Was this realy a new Ha'tak ship, Anubis was half Ancient this ship was more then likely an Ancient/Goa'uld hybred and should be noted as one
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Anubis' mothership[edit]
Perhaps, but you never see any Non-Goa'uld technology being used aboard the vessel. The Superweapon is a Goa'uld weapon of ancient design, powered by Goa'uld technology (Specifically the various Eyes) and you never really see anything else. Though it's possible that it was an Ancient/Goa'uld hybrid, we'd need some evidence before declaring it as such. Kanye west fade zippyshare.
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A new version of the above question, does Anubis's ship count as a Ha'tak? I'm not saying it was a Goa'uld/Ancient hybrid (That's actually me who wrote the above response, I didn't know then how to sign an edit), but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a Ha'tak, either. See, the thing is that the word 'Ha'tak' was never said to mean 'Goa'uld capital ship' or 'System Lord mothership' or anything else like that. Though the characters often use the words 'Ha'tak' and 'mothership' as completely interchangeable, when Teal'c was specifically questioned as to the words meaning he responded with 'Goa'uld pyramid ship.' Anubis's ship has no pyramid. Petulant, true, but the fact is that, if the word 'Ha'tak' truly means 'Pyramid ship,' then Anubis's flat ship doesn't count. Also, it's never referred to as a Ha'tak (At least, I don't think it was. If I'm wrong then..well, then I guess just ignore this whole thing). It seems to be speculation to label it as a Ha'tak when it was never called one, and it doesn't fit the stated criteria. JBK405 03:55, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I removed the section on Anubis's ship because, as I stated above, it was never referred to as a Ha'tak, and it doesn't fit the characteristics which were described when Teal'c actually defined the word 'Ha'tak.' JBK405 22:10, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
If we decide to put it back in, here it is.
- I've added it back under 'Variants' since there really isn't anywhere else it could fit, and Anubis' improved technology plays a significant role in episodes leading up to Lost City. Wl219 22:27, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Yes, but that doesn't address if it is or isn't a Ha'tak. Like I said, it's never called by that name, and the translation provided does not apply. JBK405 04:08, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
- Frankly I don't think it matters. Anubis' ship is a 'variant' and not a true Ha'tak so putting it with the other variants is fine. That's why the section on variants is there. Anubis had access to all the Goa'uld technology he wanted and as much Ancient tech as he could have had as an unascended Goa'uld, so even if the ship incorporates Ancient technology there's also Goa'uld hardware on it too. If you really want to quibble and exclude it from the article, explain why in the article text and create Anubis' mothership or something like that. People looking for info on Anubis' ship will naturally come here unless a separate article for it exists. Wl219 05:28, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Anubis' mothership[edit]
The command ship of the System Lord Anubis is the largest variant encountered by SG-1. It has a highly unusual form and is not divided into two sections. It also does not have the standard pyramid in the middle, being a flat circle of large diameter. The first of these ships was equipped with a powerful energy weapon, able to destroy several smaller Ha'taks with one blast and even capable of decimating a planet's surface with enough power to destroy a Stargate. However, this weapon was destroyed through the actions of SG-1 and, later, the ship itself was destroyed by the other System Lords when it was in the atmosphere of a planet. During this attack it was revealed that the ship had a small escape vessel which is able to fly in hyperspace.
Anubis attacked Earth in the seventh season finale 'Lost City' with a second ship of this variant, along with a fleet of 30 to 45 Ha'taks. The ship and the fleet were destroyed with the Ancient Drone Weapons discovered in Antarctica.
Ship Size[edit]
I see new data on the size of the standard Ha'tak class (Length, height, etc.) and am curious as to the origin of these figures. I'm not contesting the accuracy, I'm merely curious as to where this info came from since I have no recollection of the show ever stating any specific measurements.
Okay, since it's been God-knows-how-long and I've yet receive any response, I'm removing the size specifications from the article. As I said earlier, I'm not flat out saying that they're wrong, but I know of absolutely no source where the information could have been gleaned from. I might be wrong, and if I am please tell me, but it seems like pure fan speculation.
Oh, just in case somebody points out the sourse, here's the data as it was:
Size: 775m wide, 317m tall, and weight 23.4 million metric tons.
Did Osiris have a new class of Ha'tak?[edit]
I was just watching the episode The Curse and, at the end, Osiris flees Earth in a ship that she had hidden beneath the desert of Egypt. Though pyramidal in shape, it is clearly not one of the previously seen classes of Goa'uld mothership. When leaving the Earth it had this weird pointy thing coming out of the bottom, and there were other noticeable differences. However, you only see it for five seconds and never again, so it's true abilities and purpose are a mystery. Is it another Ha'tak class, or something else (Since merely being a pyramid doesn't make it a Ha'tak).
It's been a while since I watched that episode, but from what I remember, it may have been an Alkesh.
Nope, definitely not an Al'kesh (That I would have recognized). It was pyramidal and, after she boarded and began to leave the Earth, had some weird pointy thing coming out of the back.
I just rewatched the episode, and you're right it definitely wasn't an Al'kesh. That said, it did appear to be about the same size, and was far too small to be a Ha'tak.
Seeing as how she was stuck in stasis for over 3000 years, I'm guessing it's like an ancient varient of the Ha'tal
Less Powerful than an O'Neill Class Battleship[edit]
It is stated that Anubis's upgraded Ha'taks are less powerful than the Asgard O'Neill class. From the one episode where they confront each other though, it is impossible to say either way. All we actually know is that one Ha'tak wasn't willing to attempt engaging three O'Neills. All that really tells us is that Osiris wasn't convinced the new Ha'taks were much more powerful than the O'Neills.
Uh..what? When did Osiris ever face any O'Neill's? Come to think of it, when did any Ha'tak face off against three O'Neill's?
It was in the fifth season finally of SG1. Two of the upgraded ships had taken on the Beliskner and Anubis had capture Thor as a result. Osiris was in command of the remaining Ha'tak (the other had gone of to face Yu) when three O'Niells showed up at the end of the episode. She elected to let the cargo ship with SG1, Thor and Heimdal go rather than risk engaging the new Asgard ships at three to one odds.
I remember the episode in question (Just after Daniel's Ascension and the first appearance of Anubis), but wasn't she confronted with three Beliskner cruisers, rather than three O'Neills? However, I've only seen the episode once, so I could be mistaken.
Oh, and random tidbit, it was originally three Ha'tak's that destroyed Thor's ship, two of them left to engage Yu (Leaving, as mentioned, the third to confront the three Asgard ships). 67.85.165.48 21:16, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
They were O'Neill's. Freyr stated on his arrival that the ships were more advanced than the one the Goa'uld's destroyed (Belisker) Thinktank
I do vaguely remember that comment (As I said, it was only once and a long time ago), but that doesn't necessarily mean they were O'Neill's. It's never been stated that the Asgard had no other ships besides the Beliskner class, and they could simply have been newer models than the ship Thor was using. However, until I actually see the episode again (And see what was actually said) I'll concede the point. 67.85.165.48 04:48, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
It's certainly possible they were actually something else newer besides an O'Neill, but that seems as good a guess as any for now. As for the number of Ha'taks that took out the Beliskner class ship, I'm fairly certain it was only two. I've been rewatching the series and should get to that episode in a few days, so it'll be settled for certain then.
Again, I haven't seen it in a while, so I'll concede that point, too. I'll check the next time it's on. 67.85.165.48 02:57, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I just watched the episode yesterday, and the battle did only involve two Ha'Taks. A third shows up later in the episode to deliver Anubis, but it departs with Osiris's second ship to engage lord Yu. As for the O'Neill issue, the ships looked the same as the ship from Small Victories. They are certainly as correctly categorized as such as the Beliskners that have been seen and referenced in articles.
