Darts that are launched from the Hives when a battle starts.

While at the front, it has 2 huge lances protruding from it. Personally I see them as being beam weapons, but others have speculated that they are for communications.

Hence nothing is really known about warships other than they are pretty big in size, have drones, interstellar hyperdrives, holograms, can carry large numbers of crew/passengers, stasis chambers, brig etc. Hopefully in 'Travelers' we'll finally get to see if they additional weapons or not.

[fallenexile452]

i don't think those lances are energy weapons. earth ships have them on too just look at the bc-303 pictures and they aren't energy weapons on there, so why would they be on the ancient ship.

[PG15]

Ok, I think we all agree that in terms of pure fire power, the Lantians would probably come on top.

BUT, they are NOT good strategists; that much is pretty clear. The Wraith, on the other hand, were pretty much bred for war and are very violent and cunning. There are other ways to fight than just blowing the crap out of each other, there's sabotage, surprise attacks, computer viruses, hell, a Wraith was able to tap into the Aurora's computer network and make itself look Lantian in that virtual reality; you really think they don't have other tricks up their sleaves?

The Wraith won using numbers (huuuuuge numbers; for all we know they made their ships and bred like bunnies on viagra) and strategy, the Lantians seemed to only rely on their technology, and not their brains, if you know what I mean.

Really, this type of "they're much more advanced so no way they'd be defeated" thinking is what brought down all of the great empires of the world.

[g.o.d]

origin of wraith's technology.It's still a mystery

[Cap116]

Anymore city-ships like seen in "The Tower?"

Any Ancient handheld weapons, other than the hand held ones the Asurans had. For example something like a staff weapon, or something else.

[Mitchell82]

Lol, obviously didn't you read page 1!

Go read the link below:

Wraith Beam

Question answered.

Hehehe oops ok my mistake.

[Mitchell82]

origin of wraith's technology.It's still a mystery

Yeah I agree we need more info on Wraith technology and I think we need to find more allies. Perhaps a race similar to us though so we don't get a huge advantage.

[Professor Chaos]

One other thing I want is for season 4 to be more technology related. For instance, info on Wraith tech, explore more of the city, find a new class of Ancient ship, ect.

Oh and they need to replace the P90's with some cool Ancient weapons. Maybe they were designing a cool new battle rifle and McKay can finish it or synthesize it with the Asgard tech.