Stargate ancient series. History of the Ancients (Alteran). Return to the Milky Way
Abstract on the topic:
Ancient (Stargate)
Plan:
- Introduction
- 1. History
- 1.1 Alteran
- 1.2 Ancients
- 1.2.1 Life in the Milky Way
- 1.2.2 Plague
- 1.3 Lantheans
- 1.3.1 Life in the Pegasus Galaxy
- 1.3.2 War with the Wraith
- 1.3.3 Defeat in the war
- 1.4 Return to the Milky Way
- 1.5 Recent History of the Ancients
- 2 Physiology
- 2.1 Before ascension
- 2.2 After the ascension
- 2.3 "Partial" Ancients
- 3 Culture
- 3.1 Philosophy
- 3.2
Language and writing system
- 3.2.1 Alphabet
- 4 Technology of the Ancients
- 5
Known Ancient Colonies
- 5.1 Milky Way
- 5.2 Pegasus
Notes
Introduction
ancient(Anquietas are also known as Alteran And Lantheans) are a fictional human race in the Stargate universe. They are one of the most advanced races that have ever existed, having evolved millions of years before Earthlings. Their most famous invention is the stargate, which they have scattered across many worlds. Modern people another of their achievements is used - the city-ship Atlantis, in which the events of the television series Stargate: Atlantis take place.
1. History
1.1. Alteran
Settlement of the Ancients Orthus Mallum
Millions of years ago, the first humans evolved on the planet Celestis in a distant galaxy. They were the first evolution of the human race. This human race was called Alteran ( Alteras). These were highly evolved people who had reached the pinnacle of their evolution and were on the verge of ascension. But one day an ideological split occurred in their society: the Alterans, who later became known as the Ancients ( Anquietas), believed in the scientific substantiation of things, believed in logic, and their brethren, who after the split began to call themselves Ori ( Ori), believed in their religion called "Origin" and that enlightenment could be achieved spiritually.
Ancient colony ship leaves Alteran home galaxy
Despite the difference in views on life, the Ori and the Ancients were not at enmity, and the Ori had good intentions, but over time, the Ori's worldview was perverted, and they began to become more and more convinced that they were the gods who created humanity. The Ori believed that people should worship them, and if they refuse, they must be destroyed. The Ori also realized that the Ancients, who did not believe in the Ori's twisted offerings, were a threat and wanted to destroy them as well. To avoid enmity, the Ancients first took refuge in the mountains, where at the foot of one of the mountains, the Ancients built their settlement, and pretended to be villagers, while in the mountain they kept all their technological achievements.
Ori did not give up and began to gather an army to march on the Ancients. At first, the Alleran Amelius offered to use the Ark of Truth's brainwashing device to convince the Ori followers of their deceit, but the Council, in view of their moral principles, voted against and decided to leave the Celestis and the galaxy in order not to fight with their brethren. In the mountain at the foot of which the village of Alteran was located, a large spaceship was built. This ship broke out of the mountain, covered the village with stones and left the planet forever.
After that, the Ori proclaimed this day their victory over evil, and not far from this place on a vast plain they built the golden City of the Gods - Celestis, where the ascended Ori subsequently settled.
1.2. ancient
1.2.1. Life in the Milky Way
Approximately 60 million years ago, after several thousand years of wandering, the Ancients found a "great cluster of stars" which they named Avalon, a galaxy currently known as the Milky Way. The first planet that an Ancient ship landed on after leaving the Alteran home galaxy was Dakarra. In the mountain on this planet, the Ancients built a temple and a huge device capable of spawning life in the galaxy. (After tens of millions of years - many thousands of years before our time - the first Jaffa was created by the Ulds in this Goa temple.) The next planet that the Ancients colonized was Terra ( Terra), - currently known as the Earth, and also as the Tau'ri (among the Goa "ulds). To move between their planets, they built a stargate system ( Astria Porta). This device was developed by Alteran Amelius back in his home galaxy. The coordinate system used by the gate was based on the constellations as seen from Terra, Earth. Other known planets of the Ancients in our Galaxy were Proklarush Taonas () , Taot Vaklarush () and Valos Kor () .
Fate at FTL
Around the same period, the Ancients detected signals in the cosmic microwave background. The ancients realized that this radiation could not be of natural origin, which indicated the presence of intelligence since the big bang, and that this signal could be a message from this intelligence. Over time, the signal began to break and some fragments disappeared, then the Ancients built several unmanned ships, with onboard factories for the production of stargates, to go at FTL (but not in hyperspace) into the depths of the Universe and set up gates on planets in distant galaxies on way to the source of relic radiation. Another ship, the Destiny, was supposed to collect the lost signal fragments and connect them. The ships set off on a journey, and about two thousand years later, Destiny also started. When she was far enough away from the Milky Way, the Ancients were going to enter the ship through the stargate installed on the ship. But due to the ascension of the Ancients - more specifically, the first wave of the Ascension of the Ancients - this plan was abandoned, and the "Destiny" continued its mission on autopilot, continuing to fly to its destination.
1.2.2. Plague
Atlantis in Antarctica
Approximately ten million years ago, an epidemic of an incurable disease, the plague, broke out in the Milky Way. The plague was similar to modern terrestrial meningitis affecting the brain. The first symptoms of the disease are weakness, fever, because of which the person lost spatial orientation and even balance. Later, the virus would disable a person's kidneys, and eventually kill them.
The exact origin of the plague is unknown, but the virus is similar to the plague used by the Ori Priors to demonstrate the power of the Ori. A plague struck the Milky Way and devastated the colonies of the Ancients (it is also likely that the disease affected other species as well). To prevent the plague from spreading, the Ancients created a time machine to go back in time and rewrite history, but the machine never worked the way it was supposed to. It only created a time loop every few hours. The ancients had to disable this time machine.
Because of the plague, life in the Milky Way was on the verge of extinction. The surviving Ancients decided that the only way to escape would be to either ascend or leave the galaxy. Some ascended, while the rest decided to go to the neighboring dwarf galaxy Pegasus. Some of the last in the Milky Way at that time, the Ancients lived in Antarctica in the spaceship city of Atlantis. Before leaving for Pegasus, the Ancients left one Ancient on Earth, whom the Tau'ri named Ayana (apparently they left her because she was a carrier of the plague). At the place where Atlantis took off, there was a small outpost with a control chair, a stasis chamber, a database and a large supply of drones. Also, before leaving, the Ancients used the installation on Dakar to populate the galaxy with life and restart the process of the development of intelligent life.
1.3. Lantheans
1.3.1. Life in the Pegasus Galaxy
Atlantis
Upon reaching Pegasus, the Ancients planted a city on a planet they named Lanthea and subsequently in the Pegasus galaxy, the Ancients became known as the Lantheans. The Lantians arrived in an uninhabited galaxy and decided to populate it with life, as they did in the Milky Way millions of years ago. They also decided to build a new Stargate network centered around the local constellations, thus replacing the prototype network left behind by the gate installers sent to pave the way for Destiny.
The Lanthes have set up several outposts on the planets Athos, Doranda, Taranis; studied the worlds of Pegasus and defended the cultures they created. One of the planets on which they launched the evolution of the human form of life was a planet inhabited by beetles that fed on the life forces of other beings. Evolution on this planet has taken the path of hybridization of man and the aforementioned beetles. The result was the Wraith race, humanoid beings who needed humans to maintain their vitality. By devouring other people's lives, the Wraith gained the ability to regenerate tissues, and given their ability to hibernate, this means practically eternal life with sufficient nutrition.