Well, I guess that answers that. JBK405 16:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Landing[edit]
'Though anything pyramidal in shape will do'
Strange, as ha'taks are triangular based pyramids, and most Earth pyramids are Square Based. I would like to see a Ha'tak try and land at Giza. Thoughts? --Ross 16:26, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
We have seen them land at Giza. Well, we actually haven't seen them doing the landing, but we've seen them afterwards. The pyramids were constructed to serve as landing pads and, in the Season 8 finale (Moebius), SG-1 goes back in time and you see Ra's ships on the surface. JBK405 03:42, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
System Lord Flagship vs. normal Ha'tak[edit]
According to the article, most system lords have a generic flagship that's slightly larger and more powerful than the average ha'tak. Save for the ones that Anubis and Apophis had, I don't recall hearing any Goa'uld having a flagship. Atleast one which had improvements over the standard Ha'tak. TerraFrost 02:04, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Now that you mention it, I can't actually recall a specific instance where they make mention of such a ship, either. It's most likely that it does exist, since I can't imagine the System Lords settling for the 'standard' for their personal vessel, but until we get concrete proof it's just conjecture. Should we remove that section? JBK405 19:30, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- It's been deleted. Here's the original text if anyone can recall of a particular instance:
- System Lord Flagship
- Larger than the standard mothership, it is smaller than that of Apophis and serves as the generic flagship for those System Lords who control neither the resources or the technology to design and construct a unique ship of their own. Its capabilities are also somewhere in between those of the standard and of the Apophis ship, though they seem to be closer to the latter.
- TerraFrost 16:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Speed?[edit]
I have a very hard time believing that a Ha'tak barely travels 4 light years an hour. The Goa'uld have made it to planets inside a few hours that were very far apart, traveling at 3.65 ly per hour would be a very slow speed. I'd say that was a goofup by the writers that those figures were given. It only took the Odyssey 6 hours to travel 23000 LY, granted that was with Asgard hyperdrive but the Prometheus got simmilar figures with a Goa'uld hyperdrive originally and we have to assume that a Ha'tak can go at least half that fast.
Anyone else have any thoughts?
Faris b 09:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
The Prometheus got nowhere near those figures with a Goa'uld hyperdrive. Originally it had a naqadriah engine, exponentially more powerful than a Goa'uld power source and explaining its increased speed, then it had an Al'kesh engine (And it was slow as all hell with that baby), then an Asgard desgined engine. The Asgard can go inter-galactic in seconds (literally), no Goa'uld ship has managed anything close to 'half that fast'. The stated figures seem pretty reasonable, since you never hear mention of Goa'uld ships criss-crossing the galaxy; the System Lords always use Gates to go long distance, or they Gate to a base near their target and take a ship from there. JBK405 03:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I took the page off my watchlist and didn't see this til today.
The Goa'uld hyperdrive I was referring to was the Al'kesh one and correct me if I'm wrong but I thought they did good with it but they had to make hyperspace pauses to let the drive cool down.Actually, now that I have taken some new info into calculation, I believe I may actually be correct, in one way or another. According to 'Moebius, pt. 2', Chulak is 2000 LY from Earth and Apophis's fleet that was dispatched in season 1 at first took less than 24 hrs to get there which would equal about 3.7 LY a minute which would equal about 87 LY an hour, not 4 an hour. Granted they didn't dispatch from Chulak, they came from that 'Klor'el ship' address, it was probably close to Chulak if it were to serve as a base of operations, I mean, ships need to be able to travel to somewhere nearby if you're planning an assault and Goa'uld territory seems to be contiguous and not sporadic.
Faris b 08:01, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
We've never been given any information to suggest that the address Apophis's fleet came from was anywhere close to Chulak. The only concrete information we've been given suggests that Ha'tak's are relatively slow compared to other known spacecraft. How else would burrying a Stargate serve as any means of protection against the Goa'uld? Several episodes clearly state that particular planets are months/years away from Goa'uld military strongpoints, and that the only means of regular contact is through the Stargate. Moving 87 ly an hour would make it possible for a Ha'tak to cross the entire Milky Way in 47 days, putting no point in the galaxy multiple months (Or years) away from any Goa'uld planet. JBK405 19:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Good point, honestly, I never really thought about why burying a gate helped, I figured they were too lazy to go and unbury it or they figured there was no point seeing as how the society was primitive. It's possible, I'll do some searching and see if any other figures are given.
Faris b 22:11, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, in several episodes members of SG-1 (Mainly just Carter) have said 'This planet is XXX months away from the nearest Goa'uld planet, if they bury the Gate the Goa'uld won't be able to get to them', and other such things along those lines. Of course, this is mainly on unimportant planets, since if there was still an active naqahdah mine or something they'd make the several months journey, but it still gives an extreme speed limit on Goa'uld craft. JBK405 01:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I guess you're right. But if that figure of 3.65 LY is true, that would make the planet that Apophis's fleet came from being 84 LY away, most planets are several hundred LY apart so, possible as it may be, it's still debatable. But how this ties into P3R-233 knowing the location of the planet is still unknown. I always figured that was a convenient plot device that wasn't fully thought through, what do you think?
Goa'uld Ha'tak Mother Ship
Faris b 06:44, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
There are several hundred stars within 100 ly of Earth (The Alpha Centauri cluster, Tau Ceti (A Staple of all Science Fiction), Regulus, etc.), and the odds are that at least one of them will have a habitable planet; as I menitioned, the Goa'uld seem to have bases stationed across the galaxy for just this reason, so that they can just gate to a near ship and take it from there.
I don't quite get what you're saying with regards to P3R233, I don't have all the designations memorised for the planets. What location did P3R-233 know, and in what episode? JBK405 13:48, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
How many?[edit]
How many Ha'tak does everyone think the Free Jaffa have? I'm assuming a lot because it seems they have no problem blowing them up or sacrificing them and it seems Ba'al and his clones have at least 6 or so, probably more. Wasn't it shown onscreen in 'Reckoning' that there were 300+ Ha'tak in the Milky Way? How many do the Jaffa have? How about the Lucian Alliance? They seem to have quite a few. To my knowledge so far, 15-19 Ha'tak that belonged to the Free Jaffa have been blown up by the Ori since the season started. Assuming they have a 100 or so of them, that's 20% of their fleet. Do the Jaffa know how to make more of them? I doubt they would because it seems that Jaffa worked on ships and the Goa'uld oversaw the operations. (The camp on Erebus for example)
Does anyone have any insight on this? Just so everyone is clear, you don't have to have a correct answer to reply, reply with whatever is on your mind regarding this topic.
Faris b 07:55, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
At least 100 Ha'tak's, and likely many more.
Thor clearly states (I believe it's Season Three) that the united System Lords could launch an attack against Earth that was 50 times morepowerful than Apophis's attack. Apophis launched two ships, so 50 times as much means 100 ships. I believe it was Season Eight that somebody mentioned how no Goa'uld actually used their entire fleet for an attack, or even the majority of their ships, since they needed the majority of their fleets to safeguard their territory from other Goa'uld. Therefore, that's 100 ships, plus however many the Goa'uld would have held back for home defence. Though many Ha'tak's have been lost over the years, there's been nothing close to 100 ships lost (At least not visibly lost), leaving 100+ ships in the hands of the Jaffa. JBK405 20:05, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, well, still if about 15 or so have been destroyed that belong to the Jaffa, then they need to be more careful. Also, where was this supposedly massive fleet that was guarding Dakara (stated by Bra'tac in 'Flesh And Blood')? Did they come to their senses after they lost 15+ ships or so finally or what exactly? I'm assuming that they were evacuated because they were planning on using the weapon but still, you'd think they would have tried to attack it or something some other way.
Faris b 22:12, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
The leader of the Jaffa Nation stated that the area had been evacuated, I'm assuming that meant the orbit, too. With the planet empty and the Jaffa planning to use the Dakara weapon against the Ori cruiser there was no real reason for the Ha'tak's to remain behind. JBK405 01:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
The System Lords are capable of launching an attack one hundred times more powerful than that launched by Apophis. Suggesting their available forces numbered some two hundred ha'tak, not including whatever they would leave behind to defend their worlds. Additionally, Sokar possessed sufficient forces to fight the System Lords, suggesting that he must have had a very large number of ships at his disposal. Whether Anubis started with any fleet to speak of, or aquired it after season four is conjecture. The number of ha'tak in service during the series would be, at least three hundred, probably far more. 80.229.159.166 19:21, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Shield strength[edit]
Was it ever actualy stated that the nuclear missiles fired on Apophis'es ships actualy detonated? To me it looked like they had not taken the shields into acount so the missiles simply slammed into the shield prematurely and where destroyed without detonating (the visual effect sure didn't look like it was supposed to be 2 x 1000 megaton). Nuclear devices are very delecate so it's highly unlikely that the secondary explosion from the impact would be controlled enough to actualy trigger the nuclear reaction. So what the shields shrugged off was just the kinetic impact pluss the exploding rocket fuel (possebly boosted to some unknown degree by the naqahdah), not a 1000 megaton explotion. Yeah ok cruft alert, but I don't think that incident give any 'proof' to the claim that a garden variaty Ha'tak shield can effortlesly deflect a 1000 megaton explotion, even when taking things like artistic license and dramatic effect into acount. --Sherool(talk) 10:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not positive, I haven't seen that particular scene in a few months, but I'm pretty sure that an officer at the SGC, monitoring the missiles, stated that the missiles had detonated, not just that they'd impacted the shields (Though he mentioned that, too). JBK405 20:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
P.S. Also, though this is fan-based calculation involving information from a parallel universe and shouldn't be put into the article, we've seen them withstand gigaton + force in the form of Staff Cannon attacks from other Ha'taks. As the article states, in 'There But For the Grace of God' Alt-Carter states that the effects of the orbital bombardment was equal to 200 megatons of explosive force. She never stated if that meant each individual blast was that large, or if it was just the cumulative damage from extended bombardment, but I believe (Here's the 'fan-based calculation' that I mentioned) she meant individual blasts (Or at least a small number of blasts), since even a whole bunch of hand grenades will eventually cause that much damage if you've got enough of them and counting the cumulative damage isn't really representative of their power. If my assumption is correct, even just five shots from a Staff Cannon will reach the range of gigaton-level damage, and you've seen Ha'taks, when combating other Ha'taks, take a lot more than five shots without losing their shields (You've seen them take a lot more than just five shots). Just my personal take.
