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Technology of the Asgard
Summary
The Asgard are an alien race from another galaxy, who influence the Milky Way galaxy in the fights against the Goa'uld. They are extremely technologically advanced, and have gifted their technologies to the Tau'ri, who have used them to defend Earth and her interests.
Asgard Technology
Devices
Non-Specific Asgard Technology
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Asgard Beaming Technology - The Asgard use a beaming device for instantaneous transmission across great distances. The devices are equipped on Asgard starships, and have also been used as an offensive weapon. Objects that are to be beamed are scanned with a white light that shines over the object, and a high-pitched whine is emitted. The object then appears to be drawn towards the emission of the light. On arrival, there is a white flash of light accompanied by a low-pitched whine. Objects can be beamed that are larger than the internal volume of Asgard vessels has been observed (ha'tak pyramid bases), and it is unknown how this is is accomplished. The pyramids were beamed out in a more gradual way that could hint at a form of deconstruction. The Asgard have gifted their beaming technology to the Tau'ri, and it is currently being used aboard the Daedalus-class vessels in Earth's fleet, albeit with safeguards preventing the technology to be used as a weapons platform. Anubis also stole the technology from Thor's mind, and ships of Anubis, Osiris, and Ba'al have been known to use beaming technology. (2.06 "Thor's Chariot", 3.22 "Nemesis Part 1", 9.16 "Off the Grid", 9.20 "Camelot") |
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Asgard Cloning Technology - The Asgard have altered their physical bodies through genetic manipulation to the point where meiosis (sexual reproduction) is no longer possible. Instead, they are formed through a complex process of mitosis. The bodies are grown in vitro and are fully grown adults in four months. As the Asgard have perfected mind transferal via computers, this has given the Asgard a limited form of immortality, as an individual Asgard cannot die if their mind can be restored and a fresh body cloned for them. As the Asgard find it distasteful to destroy a life everytime they transfer minds, new Asgard bodies have almost no intellect. Humans have successfully taught a fresh Asgard clone to walk, but little else. (5.22 "Revelations", 8.08 "Covenant") |
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Asgard Computer Technology - Asgard computers are radically advanced compared to their Tau'ri counterparts. Asgard computers are capable of calculating hyperspace journeys at billions of times the speed of light, as well as communications across the galaxies and creation of matter from stored data. Quantification in human terms, such as bytes and hertz, is likely impossible. Asgard computer terminals consist of a curved off-white panel, with several white markings arranged in a grid. These white markings are the same size and shape of a small pearl white device of similar size and shape of a Asgard Stargate Dialer. When a device is placed on a marking, the position and orientation of the device is used to access files and control the ship. In addition to Asgard ships, a Asgard computer is known to be installed onboard the Daedalus, where Hermiod keeps his engineer station. These consoles appear to be modular, as one was removed from the Daedalus and used on Atlantis without any appreciable setup. (3.22 "Nemesis Part 1"; Stargate Atlantis: 2.20 "Allies Part 1") |
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Asgard Defensive Shielding - Asgard starships use a projected field of energy to defend against weapon attacks, space debris, and other harms in space. Asgard shielding is regarded as the most powerful in the known galaxies, surpassed only by the Ori/Ancients. For Asgard starships, it resolves as a ellipsoid shaped field centered around the starship. For the Beliskner-class, the field is orange tinted. As for the O'Neill- and Jackson-class vessels, the field is white tinted. Given that at least the O'Neill-class (it can be conjectured that due to the name of the Jackson-class, it is also a recent addition to the Asgard fleet) is upgraded from other Asgard technology, the white field is more powerful than the orange. The Prometheus and Daedalus-class vessels are equipped with Asgard shielding, which resolves as white fields as well. (4.01 "Small Victories Part 1", 8.02 "New Order Part 2", 9.20 "Camelot") |
