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Asgard Bilskirnir Class Battle Cruiser

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Name: Bilskirnir
Craft: Asgard Bilskirnir Class Battlecruiser
Type: Battlecruiser
Scale: Capital
Length: 1,400 x 640 meters
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 25; Skeleton: 1/+10
Passengers: 4,000
Cargo Capacity: 25,000 metric tons
Consumables: (Infinite)
Hyperdrive: x0.001
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 2D+1
Space: 8
Atmosphere: 365; 1,050 km/h
Hull: 8D
Shields: 5D+1
Sensors

  • Passive: 50 / 1D+1
  • Scan: 100 / 2D+1
  • Search: 200 / 3D+2
  • Focus: 5 / 5D

Weapons

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D
Space Range: 1-15/35/75
Atmosphere Range: 2-30/70/150 km
Damage: 11D
  • 8 Tractor Beams
Fire Arc: turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D
Space Range: 1-3/5/7.5
Atmosphere Range: 2-6/10/15 km
Strength: 8D

Miscellaneous

  • Asgard database
  • Cloaking Device: +40 Difficulty to detect ship
  • Holographic communicator
  • Stasis pod
  • Transporter arrays
  • 2 primary
  • 10 secondary

Description: "An Asgard mothership. I've heard them described in Jaffa legend."
—Teal'c

The Bilskirnir-class, also known as an Asgard mothership, was a series of spaceships used by the Asgard at the height of their power.

Bilskirnir-class motherships were the primary type of ship used by Asgard race. They had a distinctive shape with a hammer style front with wings by the side and a grayish hull. The sensors of these ships were quite accurate and capable of detecting movements within the vessel should intruders board the craft. This included a type of thermal sensor which allowed for the detection of warm blooded organisms moving about the ship in case the primary internal sensors were disabled.

They possessed an automated medical system that allowed for the healing of injured crewmen. However, it was possible to tamper with the system which was capable of killing an Asgard in the process. It included at least one medical stasis pod that can be used by the ship's Asgard commander in the event of a dire emergency.

The ship also contained a phase generator which emitted a subspace field which was deflected by certain systems in the ship. This in turn meant that the ship was incapable of tolerating an uncontrolled re-entry into a planet's atmosphere. Bilskirnir-class vessels were powered by a series of four neutrino-ion generators which produced an engine output of a maximum of one billion Earth kilojoules.

Such ships were more than a match for several standard Goa'uld Ha'tak motherships, although warships modified with Ancient technology by Anubis have been known to pose a greater threat. (SG1: "Nemesis")

Technology

Engine system

The Bilskirnir-class had the capability of crossing the galaxy in a matter of minutes and were even capable of crossing the intergalactic void to travel between galaxies. The speed of this was hampered if the vessel was towing another vessel along with it through hyperspace.

Forward propulsion was achieved through the use of two rear thrusters. A specific engine within the vessel allows for re-entry and was known as the deceleration drive. (SG1: "Nemesis")

Transporter array

Like most Asgard vessels, the Bilskirnir-class possessed a number of Asgard transporter arrays located on the ship. These were all aimed in different directions and allowed for maximum coverage. After entering a specific code into a computer terminal, the transporter array activated and the targeted material will be transported to an indicated cargo hold.

The limits of the transporter technology remains unknown, though the Prometheus was capable of transporting an entire skyscraper into orbit. Daedalus-class vessels are capable of at least equal feats. It is obvious that such feats were easily performable on the Bilskirnir-class as well, since it was capable transporting an entire army of Jaffa and three incomplete Goa'uld landing pads. (SG1: "Thor's Chariot")

The array included an outbound transporter technology allowing for crew to escape the ship and move to external locations such as a planet. In case of Replicator infestation, the ships outbound transporter was destroyed to prevent the Replicators from escaping the ship. It was capable of being pre-programmed by the crew in order to aid others who use the system in the future. (SG1: "Nemesis")


Asgard transporter

"I need a little help moving."
—Cameron Mitchell

Asgard transporters, also known as beaming technology, are advanced transportation systems similar in both appearance and function to Ancient beam transporters that are manufactured and used extensively by the Asgard, Tau'ri and later the Goa'uld.