1.3.2. War with the Wraith
Siege of Lanthea
In the end, the confrontation between the Ancients and the Wraith took the form of war. For a hundred years, the Lantheans and the Wraith waged a bitter war against each other. At first, the Wraith seriously lagged behind the Lantines both in technical terms and in numbers. The crystal-based technology of the Lantheans was many times better than the organic technology of the Wraith. A single Lanthean Aurora-class cruiser could easily destroy an entire squadron of Wraith hive ships without taking much damage thanks to its powerful energy shields and drones. ("Aurora" can fire drones simultaneously at all enemy ships, in the zone of destruction of drones.) Infinitely confident in their military-technical superiority, careless Lanthes began to send their cruisers into the space controlled by the Wraith. Over a long period of war and at great cost to the Wraith, the Wraith managed to capture several Lantian cruisers and use their MNTs to power cloning stations and ship breeding stations. In this way, the Wraith were able to establish an ultra-fast production of soldiers and warships, to increase their army, which gave them an unconditional advantage in the war. The tide of the war quickly turned in their favor. It no longer mattered that the Lantian warships could win any battle: the Wraith continued to advance and conquer one region of the galaxy after another. Waging an attritional war, the Lantheans gradually retreated deeper into their domain, watching as the Wraith engulfed the Lanthean territories and destroyed defensive satellites with only one goal - to destroy the Lantheans.
In desperation, the Lantheans began to take more drastic measures against the war with the Wraith. On the planet Asuras (rich in neutronium), the Lantheans built an outpost and began research into nanotechnology. The results of the research were a self-reproducing nanovirus that was supposed to destroy the enemy from the inside, but instead, the virus nanites began to group into more complex forms of cyberlife until they reached the perfect one - people. So there were Asurane - replicators of the Pegasus galaxy. The base code for this biological weapon was an aggression that surpassed the aggression of the Wraith. The Asurans believed that it was aggression that prevented them from ascending, like their creators, and asked the Lantheans to remove aggression from their code, but the creators refused and, believing that the experiment had failed, destroyed the city of Asuran on the planet Asuras and all data about them in the database, except for the address .
The weapon platform that powered the Arcturus and killed Doranda
Further, the Lantheans developed the "Project Arcturos", this project involved extracting zero point energy from our universe. The principle of operation was similar to the work of the MNT. This way of extracting zero point energy would allow for an unlimited supply of energy for Lantian technology. The installation was located on the planet Doranda. But in the end, this experiment was stopped, because it was highly unstable. Also, as a result of the experiment, the radiation emitted by the installation and Doranda's defensive weapon destroyed the entire population of the planet and the Ancients who were in the laboratory. 10,000 years later, Rodney McKay destroyed Doranda and a 5/6th star system in an attempt to continue researching the Lantheans.
The closest step to defeating the Wraith was the Attero Device. This device interfered with the hyperspace frequency used by the Wraith, causing the Wraith hyperdrives to explode upon entering hyperspace. Since each hyperdrive system had unique characteristics, and the Device was tuned to the Wraith system, the Lantheans were free to travel through hyperspace and destroy the Wraith. But the Attero Device had a dangerous by-effect- the radiation caused an overload of the Stargate, leading to their explosion. Because of this, the project was also stopped.
By this point, it was obvious even to the Lantheans that they were losing the war. They kept losing territory to the Wraith until the Lantian system was all that was left of their empire. In their last attempt to end the war, the Lantheans sent a delegation to meet with the Wraith to negotiate peace. The delegation was protected by the most powerful warships, but they were ambushed and destroyed. The last hope for the world has collapsed.
1.3.3. Defeat in the war
Bombardment of Atlantis
For some time, the Wraith could not reach Lanthea due to a system of protective satellites surrounding the Lanthean solar system, capable of destroying a hive ship with a single shot. But after a while, most of the satellites were destroyed and the Wraith began the siege of Atlantis. Lanthea's last line of defense has fallen. The only defense of the city remained drone guns and the city shield. Despite the fact that the Lantheans could destroy all the ships attacking Atlantis, the Wraith sent more and more. The overwhelming superiority in numbers, the gradual depletion of drone weapons and the constant bombardment of the shield, forced the Lantheans to sink the city to the bottom of the Lanthea ocean (under water, the shield could withstand the bombardment for much longer than on the surface).
Around 8000 B.C. e. - one hundred years after the start of the war with the Wraith - the Lantian Council saw that nothing more could be done to win and decided to leave the galaxy through the stargate back to Earth, knowing that one day people would return to Pegasus. Before leaving Pegasus, the Lantheans blocked the gates of Atlantis in such a way that they would now block any incoming wormhole other than Earth, thus ensuring that only Earthlings would enter Atlantis. After the departure of the Lantians, the Pegasus galaxy was left at the mercy of the Wraith.
1.4. Return to the Milky Way
The Lantheans Leave Atlantis
After the Lanteans returned to Earth, they found only primitive cavemen (Ta'uri). Realizing that the civilization of the Ancients could no longer be rebuilt, they settled around the planet, helping people. Some even had Semi-Ancient children with humans, which then caused some individuals to have the genetic code of the Ancients to work with their devices. Some of the returnees were also able to ascend. The language of the Ancients would later give rise to Latin. According to Roman mythology, the Romans were taught to build roads by gods called "Ancients". The story of the fall of the inhabitants of Atlantis was, after all, retold (with some modifications) by Plato in his Timaeus and Critias.
Mirddin (Moros, aka Merlin, aka Emrys) - one of the ascended Ancients (quite possibly ascended before the migration of the Ancients to the Pegasus galaxy) - was able to "descend" to Earth to create a weapon against the Ori (while he retained some of the abilities of the Ancients and all your knowledge). He is known as Merlin in the Arthurian legends (Arthurian cycle), as some of the Ancients' abilities (telekinesis, healing, etc.) could clearly seem like magic to the British early medieval. Calling his weapon the Grail (Sangraal), he left his secrets to a narrow circle of people - King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
The ancients who left the Earth created the Union of the Four Great Races, which also included the Nox, Furling and Asgard. Together, they created a "real" universal language, in which atoms played the role of the simplest components. According to the inscriptions on the planet Heliopolis (the gates to which people were able to open back in 1945;), this union lasted for several centuries. Then even these, the last in our galaxy, the Ancients ascended.
1.5. Recent History of the Ancients
On the planet where Harry Maybourne settled, SG-1 found Jumper equipped with a time machine. According to the chronicle left by the Ancients on the columns ancient temple some Ancients traveled through time. And they made up the history of the planet, which covers even its future. From the series "Before I fall asleep" it is clear that only Janus has such technology. It is logical to assume that the Ancient time traveler is Janus or his descendant.
During excavations in Antarctica, a female Alteranka, Ayanna, was found. Removed from the ice, she returned to life. But she was still infected with the plague, and soon died (finally using all her powers to heal SG-1 from the disease she revived).
In intergalactic space, halfway into the Milky Way, an entire Ancient (Aurora-class) ship, the Triya, was discovered. Apparently, the Tria was damaged in the battle with the Wraith, and the crew had to fly at relativistic speed. Although ten millennia had already passed, for them only a few years had passed. They reclaimed Atlantis, practically driving the Ta'uri out of there. But then the Asurans attacked the city and destroyed the entire crew of the Tria.
On one of the planets (), SG-1 found and resurrected Myrddin/Merlin, who was in stasis, who helped them complete the work of assembling the second Grail (Sangrail). Although the Ancient One's body failed, before dying, he placed a portion of his memory into Daniel's brain, allowing him to complete his work as well as temporarily turning him into the Ancient One. Later, Daniel, using a combination of Merlin's and Prior's abilities, as well as SG-1's help, activated the Sangraal and sent it to the Ori galaxy in an Ori trophy cruiser.
2. Physiology
2.1. Before ascension
Alteran Amelius - creator of the Stargate and the Ark of Truth
Over the tens of millions of years of their existence, the Alterans evolved into the most advanced form of man. Over millions of years of evolution, they have been able to achieve an incredibly complex genetic structure and level of physical and mental development. Since the Alterans have evolved over many millions of years, their mental abilities, which are not yet inaccessible to the second evolution of this species, have reached their maximum: Alterans have mastered telekinesis, healing touch and telepathy. Also, the amount of knowledge that the brain could store has increased to an incredible extent - the brain of ordinary modern people cannot withstand this and “burns out”, that is, it dies.