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Asgard Holographic Technology - Asgard communications are conducted for the most part through holographic image. Asgard ships are capable of recording and emitting holographic images at a distance at least in orbit around Earth to the surface. The equipment only resolves the person using it, and appears almost identical to their normal appearance, with a bit of white light suffused around them. As well, Asgard computers can resolve a person from just their thoughts as they sit in stasis. Prerecorded holographic images are completely identical to a living person, with occasional bursts of light. It also appears that non-starship equipment (likely bigger and heavier, as well as more precise) is capable of recording and transmitting identical images in real-time across vast distances. (Cimmeria to Othala and back again) (2.06 "Thor's Chariot, 3.22 "Nemesis Part 1, 8.08 "Covenant") |
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Asgard Hyperspace Technology - Asgards are quite likely the best in the known galaxies with hyperdrive technology. Even Ancient hyperdrives (both interstellar and intergalactic models) are not as powerful or speedy as known Asgard technology. Hyperdrives are used to cross the vast distances between star systems and galaxies. As Einstein's theory of special relativity has theorized that as a ship approaches a speed equivalent to light, it's mass would increase and time would pass more slowly. As the theoretical values get unmanagable at speeds close to light (time completely stops and mass grows larger than the known universe), not to mention that it would still take four years to reach the most nearby star to Earth, a new method of superluminal transportation must be discovered.
The Asgard method appears to tunnel into an alternate space, but it has never been stated how this alternate space works. Distances in real space could correspond to vastly closer distances in hyperspace, or if relativity does not apply to hyperspace and extreme velocity without the accompanying effects is possible. It is known that this alternate space is identical to separate starships, because as many as four ships have been seen simulataneously in the same hyperspace tunnel. Whichever the method of operation, Asgard technology is extremely fast. They have been known to travel thousands of light years in mere minutes. Even towing an inert Prometheus, an O'Neill-class was capable of transversing the space between Earth and the Othala galaxy in only one hour. (At a stated value of four million light years, this is over 35 billion times the speed of light.) In addition to Asgard vessels, Asgard hyperdrives were introduced into the Prometheus and Daedalus-class vessels of Earth, where they perform on levels hundreds of times inferior to Asgard vessels, but still among the best in the galaxy. Goa'uld and Replicators are also known to utilize hyperspace technology. (4.01 "Small Victories Part 2", 6.12 "Unnatural Selection", 8.12 "Prometheus Unbound"; Stargate Atlantis) |
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Asgard Matter Creation Technology - Asgard starships appear to have the technology to create matter from stored forms of information. (While this is never stated to be such, the fact that Thor replicated both food for Carter and weapons for O'Neill, the matter is likely permanent and not a simulation.) This technology, while mostly unquantified, is capable of creating about anything from a stored set of values,likely from an amount of "blank" matter stored on the ship. The technology has been observed to create Replicator blocks (along with simulated Replicator behavior), as well as Asgard food (apparently unpalatable to humans, based on Carter's reaction), and weapons designed by the Ancient knowledge contained in O'Neill. While such technology has been observed in Beliskner-class and Jackson-class vessels, both vessels were commanded by Thor at the time. (Either it really pays to be Supreme Commander, or the technology is in all Asgard vessels.) It is unknown if this technology has been gifted to the Tau'ri, as it has never been explicitly stated nor denied. (4.01 "Small Victories Part 1", 8.01 "New Order Part 1") |
