Progeny MAJOR spoilers

[Colonel Carter]

Progeny is next week's episode. I was reading up on it at Gateworld. Yikes, there's a lot of spoilers there!

Weir, Shep, and the team head to a world where there might be living Ancients and find a world populated by millions who are essentially unascended Ancients, or were. That's the confusing part in what I read. It appears they are artificial life forms and that the Ancients are responsible for the creation of the Replicators.

Yikes, the more and more we get to know about the Ancients, the more despicable they become. Not only do they have this holier than thou attitude and are so passive that the Ori will likely destroy them, but they also created the Replicators?

Okay...

1. Ancients are responsible for the existance of the Wraith - yet when they ascended and had the power to destroy the mess they created, they did not.

2. Ancients are responsible for the existance of the Replicators - yet when they ascended and had the power to desroy the mess they created, they did not.

I suppose next they're going to say the Ancients also created the Goa'uld.

[cb49747]

ok not sure how the ancients are responcible for the wraith.

As for the replicators, I thought that one girl who was found in a coma was responcible for the replicators.

[Colonel Carter]

All right, I'll quote Gateworld since it seems a rather complex thought to try and sum up.


After discovering an Ancient outpost with the gate address in its database, Elizabeth Weir joins Colonel Sheppard's team on a mission to Asuras, a world inhabited by a society of millions. They are an advanced people, and it doesn't take the team long to conclude that they are (unascended) Ancients.

When the team is ready to depart through the gate, Oberoth reveals his true colors. He orders his security guards to seize them. The team is restrained as the Asurans begin to probe their minds for information, learning all about Atlantis's survival during the Wraith siege 10,000 years ago, and that the expedition from Earth now occupies it.

When the team awakens, Niam reveals that they are in space. The Asuran city is an Ancient city ship, like Atlantis, and with their wealth of Z.P.M.s they are able to make it fly. The ship enters hyperspace. It's destination: Atlantis. They will finish what they started, destroying the original home of their creators.

The Asurans, as Niam reveals to Dr. Weir, are not biologically Lantean. They are artificial lifeforms that evolved from a Lantean experiment to create powerful and aggressive nanites to attack the Wraith on a cellular level ("Hot Zone"). But the microscopic creatures came together to form increasingly larger and more complex organisms, eventually imitating their creators to become human in appearance. When the Lanteans realized their experiment had gotten out of hand, they attacked this new race with their fleet of warships and nearly wiped them out.

Weir is stunned, and suspects that the Ancient experiment may have been the genesis of the Replicators that SG-1 battled in our own galaxy. Those mechanical beings were created by an android that was invented by a mysterious scientist (SG-1: "Menace") -- possibly one of the Lanteans who resettled in the Milky Way galaxy after the war was lost. These Replicators later evolved into human forms, made up of billions of nanites (SG-1: "Unnatural Selection"). Weir also feels compassion for them, despite what they truly are.


This revelation about the possible origin of the Replicators -- at the hands of the Ancients -- explains the answers to two nagging questions from Stargate SG-1 mythology. First, how did the spider-like Replicators, intelligent but made up of inch-long blocks, learn to create First (the first human-form Replicator made up of nanites) by simply studying the android Reese ("Unnatural Selection)? If nanite-based technology was their original form, it may well have been programmed in at a subconscious level.
Second, it explains why the Ancient library of knowledge downloaded into Jack O'Neill's brain happened to contain the schematics for a handy-dandy weapon capable of destroying a humanoid Replicator with a single shot, by disrupting the bond between the nanites. Clearly it was a technology with which the Ancients were quite familiar.

So basically the idea is that it was an Ancient who created that female android we know created the replicators.

[cb49747]

Well, there you go.