Ancient characters in Stargate

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In the Stargate fictional universe, the Ancients, also known as the Alterans and Lanteans, are the most advanced race known to have existed, having evolved millions of years prior to the present day and reaching their level of technology long before Human life evolved on Earth.

This is a list of the Ancient characters that have appeared so far in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

Contents 1 Aurora Captain 2 Ayiana 3 Chaya Sar 4 Helia 5 Janus 6 Melia 7 Ganos Lal/Morgan le Fay 8 Moros/Myrddin/Merlin 9 Oma Desala 10 Orlin 11 Trebal 12 Other Ancients 13 References

[edit] Aurora Captain

Stargate character
The Captain of the Ancient warship Aurora
Unknown
Race	Ancient
ATA	Ancient
Gender	Male
Rank	Captain
Portrayer	Bruce Dawson
First appearance	"Aurora"

Captain of the Ancient warship Aurora during the last days of the war with the Wraith. His ship left for the outer rim of the Pegasus Galaxy after Atlantis had already been submerged during the first siege. He was ordered by the Atlantean Council to conduct reconnaissance on their enemy.

Ultimately his crew discovered a vital weakness in Wraith technology, information that could change the outcome of their war with the Wraith in the Ancients' favour. However, the information was not given to the Captain personally for fear of capture and coercion, and was instead stored in the ship's database. The Aurora was eventually attacked and severely damaged by the Wraith, and the crew were forced to enter stasis pods to save their lives.

Ten thousand years later, a Wraith scout ship discovered the vessel, and gained access to its systems. After killing first officer Trebal, a Wraith took her place inside her stasis pod, accessing the virtual reality the crew was experiencing. This Wraith's ultimate goal was to manipulate the crew of the Aurora into teaching him how to upgrade their hyperdrive technology. The captain was no longer aware that they were in fact experiencing an artificial environment, and did not realize that he was being fooled by the enemy.

When John Sheppard entered the environment, the Captain suspected that he might have been telling the truth, but the Wraith impersonating Trebal convinced him Sheppard was lying. After Sheppard revealed that Trebal was a Wraith and eventually managed to explain the situation, the Aurora captain offered the information concerning the weakness in Wraith technology to Sheppard, but it had already been deleted from the database by the invading Wraith. With two Wraith cruisers approaching the Aurora and their bodies too aged to function on their own, the Captain activated the self destruct sequence. The Aurora and all hands on board were destroyed, taking two Wraith cruisers with them. The Captain's last wish was that Sheppard and his team would keep the memory of the Aurora and its valiant crew alive.^[1]

• The name of this character was not mentioned in the episode.

[edit] Ayiana

Stargate character
Ayiana in Frozen
"Ayiana"
Race	Ancient
ATA	Ancient
Gender	Female
Portrayer	Ona Grauer
First appearance	"Frozen"

Ayiana was the name given to an Ancient woman who lived on Earth between five and ten million years ago. When her people took the city of Atlantis to the Pegasus Galaxy, she was the one Ancient left behind in the Ancient outpost in what would later be called Antarctica.^[2]

Millions of years later, in 2002 (episode "Frozen"), she was unearthed in a block of ice not far from where the second Stargate was discovered over four years before. Her name, which is the Cherokee word for "eternal bloom", was given to her by Dr. Francine Michaels, one of the researchers who found her whose grandfather was one-quarter Cherokee. (The character's true name was therefore never revealed). SG-1 and Dr. Janet Fraiser were called in to study her. They were shocked to discover upon defrosting her that she was, in fact, alive in a state of cryogenic suspension.

She was the first indication that Ancients were advanced humans who evolved (not necessarily on Earth) millions of years ago. It was later surmised that they were the first evolution of humanity while the humans currently living on Earth and throughout the Milky Way are the second. After spending only a few hours with Jonas Quinn, she was able to fully understand every word of English that he said and could even speak some herself. This was another sign of how advanced she and her people were compared to present day humans. She also possessed the ability to heal almost any injury, though she was severely weakened in the process.