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Asgard Sensors - Asgard sensors, like most Asgard technology, are among the best in the galaxy. They have been demonstrated to work from several light years, resolving even to single lifesigns at these distances, and penetrating Goa'uld and Ancient shielding systems. They work via the emission of white light shaped into a thin arc-shaped plane that is swept around. Objects, ranging from humans to starships and their contents take around ten seconds before being fully scanned. Beliskner-class vessels, Replicator warships, the Prometheus and Daedalus-class ships, and Thor's Hammer are known to be equipped with Asgard sensors. (1.10 "Thor's Hammer", 6.12 "Unnatural Selection") |
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Asgard Ship-to-Ship Weaponry - Asgard weaponry is apparently energy based. The Beliskner-class and O'Neill-class both fire a bluish-white pulse of energy (visually similar to Tollan Ion Cannon fire, suggesting a similarity in technology) that is highly destructive towards starships. Goa'uld ha'taks could not withstand a single volley before destruction. Anubis gave Ancient technology upgrades to his ha'taks which made them resistant to Asgard weaponry, but the O'Neill-class had weaponry that could still destroy Anubis's warships. However, even the mighty O'Neill-class could not damage the Ori warships sent to the Milky Way. While the devices used aboard the ships mentioned have never been seen, Kvasir did loan the SGC an Asgard energy weapon at one point, and this device was seen. It was a semi-spherical black device that was about as tall as a man or slightly smaller. The device would emit a pulse of energy visually similar to Asgard weapons from the flat plane. As Kvasir strictly pointed out, the device was only on loan to the SGC, so it is back in the hands of the Asgard once again. (5.22 "Revelations", 8.02 "New Order Part 2", 9.13 "Ripple Effect", 9.20 "Camelot") |
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Asgard Stasis Technology - To Be Written |
Starships
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Beliskner-Class Ship - The Beliskner-Class Ship is the name for the most commonly seen type of Asgard ship. It is named after the first ship of its type seen in the series, the Beliskner, commanded by Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet. The first time we see the Beliskner-Class is in the episode 3.22 "Nemesis", although it was indirectly seen in 2.06 "Thor's Chariot". |
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O'Neill-Class Ship - The O'Neill-Class ship is the name for the Asgard ship first seen in 4.01 "Small Victories Part 2". It is the first Asgard ship designed to fight the Replicators, and is the most advanced ship of its time. It is named for Jack O'Neill of the SGC, for his actions in assisting the Asgard war against the Replicators in 3.22 "Nemesis
Part 1". |
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Jackson-Class Ship - The Daniel Jackson Mothership is the latest starship design of the Asgard. It has been shown to be similar to the Beliskner-Class ship in it's role for the Asgard fleet, as an exploratory/science vessel, as opposed to the O'Neill-Class Warship. The first time we see a ship of this class is 7.03 "Fragile Balance." |
Episodes
- 1.10 "Thor's Hammer"
- 2.06 "Thor's Chariot"
- 2.16 "The Fifth Race"
- 3.03 "Fair Game" Episode Guide
- 3.06 "Point Of View"
- 3.18 "Shades Of Grey"
- 3.22 "Nemesis" Part 1"
- 4.01 "Small Victories Part 2"
- 5.22 "Revelations"
- 6.12 "Unnatural Selection"
- 6.17 "Disclosure"
- 7.03 "Fragile Balance"
- 8.01 "New Order Part 1"
- 8.02 "New Order Part 2"
- 8.08 "Covenant"
- 8.16 "Reckoning Part 1"
- 8.17 "Reckoning Part 2"
- 9.13 "Ripple Effect"
- 9.20 "Camelot Part 2"
Related Characters
- Col./Gen. Jack O'Neill
- Dr. Daniel Jackson
- Capt./Maj. Samantha Carter
- Teal'c
- Gen. George Hammond
- Aegir
- Freyr
- Heimdall
- Hermiod
- Kvasir
- Loki
- Penegal
- Thor
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Keywords
- Ancients
- Asgard
- Asgard Beaming Technology
- Beliskner-Class Ship
- Cimmeria
- Cloning
- Daedalus-Class Ship
- Goa'uld
- Jackson-Class Ship
- Nox
- O'Neill-Class Ship
- Ori
- Ori Warships
- Othala
- Prometheus
- Protected Planets Treaty
- Replicators
- Tau'ri
Other
Article written for Solutions by Jordan Kreiger
--DeeKayP 21:03, 1 August 2006 (PDT)