- PLUT0NIUM 235
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- Honorable Member
biggest problem adding the Ancients into this argument is the fact that Stargate writers are pretty inconsistent, and screwed the Ancients over from day one, giving them insane technology in one instance but then quite primitive technology in others. a small example, the Stargate system in the Milky Way is well over a million years old and it still works without any trouble, near instant travel between two points of varying distance, the power supply in the dial-home device is still working after all that time! that is very very very advanced technology, well beyond anything in Halo or Mass Effect by a healthy margin. no ship version of the Stargate is seen, which is stupid to be honest on the writers part, transportation of ships from one side of the galaxy to the other without using their own power reserves sounds great?
another incredible Ancient technology, their shielding. we have seen time and time again they are impossible to penetrate, no other word for it, the shield of Atlantis survived never ending orbital bombardment for a hundred years, one hundred years of constant bombardment without failing once, that is incredible! the Ori use 'Ancient' shields as well and one of their ships survives being rammed full speed by a Ha'tak, with no damage or shield failure. Anubis, and his super-ship used 'primitive' Ancient shielding and that survived an engagement with around 30 Ha'tak (which can apparently level entire cities from orbit) with no damage and again no shield failure.
more incredible technology, the tiny personal energy shield that Rodney activated by accident, which made him impervious to everything, even drinking! he was shot, thrown from balconies, nothing penetrated the shield, imagine foot soldiers with those, also only work for people with the Ancient Technology Activation gene, so only Ancients can use them, like all of their technology. their double A batteries harness zero point energy from effectively 'universes' and can last millions of years and still function correctly, also can destroy entire star systems if they go bad! Puddle Jumpers (Gate-ships) have a cloak that is totally undetectable, both to sensors and visually, no distortion like Covenant cloaking, the cloak doesn't seem to require much power either.
the technology level possessed by the Ancients is superior even to the Forerunner, also believe they are capable of matter replication using their transportation technology, since we never see or hear anything about mining for raw materials or anything. I think the Precursors are like Halo Ancients, beings that have shed their corporeal existence leaving behind timeless relics, the Stargate for example, even hundreds of thousands of years after their 'demise' people still struggle to understand! also the writers were stupid, based on Ancient technology, even with their 'backward' military thinking how could they have possibly lost to the Wraith, with their impossible shields, weapons that ignore armour/shields alike and faster than light travel that lets them travel the void between galaxies in no time at all, also personal energy shields that simply prevent anything from touching the occupant, how does a Wraith feed on a shielded Ancient when not even coffee can pass through?
also, Reapers get owned by both Ancients and Forerunner, get over it!