Asgard technology
From SGCommand
- "Are you implying that our technology is some kind of trickery?"
- —Freyr speaking to Colonel Jack O'Neill
The Asgard possess a level of technology rivaling that of the Ancients and the Ori, though they appear to have surpassed even them in some areas. The Tau'ri are now the only race which has access to the entirety of the knowledge and technology of the now extinct race; however it will likely take them decades, maybe even centuries, to fully understand and put to widespread use.
[edit] Overview
Dependent on neutronium, the Asgard possessed a level of technology vastly superior to that of Goa'uld and many other races throughout the universe. Indeed, the only races with a level of technology comparable to the Asgard are the Ancients, the Ori, and possibly the Nox and Furlings. Their ships were capable of traversing thousands of light years in minutes, and their shields could take multiple hits from Ori motherships while remaining undamaged, which had never been done before. Shortly before their extinction, the Asgard developed energy weapons capable of, with repeated strikes, defeating the shields of Ori motherships, which had previously proved impervious to everything except the superweapon on Dakara and the unstable vortex of the Ori's own Supergate. They had also mastered advanced transportation and holographic technology.
They lost the abiltiy to reproduce by normal means; their species was dependent on a process of cloning and transferring the mind, although this caused a decay of the Asgard genome that eventually led to the species extinction. While the Asgard maintained a great fleet of ships with extensive capabilities, they were altogether not a militaristic race and strongly disapproved of using technology aggressively. For this reason, the beaming technology equipped on Tau'ri ships had many safeguards in place to prevent the transporters from beaming warheads aboard enemy ships (though this safeguard can be removed if absolutely necessary).
[edit] Known technology
- Auto-dialer
- Beaming technology
- Cloaking technology
- Cloning technology
- Computer core
- Consciousness transfer technology
- Control crystal interface
- Energy weapons
- Explosion suppression system
- Hand device
- Holographic technology
- Hyperdrive technology
- Neutrino-ion generator
- Personal cloaking device
- Power core
- Replicator disruptor satellite
- Sensor technology
- Shield technology
- Shock spear
- Stasis pod
- Stones
- Thor's Hammer
[edit] External links
- Asgard technology on Wikipedia
