Miscellaneous technology in Stargate
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- This article lists prominent technologies in the Stargate universe that cannot be categorised by race due to the race's lack of prominence.
- A less specific overview of Stargate technology may be found at the main technology article.
These are technological advancements made by miscellaneous other civilizations in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. These are generally made by the more advanced human civilizations that have appeared. As numerous advanced technologies exist, only important ones are listed here.
[edit] Asuran Energy Pistol
Handheld weapon developed by the Asurans for personal defense. The technology emits pulses of blue energy which may or may not be capable of penetrating Ancient shielding.
It is not known if the Asuran pistol is based on a model originally created by the Ancients (like the rest of their civilization) or is an original design.
[edit] Athosian fire starter
A device that shoots a laser beam to make fire for heat or cooking. It is evidence that the Athosians were once technologically advanced.
[edit] Atoniek armbands
The Atonieks were the subject of legends across the galaxy because of a technology which gave them unprecedented speed and strength. These devices turned out to be real; they were armbands discovered by the Tok'ra Anise in an archaeological survey of the Atoniek planet.
The armbands used a virus to cause the change in the subjects. Eventually the Atoniek warriors developed an immunity to the virus, causing the armbands to become ineffective. The armbands are ineffective on the Goa'uld, Tok'ra, and Jaffa likely because of the healing powers of the symbiote.
Anise brought the armbands to Earth where Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter and Daniel Jackson put on the armbands, significantly increasing their abilities. Carter is able to see well in the dark and is able to write a thousand-page book on wormhole physics in under two hours, while Daniel and Jack are able to read books in a matter of seconds. Feeling SG-1's judgement has been impaired by the armbands, Hammond removes them from active duty. When SG-1 learns of a prototype mothership being built by Apophis, SG-1 leaves the base and infiltrates the facility to destroy the ship. While in the facility, the members of SG-1 develop an immunity to the virus produced by the armbands and are no longer able to pass through the Goa'uld force-shields leaving them stranded until Teal'c arrives to rescue them.
[edit] Breeder Recon Drones
Only seen in "The Other Side". Recon Drones are unmanned.
[edit] Gadmeer terraformer
When the benevolent race known as the Gadmeer came to extinction, they programmed a ship to find and locate a suitable planet to restart their civilization. Equipped with DNA sample, records of their history, art and culture and the resources needed to terraform an entire planet. After scanning a million planets, some inhabited, the ship managed to find a planet perfect enough to terraform. However, the systems discovered that the human race known as the Enkarans, had already settled. With barely enough resources to restart on another world, the computers scanned a few of the Enkarans and created a similar yet different representation of them, a biomechanical being called Lotan. Lotan's purpose was to convince the Enkarans to leave. However, Sg-1 planned to use the naquadah generator as a bomb to destroy the ship, since the Gadmeer are already dead. Daniel Jackson told Lotan he must stop the terraforming or else he would be destroying the Gadmeers' very belief on life. Using the ship, Lotan brought the Enkarans to their original homeworld and it later came back to terraform.
[edit] Genii Technology
The Genii are a race of people in the Pegasus Galaxy that appear to be simple, Amish-like farmers but are a more advanced, militaristic culture that is technologically equivalent to Earth in the 1940s.
[edit] Genii Computer
Given that the rest of Genii technology indicates an equivalence to 1940s, these computers are remarkably advanced; they feature monochrome screens and are more compact than any computers on Earth from before 1960s or even the early 1970s, and are correspondingly more common. While there were several electronic computers in the 1940s, particularly in the codebreaking sections of the militaries of the United States and United Kingdom, they were the size of several rooms. Genii contact with Wraith computing doubtless allowed them to make such great advances in this area of technology.
[edit] Genii Firearms
The Genii, being extremely militaristic, have several types of firearms, and make them in large quantities.
[edit] Genii Rifles
Genii rifles tend to have three barrels, arranged in an obtuse isosceles triangle, with the central barrel on top and the vertex of the obtuse angle. The Genii Rifles, like those of the Tau'ri, are projectile based; they are, however, considerably inferior due to their size and bullet capacity.
[edit] Genii Pistols
The barrel of a Genii pistol is very distinctive, having the form of a cylinder approximately the size of an American can of soda. There is a hole in the middle, apparently the muzzle of the weapon. It is cocked by sliding a movable section to the side, rather than the backwards-cocking familiar on Earth.
[edit] Genii Nuclear Weapons
The Genii are highly endeavored with developing nuclear weapons, and most of their efforts for the first year of Earth's involvement in the Pegasus Galaxy were directed at extracting the necessary high explosives (namely C-4) to compress the sub-critical mass of plutonium.
[edit] Memory-grafting device (Galarans)
Invented by the Galarans, a civilization that developed to roughly on the same technological level as Earth under the protective umbrella of the Protected Planets Treaty. Before becoming a Protected Planet, it had been under Goa'uld rule, and it appears that a Goa'uld memory device had been left by the previous rulers of the planet; the Galaran government conducted extensive research into creating a successful device with the same function. The memory-grafting device allows individuals to share memories almost seamlessly, with great military and professional applications (for example, learning to become a fighter pilot or learning a new language in a matter of weeks rather than years). Stargate Command obtained at least one such device from the Galaran government in exchange for Earth's hyperdrive designs and made a few modifications. [1] The device was later used on several occasions, most notably by Cameron Mitchell to help a dying friend[2]. One of the most important uses, was giving Vala a false memory of the infinite treasure known as Clava Thessara Infinitas in order to capture the Orici Adria.