Unfortunately, Ayiana carried the disease that had ravaged her people millions of years ago and infected all of the researchers, SG-1 and Fraiser. Even Teal'c, whose Goa'uld symbiote protected him from many different types of diseases and infections, eventually began to exhibit symptoms. Feeling enormously guilty for this, Ayiana used her abilities to heal them despite the huge risk to herself. She succeeded in completely healing all but Jack O'Neill before she collapsed. She was subsequently brought to the SGC where she died soon afterwards from exhaustion. O'Neill, fortunately, was soon cured when he was blended with a Tok'ra symbiote.^[3]

Three years later, it became known that the virus which wiped out most of the Ancients millions of years ago, the virus Ayiana carried, bears similarities to the biological weapon created by the Ori.^[4]

Ayiana is one of only two Ancients appearing both in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis ("Rising") - the other being Moros.

[edit] Chaya Sar

Stargate character
Chaya Sar in Sanctuary
Chaya Sar/Athar
Race	Ancient
ATA	Ancient
Gender	Female
Birthplace	Proculus
Portrayer	Leonor Varela
First appearance	"Sanctuary"

Chaya Sar, worshipped as Athar on Proculus, a planet in the Pegasus Galaxy, was an ascended Ancient encountered by the Atlantis Expedition. She was posing as the human high priestess of Athar, living secluded from the rest of the people on Proculus. She entertained visitors from the city of Atlantis and expressed an interest in seeing the city. Sheppard allowed her to accompany them back to Atlantis in the hopes of using her planet as a sanctuary for refugees. There, she was allowed to access the human computers and learn a great deal about the spiritual beliefs of the peoples of Earth. Chaya found it disturbing that humans, even now, were at war on the Atlantis Expedition's home world. She also lit up the biometrics console, making them think she was the first human with the ATA gene they had found in the Pegasus Galaxy.

She eventually took a liking to Major Sheppard and he, not knowing what she was at first, invited her to dinner and kissed her. Rodney McKay however was convinced Chaya posed a security risk, and it was McKay who, by doing some scans during an interview between Chaya and Dr. Weir, discovered her true identity. Soon after, Chaya felt ill as her planet was being attacked by the Wraith. Taking her Ascended form again, she returned to her planet through the Stargate.

Sheppard followed her with a Puddle Jumper, and learned that she could not help them. When she ascended, she was unable to leave her people behind and used her powers to destroy the Wraith when they attacked Proculus. The other Ancients punished her by allowing her to protect her planet, but no one else. Over the millennia she had become lonely, and that was why she went to Atlantis. In the end, she shared herself with Sheppard by swirling her ascended energy around the both of them.^[5]

[edit] Helia

Stargate character
Helia
Race	Ancient
ATA	Ancient
Gender	Female
Rank	Captain
Portrayer	Megan Leitch
First appearance	"The Return"

Helia was the Captain of the Ancient warship Tria, during the last days of their war with the Wraith.

After her ship had been damaged in battle, the Tria went to Atlantis to join the evacuation, but was forced to travel back to Earth after learning Atlantis had been evacuated. Because of the damage the ship had received, the hyperdrive failed midway through their voyage to the Milky Way. Unable to return to the Pegasus Galaxy, Helia accelerated the ship using a ZPM tied into the ship's engines, and continued on course for Earth at 0.999 times the speed of light. At this speed, the voyage would take millions of years, though the crew would only have to spend a few years in stasis due to relativity.

When the Daedalus located their ship and took them back to Atlantis, Helia locked down the city. They asked the Atlantis Expedition to leave, though they promised to eventually allow them to return, once the Ancients had time to readjust. An IOA representative, Richard Woolsey, however was allowed to remain on Atlantis. When the Asurans sent a ship to attack Atlantis, Helia ordered them to return to Asuras, believing that they would be unable to hurt the Ancients. However, the Asurans had been able to overcome this directive in their programming, attacked and captured the city, and subsequently killed all the Ancients occupying it.^[6]

Megan Leitch who plays Helia, also played "Linea" when she was suffering from Amnesia from the "Fountain of Youth" Effects going by the name of Ke'ra.

