On Atlantis? You want to point me at a character who's got the requisite engineering degree from Halla-University in order to be confident in making large scale alterations to a city ship?PREDATOR490 wrote:If they cant run the Ancient shields then why not simply install Asgard shield emitters ?
Seriously, the stuff the wonder-kids like McKay do, it's all physics. Just because they know how the shields work and such, doesn't mean they're up to making massive alterations to a city-ship that remained cutting edge among a race millions of years beyond our own, for millions of years. Even if they had the manpower
Asgard technology is also accustomed to running with a very large industrial base of competant people behind it. The Tau'ri are doing all this in secret, with people who've spent most of their lives thinking fission power is the dog's bollocks for power.The Asgard technology should have at least contained designs for better power generators so I remain highly skeptical of any future attempts to play the 'not enough power' card.
Where would they get the fuel for asgard reactors? Which, note, were not naquadah/naquadria based; naq is very good for that, all you have to do is have some primatives dig it out of the ground, a trivial amount of refinement, and it's ready to give you power - we've no idea what the Asgard's ordinary (as distinct from the 'Asgard Core' which runs supplementary systems, and is probably something like a ZPM, given the description in Unending) power systems use as fuel, but I'm betting Earth nas no infrastructure to set about using it.
