Who wants to see a perm Ancient?

[mcbarr]

I heard this on this board a long time ago but I thought that it was cool then and now. I think that we should find out that Shepard is a former asended Ancient that learns the truth. Maybe they find another Ancient outpost and are downloading the database of Ancients that were stationed there and they find a holo of someone that looks exactly like Shepard. Find another Ancient in a status pod that will die shortly after waking up but is able to identify Shep as a former Ancient before he goes...that is my hope.

That'd be pretty interesting, and it would shed some light on why Sheppard is so compatible with Ancient tech. It would also explain why those people from Epiphany suggested all the time they needed Sheppard's guidance to ascend or whatever.

[scifi_lemon]

That'd be pretty interesting, and it would shed some light on why Sheppard is so compatible with Ancient tech. It would also explain why those people from Epiphany suggested all the time they needed Sheppard's guidance to ascend or whatever.

I never thought of that. Good point.

It also explains why Ascended women dig him.

[Col. Shadow Quinn]

Whoever said the ancient had to be a civilian, maybe it could be a soldier.

[Professor Chaos]

Ooh I like the idea of Shepherd being a descended Ancient with no memory. He could activate something in Atlantis that slowly restores his memory or something.

He should have a higher than average IQ, but not a scientist. Maybe the captain of an Ancient warship from the war. A good idea for an episode would be set 10,000 years ago when he was commanding his ship, The Orion.

[scifi_lemon]

Whoever said the ancient had to be a civilian, maybe it could be a soldier.

Ooh I like the idea of Shepherd being a descended Ancient with no memory. He could activate something in Atlantis that slowly restores his memory or something.

He should have a higher than average IQ, but not a scientist. Maybe the captain of an Ancient warship from the war. A good idea for an episode would be set 10,000 years ago when he was commanding his ship, The Orion.

If John's a Descended Ancient, it'd explain why we know so little about his past

I like the idea of a soldier Ancient because they might know where some of the stuff is located, but wouldn't a deep understanding of how it works. He'd also know about more "important" stuff like weapons would be. Captain of the Orion would be cool too.

[Mitchell82]

That'd be pretty interesting, and it would shed some light on why Sheppard is so compatible with Ancient tech. It would also explain why those people from Epiphany suggested all the time they needed Sheppard's guidance to ascend or whatever.

That'd be very interesting, Shepard an Ancient that would be great.

[ACharmedAsgard]

I just don't want to see the Ancients keep slipping up

[scifi_lemon]

I just don't want to see the Ancients keep slipping up

They're bound to do something right...eventually

[ACharmedAsgard]

God I hope so

[scifi_lemon]

God I hope so

[Copernicus]

I wouldn't want to see an ancient render one of the main characters obsolete. If it's an ancient scientist, then suddenly the idea of McKay being able to be, well, McKay does not work so well because he does not have being the "I'm the smartest person around and you need me" aspect to his character anymore. If the ancient was some sort of military strategist or soldier, it would make sense for the ancient to either be in a command position or as a member of Sheppard's team. In both cases, we have those segments fully stocked with either recurring characters (Weir, Caldwell and Ellis) or main cast.

The one thing I could go for is a sort of Morgan Le Fay (did I spell that right?) slash Zordon concoction that provides information (the powers that be would need to have it damaged so it does not know everything about the city and some exploration still works) to the team, like the original hologram in The Rising, but more detailed. It could have been useful in Tao of Rodney, where Weir's exposition on ascending didn't seem to make a lot of sense for her character. This would hinder it from playing a physical role in the series, which would leave the main cast plenty of uses for their expertise.

[ACharmedAsgard]

Ancients don't think outside the Box so a smart Ancient wouldn't make the main charaters obsolete

[scifi_lemon]

Ancients don't think outside the Box so a smart Ancient wouldn't make the main charaters obsolete

It'd be like having an easy to use encyclopedia on Ancient stuff; all the answers to how everything works and where it is, but you still have to know how to use it to its best potential. It'd make things too easy imho, but having a Ancient solider work better. They'd still be an Ancient but they wouldn't take away from the 'discovery' that's a big part of SGA.

[ACharmedAsgard]

Not all Ancients knew everything - a single scientist wouldn't know everthing about Ancient technology - they each probably had fields. Ancient soldiers would be no different to humans really

[scifi_lemon]

Not all Ancients knew everything - a single scientist wouldn't know everthing about Ancient technology - they each probably had fields. Ancient soldiers would be no different to humans really

True. My only problem with having a permenant Ancient would be if they were 'too' smart, ya know? I don't want to lose the sense of discovery and trying to figure everything out.