why didn't the ancients go back

[jsw]

I know that the ancients were a peaceful race. but how could they abandon all those countless worlds to the wraith. if this alleged great alliance of the four races was established for doing good things . Why would they not help the ancients design better weapons to kill large groups of wraith. IF they refused to help then why didn't the ancients make it their mission to go back to pegasus after they rebuilt their society

[MarshAngel]

It's simple really. When they left they were defeated. The Wraith had every world in Pegasus and their resources at their command.

What did the Ancients have left? What little of them were left, left their last great technological resource behind and returned to a planet with little technology. Even if they scrapped together a couple of ships and ZPMs and returned to the Pegasus, they'd already had their butts handed to them and I don't think they were planning to lose all over again. Chances are they just never found a far-reaching solution before they died/ascended.

They didn't abandon, they fought and lost. Atlantis was probably one of their highest acheivements, since we aren't exactly running into intact Ancient cities everyday. When you've lost that, you don't exactly have much of a chance of building something better in time for it to matter, especially if you're starting from scratch.

[keppiezbt]

one word:

acension

[oragans]

one word:

acension

I agree dont the ancients have the power to control the weather - they could easily kill all the wraith - but i believe the only reason they dont is because they are ignorant.

[Helo]

I agree dont the ancients have the power to control the weather - they could easily kill all the wraith - but i believe the only reason they dont is because they are ignorant.

Ok the ancients can control the weather but their not storm from the xmen they can't just target certain things with lightning.

[4574]

Ok the ancients can control the weather but their not storm from the xmen they can't just target certain things with lightning.

no but they could make a planet -50 degrees i guess, but the wraith have to be on a planet for that, and as far as we know wraith exist in space

[Helo]

no but they could make a planet -50 degrees i guess, but the wraith have to be on a planet for that, and as far as we know wraith exist in space

Hive ships are made for the vaccum of space. Im sure they would be fine seeing how they hibernate in the hive ships.

[oragans]

Ok the ancients can control the weather but their not storm from the xmen they can't just target certain things with lightning.

oh no i believe oma managed it in the episode Maternal Instinct Season 3.

[Acropolis]

if the ancients knew they would never return because they had no chance at winning then they should have just taken atlantis back to MW.

[Wass]

Maybe they can't help the people in Pegasus because of the Orii.

[prion]

I know that the ancients were a peaceful race. but how could they abandon all those countless worlds to the wraith. if this alleged great alliance of the four races was established for doing good things . Why would they not help the ancients design better weapons to kill large groups of wraith. IF they refused to help then why didn't the ancients make it their mission to go back to pegasus after they rebuilt their society

Realistically, they could abandon everybody there because they were in a position that they could no longer help even themselves, so they had to flee. Not a fun thing to do, and I'm sure at least some of them felt guilt over it, but had they stayed, they merely would have died along with the rest.

The best laid plans and all that, y'know....

[tomchris45]

if the ancients knew they would never return because they had no chance at winning then they should have just taken atlantis back to MW.

That's one thing that's always puzzled me, why didn't they take atlantis with them. I'm guessing that atlantis has far superior enhines then the Wraith, so I'm guessing being pursued wasn't the reason, so it did make me wonder.

The only suggestion I could make is that Atlantis is more vulnerable when in flight. Maybe the shield becomes weaker, making them a better target, or the shield under atlantis is weaker or summin. But other then that it really made no sense to abandon atlantis!

[Hatcheter]

That's one thing that's always puzzled me, why didn't they take atlantis with them. I'm guessing that atlantis has far superior enhines then the Wraith, so I'm guessing being pursued wasn't the reason, so it did make me wonder.

The only suggestion I could make is that Atlantis is more vulnerable when in flight. Maybe the shield becomes weaker, making them a better target, or the shield under atlantis is weaker or summin. But other then that it really made no sense to abandon atlantis!

The Wraith had a pretty big blocade on the planet (see 'Rising II'). Atlantis probably wouldn't have made it out of orbit before it was surrounded and destroyed.

[Ancient 1]

I know that the ancients were a peaceful race. but how could they abandon all those countless worlds to the wraith. if this alleged great alliance of the four races was established for doing good things . Why would they not help the ancients design better weapons to kill large groups of wraith. IF they refused to help then why didn't the ancients make it their mission to go back to pegasus after they rebuilt their society

They could have also gone back when the wraith went into hibernation and taken out a bunch of hive ships with synchronised strikes, but I guess they just gave it up as a lost cause and went back to the MW to hide. It just seems there were a lot of things they could have done different, instead of ascending to get above it all and past their own mistakes.

[True!Ancient]

by the looks of things to me the ancients were a bunch of wusses that was all high n mighty till they got wasted by somethin they might of created