Originally posted by SaUr0n
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Actually, in Enemy at the Gate,
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Originally posted by Benr96
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I'd just like to say that unless there are secret Ancient ships in our galaxy, Earth has the most advanced ships in the galaxy. Atlantis and the 304's definitely are more powerful than their ships one-on-one, and Atlantis could take several on at a time without breaking a sweat, as well as the 304's, but they control the Goa'uld fleet, which, is far less powerful, but way more in numbers. With a full complement of drones, Atlantis (or the drone chair) could take out an entire Goa'uld fleet. The LA works together, so they could control twice as many ships (but not much more than that, since many Goa'uld ships were destroyed during the Replicator battle). They would be destroyed with minimal losses on our side, but they wouldn't all come at the same time. After a battle, there are repairs to be made.
I guess my point is that we have the most powerful ships in the galaxy, but the LA has more ships. Although we'd easily win the battles, it would be hard to keep the Stargate program a secret. They're still a threat because they could blow up DC from orbit if they wanted to and worked fast enough. I'm not saying it'd be easy, but it is still possible. It's hard to cover up an explosion of an extra-terrestrial element in DC, because they'd have to pin it on someone without making the US look incompetent (saying "yeah, the rogue NID agents detonated an alien bomb in DC" would make the US look very incompetent and cause hysteria), and blaming it on a foreign power would cause a global nuclear war.
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