Talk:Asgard (Stargate)
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[edit] Technology level
I have a belief that the Asgard posses a much higher degree of technology than the television series seems to imply. Because the Asgard, Alterans, Nox and Furling were all part of an alliance of Great Races, I strongly believe that the Asgard possess the same level of technology as the Alterans did before they ascended. The Nox have also proved their high level of technology is also comparable to the Alterans when they revealed their floating city. I'm not sure if I'm simply being biased, or if my claim has true value. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.223.116.103 (talk • contribs).
- Unless you can come up with references for this it looks like original research. Wikipedia's got a policy against that sort of thing, so we can't include it in the article; see Wikipedia:No original research. Furthermore, if the Asgard have the same level of technology as the Ancients, why did they need O'Neill to access the knowledge of the Ancients and build an anti-Replicator weapon for them? Thor mentioned in that episode that the Asgard have tried to download the repository of the Ancients themselves but their computers can't handle the amount of raw data, let alone process it. Bryan 04:17, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
It is most definately a case of original research which is why i have refrained from editing the main article. However, even with the evidence you presented about the Repository of the Ancients, i can't help but believe that they weren't the least advanced race in the Alliance of the Great Four Races. Again, probably biased. 64.223.116.103 13:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
The war with the replicators also seems to be similar to the war the Ancients had with the Wraith, who were less advanced but seemed to "copy" Ancient technology and overwhelm the ancients with superior numbers. 64.223.116.103 13:13, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
- If I might add something, it may be that the Asgard are a Civilization in decline, perhaps once in the distant past they (and the other 2 races) possessed Technology as advanced as that of the "Ancients", but they may have lost this knowledge over time. Also they can no longer reproduce, this is defiantly indicative of a decline, and perhaps Technological decline is part of this.--Hibernian 18:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Responsible for abductions?
I deleted this poorly worded text from Greys, intending to reword it and put it into this Asgard article:
- The Asgard were responsible for the abduction of humans from Earth to further their genetic experimentation, the Asgard in the show suffer from a lack of reproduction abilities, basically sexless the Asgard used human DNA to further their experiments and ultimately save their race.
However, not being very familiar with the Stargate TV series, I'm unable to verify that the statement about abductions is true. If anyone can verify that this is part of Stargate canon, feel free to add something about abductions to the Asgard article. Wdfarmer 05:29, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Within the show, a rogue Asgard scientist named Loki began unsanctioned experiments upon members of humanity in an attempt to discover a solution to the genetic degradation that was plaging his species. However, he did not actually perform experiments upon humanity (Unless you count examination as experimenting) and the tests did not provide any help to the Asgard. In addition, the Asgard High Council put a stop to Loki's actions as soon as they were aware of them, the Asgard do not believe in abusing less-advanced species. 67.85.165.48 15:31, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Beaming technology
Is the Asgard beaming technology more advanced than that of the Ancients? The ancients seemed to have used the ring transporters, but those required platforms and a direct path to the location, but the Asgard aren't limited in that way.
[edit] Written Language
On Talk:The Torment of Tantalus (Stargate SG-1), I posted the results of an attempt to transliterate the Asgard inscription in that episode. I'm trying to find screen captures of more recent bits of their writing that I can have a crack at (the Ancient script used in that episode is not much like the current one, so I'm not making any assumptions about the Asgard one). --Grey Knight 01:11, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
