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Ancient? Asgard? Look here for info on the Greats!

Hello and welcome to the third instalment of the Semper emporium of all Stargate related knowledge!

This is, the 101 on the Legendary Ancients and the Omni Benevolent Asgard.

Please, read and enjoy, and if you have any questions as to the correctness of my works, please pm me and we shall discuss it!

The Asgard

Basic Aetiology/Physical attributes and appearance.

The Asgard are the common stereotypical Roswell alien (minus the height) that humans conceive of, most likely due to their active role in our development and history, and reoccurring role in our study.

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The Asgard are generally very sophisticated and very composed, very rarely displaying emotion or humour.

Since the loss of their ability to hop on the good foot and do the bad thing (yes.... yes.. I did just use that.. lol.) the Asgard have been unable to really determine sex, but as with their race wide individual identity the voice is the determining factor, and the fact that some of the females still wear a measure of jewellery or clothing (the only display or a more emotional artistic side to their character).

As a race, the Asgard are wholly benevolent, constantly out to help others and the younger races, and guide them away from the influences of negative powers. Though I add here, the existence of the Lost tribe somewhat counteracts this original belief to a degree...

Asgard History
omg... have you got a spare hour? lol... here it goes!

The Asgard first began recording history long before even the first Goa'uld host, somewhere about 120,000 years ago, with their more modern advancements and recordings starting circa 108K BC.

Within a few thousand years the Asgard had surpassed humanity's level of advancement and reached a stage where they could start experimenting with far more eccentric technologies and galactic theorems.

About 30,000 BS the Asgard began using interstellar travel, and finally about 28,000 years ago, the first Asgard ships were sent to the Milky Way. Realising the futility of the massive journeys facing them, their current lack in technology, the vastness of space and finally their own mortality, the Asgard forwarded the use of cloning for physical labour and finally for the reproduction of important members of their society. This was how they could save their race, and easily spread themselves to the stars, and the satellite galaxy next to their own. (Ida).

Within a few more hundred years, about 25K BC, the Asgard had perfected the cloning process, and managed to develop a system by which consciousness could be transferred into a local galactic cluster wide network of subspace hubs and moved to the next clone body anywhere in the Asgard empire. Still though without hyperspace capability, the Asgard were limited.

It was, at this point that the Asgard met their closest allies. The Ancients. Upon further exploration of the Milky Way galaxy after a brief encounter with project destiny, the Asgard discovered the ancients themselves, a small outpost on the edge of the galaxy that contained a few of the ancients monitoring the Milky Ways progress after the great plague. With their demonstration of knowledge and ability to learn, the Ancients and the Asgard soon were allied and with the help of the ancients, the Asgard developed their first Hyperspace drives.

The problems were not over though. At the height of their empire, about 22000 BC, the Asgard met their eventual downfall. The Degradation in the cloning process on a genetic level, about five thousand years after the first clones were produced, began to take root and quickly the Asgard advance in technology came to a halt and their exponential scale of research into genetics began leading to the development of copied memory and nervous processes, but no solution.

About 20,000 BC the Asgard empire met their final two major allies. The Nox and the Furlings. The Nox were a race of tricksters and wise seers, for who technology was merely a tool, ultimately nothing in the grand scheme of things. The Furlings were aggressive humanoid technomaniacs like the Asgard and the Ancients. The four made the grand alliance, the four great races of the known universe.

The Ancients horded their science though, as too did the Nox and this created some instabilities in the alliance, as over the next 2,000 years the Asgard and the Furlings struggled to advance to a point of complete equal standing. Here though, the four great races met their enemy.

The Gli, or the Nemesis as the Nox called them emerged as a fith great power in the universe. These psychic monsters fed upon the fear and emotions of the less evolved races and non humanoid aliens found in the universe. Peace talks were strained under the pressure of the Gli's advance, and soon after a series of shadowed attacks a full war broke out.

Confronted with the Four greatest races in the known universe the Gli were brave, clever and very cunning. They disappeared from existence. Phasing in and out of reality it seemed so they could strike where ever and when ever without warning. They were the shadows and a time of fear came across the four empires. These creatures knew their obvious weakness, but also their strength. Nigh immortal, the Gli would play a game of chess over the aeons and slowly eradicate their opponents.

Within 1,000 years. About 19,000 BC the Asgard had lost their satellite galaxy colonies, and had slowly begun to lose their home galaxy. In a last desperate effort, putting remorse and compassion aside the Furlings and the asgard constructed a genetic virus and managed to infect the Gli. Within a hundred years, all known trace of them had gone.

