I'm still new here so I apologize if this has been answered already, but this is something that has been bothering me since I started re-watching the series.
In the episode "Hot Zone", the expedition team discover a nanovirus in a lab and it got loose because it was damaged, possibly from the flooding. The virus was apparently designed to kill humans, but not Ancients. Later (as in until Season 3), we learn of the Replicators created by Ancients and were created to fight the Wraith. However, they were programmed to be "aggressive", which is what POTENTIALLY lead to the creation of the nanovirus: killing off humans would cause the Wraith to starve.
However, I've had the hardest time accepting this for a number reasons. First, when/how did they create such a virus? You'd think with how much the Ancients care for humans and were monitoring the Replicators, this virus would never have been created in the first place. Second, why weren't the Replicators programmed to NOT target humans too? This should have been something o how did it end up on Atlantis? The Replicators were considered a failure, yet the Ancients thought "Eh, they worked so hard on this virus that kills humans, lets take it with us!"? And they just left it in some lab for no reason? Hell, it makes even less sense when you think about the fact that Dr. Weir traveled with that Puddlejumper that Janus invented (EP: "Before I sleep"). Knowing that humans we're gonna find the city intact after all these years, you'd think he put up warning signs or something!
I just don't understand how the nanovirus could end up on Atlantis. The Replicators we're considered a failure AND were built on an entirely different planet, so ending up on Atlantis makes no sense.
In the episode "Hot Zone", the expedition team discover a nanovirus in a lab and it got loose because it was damaged, possibly from the flooding. The virus was apparently designed to kill humans, but not Ancients. Later (as in until Season 3), we learn of the Replicators created by Ancients and were created to fight the Wraith. However, they were programmed to be "aggressive", which is what POTENTIALLY lead to the creation of the nanovirus: killing off humans would cause the Wraith to starve.
However, I've had the hardest time accepting this for a number reasons. First, when/how did they create such a virus? You'd think with how much the Ancients care for humans and were monitoring the Replicators, this virus would never have been created in the first place. Second, why weren't the Replicators programmed to NOT target humans too? This should have been something o how did it end up on Atlantis? The Replicators were considered a failure, yet the Ancients thought "Eh, they worked so hard on this virus that kills humans, lets take it with us!"? And they just left it in some lab for no reason? Hell, it makes even less sense when you think about the fact that Dr. Weir traveled with that Puddlejumper that Janus invented (EP: "Before I sleep"). Knowing that humans we're gonna find the city intact after all these years, you'd think he put up warning signs or something!
I just don't understand how the nanovirus could end up on Atlantis. The Replicators we're considered a failure AND were built on an entirely different planet, so ending up on Atlantis makes no sense.
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