• Helia was one of the five daughters of the sun god Helios in Greek mythology.

[edit] Janus

Stargate character
Janus in Before I Sleep
Janus
Race	Ancient
ATA	Ancient
Gender	Male
Portrayer	Gildart Jackson
First appearance	"Before I Sleep"

Janus was an Ancient scientist who lived during the first siege of Atlantis by the Wraith.

10,000 years ago, Janus, against the orders of the Atlantean High Council, created a time machine, which was integrated into a Puddle Jumper. It is theorized that Janus intended to use the device to go back in time to either stop the Wraith from evolving or stop the Ori from unleashing the plague in the Milky Way.^{[citation needed]}

When Dr. Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, and Dr. Radek Zelenka accidentally traveled back through time using Janus' time machine from an alternate version of 2004, where her expedition was stranded on a flooding Atlantis, Janus helped recover the crashed Jumper, and tended to the wounds of the only survivor, Dr. Weir.

Janus was receptive to Weir's story, and realized his time travel device could give Weir a chance to save the future Atlantis Expedition. However, the Atlantean Council, especially High Councilor Moros, was angered when they were confronted with a woman, 10,000 years from the future.

Both Weir and Janus pleaded to return her to the future, but the Council was unwilling to risk further damage to the timeline. In defiance of his superiors, and in order to prevent the drowning of the future human expedition, he reconfigured Atlantis' power systems to access the city's 3 Zero Point Modules one-by-one in sequence, rather than simultaneously in parallel, in order to marginally delay their exhaustion. He also programmed the Atlantis DHD to block all incoming wormholes except those coming from Earth. As a final fail-safe, he programmed the city to release itself from the ocean floor and rise to the surface in case of a catastrophic shield failure.

Janus disobeyed his superiors again when, as the last Ancient survivors were leaving Atlantis for Earth, he told Moros that Weir had already left the city. In truth, he had helped her to remain behind and put herself in stasis, so that she could aid her future self saving the city.^[7] Before leaving, Janus tells Weir that she has given him hope that Atlantis will survive again, after Earth discovers it.

Janus had promised Weir that he would try to build another time machine, and it is believed that he did what he promised, despite the council's objections. Another Puddle Jumper capable of time travel was eventually found by SG-1 on Arkhan's planet, along with inscriptions describing the planet's history and future in Ancient, possibly written by Janus himself.^[8]

• Janus was named for Janus, the two-faced Roman god that represented time.

[edit] Melia

Stargate character
Melia in Before I Sleep
Melia
Race	Ancient
ATA	Ancient
Gender	Female
Rank	Council Member
Portrayer	Melia McClure
First appearance	"Rising"
Key episodes	"Before I Sleep"

Melia was a member of the Atlantean High Council during the first siege of Atlantis, some ten millennia ago.

She was first seen as the hologram upon the Atlantis expedition arrival to Atlantis, where she described the history of the Ancients in the Pegasus Galaxy.^[2]

In the episode "Before I Sleep", an alternate version of Elizabeth Weir who had travelled back through time, was brought before the council. Melia explained to Weir how the Atlanteans were under siege by the Wraith. They had sunk their great city under the ocean as a measure of protection. While sympathetic to Weir and Janus, Melia agreed with the other members of the council that they could not send Dr. Weir back to her own time to protect the time line.

Janus and Dr. Weir later approached her to plead their case one last time, but although Melia appeared moved by Weir's story, she nevertheless stood by the council's decision. She offered to block the Stargate completely so the lives of the expedition would be saved, but Weir kindly refused.

Melia is last seen walking through the Stargate, returning to Earth with the final Ancients that would later ascend, die out, or interbreed with their second evolution (humans).^[7]

[edit] Ganos Lal/Morgan le Fay

Stargate character
Morgan le Fay posing as a hologram in The Pegasus Project
Ganos Lal
Race	Ancient
ATA	Ancient
Gender	Female
Portrayer	Sarah Strange
First appearance	"The Pegasus Project"

Ganos Lal is an ascended Ancient who gave rise to the legend of Morgan le Fay, a character in Arthurian legend.