Peace reined supreme once more and the Asgard turned their attention back to their genetic faults and the Milky Way galaxy where the Ancients seeds were developing nicely. About 15,000 BC the Asgard made contact with the Goa'uld and the first drafts of their peace treaty was created.

Finally the Asgard surrendered to their genetic faults for a time. The crisis had met a dead end within their own morals and scientific ability. The Ancients and Nox too, had had no luck in relieving the Asgards genetic fault.

At 10,000 BC a small faction of the Asgard broke off and left for the Pegasus galaxy. The ancients were in trouble, but would receive no aid from their allies. The Lanteans pride would be their downfall. With the Ancients on the run, the Nox becoming all but completely reclusive and the now nomadic Furlings moving on from the local region of the Universe the Asgard were left to watch over the children of the great races in their forever ailing condition.

With the Goa'uld now the dominant power in the Milky Way, the Wriath the dominant power in Pegasus and Ida slowly rotting beneath the dying race the Asgard began to plan out their remaining time wisely and, truly realising the Goa'uld as their complete opposites, began placing the seeds of rebellion in the aliens throught the milky way under Goa'uld control.

Here, during their activities in the milky way the Asgard first encountered the Replicators at another Lantean outpost, the infested ship was destroyed on the edge of Ida, and the replicators presumed destroyed. Upon the next generation of visits to the Milky Way, about 8,000 BC, the Asgard discovered that the Goa'uld Ra had finally discovered Terra, and had slowly begun seeding man throughout the Milky Way. Unable to bring enough force to bear within the Milky Way because of a new unseen enemy, the Asgard were forced to continue their insidious campaign against the Goa'uld and using a grand bluff, formed the Protected Planets Treaty.

About 7,000 BC, it was revealed upon the loss of the Asgards last hope for a colony in Ida's satellite galaxy, that this new unseen enemy was the Replicators. Somehow they had survived the void.

Over the next 9,000 years the asgard fought tooth and nail against the replicators, and continued to monitor the humans on earth, watching them evolve and grow under the minds of the Goa'uld, themselves and the ancients.

Around here, 1000 AC, the last Asgard clone capable of sexual reproduction was lost, and a possible solution to their genetic degradation left them with a genetic disease that sped up the law of diminishing returns.

With the Nox beyond contact the Asgard began losing parts of Ida to the replicators, and finally 2000 AC the Asgard were left with only one planet. their home world.

The race had continued to degrade, and at this point were virtually beyond salvation, doomed to extinction. Realising what the Ancients had, that mas was the last hope for the future the Asgard handed over their technology and their history, their entire legacy... and committed racial suicide. The Asgard were dead.

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Meeting place of the Four Great Races.

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The Last remnants of an Asgard Crew sent out during the age of their expansion and exploration, some 28,000 years ago.

Asgard Society

The Asgard have a very free society as every single Asgard is, literally positioned to be above any form of general crime as we could comprehend.

They have little in the way of art, or emotional and colourful culture and as a race are poised directly towards science and survival. Though this is obviously a result of their genetic degradation and the great wars the Asgard have fought in.

The entire Asgard race is ruled by the Supreme Asgard High Council, a seat of representatives numbering from 3 - 11 members at any one time.

On a final note, the Asgard are wise, and benevolent and literally the good guys, just without an obvious sense of humour! lol.

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Jack O'neil confronts the Asgard High Council.

Asgard technology

The Asgard have some of the best technology known, from holograms, beam technology, laser beams, improved shields, super hyperdrive engines and mind controlled devices... to cloning technology, efficient energy sources and data storage.

The Asgard have four known designations of ships. The Oneil class, the daniel jackson class, the hades class and the beliskner class. All Asgard ships only require one member of crew even in combat situations.

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A close up of an O'neil Class warhsip.

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Blurred image of an Asgard beliskner class warship using beam weaponry.

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A Daniel Jackson class science ship.

The Asgard, much in the same vein as the Goa'uld, had hand devices. These were mind controlled and could be used for a multitude of purposes. Examples are memory and information removal (from technology and organic sources..) Stargate dialling and ship control. The hand device appears as a small crystal in the pal of the Asgards hand. The Asgard call them Tho'lecks dans.

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An Asgard hand device in use.

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Tauri Ships using Asgard beam weaponry.

The Asgard were responsible for many many different forms of technologies, far more then listed or shown here, so do yourselves a favour and have a look! WATCH SG-1!!!

The Lost Tribe
The lost Tribe, or rather the sect of the Asgard that broke away from their brothers during the Ancients War with the Wraith to study humans and try to save their race were not as good as their brothers, and not as advanced.

