With the extinction of the Asgard race imminent, the Asgard installed a sophisticated computer core on the Tau'ri ship: the 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 information on all of the Asgard's beaming, time dilation, shields, weapons and hyperdrive technologies etc, and an Asgard power core; the time dilation technology being integrated within 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 needing to have a detailed knowledge of the specified function, the core would "fill in the blanks". The core could also present a holographic image of any Asgard on record as an interface, intended to assist any humans who do not understand the Asgard language and/or the technologies themselves.