I've been reading quite a few threads of why/how the Ancients lost to the Wraith which is pretty much summed up as plot induced stupidity or lack of imagination as there were so many ways the Ancients could have easily won. But because of how there society was as a culture being more focused on discovery, research, understanding, and innovation they were ill equipped to fight this war with a military mindset. Hence why the Atlantis expedition has had so much success.
But the focus of this post is how the Ancients could have easily designed a unsinkable ship. Here is a few things I thought of based off what technology we know they have.
1. Have a stargate on board a capital ship. That way they can easily resupply or change out crew on the go. As shown in SGU, stargates can be specifically keyed to another stargate no matter where it is. Thus the ship would have a solid supply line and can't be accessed from another gate.
2. Repair bots. If it's going to be on the front lines you'd think it would have these. You see them in SGU as they were repairing Destiny on the fly. I'd think after a couple million years this technology would have advanced and be possible for their capital warships.
3. Solar power. As seen in SGU, they possessed technology to harvest energy from a star. I'd like to think they could have figured out some clever way to use it to have 'infinite' energy when engaging the Wraith near human worlds.
4. 'Infinite' energy. Combining point 1 and 3 while using the Asurans satellite idea. Powered by a star and using a trick with the stargates then as noted 'infinite' energy for their weapons and shields.
5. The Asurans as logistics. They may not have been the ideal weapon but they could have been the perfect logistics team. As mentioned by many and even written in many fics, they build really fast. So if they needed to get ships up and rolling or needed repairs to a current ship they could have easily done so.
There might be other ideas or technology, but these were some of the ideas I had in which the Ancients could have had an unsinkable ship that the Wraith couldn't contend with no matter how many hives or darts they threw at it. Just my thoughts anyways.
But the focus of this post is how the Ancients could have easily designed a unsinkable ship. Here is a few things I thought of based off what technology we know they have.
1. Have a stargate on board a capital ship. That way they can easily resupply or change out crew on the go. As shown in SGU, stargates can be specifically keyed to another stargate no matter where it is. Thus the ship would have a solid supply line and can't be accessed from another gate.
2. Repair bots. If it's going to be on the front lines you'd think it would have these. You see them in SGU as they were repairing Destiny on the fly. I'd think after a couple million years this technology would have advanced and be possible for their capital warships.
3. Solar power. As seen in SGU, they possessed technology to harvest energy from a star. I'd like to think they could have figured out some clever way to use it to have 'infinite' energy when engaging the Wraith near human worlds.
4. 'Infinite' energy. Combining point 1 and 3 while using the Asurans satellite idea. Powered by a star and using a trick with the stargates then as noted 'infinite' energy for their weapons and shields.
5. The Asurans as logistics. They may not have been the ideal weapon but they could have been the perfect logistics team. As mentioned by many and even written in many fics, they build really fast. So if they needed to get ships up and rolling or needed repairs to a current ship they could have easily done so.
There might be other ideas or technology, but these were some of the ideas I had in which the Ancients could have had an unsinkable ship that the Wraith couldn't contend with no matter how many hives or darts they threw at it. Just my thoughts anyways.
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