However, the Lost tribe did manage to survive past the genetic degradation.

it was during their recent outing, when the Lost Tribe Activated the Attero device causing unprecedented devestation across the Pegasus galaxy. This event killed many thousands of humans and wraith alike, but was the last chance for them to remove the wraith and allow them to expand again and continue their research, no matter the consequences (yes, that does include loss of human life...).

Being allowed to study on humans gave the Lost tribe a chance to prolong their lives, however in the end they failed and the Attero device was destroyed.

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The Lost Tribe Asgard in their atmospheric suits.


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Lya of the Nox.

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The Ancients

Basic Aetiology/Physical Attributes
The Ancients, or as they were really called the Alterans, were similar to humans in practically every way. Their differences were their %usage of their brain, and ergo their 'evolved' state.

This allowed them to heal at a rapid rate, or fatal wounds without technology and also made them telepathic and telekinetic.

The Ancients were benevolent, but not to the extent of the Asgard.

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A Pair of Ancients on Atlantis before they left for Pegasus.

Ancient History
Omg...this is like as long as the Asgards...

ok ok ok...here goes...

The Alterans, a sister race to that of the Ori seperated from their bretheren many millions of years ago. Realising their difference in beliefs and uses of their evolved state, the ancients wanted to avoid a war and so left in a ship, heading out into the universe.

After thousands of years travelling from galaxy to galaxy and making NO settlements of colonies, the ancients came across Terra in the Milky Way (Avalon) galaxy about 42million years ago. It was harsh but malleable to the ancients desires, and so their first colony since their home galaxy was born.

For thousands of years the ancients began spreading across the galaxy and building technology, expanding their empire. It was during this time of expansion that they refined (but NOT invented) the ZPM technology, and mastery of hyperspace and other interstellar travel, finally creating the Stargates (astria porta) themselves and seeding these constructs throughout the galaxy.

For millions upon millions of years the Alterans flourished and established many outpost's throughout Avalon, seeding their kind, and humanity throughout the galaxy. Many experiments were conducted, and the ancients evolved to a point where their bodies were so advanced, they manifested psychic powers and reached a technological pinnacle, completing many ships and great technological masterpieces. They fought wars against xeno's and mastered the seeding process. They finally created project Destiny, the Alterans answer to the stars. This pair of great ships would travel the universe, going from planet to planet, galaxy to galaxy, placing stargates and extending the porta network and finally allowing the Alterans to seed more life.

If it was not technology, the Alterans focused on the spiritual goals of existence, and finally after millions of years in the works, the Alterans evolved to the ultimate existence, that of ascension. So the probing, and exploration of the ascended plane truly began.

In between these periods the Alterans first began interacting with the Furlings. The Furlings were a very primitive species at this point, but would later prove to be a great ally.

Approximately five million years ago though, the Ori learned of the Alterans existence and location, and so lashing out, they delivered a terrible plague unto Avalon, the Alterans new capital world, Vis Uban, and so the destruction of the ancients millions of years of work began. Planet by planet, outpost by outpost the Alterans lost their territory to the plague and infection. No matter their technology, no matter their level of evolution, the Alterans could not conquer the plague.

In these dire times new technologies were developed. The Weapon at Dakara was created as a last resort, the time machine on P4X-639 (Window of Opportunity) and finally Atlantis itself.

Realising the ultimate futility of this battle against and incurable plague, the remaining Alterans fled aboard Atlantis, leaving only a handful behind and detonated the weapon on Dakara, destroying all life in the milky way galaxy that held the plague, devastating their former home.

After a time spent looking, the Alterans landed in the Pegasus galaxy, about 5million years ago, and quickly set up Atlantis and began seeding life in their new home. The Alterans became the Lanteans, and for the next five million years they continued their experiments, and guided the future for all in the form of man.

it was here that after aeons had passed the Lanteans encountered the Asgard and introduced them to the Furlings. Together the Asgard and the Lanteans made contact with the Nox, the only surviving Alterans from millions of years before. Survivors, but changed, wiser and all together a different race now, but still supreme in power, rivalled only by the Lanteans themselves, although it could, and definitely should, be argued that the Nox were the most advanced race of all.

Together the four races fought against the Nemesis (or the Gli), but the Lanteans distanced themselves from the war, as did the Nox. They saw it as futile to fight a foe they could not best without breaking a fine moral code. The lanteans suffered only minor losses to the Gli, due to their concentration on the Nox and the Asgard (who suffered greatly).

