List of technology in the Stargate universe

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This article provides a list of the more prominent fictional technologies made use of in the television shows Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis''.

Each race also has a main list with greater detail and completeness.

Throughout the Stargate science-fiction cosmos, a number of technologically advanced races and societies have produced a variety of highly advanced weapons, tools, and spacecraft.

Whilst it would seem implausible that they are all generally designed to for the ease of use of a human, the explanation is simple. Many of these societies are the descendants of humans who were carted across the galaxy as slaves thousands of years ago by the evil race called the Goa'uld. The premise for many of the societies' relative scientific advancement is that after freeing themselves of enslavement they did not suffer a Dark Age as on Earth, and science was allowed to progress unhindered.

Other than these human civilizations, the Ancients (or Alterans), the most technologically advanced race known throughout many galaxies, are in fact the predecessors of humans (which they've termed their "second evolution"), accounting again for their designs being based around the human form (e.g. the snug size of a puddle jumper).

By liaising with these races and learning from them, Earth too has begun to create its own futuristic technology. All such technology is SCI-classified top secret, and is used solely by the SGC and its SG teams, or in Atlantis.

Tau'ri technology

The Tau'ri, commonly known as humans of Earth, have developed many technologies based on what SG teams have brought back from trips to other planets via the use of the Stargate on Earth. Whilst Earth's level of technology prior even to Stargate travel far supersedes the level found on most planets throughout the galaxy (and indeed others), Earth's technology still remains crude compared to the larger races that they do not surpass.

Spacecraft

After five or more years of researching alien technologies discovered on offworld missions, along with billions of dollars of work, several prototype models, and several failures, Earth was eventually able to construct its first glider vessel based on alien technology. This was the F-302, a small 2-man space-faring ship much like a highly advanced MiG or F-22 Raptor. F-302s are now the standard dogfighting attacker used by Stargate Program militia.

It was not long before Earth too was able to create its first (and for a long time, only) interstellar battlecruiser, the Prometheus. Whilst the F-302 is generally a better fighter than its alien equivalent, the Prometheus was still far inferior to the highest class of battlecruiser owned by most other prominent races in the galaxy. Later, with the assistance of the Asgard, Earth was able to create more advanced ships.

• F-302: The standard interceptor used by U.S. Space Forces. It is space-capable and even hyperspace-capable for short distances. It carries modified air weapons. A large wing of these defended Earth against the fleets of Anubis in the season 7 finale, "Lost City", and was the first time that such attack was attempted.
• BC-303 Prometheus Battlecruiser: The first experimental combatant ship produced as an Earth/alien-hybrid, designed to combat Goa'uld motherships such as the Ha'tak. The Prometheus uses missiles as primary weapons. The Prometheus was destroyed in Season 9. No more Prometheus-class vessels have been constructed in favor of the new Daedalus-class battlecruiser.
• BC-304 Daedalus-class Battlecruiser: Earth's second-generation line of battlecruisers; the first ship of its class was named the Daedalus after Daedalus, the engineer and architect of Ancient Greek mythology. Much later, the second ship of the class was named the Odyssey, after the Homeric poem of that name. The third, constructed only by the end of Season 9, was the Korolev. In the Season 9 finale the Korolev was destroyed.
  This class of battle cruiser is a significant improvement over the Prometheus design. It has a sleeker shape and a larger, more powerful array of engines than its predecessor. Its weaponry includes rail guns, dorsal tube-launched missiles, tactical nuclear weapons, and a cargo bay with a unit of F-302s. The biggest difference in the BC-304's design is its abandonment of much of the Goa'uld technology in favor of Asgard technology, including Asgard shields, Asgard sensors, teleportation technology, and an Asgard hyperdrive engine.

M.A.L.P.

The Mobile Analytic Laboratory Probe (MALP) is a remote-controlled, wheeled, robotic probe, used to explore alien planets without endangering SGC personnel. One is always sent through a gate first, if the planet is unexplored. MALPs contain equipment used to determine such things as the breathability of the atmosphere and the presence of a working DHD on a planet to be explored. The camera equipment allows video, including videoconferencing, between Earth and off-world SG teams.

