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nomail{at}gordol.org (Jeffrey Kaplan) writes:
| Previously on alt.tv.stargate-atlantis, Dan Lanciani said:
| 
| > Atlantis is a large, fragile target that depends completely on a power-
| > hungry shield to even survive vacuum.  It's only significant offensive
| > capability is launching drones--a capability that Earth should have had
| > already.  Rather than trying to fly Atlantis to Earth in a hurry they
| > would have been better served sending jumpers by gate.  Jumpers can also
| > fire drones, and two of the jumpers could have been equipped with ZPMs.
| > Possibly Atlantis could even launch drones through the gate to Earth which
| > brings me to:
| 
| How would you get the Jumpers out of the mountain?

How would I?  Well, naturally I'd use the Asgard transporter that I'd
had installed at the SGC to further my research of beaming through
worm holes.  Unfortunately the SGC might not be as creative, and with
all the transporter-equipped ships off getting destroyed by the Wraith
they would have to open the roof of the gate room to let the jumpers out.

Other possibilities: move the gate out of the gate room temporarily or
use a spare gate from the bridge project.  Use Merlin's cloaking device
to phase-shift the jumpers so you don't have to open anything.  Better
yet, use Merlin's cloaking device to cloak the planet and/or a gate-
buster to launch at the hive.  The Earth of SG1 has all sorts of technology
that had to be forgotten so Atlantis could come to the rescue.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl{at}danlan.*com
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