Would it not be kind of pointless to go home using the Destiny ?

[Rylor]

I believe dialing through a star cause destabilization in an episode of SG-1 if I recall correctly. Sam Carter had to bring over a nuke/missile and close the event horizon on the other end to explode the sun. The title of the episode eludes me atm.

You are referring to the episode "Exodus". They used a Stargate to dial P3W-451, the planet near the black hole from "A Matter of Time". The gravity of the black hole then sucked in enough stellar matter to cause a supernova. The dialling itself was no problem.

[garhkal]

I believe dialing through a star cause destabilization in an episode of SG-1 if I recall correctly. Sam Carter had to bring over a nuke/missile and close the event horizon on the other end to explode the sun. The title of the episode eludes me atm.

Red sky iirc. Season 5. And it was cause the gate's wormhole went THROUGH a sun, not started/ended in one.

Reason being is the sun is super hot. Destiny will have to do quite a lot of calculations to keep the shields up in addition to absorb solar energy and particles into its systems simultaneously to power the stargate. This will cause quite a strain on the systems.

Perhaps they just refuel, leave the sun THEN dial.

[nx01a]

The 40% battery of Destiny can't dial Earth. They have to stay IN the star and siphon its power directly to the gate.

[ussrelativity]

They would have to repair and overhaul the power distribution system, and the capacitors. I'd think that they would need about 70-80% of total maximum power to make it work.

[garhkal]

I wonder if they could establish a "Letters from pegasus" like micro connection so they can send data back at least.

[droid327]

It would be pointless to try and fly home - but with full control of Destiny, they could stop its mission and try to find something that will let them go home...advanced aliens, another Icarus planet, etc. There's probably many things in Destiny's logs that it had passed over the years, still within range, worth exploring, but that means diverting Destiny from its original mission.

Likely what it would come down to with the star-dialing...they might be able to do it, but doing so would destroy Destiny in the process - like, Destiny can draw enough power to dial from inside a star once, but doing so would fry all the power relays on the ship, meaning it couldnt maneuver again once you dial, so the shields would eventually collapse and destroy the ship, something like that. Naturally they have no way to download Destiny's databanks and bring them with them to Earth, so all of Destiny's knowledge would have to be sacrificed.

Rush will probably convince them that they cant throw away millions of years of information, and all the progress towards the Ancient's original goals, just to get home fast.

[morbosfist]

Destiny would be destroyed before they ever successfully dialled. If they could get out in time, Young would have risked it.

[morsu]

Destiny would be destroyed before they ever successfully dialled. If they could get out in time, Young would have risked it.

I believe they can get home using destiny's Gate but they need to fix the power storage facility first. that should be thier top priority in reality.

[ussrelativity]

Or have them use the stones and have the SGC keep the iris open so they can toss a Kino through really fast.

Then again, to even dial, they would tax their power reserves too severely.

[Spimman]

Yes and no. You're right that flying Destiny home would take longer then possible. But with each galaxy they would get closer to Earth and thus need last power to dial home

If they find a power source big enough to dial home it won't matter if they are 10 years closer to earth out of the 1 million + Destiny has been going. It will just be a matter of harnessing that energy source properly (the reason they needed Eli in the first place).

[jelgate]

If they find a power source big enough to dial home it won't matter if they are 10 years closer to earth out of the 1 million + Destiny has been going. It will just be a matter of harnessing that energy source properly (the reason they needed Eli in the first place).

Yes it will. The closer they are the less power. Even if its a small degree its still less power required

[Nth Chevron]

But how far back would they have to fly to be able to gate home on 40% power reserves AND still have enough left for Destiny to refuel? 5 year? 20?

N.C

[morbosfist]

But how far back would they have to fly to be able to gate home on 40% power reserves AND still have enough left for Destiny to refuel? 5 year? 20?

They can keep refueling along the way. They'd never get home within their lifetime anyway.

[Spimman]

Yes it will. The closer they are the less power. Even if its a small degree its still less power required

You're missing the point. The planet they used to get to Destiny in the first place had plenty of power to spare, it was figuring out exactly how much power to tap that was needed. If they find another energy source that big it won't matter if they are .002% closer to home than they are now.

[jelgate]

You're missing the point. The planet they used to get to Destiny in the first place had plenty of power to spare, it was figuring out exactly how much power to tap that was needed. If they find another energy source that big it won't matter if they are .002% closer to home than they are now.

Getting farther away. Without knowing the extent of some energy sources we don't know how much be required. Sure it may be small but we don't know if a small amount may be different from using an energy source or not