During the seeding process though, the Lanteans caused the evolution of the wraith, and after the best part of four million years of evolution and furhter advancement, the Lanteans met a new foe on the physical plane. This was about 8000 BC (yeah I know.. TONS of time...) This war forced them to create many hundreds of Aurora class ships, and new experiments. During this time the Lanteans created their drone technology to beat down Wraith hive ships, and began experimenting with new sources of energy such as project Arcaturus to power Atlantis and its defences indefinitely.

The Wraith, a most dreaded foe used the Lanteans over confidence against them. Seeing a possible defeat at the hand of this over whelming foe, the lanteans began probing back further into the Milky way, until finally they were pushed back to Atlantis itself and forced back to Terra, being made to abandon the last relic they truly possessed of their Great Era as lords of Avalon. The war had raged for a hundred years of solid fighting, but the wraith were too great in number.

The Ancients were broken, fractured as a race, and extinction was inevitable. The remaining ancients chose one of three paths. Some went out into the galaxy and began spreading the seeds of civilisation to the Goa'uld empire or the tribes of man on earth. Some became secluded and focused on the more looming threats like the Ori and the Goa'uld.

Within a thousand years, the last ancients were gone. Either dead of ascended. They continued to play a small role in the development of the rest of the galaxy, continuing to watch over their prodigy (the humans on Terra) and protecting themselves from the Ori, who continued to search for them, even when they had ascended themselves.

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A Wraith male.

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The Ancient settlement and weapon upon Dakara.

Ancient Society

The Ancients had a very dynamic society until the period of their Lantean existence. They were very similar to the modern Tauri, except slightly more cynical and passionless, no doubt a product of their great understanding of practically everything.

The unascended ancients were ruled by a high council of about nine members, but this number varied in war time and at other points.

When the ancients ascended they were governed by one major rule, no interference with the younger races and those 'beneath' them.

Otherwise, throughout their existence scientific endeavours were greatly encouraged, however some of even this work was frowned upon, such as Janus' work with the Attero device and his time machine ergo the existence of his secret lab.

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The Ancient Alphabet as found and written by the time of the plague. (5mill BC)

Ancient Technology
The Ancients are responsible for us all being here! (At least as far as the rp side of things goes!) They were our origin (omg.. Scientology here we go!) and they made the stargates, allowing jack Oneil, Ernest and Elizabeth Weir to lead the tauri back into the universe in the footsteps of our ancestors and restore their legacy to a degree.

The Ancients (and the Nox) were masters of technology and the universe, their entire compendium literally contains all the secrets of the universe itself, a range of knowledge common humans like you all could never begin to comprehend. They could time travel, had energy shield negating weapons**, ascension machines, impenetrable personal shielding, dimension travel capability and engines capable of travelling at speeds as fast as light. A HUGE range of stuff....it would be a playground for anyone of us reading this, I am sure.

The Ancients only had two major types of vessels (its all they needed! lol) the gate travelling puddle jumpers, the war ships (known to you scum Tauri as an Aurora class) and the Gargantuan city ships (such as Atlantis).

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An Aurora Class Warship.

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A puddle jumper.

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An unarmed drone weapon. Capable of penetrating most shields.

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Jack Oneil standing in a stargate on Chulack.

Another note should be made to one last part of the Ancient legacy. Their great repositories of knowledge, can be found scattered throughout the Pegasus and Milky Way galaxies. Their repository and knowledge was said to contain all information, the very secrets of the universe (ooooo shiny!)...

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Jack Oneil reluctantly interfacing with the Ancient Repository of knowledge.

**It should be noted here that the Asgard shields at their height could negate the drones power as easily as any other weapon, they are the only documented example of a shield system being able to resist a Lantean drone.**

Janus
Janus (J-nus) is the most famous of all Lantean scientist's. It was he who created the infamous Attero device to destroy the wraith, it was he who assisted Elizabeth Weir to save atlantis 10,000 years from the past, and it was Janus who invented the time travelling puddle jumper.

It is known he was actually the last ancient to leave Atlantis and head to earth. His final fate is unknown, but we can guess he did in fact spend the rest of his life exploring Avalon further, travelling through time, and leaving his legacy in the form of his ship (which SG-1 used to go back in time and secure a ZPM from Ra) and a stone monolith that could foretell time.

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Janus


Meriden/Ganos lal

Were two great inventors and two great rivals. Meriden, better known as Merlin travelled back to earth, but realised the threat of the Ori only after he had ascended. Descending he used his great knowledge and technological mastery to move out of phase with reality and create weapons and plans capable of fighting the Ori and the Dark masters. (See Daimons for mention of Merlin and the Foramanis).

