btw, here's a rough first draft of a history. care to give some comments?
Spoiler:
One day, in the early 2009, when Rodney McKay was skipping happily through the virtual, green, and quite imaginary fields of the Atlatis database, he stumbled upon the blueprints of an Ancient plasmaweapon. The projects was unfinished, and had been abandoned when the war with the wraith started due to the fact that the council deemed it an unnecessary waste of resources when they already had the versatile and quite powerful drones.
A team of researchers were put on studying it, and quite soon they had discovered an entire section of ancient energyweapon technology. The project was classed as high-priority by the IOA, and before long they could start implementing the discoveries into their own technology.
One of the benefits gained from the Ancient technology, was the ability to swich between pulse and beam mode.
The IOA wanted to implement these new weapon technologies into the fleet as soon as possible, but as they wanted the DSC-304s to take up more scientific and exploratory duties, they commissioned a new ship class, the D-305, a destroyer.
The D-305 was designed to take advantage of the latest systems and technologies found in the Ancient and Asgard databases. Not only in terms of weapons, but propulsion, energy sources and shielding.
Due to the ships small size, and the constructors high experience after constructing several DSC-304, the first two C-305s were done in late 2010. The new features included Ion propulsion, a NIG for powersupply, and thus better shields and hyperdrives.
These ships, the USAF Ares and the USAF Athena, were usually kept in orbit of the moon, as a last line of defense for Earth, but sometimes escorted DSC-304s on various missions where extra firepower might be needed.
A team of researchers were put on studying it, and quite soon they had discovered an entire section of ancient energyweapon technology. The project was classed as high-priority by the IOA, and before long they could start implementing the discoveries into their own technology.
One of the benefits gained from the Ancient technology, was the ability to swich between pulse and beam mode.
The IOA wanted to implement these new weapon technologies into the fleet as soon as possible, but as they wanted the DSC-304s to take up more scientific and exploratory duties, they commissioned a new ship class, the D-305, a destroyer.
The D-305 was designed to take advantage of the latest systems and technologies found in the Ancient and Asgard databases. Not only in terms of weapons, but propulsion, energy sources and shielding.
Due to the ships small size, and the constructors high experience after constructing several DSC-304, the first two C-305s were done in late 2010. The new features included Ion propulsion, a NIG for powersupply, and thus better shields and hyperdrives.
These ships, the USAF Ares and the USAF Athena, were usually kept in orbit of the moon, as a last line of defense for Earth, but sometimes escorted DSC-304s on various missions where extra firepower might be needed.
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