Iris

A metallic barrier that can open and close over the Stargate, which blocks incoming traffic through the Stargate when closed; developed to prevent other alien races from dialing Earth and invading. This is achieved by preventing molecular reintergration and reconstruction. First generation Iris made of pure titanium. Second generation are improved with alien element of trinium. Can be deactivated by a GDO. There have been occasions when enemies breached the Iris; after these breaches the iris was replaced several times.

Weapons

• FN P90
• M9/Beretta 92FS 9mm
• M136 Rocket Launcher (AT4)
• FIM-92 Stinger MANPAD
• M16A2
• M4 Carbine
• XM-177E2
• M18A1 Claymore Antipersonnel Mine
• M60E3 (fictional Paratrooper variant)
• C4 Demolition charges
• SPAS12 12 gauge, breech loaded shotgun
• USAS12 Automatic Shotgun
• MP5-N
• AK74
• M1 Garand
• MP7
• Pancor Jackhammer

Ancient technology

The Ancients — also known as the "Alterans"(Lanteans in Stargate: Atlantis) — were the most advanced race ever to live that has yet been discovered by the SGC. They were driven almost to extinction 10,000 years ago, and most of them Ascended; thus only one or two Ancients have ever been encountered.

Among their many achievements, their transportational methods deserve a lot of praise, having built extremely advanced ships, flying cities, and the entire Stargate Network. Much of the Ancients' weapons technology was used or designed for use in the centuries-long war with the Wraith in the Pegasus Galaxy. In the areas of healing, power generation, and biology, they were the best in the universe as well.

For a long time, the Ancients were a bygone mystery, and their relics were prized beyond all other things due to their rarity. At the beginning of Stargate SG-1 season eight, however, the exact location of the Lost City of the Ancients (named Atlantis, and the source of the well-known Earth myth) was discovered, and an expedition was sent there. This began the sister-show Stargate Atlantis, from where the majority of all knowledge pertaining to Ancient technology has been found.

Stargate

The Stargates were created and distributed by the Ancients across several galaxies, along with DHDs (Dial Home Devices) to control them. A traveller may use any Stargate to travel instantaneously to any other Stargate in the system, so long as he knows that Stargate's "address," a combination of at least seven symbols that must be entered on the DHD.

Because the Goa'uld are scavengers, they claimed that they were the builders of the Stargates to make the populations of the planets they enslaved worship them as gods; their true originators were only discovered much later.

Ring Transporter

A teleportation system that works on similar principles to the Stargate, and is a kind of short-distance corrollary. The devices come with "platforms". When activated, a set of five rings descend onto the platform to form a cylinder; anything inside the cylinder is then transported to a complementary platform somewhere else, or otherwise the rings themselves move to the destination.

Ancient Technology Activation (ATA)

This is a particular gene present in all Ancients, one of the factors that differentiates them from humans. This specific gene expression generates a specific biochemical transmitter that is released through the skin and detected by nearly all Ancient technology, the major exception of which is the Stargate Network. If the user does not possess the gene, the technology will either not activate or will be useless. Since a small percentage of humans from Earth are more directly descended from the Ancients, some of them already have this gene (e.g. Jack O'Neill), or otherwise a 50% successful gene therapy procedure can give it to them.

Zero Point Module (ZPM)

The Zero Point Module is an Ancient power source, used to power their cities and outposts using zero-point energy. It is more powerful and efficient than any energy source on Earth, and can last for thousands of years. While the energy output is huge — significantly larger than that of Naqahdah generators — the ZPM is based on an irreversible thermodynamic process and will ultimately reach its maximum entropy limit, at which point the ZPM becomes useless. The devices are the only things capable of powering most of the most valuable technology in Atlantis, and are thus highly sought after.

