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Stargate Atlantis: Legacy is a series of novels by Fandemonium which are set after season 5 of Stargate: Atlantis. The series includes 8 books.

Plot summary[]

Set directly after Stargate Atlantis Season 5, the series begins with the Atlantis expedition coming to terms with the IOA's desire to keep Atlantis for the protection of Earth. However, thanks to the efforts of General Jack O'Neill, the IOA relents and chooses to let Atlantis go rather than see it fall into the possession of the United States.

Eventually, Atlantis leaves Earth and resettles on a new planet. The expedition reestablishes contact with their Pegasus allies and learns that the Wraith are being united under a single Wraith Queen called Death.

The expedition eventually launches an attack and is successful in temporarily stopping Death. However, a distress call is received from New Athos and as the Atlantis team arrives to investigate, Meredith Rodney McKay, the Chief Science Officer of the expedition is captured by Darts in a Wraith ambush.

The team regroups in Atlantis and launches a rescue attempt in the hope of saving McKay from Death's clutches, only to discover that McKay has been transformed into a Wraith called "Quicksilver" who believes that he has always served Queen Death.

Eventually McKay is saved and his transformation is reversed. When Mckay proposes to Dr. Keller, she turns him down, later saying that she isn't ready to settle down at this time. After Teyla kills Queen Death, peace is established between the Tau'ri and the Wraith who cede half of the Pegasus Galaxy to the humans including New Athos and Sateda. Dr. Keller leaves Atlantis to do humanitarian work with the Wraith.

Following the end of the war, McKay becomes obsessed with the idea that Doctor Elizabeth Weir, last known to be trapped in space in Replicator form is out there somewhere as an Ascended being and saved him when he was in trouble.

The team locates an amnesic Weir who is once more human after Ascending with the help of an Ascended Asgard named Ran and was then sent back for interfering to save McKay. However, while Weir eventually regains her memory, the Vanir begin going after her in hopes of getting to Ran and forcing her to descend, believing that as an Asgard that existed before their race began cloning themselves and thus before the degradation, her genetic material could be the key to saving their race.

While working on stopping the Vanir, tensions rise with the Wraith when they demand Atlantis deal with a man known only as "Wolf" who is causing them trouble. The situation with Wolf takes an unexpected turn when Wolf turns out to be long-missing team member Lieutenant Aiden Ford.

Finally, a peaceful resolution is reached where Ford will return to Earth and the Wraith will be satisfied.

At Weir's suggestion, the team takes Vanir leader Dis to Earth to communicate with Ran directly through an Ancient shrine and ask for her help rather than forcing it. Ran agrees to help and departs with the Vanir in an attempt to save her race.

Ford is reunited with his family on Earth while Weir is sent back to Atlantis until her humanity is confirmed, but she shows indicators of not desiring to remain there afterwards.

Novels[]

Sequel Novellas[]

The series has spawned a number of novellas set after the main books.

Notes[]

  • In a blog post about the Legacy Series, Jo Graham said, in reply to a reader's comment, that MGM does not do relationships. This is why it is hinted in Legacy that there is a relationship between Sheppard and Teyla but not actually stated. It could also be assumed that this is a major reason why the authors had Dr. Jennifer Keller turn down Rodney McKay's marriage proposal and had them break up. (Jo Graham Live Journal blog post) (http://jo-graham.livejournal.com/303974.html)
  • During the series the number of ZPMs is inconsistent between the novels, both Homecoming and The Lost clearly have three in Atlantis while Allegiance and The Furies only seem to have a single module.

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