Morgan le Fay, or Ganos Lal at the time, was originally an inhabitant of the Ancient city of Atlantis, where she designed a holographic learning program based on her image to teach young Lantean children about Ancient technology, history and science. When it became clear that the Ancients had been defeated by the Wraith, she fled back to Earth with the other surviving Ancients. There, she secluded herself in meditation, which eventually enabled her to ascend.

When fellow ascended Ancient Myrddin descended in order to construct a weapon to fight the Ori, that could be used against the Ancients themselves, Morgan le Fay was assigned to watch him and, if necessary, prevent him from completing the weapon. For a time in Earth history, she was his rival. However, Myrddin conducted his research in another dimension, thus hiding it from the Ancients and Morgan le Fay.

Although originally a fierce opponent of the creation of an anti-Ori weapon, she eventually, like Myrddin, came to believe that the Ori could some day become a threat to the Ancients themselves. When SG-1 came to Atlantis to search for the weapon, she decided to covertly help Daniel Jackson locate the weapon by posing as a hologram in the learning program she designed ten millennia earlier.

However, Daniel Jackson and Vala recognized her as an ascended Ancient, and pushed her to reveal more information. Morgan le Fay, both believing that interfering with the lower planes of existence would make the Ancients no better than the Ori and fearing the punishment of the other Ancients, was hesitant to do so. Just when she was about to give more information about Myrddin's weapon, she was stopped by her peers. Her last words before being snatched away were "Merlin's weapon is not..."^[9]

Apparently, Morgan eventually found the Sangraal and hid it on a planet where it would be safe from both the Ori and the Ancients. The planet in question was undetectable from space, and an Orici's powers were rendered useless on the surface. The Sangraal itself was protected by several Ancient riddles and challenges.^[10] She also put Merlin in stasis to wait for the one day when he would rebuild it after she was forced to destroy the original.

It is revealed The Ark of Truth that Morgan was banished by the Others for the help she provided Daniel in Atlantis. However, when SG-1 travel to the Ori galaxy, she comes along with them helping them and distracting Adria to buy them time when needed. She heals Teal'c when he lays dying and also appears before Daniel in the form of Merlin after he's been tortured by a Prior. Daniel, however, sees through her disguise upon which point Morgan sheds it. Morgan later gives Vala the sequence needed to activate the Ark. Once Daniel activates the Ark, Adria's power greatly diminishes, and Morgan engages her in battle.

[edit] Moros/Myrddin/Merlin

Stargate character
Moros in Before I Sleep
Moros
Race	Ancient
ATA	Ancient
Gender	Male
Rank	High Councilor
Portrayer	Matthew Walker
First appearance	"Before I Sleep"
Key episodes	"Avalon" "Camelot" "The Pegasus Project" "The Quest"

Moros was the High Councilor of Atlantis during the days of the first siege of Atlantis, and was one of the most influential Ancients in the series. Indirectly introducing the Ori into Stargate SG-1, he was also responsible for the design of the anti-Ori weapon that would play a pivotal role in the series' tenth season. He eventually returned to Earth and ascended, where he adopted the name Myrddin or Merlin, and gave rise to the character in Arthurian legend. Moros was named after Moros from Greek legend, the personification of impending doom and destruction, mirroring what the villagers in the village on Camelot saw him. Moros is a Greek word meaning "dumb."

During the days of the first siege of Atlantis, some ten millennia ago when it became clear the war against the Wraith could not be won, Moros and the council decided to sink the city to protect it from the Wraith, and eventually travel back through the Stargate to Earth.^[9]

In the episode "Before I Sleep", an alternate version of Elizabeth Weir who had traveled back through time was brought before the council. Although he had always been a fierce opponent to Janus' time travel experiments, he listened to her pleas to be sent back to the future. He eventually denied her request in order to protect the time line, and strongly reprimanded Janus for even conducting the experiments in the first place. Convinced that Weir had traveled to Earth with the other remaining Ancients, Moros was one of the last Ancients to leave Atlantis.^[7] A visual record of him still remains in the Atlantis database. ^[9]

In the episode "The Pegasus Project", it was revealed that Moros, who eventually became known as Myrddin, chose to seclude himself in meditation, where he learned to ascend.