Merlin managed to create a anti-ascended being weapon, capable of wiping out the Ori. However, realising the taboo of this weapon, but comprehending the threat the Ori posed Ganos lal (aka Morgan Le Fay) hid merlin and the plans (and technology to build it) to his weapon in a labyrinth of traps and on a secret circle of planets bridged together by special location jumping technology.

Morgan kept merlin hidden for many years, and eventually when he was found by the Tauri (with Morgans help on Atlantis itself - she appeared as an ascended being). Merlin moved his consciousness to Daniel Jackson and together they created the weapon and tricked the Orici (Adria). In conjunction with Jack O'neil and the rest of SG-1 they destroyed the Ori.

Merlin passed on during the final struggle.
Morgan helped SG-1 in their struggle against the Ori followers, and at the end engaged Adria (no longer mortal, but the last Ori) in an eternal battle.

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Merlin.

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Morgan Le Fay.

The Ori
The Ori were the sister race of the Alterans. Instead of focusing on science though, the Ori were Religious and wholly spiritual preventing the inhabitants of their home galaxy from ever evolving past a certain stage or technology level (They literally kept them in the dark ages... the irony..).

The Ori ascended first, and used this advantage to locate the Alterans who had fled millions of years before and imposed a plague upon their race. The Ori were confident in their defeat of the Alterans and so left the Milky Way unchecked. The Ori focused on their own power, spending millions of years insulating themselves and monitoring the rest of the universe. It is known that the Ori did in fact fight the Gli as well, but lost, using their ascended abilities to hide the existence of their galaxy from the Gli when the final assault came.

When the Tauri made contact again with the Ori they learnt of the Alterans survival and ultimate ascension so sent their mortal followers to begin gathering yet more power for themselves.

The Ori were destroyed though when SG-1 sent Merlins weapon through the super gate and Ganos Lal began fighting Adria.

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The Physical Manifestation of an Ori.

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Ascended Adria and a Prior of the Ori.

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An Ori mothership.

Oma Desala and Orlin

These two individuals were important in the roles of the galaxy and now tauri history.

Oma Desala should be noted for her very active role in the affairs of the galaxy. She was one of the first Alterans to ascend, and as such she existed 'up there' (stares at the clouds above him) long before the infamous rule of no intervention came to be. However, when it did, she continued to break it and help people ascend. She is a charismatic and very wise individual, wholly benevolent, which has been her greatest strength, but also her ultimate undoing.

She saved the Abydonians from certain death at the hands of Anubis, as too did she help Daniel Jackson ascend (and save his soul from certain death at the hands of Replicator Carter) and she protected the innocent Harsesis child from the Goa'uld at Kheb.

Oma Desala was also responsible though for the ascension for one other being in particular. The Goa'uld System Lord Anubis. Anubis tricked Oma into helping him ascend when he fled to Kheb from the onslaught of Ra and the other System Lords. She had broken the rules again, and was punished by being made to watch as Anubis committed unthinkable acts of horror on the mortal plane, unable to be killed, so unable to be stopped.

Eventually though she was convinced by Daniel Jackson to sacrificed her own freedom and eternally engage Anubis in battle on the ascended plane and stop him from using the weapon on Dakara to destroy the entire milky way galaxy.

Orlin, was another ascended being who fell from grace more than once. He first gave advanced technology to a race of primitive beings to help them defend themselves from the Goa'uld (but they actually used it as a weapon of control and destroyed themselves). He fell in love with Samantha Carter and descended himself to be with her, but sacrificed his own happiness to destroy the weapon and save earth. The Ancients allowed him to ascend again, but during the Ori attack on earth, when they sent the same disease they had used millions of years before to destroy the Alteran empire to destroy the Tauri.

Orlin descended himself, and crippled his new mortal form in order to help create the anti-virus. He saved earth for a second time, but became mentally crippled in the process, all but disappearing from the lime light, holding on to his love of Samantha Carter.

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Oma Desala

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Orlin when he descends for a second time to save earth from the Ori plague.

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So that is the 101 on the Ancients and the Asgard! Hope you enjoyed the read, and like I said any problems with my information please give me a holla!

Have fun role playing!

I WILL SOON be writing up a story, somewhat about the Lanteans war with the Wraith. So please watch this space for that.. it may take me a few months though!

~Semps :wink:

I just want to add here that because of their cloning the Asgard were physically incapable of ascending, so be aware that when Asgard players ascend and become ancients, it is actually because... well its obvious, but.. the ancients have no physical race ingame, and the Asgard cannot ascend, they were both allies in the SG universe, so it makes sense. :D. IF any Asgard could ever ascend, it would join the ranks of the ancients anyway, who were by far in the majority up there! Hope this clears one or two things up!


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The central tower of the city of Atlantis.
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