- Anyway just looked at the missile attack from 'The Serpent's Lair' and the dialogue goes like this just after the missiles hit the shields:
- Daniel: 'Wow, what was that?'
- Teal'c: 'Something may have impacted the shields.'
- *Cut to SCG controll room*
- Walter: 'Space command report that the warheads struck some kind of energy field just prior to impact, no dammage.'
- Col. Samuels: 'That's impossible!'
- Walter: 'NASA comfirm sir the Gua'uld ships are still up there'.
- No mention of any nuclear detonation. Also I very much doubht a staf cannon is capable of anyting close to 200 megaton per shot. We have seen orbital bombardment on several ocations and the dammage have if anyting been quite minor. When Tolana was attacked the blasts from the Ha'tak only took out the cannons. Granted one could argue that they held back because they wanted the city intact, but what about when Baal's fleet chaught Anubises ship floating over that city (name escape me at the moment). A few shots where seen missing his ship and impacting the city directly, yet they only destroyed individual buildings. I very much doubht they would use anyting less than full power to theyr weapons when engaging Anubis'es high tech mothership (also when Anubis'es technician guy was experimenting with the Naqahdriah powered cannon he theorised that the blast might 'encompas the whole city', now if your run of the mill staff canon was capable of 200 megaton yield destroying a city in one shot would not have been anything out of the ordinary (just to put things into perspective, the most powerfull nuke ever detonated in real life had a 57 megaton yield and the resulting fireball alone was about 10 Km across and blasted most of it's enegy clean into space)). All in all I don't think the writers of the series have had any spesific numbers in mind so unless there is some official 'Gua'uld tech manual' out there somehwere these numbers are just wild speculation and original research that should not be put into the article. --Sherool(talk) 22:31, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
I understand were you're coming from, and I've long noticed that Staff Cannons have often been used with intent to kill without nuclear-level destruction (In The Warrior, for example, a Ha'tak is actively trying to wipe out the Jaffa Resistance, not just scare them, yet blasts landing only a few dozen feet to the side of the Jaffa leaves them unhurt) and you're right, there was never any confirmation of nuclear detonation from the missiles, but we need to write it a better way on the article page. The edit seemed to be having an argument with itself, point/counter-pointing the affair. JBK405 17:47, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Well what do you suggest then? The current version makes it sound like every shot from a Ha'tak is 200 megaton (or more if they mean business). This is quite obviously not consistent with the on screen effects of every single Ha'tak attack thoughtout the series. What else then can we do than cite instanses where they obviously are 'playing for keeps' and yet cause very little actual dammage per shot? A point/counterpoint approach (in one episode this number was cited, but dammage seen on screen thoughout the series doesn't even get close to a tiny fraction of that' etc.) seems like the best way to do this without drawing any definitive conclutions. --Sherool(talk) 18:15, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Goa'uld Ha'tak
Ship Shape[edit]
There seems to be some inconsistency in shape of Ha'Taks. I think the ones in the film and in Moebius were square-based (as are all pyramids shown), and they are square based a lot of the time when a schematic is shown on a screen. However, they are always triangle-based when shown in flight in the series.Jacobpauldyer 11:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
There's many different types of Ha'tak's, and they're shaped quite differently from one another. Ra's ship was only a single pyramid without the surroudning construction, and Anubis's Ha'tak didn't have a pyramid at all. JBK405 23:46, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
What does the pyramid shaped thing in the middle do?[edit]
What is the supposed function or purpose of the large tetrahedron?68.55.142.197 (talk) 03:13, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
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This is a list of fictional starships in the Stargate universe depicted through a series of television shows and three feature-length movies.
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1Ancient starships
- 1.4Destiny
- 2Asgard starships
- 3Earth starships
- 4Goa'uld starships
- 5Ori starships
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7Wraith starships
- 7.2Cruiser
- 7.3Hive ship
Ancient starships[edit]
The Ancients are one of the most technologically advanced races in Stargate, and this is reflected in their starships. Duplicates of these ships are utilized by their nanite creations, the Asurans, as they also possess knowledge of Ancient technology.
Puddle Jumper[edit]
The Puddle Jumper or Jumper[1][2][3] is a small spacecraft used extensively in the Stargate Atlantis series. Puddle Jumpers were created by the Ancients and most exist within the city built by the Ancients known as Atlantis. The Jumpers are used by the humans from Earth that traveled to Atlantis so that they can travel to other planets as well as navigate the planets once they arriveâboth in the air and underwater.[4] Jumpers are cylinder-shaped with two retractable engines, one on either side, so that they can fit through the Stargate device. The interior of the Jumper is divided in two parts: cockpit and aft; the bulkhead door between the two sections is airtight and can hold even against the pressure of deep ocean.[4] Access to the Jumper is provided by a rear ramp-hatch. Puddle Jumpers are armed with drone weapons capable of destroying larger ships. Jumpers are also equipped with a cloaking device to evade enemies which renders the ship effectively invisible to both the eye and most sensors.[1]
Aurora-class battleship[edit]
The Aurora-class battleship[5] is a warship used by the Ancients at the time of their war with the Wraith,[6] first seen in 'Aurora'. In that episode, the Aurora is a crippled battleship whose crew have preserved themselves in stasis pods, which self-destructs to avoid falling into the hands of the Wraith. The Atlantis Expedition gains control of an Aurora-class battleship discovered by the Taranians in 'Inferno'; it is named Orion by John Sheppard (who dislikes its original name Hippaforalkus). The Orion is barely operational when it is called upon to intercept two Wraith hive ships heading for Earth. Maj. Lorne commands the Orion at this point. Dr. Zelenka brings the weapons online at the cost of the shields, and the Orion manages to destroy one hive ship before being destroyed herself.[7] The battleship Tria is encountered along with its Ancient crew in 'The Return'. The Travelers take control of a derelict battleship with Sheppard's help in 'Travelers'.[8] It is later destroyed as a result of a stargate explosion in episode 'The Lost Tribe'.[9] In season 4, it is revealed that the Asurans have built 38 Aurora-class battleships for their war with the Wraith. The Daedalus and the Apollo destroyed a few of them, and the rest are destroyed in the explosion of Asuras. Another battleship is known to exist, commanded by a duplicate Elizabeth Weir.[10][11] The Asurans dismantled it to create a base in an ill-fated attempt to engineer their way to ascension in 'Ghost in the Machine'.
