Lantean

From SGCommand

"Why'd they leave? Um, who knows? We know the Ancients on Earth were suffering from a plague. Uh, maybe some of them were trying to start over, seeding life in a new galaxy."

—Daniel Jackson

The Lanteans, also known as the Atlanteans and the Ancestors, were those Ancients who left Earth in the city-ship Atlantis and settled in the Pegasus galaxy. They were directly responsible for the emergence of the Asurans and the Wraith.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Arrival 1.2 The Great Scourge 1.3 End of the Lanteans 2 Architecture 3 Known Lantean outposts 4 Known Lanteans 4.1 Mortal 4.2 Ascended

[edit] History

[edit] Arrival

"... in the hope of spreading new life in a galaxy where there appeared to be none. Soon the new life grew, prospered...In time, a thousand worlds bore the fruit of life in this form."

—Melia

After leaving the Milky Way and arriving in the Pegasus galaxy, the Ancients settled on a planet named Lantea, and came to be known as the Lanteans. Finding Pegasus devoid of sentient life, the Lanteans seeded Pegasus with baseline humans, who would come to call them the Ancestors. (ATL: "Rising")

[edit] The Great Scourge

"The Lanteans were powerful but careless"

—Todd

Main article: Lantean-Wraith war

However, one of the planets seeded held a creature called the Iratus bug, which began feeding off the humans seeded there. Eventually, the Iratus bugs began to mutate, taking on advantageous human characteristics. This resulted in a hybrid species, the Wraith. For over a century, the Lanteans and the Wraith warred with each other.

While at first the Lanteans had the advantage of technological superiority, The carelessness of the Lanteans allowed the Wraith to capture ZPMs from several of their warships at great cost themselves, but they used them to power a cloning facility and their numbers grew a hundred fold. The tables were turned and the Lanteans began to lose both warships and territory. Desperate, they turned to extreme measures, such as Project Arcturus, an attempt to extract Zero Point energy from their own universe, and created the Asurans, nanites designed to destroy the Wraith from within. Both attempts failed, with disastrous and far reaching consequences. By then, the Lanteans were loosing the war, and they knew it.

In a final act of achieving some measure of peace, the Lanteans sent a delegation to meet with the Wraith to negotiate a truce. The Lantean delegation was protected by their most powerful warships, but they were ambushed by the Wraith's massive fleet. Seeing no way to win, and every diplomatic solution exausted, the few remaining Lanteans submerged Atlantis, their last remaining outpost, and returned to Earth via Stargate; leaving Pegasus at the mercy of the Wraith. (ATL: "Rising", "Before I Sleep", "The Gift", "The Siege", "Trinity", "Progeny")

[edit] End of the Lanteans

"When we first abandoned Atlantis all those millennia ago, the Earth was so harsh, its people so primitive by comparison, there was no hope of living among them as Lanteans or rebuilding our society. So instead, we spread out to many lands, some of us planting a few small seeds of civilization among the first tribes of man. Others making their way to the Stargate at your southern pole. Still others choosing to live the remainder of our lives in seclusion and meditation. Merlin and I both chose the latter path."

—Ganos Lal

Upon arriving at Earth, they quickly realized that there was no hope of rebuilding their society, as Earth was too harsh and the humans there too primitive. Some chose to go to other worlds, others secluded themselves in meditation and ascended, and some chose to join the native humans, where they integrated into human society. This is how several humans, such as Jack O'Neill and John Sheppard have "the Ancient gene" required to use Ancient technology.

The Ancients that left Earth were later part of the Alliance of Four Great Races, with the Asgard, the Furlings, and the Nox. It was after their return to Earth that they developed some of their most advanced technology, including: transport beams and the ability to beam entire structures through a Stargate, most of Merlin's technology (excluding the Sangraal) such as the molecular construction device (used to build anything at the molecular level using one's mind), and solid holograms (which could physically interact with matter). (SG1: "The Fifth Race", "The Pegasus Project")

[edit] Architecture

After traveling to the Pegasus Galaxy, the Ancients built structures of metal, and they were quite large. Atlantis, the centerpiece of their society, was a massive city-ship capable of space travel. They built many city-ships, but most were destroyed during the war with the Wraith. Their technology also appeared more advanced, made of metal instead of stone; it was also digitalized, like the symbols on the Stargates in the Pegasus Galaxy, and utilized crystals in their consoles instead of stone tablets. They also kept their archives in computers instead of downloading it into a person's mind.

[edit] Known Lantean outposts

• Dagan
• Doranda outpost (Destroyed)
• Lantea Atlantus (Moved to M35-117)
• Taranis outpost (Destroyed)

[edit] Known Lanteans

[edit] Mortal

• Adalyx
• Atlas
• Brallymynn
• Cynrrid
• Dalera
• Didthura
• Dosa
• Ea
• Frodren
• Glendolph
• Helia
• Hippaforalkus
• Janus
• Laphrotia
• Llewcygad
• Llyggabrd
• Luthan
• Melia
• Minawara
• Selmonkiv
• Sigrid
• Smylkamen
• Srenala
• Trebal
• Tristac
• Tsiggnayl
• Vortensis
• Wendamin

[edit] Ascended

• Chaya Sar
• Ganos Lal/Morgan le Fay (Presumed destroyed)
• Moros/Merlin/Myrddin (De-Ascended)

The first evolution of humanity
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