SGA...10 Years Later, fest: SGA Technology

[melagan.livejournal.com]

As a change of pace, lets talk Ancient tech. Oh the trouble it has wrought. Ascension machine anyone?

Misuse of technology, abandoned technology, acquiring technology -- technology gone very, very wrong. Suffice to say, many, many stories on the show and in fanfic centered around this subject.

Just how many times did John Sheppard touch something he shouldn't have, anyway?

The scale the Ancients worked with always delights me. They thought big. A city that flys. A gate network that spans two galaxies, if not more. Pretty warships and ZPMs.

Do you have a favorite - in canon or fanon? I'm a sci-fi geek so I reveled in it. If it had to do with travel, from the Gate system to transporters to puddlejumpers, it caught my eye.

Wraith tech! I almost forgot to mention it. eep. Let's celebrate some sci-fi!

Pairings post is here

Tomorrow- Team Love!

Comments

[that-which.livejournal.com]

Just how many times did John Sheppard touch something he shouldn't have, anyway?

I think secretly ancient tech rolling over for John bugs Rodney way more than any Kirk-like tendencies he may have.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

I think you're spot on! *vbg*

[hilde.livejournal.com]

oooooooooooooo! Puddlejumpers....! Ronon's gun! Stargates!

In fanon, I absolutely ADORE stories where John communicates with Atlantis itself. In canon, I must admit the sound of The Daedalus in hyperspace is a favorite :D (I'm not sure if it should make a just sound, though...LOL )

[melagan.livejournal.com]

...John communicates with Atlantis...

I love those stories with all my heart.

[selenic76.livejournal.com]

I love sentient Atlantis stories :) And puddlejumpers of course, especially if there's something other than flying happening inside :D

John touching tech is always a favourite :P But I think I was most intrigued by the control chair, and the image of John flying the whole City O_O Also the whole ATA gene in general, and all the cool things you could do with it :)

Wraith tech usually gives me the creeps, it looks a bit icky *shudders*

And of course I also always loved when Rodney got to show his stuff and dig into the innards of some machinery to fix things and save everyone :P

[melagan.livejournal.com]

*nod* *nod* *nod* *draws hearts around all of this*

[busaikko]

One of the things I love is how (while it's of course frustrating and often deadly for Our Heroes) no one know how to operate things anymore. In many ways, the SG universe is post-apocalyptical: the high-tech Ancients vanished, and the survivors have to piece together knowledge. As a writer, it opens up a whole world of possibilities....

I think in one of the other posts someone was talking about how Wraith are a very organic, physical evil: their ships are grown from people and are 'alive', they are very body-conscious (used to showing their bodies as a threat and intimidation), and they kill in a hands-on way. In contrast, the Ancients are ultimately removed from the evils they cause: they Ascend to escape the Wraith, they invent things like the device that blows up Wraith ships and stargates on populated words, and they are presented as wafting around in white in a sterile environment. And then we have the humans caught in the middle.

I think maybe my favorite technologies deal with consciousness and identity. Replicators with transferred memories that think they're real. Replicators who want to Ascend. Michael's hybrids, whose original personalities were over-written, making them have the personalities and skills of Wraith. Virtual realities. Clones!

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like this side-by-side comparison here. I was going to go with how the Wraith tech was organic, too, but in an Aliens kind of way (with lots of goo and stuff exploding out of your chest) as opposed to the biotechnology that ran Voyager. Your compare and contrast of the mentalities behind the Wraith and the Ancient tech is fascinating--and makes me wonder if that sense of detachment and an unwillingness to get their hands dirty was part of why the Ancients lost the war.

But then how do we explain the exploding tumors?? Because that's very organic, and kind of un-Ancienty. Or maybe they evolved from that? After realizing the kinds of messes they were making by that kind of experimentation?

[esteefee]

Siria commented the other day that the Wraith hive ships were very much gynistic, if that's a word. I'm sure she had a better one. But the whole womb thing, and how one is literally born from Jennifer's body in that ep. The way they cocoon people and the way doors open and shut...it's interesting that the show creators made the queens the ultimate enemy and their ships so organically consuming.

I think I was going somewhere with this but I creeped myself out.

My favorite tech is the tiniest: the LSD, because it's like superman's x-ray vision in a box. (I have a thing about vision, so I'm a little jealous of having even *better* than human vision.) Sure, John is a bad-ass, but he had a really unfair advantage over the Genii having the home turf *and* the LSD at hand in The Storm/Eye.

[ltklo.livejournal.com]

I always get a giggle when something is fixed or opened by just switching 2 crystals. "Oh, let's try this." And wham, everything powers up!

I enjoy AU both in fics and show. So any tech that "magically" allows a character from another universe to come to Atlantis and give a hint of other possibilities (or relationships) is great. And if a character has died in the other universe so there's lots of angst, even better!

[melagan.livejournal.com]

I love the 'activating Ancient tech' stories including Alternate Universe stories. Whatever is John going to do with all those Rodneys?

[em_kellesvig]

The gate. Just the gate. The whole idea of traveling to other worlds just by stepping through a gate. Awesome.

[esteefee]

Oh, hell yeah.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

THE GATE IS AWESOME

[valika56.livejournal.com]

The Flying City. The coolest technology ever. And the system of gates. Of course.:)

[melagan.livejournal.com]

*nod* I am so happy we got to see it fly. I waited and waited for that moment. I think I jumped up and squeed when it finally happened.

[falcon-horus.livejournal.com]

Fave tech:

* Atlantis -- a city bobbing on an ocean, which had been sitting on the ocean's floor for thousands of years, and it flies like a spaceship -- what's not to like? The batteries perhaps, they are hard to come by.

* puddlejumper -- cutest word ever for the coolest ship ever, except when it gets stuck inside an open wormhole, then all coolness is gone

* wraith stunner -- I own two replica's and they are just so organic, much like the ships and the tech

* stargate -- it floats in space, or stands majestically on planets, and it's the reason we're on Atlantis exploring, without it Atlantis could never have been possible (the show, I mean)

[outsideth3box.livejournal.com]

I should have gone your route and chosen several awesome pieces of tech. I could not decide on one.

I completely agree.

[falcon-horus.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there are more pieces of tech that I considered fairly brilliant, but it's been a while since I've seen the show and it's 2:30am over here. Brain wants to sleep first. :p

Although, I did watch every episode at least as many times as there were main characters appearing in the episode.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

hahaha I know. I keep thinking of new things.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

Yes, that moment when the city rises *clutches heart*. That will never get old for me.

I hadn't given much thought to Wraith stunners beyond how organically cool they look. Do you have pictures?

[falcon-horus.livejournal.com]

Darn it, I was convinced I had pictures online -- turns out I don't. Sure, my replicator blocks and Elizabeth's wristband from The Real World, but my stunners nope.

Oh, hang on... one of the stunners was made my Pharaoh Hamenthotep from Gateworld, and she has a deviantart account --> replica stunner (http://pharaoh-hamenthotep.deviantart.com/art/Wraith-Stunner-with-dark-colours-372329004?q=gallery%3APharaoh-Hamenthotep%2F43722211&qo=5)