City Ship

The city of Atlantis, as the center of the civilization of the Ancients, is both a city and a spaceship in itself; possibly the most deadly of all Ancient ships. Due to the astronomical power requirements to power the city as a ship, it has only been done once when the Ancients moved the city to the Pegasus Galaxy. The city is the setting of the show Stargate Atlantis, and still holds many secrets. There are at least two other city ships in the Pegasus Galaxy: one which is partially underground on the planet found in the Atlantis episode The Tower, and the other which is in control of the Asurans.

Puddle Jumper

A tube-shaped spacecraft developed by the Ancients for quick transportation and reconnaissance missions through the Stargate; it is the standard vehicle of Atlantis. It has high maneuverability and hovering vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capability. The vehicle is equipped with Ancient drone weaponry, a remote DHD, inertial dampeners, a stealth device that can generate complete invisibility, and shields.

Asgard technology

The Asgard are both the founders of the Norse mythology (posing as Gods for benign purposes) and the accidental founders of the Roswell incident (which involved crashed Asgard). They possess a considerably higher level of technology than the Goa'uld, but are not as advanced as the Ancients. Their ships are capable of traversing thousands of light years of space in minutes, and are capable of operating with as few as one Asgard on board, suggesting that their ships possess highly advanced AI. They have also mastered advanced transporter and holographic projection technologies.

They do not reproduce in the strictest sense; continuity as a species is maintained through a process of cloning and mind transferral, although this has resulted in a decay of the Asgard genome. While the Asgard maintain a large fleet of ships with defensive capabilities, as a whole they are not a militaristic race, and they strongly disapprove of the use of technology for aggressive purposes.

Beaming technology

The Asgard beaming technology is a teleportation system used to instantly transport a person or object(s) from one place to another over massive distances (essentially "Star Trek teleportation", except more distance is allowed). Unlike the Ancient Ring Transporter, the object in transport does not need to be on a platform, and can be beamed to anywhere, not just another platform. This technology is a great military advantage (the ability to beam anything anywhere), but also provides great usefulness in society.

Asgard beaming technology also has the advantage of being able to transport objects of great size and mass. It has proven capable of transporting objects the size and mass of a modern skyscraper.

Cloning techology

Since the Asgard are unable to reproduce sexually, they have perfected cloning technology, and build populations with clones. To preserve particular lives, a new body is cloned and the old consciousness is transferred into a new body. The technology for mind-transferral is unique to the Asgard, and also highlights the Dualistic themes that the show often explores. A cloned Asgard has a very primitive mind, almost no mind at all, until it receives a transferral.

Mind-transferral technology

The Asgard have a unique technology that allows them to preserve an individual's consciousness by transferring it into a computer system (essentially, storing it digitally). This system is used to maintain an Asgard's mind until it is ready to be transferred to a new clone body.

Holographic communication technology

This is one of the most advanced communication devices known in the Stargate Universe. The user appears as a whole holographic person, capable of transmitting voice and video through an active stargate or even solid matter, such as inside buildings and underground chambers. The main difference is that the user is also able to see and hear their target's surroundings. This was demonstrated in season 2 (Thor's Chariot), where members of SG-1 conferred with Thor, as well as several other occasions. This is done by stepping into a special communication circle, where they are isolated from their original surroundings and projected to their target destination. The target need not possess any receiving device.

The Asgard also have something to the effect of the Ancient Repository of Knowledge on their ships which contain the database of all their knowledge. How much of this knowledge an Asgard can actually store in his mind is still unknown, but it is probably a large bit as Anubis was able to take several key pieces of technological data from Thor's mind in only a little bit of time before he was thwarted.

Goa'uld technology

The Goa'uld were for the longest time the major power of the Milky Way, and held an evil tyranny. They are a strictly parasitic race. They rely on hosts for life, Jaffa for strength, and deception for power. Their technology is no different. The Goa'uld are scavengers, and their technology is a conglomeration of the discoveries and ingenuity of multiple races, including the Ancients. Very few items they claim as their own were actually invented by them.

