Stargate Atlantis - The Battle of Asuras

The Wraith, Tau'ri and the Travelers team up to destroy the
Human-Form Replicators (Asurans) once and for all!

[@redmondpeters6221]

All those ships gathered together is badass. One thing I loved about sci-fi shows and movies...space battles. Space battles made me so giddy.

[@kenp7814]

Pew Pew Pew .... Wraith playing Asteroids Deluxe

[@RedneckRapture]

Every space battle is better when a planet blows up at the end.

[@Amollion]

Its impressive how these three peoples who would normally not get along were able to successfully co-ordinate an attack like this.

[@debbiebernhardt5406]

They knew the replicator threat from tauri engagements. They knew ancients tech was good and well intended if not in enemy hands like replicators. The wraith couldn’t handle the machines due to what the tauri had known.

[@tompearce5418]

Ironically even the Wraith had a vested interest in protecting humanity from the Asurans.

[@debbiebernhardt5406]

@@tompearce5418 they wanted their food source protected. But the fact that those replicator forces started attacking everyone after McKay messed with their base code and stole a zpm. The fact the duplicates of atlantis team clones were able to find out that they wereproducing ships again and had the locator for those replicator ships really was enough for them to eliminate them completely.

[@SimBir08]

Was a dangerous risk fighting so close to a wraith hive, when those things go up the blast wave would likely take a dozen friendlies with it.

[@sttiger97]

one of if not the best space battle in stargate history

[@ispyonthefbi]

sttiger97 so tru

[@BlackDiamond2718]

Like return of the jedi preparing the fleet.

[@Iybraesil]

So many awesome shots in this battle.

[@pendragonfan42]

Never realized there were that many Traveler ships present for this battle.

[@BasileusHorus]

I always thought that were only 4, as I was said previously but indeed were 6 but I saw in this battle 1 lost and another heavy damaged.

[@AuzarionSolaris]

They should have beamed people into the asuran ships as they were being pulled back to the planet, thus giving them ships to use albeit they still would have needed to upgrade them in the end, also send in teams to get zpms like the wraith did

[@dragonslair951167]

You're going to beam a handful of personnel who all need to have the Ancient gene (or gene therapy) aboard every single one of the Replicator ships, hope that they can get a hand on the controls and the hyperdrive isn't damaged or the ZPM depleted or the controls unusable, immediately after a pitched battle where most of your crew is busy at battle stations, hope that there aren't any delays or communications breakdowns, while having mere seconds before the planet explodes and destroys everything still present? Trained military personnel don't grow on trees, you know.

[@KageNoTenshi]

Taking over A ship under stress and that kinda time limit is a stretch, taking more than one is down right dreaming

[@TheDjbz]

Add to that the difficulty of having to do that stuff *in a spacesuit* because the ships have a crapola load of holes in them

[@SardonicALLY]

@@TheDjbz Not only are they full of holes... but why would Replicators maintain life support on their ships anyway, when they're not biological life forms?

[@BlackDiamond2718]

You would need to disable their shields at least. If that works hopefully they can just beam and take over and just get out of there. Would’ve done the same for zpms.

[@ZTHYankee]

I'd say the best space battle is the Daedalus vs. Michael's Cruiser from the first episode of season 5.

[@xadam2dudex]

the SGC should have beamed aboard the Replicator ships and piloted them back to Atlantis..they had at least 3 ZPMs each

[@debbiebernhardt5406]

Yeah. Gene therapy needed.

[@Josh-oj9mm]

Those ships probably didn't have air in them. Would be possible if not for that

[@xadam2dudex]

@@Josh-oj9mm that's why you have EV suits

[@trymetal95]

i think it is a tie between this battle and the first battle with the Ori!

[@bayuthubaybss1666]

Good luck Profesor

[@thehantavirus]

the ori dint have any challenge, before the beam weapons.

[@chaosomega89]

Even if they beamed on bored the asurans warship they disabled all there hyperdrives so they wouldn't have been able to go anywhere but yes definitely should have grabbed the ZPM's and there drones for Atlantis

[@Klicktot]

chaosomega89 Actually the wraith were smart enouth to claim 3 zpm's

[@Suntizo]

@@Klicktot it was more than three

[@yorickhamlet57]

всё прекрасно и здорово, но нет в космосе звуков :)))

[@Mike-qc8xd]

no but we can pretend

[@momobeyond4464]

weren't the asuras the sons of the Lanteans?

[@ispyonthefbi]

moriah jenkins the asurans were the replicators

[@tompearce5418]

The Asurans were a nanite-based artificial intelligence designed to fight the Wraith that became self-aware and asked to have their aggressive impulses removed so that they could evolve. The Ancients refused and attempted to wipe them out. The Asurans rebuilt and stayed out of the rest of the First Wraith War because the Wraith hacked them and essentially programmed them to stay neutral. The Asurans built a splendid city on their Homeworld and bore something of a grudge against the Ancients, eventually trying to destroy Atlantis on several occasions as an act of spite once they found out that the city had survived. (During their brief occupation of the city they had the pleasure of massacring a large number of returned Ancients who rather idiotically assumed the Asurans were still programmed not to harm them). The Atlantis Expedition eventually hacked them and set them against the Wraith but it backfired when the Asurans started killing human populations to deprive the Wraith of food.. This clip shows the Wraith, Atlantis Expedition and a bunch of space nomads called Travellers joining forces to destroy the Asurans.

[@fredcarter8449]

Why did they take the ships

[@SardonicALLY]

I'm going to assume you meant ''didn't take the ships''. Answer: All the replicator ships were heavily damaged. They were targeting their engines the whole time, and they had massive damage to the hull from the nano-bots leaking out. Also, even though the Replicators wouldn't have an ''ancient gene'' requirement to operate their ships, it would make sense for them to have a technological equivalent. Like a car that won't start without the key inside of the vehicle. Each replicator could be transmitting a coded signal that allowed them to operate the ships, so humans couldn't steal them. I think they should have beamed down teams to steal ZPM's... lots of them!

[@brentbarr498]

OMG.. this render is SO BAD.. why even put this up.. it makes my eyes and brain hurt just TRYING to watch it...