However, he became convinced that the Ori, who had also learned to ascend, had become a threat to the humans in the Milky Way and even the Ancients who wouldn't even take precautions to defend themselves, and had to be dealt with. He chose to become human again on Earth, while still retaining most of the knowledge and powers he had gained through his ascension. For a time, he was the most powerful being on the planet.

During this time, Myrddin carved a tablet with an Ancient cipher leading to Avalon, which would eventually come into the hands of Vala Mal Doran and SG-1, alerting the Ori of the presence of humans in the Milky Way and setting the events of seasons 9 and 10 in motion, the very event Myrddin had hoped to prevent. ^[11]

While designing a weapon to fight the Ori, he entrusted his secrets to a small number of noblemen, to which he was known as Merlin. One of these noblemen was King Arthur. The weapon he sought to construct became known as the Sangraal, Blood Stone or Holy Grail.

However, the Ancients did not support his research to design weapons that could eventually be used against them, and sent the ascended Ancient Morgan le Fay to watch him.^[9] Eventually, Myrddin constructed a dimension shifting device known as Arthur's Mantle to conceal his work from them.^[12]

In this device he hid the address of a planet where he supposedly hid the weapon, Camelot. He completed the device on Earth and hid it there. Merlin left a holographic message of himself in the village library, along with several valuables, which were defended by forcefields, hidden doors and a holographic knight.^[13]

Myrddin appeared several times before SG-1 finally met him in person in today's timeline. An alternate Elizabeth Weir had met him as Moros when he was still living on Atlantis.^[9] Myrddin also appeared as a Merlin hologram to SG-1, giving them information about his background and his motivations. ^{[11] [13]}

In the episode "Camelot", SG-1 learned that King Arthur and his knights once left on a quest to locate the Sangraal, journeying to three distant lands: Castiana, Sahal, and Vagonbrei. Vagonbrei's gate address was soon after discovered by Daniel Jackson,^[14] and with help from the ascended Morgan le Fay, the addresses for the other two planets were discovered in Atlantis' database. ^[9] The SGC subsequently searched all three planets but came up empty. Several weeks later however, with information provided to Vala Mal Doran by Adria, the gate address of a single fourth planet could be extrapolated by using symbols from each of the three worlds.^[10]

The planet in question was undetectable from space, protecting it from the Ori and making it only accessible by Stargate. After overcoming several of the Ancient riddles and trials on the planet, the SG-1 team, along with the Goa'uld Ba'al, were transported to a cave on a distant planet. Having left the Orici behind, SG-1 discovered that Merlin's weapon was destroyed by Morgan le Fay, who must have known that the Ancients would send someone else to destroy it if she did not. SG-1 also found Merlin placed in stasis, so that he could one day construct the weapon again. Morgan had created an elaborate defense system around the location of Myrddin's stasis tomb, consisting of a powerful transporter that would transport the tomb chamber to a random number of worlds outside the normal Stargate network to prevent the Ori from reaching it.

Eventually, Myrddin was awakened from stasis by SG-1 and, in his daze, he believed them to be members of the Knights of the Round Table before the situation was explained to him (He mistook Samantha Carter for Guinevere, Colonel Mitchell for Percival, Daniel Jackson for Galahad, and Ba'al for Mordred). Unfortunately, his body had deteriorated too much during the 1,000 years he had spent in stasis. He attempted to build the Sangraal but, realizing that he could not complete the task, he transferred his consciousness into a modified Repository of Knowledge for Daniel Jackson to use to complete the task. His body died shortly after reconfiguring the device, after living four lifetimes while his consciousness resided in Daniel Jackson, with the device reprogrammed to restore Daniel to the state he was in, prior to looking into the repository, after a certain period of time had passed. ^{[10] [15]}