Overview

Any matter targeted by an Asgard transporter is encompassed in a bright light and broken down into its base atoms, which are then transported to a designated location and reassembled. Unlike Transportation rings, which require platforms at both the previous and intended location for the process to work, the object being transported by an Asgard transporter can be beamed to and from anywhere. Replicators are attracted to the energy given off by these transporters, and human-form Replicators are capable of making themselves resistant to the process. (SG1: "Small Victories", "New Order, Part 1")

Every Asgard ship is equipped with beaming technology, and is often used as a means of getting from ship to planet and vice verse in a short period of time. It has been frequently used by the Asgard to transport humans onto their ships, often with little to no warning. This technology is a great tactical advantage in combat situations, and also provides great usefulness in society. (SG1: "Fair Game", "Small Victories")

Besides individuals and small objects, Asgard transporters are capable of beaming large amounts of matter, from complete skyscrapers to entire fleets of ships. (SG1: "Thor's Chariot", "Ex Deus Machina")

It is possible for an Asgard transporter to dematerialize an object and send it by unknown means to another materialization device. One known example is Gairwyn Who has been transported from Cimmeria to Thor's ship. (SG1: "Thor's Chariot") Another possible example of such feat may have been demonstrated when Loki abducted Jack O'Neill and Thor arived via transporter to Loki's ship. (SG1: "Fragile Balance")


History

The first Tau'ri encounter with Asgard beaming technology occurred on the planet Cimmeria. Some time after SG-1 destroyed Thor's Hammer, which protected the planet and its population from the Goa'uld, Cimmeria was invaded by Heru'ur. After SG-1 traveled to the planet and informed Thor of the invasion, achieving first contact with the Asgard in the process, Thor quickly arrived and utilized the transporters aboard his ship to easily remove the Goa'uld forces. (SG1: "Thor's Chariot")

When the Asgard first allowed the Tau'ri access to their beaming technology, they placed a series of failsafes into the transporters to prevent the humans from using the technology offensively. Despite this, the Daedalus used its transporters to beam nuclear warheads onto several Wraith hive-ships (with begrudging help from an Asgard), destroying them. The Wraith, however, were able to develop jamming codes that prevented the transporters from obtaining a lock, making the transporters all but useless against the Wraith. (ATL: "The Siege, Part 3")

The Asgard Hermiod was able to use the beaming technology to remove a Goa'uld parasite from the body of Steven Caldwell, apparently without harming him although the calculations were said to be extremely complex to avoid beaming out a chunk of his brain as well. (ATL: "Critical Mass")

Anubis was able to steal beaming technology from the Asgard by probing Thor's mind, and employed the technology on a mass scale. Asgard transporters were later put to extensive use by Osiris and Ba'al, who obtained the technology from Anubis. (SG1: "Revelations", "Chimera", "Reckoning, Part 2")

Asgard transporters are also unable to work through shields. Both the Odyssey and the Korolev were unable to beam nuclear warheads onboard Ori motherships, although rings were able to get through fluctuations that these transporters could. The Odyssey was later able to rescue Daniel Jackson from an Ori mothership by beaming him out, however the shields were lowered at the time. Also, Colonel Carter had to lower another Ori ship's shields in order for the Odyssey to beam the team out of a dangerous situation. Also, the ship using the transporter has to lower its shields to transport a person onboard which leaves the ship vulnerable for a few moments which is dangerous, especially in battle.

Also, if a person locked onto grabs another person when transported, the other person is transported too. When Daniel Jackson was beamed aboard the Odyssey from an Ori mothership, he sensed the beam and grabbed Vala Mal Doran who was transported with him as well despite not being locked onto.

