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personally I would have went with the Aschen to infiltrate Destiny

posted 11 years ago by Dodgemaguire
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Than the Lucian Alliance. Don't get me wrong the Lucian Alliance are an interesting choice for the next big bad but surely the Aschen weren't all swallowed by a black hole and I always thought of them as the third major villains in SG1. A;though as I'm typing this I don't recall any mercenary-like Aschen but I would like to hear opinions about it.

[–] Belforhir 10 years ago

Well...the Aschen weren't really into the whole exploration and travelling the universe thing. Remember the deal giving them stargate adresses? They were quite comfortable dominating their little corner of the galaxy.

Also they weren't the action/guns blazing types. Remember that they tried to conquer humanity by using diplomacy getting them to accept a "population control" thing and they just cheated and went much above the agreed percentage. Then intending to just wait a generation for the natural aging process to take its course.

Not at all suited to be a main badguy threat. They're just to damned patient/lazy for that.

[–] ElizaDushkusGroomToBe 9 years ago

Well...the Aschen weren't really into the whole exploration and travelling the universe thing. Remember the deal giving them stargate adresses? They were quite comfortable dominating their little corner of the galaxy.

Actually, the exact opposite is true. The reason the Aschen were so interested in obtaining those addresses (along with a proper dialing program to account for interstellar drift) was because they were limited in their travels by a lack of a DHD on their home Stargate. They couldn't have known that the Stargate network was bigger than the 300 light year radius from their homeworld that they explored. I'm sure with their technology they had ran a program to find every workable combination of 6 symbols with their own home symbol but without a DHD they would have had to compensate for instellar drift, but since the symbols on each Stargate are constellations as seen from Earth, they would have no frame of reference on their own world to even think that addresses are based on stars.

Then intending to just wait a generation for the natural aging process to take its course.

That's not true, either. They wanted to keep some humans viable, after all, they needed someone to work their newest agricultural planet (Earth), just as the people on that other planet did their own world.

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And there was one world with nothing but shrimp. I tired of it quickly.

[–] o-lO-o-Ol-o 10 years ago

Aschen = passive.

L.A. = much more active.

While the Aschen are a much more interesting villain, replacing the Lucian Alliance with them wouldn't fit their MO.

However, the Asgard had a rebel faction. The Aschen could have a more aggressive faction, which could be just right for SGU.

Then again, the "normal" Aschen could sneak their evil plans into the mix.