Hello all, this is my first post to the forum - I did a few searches and didn't see this subject yet, so...
Thought occurred to me that they will run out of jumpers if they keep getting them trashed, plus I bet earth would like to have a couple handy. Since Atlantis is huge, I'm sure there is room in the future story line for a jumper production plant.
I used to be a big fan (not since season 4) of Andromeda. Something I always liked was the self sufficient nature of the ship. In episode 206, after firing their entire load of missiles, the Andromeda AI (now Dr. Lam) says "That's our entire offensive payload", and captain Hunt replies "We'll find you a nice asteroid field when we're done so you can make more." link: http://home.neo.rr.com/nikojen/transcript/ATH.txt
You probably know where I am going with this.
I'd assume since Atlantis was semi portable they would plan such manufacturing into the city. So maybe in a future episode when exploring the full blown, and powered up city - they could come across a manufacturing plant for varieties of the PJ. I'd think there would be standard models and perhaps specialty fighter models that take much longer to construct.
What it could add to the story:
- More searching for raw materials. Maybe earth would have to mine and send some parts.
- Less regret of sending a remote controlled ship on a suicide mission.
- "Half developed"/"on the drawing board" more advanced models that were being conceived near the end of the Wraith war. (see below P.S.)
How they are manufactured:
Since the ancients seemed to be so good with matter-energy-matter conversion, I can't see all the parts being assembled like they are today in an assembly line. Meaning, with applicable energy I'd assume you could just create a jumper from scratch (maybe minus energy source) using a stargate with pre-programmed matter matrix (hate to use that over-used word). But, of course that wouldn't work for the story because they'd just bring in a hundred mark-II naquida generators and suddenly they'd have unlimited ships to send back to earth and use against the Wraith. So, maybe certain pieces & parts can be created via energy-matter conversion, but others need to be supplied.
In thread 4162 http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=4162 a jelly fish asked why puddle jumpers don't have hyperdrives. Perhaps the Eddie Bauer (sic) edition could have a moderate hyperdrive, with cramped quarters in the rear compartment - like the PJ with the time travel engine. This would add an interesting concept to the story line if you could only put 2-3 people in one of these long range PJ's vs 8-14 people.
Caveats:
- Can't be easy to manufacture mass amounts of them (mentioned above).
- They can probably make the missiles that the PJs and the central Atlantis defense chair launches too. Likely it would cost massive amounts of energy to build these to keep the story going where they suddenly don't have an unlimited arsenal.
P.S. Something else I liked about Andromeda was the concept of Anti-Gravity on the outer hull. If you have the ability to create gravity with-in your ship - it's likely you can create anti-gravity. On Andromeda the outer hull was charged with anti-gravity so an approaching missile and it's explosion would be pushed away from the ship. With as advanced as the PJs are, maybe an "upgraded" model could be later found in the manufacturing plant's database that supported an AG field and perhaps a minor shield. After all, if they can build a slightly larger than an egg human shield (Dr. McKay), I'd think a PJ could have a enough juice to power something that could take a hit from a death glider (Mobius part 2).
Thanks.
Thought occurred to me that they will run out of jumpers if they keep getting them trashed, plus I bet earth would like to have a couple handy. Since Atlantis is huge, I'm sure there is room in the future story line for a jumper production plant.
I used to be a big fan (not since season 4) of Andromeda. Something I always liked was the self sufficient nature of the ship. In episode 206, after firing their entire load of missiles, the Andromeda AI (now Dr. Lam) says "That's our entire offensive payload", and captain Hunt replies "We'll find you a nice asteroid field when we're done so you can make more." link: http://home.neo.rr.com/nikojen/transcript/ATH.txt
You probably know where I am going with this.
I'd assume since Atlantis was semi portable they would plan such manufacturing into the city. So maybe in a future episode when exploring the full blown, and powered up city - they could come across a manufacturing plant for varieties of the PJ. I'd think there would be standard models and perhaps specialty fighter models that take much longer to construct.
What it could add to the story:
- More searching for raw materials. Maybe earth would have to mine and send some parts.
- Less regret of sending a remote controlled ship on a suicide mission.
- "Half developed"/"on the drawing board" more advanced models that were being conceived near the end of the Wraith war. (see below P.S.)
How they are manufactured:
Since the ancients seemed to be so good with matter-energy-matter conversion, I can't see all the parts being assembled like they are today in an assembly line. Meaning, with applicable energy I'd assume you could just create a jumper from scratch (maybe minus energy source) using a stargate with pre-programmed matter matrix (hate to use that over-used word). But, of course that wouldn't work for the story because they'd just bring in a hundred mark-II naquida generators and suddenly they'd have unlimited ships to send back to earth and use against the Wraith. So, maybe certain pieces & parts can be created via energy-matter conversion, but others need to be supplied.
In thread 4162 http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=4162 a jelly fish asked why puddle jumpers don't have hyperdrives. Perhaps the Eddie Bauer (sic) edition could have a moderate hyperdrive, with cramped quarters in the rear compartment - like the PJ with the time travel engine. This would add an interesting concept to the story line if you could only put 2-3 people in one of these long range PJ's vs 8-14 people.
Caveats:
- Can't be easy to manufacture mass amounts of them (mentioned above).
- They can probably make the missiles that the PJs and the central Atlantis defense chair launches too. Likely it would cost massive amounts of energy to build these to keep the story going where they suddenly don't have an unlimited arsenal.
P.S. Something else I liked about Andromeda was the concept of Anti-Gravity on the outer hull. If you have the ability to create gravity with-in your ship - it's likely you can create anti-gravity. On Andromeda the outer hull was charged with anti-gravity so an approaching missile and it's explosion would be pushed away from the ship. With as advanced as the PJs are, maybe an "upgraded" model could be later found in the manufacturing plant's database that supported an AG field and perhaps a minor shield. After all, if they can build a slightly larger than an egg human shield (Dr. McKay), I'd think a PJ could have a enough juice to power something that could take a hit from a death glider (Mobius part 2).
Thanks.
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