The most advanced beaming technology the Asgard ever developed was installed on the Odyssey shortly before the Asgard race became extinct, and could be modified to create matter from energy and other matter. These transporters allowed for a limitless supply of food, air, and other equipment so long as power was available; however the transporters did not appear to be capable of creating anything as complicated as ZPMs or Asgard power sources, but it was capable of creating a Replicator, a highly advanced and complicated piece of technology. The Replicator was also programmed with all the knowledge of the Odyssey. (SG1: "Unending", "The Ark of Truth")

The Asgard were capable of using the transporter array against armies on a planet, dematerialize them and removing them as a threat. (SG1: "Thor's Chariot")


Explosion Suppression System

Asgard ships possess a system of unknown nature (since it was mentioned as a problem, but never seen in action), that prevents explosions from occurring on ship. As a result many of the tactics used against Goa'uld ships from the inside, by less advanced races (grenades, C4 and nuclear devices), would be rendered useless on Asgard ships. This technology presumably is not limited to their space fleet, and is probably fairly ubiquitous throughout Asgard facilities. (SG1: "Nemesis")


Cloaking Device

The Asgard use invisibility devices, which are applied to the body of an individual and then activated. These devices were used by the people of an Asgard protected planet to hide from predators. The Asgard also employed a sophisticated form of cloaking technology in all Bilskirnir-class ships to mask their presence from all manner of scanning devices, including radar. The Tau'ri had no way to detect its presence, which suggests it might be capable of disguising itself from visual identification, as well, though this is not made clear.


Asgard Sensors

Asgard sensors are highly advanced. They can scan through Goa'uld shields and pinpoint life signs from far away, and are also what allows their beaming technology to lock on to an object so accurately. They are also capable of distinguishing between jaffa and human lifesigns. A version of this technology was installed on the Earth ships of the Daedalus-class.


Asgard stones

"The information you will need is contained within the stones." —Thor

Asgard stones are devices which the Asgard use to interact with their technology. Functioning in a manner similar to control crystals, they contain information which must be placed in a specific location on a console. When that happens, the technology will activate. Some stones also function specifically as communication devices. (SG1: "Fair Game", "Enemies", "Red Sky", "Revelations", "Fragile Balance")

Asgard stones are used by not only the Asgard, but the Tau'ri as well, although this is only when using Asgard devices. Samantha Carter activated a time-dilation field around the Odyssey by using the Asgard stones on a console. It is shown that the technology is activated by pressing down on the Asgard stone. Also, Asgard stones aboard the Odyssey seem to be powered by the Asgard power core. These stones have also been seen aboard the Phoenix and Daedalus, but are likely aboard all other Daedalus-class ships as well. (SG1: "Unending") (ATL: "The Last Man")


Asgard Computer Core

"Everything we have and know."
—Thor

For sometime it had been known that the Asgard were a dying race, and after acquiring a genetically deteriorating disease from their last attempt to solve their problem, the Asgard accepted that there was nothing left they could do. The computer core was their legacy, and a way to ensure the Asgard were forever remembered by the intergalactic community.


Functions

"The Asgard core was designed to be very user-friendly."
—Samantha Carter

With the extinction of the Asgard race imminent, the Asgard installed a sophisticated computer core on the Tau'ri ship Odyssey. This computer core contained all of the Asgard's most up-to-date knowledge as well as their entire recorded history. Included in the computer core was extensive information on Asgard beaming, time dilation, shielding, weapons, hyperdrives and much more, and powered by an Asgard power core; with a time dilation device integrated into the core itself. The core is very user friendly, and a user could download a simple program instructing the core to perform a very broad function without requiring a detailed knowledge of the specified function; the core would "fill in the blanks". The computer core could also present a holographic image of any Asgard on record as an interface, intended to assist any who do not understand the Asgard language and/or the technologies themselves. (SG1: "Unending", "The Ark of Truth")

By the year 2008, an Asgard core had been installed on the Daedalus, and likely on other Daedalus-Class warships. This version was however aesthetically different, so it is possible that they differ from the original in some way (ATL: "Search and Rescue").

