Originally posted by Bacardi
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'Progeny':
RONON: How many people live here?
NIAM: Millions.
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WEIR: No. A few of the nanites managed to survive.
McKAY: Which is all they needed to begin replicating again.
TEYLA: Replicating?
McKAY: This is bad. They’re very similar to an artificial intelligence that SG-1 encountered several years ago that evolved from a tiny block-Replicator into human form. They may even be related somehow.
'The Real World':
McKAY: They've been using organic material to replicate, which has rendered them immune to the EM pulse.
DEX: So now what?
BECKETT: They've started replicating again.
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McKAY: So they're attempting assimilate her? To transforming her to one of them?
BECKETT: Until they can reach sufficient numbers to form a viable independent entity. I'd say so, yes.
TEYLA: This is how they replicate?
'First Strike':
SHEPPARD: That's not enough.
McKAY: The Replicators are self-replicating robots, which means that they can...
Asurans & Replicators are akin to one another in that they are both self-replicating machines made up of million/billions of nanite cells. They can link with one another, put hands in heads etc, etc.
The only difference is that the MW/IDA versions began in much simpler form. They took the slow route to evolution. They infested Asgard technology & started learning from it. The more knowledge they assimilated, the smarter they got & the more evolved they became. Then they got to a point where they could come together in human form. Even then they were still limited in the knowledge that they had.
The Asurans on the other hand, were born pretty much straight away. To boot, they had the full Lantean knowledge from the start & all their technology & materials that go with it. Therefore what exactly is there to evolve beyond when you have all that & are far more advanced than any other species. The MW ones had to always evolve because the Asgard & humans were upgrading their technology & tactics all the time. Not to mention they didn't know everything. Even Thor has said the Asgard barely scratched the surface of the Ancient database. So if the Asurans already knew all that the Lanteans had, then there would be no need to conquer other species. Simply because they were probably nowhere near the same technological level. Their base level is the exact same as the Replicators & that's to replicate. Asuras was wiped out apart from a few nanites. They began replicating again & now there are millions of Asurans.
It was O'Neill with Ancient knowledge that built the Replicator disruptor weapons that the Asgard began using to kill them. It was through this exact same technology that Area 51 came up with the anti-Replicator guns that we now see in Atlantis.
The Asurans are probably a far more advanced form of the MW/IDA Replicators, but a replicator they still be nontheless!
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