Chevron 26 :: Stargate Atlantis ::
The adventure continues...
"Stargate: Atlantis" is the spin-off series for Stargate SG-1. It continues the adventures with the stargate.
On earth a secret base left by the originators of the Stargate is found. It is in the ruins of the legendary civilization Atlantis.
The implications of this discovery lead the team to a distant galaxy, where they find a primitive human civilization threatened by a sinister new enemy...
Ancient in the holograhic message to the new habitants of Atlantis:
"...In the hope of spreading new life in a galaxy where there appeared to be none. Soon the new life grew, prospered. Here, as before, we built a system of Stargates, so that fledgeling civilizations could travel between the stars, exchange knowledge and friendship.
In time, a thousand worlds bore the fruit of life in this form. Then one day our people stepped foot upon a dark world where a terrible enemy slept. Never before had we encountered beings with powers that rivalled our own. In our over-confidence, we were unprepared and outnumbered. The enemy fed upon defenceless human worlds like a great scourge until finally only Atlantis remained.
This city's great shield was powerful enough to withstand their terrible weapons but here we were besieged for many years. In an effort to save the last of our kind, we submerged our great city into the ocean. The Atlantis Stargate was the one and only link back to Earth from this galaxy, and those who remained used it to return to that world that was once home. There, the last survivors of Atlantis lived out the remainder of their lives.
This city was left to slumber, in the hope that our kind would one day return..."