The once-ascended Merlin, having descended to the mortal level of existence to construct a weapon against the Ori, returned in the most advanced genetic form that his species had reached before ascension, retaining his knowledge. He possessed the ability to foresee, control the stargate mentally, and also emit energy beams from his hands. Most likely, this is the last phase of the evolution of people before the ascension, - in this case, the Ancients.
In their genetic code was the so-called Ancient Technology Activation gene. This special gene allowed them to activate and interact with Lanthean (Ancient Pegasus) technology. Particularly sensitive to this gene are the control chair and jumpers. It is still not known whether this gene was a feature of Alteran genetics or a product of genetic engineering.
2.2. After the ascension
Ascended Fata Morgana
Upon ascension, the Ancients turn into pure energy and go to another level of existence. In doing so, they gain near-divine powers, but they do not use them to influence the fate of "mortals" and avoid the temptation to become fanatics like the Ori. According to those who have ascended, ascension is only the beginning of the journey. The Ori probably stopped there, which allowed the Ancients to hide the people of the Milky Way from them.
Although one of the Ancients was allowed to protect people and take care of them, but only in her own world.
The only known non-human to ascend (with the help of Oma Desala) was the Goa'uld Anubis. But since Anubis wasn't going to stick to their rules, the Ancients tried to send him back. They succeeded only partially. Now it exists as a clot of energy, which must be enclosed in a special shell. Despite the fact that Russian Air Force Colonel Alexei Vaselov, whose body was seized by Anubis, sacrificed himself and froze to death on an ice planet, Anubis managed to free himself and again try to use the advantages of his "semi-exalted" status in the fight against the rest of the Goa'uld and people, but was stopped by the joint efforts of Ta'uri, Jaffa and Baal, after which Jackson convinced Omu Desala to wage an ongoing fight against Anubis on highest level existence, which would prevent him from interfering in the affairs of the "unexalted" world.
2.3. "Partial" Ancients
Some people, for various reasons, temporarily received some of the abilities of the Ancients. The first of these was Jack O'Neill, in whose brain the library of knowledge of the Ancients on the planet P3R-272 () was uploaded. At the same time, he gradually switched to the language of the Ancients, forgetting English, since his brain simply could not absorb such an amount of information. This happened to O'Neill twice. The second time (now consciously) he received this knowledge and was even able to learn how to heal others by touch. Another such person was Daniel Jackson. When he received some of Merlin's knowledge, he also gained the ability to telekinesis, create lightning and force fields.
Jonas Quinn, as a result of genetic experiments conducted on him by the exiled system lord Nirrti using the machine of the Ancients, gained the ability to see a possible future. At the same time, he received a fatal tumor in the brain, which was urgently removed, depriving him of this ability.
Another person who became Semi-Ancient due to genetic manipulation was Rodney McKay, who discovered a similar genetic machine in Atlantis. This machine started the process at the gene level, forcing the progress of a person along the path to ascension. As a result, ascension can be achieved not in a lifetime, but in just a few days. The problem was that if a person does not ascend, he will die.
Other partial Ancients can be considered Priors, Dosai and Orisai - Adria - who have part of the abilities of the Ancients and Ori. Adria is the most powerful of them, because she is the embodiment of the Ori in human body- Orisai - and has most Ori knowledge, but still not all.
The attempts of some Goa'uld (in particular, Nirrti and Anubis) to create hok'tar - improved people - culminated in the temporary appearance of the ability to manipulate electromagnetic fields from Cassandra and the creation of P3X-584 () Kalec on the planet. It is known that Kalec could read minds and possessed telekinesis, and was also close to the path to ascension.
3. Culture
3.1. Philosophy
Ganos Lal pretending to be a hologram in Atlantis
The ancients are known for their unwavering faith into freedom of choice.
The ancients believed in science and the rationale for things. Knowledge and enlightenment were fundamental to their worldview. They believed that the universe needed to be studied, and that Scientific research very important for understanding the universe. More importantly, the Ancients believed in freedom of choice, and that they couldn't stop them from believing what they wanted. This did not work in their favor when the Ori began to spread the "Origin" among the second evolution of humans and gain more and more energy, and their religious fanaticism was gaining momentum. The Ancients also believed that it would be immoral to brainwash the followers of the Ori in order to depower them.
When they ascended, their main rule was the prohibition of accelerating the natural process of ascension of other, lower beings. Violation of this rule entailed serious consequences, including the heaviest punishments. Because Oma Desala helped lower beings ascend, she was considered an outcast, but when she helped Anubis, who deceived her, ascend, she was punished, forcing her to watch how he uses the knowledge of the ascended conquering the Milky Way. Orlyn was also exiled from the Others for helping the people of Velona construct weapons against the Goa'uld, which they later decided to use against other races. Chaya Sar was punished for intervening and destroying the Wraith fleet that was besieging her home planet of Proculus. Her punishment was to serve as protection only for the people of Proculus and no one else.
Ancient(Anquientas, also known as alteran And lanthes listen)) are a fictional human race in the Stargate universe, the first generation of earth evolution. They are one of the most highly developed races that have ever existed, as they evolved millions of years before modern humans. Their most famous invention is the stargate, which they have scattered across many worlds in many galaxies. Modern people use another of their achievements - the city-ship Atlantis, in which the events of the television series Stargate: Atlantis take place.
| ancient | |
|---|---|
| Universe | Star Gates |
| Creator |
Roland Emmerich Dean Devlin |
| First appearance |
"The Fifth Race" The Fifth Race) "Maternal instinct" ( Maternal Instinct) |
| Race type | Humans (first evolution) |
| home planet | Celestis (Galaxy Ori) Earth (Milky Way) lanthea (Galaxy Pegasus) |
| Government | Others (ascension), High Council of the Ancients (mortal) |
There are parallels between the race of the ancients and the powerful races in other sci-fi series, such as Q Continuum from the Star Trek universe or Vorlons from the Babylon 5 universe. Also close to the ancients are elves from the Works of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: Warriors, Poets and Wizards.
Story
Many millions of years ago in the civilization of ancient people there was a conflict between religious fanatics and people who believe in a scientific approach to the study of the world. As a result of the conflict, civilization was divided into two camps: the Ori, followers of the religion of Origin, and those who are commonly called the ancients or Lantians. The ancients were forced to leave their home world on an ark ship.
Exodus of the Ancients
It is unknown how long they drifted in space and when they came across the Milky Way, and the location of their home galaxy is unknown, but they decided to create a new civilization in the Milky Way. In our galaxy, they flourished for long millennia, and maybe even millions of years, until they were struck by a disease resembling modern meningitis, and many people were forced to leave the Milky Way and move to Pegasus, having previously built a device to populate the Milky Way new life in Dakar. In the Pegasus galaxy, Atlantis splashed down on the ocean of a planet called Lanthea, where their capital apparently formed.
In Pegasus, the human race, as well as in the Milky Way, spread until one day people encountered a species of iratus beetles that were able to absorb the DNA of their food, feeding like vampires. After tasting people, the Iratus evolved into a race of Wraiths, bloodthirsty humanoid vampires who became enemies of the Lanthes. A war broke out, threatening ancient extinction, and the Ancients had to retreat to Earth again, where the Wraiths could not reach, because they did not own intergalactic hyperdrives (their ships were organic), and the Pegasus stargate could not open a passage to Earth.
The ancients are called the first generation of the evolution of humanoid life on Earth, therefore they meet the heroes of the Stargate, modern earthlings, as children and even as their descendants. The first generation of people evolved for a very long time, millions of years, therefore they are physiologically capable of ascension - transformation into an accumulation of pure energy. That is why the ancients were rarely seen in the series, as they were either dead or ascended. In addition, a set of rules was created by the ascended people, which, for example, forbade them to help others ascend, and to communicate with lower life forms.
Technology of the Ancients
Characteristic
The Ancients are considered the most advanced race in the Stargate universe. Their technology could not be fully understood even by the Asgardians, and their weapons and defenses were the most powerful of all, second only to the Asgardian beam weapons created shortly before their mass suicide. One battleship the Aurora class could destroy a large flotilla of Wraith hive ships without taking significant damage, but mainly such firepower was maintained with the help of the MNT (Zero Point Module English. Zero Point Module (ZPM)), without the MNT, the Lantian ships were very vulnerable.
A characteristic feature of ancient technology is the highest energy consumption and reliability. This was also a significant drawback of the ancient ships, since without the MNT the ships could not fire and maintain defense at the same time. The largest ship is the city ship Atlantis, powered by three MNTs (normal power supply mode). Like all ships of the ancients, it has tremendous firepower and very strong defenses, although it is not a warship.
Shield of Atlantis
hyperdrive
Another technological achievement of the ancients is the intergalactic hyperdrive (practically the fastest of all known hyperdrives). So the ancients also invented a tunnel hyperdrive, comparable in speed to a stargate, obviously experimental, and therefore unreliable, dangerous and extremely difficult to launch.
Ori had similar technologies, but their technologies were mostly created by already ascended, while the most advanced technologies of the ancients were created by people before the ascension, which indicates the great superiority of the scientific and technical thought of the ancients.
The ancients differed from most other races in their unshakable belief that everything in nature is explainable. This is their main difference from the Ori, who went to the ascension along the path of religion. Despite the vast scientific knowledge, including in the military field, the ancients preferred not to enter into conflicts. This did not play into their hands in the war with the Wraiths, because, having no military experience, they made several tactical and strategic mistakes, one of which became fatal for them - self-confidence. Not realizing that the enemy's military forces were to be reckoned with, they sent their cruisers far into enemy space and, in the end, lost them along with the power sources on board. Power sources were used by the Wraith in cloning stations to super-fast grow soldiers and ships, and the ancients were driven back to Lanthea by a numerically superior enemy armada.
First mentioned - SG-1 (season 2, episode 15). First appearance - SG-1 (season 3, episode 20).
In the unfinished series Stargate: Universe, people discover the spaceship "Destiny" created by the ancients, which they built an unknown number of millions of years ago and launched uncrewed into deep space on an intergalactic reconnaissance mission. It has an older model stargate than Atlantis. Since then, he managed to fly through many galaxies, and to get to him through the gates, it turned out to be necessary a lot of energy, which people could only take from the core of the planet, consisting of naquadria. Due to a sudden alien attack on this planet, the earth base personnel were forced to go through the gate to this ship, as the planet exploded immediately afterwards. It turned out that after the ascension of the ancients, they do not use the ship, and the ship flies in automatic mode, independently correcting the course and charging from the stars. Far ahead of him, "gate installers" fly, making them as they fly, and placing gates on planets where a landing is possible (only one is shown in the series). Thus, people on Destiny were able to visit some planets, studying them and collecting some resources. Initially, people could not control the movement of the ship and depended on its periodic automatic stops, but then they gained almost complete control, although the ship entered into a lengthy polemic with them through neural interfaces. People communicated with the Earth through the "communication stones of the ancients" described in SG-1, which allow pairs of people to change consciousnesses at any distance and control someone else's body in real time. According to the data found on board, the main task of the ship is to study the cosmic background radiation, in which the ancients found artificial signals from an unknown mind: presumably, "Fate" flies to their source. People (crew and earth command) called it "a message from God" (in general, there are many religious allusions in the entire franchise) and took it upon themselves to continue this mission, on which the series ends.
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| ancient (English) Ancients) | |
|---|---|
| View | Ancient people) |
| home world | Unknown (possibly Celestis in the Ori galaxy), then Earth and Lanthia (in the Pegasus galaxy) |
| Management | Unknown; formerly Atlantis High Council |
| Previous alliances | Four Great Races |
| Key series | "The Fifth Race" The Fifth Race; First mention) "Maternal instinct" ( Maternal Instinct) (first appearance) |
ancient(also known as Alteran, lantians And Anquitas) - the human race in the Stargate series. They are the most advanced of all known races that have ever existed, as they evolved millions of years before earthlings. Their most famous invention is the stargate, which they have scattered across many worlds. Modern people use another of their achievements - the flying city of Atlantis (Atlantis), in which the events of the television series Stargate Atlantis take place.
Story
Alteran and Ori
Millions of years ago, these first members of the human species lived in another galaxy and made progress on the path to ascension. At that time, Alteran and Ori were no different from each other and lived in the same society. But then a philosophical division emerged: the Ori became more and more intolerant and fanatical in their religious beliefs, while the Alteran (from altera, lat. other) preferred a scientific worldview and a rational outlook on life. In the end, their society was divided in two, and the Ori tried to destroy their brethren. Instead of fighting, the Alterans left their galaxy.
After several millennia, the Alterans found the Milky Way, where they then built a mighty empire. Apparently, they also populated the Earth ( Terre). To move between their planets, they built a system of star gates ( Astria Portas). Other known planets of the Ancients in our galaxy were Proclarush Theonas () , Dakar and Valos Kor () .
At some point, the Alterans were infected with a terrible plague that nearly wiped out their civilization. Since the disease bore a striking resemblance to the infection spread by the Priors among the "unbelievers", Daniel Jackson expressed the opinion that the Alteran were infected by the Ori, who still considered the Alteran to be enemies.
Although their attempts to travel back in time and prevent the infection were unsuccessful, some Ancients in the Milky Way did escape death by leaving their bodies and becoming pure energy (through the process of ascension). According to Anubis, other Ancients attempted to recreate life in the galaxy using a generator on Dakar. It is possible that the second evolution of people on Earth is the result of this attempt.
Galaxy Pegasus
Several million years ago, the Ancients, supposedly fleeing the plague, were forced to leave Earth. They went to the closest galaxy to the Milky Way, Pegasus, on their spaceship, which is a whole city - Atlantis (Atlantis).
Upon arrival, they settled on a planet they named Lanthia. Having discovered that there is no intelligent life in Pegasus, the Ancients began to populate the galaxy with people, connecting new worlds with Stargates. Presumably, on one of these planets, people stumbled upon strange creatures - insects that feed on life itself. These creatures, later called Iratus beetles, in the process of feeding were able to somehow integrate human DNA into their own and develop into absolutely the new kind- Reifs.
It is not known exactly how much time passed, but when the Ancients turned their attention to the Wraith, the latter already represented a strong, highly developed society. However, they were underestimated - the Ancients, confident in their superiority, tried to destroy the race restricting them, but were careless enough that allowed the Wraith to get their hands on some of their technology. The Wraith understood that they still could not compete with the Lantheans in technological terms, but captured in the time of the MNT battles, subsequently used to power the cloning stations, allowed them to outnumber the Ancients many times over. The Lanthes were losing planet after planet ...
Desperate, they set about developing a new weapon capable of protecting entire planets from the invasion of the Wraith fleet and at the same time creating an alternative to the MNT - the Arcturos project showed great promise, but failed miserably: the entire population of the planet, including the Ancients themselves, died in an unsuccessful attempt to extract vacuum energy from our universe.
An even more desperate step was the creation of nanorobots - microscopic machines for the destruction of the Wraith at the cellular level. But this project also failed - instead of soulless killer robots, the Ancients created a new form of life that did not want to wage a merciless war. The Asurans (as they later called themselves) begged to be released from the aggression that the creators had invested in them, but the Ancients, disappointed, tried to destroy their next unsuccessful project ...
Soon the Wraith took control of the entire galaxy - Lanthia remained the last. But the force field of Atlantis nullified all the attacks of the Wraith. The ancients could win any battle, but they saw no way to win the war. They sank the city to the bottom of the ocean and traveled through the Stargate back to Earth in the hope that someday they could return home. And for 10,000 years, the Wraith have kept the entire galaxy at bay...
Return to the Milky Way
After the Lantians returned to Earth, they found only primitive cavemen (Ta'uri). Realizing that the civilization of the ancients can no longer be rebuilt, they settled around the planet, helping people. Some even had Semi-Ancient children with humans, which then caused some individuals to have the genetic code of the Ancients to work with their devices. Some of the returnees were also able to ascend. The language of the Ancients would later give rise to Latin. According to Roman mythology, the Romans were taught to build roads by gods called "Ancients". The story of the fall of the inhabitants of Atlantis, after all, was retold (with some changes) by Plato in his works Timaeus and Critias.
Hologram of Merlin/Myrddin/Moros in the series "Camelot"
Myrddin (Moros), one of the Ancients who ascended, was able to "descend" to Earth to create a weapon against the Ori. He is known as Merlin in the Arthurian legends (Arthurian cycle), as some of the powers of the Ancients (telekinesis, healing, etc.) could clearly have seemed like magic to the British of the early Middle Ages. Calling his weapon the Grail (Sangraal), he left his secrets to a narrow circle of people - King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Those Ancients who left the Earth established the Union of the Four Great Races, which also included the Noxes, Furlings and Asgards. Together, they created a "real" universal language, in which atoms played the role of the simplest components. According to the inscriptions on the planet Heliopolis (the gates to which people were able to open back in 1945;), this union lasted for several centuries. Then even these, the last in our galaxy, the Ancients ascended.
Recent History of the Ancients
Since the Ori were able to ascend as well, both "factions" reached parity in power, but the Ori still wanted to destroy the Ancients. The Ori came to the conclusion that if "mere mortals" worship them, then the power of the Ori increases. To counter this, the Ancients hid the people of the Milky Way from Ori sight.
During excavations in Antarctica, a female Alteranka, Ayanna, was found. Removed from the ice, she returned to life. But she was still infected with the plague, and soon died (finally using all her powers to heal SG-1 from the disease she revived).
An entire Ancient (Aurora-class) ship has been discovered in intergalactic space halfway into the Milky Way. Apparently, the ship was damaged in the battle with the Wraith, and the crew had to fly at relativistic speed. Although ten millennia had already passed, for them only a few years had passed. They reclaimed Atlantis by driving out the Ta'uri. But then the Asuran attacked the city and destroyed the entire crew of the ship.
On one of the planets (), SG-1 found and resurrected Myrddin/Merlin, who was in stasis, who helped them complete the work of assembling the second Grail (Sangrail). Although the Ancient One's body failed, before dying, he placed his partial memory into Daniel's brain, allowing him to complete his work as well as temporarily turning him into the Ancient One. Later, Daniel, using a combination of Merlin's and Prior's abilities, and the help of SG-1, activated the Sangraal and sent it to the Ori galaxy.
Though all Ori were destroyed by the Sangraal, Adria later ascended after Ba'al's attempt to take over her body, becoming the only, and strongest, Ori. Although Ancient Morgan le Fay wished to help SG-1 get rid of Adria, she herself was unable to do so. To do this, it was first necessary to take away the lion's share of the power of the Ori - the faith of people and priors. That's why she surreptitiously helped Daniel find the Ark of Truth, an Ancient device created millions of years ago to fight the Ori, but never used. The Ark was discovered on the planet where the city of Celestis, the temple-capital of the Ori, was located. While Val was distracted by his daughter, Daniel managed to figure out the password to activate the device - "Origin", an ancient synonym for the word "truth". By opening the Ark in front of Dosai, SG-1 led all priors to believe that the Ori were not gods. Thus, having taken away the huge power of Adria, SG-1 allowed Morgan to enter into an equal battle with the enemy. The fate of these ascended women is unknown. Either they destroyed each other or they are in eternal confrontation, like Oma Desala and Anubis.
Physiology
Before ascension
The ancients were people externally and internally. The main difference between the first and second evolutions of humans is the Ancients' technological activation gene, which was present in all Ancients. But, due to the mixing of some Ancients with primitive people, some Earthlings also possess this gene. In addition, this gene can be obtained through genetic engineering (although this method failed with the Czech doctor Radek Zelenka).
Before they ascended, the Ancients mastered almost the entire spectrum of their brain capabilities, such as telekinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance, healing, etc.
After the ascension
Upon ascension, the Ancients turn into pure energy and go to another level of existence. In doing so, they receive almost divine powers, but they do not use them to influence the fate of "mortals".
The only non-human who managed to ascend (with the help of Oma Desala) was the Goa'uld Anubis. But since Anubis wasn't going to stick to their rules, the Ancients tried to send him back. They succeeded only partially. Now it exists as a clot of energy, which must be enclosed in a special shell. Despite the fact that Russian Air Force Colonel Alexei Vaselov, whose body was seized by Anubis, sacrificed himself and froze to death on an ice planet, Anubis managed to free himself and again try to use the advantages of his "semi-exalted" status in the fight against the rest of the Goa'uld and people, but was stopped by the joint efforts of Ta'uri, Jaffa and Baal, after which Jackson convinced Omu Desala to wage an ongoing struggle with Anubis on a higher plane of being, which would prevent him from interfering in the affairs of the "unexalted" world.
"Partial" Ancients
Some people, for various reasons, temporarily received some of the abilities of the Ancients. The first of these was Jack O'Neill, in whose brain the library of knowledge of the Ancients on the planet P3R-272 () was uploaded. At the same time, he gradually switched to the language of the Ancients, forgetting English, since his brain simply could not "digest" such an amount of information. This happened to O'Neill twice. The second time (now consciously) he received this knowledge and was even able to learn how to heal others by touch. When Daniel Jackson received some of Merlin's knowledge, he also gained the ability to telekinesis, create lightning and force fields.
Jonas Quinn, after being genetically tested by the exiled Systemmaster Nirrti using an Ancient Machine, was able to see a possible future. At the same time, he received a fatal tumor in the brain, which was urgently removed, depriving him of his new ability. Another person who became Semi-Ancient due to genetic manipulation was Rodney McKay, who discovered a similar genetic machine in Atlantis. This machine started the process at the gene level, in general forcing a person on the path to ascension, but not throughout his life, but only for a few days. The only problem is that if a person does not ascend, he will die. And ascend, not go to the store. Between useless (according to Rodney) meditations and a chance to leave priceless knowledge and inventions to the galaxy, he chooses the second ... On the way to ascension, Rodney received a lot of super powers, such as telekinesis, telepathy, healing, etc., but most importantly, he became serious progress into brain activity- to get smarter (and not only) (and since he is already a super genius ...) and created a lot of new inventions, as well as many times improved the "old" ones, for example: improved the power supply system of Atlantis, increased the efficiency of the Daedalus shields... In general, he did a bunch of useful things that influenced the future of the galaxy. Before reaching death-ascension itself, McKay managed to send a telepathic message to expedition doctor Carson Beckett about how he could be saved (after all, he did not even count on ascension).
Other partial Ancients include the Priors, Dosai, and Adria, who share some of the abilities of the Ancients and Ori.
The attempts of some Goa'ulds (in particular, Nirrti and Anubis) to create hok'tar (advanced people) were crowned with the temporary appearance of the ability to manipulate electromagnetic fields in Cassandra and the creation of Kalec on the planet P3X-584 (). It is known that Kalec could read minds and possessed telekinesis, and was also close to the path to ascension.
Philosophy
The ancients believe unwaveringly in freedom of choice and therefore do not interfere in the affairs of those who have not ascended. The Ori are the exact opposite of that. The Ori religion explicitly states that the refusal to share the secrets of the universe with others is an evil that must be destroyed - but at the same time they understand such cooperation in a very specific way, in fact turning their followers into dumb slaves. The Ancients keep the Ori from interfering with the Milky Way directly, but they do not prevent Ori worship from those who wish to do so.
Language and writing system
Alphabet
| A- | B- | C- | D- | E- |
| F- | G- | H- | I- | Y- |
| J- | K- | L- | M- | N- |
| O- | P- | Q- | R- | S- |
| T- | U- | V- | W- | X- |
| Z- |
famous words
| In the dialect ancient | in latin | In Russian | Meaning | Episode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abicierum | abicectum | to give up | to pronounce carelessly, break off abruptly; to get rid of, give up; weaken | ||
| Adventus | appositus | Approching | placed near, lying near; approaching, near to; fit, appropriate, apposite | Window of Opportunity (Season 4) | |
| Ameria | Armarium | Ark | The ark | cupboard, chest, safe, clothing | The Ark Of Truth (Movie) |
| Asorda | adservio | Help | Help | aid, help, assist | The Fifth Race (season 2) |
| Ani | Es | Are | am, is | The Fifth Race (Season 2) | |
| Anquiatus | Antiquitas | the ancient | ancient | ancient, old, hoary | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Comdo | commodo | Please | Please | to make fit, adapt, please, oblige, serve | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Cozars | crur, cruris | Legs | Legs | Leg, shank, shin, also foot | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Cruvas | curvus | Wrong | arched, bent, bowed, curved, crooked, wrong (morally crooked | The Fifth Race (Season 2) | |
| derentius | dementis | insane | out of one's mind, insane, senseless | The Lost City Part 1 (Season 7) | |
| Dormoda | dormio | sleep | Sleep | to sleep; to rest, be inactive | The Lost City Part 2 (Season 7) |
| Deserdi | desidero | Wish | to long for, wish for greatly, to miss | The Fifth Race (Season 2) | |
| Domatavus | dominatus | Master | mastery | Window of Opportunity (Season 7) | |
| Eetium | etiam | Yes | Yes | (answer to question) yes, certainly | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| ego | ego | I | I | I, self | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Euge | eu, euge, eugepae | Good | Fine | good! well done! good job! | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Fallatus | facultas | Ability | power, means, opportunity, capacity, ability, stock | The Fifth Race (Season 2) | |
| Feggus | fio, fieri, factus | Finished | Ending | be made, be done, become | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Fron | frons | head | Head | forehead, brow, front | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Glaciuse | glacies | Ice | Ice | Lost City part 2 (Season 7) | |
| Haud | haud | no | No | no, not at all, by no means | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Illac | Semita | The Path | Over There/Along that Path, In that Direction. | Talion (Season 10) | |
| incursis | Incurso | Attack/Overrun | An attack, assault / efforts, impulses | Echoes (Stargate Atlantis) | |
| Indeeo | indigeo | need | Clearly understood | to require, need, stand in need of | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Lacun | Lacun | Of the Lost | A Hole, An Empty Space, Loss, Missing (letters). | Fallen (Season 7) | |
| Locas | Locus | location | Place | place, location, situation, spot | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Mallum | Malum | Evil | Misfortune, Misdeed, Evil, Crime, Injury, Damage | The Ark Of Truth (Movie) | |
| Motabilum | praeteritus | Past | Window of Opportunity (Season 4) | ||
| navo | novo | New | New | to make anew, refresh, revive, change, alter, invent | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| nous | nos | We | We | we, us | The Fifth Race (Season 2) |
| Perennial | pernicies | Disaster | destruction, disaster, ruin, bane | Window of Opportunity (Season 4) | |
| Puta | Puto | Believe | believe | to clear, settle up, consider, think, believe, suppose, judge. | Avalon Part 1 (Season 9) |
| Ortus | Ortus | origin | Origin | Birth, Origin, Rising, Source | The Ark Of Truth (Movie) |
| Renin | Regnum | Kingdom | Rule, Authority, Kingdom, Realm | Talion (Season 10) | |
| Subo | Sub | Under | underneath, under; close under, at the foot of | Lost City part 2 (Season 7) | |
| Taonas | Orbis | Sphere | Sphere, Circle, can mean planet or star. | Lost City part 2 (Season 7) | |
| Terre | Terra | Earth | Earth | earth, land, ground, soil; a country, land, region | Lost City part 2 (Season 7) |
| Tu | Tu | You | You | Avalon Part 1 (Season 9) | |
| Uban | urbs, urbis | City | City | a walled town or city | Homecoming (Season 7) |
| Veriumas | Veritas | Truth | True | truthfulness, truth | The Ark Of Truth (Movie) |
| Vestul | hesito | Uncertain | to be unsure, uncertain, to be uncertain, wavering, be wavering | Window of Opportunity (Season 4) | |
| Vis | Avius | Lost | Lost | wandering, astray, lost | Homecoming (Season 7) |
Famous Expressions
| In the dialect ancient | Writing | In English (rough translation) | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ortis Mallum | The Origin of Evil | The Ark of Truth | |
| Ameria Veriumas | The Ark of Truth | The Ark of Truth | |
| Nous ani Anquiatus | We are the Ancients | The Fifth Race | |
| Hic Qua Videum | The Place of our Legacy | The Fifth Race | |
| Ego Indaeo Navo Locas | I need a new location | The Fifth Race | |
| Domatavus vestul Motabilum | Master of Uncertain Past | Window of Opportunity | |
| Perennial Adventus | Approaching Disaster | Window of Opportunity | |
| Vis Uban | lost city | homecoming | |
| Proclarush Taonas | Lost in Fire | Lost city part 2 | |
| Terre Atlantus | Earth Atlantis | Lost city part 2 | |
| Subo Glaciuse | under the ice | Lost city part 2 | |
| Aveo Amacose | Goodbye | Lost city part 2 |
Known Ancient Colonies
Milky Way
- Dakarra
- Proclarush Theonas
- Theot Voclarush / Castiana
- Velos Kor / Sahal
- Voras Jen Bree / Wegonbray
- Vis Uban
Pegasus
- Dagon
- Dorandas
- lanthea
- Taranis
- Asuras
- Sateda
see also
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| SG-1 | Samantha Carter · George Hammond · |
The Ancients (Anquiatus also known as the Alterans) are a fictional human race in the Stargate universe. They are the most advanced of all known races that have ever existed, as they evolved millions of years before earthlings. Their most famous invention is the stargate, which they have scattered across many worlds. Modern people use another of their achievements - the city-ship Atlantis, in which the events of the television series "Stargate: Atlantis" take place. Contents
Story
Alteran and Ori
Settlement of the Ancients Orthus Mallum
Ancient colony ship leaves Alteran home galaxy
Millions of years ago, these first members of the human species lived in another galaxy and made progress on the path to ascension. At that time, Alteran and Ori were no different from each other and lived in the same society. But then, at a certain point, their society split in two: the Ori became more and more intolerant and fanatical in their religious beliefs, while the Alterans (from altera, lat. others) preferred a scientific worldview and a rational outlook on life. In the end, their society was divided in two, and the Ori tried to destroy their brethren. Instead of fighting, the Alterans left their galaxy.
After long wanderings, the Alterans found the Milky Way, where they then built a mighty empire. One of the first colonies was the Earth (Terre). To move between their planets, they built a stargate system (Astria Porta). Other known planets of the Ancients in our Galaxy were Proclarush Taonas (), Dakar and Valos Kor ().
At some point, the Alterans were infected with a terrible plague that nearly wiped out their civilization. Since the disease bore a striking resemblance to the infection spread by the Priors among the "unbelievers", Daniel Jackson expressed the opinion that the Alteran were infected by the Ori, who still considered the Alteran to be enemies.
Although their attempts to travel back in time and prevent the infection were unsuccessful, some Ancients in the Milky Way did escape death by leaving their bodies and becoming pure energy (through the process of ascension). According to Anubis, other Ancients attempted to recreate life in the galaxy using the generator on Dakar. The second evolution of people on Earth is the result of this attempt.
Atlantis - one of the greatest achievements of the Ancients
About 10 million years ago, the Ancients were forced to leave the Milky Way due to a plague that even they could not cure. Their race almost died out, and then, having populated the Earth with people in a new way, the remaining ancients went on the ship-city of Atlantis to the nearest galaxy - to Pegasus. The ancients planted the city on a planet they named Lanthea and subsequently the ancient Pegasus galaxy became known as the Lantheans. The Lantians arrived in an uninhabited galaxy and decided to populate it with life, as they did in the Milky Way millions of years ago. They also decided to build a new Stargate network centered around the local constellations, thus replacing the prototype network left behind by the gate constructors sent to pave the way for Destiny.
The Lanthes organized several outposts on the planets Athos, Doranda, Taranis; studied the worlds of Pegasus and defended the cultures they created. One of the planets on which they launched the evolution of the human form of life was a planet inhabited by beetles that fed on the life forces of other beings. Evolution on this planet went along a symbiotic path, and the Wraith race appeared, humanoid creatures who needed people to maintain their vitality. By devouring other people's lives, the Wraith gained the ability to regenerate tissues, and given their ability to hibernate, this means almost eternal life with sufficient nutrition.
War with the Wraith
For a hundred years, the Lantheans and the Wraith waged a bitter war against each other. At first, the Wraith seriously lagged behind the Lantines both in technical terms and in numbers. Crystal-based Lanthean technology was many times better than organic technology. A single Lanthean Aurora-class cruiser could easily destroy several Wraith hive ships without taking much damage thanks to its powerful energy shields. Infinitely confident in their superiority, the careless Lantheans began to send their cruisers into the territory controlled by the Wraith. After a long period of warfare and heavy losses, the Wraith managed to capture several Lantian cruisers and use their MNTs to power cloning stations. With the help of the MNT, the Wraith were able to increase their population, which gave them an absolute advantage in the war. The tide of the war quickly turned in their favor; it no longer mattered that the Lantheans could win any battle: the Wraith continued to advance and conquer planet after planet. Waging an attritional war, the Lantheans gradually retreated deeper into their domain, watching as the Wraith engulfed the Lanthean territories and destroyed defensive satellites with only one goal - to destroy the Lantheans.
In desperation, the Lantheans began to take more drastic measures against the Wraith. On the planet Asuras (rich in neutronium), the Lantheans built an outpost and began research into nanotechnology. The results of the research were a self-reproducing nanovirus that was supposed to destroy the enemy from the inside, but instead, the virus nanites began to group into more complex life forms until they reached the perfect one - people. This is how the Asurane, the replicators of the Pegasus galaxy, were born. The base code for this biological weapon was an aggression that surpassed the aggression of the Wraith. The Asurans believed that it was aggression that prevented them from ascending, like their creators, and asked the Lantheans to remove aggression from their code, but the creators refused and, believing that the experiment had failed, destroyed the city of Asuran on the planet Asuras and all the data about them in the database, except addresses.
The weapon platform that powered the Arcturus and killed Doranda
Further, the Lantheans developed the "Project Arcturos", this project involved extracting zero point energy from our universe. The principle of operation was similar to the work of the MNT. This way of extracting zero point energy would allow for an unlimited supply of energy for Lantian technology. The installation was located on the planet Doranda. But in the end, this experiment was abandoned, because it was highly unstable. Also, as a result of the experiment, the radiation emitted by the installation and Doranda's defensive weapon destroyed the entire population of the planet and the Ancients who were in the laboratory. 10,000 years later, Rodney McKay destroyed Doranda and a 5/6th star system in an attempt to continue researching the Lantheans.
The closest step to defeating the Wraith was the Attero Device. This device emitted radiation that caused the Wraith hyperdrives to explode upon entering hyperspace. Since each hyperdrive system had unique characteristics, and the Device was tuned to the Wraith system, the Lantheans were free to travel through hyperspace and destroy the Wraith. But the Attero Device had a drawback - the radiation overloaded the Stargate and caused it to explode. Because of this, the project was closed.
By this point, it was obvious even to the Lantheans that they were losing the war. They kept losing territory to the Wraith until the Lantian system was all that was left of their empire. In a last attempt to end the war, the Lantheans sent a delegation to meet with the Wraith to negotiate peace. The delegation was protected by the most powerful warships, but they were ambushed and destroyed. The last hope for peace was lost.
Defeat in the war
For some time, the Wraith were unable to reach Lanthea due to a system of defense satellites surrounding the Lanthean solar system, capable of destroying the hive ship with a single shot. But after a while, most of the satellites were destroyed and the Wraith began the siege of Atlantis. Lanthea's last line of defense has fallen. The only defense of the city remained drone guns and the city shield. Despite the fact that the Lantheans could destroy all the ships attacking Atlantis, the Wraith sent more and more. The overwhelming superiority in numbers, the gradual depletion of drone weapons and the constant bombardment of the shield, forced the Lantheans to sink the city to the bottom of the Lanthea ocean (under water, the shield could withstand the bombardment for much longer than on the surface).
Around 8000 B.C. e. one hundred years after the war with the Wraith began, the Lantian Council saw that nothing more could be done to win and decided to leave the galaxy through the stargate back to Earth, knowing that one day the human race would be able to return to Pegasus. Before leaving Pegasus, the Lantheans blocked the gates of Atlantis in such a way that they would now block any incoming wormhole other than Earth, thus ensuring that only Earthlings would enter Atlantis. After the departure of the Lantians, the Pegasus galaxy was left at the mercy of the Wraith.
Return to the Milky Way
After the Lanteans returned to Earth, they found only primitive cavemen (Ta'uri). Realizing that the civilization of the Ancients could no longer be rebuilt, they settled around the planet, helping people. Some even had Semi-Ancient children with humans, which then caused some individuals to have the genetic code of the Ancients to work with their devices. Some of the returnees were also able to ascend. The language of the Ancients would later give rise to Latin. According to Roman mythology, the Romans were taught to build roads by gods called "Ancients". The story of the fall of the inhabitants of Atlantis was, after all, retold (with some modifications) by Plato in his Timaeus and Critias.
Myrddin (Moros), one of the Ancients who ascended, was able to "descend" to Earth to create a weapon against the Ori (while retaining some of the Ancients' abilities and all of his knowledge). He is known as Merlin in the Arthurian legends (Arthurian cycle), as some of the powers of the Ancients (telekinesis, healing, etc.) could clearly have seemed like magic to the Britons of the early Middle Ages. Calling his weapon the Grail (Sangraal), he left his secrets to a narrow circle of people - King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Those Ancients who left Earth established the Union of the Four Great Races, which also included the Nox, Furling and Asgard. Together, they created a "real" universal language, in which atoms played the role of the simplest components. According to the inscriptions on the planet Heliopolis (the gates to which people were able to open back in 1945;), this union lasted for several centuries. Then even these, the last in our galaxy, the Ancients ascended.
Recent History of the Ancients
During excavations in Antarctica, a female Alteranka, Ayanna, was found. Removed from the ice, she returned to life. But she was still infected with the plague, and soon died (finally using all her powers to heal SG-1 from the disease she revived).
An entire Ancient (Aurora-class) ship has been discovered in intergalactic space halfway into the Milky Way. Apparently, the ship was damaged in the battle with the Wraith, and the crew had to fly at relativistic speed. Although ten millennia had already passed, for them only a few years had passed. They reclaimed Atlantis by driving out the Ta'uri. But then the Asurans attacked the city and destroyed the entire crew of the ship.