Aurora-class battleships are much larger than an Earth Daedalus-class battlecruiser and are substantially superior to Wraith hive ships. They are armed with drone weapons and are protected by energy shields.[7] Large turrets line the ship, which are seen in action in 'Be All My Sins Remember'd'. They have intergalactic hyperdrives though they are not designed for such long trips,[12] and their sublight engines can accelerate the ship to 99.9% of the speed of light[2] if powered by a Zero Point Module.[2][13] The ship can project holograms remotely for communication purposes.[2] They contain numerous stasis pods, which can be connected to allow the crew to interact in a virtual environment.[12] The ship has hangar bays that can accommodate puddle jumpers[11] or Wraith darts.[14]
City ship[edit]
An Ancient city ship is a city-sized spaceship constructed by the Ancients. The best-known Ancient city ship is Atlantis, once the Ancients' capital in the Pegasus galaxy and the main setting for Stargate Atlantis. The Ancients abandoned Atlantis 10,000 years ago due to Wraith attacks; the city resided at the bottom of the ocean on Lantea until it is occupied by the Atlantis Expedition from Earth in 'Rising'. A city ship is a snowflake-shaped platform dotted with buildings, with an internal volume comparable to every building in Manhattan.[15] They are powered by three Zero Point Modules.[1] The main defensive systems of a city ship are drone weapons,[16] and an all-encompassing shield.[17] The massive ventral stardrive allows city ships to launch into space and traverse galaxies via hyperspace.[1] The city itself is not airtight, so its shield must be active during space flight to hold in the atmosphere.[18] City ships carry a complement of smaller ships, dubbed 'puddle jumpers' by John Sheppard.[1] The Atlantis Expedition has discovered a multitude of advanced technologies on Atlantis, including long-range sensors,[19] internal transporters,[20] and sophisticated computer systems.[15][16]
In 'The Tower', the Atlantis team discovers a second city ship on another planet. Although largely buried with much of its structure collapsed except for the central spire, some systems are still operational and the city's drone weapons and puddle jumpers are transferred to Atlantis. The Asurans were created in a city ship that was leveled when the Ancients deemed their experiment a failure. The Asurans rebuilt the ship, and in 'Progeny' it is launched by Oberoth to attack Atlantis. The city ship is destroyed over Lantea when the Atlantis team overload its ZPMs. Another Asuran city ship, a duplicate of Atlantis created by Niam's followers, appears in 'This Mortal Coil' and in a prescient vision in 'The Seer'. It is destroyed by an Aurora-class battleship sent by Oberoth.
Destiny[edit]
Stargate Universe is set aboard the Ancient ship Destiny, a massive vessel which was part of an Ancient experiment to seed the galaxies with Stargates millions of years ago. Their plan to return to the ship after it finished its journey never came about due to their ascension. The ship was sent on auto-pilot, preceded by other automated ships which seeded the habitable worlds along its route with Stargates. It uses an unidentified form of superluminal propulsion, said to be faster than light but 'not hyperdrive.' Destiny is reached through its on-board Stargate from any other location, using a unique nine-chevron address that acts as a code, dialed on a Stargate with sufficient power supply (only power source sufficient enough so far has been a planet with a Naquadria core, that is far greater than a ZPM is able to provide), the plausibility of which was previously unknown.[21]
The series begins when a team of 80+[22] soldiers and scientists from Earth are forced to flee through the Stargate when their base is attacked. They find themselves on Destiny;[23] unable to return to Earth, they must fend for themselves aboard the ship as it takes them to the far reaches of the universe.[24][25] According to Brad Wright, the show will focus mostly on the people aboard the ship.[26]
The Destiny has three shuttle landing pads and at least two shuttles, one of which had a hull breach until 'Faith'. In this episode, the shuttle was repaired but its engines could not generate sufficient thrust to leave a planet's gravity well after landing, so it was left behind.
The Destiny has an extensive array of energy weapons, including point-defense turrets located on strategic points all over the ship and a main cannon turret located on the underside of the ship. The point-defense turrets are used to defend against small, agile targets while the larger main cannon is used against capital ships. The larger main cannon can also be adapted for orbital bombardment.
Destiny also has energy shielding to seal hull breaches and to protect against solar radiation and energy weapons. It does this by operating a randomized shield pattern, which continuously cycles through various shield frequencies. The operations of the randomized shield pattern can be manually overridden to operate at a specific, small range of frequencies. The shielding strength can be attenuated to allow solid matter to pass through or increased to protect against impact from large objects. The energy shielding must be engaged to cover the entire ship before it can jump into Faster Than Light travel. Destiny can jump into FTL travel with energy shielding capacity as low as five percent.
The Destiny FTL drive system is composed of 16 separate modules. One of these modules had degraded over the years to the point where it brought down overall engine efficiency of the FTL drive system. This same module was later damaged by an act of sabotage and eventually disconnected and removed from the FTL drive system. After the removal of the damaged module, the FTL drive system efficiency was greatly improved. A minimum of three hours have to elapse between the end of one FTL jump and the start of the next. Once the ship is in FTL travel, it must maintain it for a minimum of four hours. Shortening an FTL jump or returning to FTL travel too early will cause cumulative damage to the FTL drive system.
The Destiny is fueled by plasma from stars. The ship skims over the surface of a star just before dipping below the star's photosphere to scoop in plasma using its retractable collectors. The retractable collectors are located on the underside of the hull, towards the rear of the ship. Destiny normally refuels itself from cool K- and M-class stars. Surface temperatures of these stars are low enough for the ship's energy shielding to protect the crew and the ship's vital systems. However, the ship can be manually ordered to refuel from stars as hot as class O, though such a procedure will raise internal ship temperatures beyond habitability and force automatic shutdown of core computer systems on board the ship, including navigation systems but not energy shielding.
Initial details of Destiny's mission are revealed in 'The Greater Good', when Dr. Rush is forced to reveal that he has cracked the master code and thus has control over the ship. It is stated that the Ancients had discovered a possibly artificial pattern to the cosmic microwave background radiation said to be a remnant of the Big Bang. This discovery suggested the possibility of life prior to or immediately following the Big Bang, and Destiny was launched to study this possibility.
Destiny shuttle[edit]
Destiny initially carried two shuttles which were used extensively to survey planets and defend against attacking aliens. One ship lost the capability to fly into space so it was left on a planet with a few of Destiny's crew, who wanted to remain on the planet. Another is destroyed when Dr. Rush has a team explore a planet with a harsh atmosphere that causes the ship to crash into a mountain killing a crew member. However, later on in the season the ship left on the planet appears right next to Destiny after dropping out of FTL. This perplexes all aboard Destiny because the shuttle is unable to go into FTL, and it was too badly damaged to even fly outside of the atmosphere. Everyone on board came to the conclusion that it was the alien race that built the planet that Destiny came across earlier in the series who brought the shuttle to them. This shuttle was not only repaired, but restored to its original factory condition. A copy of the recovered shuttle was encountered some time later, after the expedition encountered a 'time loop'. The crew attempted to enact a modified plan to dial Destiny's stargate while the ship was recharging in a star in order to successfully dial back to Earth. This plan ultimately failed and resulted in the apparent loss of most of the crews lives and Destiny itself being sent back in time approximately twelve hours. With the crew gone and the ship itself having suffered critical damage, Rush abandoned Destiny aboard its shuttle and subsequently encountered a second version of himself, Destiny and its crew because of the time anomaly. Thus, Destiny was given a second shuttle in equally new condition as the first. However, in the series finale, after all other options were exhausted, the crew devised a plan to utilize the shuttle remotely as a diversion to lure the berserker drones and their control ship away from Destiny's location long enough for a team to gate to a planet with resources needed to effect repairs. By setting the shuttle up to emit a subspace pulse similar to the pulse that a stargate emits upon activation, the control ship traced the signal to the shuttle's location and the drones engaged it. However, upon Eli's suggestion, the shuttle's engines were set to overload and the shuttle was remotely piloted into the control ship while the engines simultaneously detonated, destroying the control ship and rendering its drones inactive. Thus, Destiny was again left with a single shuttle.
In spite of the shuttle's small size, its firepower is significant. With two aft-mounted energy weapons, one port and one starboard respectively, the shuttle is an effective multi-role transport/fighter craft. In several engagements, the shuttle has been utilized to assist Destiny in neutralizing smaller enemy craft that Destiny's point-defense weapons may otherwise have missed. As a defensive/offensive countermeasure, the shuttle possesses a stealth mode which allows it to become a decent reconnaissance craft. Additionally, each shuttle can accommodate up to five crew members (with a minimum of one necessary to pilot the craft), and up to twelve passengers. When not toting passengers the shuttle makes for a respectable cargo transport when gate travel is impractical or impossible.
Minor ships[edit]
- Seed ship A vessel type smaller than Destiny but of similar design. The Seed ships were sent out before Destiny and are thus also millions of years old. Their purpose was to scout ahead and identify habitable worlds, once a suitable world was detected they would drop off a Stargate there, after finding and collecting materials to build Stargates and then building them. This class of ship is capable of docking with the Destiny and initiating both information and power transfers. The Seed ships seem to possess significant energy reserves stored in capacitors.
