Post by tigress on Mar 26, 2008 22:49:13 GMT -5
This is a history of what happened in the Pegasus Galaxy from the time of the Ancients to the relatively current event of the Atlantis Expedition. Due to the nature of this thread, depending on how versed you are in Stargate Atlantis, you may find some of it spoilery.
Reference Material: Stargate SG1 and Atlantis, the Official Magazine. With some of my own thoughts added in.
10 million years ago:
I left a few minor points out, because I will be making another post about the timeline of the show (i.e. 2004 - present) as well as a post for the alternate timelines.
Reference Material: Stargate SG1 and Atlantis, the Official Magazine. With some of my own thoughts added in.
10 million years ago:
- The Ancients (called Alterans) left the Milky Way Galaxy fleeing a plague. They flew their city, Atlants, and landed in the Pegasus Galaxy. They became known as Lanteans.
10 to 5 million years ago: - They began seeding the worlds in Pegasus with human life. At this time the Iratus Bug began feeding off humans and absorbing their DNA. Over the millennia they evolved into the Wraith.
15 000 years ago: - The Lanteans create a program for creatures that resemble Earth's whales. During this time the planet is exposed to intense radiation from a huge coronal mass ejection (solar flare?) from Atlantis's sun. They extend the shields and save most of the planet from extinction. The 'whales' pass this memory down 15 000 years to the Atlantis Expedition during the next solar flare cycle.
15 000 years ago: - In a sociological experiment the Lanteans 'guided' primitive societies by posing as oracles, using a satellite system linked to Atlantis.
11 000 to 10 000 years ago: - The Lanteans tried to negotiate with the Wraith, who were becoming more aggressive and powerful. Their fleet was destroyed and war erupted. A wraith ship crashes into the Lantean ocean, near a drilling station, where she hibernates for 10 000 years.
11 000 to 10 000 years ago: This is the busiest time for the Lanteans as they try to devise ways to fight or escape the Wraith. - First they create nanites and human form Replicators to combat the Wraith. When they deemed the experiment a failure they attempted to destroy the whole project. Some Replicators escaped and created a new society modeled on the Lanteans. They called themselves the Asurans.
- Second, the Lanteans developed two methods to help them Ascend and escape the Wraith.
- They build a base on a planet with a super volcano to harness its geothermal energy, and dock a damaged warship, where it remains for 10 000 years.
- The Warship Aurora is damaged and the crew enters into suspended animation/virtual reality pods. They were carrying vital information back to Atlantis.
- Lantean scientists created Project Arcturus -- a weapon created to defeat the Wraith. It was a doomed project and destroyed most of the planet.
- They begin to hide ZPM's all over the galaxy, in the hopes that they will be able to return and use them at a later date.
- In the last year, the Lanteans submerge Atlantis and flee back to Earth.
8 000 BC - The Warship Tria begins its journey to Earth. Halfway there its hyperdrive fails and they decide to continue on with sublight engines. Traveling at just below the speed of light they continue on for another 10 000 years.
8 000 BC to present - The Wraith continue to multiply and devour populations on humans. They start a cycle of hibernation, awakening every few hundred years to feed.
I left a few minor points out, because I will be making another post about the timeline of the show (i.e. 2004 - present) as well as a post for the alternate timelines.