How Powerful can a wraith hiveship get?

[Mister Oragahn]

In "Search and Rescue," Michael's Cruiser couldn't touch the Daedalus until Caldwell lowered the shields completely. With its shields up, Daedalus didn't even seem to be taking damage just sitting there being fired upon while Caldwell debated with Carter.

No way would a battle with a Hive be taken that casually.

Mostly due to the fact that those ships were built along great technology given by a highly developped species, and also because the 304s never had good weapons, so all energy could quietly go to shields, both in the capacitors and the live recharge.

In general hiveships have sucked bg times in comparison to their size. Ships of that size should have batteries of greater power, range and accuracy.

[Ouroboros]

Michael had the Wraith equivalent of the rusted to **** 1991 Honda Accord firing on 3 out of 4 Cylinders as his ride.

When he brought it to the Keeper jiffylube for a tune up they'd tell him to sell that piece of **** before it killed him... or before they did, since he was an outcast and dirty little halfbreed anyway.

[Ripple in Space]

Michael had the Wraith equivalent of the rusted to **** 1991 Honda Accord firing on 3 out of 4 Cylinders as his ride.

When he brought it to the Keeper jiffylube for a tune up they'd tell him to sell that piece of **** before it killed him... or before they did, since he was an outcast and dirty little halfbreed anyway.

Then it's extremely odd that Michael conquered the Pegasus Galaxy with his "pieces of ****" as you put it, before McKay & Sheppard altered the timeline

[Ouroboros]

Then it's extremely odd that Michael conquered the Pegasus Galaxy with his "pieces of ****" as you put it, before McKay & Sheppard altered the timeline

Sure is. He's one guy facing off against an entire civilization full of guys with the same training he's got and he wins because of a magic baby.

There's a reason I considered him the goofiest villain on the show.

As far as his cruiser. Aside from it being probably one of the most cringe worthy examples of Stargate really managing to make the badguys feel actually threatening, it's some kind of anomaly. Other cruisers were responsible for the damage that stranded that Aurora between galaxies and that had a ZPM on it.

Maybe he accidentally set the weapons to that "shoot fireworks at the ground" mode everyone in Stargate uses when attacking planet based targets.

[thekillman]

Sure is. He's one guy facing off against an entire civilization full of guys with the same training he's got and he wins because of a magic baby.

There's a reason I considered him the goofiest villain on the show.

Nah, he had that nice protein and the retrovirus.

he could easily create more guys he could control (retrovirus) and thin out the wraith population (protein from "poisoning the well").

I doubt he did much other than play the right people against eachother and continuously diminishing the pegasus human population and making the survivors immune.

All in all, the same strategy the Asurans employed, just in a more effective and less ship-based jacket.

[nathan MCD]

since the shields are projected by ships and the wraith have the capability to generate an EM jamming field effect against beaming they may be able to use that same capability to generate a shield of some sort. due to them just having superior size and numbers it's possible the wraith didn't see a need for them, nothing that rivals a fleet of ships that size doesn't have high chances of lasting long, notably if 2 hive ships can cut down a langrange point satellite in no time how many of those things were originally needed to be effective against a whole armada?

[Ripple in Space]

since the shields are projected by ships and the wraith have the capability to generate an EM jamming field effect against beaming they may be able to use that same capability to generate a shield of some sort. due to them just having superior size and numbers it's possible the wraith didn't see a need for them, nothing that rivals a fleet of ships that size doesn't have high chances of lasting long, notably if 2 hive ships can cut down a langrange point satellite in no time how many of those things were originally needed to be effective against a whole armada?

Keep in mind, Ancient weapons often bypassed shields