The stardrive requires an enormous amount of power to be exerted at once for the sublight engines to lift the city off of a planet, and so usually it can only be activated if there are at least 2 ZPMs powering the city-ship.
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The stardrive allows a city-ship travel to distant galaxies in only a matter of hours when at full power, and the sublight function of a stardrive is so fast, even when powered by nothing more than one ZPM, that the dialing device of a city-ship's Stargate is incapable of establishing a point of origin when the city-ship is traveling through normal space. ( SGA: " The Return, Part 2", " First Strike") The Asurans were able to repair the damage before they were eventually destroyed. However, a drone attack by Doctor Carson Beckett disabled the stardrive before takeoff. ( SGA: " The Tower")Īfter taking control of Atlantis, the Asurans attempted to fly Atlantis back to their homeworld using the stardrive. Charging the stardrive resulted in a great deal of shaking in the Tower, but successfully depleted the ZPM.
Colonel John Sheppard ordered Doctor Rodney McKay to charge the Tower's stardrive, stating that it would be the single greatest power drain they could find. In order to drain the remaining power from the Tower's ZPM, Lt. Without the failsafes, this would've been more than enough to destroy Atlantis had the failsafes not been reenabled just in time.
The stardrive is a feature on city-ships that allows them to travel through space at FTL speeds, and consists of both a sublight engine and hyperdrive.ĭuring the Goa'uld attempt to destroy Atlantis, a program set by the Goa'uld operative started powering up the Atlantis stardrive while the ZPM's failsafes were disengaged. " Look, the city, as you know, is just a giant spaceship with a stardrive capable of faster-than-light travel." ― Rodney McKay
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