Why did the Ori never enter the Pegasus galaxy?

[Mongoletsi]

If Earth ships can make it from Earth to Atlantis in a couple of weeks, how come the Ori didn't make a move on Pegasus? The Wraith would be a pain in the arse, but not as much as the combined Free Jaffa, Lucia Alliance, Asgard, et al...

There's no way the Ori wouldn't have known about Atlantis and Pegasus either.

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Presumably the ascended ancients would have hidden the existence of life in the pegasus galaxy in much the same way that they did with the Milky Way.

[Mongoletsi]

Presumably the ascended ancients would have hidden the existence of life in the pegasus galaxy in much the same way that they did with the Milky Way.

I should've thought of that. Duh. Perhaps after they found out, the Ori figured they'd go there next, after "converting" our galaxy.

[Mclean]

If Earth ships can make it from Earth to Atlantis in a couple of weeks, how come the Ori didn't make a move on Pegasus? The Wraith would be a pain in the arse, but not as much as the combined Free Jaffa, Lucia Alliance, Asgard, et al...

There's no way the Ori wouldn't have known about Atlantis and Pegasus either.

There were probably more followers in the Milky Way galaxy.

How would they have known about Atlantis? It was launched millions of years after the Ancients left the Ori galaxy.

[Jeffala]

How would they have known about Atlantis? It was launched millions of years after the Ancients left the Ori galaxy.

Daniel Jackson new about it and they gleaned enough from him to know gate coordinates for planets. There's no reason to believe that they wouldn't have known about Pegasus and Atlantis as well.

Why did they not move on Pegasus, then? Because SG-1 was about the events of the Milky Way Galaxy and not the Pegasus Galaxy. There's no real reason that the Prior couldn't have diverted a few ships to Pegasus. The Wraith ships are powerful, but when you can take out a Daedalus class ship in two hits, the Wraith aren't that big of a concern (especially when you factor in that the only thing saving the Earth ships were their Asgard shielding and that the Wraith have no shields).

[Xaeden]

Daniel Jackson new about it and they gleaned enough from him to know gate coordinates for planets. There's no reason to believe that they wouldn't have known about Pegasus and Atlantis as well.

Daniel also knew about the Dakara device, but it managed to catch their followers by surprise. To me, it appeared as if the Doci/Ori was only reading things that came to Daniel's mind, as opposed to taking every thought he had. And as far as gate coordinates were concerned, they seemed to already know about the Milky Way, they just didn't know there was Human life there. So, we don't know that they got gate coordinates from Daniel. They could've gotten them on their own, possibly from past knowledge (this fits with the theory that they were involved in creating the Ancient plague) or they simply could've figured it out through some means unknown to us.

One of the arguments against this is that Orlin was able to know everything about a Prior's life as soon as he stepped into the Milky Way, but just because an ascended being has the ability to do that doesn't mean they did it to Daniel or even cared to at that point. We see that they either don't care to get involved in minor affairs of their followers or they don't care to absorb their thoughts so that they can tell their Priors which are unbelievers. So, it's not really a stretch that they would've thought Daniel wasn't that important beyond the revelation that Humans were out there and simply didn't bother/care to learn everything about his supposedly mundane life.

[ha'tak_]

If Earth ships can make it from Earth to Atlantis in a couple of weeks, how come the Ori didn't make a move on Pegasus? The Wraith would be a pain in the arse, but not as much as the combined Free Jaffa, Lucia Alliance, Asgard, et al...

There's no way the Ori wouldn't have known about Atlantis and Pegasus either.

dont know it exist

[Descended from the Ascended]

I would imagine it was because they had their hands full in the Milky way...

one step at a time and all that.

[Valtharus]

Ascended beings aren't omniscient, they [probably didn't know about it.

[jelgate]

The only reason the Ori didn't found out about Earth was because Danieal meantioned the MW with his speech to the Doci. Since Pegasus was never mentioned, the Ori don't know of its existence. Now if the Ori had been successful in taking over the MW, I think the Ori would have discovered the Pegasus

[Lantien84]

If Earth ships can make it from Earth to Atlantis in a couple of weeks, how come the Ori didn't make a move on Pegasus? The Wraith would be a pain in the arse, but not as much as the combined Free Jaffa, Lucia Alliance, Asgard, et al...

There's no way the Ori wouldn't have known about Atlantis and Pegasus either.

Because that would be too logical and as we all know the writers on the show don't develop stories in any way that makes sense.

Example-1: The public not finding out about the attempted invasion by Anubis at the end of the "Lost City" and the Stargate program not going public.

Example-2: Defeating enemies using the " Magic Ancient Weapon"; the Dakara device, the Ark of Truth, Merlin's out of phase cloaking device, Asgard plasma beams( OK I know not Ancient tech). They have all become annoying plot devices that ruin the sense of danger and urgency in situations when the characters have their backs to the wall.

Example-3: Ancient tech going from absurdly powerful to getting bested by Traveler tech and Asgard tech in the " Battle of Asuras". WTF?!

If anything, had the Ori known about Pegasus they would have invaded the galaxy before the attempted to gain a foothold in the Milky Way. The Ori ships wouldn't have had that much trouble one on one against Wraith ships, but probably would have gotten in trouble facing off against multiple Hives like the Phoenix in "The Last Man". Also given a choice between getting fed on like livestock by the Wraith or joining the Ori I doubt the human population of Pegasus would have given much resistance conversion.

[Anon]

truly i dont know, it could of been part of the 11 season/ 4th season.

[ReFRidgerator]

The Ori wanted easy followers. In pegasus the'd have to cntend with the fact that many worsip the wraith. And as Col. mitchell once said "The last thing we need is a god-off"

[Alteran of Atlantis]

If Earth ships can make it from Earth to Atlantis in a couple of weeks, how come the Ori didn't make a move on Pegasus? The Wraith would be a pain in the arse, but not as much as the combined Free Jaffa, Lucia Alliance, Asgard, et al...

There's no way the Ori wouldn't have known about Atlantis and Pegasus either.

Because they simply didn't know about it. Ascended beings don't know everything about the universe, and the Ascended Ancients would've hidden Pegasus from the Ori like they did with the Milky Way.

[Mongoletsi]

dont know it exist

I reckon they do though.