Talk:Ion drive

Is this an interstellar engine, or only interplanetary? We know this travels around a solar system pretty fast, at least to their planet and the sun. The Serrakin came from some other planet to Herbidan, and then freed the humans from the goa'uld, so unless their is a second inhabited planet in the same star system it would have had to have been interstellar. Major Carter said she "cant wait to see how they generate enough thrust to...", was she saying enough thrust to make a viable interstellar engine, or accelerates into ftl, or...? We see one Serakin ship in another episode, the one where Vala steals a modified cargo ship. One of the ships in the race owned by Jarlath. It was one of the same model, with unkown modifications. What this amounts to asking is... did they have some form of FTL, which is almost certainly necessary for interstallar travel? How this ftl functions may be 100% different and far less advanced then any ancient design, but allowed some way of altering space around the ship to allow superluminal speeds, this would undoubtedly mean the ship would have a second device to do that, or a second component within the drive system. This also can come from another question. Was the Sebrus in another star system when it crashed, or were their two worlds with gates used by the Goa'uld within the same star system, if thats even possible, one for hebridan, and one for the world he crashed on. If it was in another star system, we are 100% certain it was capable of superluminal speeds. I find it somewhat unlikely that their are 3 highly hospitable planets in the same star system, because a planet needs sufficient size to hold a proper atmosphere for lifeforms such as us, so planets have to be somewhat spaced out to collect enough mass, but still be within a certain distance from the sun, among many other factors, 3 planets is slightly extreme, and these planets have to be able to support humans, and a species with roughly the same tolerances as humans.74.129.66.59 19:42, May 13, 2010 (UTC)