In an alternate timeline, the bridge on the Phoenix contained an Asgard computer core. (ATL: "The Last Man")


Asgard holography

The holographic technology of the Asgard is incredibly advanced, close to that of the Ancients during their last millenia before they ascended. These technologies are often incorporated into the Halls on their protected planets, and it is possible to utilize them in communications with the Asgard High Council.

Asgard holography allows a hologram to be projected over a distance of several kilometers from their source onto ships, or transmitted to another projector for long-range visual communication. Unlike the holograms of the Ancients, Asgard holograms possess no physical integrity and cannot affect, or be affected by, material objects. They can, however, project and detect sound, and can be projected through Goa'uld shields and onto their ships.


Asgard Stasis Pod

An advanced stasis device designed specifically with the Asgard physiology in mind, it is outfitted to automatically heal the Asgard inside if it is injured. Asgard stasis pods can generate a wireless interface with the ship they are aboard, and can also emit a transponder that can only be picked up by Asgard sensors. (SG1: "Nemesis")

If the Asgard inside begins to enter a critical state, then the pod is programmed to initiate a suspended animation program that preserves the body until help can arrive. If not, then the devices are equipped with an anti-gravity field emitter to move to a different location. (SG1: "Fragile Balance")


Weapons

They were equipped with a forward firing energy based weapon which served as its primary armament. These were more than capable of dealing with Goa'uld Ha'taks until Anubis began modifying his ships with Ancient technology. (SG1: "Revelations")


Ion Guns

"I will need the weapon back once your work here is completed. It is, after all, only on loan to you, temporarily."
—Kvasir

Ion guns were the primary weapons used by vessels of the Asgard fleet.

While these weapons were significantly superior to traditional Goa'uld weapons and shields, lesser forms of Asgard weaponry are inferior to Ancient shields, Anubis was able to upgrade Goa'uld shields using Ancient knowledge he obtained as a result of his ascension, rendering Asgard weapons considerably less effective. Ori motherships proved similarly capable of withstanding weapons fire from an Asgard O'Neill-class ship. These weapons have, however, proven quite effective against Replicator ships which have just emerged from hyperspace, before their shields could be raised. (SG1: "Revelations", "New Order, Part 1", "Camelot")


History

The technology used in these weapons was a closely guarded secret by the Asgard as they declined to equip any Earth ship, though the Asgard scientist Kvasir also allowed the SGC to borrow an energy weapon after a string of alternate SG-1s began coming through the Stargate from parallel universes, but only after they promised to return it. The borrowed energy weapon was powerful enough to pierce quantum realities. (SG1: "Ripple Effect") These weapons were later rendered obsolete by the Asgard plasma beam weapon which is the weapon the Odyssey was equipped with when the Asgard upgraded the ship with weapons. Unlike the ion gun, the beam weapons were able to penetrate even the most powerful shields, including those of Ori motherships and Aurora-class warships although they were ineffective against the ZPM powered Hive Ship.


Defenses

A powerful shield protected the Asgard ships from external threats. This included powerful shock waves from vessels that detonated some distance away; however the shield was incapable of protecting the vessel from explosions already inside the shield barrier and close to the hull itself. (SG1: "Nemesis", "Small Victories")

Internally, the Bilskirnir-class utilized internal dampening fields which activated in the event of an explosion. This prevented the use of explosive devices inside the ship and dampened the impact they had if they were triggered inside the vessel. (SG1: "Nemesis")

The ship also included a form of cloaking which did not distort the appearance of the vessel but rather made it invisible to primitive scanning technology. (SG1: "Fair Game")


Shields

Asgard shields are the primary defensive technology used by Asgard and Tau'ri spaceships, and are among the most advanced shields known to exist. The technology was shared by the Asgard with the Tau'ri in thanks for their contributions in defeating the Replicators, giving Tau'ri ships a great advantage over the other space-faring races of the universe


