How could they get home?

[segaxgames]

Ninth Chevron Wormhole Drive

Here are some possibilities

1. They communicate their location to Earth, Earth sends Atlantis via wormhole drive to pick them up OR simply change the crew.

2. They meet an advanced alien society that can help them get back home

3. They run into the ancients who are chilling in a galaxy somewhere

4. They find a way to turn the ship around.... lol.

5. They dial the 9th Chevron back to Earth.

.... Honestly, I don't really want them to go back, but I do want them to be able to get supplies and fix the ship. It's way too old.

[Inquisitor]

Ninth Chevron Wormhole Drive

I reckon they could use a combination of the worm hole drive and the McKay-Carter bridge concept...

Project supergates (or just stargates + puddle jumper it) using the wormhole drive, they're smaller so it would require less power, then use the bridge concept to go to each stargate and hey presto, if it takes 30 minutes to travel the 3 million lightyears, that's 100 000 ly's a second, which means it would take 27 hours to reach the ship! How cool is that?

[Emperor Furling]

the destiny could be go to Furling's planet.

[K^2]

The gate on the ship works so they just need enough power to dial back to Earth. We know a ZPM will allow a gate to connect to another galaxy. So the equivalent of a ZPM should allow them to dial Earth.

And the fact that they needed a planet-size reactor to power a wormhole to Destiny in the first place doesn't put any kind of a dent in your hypothesis.

[thekillman]

actually, the people on the destiny believed that the ship could dial earth. rush said that the drain would be too much and the ship could not handle that.

[K^2]

He said that it probably couldn't handle even an attempt. He never entertained a remote possibility of a chance that it would actually work.

[StarFighter]

And the fact that they needed a planet-size reactor to power a wormhole to Destiny in the first place doesn't put any kind of a dent in your hypothesis.

Honestly this is a Sci Fi show that makes up science and tech as they see fit. It is still unclear just how far a ZPM will allow you to dial.

As we have seen from the show they used the gate on the planet to dial Destiny because it provided enough power. But that was a naturally occurring power source from what we know so far. An artificial power source may be able to generate more power.

[Quadhelix]

Many stated that all Voyager had to do was head towards the Gamma Quadrant, head to that DS9 wormhole, then they can be home back in the Alpha Quadrant in a couple of years, if not months.

This is incorrect.

Basically, Voyager was just about as far from the Gamma Quandrant as from the Beta Quadrant, and we don't really know where the Bajoran Wormhole's Gamma Quadrant end was, so it is quite possible that they would not have saved any time traveling through the Gamma Quandrant.

Then this got me thinking about SGU. They are stranded billions of light years away, dozens of galaxies away from Milky Way, with the only gate in the MW that they can connect to (supposedly) from Destiny destroyed when the planet exploded.

I presume that you are talking about the Icarus Stargate. Two problems:

A) It was stated that Icarus Base was the only place from which they could dial the ninth chevron. However, they have Earth's address on the Destiny, and can dial back to Earth whenever they find a power source capable of maintaining the wormhole.

B) There was nothing unique about the Stargate at Icarus Base, other than the fact that the SGC had modified it so that it could not receive incoming wormholes (apparently due to some issue with drawing power from the planet's core). The reason that Icarus was the only planet from which they could dial the Destiny is because it was the only planet with a strong enough power supply to establish a ninth chevron connection.

Too simplistic? lol

No, it just completely fails to address the problem: they have Earth's 'Gate address on the Destiny already. They just don't have enough power/energy to establish a connection.

[destinys-mistery]

I like the idea of the seeder ships planting gates for hopping onto the destiny over vast distances.. But besides that, with the stones Destinies crew and Earth people could just find a way to create gate like that again.

[destinys-mistery]

No, it just completely fails to address the problem: they have Earth's 'Gate address on the Destiny already. They just don't have enough power/energy to establish a connection.

That would mean Destiny has the potential power of that of a planet... i like that idea :-)

[Quadhelix]

Well they could dial the gate back home. The ship has apparently gone on for tens of thousands of years without losing power.

Power and energy are two different things.

Energy is, by analogy, "fuel." In other words, the ships systems use energy to run; after they have been running for a time, the ship has less energy than it did before.

Power, on the other hand, the rate at which you can provide that energy.


If the Destiny is powered by some sort of fusion reactor or annihilation device (complete E=m*(c^2) release), then it could collect interstellar gas while in FTL and use that for power, then it would effectively "refuel" while in flight.

However, it would still have a limited rate at which it could use that fuel without melting the reactors into molten metal, and that rate is probably not fast enough to power a nine-chevron dial.

Or they could fly back home, the ship has jumped between dozens of galaxies and is still moving now.

Except that:

A) They don't have control over the ship's navigation.

B) Even if they did, the ship has been traveling pretty much non-stop in pretty much a straight line for many, many millennia. This means that, even if they turn around and fly straight back, it will take them many thousands of years to get home.

Then through to Pegasus to see the aftermath of SGA!

Actually, that was something like the first galaxy that the Destiny went through. Also, the Destiny is several billion light-years from Milky Way. Pegasus is 3 million. If they get back to Pegasus, they're effectively home.

the destiny could be go to Furling's planet.

If the Destiny were just now reaching the Furling's planet, that would mean that the Ancients had never encountered the Furlings.

Think about that a minute.

[K^2]

it could collect interstellar gas while in FTL and use that for power, then it would effectively "refuel" while in flight.

Not in FTL. It might refuel while dropping to sublight, but the efficiency would probably be insufficient. It needs some ZPM-like power source. Only that's bigger and lasts longer.

[lordofseas]

Not in FTL. It might refuel while dropping to sublight, but the efficiency would probably be insufficient. It needs some ZPM-like power source. Only that's bigger and lasts longer.

Subspace tap, perhaps?

[dahok]

1) Salvage equipment, power sources, databases and abandon ship to a habitable planet. Make jumps between each galaxy, backtracking slowly. Somehow storing the charge and replenishing it. Impossible perhaps, but that ships somehow keeps on running.

2) Repeat the first part of the above, but instead live out their lives on the nicest planet available. Give the series a bitter sweet ending. Generations later a probe finds them, by using the Kino logs provided by Eli to backtrack to their colony.

[Encoder]

If the Destiny is powered by some sort of fusion reactor or annihilation device (complete E=m*(c^2) release), then it could collect interstellar gas while in FTL and use that for power, then it would effectively "refuel" while in flight.

Very interesting concept. If we assume for a moment that the "cloud" that surrounds the Destiny during FTL is nothing more than a shield then it's most likely only able to collect during the 12 hour stop overs.

Considering where it stops, nebulae would be an ideal stop point to gather massive quantities of fuel and then continue!