Is there a Center to the Gate network

[Control_Chair]

i didn't understand.
It began as Alteran...what's Alteran?

Alterans is what the Ancients called themselves, Ancients is what we and other races in the Milky Way call them, like how humans in the Pegasus call them the Ancestors.

[Quadhelix]

Alterans is what the Ancients called themselves, Ancients is what we and other races in the Milky Way call them, like how humans in the Pegasus call them the Ancestors.

I'm not entirely sure how accurate that is:

We know from "Avalon" that the Ancients originally referred to themselves as the "Altera" or "Alterans"; most likely, one would refer to an individual Ancient as "an Alteran" while one would call all the Ancients "the Alterans" (much like one might say, "the Americans" or "the Germans") or "the Altera" interchangably.

However, we know from "The Fifth Race" that the Ancients, at some point in their history, knew themselves as "Anqueetus," which was translated in the episode as "the Ancients," or rather, "the Ancient Ones." However, it is quite possible that "Anqueetus" was just a name that the Ancients had for themselves, and that the word "ancient" comes from that name.