"It's a ship; it goes through the Gate."

[melagan.livejournal.com]

GateShip Wiki Link



Next to the Atlantis Stargate itself, this is my favorite Ancient tech. The stories - the possibilities - the likelihood of sex in the jumper.... *coff*

I always had the feeling that there was much more here to explore than the show gave us.

Let's give these babies some love!

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[outsideth3box.livejournal.com]

Here is a completely awesome fic with bonus puddlejumper sex at the end, one of my favorite fics ever!

With Intent (http://shaenie.livejournal.com/317843.html#cutid1)

[melagan.livejournal.com]

And thank you verrrry much!

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

dieastra has been sharing with me some cool links--one of which is how to make a paper puddle jumper. :-)

http://www.paperaviation.de/PuddleJumper/puddlejumper.html

[melagan.livejournal.com]

That is so cool I don't even care that I can't read the language. Thank you!

[patk.livejournal.com]

That's what the text says (please excuse the crude translation, I'm in a hurry right now):

Built by the Ancients thousands of years ago the Puddlejumper is an essential part of the Atlantis-expedition. Those jumpers are small multi-purpose transporters that can go through the gate and are fit for space travel. Aside from a perfect cloak they are well armed and agile. They can only be operated by people that have the ATA-gene, like most of the technology in Atlantis.

This model was built as a giveaway for the SpaceDays 2006 in Darmstadt (that's a German city). The biggest difficulty regarding this project was the laborious search for informations on the original. Except for some photos there isn't mucht to find. Blueprints, layouts, indications of size or graphs were nowhere to find.

In the end I had to develop the model strictly on the foundation of pictures from the series. The size of the actors and of known articles/items served as a source for the determination of dimensions of a jumper. The reproduction of the surface texture was also time-consuming.

Meanwhile it has to be added that my cardboard model shows the puddlejumper from the first season of the series because if you look at some screenshots of the second season you notice that the producers had a new stage prop built which is considereably different from the first one.

Description of the model:

- punch-out sheet for the experienced builder of cardboard models

- 1 x A4-page, 47xparts
- measurements of the model: 12,8 cm length, 8 cm width
- can be built with extended and retracted position of the drive pods

And there's also a download link - I suppose you can download the punch-out sheet to build your own jumper. :-)

[melagan.livejournal.com]

*TWIRLS YOU*

Thank you!!! I hadn't thought about it, but we didn't have very much information to go on that first year. I have a deep, deep love for fandom dedication. :)

[patk.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, the creator of this model sure did put a lot of work into it while having very little information. :-)

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for translating this! :-)

[patk.livejournal.com]

I always wondered if the Ancients also built spacecrafts that looked a little more like figthers during the war against the Wraith.

Given the size of a jumper and the place in the back of it, it is clearly constructed to carry a load if necessary, be it people or goods. So I assume - while it is armed and can do considerable damage - it's not built explicitely for fighting purposes. After all, why built fighter-crafts that are bigger than necessary? If the Ancients used fighters as well (and not only the big battleships) they would have looked different from the jumpers, I guess, and would have had an "as advanced as possible" reaction/reaction time to the ATA-carriers that piloted them.

So, I'm still waiting to come across of a story that has the expedition stumbling over a fighter repair bay in the bowels of Atlantis and getting in all kinds of adventures/troubles with this advanced technology. *g*

[melagan.livejournal.com]

I love this reasoning and I love this idea! You're right, they must have had something else besides the puddlejumpers and the huge Ancient warships.

Why hasn't this story been written yet????

I am already picturing John and Lorne's faces when they discover them - omg the manly squeeeeing!

[patk.livejournal.com]

>>Why hasn't this story been written yet????<<

That's *exactly* the thing I wonder about as well. This story practically begs for being written. ;-)

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Thought you might enjoy this: dieastra has a photo of the 'Team' with the paper printout of the puddlejumper assembled. :-)

http://action-tales.livejournal.com/34335.html