Doomsday weapon

[kymeric]

The 'what if we lost the entire fleet' thread made me think of this and i thot it deserved its own thred.

I wonder if the BC-304s have some horrible dead mans switch where if theyre going down they pop a doomsday weapon that destroys the entire region of space theyre in? If i were the IOA i would make something awful like a cross between the tainted ZPM and Arcturus. (Greater than destroying a solar system but less than destroying the whole universe) Especially considering how boned earth is if an enemy gets ahold of either Atlantis or a 304.

Thats really the only way i would accept the destruction of the Deadalous. Caldwell spitting blood and saying #$%^ you. Then kablooey and entire sector of wraith territory is gone.

[aretood2]

Have you learned nothing from the cold war?
Or do you ignore the Dakara weapon and the reason why it was a bad Idea to keep it?

I say ney, perhaps a gatebuster 2.0 as a self destruct option but nothing more.

[tombombadil]

doubtful cosidering

Spoiler:

sam had to fly the phoenix into a hive ship to destroy it in the last man.

and we know atlantis has a self destruct, just not anywhere near as deadly as you described.

[Buba uognarf]

We can't build ZPM's or anything close to it at the moment, not sure how we'd blow a solar system up lol.

Would be cool though if just a tad over the top.

[sldghamr]

The 'what if we lost the entire fleet' thread made me think of this and i thot it deserved its own thred.

I wonder if the BC-304s have some horrible dead mans switch where if theyre going down they pop a doomsday weapon that destroys the entire region of space theyre in? If i were the IOA i would make something awful like a cross between the tainted ZPM and Arcturus. (Greater than destroying a solar system but less than destroying the whole universe) Especially considering how boned earth is if an enemy gets ahold of either Atlantis or a 304.

Thats really the only way i would accept the destruction of the Deadalous. Caldwell spitting blood and saying #$%^ you. Then kablooey and entire sector of wraith territory is gone.

no no no, Caldwell would be doing the Kahn death speech from Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn..............

"I spit my last breath at thee.........." BOOM

[YutheGreat]

SO this was inspired by my thread

I think there are self destruct mechanism in place but I don't think we could build something as powerful as you suggest; however, the explosion of the phoenix was so massive that it took 3 hives with it.

The most powerful explosion we could make would most probably be a dozen Mk 9 gatebusters.