Chevron 7

1437 readers

1 users here now

Chevron 7

A community for sharing humor about Stargate in all its iterations.

Rules:

Follow the Lemmy.World Terms of Service. This includes (but is not limited to):
- Lemmy.World is not a place for you to attack other people or groups of people.
- Always be respectful of the privacy of others who access and use the website.
- Links to copyright infringing content are not allowed
Stay on topic. Posts must be directly related to Stargate, be it a meme, joke, screenshot, discussion prompt, etc.
Be good, don't be bad. You're an adult, or close enough, I trust you know how to act around people.

For more general Stargate content, visit [email protected]

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What sort of air defenses should Jaffa have? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Yes, this is your standard 'overthinking-stargate' post.

But given that the main rival to Jaffa and Goa'uld forces would traditionally be other Jaffa and Goa'uld, the primary (or secondary, second to policing civilians) threat would come from air assault and assorting air-support, given that Ha'tak could land, or bring gliders or both, and Al'kesh could show up independently of Ha'taks and gliders, you'd think that Jaffa would have ample air defenses. But as far as we've seen in the show, they don't.

What would complete the setting in that regard? Should they have had some sort of MANPADs? The ring-threading round gliders seem like the obvious choice, but they do not apparently make them as they once did, for some reason.

top 3 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

2 things come to mind.

The staff weapons have taken down gliders a couple times with enough shots. The other is a couple times there have been oversized staff weapons on a pedestal which can work as ground and air defence against larger ships.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I like that we don't see a lot of defense in Goa'uld technology. They believe that the only threats to them will come through the gate network that they (until recently) control completely.

Their weapons are purpose built to oppress slaves.

Their chief forms of defense, when truly threatened, are retreat and burying a wormhole.

It makes Stargate one of the most plausible "humanity resists advanced aliens" plots - because the Goa'uld are caught on their heels, tactically by Earth's wormhole being activated by humans who shouldn't have found it and (the Goloa'uld thought) shouldn't have had the wits to activate it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And things get strange as the Tau'ri are strangely good at war for having such a relative disadvantage regarding technology. Tau'ri weapons and tactics at the start of the series should not be effective and the development of Tau'ri technology is shockingly rapid and produces novel results.

The Goa'uld keep bringing knives to a gun fight while the Tau'ri started with a BB Gun but keep bringing better guns.