Asgard technology

"Are you implying that our technology is some kind of trickery?"

- Freyr speaking to Colonel Jack O'Neill The Asgard possess a level of technology rivaling that of the Ancients and the Ori, though they appear to have surpassed even them in some areas. Enemies vastly superior to the Tau'ri when they begun using the Stargate, such as the Goa'uld, were no threat to the Asgard.

Over ten thousands years ago, an Asgard named Famrir was temporarily a host to Ra. Even though the symbiote was removed ans his body restored to perfect health he became mad and together with his fellow Asgard pushed the Goa'uld to the brink of extinction. Much to their anger and unwillingness, the were forced to kneel before the Asgard until the latter becume occupied elsewhere, in another galaxy. This allowed the Goa'uld to be the dominant force in the galaxy for centuries, as all they had to do was to aviod attacking planets still protected by the Asgard.

If the bodies of the Asgard hadn't suffer from the ill effects from countless generations of cloning they could probably have ascended thousands of years ago, if they so had desired. The Tau'ri are now the only race which has access to the entirety of the knowledge and technology of the now extinct race; however it will likely take them decades, maybe even centuries, to fully understand and put to widespread use.

Overview
Dependent on neutronium, the Asgard possessed a level of technology vastly superior to that of Goa'uld and many other races throughout the universe. Indeed, the only races with a level of technology comparable to the Asgard are the Ancients, the Ori, and possibly the Nox and Furlings. Their ships were capable of traversing thousands of light years in minutes, and their shields could take multiple hits from Ori warships while remaining undamaged, which had never been done before. Shortly before their extinction, the Asgard developed energy weapons capable of, with repeated strikes, defeating the shields of Ori warships, which had previously proved impervious to everything except the superweapon on Dakara and the unstable vortex of the Ori's own Supergate. They had also mastered advanced transportation and holographic technology.

Some technology that the Asgard possess was developed from the study of information recovered from an Ancient information repository. The Asgard, Thor, said that they had barely scratched the surface, after their many years of study. Their position as one of the "four great races" is well deserved: unlike so many other races they have created their technology completely by their own understanding. They don't use technology other than their own, but on very rare occasions when, such as at the time Jack O'Neill created the replicator disruptor, Thor gave him full credit for it. A display of the incredible intelligence and understanding of an Asgard mind could be witnessed when Thor investigated Jack O'Neills creation and within a mere hour or so already knew exactly how the Ancient device worked, and how to improve it. Kvasir was fully aware how the Sangraal operated, and explained it to Samantha Carter, who admitted it was well beyond her understanding. The Asgard have honored the Tau'ri on more than one occassion, naming their most advanced battleship "The O'Neill" and an advanced research vessel "The Daniel Jackson".

They lost the ability to reproduce by normal means; their species was dependent on a process of cloning and transferring the mind, although this caused a decay of the Asgard genome that eventually led to the species extinction. While the Asgard maintained a great fleet of ships with extensive capabilities, they were altogether not a militaristic race and strongly disapproved of using technology aggressively. For this reason, the beaming technology equipped on Tau'ri ships had many safeguards in place to prevent the transporters from beaming warheads aboard enemy ships (though this safeguard has since been removed).

When the Asgard realized that they were going to die and planned to commit mass suicide in order to prevent their technology from falling into the wrong hands, they summoned the Odyssey to Orilla in order to give new upgrades to the ship as well as the Asgard computer core so that the Tau'ri would have access to all of their technology as their legacy and as the Asgard felt that the Tau'ri was the Fifth Great Race and was the only hope for peace. Among the upgrades was the Asgard plasma beam weapons, the first time a Tau'ri ship had been given Asgard weapons. These new weapons proved extremely effective against the most powerful shields, penetrating those of the Ori warships and Aurora-class battleships in just a few shots and destroying them. While it was shown in an alternate timeline that Wraith hive ships can also be destroyed in just a few shots, the ZPM powered hive ship proved immune to the weapons, taking minimal damage even when two ships attacked it at the same time with the weapons. This hive ship was the only ship known to be immune to these Asgard weapons.

Known technology

 * Auto-dialer
 * Beaming technology
 * Cloaking technology
 * Cloning technology
 * Computer core
 * Consciousness transfer technology
 * Control crystal interface
 * Galaxy-class laser
 * Plasma beam weapon
 * Explosion suppression system
 * Hand device
 * Holographic technology
 * Hyperdrive technology
 * Invisibility device
 * Ion guns
 * Neutrino-ion generator
 * Power core
 * Replicator disruptor satellite
 * Sensor technology
 * Shield technology
 * Shock spear
 * Stasis pod
 * Stones
 * Communication device
 * Thor's Hammer