Talk:Hyperdrive

Stardrive
Is the Atlantis stardrive not faster than all the known asgard ones? It is much larger and is designed specificly to channel the power of 3 ZPMs. The asgard ones were really built for one asgard generator, they may be able to travel from Ida in hours but pegasus is further away since the Asgard drive on the Oddyssey takes 4 days to get there at maximum power. Sman789 07:51, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * First of all there is no evidence as to whether or not Pegasus is farther away from Earth than Ida. Second, the typical Asgard hyperdrive is powered by 4 generators not one. Third, those generators have to be running at full power to send a ship to another galaxy in hours, which doesn't even put a dent in a ZPM. As for your original question: every indication has been given that the technology the Asgard installed on the 304s, apart from the Odyssey in "Unending" and what has since been refitted to the other ships of the class by the Tau'ri, was below par to what was installed on their own ships. The Asgard hyperdrive the stardrive is being compared to is the hyperdrive installed on the Odyssey in "Unending". If the Asgard hyperdrives on the Daedalus, Apollo, and the like is not up to par with those of the O'Neill-class (as has strongly been indicated), then who knows how fast the hyperdrive on the Odyssey would be with 3 ZPMs as it was already faster than any O'Neill-class ship with just one of them. —AscendedAlteran 18:58, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

If the asgard hyperdrive takes 4 days to reach pegasus but doesnt even put a dent in the ZPM then obviously it means that it is not capable of handling any more power then it used, so it must be slower. And even though the hyperdrive on the oddyessy may be slightly better than the one on the O'neill, theres only like 2 years difference between them being built so the improvement cant be that immense as to cut travel time by over 3 quarters. Sman789 23:19, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Your talking about power generation limitations not the hyperdrive itself. What I'm saying is that Asgard power generation isn't as efficient as a ZPM, so if an O'Neill-class had even one ZPM it would be much, much faster than it was even with Asgard generators. Your also overlooking the arguement made earlier about the 304 hyperdrives being less advanced than the standard hyperdrive on an Asgard ship before the upgrades to the Odyssey were installed, and your entire argument is based on the notion that the 304 hyperdrives are the most advanced the Asgard had at the time. Why would they be when the Asgard never give another race anything that might be used against them? If, for example, someone were to steal a 304 and use it to attack the Asgard, not only would the Asgard be hard pressed to defend themselves because of the advances they gave us, even w/out weapons, it would also be impossible for them to outrun one of our ships if they ever needed to retreat because we're using the same hyperdrives they are. This is of course overlooking the issue of efficient power generation. As for the advancement of the Odyssey hyperdrive, I'll concede that there might not be that much of a difference between it and an O'Neills; but when you imagine what the hyperdrive of an O'Neill would do with a single ZPM, then make even the slightest improvement and add two more' ZPMs, the "slightly upgraded" hyperdrive would then be capable of achieving speeds so astronomical that, when combined with the inertial stresses and tidal forces of subspace at such speeds, they might actually tear the ship apart if it traveled too far too fast. —AscendedAlteran 01:11, 16 January 2009 (UTC)