Merlin and Jackson hatched a plot together to allow for the Sangraal to be completed and then send the device into the Ori galaxy by using the Supergate at P3Y-229. Merlin protected Jackson's mind from the transformation into a Prior that Adria inflicted on him, together they fooled Adria into allowing them to complete the second Sangraal, believing that it would be used on the Ancients. Shortly after Jackson deployed the Sangraal to the Ori home galaxy with the assistance of SG-1 and Merlin's mind, the pre-programmed restoration Merlin encoded into Jackson's DNA activated, restoring Jackson to a state before he looked into the repository and destroying Merlin's consciousness, marking his death. ^[15]

[edit] Oma Desala

Stargate character
Oma Desala in "Meridian"
Oma Desala
Race	Ancient
Gender	Female
Birthplace	Unknown
Portrayer	Carla Boudreau, Mel Harris (pictured)
First appearance	"Maternal Instinct"
Key episodes	"Meridian" "Threads"

Oma Desala, an ascended being, was played by Carla Boudreau ("Maternal Instinct") and Mel Harris ("Meridian," etc.). Going against the ways of the Ancients, who strictly believe against interfering in the lower planes of existence, Oma is convinced it is her responsibility as an ascended being to guide those beneath to the "Great Path" of enlightenment.

Because of this she has somewhat become an outcast among the other ascended beings.^[16] She, and those who follow her, walk a fine line between going against the wishes of the other Ancients by interfering with other races, and maintaining their rules enough so that she does not bring down their wrath.^[17] However, she is only able to open the door for them, as she can guide individuals to the path, knowing it is they, and they alone, who can make the decision of whether or not to travel the great path.^[18] She acts mostly on the planet Kheb, on which some sort of Buddhist-style temple is located, in which the people learn about ascension.^[19]

However, she once made a great mistake when she helped the fallen System Lord Anubis to ascend. Anubis had discovered Ancient information about ascension and thus was able to pass all of Oma's tests. When his true nature was revealed, the others decided not to completely de-ascend him (causing Anubis to gain a big advantage over the other Goa'uld) in order to punish Oma for her constant rule breaking, forcing her to watch how he brought terror upon the galaxy.^[20] After this she ascends Daniel Jackson, and eventually decides to sacrifice her life and spend an eternity fighting Anubis to prevent him from wreaking further havoc on the galaxy. Oma was the self-appointed guardian of Shifu, the son of Apophis and Sha're. Through her guidance Shifu learned to deny the evil Goa'uld knowledge he possessed in his mind, and to eventually ascend himself.^[21]

It is unclear if Oma was one of the Ancients, as Orlin had not heard of her. However, it is possible Orlin might have experienced some memory loss having just taken human form. ^[16] The Ancient Merlin, however, had known Oma when he was ascended, and told Dr. Jackson that she had been helping people ascend for over 1000 years. He also said that she focused more on the individual, but did not elaborate further.^[22]

Oma Desala was first encountered by the SGC when SG-1 came to the planet Kheb in their search for Shifu, the young son of Apophis and Sha're. During their stay, the team discovered a Buddhist-style temple, where a single monk appeared to reside. The monk spoke in riddles, but spoke about a being called Oma Desala, a name Daniel Jackson translated as "Mother Nature". Also, the monk taught Daniel to use his mind in order to, among other things, manipulate fire.

However, when several Jaffa arrived on the planet, also searching for Shifu, SG-1 was forced to set up a defense at the temple. While SG-1 prepared to fight off the Goa'uld attack team, Daniel discovered that it was not his own mind that performed these amazing feats, but Oma Desala, a non-corporal being living on Kheb. With this knowledge he decides to leave Shifu in Oma's care, who in return neutralized the remaining Jaffa.^[19]

Shifu appeared again one year later, now aged to the state of a young boy. He revealed to Jackson through an elaborate dream that Oma Desala had taught him how to suppress the evil Goa'uld genetic memory he possessed. Eventually, Shifu was able to ascend himself, also with the help of Oma.^[21]