- Science vessel One of these ships, the Adaris, suffered severe damage fifteen thousand years ago in an encounter with a coronal mass ejection from the Lantean sun. The entire crew was killed except for the pilot, who managed to reach Atlantis and warn them.[27]
- Transport ship These vessels are mentioned in 'Before I Sleep' as carrying the last offworld Ancients to Atlantis for evacuation. They are equipped with cloaking devices, shields, and weapons. The last of these ships is destroyed by the Wraith over Atlantis, with over three hundred people on board.
- Escape ship In Ark of Truth, when the Ancients decided not to use the ark, they left Celestis in a diamond shaped vessel. This type of vessel is never seen again.
Asgard starships[edit]
The starships of the Asgard are among the most advanced ever encountered by the SGC. All Asgard vessels in the series are depicted as being operated by only a single Asgard, although Thor makes a reference to evacuating his crew in 'Nemesis'.
Mothership[edit]
The Asgard mothership is the first type of Asgard vessel seen in the series. In 'Thor's Chariot', the Beliskner is the ship of Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet. It appears near the end of the episode to remove the forces of the Goa'uldHeru'ur from Cimmeria. The Beliskner is destroyed in the third-season episode 'Nemesis', where SG-1 crashes it into Earth's ocean after it becomes infested with Replicators. Several ships of this type also appear in 'Small Victories', some of which are controlled by the Replicators.
Asgard motherships are equipped with intergalactic hyperdrives, two rear thrusters for sublight propulsion, and a forward-mounted deceleration drive to control planetary reentry.[28] They are also equipped with Asgard beaming technology.[29] The ship is powered by four neutrino ion generators.[28] Armed with advanced energy weapons and protected by powerful shields, Asgard motherships can comfortably expect victory against Goa'uldHa'taks even if outnumbered. However, Anubis develops enhanced shielding based on Ancient technology that is resistant to the mothership's weaponry.[30] Asgard motherships utilize cloaking devices that render them invisible to radar,[31] and have internal dampening fields that prevent explosives from detonating inside the ship. Each ship has automated medical treatment systems, including medical stasis pods that can be used in dire emergencies. There are advanced AI systems on board that allow the ship to be operated by a single crew member, and the main computer stores all the collected knowledge of the Asgard.[28]
O'Neill-class vessel[edit]
The O'Neill class is the most advanced starship constructed by the Asgard to date, incorporating all of their latest technology, and is designed specifically to fight the Replicators. Its hull is composed of an alloy of trinium, carbon and naqahdah,[32] and its armaments and defenses are, as such, substantially superior to earlier Asgard motherships.[30] The first ship of this type, also named O'Neill (named after Colonel Jack O'Neill of SG-1 in recognition of his actions on the behalf of the Asgard against the Replicators) was meant as a last defense against a Replicator invasion. Rather than fighting the replicators with it, however, Samantha Carter suggests using the unfinished O'Neill as bait to draw the Replicators away, giving the Asgard time to evacuate their civilization. The Replicators pursue the O'Neill into hyperspace, where they are destroyed when the O'Neill self-destructs.[32] More O'Neill-type ships appear in later episodes; three ships of this type force Anubis to retreat in 'Revelations', and six ships, led by the Valhalla, ambush Fifth's Replicator ship over Orilla.[33]
Science vessel[edit]
The Asgard science vessel is first seen in 'Fragile Balance', used by the renegade Asgard scientist Loki. Another ship of this type, the Daniel Jackson, is Thor's ship in 'New Order'. Due to a Replicator threat, Thor takes the Daniel Jackson to Earth for Jack O'Neill and the knowledge of the Ancients in his mind, from which he synthesizes a Replicator disruptor and incorporates it into the Daniel Jackson to eliminate all the Replicators on Orilla. Thor and the Daniel Jackson return in 'Reckoning', to assist SG-1 during the Replicator invasion of the Milky Way. The ship is infested by Replicators, and Thor sends it into deep space to protect Earth. Its later mentioned that Thor downloaded his consciousness into the ship's computer to survive and was saved when the Dakara Superweapon destroyed all of the Replicators in the Milky Way. The science vessel is comparable in size to a Goa'uldHa'tak.[33] Like other Asgard vessels, the ship is equipped with beaming technology, intergalactic hyperdrives, and shields, though they are ineffective against Replicator blocks.[33][34]
Minor ships[edit]
- The Vanir starships seen in the Stargate Atlantis episodes 'First Contact' and 'The Lost Tribe' was used by a splinter group of Asgard named Vanir in the Pegasus galaxy who were willing to experiment on humans to solve their species' genetic deterioration. Their ships are hyperspace-capable, can pass through the Ancient shields of Atlantis (though a modification to the shields soon afterward rendered this impossible), and are equipped with energy weapons. It is mentioned that their ships are limited to interstellar hyperspace travel, the intergalactic vessels having been destroyed by the Wraith. They appear to be much weaker than regular Asgard ships with two being destroyed in battle with a Traveler ship and a third forced to flee.
Earth starships[edit]
Throughout Stargate SG-1, a progression of Earth-built spacecraft incorporating alien technologies have been depicted. By season ten of the show, Earth possesses a small fleet of hyperspace-capable warships and spaceworthy fighters equipped with technology from the Goa'uld, Asgard, Ancients, and other sources.
X-301[edit]
The X-301 is Earth's first fighter capable of space travel, built using parts from two scavenged Goa'uldDeath Gliders. It is featured in 'Tangent'. A recall program embedded in the alien computers takes over navigation and flies the fighter back to the Goa'uld, thus forcing the SGC to abandon it after rescuing the pilots: Teal'c and (at the time) Colonel O'Neill.
F-302[edit]
The F-302 is the successor to the X-301, being based on a Death Glider but built from the ground up by humans, thereby avoiding the problems faced with the original. It is introduced in 'Redemption', and becomes the mainstay of Earth's space force. It is capable of both atmospheric flight and space travel. The original X-302 prototype featured a hyperdrive, but it was far too unstable, and it was removed from the design. In season 6 episode 'Redemption Pt2' Colonel O'Neill, used the unstable hyperdrive as a means to dispose of the overloading Stargate. During the Stargate Atlantis episode 'Enemy at the Gate', Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard rallies a small squadron of F-302s that are stationed on Earth against the super-hive ship bearing down on the planet, planning to launch a first strike with nuclear weapons. However, an attack by Wraith Darts at Area 51 change those plans and they have to defend the base in an attempt to prevent the Control Chair from being destroyed. The effort fails and of the squadron, only Sheppard survives. Realizing that Earth is now defenseless, Sheppard pilots his F-302 in a suicide mission against the super hive ship, believing that if he can board the ship with the nuclear weapon the F-302 has been equipped with, he can destroy the ship from the inside. Sheppard manages to fly the F-302 into the ship undetected through its fighter bay. While initially believed a suicide mission, Sheppard escapes through the hive ship's Stargate with the help of his team. As he leaves, the fighter's nuclear weapon is successfully used to destroy the hive ship and save Earth and Atlantis from attack. It is stated in the episode that the F-302s are not usually fitted with nuclear weapons and while they can be, it takes 'some doing' to do so.
Prometheus[edit]
The X-303 is Earth's first experimental spacefaring warship, first seen in 'Prometheus'. It uses both Earth and alien technologies, and has been upgraded several times in the series, notably by the Asgard. Upgrades included defensive shields, followed by reliable hyperdrive engines, and beaming technology.
On the maiden voyage, an overload caused by gravity waves destroyed the naquadriah-powered hyperdrive's buffer, leading to the ejection and destruction of the hyperdrive generator. The hyperdrive engines of a Goa'uld Al'kesh are used to return the ship to Earth and eventually upgraded by the Asgard. The ship is destroyed in the ninth-season episode 'Ethon' by an Ori satellite.
