How to destroy a Hive Ship

[LordMartin]

It occured to me a very easy way to destroy a hive ship (IMO). The Genii are planning on delivering (By Stargate) atomic/nuclear devices to the hive ships. They're all up and alert now, so the ships are probably swarming with Wraiths looking for a snack. So that probably won't work.

If I were in charge of the Atlantis team, I'd make it priority one to capture a Dart ship, take the transporter technology from the fighter and install it on a puddle jumper.

I'm not sure if they have nukes or not but Dr. McCay says he can build them. If they can't get the supplies, I'd go back to the Genii and steal it from them. Hopefully the cloak would allow them to get close enough to the Hive ships to start beaming Nukes in.

[Gorthaur]

i don;t think hey want to steal anything from the ganii.

(GRR TO THE CADADIANS WHO DON'T HAVE TO WAIT)

[LordMartin]

i don;t think hey want to steal anything from the ganii.

(GRR TO THE CADADIANS WHO DON'T HAVE TO WAIT)

haha, I would transport/beam them all into space first! But that's not PG rated.

[Gothann]

Uh, most hive ships aren't alerted and moving yet...

Even then, a Wraith ship seems to be able to lift off even before everyone within awakens from the hibernation.

The Genii plan COULD work to severely cripple a handful of ships, but I've yet to see an A-Bomb being able to have enough blast radius to vaporize the mountain-sized Wraith ships.

[Gorthaur]

Uh, most hive ships aren't alerted and moving yet...

Even then, a Wraith ship seems to be able to lift off even before everyone within awakens from the hibernation.

The Genii plan COULD work to severely cripple a handful of ships, but I've yet to see an A-Bomb being able to have enough blast radius to vaporize the mountain-sized Wraith ships.

a naquada inhanced H-bomb could do it with little efert.

[Gothann]

a naquada inhanced H-bomb could do it with little efert.

You're forgetting: all of the Naquadah is used to power the city, and Naquadriah is impossible to get right now, seeing as how Atlantis is disconnected from The Milky Way.

Besides, it's been said before: TPTB doesn't seem to want to fuse both series together. They REALLY seem to keep both series apart, what with the Zats being replaced with Wraith stunners, Staff Weapons being forgotten altogether, barely ANY mention of Naquadah...

[WraithWarrior]

I dont know wether a nuke could destroy the hive ships, or anything else for that matter, but it would be cool to see one explode. It also may get the Atlantis team in a bit of bother with the other hive ships, unless they are like the Gou'ald and try to out do each other

[Wass]

I don't think nuke even with Naquadah would be enough to destroy a wraith hive ship we simply don't know enough about the wraith technology to know if a nuke can destroy it. The wraith probably have shields protecting most of the ships internal systems.

[aeroe]

If C4 can punch holes in a Hive ship, than a nuke would vaporize it.

edit: typo....

[LordMartin]

I was thinking that as well, probably they have some sort of shield technology but we haven't seen it yet. The dart ships can be shot down with regular missles, so probably the hive ships have the same vulerability i.e. good ol' C4 can damage them.

The main issue is to get a bomb into the ship, it doesn't even have to vaporize it but as long as it explodes inside I doubt there would be some internal shield system that could contain the blast.

Thats why I thought of those dart ships, how they cruise around transporting people off the ground. They obviously are sending them directly back to the hive ship.

[Ancients Rising]

Has anyone thought of why the Wraith ships don't have shields?

Maybe they realised that the Ancients glowy jellyfish of doom could go through any shield so they just didn't bother with them (shields that is)...

That would explain a lot, the Wraith just concentrated on firepower and size instead of shielding since they knew it would be useless against GFD's.

Back on topic

An average nuke today will vaporize anything within 1km of it's radius, nearly vaporize anything within the next 1-2km's, flatten anything for the next 1-2km's and cause serious structural damage to everything within 10km's of the blast. Wraith ships are huge....the size of mountains...but unlike mountains their whole volume isn't solid rock.

So a Hive ship is basically a box. Nuke in a box. Goodbye.

If the Nuke itself isn't big enough (unlikely), then the possible chain reactions it could cause - like C4 does it's damage - would decimate the Hive unless the Hive is a 100km across...you never know

[Gorthaur]

You're forgetting: all of the Naquadah is used to power the city, and Naquadriah is impossible to get right now, seeing as how Atlantis is disconnected from The Milky Way.

Besides, it's been said before: TPTB doesn't seem to want to fuse both series together. They REALLY seem to keep both series apart, what with the Zats being replaced with Wraith stunners, Staff Weapons being forgotten altogether, barely ANY mention of Naquadah...

I know that i was just saying it could be doen with a Naquda inhanced H-bomb not that they would.

[Gothann]

Even then... We don't even know about the metallurgy and shielding principles that the Wraith have themselves. It might be that they have metals strong enough to withstand nuclear and naquadah enhanced yields.

[greytop]

Even then... We don't even know about the metallurgy and shielding principles that the Wraith have themselves. It might be that they have metals strong enough to withstand nuclear and naquadah enhanced yields.

To me, it looked like the ship was a biological in contruction.

Spoiler:

C4 looked like it worked to blow up parts of the hive ship in Rising.

[greytop]

To me, it looked like the ship was a biological in contruction.

Spoiler:

C4 looked like it worked to blow up parts of the hive ship in Rising.

If Jack was head of Atlantis, yes, I did say Jack, he would tell them, "Blow It Up!"