Talk:Matter stream

I just had a wacky but surprisingly plausable (for something that's wacky) idea:

What if...the matter stream isn't produced by the Ancient rings, but by another Goa'uld technology. I mean, think about it this way, Ancient rings will (when not programmed specificly not to) connect to the nearest set of rings. So if we assume that the Goa'uld don't understand, and are not able to alter, the inner workings or programming of a ringset, and are only able to reproduce them exactly as they are, then it would seem logical that they would have to find a way to redirect ringsets from connecting to the nearest one and to the one that they want them to, using external means. Now, a good way of doing this would be to create something that sends out the same signals as a ring transporter and makes the real ringset think that it is one, and then have it recieve the invisible matter stream from the real rings, and then send it to another, similar device, in close proximity to the recieving rings, which would then send out the same signals as a ring transporter and connect with it to reform what was transported. This could be used to transport between ships that have multiple ring transporters aboard, by firing the matter in a Goa'uld-designed matter stream to be recieved by the other ship and sent to one of it's ring transporters.

This theory explains a great many problems with the rings:


 * Why matter streams are only visible when firing from/to planets or ships (because there would be more than one ring transporter on one or both ends,) but are invisibly when going between points on the ground
 * Why all rings look the same
 * Why the Goa'uld (and Tau'ri) have no control over ring transporters other than "Activate" (for example they can never turn the rings off or cancel an incoming transport, even when it would seem highly appropriate to,)
 * Why the matter streams between ships are so tacky and unsafe in their design. Ancient technologies are known for their strict (and often highly intrusive) safety protocols, and it seems surprising that they would mass-produce something that requires only another ship to fly in between it to steal the transport and (potentially) slice the occupant of the matter stream in half.
 * Why matter streams fire from the top of a Ha'tak instead of the location of the ring-room
 * Probably a great many other problems as well

It also relys entirely on the ring's origional Ancient programming and so explains why the Goa'uld can only turn them on.

I also made a cool diagram of it, here http://img3.imageshack.us/i/diagring1.png/  ( didn't think the admins would want me uploading it to the site :D )

So please comment and stuff, don't let my genious go to waste :P Sman789 (talk) (Contribs) 21:40, October 26, 2009 (UTC)