Functions

Asgard shields create an elliptical "bubble" around the spaceship they are equipped to, which absorbs and diffuses the energy from weapons fire. The shield matrix will gradually degrade under sustained fire (rather quickly under sustained bombardment or if the attack is of sufficient force), resulting in more and more energy from attacks bleeding through and causing damage to the ship. Although additional energy can be allocated to the shield matrix to reinforce it, the only way for a ship to ultimately survive a continued assault is to withdraw and give the generators time to recharge and replenish the matrix. (SG1: "The Siege, Part 3", "No Man's Land")

Asgard shields far outstrip the much more primitive Goa'uld shields in effectiveness. Despite this, they become considerably less effective when facing foes of a comparable technological level. The exact strength of an Asgard shield, like most Asgard technology, appears to be relative to the amount of power channeled into them, meaning the shields on Asgard ships are much more powerful than those of Tau'ri spaceships unless a ZPM or equivalent power source is interfaced, which renders them even more powerful than the shields featured on Asgard vessels. The most advanced shields ever developed by the Asgard were equipped on the Odyssey before they committed mass suicide, allowing the ship to survive sustained fire from the central weapons of multiple Ori motherships for several minutes, a feat currently unmatched by the shield technology of other races. (SG1: "Unending", "Ark of Truth")

Even without a ZPM backing them Asgard shields are capable of directly resisting drone weapons; however Todd remarked that it would only take one of Atlantis's drones to disable the Daedalus' hyperdrive, implying that the drones on Atlantis are somehow able to penetrate Asgard shields without much resistance (although he could have been underestimating the shield's capabilities or he may not had sufficient control of systems to raise them or he may have assumed the atlantis expedition knew enough about the Asgard shields to get a drone to bypass them completely ). (ATL: "Be All My Sins Remember'd", "The Lost Tribe")


Locations

Bridge

The primary control center of the Bilskirnir-class was the bridge. It resembled a large pillar of light with numerous platforms present through which the ship was commanded by the crew. The bridge was also the home of the navigational computer allowing for the alteration of the vessels position.

The Replicators were known to infest the bridge of these ships in order to take control of them and disable the internal sensors, preventing their detection by the crew. (SG1: "Nemesis")


Computer Room

Use of the computer terminal to chart the progress of crew inside the vessel and detected hostile threats to the crew. Locations of the ship that were disabled flashed on the screen. It further allowed for magnification to certain areas in order to gain a better view of certain locations of the ship. It also allowed for the manipulation of the transporter array through the use of the stones on the central terminal.

In addition to this, a user in the control room was capable of manipulating the stones to activate the vessels Asgard holography allowing them to appear on a planet and communicate with others. Furthermore, the computer room was capable of being programmed to provide instructions to crew who were not familiar with Asgard technology. (SG1: "Nemesis")


Airlock

The ship contained a number of airlocks allowing for crew to enter or exit the vessel. Internally, the chamber had a doorway which was closed and had a control by the side which resembled Asgard stones.

The top stone controlled the inner door, the middle stone depressurized the chamber and the bottom stone opened the external hatch. A similar set of controls existed on the outside allowing for individuals in space suits to open the hatch and enter the ship. (SG1: "Nemesis")


History

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think this is…Thor's chariot."
—Daniel Jackson

The first sighting of a Bilskirnir-class vessel was on the protected planet of Cimmeria, which had been invaded by the Goa'uld Heru'ur. SG-1 managed to inform the Asgard of the invasion of the planet, a cry for help that was answered by Thor, who made an impressive entrance and used his vessel to easily remove the assembled army's presence; forcing Heru'ur to retreat through the Stargate. (SG1: "Thor's Chariot")

During the Asgard-Replicator war, many Bilskirnir-class ships were infested by Replicators, who took control and turned them against their own creators. A fleet of three such vessels were on a course for the Asgard homeworld, but were destroyed when the prototype of the O'Neill-class self destructed in hyperspace, destroying the ships. (SG1: "Small Victories")

By the time of Anubis' re-emergence, this design was slowly being phased out in favor of the much more powerful O'Neill-class. (SG1: "Small Victories", "Revelations")

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