EPIC Space Battles | Battle of the Void | Stargate Atlantis

The Battle of the Void was an event that took place in the Void between the Milky Way and Pegasus Galaxies in 2006 between the Tau'ri and Wraith.

On the bridge of the ever-approaching Daedalus, Colonel Steven Caldwell prepared the ship for battle, ordering Captain Dave Kleinman to rig all operable missile launch tubes to fire Mark III tactical warheads the second the Daedalus exited hyperspace; hoping to destroy the Hive ships before they had time to react. Furthermore, all non-essential power was rerouted to the shields in order to ensure power levels for a longer period.

As the Daedalus emerged from hyperspace at the coordinates, dozens of missiles were immediately launched, all of which raced toward the closest Hive ship at various trajectories. However, hundreds of Wraith Darts were detected in proximity to both Hive ships. As the onslaught of missiles grew closer, these darts moved to intercept, with the closest of which careening into the missiles as to prevent them from reaching the Hive. In the Daedalus' opening salvo, one of the Hive ships was severely damaged in a brilliant blue explosion, but not completely destroy as all but one of the warheads were intercepted by the swarms of Darts.

Moments after the Daedalus' initial attack and both Hive ships opened fire in retaliation, the Orion, commanded by Major Evan Lorne, arrived. However, as the ship had been rushed into battle, Dr. Radek Zelenka had difficulty simultaneously transferring power from the shields to the Drone weapons. When the problem was corrected, the Orion fired a massive salvo of drones. Upon leaving the Orion, the onslaught of projectiles raced toward the nearest Hive ship, weaving in and out of the waves of approaching Darts in order to reach their target. After just a few seconds, this massive salvo bombarded the hull of the Hive ship, blasting thousands of deadly holes as the lethal and resilient weapons propelled themselves into and out of the craft several times. This brutal attack was more than enough to completely destroy one of the Hive ships. However, in order for that salvo to be launched, the Orion's powerful shields were sacrificed, leaving the warship vulnerable. The remaining Hive ship then shifted its attack toward the Orion, the hull of which began taking multiple hits. Unable to fire again and hull breaches occurring across the ship, destruction was inevitable. As the Daedalus was too far out to intercept, Orion's crew was beamed over to the Daedalus by the request of Lorne. Just moments later, the Orion finally succumbed to the intense firepower of the Hive and was destroyed in a massive, fiery explosion.

Meanwhile, Michael Kenmore, Lt. Colonel John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, and Dr. Rodney McKay managed to escape from the remaining Hive ship in a Wraith scout ship and were beamed directly onto the bridge of the Daedalus moments after the Hive opened fire on them. Before their departure, Michael managed to deactivated the ship's jamming code, which would enable them to beam a Nuclear warhead into the Hive. However, none remained as all Mark IIIs were fired in the Daedalus opening salvo.

As the Hive ship then began to launch a wave of Darts against the Daedalus, the Daedalus brought all Railguns to bear on the Hive's main Dart bays and every ounce of power was channeled to the forward shield. In the barrage of railgun fire that followed, these projectiles impacted the Hive's Dart bays at incredible speeds, completely destroying the incoming darts moments after they launched. The concentrated fire on the bays also created a number of secondary explosions inside the ship which stopped the Hive from firing and left the entrance to the bay in a fiery cloud. However, in the process, the Daedalus shields became completely depleted and the ship sustained several direct hull impacts, exposing several interior sections directly to space. The last blast the Daedalus sustained took out life support and left the back-up systems unresponsive. With the only source of breathable air in light years being aboard the Hive ship, the Daedalus beamed over the retrovirus gas in order to convert the Wraith on the ship into Humans, therein eliminating the Wraith threat and providing a lifeboat for the Daedalus' crew. Once the gas had a chance to "run its course" (a process which takes several hours), a small team of Marines was beamed over to the Hive to secure the ship. (SGA: "No Man's Land")

[nathanottrey]

The way they show the shields failing has got to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen in all of scifi

[saberiandream]

I love how the Darts serve effectively as a point-defense screen against nukes, which are otherwise effective on Wraith hive ships.

[volbla]

The drones are such a cool weapon. Best sci-fi idea in the series.

[breadonitsown]

The attack on the dart bay - now that's what Admiral Piett meant in Return of the Jedi when he ordered "Intensify forward fire power!!!!"

[akiramasashi]

Funny how Daedalus can use beaming technology while it's shields are up when it's convenient for the plot.

[SoopaFlyism]

The orion should've prepared for ramming speed!!

[BogeyTheBear]

0:05 In other (less) words: _"Fire at will"_

[rickvanboberson]

The year is 2024 and this is still an incredible battle.

[aspopulvera]

Seeing it's comrade's brutal demise the other one intensified it's bombardment

[theonlyjacknicole]

Thank you for featuring Stargate battles! :)

[HolySilverStrike]

One thing I realized is when the Orion crew realized nothing else could be done they should of put the ship in a collision course then beamed off, the inertia the ship was traveling at when it was destroyed would throw the ship fragments at the hive probably damaging heavily or destroying it.

[PYRA]

"You are killing us here, Doctor~!" lol

[Inishizbablut]

That lost was hard to watch the first time ...

[author]

I feel badly for Lorne that he didn't get to keep his new toy for very long.

[SIXPACFISH]

just show half the battle? YES! No one will be pissed off about that!!!

[RurouniKalainGaming]

The loss of the Orion sucked but long term Asguard weapons are better anyway...no running out of drones.

Really showing how good Railguns can be against unshielded enemies. Awesome stuff.

[develynseether]

I prefer Trek to Gate but this is how I imagine damage on a starship, smoke and sparks everywhere, not consoles made of explodium and filled with rocks.

[icer]

"Not likely lets hear it"

knows full well they aint winning this fight right now.

[deralbtraumritter]

See the Aurora would be one of my favorite ships if it was symmetrical. Hate how it has that one pylon and not the other. Had it have the other… it’d be like the Prometheus was derived from the Aurora…

[SuperMIKevin]

The day they figure out how to make zpm the humans will be boss.