First off let me warn you:
SPOILERS FROM RISING AS WELL AS PREVIOUS SG-1 EPISODES SUCH AS FROZEN, WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY, AND LOST CITY
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To put it all into perspective, this is what I have pieced together about what we know so far about the Ancients. Keep in mind that these are my thoughts and are NOT canon. They may be based on facts from Stargate, but the whole history itself is not fact, just a theory of mine.
Many millions of years ago, the Ancients inhabited Earth in a flying city. During their time in our galaxy, they created a network of stargates, most likely for the benefit of exploration and trading with other races. It is possible they didn’t even start on Earth, but this isn’t made clear. We’ve seen another outpost on another world in Lost City and if my theory that the outpost acts like a landing pad (see the very first scene in Rising) than the city of Atlantis could have inhabited other planets prior to Earth.
At some point, several million years ago (I believe it was mentioned 5 to 10 million years ago) they Ancients up and left, leaving our dear friend Ayiana behind (why, I’m not sure, possibly to “hold the fort”). She gets frozen for a couple million years and wakes up in Season 6 of SG-1 in Frozen.
Atlantis arrives in the Pegasus galaxy and they start seeding thousands of worlds (most likely over the course of a million years) with humans like us. Then they encounter the Wraith, who start feeding on the smorgasbord of defenseless, primitive humans and grow in numbers to overwhelm the Ancients. The Ancients, not being an overly offensive people, don’t have much in the way of warriors and the Wraith technology rivals their own, so they are beat back to Atlantis, where they sit under siege for many years. The last remaining Ancients in the city then flee back to Earth through the Atlantis stargate and hopefully covering their tracks so the Wraith can’t follow. Now, I assume they arrive at the outpost, but I’m not sure. Ayiana has been frozen for some time, maybe she got stuck in an avalanche by accident. It is most likely the Ancients did arrive at the outpost to find it quickly overcome by the ice age.
My guess is this happened many thousands of years ago, somewhere between 10,000 and 14,000 years ago. Plato recounted the tale of Atlantis after hearing it from an Egyptian priest. Back then, the story said Atlantis sank 10,000 years ago, so it is likely that from our present time perspective we need to add about 2400 years onto that figure. Plato stated that Atlantis “lied beyond the pillars of Herakles (Hercules for those who prefer the Latin spelling) which is the Straight of Gibraltar. This makes sense if some of the Ancients migrated from the Antarctic outpost and met with some of the seeded humans in the Mesopotamia region. To the humans, it would have appeared that they came from a place that lay beyond the Mediterranean.
Now, from Earth, the Ancients probably attempted to survive by going back to the other worlds in our galaxy that they once occupied and along the way, encountered several races. It is also this time that the Goa’uld have started rising in power and have taken the Unas as hosts as well as starting to scavange from the old Ancient technology. The Ancients met up with the Nox, the Furlings and the Asgards and eventually formed the Alliance to defend against the Goa’uld. From here, I think the Ancients started dying off from the “plague,” but I’m not sure if it was a disease they accidentally carried over form the Pegasus galaxy that laid dormant, or if the plague was something else. We do know that in WoO, the time machine, which appeared to have been built and used in our own galaxy, was used by the Ancients in an attempt to buy them some more time to save themselves from the plague. This is why I think that the “plague” definitely affected the Ancients in this galaxy, probably after they returned from Atlantis, and they ascended while they were here in our galaxy.
Alright, so that is my “interpretation” of what we’ve heard so far about the Ancients, feel free to pick holes in it as much as you would like. I will either try to attempt to fill in those holes or agree with you and make the holes bigger. Please, add your thoughts and opinions to it.
SPOILERS FROM RISING AS WELL AS PREVIOUS SG-1 EPISODES SUCH AS FROZEN, WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY, AND LOST CITY
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P
O
I
L
E
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P
A
C
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To put it all into perspective, this is what I have pieced together about what we know so far about the Ancients. Keep in mind that these are my thoughts and are NOT canon. They may be based on facts from Stargate, but the whole history itself is not fact, just a theory of mine.
Many millions of years ago, the Ancients inhabited Earth in a flying city. During their time in our galaxy, they created a network of stargates, most likely for the benefit of exploration and trading with other races. It is possible they didn’t even start on Earth, but this isn’t made clear. We’ve seen another outpost on another world in Lost City and if my theory that the outpost acts like a landing pad (see the very first scene in Rising) than the city of Atlantis could have inhabited other planets prior to Earth.
At some point, several million years ago (I believe it was mentioned 5 to 10 million years ago) they Ancients up and left, leaving our dear friend Ayiana behind (why, I’m not sure, possibly to “hold the fort”). She gets frozen for a couple million years and wakes up in Season 6 of SG-1 in Frozen.
Atlantis arrives in the Pegasus galaxy and they start seeding thousands of worlds (most likely over the course of a million years) with humans like us. Then they encounter the Wraith, who start feeding on the smorgasbord of defenseless, primitive humans and grow in numbers to overwhelm the Ancients. The Ancients, not being an overly offensive people, don’t have much in the way of warriors and the Wraith technology rivals their own, so they are beat back to Atlantis, where they sit under siege for many years. The last remaining Ancients in the city then flee back to Earth through the Atlantis stargate and hopefully covering their tracks so the Wraith can’t follow. Now, I assume they arrive at the outpost, but I’m not sure. Ayiana has been frozen for some time, maybe she got stuck in an avalanche by accident. It is most likely the Ancients did arrive at the outpost to find it quickly overcome by the ice age.
My guess is this happened many thousands of years ago, somewhere between 10,000 and 14,000 years ago. Plato recounted the tale of Atlantis after hearing it from an Egyptian priest. Back then, the story said Atlantis sank 10,000 years ago, so it is likely that from our present time perspective we need to add about 2400 years onto that figure. Plato stated that Atlantis “lied beyond the pillars of Herakles (Hercules for those who prefer the Latin spelling) which is the Straight of Gibraltar. This makes sense if some of the Ancients migrated from the Antarctic outpost and met with some of the seeded humans in the Mesopotamia region. To the humans, it would have appeared that they came from a place that lay beyond the Mediterranean.
Now, from Earth, the Ancients probably attempted to survive by going back to the other worlds in our galaxy that they once occupied and along the way, encountered several races. It is also this time that the Goa’uld have started rising in power and have taken the Unas as hosts as well as starting to scavange from the old Ancient technology. The Ancients met up with the Nox, the Furlings and the Asgards and eventually formed the Alliance to defend against the Goa’uld. From here, I think the Ancients started dying off from the “plague,” but I’m not sure if it was a disease they accidentally carried over form the Pegasus galaxy that laid dormant, or if the plague was something else. We do know that in WoO, the time machine, which appeared to have been built and used in our own galaxy, was used by the Ancients in an attempt to buy them some more time to save themselves from the plague. This is why I think that the “plague” definitely affected the Ancients in this galaxy, probably after they returned from Atlantis, and they ascended while they were here in our galaxy.
Alright, so that is my “interpretation” of what we’ve heard so far about the Ancients, feel free to pick holes in it as much as you would like. I will either try to attempt to fill in those holes or agree with you and make the holes bigger. Please, add your thoughts and opinions to it.
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