All (or the vast majority) of their technology contains, in some form or another, naqahdah, the material of which the Stargates are constructed. This material also flows in Goa'uld veins, and is often used as a key to their technology, much like the ATA gene of the Ancients. The devices of the Goa'uld, it will be noted, are mostly warlike in nature, reflecting the megalomanic nature of the species.

Death Glider

A small and fast attack fighter, generally piloted by a Jaffa in service of a System Lord. Mainly used in attack but can be modified as reconnaissance vessels or transport ships for passengers. These are the basic ships of the Goa'uld.

Ha'tak mothership

The Goa'uld Mothership, the most powerful standard vessel in the Goa'uld fleet. It is shaped like the Great Pyramids of Egypt, upon which it can land (according to SG-1, when the Goa'uld enslaved Egypt 5000 years ago, they commissioned the pyramids specifically as docking pads). The Ha'tak is equipped with powerful energy weapons that can destroy an entire city with only one blast, and it is able to travel in hyperspace. They are often the residences and main transports of System Lords.

Sarcophagus

A chamber shaped like a coffin that, when activated, heals the living or revives the dead within. Repeated use of a Sarcophagus may be addictive and has been shown on humans to alter thinking toward seeking power. According to Stargate, the sarcophagi of ancient Egypt were built to emulate the look of these devices (in pre-technological attempts to heal the dead Pharaohs).

Staff weapon

A long staff wielded by the Jaffa of multiple System Lords. It is made of a metallic substance, with curved decorative lines carved into it. Bumps exist along its length to allow the wielder to grip it more easily. At the end, an almond-shaped ornament houses a small container of liquid-naqahdah, which powers the staff's ability to fire blasts of charged plasma. The weapons are primarily used to intimidate, causing large explosions. A staff blast can be survived, but will cause significant burning and excrutiating pain.

Zat'nik'tel (Zat)

A commonly used weapon shaped like a small snake, the zat'nik'tel is typically used to render a victim unconscious. One shot stuns, causing pain and/or unconsciousness, two shots kill, and three shots disintegrate the victim. Like most guns, they have a safety mode where the "snake" is compacted and flat, and in battle the "snake" jumps up to look "alert" and is then ready to fire (this is accompanied by a signature sound).

Tok'ra technology

The Tok'ra, as an offshoot of the System Lords, use much of the same technology. However, the Tok'ra have developed some technology of their own. The Tok'ra do not like to be called Goa'uld, for their mission is to overthrow the System Lords, hating their evil. Because the System Lords continually attempt to hunt them down and destroy them, they are covert by nature and loyal to the last.

Crystal tunnels

The Tok'ra's key method of hiding their bases from the Goa'uld are by having them built out of special crystals underground. These tunnels grow the way the Tok'ra want them and can be quickly collapsed when the Goa'uld discover a base.

Tretonin

A drug originally created by the Pangarans but further refined by the Tok'ra so it can be made without having to harvest symbiotes. It can be taken by a Jaffa to replace the need for a larval Goa'uld within them. The drug thus frees the rebel Jaffa from the last vestiges of their enslavement to the Goa'uld, but continued injections are needed.

Tollan technology

The Tollan are an extremely advanced human civilization. After their ancestors were taken from Earth by the Goa'uld, they were undisturbed for thousands of years, and so were able to develop highly advanced technologies. Once the Goa'uld realized the threat they posed, the Tollan had already advanced past them.

Phase-shifting Technology

A form of technology the Tollan possess that allows an object or person possessing the necessary device/technology to pass through solid matter - possibly some sort of modification to the principle of molecular binding force (during the events of 'Enigma' the concepts of even the foundations of quantum mechanics are disparaged by the Tollan). The technology requires Trinium and utilises no circuitry, chips or moving parts and can be made small enough to be worn on the forearm. It is utilised in a bomb type weapon produced under duress for the Goa'uld and designed to penetrate the iris protecting Earth's Stargate.