Several months later, after Daniel Jackson became poisoned by naqahdria radiation while preventing a cataclysmic accident on the planet Langara, Oma Desala appeared in a series of visions to Jackson while he lay on his death bed. Oma told him that although she could not heal him, she could help him to ascend. Although Jackson at first had to struggle with his own inadequacy, he was finally able to ascend with Oma Desala's help.^[18]

One year later, while the ascended Daniel Jackson was helping his former team members to prevent Anubis from obtaining the Eye of Ra (a devastating weapon hidden on Abydos) Oma Desala watched while Jackson interacted with the mortal world. She helped Skaara and several other Abydonians who were killed during Anubis and SG-1's battle over the Eye to ascend. She later intervened when Daniel was about to use his ascended powers against Anubis to save the people of Abydos, and prevented him from doing so. Instead, when Anubis destroyed the planet below, she helped the entire population to ascend.^[17]

As Daniel had broken the ascended's rules, Oma was forced to de-ascend him and to take away his memories. Jackson was sent to the planet Vis Uban, where he was later discovered by his former team mates.^[23] However, it would later appear that Oma did not completely strip away Jackson's memories, but in fact had buried them deep in his subconscious.^[24]

Oma Desala appeared one final time to Daniel Jackson almost two years later. After Jackson had been abducted and killed by Replicator Carter, who had attempted to extract the Ancient knowledge still buried in his subconscious mind, Oma brought him to an intermediate level between ascension and mortal existence where she again attempted to convince him to ascend. During his brief stay, Jackson learned about the connection between Oma and Anubis, and how he had once tricked her into partially ascending him.

Still feeling guilty about the catastrophic mistake she once had made, she sacrifices herself to enter into an eternal battle with Anubis. According to Anubis, Oma Desala could not kill him, but as she continued to fight him, he would be unable to do anything else. As the half-ascended Goa'uld was in the process of using the Dakara Superweapon to eliminate all life in the Milky Way, her benevolence and self-sacrifice saved the entire galaxy.^[20]

[edit] Orlin

Stargate character
Orlin
Orlin
Race	Ancient
ATA	Ancient
Gender	Male
Portrayer	Sean Patrick Flanery (adult form) Cameron Bright (child form)
First appearance	"Ascension"
Key episodes	"The Fourth Horseman"

Orlin, played by Sean Patrick Flanery, was an outcast Ancient, forced to remain on the dead planet Velona following a terrible tragedy. Orlin came upon the world of Velona long ago, and took pity on the people's struggle against the Goa'uld. Breaking the rules of the Ancients, Orlin gave the people Ancient technology, particularly weapon specifications to Velona materials (it is doubtful he revealed himself directly), from which they constructed an advanced Ancient space gun.

It was not long before the Goa'uld presence was destroyed, and the people celebrated. Unfortunately, this new-found technology birthed ideas of power and corruption, and they soon planned to exploit their enemies on other planets, using the weapon to conquer those worlds. The Ancients saw this possibility and killed the entire civilization, leaving their cities in rubble and Velona's people extinct. Orlin, for his disobedience, was banished for eternity amongst the wreckage he had instigated, to walk among the dead for all time.

Orlin's fate changed with the arrival of SG-1. He was immediately taken with Major Samantha Carter and tried to merge with her thoughts. The unprepared scientist, however, blacked out. Be it secretly or known, Orlin was allowed to leave the planet with SG-1, concealed in an invisible form, to walk among the humans, particularly Carter. He returned with her to her home and remained inside her residence, watching her while she slept. The next morning he showed himself to her, and almost immediately told her he had fallen in love. He proved he had come through the Stargate by crossing through a table.

Carter left the house and sent in a search team, but Orlin was not to be found. He only returned after Carter believed all of surveillance devices were gone, which was not the truth. Orlin revealed himself to be an ascended being. Carter told him of Oma Desala, but he had no knowledge of her because she had been an outcast.