Daedalus-class battlecruiser[edit]
The 304 is Earth's second-generation line of starships was originally planned to be a sister ship of the Prometheus but it was instead redesigned to better integrate the alien technologies that had been tested on the Prometheus. The first ship of the class, the Daedalus, appeared in the Stargate Atlantis episode 'The Siege, Part 3'. Other ships of its class include the Odyssey, Apollo, and Korolev. The Sun Tzu is mentioned in the last episode of Stargate Atlantis as well as the George Hammond (named in honor of the late General Hammond), which was under construction at the time. The George Hammond (Commanded by Colonel Carter) later appears in the pilot episode of Stargate Universe. The Korolev is the only Daedalus-class ship known to have been destroyed while in combat with the Ori fleet, though it was rushed through the production-line months early, and operated by the Russians. Other 304s have been severely damaged, but not destroyed. In the official continuation novel Stargate Atlantis: Homecoming, Samantha Carter tells John Sheppard and Teyla Emmagan that the George Hammond is the last Daedalus class ship that will be built for quite some time as there is no money for America to build more due to the economic recession. She also states that the Russians are in no hurry to replace the Korolev given how quickly it was destroyed and how short it lasted in service. In the Stargate Atlantis alternate timeline episode 'The Last Man', it is mentioned that Samantha Carter commands her own ship called the Phoenix.
Goa'uld starships[edit]
The Goa'uld operate a variety of starships. The control systems of Goa'uld ships are based on crystals,[35] a feature copied by the Earth ship Prometheus,[36] and their design aesthetics are Egyptian in theme.[37] Since the collapse of the Goa'uld order in 'Reckoning', most of their fleet have fallen into the hands of the Free Jaffa Nation[38] and the Lucian Alliance.[39]
Death glider[edit]
The Goa'uld death glider is a fast attack fighter capable of operating in an atmosphere,[40] in space,[41] and even underwater.[42] Its shape resembles the symbolic winged scarab beetle of ancient Egypt. Death gliders first appear in the Stargate movie. Gliders lack hyperdrives and are usually carried by Ha'taks into battle; their wings can be folded for more compact storage.[41] They are armed with two staff cannons.[40] Different death glider variants have been depicted: some carry only one pilot[40] while others have room for two.[41] An especially large glider is seen in 'Children of the Gods', fitted with a ring transporter. Earth's F-302 fighters are derived from the death glider design.[43][44]
Udajeet[edit]
The Goa'uld Udajeet is an intra-atmospheric variant of the Death glider which cannot operate very far from a planet's surface, nor under water, because of its open cockpit design. An Udajeet glider shares similar power systems, weapons, and other characteristics with the Death glider. The main differences are that these fighters are only used on a planet after a Ha'tak mothership has landed and opened up, (as Ra's ship is seen to have done in the Stargate movie,) and they only carry a single staff cannon. In the movie, Udajeet gliders are the aircraft which can be seen flying around after Ra has landed on Abydos. We see them later, around the gate pyramid, during the part of the movie where O'Neill's team are fighting Ra's forces on the ground and in the air. These fighters are not the standard death glider, but are instead the udajeet variant of the death glider.
Tel'tak[edit]
The Tel'tak, also called a Goa'uld cargo ship or Goa'uld scoutship, is a versatile spacecraft first seen in 'Deadman Switch' and in the remastered version of the pilot episode. In Stargate SG-1, they are often used by the Tok'ra and the rebel Jaffa for missions into Goa'uld territory due to their unobtrusive nature;[45][46] the SGC also makes use of Tel'taks in the earlier seasons, when Earth does not yet possess its own hyperspace-capable ships.[47] The Tel'tak is equipped with shields and a hyperdrive. The configuration of the ship changes when in flight. It has two main sections: a cockpit in front and a cargo section in the back with a ring transporter.[48] There are four escape pods that can be ejected from the bottom of the ship. Tel'taks are usually unarmed,[45] though many are equipped with a cloaking device for protection.[49] A heavily modified Tel'tak with hidden compartments, a pulse wave generator, and the ability to create sensor decoys appears in 'The Ties That Bind'. Another modified Tel'tak with two staff cannons is seen in 'Bounty'.
Al'kesh[edit]
An Al'kesh is a Goa'uld medium-range bomber[35] used for ground support and as scouts.[50] Its armaments consist of paired staff cannons on a belly turret for ship-to-ship combat[35] and explosive energy devices for ground bombardment.[51] Al'kesh are equipped with hyperdrives, allowing independent operation, and are highly maneuverable.[35] They do have shields,[52] for example in Stargate: Continuum. Some Al'kesh are equipped with cloaking devices and/or beaming technology.[53] Al'kesh appear in several episodes supporting Goa'uld attacks.[51][54][55] The Lucian Alliance has modified some Al'kesh into cargo haulers.[56]
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Ha'tak[edit]
A Ha'tak or Goa'uld mothership is a large starship used by the Goa'uld. In the series, it usually refers to a class of ship consisting of a superstructure with a large, golden tetrahedron or square pyramid (e.g., Ra's mothership) at the center, first shown onscreen briefly in 'Singularity'. The word 'ha'tak', first used in the episode 'Exodus', literally means 'pyramid ship', and so can also refer generically to all the types of Goa'uld motherships. Ha'taks are shaped to land on pyramids,[40] although anything similar will suffice (on two occasions a Ha'tak lands on Cheyenne Mountain).[57][58] Ha'taks are equipped with hyperdrives and can travel over 32,000 times the speed of light.[59] The command center of a Ha'tak is known as the pel'tak.
Along with carrying squadrons of death gliders and other support ships, as well as thousands of Jaffa troops, Ha'taks can also assault planets directly from orbit.[50][57] They are armed with staff cannons scattered over the hull.[35] In the episode 'There But For the Grace of God', the attacking Ha'tak vessels bombard the East Coast of the United States with blasts equal to 200-megaton nuclear warheads. They are protected by powerful energy shields capable of intercepting conventional, nuclear, and energy weapons. These shields have stopped nuclear blasts equivalent to one gigaton of TNT.[41] The shields can protect the ship's crew from the radiation at the edge of a blue giantstar's corona for up to 10 hours.[60] In 'The Serpent's Venom', Apophis is shown to have devised a way to cloak an entire fleet of motherships. After the fall of the Goa'uld, these ships fell into the hands of the Lucian Alliance who use them now for their own purposes.
Several Goa'uld mothership variants have been encountered:
- Ra's mothership The first pyramid ship seen in Stargate, operated by Ra. When landed, the top of the ship can open to expose the interior to the atmosphere. In the film, the ship is destroyed by a nuclear device teleported to the ship by Jack O'Neill and Daniel Jackson using a ring transporter. The same type of starship was owned by Heru-ur, Ra's son, as it was seen in episode Secrets (but in fact re-used scenes with the ship from the movie)
- Apophis' prototype mothership A ship seen under construction on PX9-757 in 'Upgrades', with several enhancements over a standard Ha'tak. It is destroyed by SG-1, who overwhelm the defenses using Atanik armbands.
- Apophis' flagship The flagship of Apophis, first seen in 'The Serpent's Venom'. Its weapons are capable of penetrating the shields of a standard Ha'tak at full power.[60] The ship escapes the supernova of Vorash's sun in 'Exodus' but is hurled into another galaxy. It is attacked and infested by Replicators, and soon self-destructs.[60]
- Anubis' flagship A mothership with advanced technology used by Anubis. Its centerpiece is a superweapon powered by the six Eyes, powerful enough to destroy multiple Ha'taks or obliterate land masses with a single shot.[61] The ship is destroyed by the combined fleet of the System Lords in 'Homecoming' in the atmosphere of Langara, where its shields are only 40% effective. As the ship breaks apart, it releases an escape ship that enters hyperspace. A reconstructed version of the ship leads Anubis' attack on Earth in 'Lost City', and is destroyed by Ancient drone weapons fired from Antarctica. A version of this ship appears as Ba'al's flagship in Stargate Continuum.
Minor ships[edit]
- 'Escape ship' An interstellar vessel seen under construction in 'Nightwalkers'. It is being built by the townspeople of Steveston, Oregon, who have been implanted with cloned Goa'uld symbiotes by the NID, who hope to claim the ship once it is finished.
- 'Needle threader' An old type of fighter designed to fit through the Stargate, a maneuver known as 'threading the needle'. The design was abandoned because few pilots could master it. Master Bra'tac hid one on Chulak 'some hundred years ago'. In 'Into the Fire', General Hammond and Teal'c use the fighter to attack Hathor's defenses on a mission to rescue SG-1.
- 'Osiris' ship' A ship with a large extensible spike on the bottom, hidden near the temple where Osiris and Isis were imprisoned. It is used by Osiris to escape Earth in 'The Curse'.
