GRIM DARK alternative:
The Asgard fired off their time warping device as in canon, but had no SG-1 equivalent to throw at the Replicators when they reversed it. Now the Asgard's fleet is decimated, and the Replicators have had over 1000 years relative to crack the arcanotech libraries. Fuck knows what they've unleashed by now (Hive-mind is just asking for corruption), but it has access to ships that can cross a galaxy in minutes. Naturally, the Asgard have assumed the worst has happened and opened up the libraries of horrors to combat what they believe is coming. And the neo-Replicators *are* coming.
The Protected Planets treaty is wavering, because the Asgard haven't been enforcing it due to both a profound lack of ships and a lack of time (busy arcanoteching). The System Lords are beginning to realize this fact, and previously safe worlds are beginning to fall.
Anubis is quietly building his strength from both conventional and the "lighter" forbidden tech. As a partially-ascended being he is better at containing insanity from this stuff... but this is arcanotech. Better is not perfect.
The Tollan don't exist. The Tok'ra are dying.
So yeah. Cthulutech SG-1's version of 40k.
The Asgard fired off their time warping device as in canon, but had no SG-1 equivalent to throw at the Replicators when they reversed it. Now the Asgard's fleet is decimated, and the Replicators have had over 1000 years relative to crack the arcanotech libraries. Fuck knows what they've unleashed by now (Hive-mind is just asking for corruption), but it has access to ships that can cross a galaxy in minutes. Naturally, the Asgard have assumed the worst has happened and opened up the libraries of horrors to combat what they believe is coming. And the neo-Replicators *are* coming.
The Protected Planets treaty is wavering, because the Asgard haven't been enforcing it due to both a profound lack of ships and a lack of time (busy arcanoteching). The System Lords are beginning to realize this fact, and previously safe worlds are beginning to fall.
Anubis is quietly building his strength from both conventional and the "lighter" forbidden tech. As a partially-ascended being he is better at containing insanity from this stuff... but this is arcanotech. Better is not perfect.
The Tollan don't exist. The Tok'ra are dying.
So yeah. Cthulutech SG-1's version of 40k.