SkunkyArt | Okwa — Overview for the Sa'far-Class

a major feature of the Sa'far-Class are the massive high-power tractor beam arrays permanently installed on these ships

this equipment was to be used to fight the last Goa'uld lords who had entrenched themselves on their mansion worlds, which had been upgraded to formidable fortresses

in order to reduce the extreme losses during attacks on such worlds, the Dakara High Council came up with the strange but, in retrospect, brilliant idea of using a kind of battering ram

to this end, the spaceships of the Jaffa nation were to be equipped with the best shields and propulsion systems available to the Jaffa

in addition, these ships were to receive tractor beam arrays running once around the entire ship, as well as special, structurally extremely reinforced superstructures on the underside, which were equipped with the most powerful tractor beam systems the Jaffas had at their disposal.

it quickly became clear that only the then newly introduced Sa'far-Class could meet the space requirements for this equipment and not the Ha'taks

the superstructures and tractor beam emitters were and are indeed so powerful that Sa'far-class ships can move many times their own mass, and the shields of Sa'far ships are also still among the most powerful to be found in the Milky Way four centuries later

behind these changes was a seemingly crazy tactical idea

instead of trying to destroy the massive enemy defences by force of arms in bloody battles to bring the Goa'uld under control, a much rougher tactic was used with these ships

the Sa'far-ships use their extremely strong shields and engines to easily break through the defences

using the tractor beam emitters, the Sa'far ships simply pulled defensive satellites and smaller ships along with them as they flew through the enemy defences without much concern for combat

in this way they created huge gaps in the enemy's defences through which their own fleets could break through relatively easily and quickly.

and instead of fighting their way into the Goa'uld palace in even worse ground battles (these were also protected by high-powered shields, so bombardment was usually relatively pointless), the Sa'far-class ships used their tractor-beam emitters like battering rams, first pulling their target towards them with the tractor beam and then reversing the polarity of the emitters so that the target was pushed away.

the gravimetric forces exerted on their target by the tractor beam arrays of a Sa'far class can cause massive earthquakes, not to mention the direct physical forces on the target object (following image: enemy space station, palace, etc. = small stone, Sa'far class = powerful jackhammer (the kind that cannot be operated by hand but is mounted on an excavator)

by the 4th century AJR, the JNN use this tactic sometimes against massively armoured and protected enemy positions such as orbital defence belts, space stations ect.

the use against planetary surfaces, however, in the present time of 4th century AJR, must always be approved first by the insterstellar community, represented by DeSCa, and not only by the FJN government

the destruction a Sa'far-CLass can wreak on a planet with this tactic is so enormous that it was accepted against the ancient enemy, the Goa'uld, but four centuries later such an operation is viewed very critically, even within the nation itself

in humanitarian disasters (volcanic eruptions, floods), however, this extreme measure is still used, with the Sa'Far class, for example, digging (or tearing) huge holes in the planet for the water to flow into during a flood disaster

In any case, however, the approval of the DeSCa General Assembly is necessary for such an operation