For weeks Orlin seeped into Carter's confidence. They took walks together and discussed the future and his presence. Orlin eventually gave up his powers as an ascended being altogether, becoming fully human again, and planned to spend the rest of his life with her in that form. But the Pentagon had been observing him and his very real presence with Carter, observing acquisition requests being sent to Carter's home. While she was on-base, he ordered parts and equipment from the Internet and developed a miniature Stargate in her basement. When the N.I.D. finally moved in on the house, Orlin activated the Stargate and traveled back to Velona, Carter following. There he discovered the humans planned on studying the Ancient technology, and refused to accept that the same fate would fall upon Earth.

After a member of SG-16 shot Orlin, the Ancients believed he had redeemed himself. They re-ascended him as a reward for his great attempts to sacrifice himself for the Tau'ri. Once ascended, he took the core of the naqahdah reactor powering the space gun, which could not be stopped from activating, into the atmosphere, where it detonated. Immediately he (or the Ancients) destroyed the Ancient space gun so that SG-16 could never replicate the technology.^[16]

Later, Orlin returned in the form of a child (played by Cameron Bright). This time, he is permanently human, and his child form is intentional; he needs to be in that form in order to retain even a fraction of the knowledge of the Ancients. He tells the SGC of the feud between Ancients and Ori, false promises of ascension and how the Ori gain power. He does succeed in developing a line of research into a cure for the Ori plague, but it requires a bit of material (namely, Prior DNA) which the SGC has not yet obtained. In addition, his gambit with taking child form fails, and he quickly loses memory. Prior to this, he does tell the SGC that Origin and its promise of Ascension are lies. He is interned in a mental institution, having lost all of his memories from his time as an ascended, and suffering significant brain damage from holding on that long.^[25]

[edit] Trebal

Stargate character
Trebal in Aurora
Trebal
Race	Ancient
ATA	Ancient
Gender	Female
Rank	First Officer
Portrayer	Pascale Hutton
First appearance	"Aurora"

Trebal was the first officer of the Ancient warship Aurora during the last days of her people's war with the Wraith.

Trebal had served with the Aurora's Captain for many years, and was his trusted right hand. She, along with the rest of the crew, was sent on a mission by the Atlantean High Council to conduct reconnaissance on their enemy, the Wraith. The ship was sent to the outer reaches of the Pegasus Galaxy where it discovered a vital weakness in Wraith technology, information that could turn the tide of the Ancients' struggle with the Wraith. After the Aurora was attacked and severely damaged by the Wraith, Trebal, along with the rest of the crew, was forced to enter a stasis pod to save her life.

After the Wraith discovered the Aurora ten thousand years later, Trebal was killed by an invading Wraith when she was forcibly removed from her stasis pod. The Wraith subsequently assumed her identity in the artificial environment that networked the minds of the Ancients in stasis, as part of an elaborate scheme to discover how to upgrade Wraith hyperdrive technology. The plan eventually failed after John Sheppard and his team discovered Trebal's body and the Wraith in stasis.^[1]

• Trebal was never seen in person, as a Wraith had been impersonating her the entire episode. Still, her corpse could be seen outside her stasis pod.

[edit] Other Ancients

Name	Rank/Position	First Appearance	Status	Played by
Amelius	Ancient scientist.	"Ark of Truth"	Unknown, most likely deceased.	Fabrice Grover
	Original Inventor of the Stargate system, a schematic for a Stargate in his notebook and comments "I had an amazing idea last night..." and the Ark of Truth. It is revealed during flashbacks inThe Ark of Truth that Amelius created the Ark in order to brainwash people into believing the truth, that is, that the Ori are not gods. He is stopped first by other Ancients.
Hippaforalkus	Ancient general.	"Inferno"	Unknown, most likely deceased.	None - It was only a mentioned name.
	The Battleship Orion was originally named after this general, although the name was quickly changed by John Sheppard.

Numerous other ascended Ancients are seen in the "cafe" in the SG-1 episode Threads, refusing to speak to Daniel Jackson, Oma Desala, and Anubis.

[edit] References

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