Symbiote silencer

Used during the tribunal of Klorel, the symbiote possessing Skaara, this device can subdue a Goa'uld symbiote's control over the host, allowing the host to speak for themselves. This allowed Skaara to speak on his own behalf without interference from Klorel. The device is worn over the chest, and comes with an indicitive light on the front — red shines when the symbiote is in control, blue when the host is.

Ion cannon

Used to protect the Tollan planet of Tollana from Goa'uld attack. Tollana is protected by a planetary network of cannons, which automatically track and destroy threatening ships in orbit. They can also be operated manually, using a small control panel on the side of the weapon. A single shot can destroy a Goa'uld Ha'tak Mothership. Tanith's ship however, in 'Between Two Fires', could resist the Ion cannon's shot. This was perhaps due to the reason that Tanith's ship had been equipped with advanced shielding technology gained from Ancient knowledge, acquired by another Goa'uld later revealed to be Anubis.

Ori technology

The Ori are essentially the same race as the Ancients. However, the two groups split millions of years ago to avoid a war. Thus, the Ori's technology is as advanced as the Ancients. As a body, the Ori are completely Ascended, and they often use this to further enhance the effects of their technology. Overall, all of their efforts, including their technology, are for the purpose of garnering worshippers. For every person who donates his or her free will to the Ori, via an extremely complex metaphysical process, the Ori gain power, and hope to wipe out the Ancients.

The \"Supergate\"

This is a Stargate-like device built out of hundreds of smaller devices. These devices are about four meters wide and ten meters long, the perfect size to fit through the Stargate. Once through the gate, they arrange themselves in a circle in orbit around a planet, creating a giant gate hundreds of meters in diameter, large enough to fit entire fleets through. However, the power requirements for this are immense, requiring that the planet and the Stargate on it to be turned into a quantum singularity in order to provide the intense gravitational energy necessary to feed the Supergate.

Like the Stargate, the Supergate only works one way once activated. In "Camelot", Samantha Carter stated that with the quantum singularity the gate could be sustained indefinitely and that if they could activate the gate on their side of the galaxy it could keep the Ori's forces from accessing the gate indefinitely.

Wraith technology

The Wraith were the bane of the Ancients, a species that literally sucks the life out of humans for its food, thinks of humans as cattle, and "culls" planets for its "herd." They existed in vast numbers in the Pegasus Galaxy, and the two races were at war for centuries. Although Wraith technology is highly advanced it did not surpass that of the Ancients; according to the records in Atlantis, the Ancients won almost every battle with the Wraith, but due to the Wraith's simply massive numbers, they eventually managed to cause the Ancients to fall back to Atlantis and eventually leave the Pegasus Galaxy altogether.

Wraith Dart

The Wraith Dart is a small vessel used most times for culling. A culling beam sweeps along the ground and turns human life into energy, much like the Stargate, saving the humans to be rematerialized and fed upon later. The culling beam can also be used to transport Wraith soldiers, beaming them down while the dart is still in motion, as seen in "The Siege (Part 2)". Darts are stored in a Wraith Hive-Ship and are capable of incredible speeds.

Wraith Hive-ship

The Wraith hive-ship is one of the largest known spacecraft and the centerpiece of Wraith civilization. The ships themselves have powerful energy beam weapons capable of destroying medium-sized unshielded targets, such as defense platforms. Despite their mass, hive-ships can land on planets. It has been evidenced that hive-ships can remain buried under forest growth and act as a colony ship, where the Wraith hibernate for generations to centuries at a time.

The hive-ships are hyperspace capable, though they can only make short jumps through hyperspace. This limitation in their hyperspace drives is what has confined the Wraith to the Pegasus galaxy for thousands of years.

Other technology

There are various other technologies that do not belong to prominent races, but are nevertheless significant or pivotal to the plot. For a listing of these, see: List of miscellaneous technology in the Stargate universe.

External links

• [Stargate Technology Center](Currently Offline)
• [Gateworld] - A massive site containing information on Stargate Technology

 

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