Orilla (Stargate)
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Orilla is a fictional planet in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, it became the new home-planet to the Asgard after the evacuation of Othala. Orilla is destroyed by the Asgard in the Stargate SG-1 finale episode "Unending".
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[edit] Overview
Orilla is a planet in the Asgard home galaxy, Ida. The planet is rich in neutronium, a key element in Asgard technology. This is one of the primary reasons the Asgard choose this planet, on which to rebuild their civilization.[1]
[edit] History
Several years into the Asgard's war against the Replicators, SG-1 discovered the android Reese, who had created the first generation of Replicators as "toys", on an abandoned planet whose civilisation had been destroyed. [2] The Asgard were able to use the android to call all Replicators in the known universe to the planet Halla, originally an important Asgard colony. The Replicators on the planet were eventually trapped inside a time-dilation field, which should have given the Asgard years to solve the problem. [3]
However, Asgard scientists calculated it would only take little over a year for the Replicators to escape, and the Asgard were forced to evacuate their original homeworld, Othala, to Orilla, while destroying Halla, and Othala with it, with a black hole. The consciousnesses of most Asgard citizens were stored into the databases of the evacuation fleet, waiting to be downloaded into new cloned bodies upon arrival.
The neutronium which made the Asgard originally choose Orilla however, is also necessary for the construction of human-form Replicators, like Fifth, and thus made it a prime target of the Replicators after they escaped their time-dilation prison, one and a half years later. The Replicators, commanded by Fifth, captured Samantha Carter, and set his ship, which consisted entirely of Replicator blocks, on course to Orilla. Unable to again evacuate the planet after the stored counsciousnesses had been downloaded into new bodies, the Asgard positioned six O'Neill class battleships in orbit of Orilla to try to destroy the Replicator ship immediately after it emerged from hyperspace.
Their plan was successful, but Fifth and Major Carter were transported to the planet before the ship was destroyed, while countless Replicator blocks from the destroyed ship rained down on the planet. There, they started to mine the neutronium to build more human-form Replicators. The remaining members of SG-1, who had recently discovered a new weapon to use against the Replicators, were transported by the Asgard to the planet to stop the Replicators, while Thor was constructing a larger version of the weapon that would destroy all Replicators on the planet. Eventually, the weapon was able to destroy the Replicators on the planet, and the Asgard were finally able to rebuild their civilization on their new homeworld. [1]
Orilla was the site of the death of the entire Asgard Civilization. After it was found that the genetic manipulation the Asgard were performing in an attempt to repair their cloning problems, had produced an incurable and degenerative disease in all Asgard, the world was destroyed along with all Asgard on it to keep the secrets of their race from being plundered by their enemies. [4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "New Order" (Stargate SG-1)
- ^ "Menace" (Stargate SG-1)
- ^ "Unnatural Selection" (Stargate SG-1)
- ^ "Unending" (Stargate SG-1)
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