Timeline for Why did the Ancients wait so long to launch Destiny?
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| Nov 20, 2018 at 20:04 | history | edited | Jenayah | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2014 at 9:14 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Izkata: I figured they found it during the periodic sun charge dropouts (and accompanying four-hour wait FTL cooldown period). | |
| Jul 19, 2014 at 18:04 | comment | added | Izkata | @KevinHowell Destiny could not have been travelling continuously in FTL, or the blue aliens from Season 1 would not have been able to learn about/attack the ship prior to the series start - during the season they were always safe while in FTL | |
| Feb 14, 2012 at 14:18 | comment | added | Kevin Howell | But all of this comment is conjecture and there is no support for it from the series so I won't add it to my answer. It's a plot hole because as you stated in your question the 2000 year gap exist and there is no explanation for it | |
| Feb 14, 2012 at 14:18 | comment | added | Kevin Howell | The Destiny was launched in FTL and has been traveling a that speed ever since. The seed ships would have to travel at a lesser speed in order to scout out potential planets for stargates and resources. The would not be able to do this in FTL. The only way would be if the seed ships were launched from another ship that was traveling in FTL and still is ahead of Destiny. It would have to be launched at the furthest point it could and Destiny would have to have been launched much much further back from it for a 2000 year gap to appear. | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 17:46 | comment | added | NominSim | @KevinHowell I don't understand how this is a plot hole? There were multiple(potentially many) seed ships travelling ahead of Destiny, why is it necessary that they travel slower? | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 21:09 | comment | added | Kevin Howell | At first I was going to say that the launching points of the ships would account for the time differences, but then I realized the Destiny was traveling by FTL the whole way until it was manned and the seed ships would of had to travel slower than that so that they could find the worlds and resources the Destiny needed. So I believe you've found a large plot hole. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 21:06 | history | edited | Kevin Howell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2012 at 1:49 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Your first paragraph: yes, but none of that explains the 2,000 years gap. And we saw in the very first episode that Destiny followed a single line (if not completely straight) and we know from dialogue since that it's following the path of the seed ships. That's why the seed ships existed: to go before along Destiny's route. As for your second paragraph, it's always been implied that the Ancient lifespan was similar to a human's and, if nothing else, the history of known characters like Myrrdin supports that notion. | |
| Jan 24, 2012 at 17:46 | history | answered | Kevin Howell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |