Why no mention of the mission anywhere else?

[kobrakai_1986]

Apologies if this has already been asked somewhere else, but I have a question regarding Destiny's mission.

For a culture that spanned such an immense length of time, why did nobody ever write down somewhere what Destiny's mission was, say in the Atlantis data banks?

Surely over the course of thousands of years people are going to forget why they sent the ship out or may need to look up ship specifications for some reason, yet nobody seems to be able to find any reference to it at all apart from one cryptic nine chevron address.

Just a thought - seems rather careless of them...

[Bosch]

Well, Nick in "The Greater Good" mentions something about philosophical debates between the Ancients. It could be entirely possible that after Destiny was launched, they had a change of heart and decide that whatever was out there was to powerful to be messed with. To make sure that another race couldn't get there hands on the info suppressed any information on Destiny and it's mission.

[kobrakai_1986]

Well, Nick in "The Greater Good" mentions something about philosophical debates between the Ancients. It could be entirely possible that after Destiny was launched, they had a change of heart and decide that whatever was out there was to powerful to be messed with. To make sure that another race couldn't get there hands on the info suppressed any information on Destiny and it's mission.

Possibly but that begs the question of why they didn't delete the gate address from the system as well?

[morbosfist]

Maybe they just didn't keep a record of it. After all, all the data was on Destiny, and they probably just moved on to other pursuits.

[garhkal]

Possibly but that begs the question of why they didn't delete the gate address from the system as well?

Cause maybe the knowledge of just the gate addy was not enough for anyone to do anything, they would have had to know about the "needing more power" and the code/equations to make it work.

[Rylor]

Possibly but that begs the question of why they didn't delete the gate address from the system as well?

We had a similar situation with the gate address for Asuras. There was no additional information in the Atlantis database, only the address. So it's not unprecedented.

[garhkal]

Yup.. Even the Gou';ald kept addresses for places they forgot about.

[xxxevilgrinxxx]

For a culture that spanned such an immense length of time, why did nobody ever write down somewhere what Destiny's mission was, say in the Atlantis data banks?...
Just a thought - seems rather careless of them...I think the answer is in the question - an immense length of time.

[g.o.d]

it's possible they were afraid of that discovery. It's also possible only couple of them knew about that. After their history with the Ori, the last thing they needed would be another group of fanatics being against the mission.

maybe they wanted to wait some time when their society grow up enough to fully understand that. Message or signal from the beginning of time is quite different than research about the ascension.

Unfortunately for them, the plague almost wiped them out before they boarded Destiny.

[Sami_]

It was probably in the ancient database but the database is so massive that I'm guessing nobody has come across it yet - thats assuming it even made it into the database in the first place and wasn't lost in the millions of years since the discovery.

No doubt there is plenty of history in our own civilization that has been lost and I'm sure the same could be said for a race spanning 50+ million years, I don't think we can even begin to imagine how much knowledge and history that would be.

[droid327]

Or maybe they figured it out millions of years ago, shortly after Destiny launched, but it wasnt anything as important as they expected, it became a footnote in a record somewhere, and Destiny's "primary mission" became redundant, they just let it go to keep seeding stargates. Wouldnt be the first time the Ancients had explored a scientific dead-end (e.g., zero-point energy without subspace pockets).

Rush might just be chasing the Ancients equivalent of Voyager (the space probe) in the SG universe, a mission sent to one day find what they ended up finding 30 years later without it :)