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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SKyOdin" data-source="post: 5155842" data-attributes="member: 57939">Does anything about the layout or structure of the ship so far looked like a high-security prison facility? Look at the gate room, which would be the main place prisoners would board the ship. It doesn't exactly look like the kind of place you would want to do a transfer of dangerous prisoners. If the Destiny was a prison ship, wouldn't there be bottlenecks where the prisoners could be scanned/searched and more obvious security measures? Ideally, you wouldn't put the guns on the ship the prisoners were on. You would put the guns on escort ships the prisoners wouldn't have access to. That way, you would have the added advantage of being able to blow up the prison ship if the prisoners got loose. Okay, the Destiny is obviously less technologically advanced than Atlantis. We know that Atlantis was far enough away from Earth that it was impossible for the Stargate network to connect the two without using tricks or Zero-Point-Modules (the most advanced energy storage device used by the Ancients in their more advanced technology). So we know that it took a considerable amount of power for the ancients at the height of their technology to open a Stargate between two nearby galaxies. So what evidence is there in Stargate canon that it was possible for the ancients to casually open a Stargate to something unthinkably further away, during a time when the ancients were less technologically advanced? All evidence in the series points towards The Destiny being the core of a fleet of ships that have traveled far beyond where anyone from the Milky Way has ever set foot. If there was a Penal Colony there were heading to. They would have reached it a few thousand (million? I forget the numbers they mentioned in the first episode) years prior. ELi and Rush would have noticed it in the planetary database too. To be honest, your entire theory is pretty silly. It is based on how harsh the situation on the Destiney is, and that in your opinion Rush is a liar; however, it is contradicted by just about everything in the series itself. I suggest thinking through the information the show has presented to us again.Besides, if a space-faring society wanted to lock someone up and through away the key, why don't they just maroon them on a random planet? If the Destiny was a prison ship, I would feel compelled to wonder what the writers were thinking.</blockquote>

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