[edit] The Link
When the planet known to the SGC as P3X-289 became covered in poisonous gas, the inhabitants took shelter in a protective dome and were given information from a computer known as the Link meant to maintain the community. However, 200 years ago, the geothermal vents that powered the dome cooled and the dome began to shrink. To compensate for the loss, the Link sent people out into the poisonous environment and erased anyones' memory of the person. However, it didn't anticipate outside interference from SG-1 and when they discovered what happened, the Link tried to assimilate them. However, one of the villagers, Pallan, erased everyone's memory of SG-1 through the Link before revealing the truth.
[edit] Mimic Devices
Used by unnamed aliens from P3X-118 in an attempt to establish a foothold in the SGC, Mimic Devices enable their bearer to look and sound like someone else. Seen in "Foothold" and "Smoke & Mirrors".
[edit] Orbanian Naqahdah reactor
The Naqahdah reactor technology was the first such technology encountered by the SGC, infact it was the Orbanian girl Marin which taught the then Major Samantha Carter how to build the first Naqahdah reactor which then slowly evolved into the more compact naquadah generator, and paved the way for the starship hyperdrive based on the Naqahdria isotope reactor generator. The Orbanian Naqahdah reactor is covered in an ornate cuboid radiation shield decorated aesthetically with the Orbanians linear design. As for the Orbanians themselves, nothing has been mentioned of them since season 3.
[edit] Quantum Mirror
The Quantum Mirror is a mirror-like device made of Naquadah (of unknown origin) discovered by Daniel Jackon on the planet P3R-233[3]. Its purpose is similar to a Stargate, except that it transports the traveler between parallel universes, not planets.
Because of Daniel Jackson's experience with this device, he was able to learn that the Goa'uld were sending an attack in ships to Earth, which was subsequently thwarted as a result[4]. The device was recovered by the SGC and put in Area 51; there, it lay dormant for two years until it was activated by alternate universe versions of Dr. Samantha Carter and Maj. Charles Kawalski in their flight from an Earth under Goa'uld domination. With SG-1's help, they managed to contact the Asgard in their own universe, saving their version of Earth[5]. The mirror was later destroyed.
Seven years later, the SGC regretted destroying the mirror when many versions of SG-1 from alternate realities started coming through the gate.[6]
[edit] Ronon's Gun
This pistol, carried by Ronon Dex, is an energy weapon with multiple settings(most likely just the two mentioned). Its lowest setting is a stun blast capable of rendering a target unconscious for a number of hours, but leaving them otherwise unharmed. The most powerful setting (seen thus far) of the weapon has the same effect as a shotgun, capable of blowing open a hole approximately ten inches (25 centimeters) wide. It has the appearance of a long-barreled revolver, with the rear part of the cylinder glowing red like the blasts it fires. However, the cylinder color shows what setting the weapon is on, red is stun and white is kill [7]. Asurans are temporarily stunned when struck by this gun's power blasts, and one shot from this gun can take down a UAV. The weapon's origin is unknown; the Satedan technology seen thus far seems substantially below this level (More on the Genii level), and while the Wraith probably are capable of building such a weapon, its styling is inconsistent with Wraith design. To that end the gun was probably built by the once advanced human societies in the pegasus galaxy.
[edit] The Sentinel (Latonans)
The Sentinel was a device created by the Latonans to protect their world. They regressed in technology and height to open their minds and forgot how to work it. Two rogue NID agents came to Latona to study the Sentinel to defend Earth. They took it apart and put it back together. They encountered the caretaker, a person who guards the Sentinel and they killed him. When the Goa'uld invaded Latona, SG-1 tried to find out what's wrong with the device. It requires a human to sacrifice himself/herself to activate it. ("The Sentinel")
[edit] Touchstone
The Touchstone is a device on the planet Madrona designed to control the weather. However, if removed from Madrona, the weather starts to deteriorate. It was stolen by men in SGC uniforms who were suspected to be NID agents. Though the NID agents escaped, SG-1 brought the Touchstone back to Madrona.
[edit] Wraith vaccination (Hoffans)
The people of the planet Hoff, were trying to create a drug that could make them immune to the Wraith feeding. With help from Carson Beckett, they managed to successfully create it. A volunteer took the drug and was tested on the captured Wraith commander Major Sheppard dubbed Steve. Steve couldn't feed on the volunteer and shortly died due to the drug side effects. However the vaccine would kill 50% of those that had taken the drug. The Hoffans voted almost unanimously to begin wide spread inoculations despite the drawback. ("Poisoning the Well").
[edit] References
- ^ "Collateral Damage". Stargate SG-1. 2005-01-13. No. 12, season 9.
- ^ "Stronghold". Stargate SG-1. 2006-01-27. No. 14, season 9.
- ^ "There But For the Grace of God". Stargate SG-1.
- ^ "The Serpent's Lair". Stargate SG-1.
- ^ "Point of View". Stargate SG-1.
- ^ "Ripple Effect". Stargate SG-1.
- ^ "Progeny". Stargate Atlantis. No. 5, season 3.
