Possibility how Zat'n'ktel works ..

[Geronimo]

kel sha,

i had an interesting idea ...
we all know that the tau'ri believe that if u were hit 3 times u'll be disintegrated (and dead) ..

but there's another possibility ..

1st causes pain and 2nd kills is acceptable but perhaps u'll transported to another dimension (or other place) with the 3rd shot ...

then, perhaps, there can be stand an sarcophagus, where all the dead incoming people will be resurrected ...

if this would be true this would be a convenient kind of caught & transport prisoners in war (-> and give them the pleasure of serving Apophis with an own symbionde ) ...

what do you think ?
(let's ask Sam - i'm sure she'll have the right answer left to deny my thesis )

kree sha

 

[Curupira]

ooh! Neato theories!!! The whole other dimension thing, I never thought about that before!! I wish somebody shot me with a zat!! If I didn't die too much maybe that'd be some fun...

 

[Rowan]

Theory...

Very interesting! Might be fun to play with this idea in a piece of fic. Mind if I mess around with it for a bit...?

 

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Curupira
ooh! Neato theories!!! The whole other dimension thing, I never thought about that before!! I wish somebody shot me with a zat!! If I didn't die too much maybe that'd be some fun...

kel sha,

there is the question who is on the "other end" ... if there would be some goa'uld i think it would be fun for me but not for you

except u like them and want to become a Jaffa :rolly2:

kree sha

 

[PTeppic]

The Jaffa of course only believe that the victims are disintegrated; but as Teal'c admits, they are not allowed to know how the technology works - it is Goa'uld magic...

My bigger question is how does the gun know to distengrate/trans-dimensional-shift the victim on the third blast? The pain-stun/kill thing is sort of understandable, but the third is really a bit far - and how fast do the three shots have to be? People like Sam have probably been shot twice, but a long time apart, yet not died...

 

[Curupira]

ooh neato! Girl Jaffa's dont get the Goa'uld snakies though, do they? Hmm.... I want one... I'll have to have a nice little talk with Apophis about that one. I'll make him see things me way :smilej:

 

[PTeppic]

Sorry Curupira, yes they do.

As a prime example, see about half-way through "Children of the Gods", twice, where a female Jaffa hosts Amounet, the Goa'uld that refuses the female sergeant, but accepts Sha're as a host.

 

[Curupira]

Oh I see. Thank you for the enlightenment :smilej:

 

[Manco]

interesting theory geronimo.

 

[PTeppic]

Lying in bed, half conscious, I think I came up with another likely method of how the zat'n'ktel works, though not as colourful:

They fire a weaker, waveform type of energy at the victim. It is clearly shown building up, or affecting the whole body. Each discharge must sent up some of charge of zat energy within the body. The first causes great pain, the second is simply too much and the victim then dies - same as simple electricity. Similarly, the third, by giving such a large chagre of zat energy in a short period of time, the body disintegrates. Pretty much the same happens with electricity: way too much and a body would burn or vapourise, the difference with the zat is that eavh burst is carefully measured.

However, it does prevent an intersting theory. We have seen that the Ashrak (In the Line of Duty) appears to have perhaps a slightly greater resistance to the pain of the first blast. Since it is only an energy charge in the body, it is quite feasible that there are energy absorption techniques which would provide protection against zat blasts, or even aliens who are resistant to the blast, or conversely, would be more sensitive. They are, after all, mostly just being used on humans.

 

[shu_hunter]

that's what i thought. what PTeppic said.

 

[Geronimo]

tec'ma'te Pteppic,

to the resistence:

aris boch (from "Deadman's switch") was fully resistent against the zat'n'ktel blasts ...

during the episodes it seems to be that the zat'n'ktel only causes damage on living individuals not on "dead" materia (like walls etc.) ...
i wonder that the tau'ri haven't tested the progress of desintegration with animals (like they do it everyday for cosmetic products etc.) -- perhaps they would be able to find out what happens during "desintegration" ...
i can't believe that all of a living creature can't disappear to nothing ... if the vicitim is really "very fast burnt" or "vaporized like after a A-bomb explosion" there must be rests of gases of them ...
but i think they're transported to an other place where they r resurrected

lek'tol,
Jaffa Geronimo of Apophis

 

[shu_hunter]

Originally posted by Geronimo
tec'ma'te Pteppic,

to the resistence:

aris boch (from "Deadman's switch") was fully resistent against the zat'n'ktel blasts ...

during the episodes it seems to be that the zat'n'ktel only causes damage on living individuals not on "dead" materia (like walls etc.) ...

but i think they're transported to an other place where they r resurrected

lek'tol,
Jaffa Geronimo of Apophis

what if the suit that aris boch wore discharged the energy of a zat blast? sg-1 has disintegrated walls and boxes using zats, 3 shots.. i think i zat charge is enough to knock out any living creature, two shots: no living thing can withstand, and 3 shots: any matter is torn apart by the magnitude of the zat charges.

that's what i think.

 

[PTeppic]

Originally posted by Geronimo
Aris Boch (from "Deadman's Switch") was fully resistent against the zat'n'ktel blasts ...

But Aris did say in the episode that he only gave SG-1 a modified zat, knowing they would try to escape... so he was not resistant really.

during the episodes it seems to be that the zat'n'ktel only causes damage on living individuals not on "dead" materia (like walls etc.) ...

Have we not seen a zat used to stop and destroy a sarcophagus (one of the Hathor episodes?) and also in "2010" one is definitely used to destroy advanced wall-mounted weapons devices.

i wonder that the tau'ri haven't tested the progress of desintegration

I would imagine that at the NID type labs (that we see in "Touchstone") where all the alien technology is taken, that they DO undertake that sort of testing. We just don't see it. They seem to do all sorts of tests there.