On one of the planets (), SG-1 found and resurrected Myrddin/Merlin, who was in stasis, who helped them complete the work of assembling the second Grail (Sangrail). Although the Ancient One's body failed, before dying, he placed a portion of his memory into Daniel's brain, allowing him to complete his work as well as temporarily turning him into the Ancient One. Later, Daniel, using a combination of Merlin's and Prior's powers, and the help of SG-1, activated the Sangraal and sent it to the Ori galaxy.
Physiology
Before ascension
Alteran Amelius - creator of the Stargate and the Ark of Truth
Over the tens of millions of years of their existence, the Alterans evolved into the most advanced form of man. Over millions of years of evolution, they have been able to achieve an incredibly complex genetic structure and level of physical and mental development. Since the Alterans have evolved over many millions of years, their mental abilities, which are not yet inaccessible to the second evolution of this species, have reached their maximum: Alterans have mastered telekinesis, healing touch and telepathy. Also, the amount of knowledge that the brain could store has increased to an incredible extent: the brain of ordinary people cannot withstand this and dies.
The once-ascended Merlin, having descended to the mortal level of existence to construct a weapon against the Ori, returned in the most advanced genetic form that his species had reached before ascension, retaining his knowledge. He had the ability to foresee, activate stargates with his mind, and also emit energy beams from his hands. Most likely, before the Ancients ascend, this is the last stage of evolution.
In their genetic code was the so-called Ancient Technology Activation gene. This special gene allowed them to activate and interact with Lanthean (Ancient Pegasus) technology. Particularly sensitive to this gene are the control chair and Jumpers. It is still not known whether this gene was a feature of Alteran genetics or the result of genetic engineering.
After the ascension
Ascended Fata Morgana
Upon ascension, the Ancients turn into pure energy and go to another level of existence. In doing so, they gain near-divine powers, but they do not use them to influence the fate of "mortals" and avoid the temptation to become fanatics like the Ori. According to those who have ascended, ascension is only the beginning of the journey. The Ori probably stopped there, which allowed the Ancients to hide the people of the Milky Way from them.
Although one of the Ancients was allowed to protect people and take care of them, but only in her own world.
The only known non-human to ascend (with the help of Oma Desala) was the Goa'uld Anubis. But since Anubis wasn't going to stick to their rules, the Ancients tried to send him back. They succeeded only partially. Now it exists as a clot of energy, which must be enclosed in a special shell. Despite the fact that Russian Air Force Colonel Alexei Vaselov, whose body was seized by Anubis, sacrificed himself and froze to death on an ice planet, Anubis managed to free himself and again try to use the advantages of his "semi-exalted" status in the fight against the rest of the Goa'uld and people, but was stopped by the joint efforts of Ta'uri, Jaffa and Baal, after which Jackson convinced Omu Desala to wage an ongoing struggle with Anubis at the highest level of being, which would prevent him from interfering in the affairs of the "unexalted" world.
"Partial" Ancients
Some people, for various reasons, temporarily received some of the abilities of the Ancients. The first of these was Jack O'Neill, in whose brain the library of knowledge of the Ancients on the planet P3R-272 () was uploaded. At the same time, he gradually switched to the language of the Ancients, forgetting English, since his brain simply could not absorb such an amount of information. This happened to O'Neill twice. The second time (now consciously) he received this knowledge and was even able to learn how to heal others by touch. Another such person was Daniel Jackson. When he received some of Merlin's knowledge, he also gained the ability to telekinesis, create lightning and force fields.
Jonas Quinn, after being genetically tested by the exiled Systemmaster Nirrti using an Ancient Machine, was able to see a possible future. At the same time, he received a fatal tumor in the brain, which was urgently removed, depriving him of his new ability.
Another person who became Semi-Ancient due to genetic manipulation was Rodney McKay, who discovered a similar genetic machine in Atlantis. This machine started the process at the gene level, forcing a person on the path to ascension, but not for a lifetime, but only for a few days. The problem was that if a person did not ascend, he would die.
Other partial Ancients include the Priors, Dosai, and Adria, who share some of the abilities of the Ancients and Ori. Adria is the most powerful of them all, as she is the embodiment of the Ori in a human body and has most of the knowledge of the Ori, but still not all.
The attempts of some Goa'ulds (in particular, Nirrti and Anubis) to create hok'tar (advanced people) were crowned with the temporary appearance of the ability to manipulate electromagnetic fields in Cassandra and the creation of Kalec on the planet P3X-584 (). It is known that Kalec could read minds and possessed telekinesis, and was also close to the path to ascension.
culture
Philosophy
Ganos Lal pretending to be a hologram in Atlantis
The ancients are known for their unwavering belief in free will.
The ancients believed in science and the rationale for things. Knowledge and enlightenment were fundamental to their worldview. They believed that the universe needed to be studied, and that scientific research was very important for understanding the universe. More importantly, the Ancients believed in freedom of choice, and that they couldn't stop them from believing what they wanted. This did not work in their favor when the Ori began to spread the "Origin" among the second evolution of humans and gain more and more energy, and their religious fanaticism was gaining momentum. The Ancients also believed that it would be immoral to brainwash the followers of the Ori in order to depower them.
When they ascended, their main rule was the prohibition of accelerating the natural process of ascension of other, lower beings. Violation of this rule entailed serious consequences, including the heaviest punishments. Because Oma Desala helped lower beings ascend, she was considered an outcast, but when she helped Anubis, who deceived her, ascend, she was punished, forcing her to watch how he uses the knowledge of the ascended conquering the Milky Way. Orlyn was also exiled from the Others for helping the people of Velona construct weapons against the Goa'uld, which they later decided to use against other races. Chaya Sar was punished for intervening and destroying the Wraith fleet that was besieging her home planet of Proculus. Her punishment was to serve as protection only for the people of Proculus and no one else.
There is a real, physical transfer of Ori energy that occurs through human worship. In order for the effect to be tangible, a huge number of believers were needed. main reason why the Ancients follow a policy of strict non-intervention is that the temptation to control lesser beings could lead to a perversion of the worldview, as happened with the Ori.
The ancients believe that using their abilities will make them no better than the Ori themselves.
Language and writing system
Ancient - the language spoken and written by the Alteran race - the first evolution of the human race - as well as their descendants: the Ancients, Ori, Lantheans and Asurane (biological weapons created by the Lantheans). The language is quite similar to earthly Latin. Unlike English and Latin, ancient does not have separate symbols for the letters "F" and "U", both are represented by the same symbol.
Several people in Stargate Command are quite successful in understanding the written and spoken Ancient. Daniel Jackson revealed the secrets of this language to learn more about it and gained innate understanding after ascending and indulging. Other people who speak the language fluently, or at least understand it at a reasonable level, are Jonas Quinn, Rodney McKay, Elizabeth Weir, Samantha Carter, Nicholas Rush, Eli Wallace, Brodie, Walker, Park, Amanda Perry, and many others. Also, on two occasions, Jack O'Neill was able to speak Ancient after having the Ancient database placed in his brain; each time the Asgards erased this information.
Jack O'Neill and Teal'c understand the ancient one as they learned it while being forced to relive the same day while stuck in a time loop for several months. To protect his computer systems, Anubis used complex ciphers encoded in the oldest known dialect of the ancient. Although the Goa'uld have many centuries of history in appropriating the artifacts of the ancients, the Tok'ra were unable to translate the ancient inscriptions. Some Athosians pray in ancient.
The language of the Wraith is a derivative of the language of the Ancients.
Inscriptions turned upside down may have a different meaning. For example, the letters J and R are the same letter in mirror image.
Known Ancient Colonies
Milky Way
Dakarra
Earth / Terra
Heliopolis
Proclarush Taonas
Theot Voclarush / Castiana
Velos Kor / Sahal
Voras Jen Bree / Wegonbray
Vis Uban
Pegasus
Athos
Dagon
Doranda
lanthea
Taranis
Asuras
Sateda.
