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Stargate Babylon

Prologue

Ten million years ago, a race called the Alterans arrived in the Milky-way galaxy, they sought to terraform new worlds and upon these worlds they place a large metal ring capable of forming a stable wormhole between two such devices. As they explored they discovered other intelligent life amongst the stars, and formed a Great Alliance with the Nox, Furling, and Asgaard, and in time the race of Gate Builders became known as the Ancients.

Also residing in the Milky-way Galaxy were other races with interstellar civilizations, as the earliest ones to reach for the stars they called themselves First Ones, amongst these were two races who took opposing ideological viewpoints on the nature of change.

Whispered in legend as amongst the oldest First Ones, their true name is ten thousand characters long. To outsiders they are known as the Shadows. Arachnid in appearance, they seek to manipulate behind the scenes to prove their belief that conflict weeds out the weak and forces worthy races to evolve in the resulting Chaos.

Directly opposing the Shadows is one of the youngest of the First Ones, a race of telepathic cephalopods who believe their path of Order and Light to be the only way, indoctrinating their followers to chase away the darkness of the Shadows.

The conflicts between the Vorlons and Shadows over millions of years have scarred large sections of the galaxy, exterminated many races and devastated worlds. This cycle of conflict was broken when contact was made between the Great Alliance and the First Ones; Lorien the First of the First Ones sought the help of the Alterans to protect the younger races, to allow them to develop on their own free from the wars of the others. The Alterans agreed to intercede as the Vorlons and Shadows use of Planet Killers threatened their Furling and Nox allies, as well as the seeded new worlds.

Five million years ago, after many years of war, the Shadows deployed a plague which devastated the Alterans, it forced many to leave this plane of existence via ascension, though a few Alteran descendants lived in nearby galaxies and were able to cut contact in time. To eliminate the Shadow plague and reseed life on the devastated worlds the Alterans built a massive device on a planet later known as Dakara, the last survivors activated the device, then sent a signal to all gates inside Shadow and Vorlon claimed space to destroy them, and deny their enemies any ability to reverse engineer them.

After the war, many First Ones decided to cut off all contact with younger races, some even decided to depart from the galaxy completely. Those that remained were content to stay within their own space and let events outside pass by with minor observation, mainly watching the movements of the Shadows and Vorlon fleets.

The plague also caused the disappearance of the Furlings, records of what happened has been lost not even surviving in myth. The Nox were hard hit too, the massive casualties of the war drove them to become isolationist pacifists, unwilling to interact with the wider galaxy. The Asgard as the youngest race in the Great Alliance got off fairly lightly, their homeworld resided in a nearby galaxy and was safe from direct fighting, however they were unable to stop a Shadow bio-weapon from rendering them sterile as a race, as a result they turned to cloning to maintain their numbers.

Roughly thirty thousand years ago, a new race joined the galactic scene, a worm-like parasite named the Goa'uld first took over a reptilian biped called the Unas on their homeworld, before they began a campaign of slavery and conquest through the Stargate network. Eventually they came to a garden world called Earth, with a species that was much easier for them to control than the Unas hosts. They spread the humans through their domains, and modified the strongest to form a warrior class who would also carry their young to term. Called the Jaffa, they would strike fear into the slaves and enemies of their Goa'uld masters.

About ten thousand years ago, a group of Ancient descendants returned to Earth after fleeing their homes in a nearby galaxy, they detected the Goa'uld presence and were offended by the Goa'ulds attitude and treatment of the Alterans chosen successors, humanity. Contacting their allies in the Great Alliance, they declared war and drove the Goa'uld off the planet. They were unable to rescue the populations taken off world as all four members of the Alliance lacked the ships to do more than protect their own holdings, but they were able to force the Goa'uld to sign a treaty to protect selected worlds from interference or movement into several areas of the Galaxy.

The humans of Earth buried their Stargate under a large cover stone, and gradually forgot it existed as they fell into in-fighting, even as the visitors from the stars faded in myths and legends as Gods. Now the humans are reaching for the stars themselves and have contacted new races, what wonders and horrors from the past will they unlock amongst the stars?