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    Why didn't the ancients just make a run for it?

    as it is well known the ancients left Atlantis because there knew that there couldn't beat the wraith there where to out numbered

    so i was wondering if Atlantis is a city/ship and has superior shields and weapons

    instead of sinking the city why didn't there just leave the Pegasus galaxy

    the ancient hyperdrive is far more advanced then the wriath and proabaly could have out run the wraith and settile some where else
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    For all we know, they were down there underwater when they learned how to transcend. I imagine they had to go underwater because the Wraith were too numerous for them to evacuate safely away.

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      #3
      Good point, perhaps all their resources were gone from fighting, the Wraith were surronding Atlantis, perhaps there we just too many ships to fly away, so they sunk the city and ran through the gate. As for the hyperdrive, perhaps even the Ancients couldn't produce enough power to go into hyperspace without the sheilds draining all the power from the constant firing onto them.

      Also, if they did that we wouldn't have a show
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        #4
        They never say if City Ships flu back or not. We already know that there are more then one. So maybe some did and the ones that didn't was the main base........ Atlantis. That is where the remainder fled through the only gate back to Earth. They never say how many came back or how long they where evacuating. I could have been years.
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          Originally posted by Chutzpah
          Also, if they did that we wouldn't have a show
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            #6
            For me they didn't fly away one because later in the Atlantis series the episode were they find the old Weir see was in the past so wouldn't that of affected the future?

            But flying away they were outnumbered and maybe did not have enough power, or knew wereever they went the Wraith would of found them.

            Even the possibility of if they left and were found it would be history repeated, or they could descend to a high being and live free of the Wraith kinda.

            But they exited to Earth which was safe as long as they stopped other worlds in the galaxy comming through bar Earth so pretty safe from the Wraith.

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              Originally posted by Teelie
              For all we know, they were down there underwater when they learned how to transcend. I imagine they had to go underwater because the Wraith were too numerous for them to evacuate safely away.
              Er... no? Remember "Before I Sleep"?

              Originally posted by woody
              For me they didn't fly away one because later in the Atlantis series the episode were they find the old Weir see was in the past so wouldn't that of affected the future?

              But flying away they were outnumbered and maybe did not have enough power, or knew wereever they went the Wraith would of found them.

              Even the possibility of if they left and were found it would be history repeated, or they could descend to a high being and live free of the Wraith kinda.

              But they exited to Earth which was safe as long as they stopped other worlds in the galaxy comming through bar Earth so pretty safe from the Wraith.
              Er... no? In "Before I Sleep", when Old Weir went back, they were already planning to go back and leave the city behind. Besides, no one had tampered with causality yet, so they were gonna leave it behind.



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                #8
                i have one question about the ancients when the acended why didnt they just obliterate the wraith (i know i know wouldnt have made for a very good show) but why didnt they?

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                  Originally posted by exar-cun
                  i have one question about the ancients when the acended why didnt they just obliterate the wraith (i know i know wouldnt have made for a very good show) but why didnt they?
                  They decided not to intervene with lesser creatures in an attempt to not only show up the Ori, but the Wraith as well.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by exar-cun
                    i have one question about the ancients when the acended why didnt they just obliterate the wraith (i know i know wouldnt have made for a very good show) but why didnt they?
                    Because they didn't have to worry about them anymore since the Wraith couldn't get to them, and I doubt they were into the whole "revenge for the heck of it" thing...
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                      #11
                      By their own code, they can't interfere in coporial matters when they ascend

                      Maybe Atlantis can't travel all that fast because of it's size, the hive ships may have been able to keep up (why do they need to hurry, it is a full self contained city and it's where other people go)

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by carcatcher
                        By their own code, they can't interfere in coporial matters when they ascend

                        Maybe Atlantis can't travel all that fast because of it's size, the hive ships may have been able to keep up (why do they need to hurry, it is a full self contained city and it's where other people go)
                        On the other hand, the hive ships require rest, whereas Atlantis has three ZPMs powering her. She could have run. Also, I'm sure they could have just made more ZPMs and have them on standby when they decided to leave the planet's surface.
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                          #13
                          I think in the first episode the hologram mentions that they hoped that one day their kind would return to Atlantis. Maybe they wanted to keep a viable base in the Pegasus galaxy in case they decided to come back. Also the engines would take up a lot of power, which might have weakened the shield. Plus it's not like they were trapped they had the Stargate, which was a much safer and less risky way to retreat.

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                            #14
                            ok thanks thats been bugging me for awhile now but if i had been one of the ancients i would have tried to comepletly destoy the wraith because they had killed so many of my people

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                              #15
                              If i was an anciant, i would have made it so only the anciants could use the stargate, this way the wraith with their slow hyperdrives would take along time traveling to atlantis, all the time while they built ships and drones and zpm etc..

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