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Stargate: Atlantis

Stargate Atlantis, sometimes called SGA, was the first spinoff series from Stargate SG-1, set in the Pegasus Galaxy on the lost city of Atlantis, which was built by the race known as the Ancients, before they Ascended to a higher plane of existence. Evidence of the Ancients had been encountered before – for one thing, they were the race who had built the entire stargate network – and their technology was responsible for the final defeat of the Ori, as well as being what made Anubis so dangerous.

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Stargate

The Stargate television franchise was a spin-off from the 1994 film Stargate. The TV franchise saw the return of two main characters from the original film, Dr. Daniel Jackson and Colonel Jack O’Neill, although they were played by different actors. The stargate, after which the film, the franchise and the series are named, is a ring-shaped device that creates a stable wormhole, allowing almost instantaneous travel between two different stargates. In the film, only one destination was found, that of Abydos, by Dr. Jackson. When the first team travelled there, they found a human culture of Egyptian origins that was ruled by a god called Ra, an extraterrestrial who had merged with a human host. After defeating Ra, Daniel remained behind on the planet, having married one of the people living there, whilst Colonel O’Neill returned to Earth. The stargate was then left, unused but guarded, for years.

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