- Troop transport A large vessel designed to carry Jaffa ground troops into battle. It is heavily armored and can shrug off a direct strike from a FIM-92 Stinger missile.[61] Troop transports have only been seen amongst Anubis' forces; they first appear in 'Summit', in Zipacna's attack on the main Tok'ra base at Revanna. They are also seen in 'Redemption' on Anubis' planet, in 'Full Circle' landing troops on Abydos, and in 'Lost City' transporting Anubis to P3X-449.
Ori starships[edit]
The Ori order their followers to begin constructing a fleet of ships after learning of the existence of the Milky Way galaxy in 'Origin'. Due to their advanced technology, their ships pose a considerable threat.
Fighter[edit]
An Ori fighter is a small dart-shaped attack vessel first seen in 'Flesh and Blood', where they defeat a number of Death Gliders and Al'kesh over Chulak. Carried by Ori motherships, they are deployed from a ventral bay and are armed with powerful energy weapons. In 'Line in the Sand', one is shown carrying a ring transporter platform that it drops to the ground, allowing troops to be deployed from the mothership.
Ori Mothership[edit]
Goa'uld Ha'tak Mother Ship
Ori motherships first appear under construction in the episode 'Crusade'. Four ships invade the Milky Way galaxy in the following episode 'Camelot', where they decimate a combined Asgard, Earth, Jaffa, Lucian Alliance, and Tok'ra fleet at P3Y-229 without taking any appreciable damage. In 'Flesh and Blood', the ships proceed to conquer Chulak before splitting up. In the episode 'The Pegasus Project', Teal'c lures an Ori mothership into the unstable vortex of the activating Supergate, destroying it. In 'The Shroud', Daniel Jackson/Merlin commandeers a mothership in order to send the Sangraal to the Ori galaxy. However, his plan requires that the Supergate be reopened, and shortly after six more Ori motherships enter the galaxy. In the Stargate SG-1 finale 'Unending', the Asgard equip the Earth battlecruiser Odyssey with plasma beam weapons that are effective against the shields of Ori motherships. Nevertheless, the Odyssey is outnumbered and only escapes the Ori through the creative use of a time dilation field. In Stargate: The Ark of Truth, all the Ori motherships stand down after the activation of the Ark of Truth.
One of the most formidable warships seen in Stargate, an Ori mothership's main weapon can destroy a Goa'uldHa'tak in a single shot. It also has smaller energy weapons scattered around the hull. The ship is protected by shields that are impervious to all but the most powerful attacks.[62] The ship carries numerous fighters and can also land directly on a planetary surface.[63] The mothership is equipped with an intergalactic hyperdrive,[64] but it must use a Supergate to reach the Milky Way from the Ori home galaxy.[65] The technology of the Ori mothership must be 'activated' by a Prior,[66] and only they (or the Orici) can control a mothership, which involves some degree of mental command.[67] Inside, the ship contains prayer rooms, armories, and quarters for the ordinary human warriors of the Ori.[63] The power source is located inside a large enclosed chamber and is of unknown design.[67]
Replicator starships[edit]
The Replicators typically infiltrate and take over the ships of other races for their own purposes. In the process, they can enhance the technology of those ships to perform better than the originals, using knowledge they have previously assimilated. Replicator-controlled Goa'uldHa'taks appear in 'Enemies' and 'Reckoning', and Replicator-controlled Asgard motherships appear in 'Small Victories'. A Replicator-controlled vessel of unknown design appears in 'Enemies' and 'Unnatural Selection'. The vessel engages Apophis' mothership with an energy beam weapon and is apparently destroyed, but not before infesting Apophis' ship.
In 'New Order', the humanoid Replicator Fifth creates a ship made entirely of Replicator blocks with which to escape the time dilation field on Halla. The ship is equipped with shields, beaming technology, and intergalactic hyperdrives, and can fire projectiles made of Replicators to infiltrate other ships. Its interior can reconfigure according to Fifth's wishes. The ship is destroyed over the new Asgard homeworld Orilla as it exits hyperspace, though its fragments land on Orilla and reform into Replicators. Fifth escapes Orilla and the Replicator Disruptor by forming a smaller spider-like ship out of Replicators. In 'Gemini', Fifth has reformed the larger Replicator ship and arrives in the Milky Way along with Replicator Carter, who conspires to have that ship and Fifth destroyed by a Replicator disruptor satellite. Replicator Carter herself creates a third version of the Replicator ship, from which she commands the full-scale invasion of the Milky Way in 'Reckoning'. The ship and all other Replicators in the galaxy are disintegrated into their component parts by the Dakara superweapon at the end of that episode.
Wraith starships[edit]
In Stargate Atlantis, the Wraith are the dominant race in the Pegasus galaxy, with a large fleet based around enormous hive ships. Their ships lack shields and are generally less powerful than the ships of their defeated enemies, the Ancients.[7] Wraith ships have a hybrid organic nature; they are grown, not built, and may have some degree of self-awareness. They begin with a pathogen that infects a human, and uses energy to convert both organic and non-organic matter nearby into a biopolymer similar to a polysaccharide, but with organometallic compounds mixed in. The polymer is initially soft and malleable but eventually hardens into a dense substance that is resistant to heat, pressure, and radiation. The growing process can be stopped if the human nucleus is freed from the pathogen.[68]
Dart[edit]
The Wraith dart is a small, one-man attack craft capable of fitting through a Stargate, first seen in 'Rising'. They generate a loud, distinctive sound when flying in an atmosphere.[1] Darts lack hyperdrives and rely on Stargates or larger vessels to travel around the galaxy.[69] The dart's main role is to capture humans for feeding, dematerializing them using a culling beam mounted on its underside.[1] Large numbers of darts are carried by Wraith hive ships[70] and cruisers.[14] In ship-to-ship combat, they are deployed as dogfighters and as point defense against missiles. If a dart's mothership is destroyed, they will perform kamikaze attacks on nearby enemy targets.[71] Like other Wraith ships, darts are partially organic. The canopy of a Wraith dart is composed of energy and is opaque when active, functioning as a giant HUD.[72] Darts are armed with a pair of forward-firing energy weapons, capable of destroying a puddle jumper with a direct hit.[69] Sustained machine gun fire is sufficient to bring down a dart.[1][73]John Sheppard learns how to fly a dart in the season 2 episode 'The Lost Boys'. He later pilots one in 'The Hive', 'Vengeance' and 'Search and Rescue' as a way to escape Wraith ships.
Cruiser[edit]
A Wraith cruiser is medium-sized warship first seen in 'Letters from Pegasus'. Like hive ships, Wraith cruisers incorporate organic technology and lack shields. Their armaments consist of energy weapons, which can conduct orbital bombardments.[16] They are equipped with sub-light engines and hyperdrives,[70] and are also capable of flying in an atmosphere[74] and landing on a planet surface.[75] They carry numerous darts in a ventral bay.[14] Several cruisers escort the three hive ships headed for Atlantis, but retreat after the hive ships are destroyed.[16] In 'The Siege, Part 3', a Wraith cruiser attempts to dock with the Daedalus for boarding. A Wraith cruiser attacks the Olesians in 'Condemned'. The episode 'Submersion' shows that a cruiser served as the flagship for the Wraith Queen who led the first siege of Atlantis. That vessel was downed by the Ancients and came to rest on the ocean floor, where it remained largely intact and somewhat functional for 10,000 years.
Michael's Cruiser[edit]
A cruiser serves as the traveling base for the renegade Wraith Michael. It briefly engages the battlecruiser Daedalus in 'The Kindred', but flees after taking heavy damage and when the Daedalus can't risk destroying it since Teyla is on board. Michael flees in the ship in the second part of the episode and it reengages the Daedalus in 'Search and Rescue'. Once again, the cruiser is no match for the Earth warship and tries to flee, but this time, the Daedalus manages to disable its hyperdrive, forcing it to fight. The cruiser is unable to penetrate the battlecruiser's shields, but does heavy damage to the ship when it lowers them briefly to beam aboard John Sheppard and Ronon Dex. An F-302 attack disables the cruiser's weapons and allows Sheppard's team to sneak aboard, destroy the hyperdrive and rescue Teyla. Once the team is clear of the ship, the Daedalus destroys it with its plasma beam weapon. Michael is initially believed to have perished with his ship, but managed to escape before the destruction and went into hiding.
