Traveler
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- "We're Travelers. We land on planets when we need to for supplies, trade. The rest of the time we keep moving."
- —Larrin
The Travelers are a technologically advanced race of humans in the Pegasus galaxy who have escaped being culled by the Wraith by hiding aboard generational ships which travel throughout the Pegasus galaxy.
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[edit] History
Although once able to build new ships as needed, long term space travel has deprived them of the resources necessary to construct new vessels. Overpopulation and heavy amounts of "jury rigging" are prevalent. Despite the level of desperation faced by the Travelers, they allied with the Atlantis Expedition in order to destroy the Replicators. With the help of the Atlantis Expedition, the Travelers newest ship, a Lantean Aurora-class warship, was made ready to fight. However, one of their ships was lost in the battle for the Asuran homeworld. (ATL: "Travelers", "Be All My Sins Remember'd")
Later in 2008, the race actually decided to start a permanent settlement on a planet for the first time in generations. However, the settlement was destroyed when the Attero device caused the active Stargate to explode. The explosion could be seen from orbit, and the destruction killed thousands of Travelers and destroyed two ships, including their Aurora-class vessel. They helped the Atlantis Expedition to destroy the Attero device on M6H-987. (ATL: "The Lost Tribe")
[edit] Culture
The Travelers are led by a governing council which makes all major decisions pertaining to the race as a whole such as alliances and decisions of war. Individual ship captains, however, make most decisions that apply to their ships individually, such as whether or not to enter a battle. Traveler "law" does not prohibit torture on supposed friendly races.
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[edit] Technology
Traveler technology is relatively advanced, and superior to that of most other Pegasus Galaxy civilizations. Traveler technology is different from most FTL capable races as their technology is not based on Control crystals, but on the more primitive wires-and-chips, and currently they are the only known civilication that has mastered interstellar travel before mastering crystal or other forms of more "exotic" technologies.
Travelers live onboard their generational ships, and since their ships are very old and are held together with a large amount of "jury rigging", most of their scientific resources and efforts are spent maintaining their old and relatively large fleet. This means that they aren't likely to make any significant advancements in their technology, and most likely have no real R&D "department". Travelers do however pose some limited knowledge of Lantean technology (enough to operate Lantean ships and condut basic repairs).
They have certain advanced technology including;