Hive ship[edit]
Wraith hive ships are one of the largest spacecraft in the Stargate universe and the centers of Wraith civilization. One first appears in 'Rising', where it was not recognizable as a ship as it had rested on a planet for so long that tall trees grew on its back. There were over sixty hive ships in the Pegasus galaxy when the Atlantis expedition arrived.[76] Due to internecine strife amongst the Wraith over an inadequate human food supply, most hive ships barely tolerate one another's presence, with open hostilities being more common in the later seasons.[13][77][78] Notable exceptions occur in 'The Siege, Part 3', where twelve hive ships cooperate to attack Atlantis, and in 'Be All My Sins Remember'd', where seven hive ships ally with Atlantis to defeat the Asurans. Over the course of Stargate Atlantis, a number of hive ships have been destroyed in various conflicts. Many hives are without Queens and cannot replenish their losses, making the Wraith more reluctant to commit them to battle.[11]
Hive ships contain untold numbers of stasis pods for hibernating Wraith,[1] as well as pods in which human victims are preserved for future feeding in cocoons.[76] Hive ships are partially organic and lack shields, though they are capable of regeneration.[78] They can withstand a hit from a Mark III tactical nuclear weapon, though not without suffering major damage.[7] Hive ships are equipped with hyperdrives, though they must make periodic stops to allow their organic components to recover from hyperspace radiation.[7] Hive ships mount numerous energy weapons throughout their hull and wield massive firepower.[71][77] They also function as carriers, launching huge numbers of Wraith darts and supported by Wraith cruisers.[70] However, the launch bays represent a vulnerable area where damage can lead to secondary internal explosions.[7] Shortly after encountering the offensive use of Asgard beaming technology by the Daedalus, hive ships initiate countermeasures to prevent Earth ships from beaming onto their ships.[71] A hive ship's consoles require telepathic control; Teyla Emmagan (who has trace amounts of Wraith DNA) can somewhat operate a hive ship with great effort.[79]
Super Hive ship[edit]
A super hive is the natural result of providing a growing hive ship with the power it needs to exceed its normal size limits. The only known super hive uses a captured ZPM to vastly enhance firepower, armour and sensors. This vessel is only seen once in the final episode 'Enemy at the Gate' of Stargate Atlantis, where it proves far superior to the 3 Daedalus class ships dispatched to battle it. The super hive ship reaches Earth and destroys all of its defenses, including the Ancient Weapons Platform. It also brings a Stargate with it which blocks Gate travel to and from Earth. As the ship prepares to attack the defenseless planet, Atlantis itself engages it in battle. Even a fully powered Atlantis is no match for the powerful vessel and is quickly on the verge of destruction. However, Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard had managed to secretly board the vessel with a nuclear weapon which remained undetected. As Sheppard and his team fled the ship through its Stargate, Sheppard detonated his nuclear weapon, obliterating the vessel from the inside as it was about to destroy Atlantis. There is no reference to such a vessel being produced by the wraith prior to this; however, it is not inconceivable that such a vessel was grown and destroyed during the Ancients war with the wraith. The knowledge and ability to grow more super hives could have been lost in a single battle much like it was in SGA.
Minor ships[edit]
- Scout A vessel larger than a dart but much smaller than a cruiser, capable of some degree of independent operation. One appears off-screen in 'Aurora', where it investigates the derelict Ancient battleship and is destroyed by the Daedalus. Concept art from that episode shows a bat-like look for the scout ship.[80] The scout first appears on-screen with a different design in 'Allies', where it carries a Wraith Queen and her retinue from her hive-ship to Atlantis. Todd is later seen using one of this type of ship in 'The Lost Tribe'.
- Supply ship A ship comparable to a cruiser in size, used by the Wraith to transport large numbers of human victims during their war with the Ancients. One appears crashed on a planet in 'The Defiant One'. McKay theorizes that the ship model has been discontinued. In 'Critical Mass', Sheppard states that the supply ship is in fact a Wraith cruiser.
Miscellaneous starships[edit]
- Asuran ship Warships equipped with cloaking devices and drone weapons, appearing in 'Lifeline' and 'This Mortal Coil'. They may originally be of Ancient design, as with other Asuran ships.
- Gadmeer terraformer A massive ship two miles across, seen in 'Scorched Earth'. It is designed to terraform a suitable planet to serve as the new Gadmeer homeworld, and carries biological, historical, and cultural records with which to resurrect the Gadmeer civilization. The ship chooses planets based on 2,634 criteria; unfortunately the planet it eventually chooses is where SG-1 had recently resettled Enkaran refugees.[81]
- Oran A Hebridian ship that participates in the Loop of Kon Garat, from 'Space Race'. It is commanded by smuggler Golon Jarlath.[82]
- Seberus A Serrakin prison transport commanded by Warrick, discovered crashed on a planet by SG-1 in 'Forsaken'. In the episode, SG-1 helps Warrick recover the ship from the escaped prisoners. The Seberus is equipped with an ion propulsion system and sonic weapons, and uses liquid nitrogen for fuel.[83] In 'Space Race', Warrick enters the Seberus in the Loop of Kon Garat, a prestigious race, and enlists Samantha Carter for assistance in exchange for allowing her to examine the ship's technology.[82]
- Ship from 'The Daedalus Variations' A hostile ship encountered by the Atlantis team in an alternate universe in 'The Daedalus Variations'. It attacks the alternate Atlantis and launches fighters against the Daedalus after Sheppard disables its main weapons.[84]
- Stromos One of three automated sleeper ships launched by the Talthuns for their new homeworld of Ardena, from the episode 'Lifeboat'. The Stromos crashed on P2A-347, and with power failing Pharrin, one of the officers, begins saving the consciousnesses of the passengers by transferring them into his own mind, and later into the mind of Daniel Jackson. The SGC helps the Talthuns revive by providing them with a naqahdah generator.[85]
- Traveler ship Hyperspace-capable vessels that house the nomadic Travelers of the Pegasus galaxy, first seen in 'Travelers'. They are equipped with shields and energy weapons. In 'Be All My Sins Remember'd', several Traveler ships join the Atlanteans and the Wraith in fighting the Asurans, with one of the ships destroyed in the battle. Another one later comes to Atlantis in 'The Lost Tribe' and is piloted by Sheppard into battle against the rogue Asgard faction, rescuing the Daedalus and destroying the Attero Device.
- Mystery ship In Grace, the Prometheus comes under fire by a mysterious alien ship. Its shielding capabilities are unknown since its weapons destroyed all of the Prometheus' missiles before they came into contact with the ship. The ship beamed everyone off the Prometheus except Major Carter. Carter was later able to negotiate the return of the crew in exchange for telling the aliens how to escape from the nebula that it and the Prometheus was trapped.[86] The motives of the ship in this episode is unknown and no contact with that race was made again.
- 'Nakai' Fighter[87] First seen in the SGU episode 'Air Part3' and later seen in 'Space' attacking the Destiny. These ships are designed to attack and board ships.
- 'Nakai' Mothership[87] First seen in the SGU episode 'Space' this ship carries an unknown number of fighters and crew members. It is equipped with labs and rooms designed to hold captured enemies in water tanks. This ship is also equipped with faster than light engines and advanced weapons. This ship was first seen during an attack on the Destiny. This ship is operated by an unknown race.
- Ursini Mothership From SGU this vessel most likely belongs to the Ursini who were found on the damaged seed ship early in season two, it carries several of the same pods seen on the seed ship that are known to belong to these aliens. Its capabilities are unknown as it is derelict when discovered with very few functional systems and low power reserves.
- Automated attack drones From SGU these vessels are controlled by a central control ship. They do not have shields and they have energy weapons comparable to that of Destiny's shuttle. The Ursini are at war with them after they accidentally activated the ships. They are very fast and maneuverable. Their most important advantage is their numbers. Many are destroyed by Destiny after Col. Telford comes to Destiny's aid in a Ursini captured 'ancient seed ship', and both of the ships fly through the nearest star the drones follow and are destroyed.
- Novus Evacuation Ship From Season two of SGU these vessels were built and launched to transport the remaining population of the planet Novus to a safe world as theirs was soon to be destroyed. These ships travel slower than light and are expected to take centuries to reach their destination, as such the evacuation transports are likely either sleeper ships or generation ships. There is a slim possibility that they use near light speed time dilation to achieve a journey time of only a few years ship-time. However, this near light speed travel has only been achieved with use of a ZPM aboard an ancient warship and even the Daedalus class can't match that speed using sub-light engines.
- Remorseless Angel A small ship that is operated by Vala Mal Doran in the comic series. This vessel is armed with advanced weapons and technologies and is known to operate out of the hangar of the Earth starship Eos also from the comics.
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