Way Of The Eternal Stars

[SotF]

With the backdrop of the Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis) there are many interesting stories that can be told that have little to do with the main characters, hell, you could easily have something caused almost entirely involving OC's without messing with canon at all. This idea is one of them, though involves a possible crossover.

The story idea begins on Earth, a museum piece that is actually an Alliance emergency escape teleporter/beacon and is on display. Cue someone with the ATA gene and getting dragged off to another world with no way back, namely to a Shipyard where the four races had nearly completed when the Alliance shattered which combined with a major disaster there left it unknown with no idea and almost no survivors while the construction devices finished building the prototype ship.

The system is heavily defended and there is no Goa'uld space presence and a primitive race on the planet now developing.

The person ends up materializing onboard the ship which scans him and the AI activates and names him as the captain of the vessel while the relic slips out of his hands and shatters on the floor leaving him with no way home other than to find Earth.

There is also a surviving Engineer in stasis onboard, an Asgard who was severely injured and is now an amnesiac who has occasional glimpses of his past. Though he does not suffer from the genetic degradation of the current Asgard.

The planet is the site of the first part and one of the System Lords finds the gate address and sends a group through to capture the planet...

From there I have no real idea as the guy searches for Earth.

 

[Estrecca]

The story idea begins on Earth, a museum piece that is actually an Alliance emergency escape teleporter/beacon and is on display. Cue someone with the ATA gene and getting dragged off to another world with no way back, namely to a Shipyard where the four races had nearly completed when the Alliance shattered which combined with a major disaster there left it unknown with no idea and almost no survivors while the construction devices finished building the prototype ship.

I would say that the Alliance didn't shatter so much as simply fell apart. The Milky Way post-Atlantis Ancients finally moved on to that higher state of existence (although only after screwing up a couple more times), the Nox were hippies with no interest in leaving their world, the Asgard were still in their galaxy (and not being hunted down by Replicators yet) and the Furlings are unavalaible for comment.

The system is heavily defended and there is no Goa'uld space presence and a primitive race on the planet now developing.

The person ends up materializing onboard the ship which scans him and the AI activates and names him as the captain of the vessel while the relic slips out of his hands and shatters on the floor leaving him with no way home other than to find Earth.

It would be a bit of a departure from canon, considering that Ancient ships don't appear to be sentient (there is a fair degree of automation, but no resident AIs). Also, it reminds me of Weber's Heirs Of Empire series, with the astronaut becoming the new captain of the battleship Dahak.

There is also a surviving Engineer in stasis onboard, an Asgard who was severely injured and is now an amnesiac who has occasional glimpses of his past. Though he does not suffer from the genetic degradation of the current Asgard.

If he comes from the Alliance days, he would have to be a fair bit taller and more muscular than modern Asgard (whose current small size seems to be the result of those ten centuries of cloning with no new births), like the corpse found by Heimdall in Adara.

From there I have no real idea as the guy searches for Earth.

Problem is that Earth is not that difficult to find. Every Ancient outpost had a star map of the galaxy and Earth had one such outpost, meaning that any Ancient ship worth its salt would just read the mind of its "captain" and display Earth on screen.

 

[SotF]

For the sentient part, a partial AI expirament at the place by one of the other races could work.

The idea was a prototype that wasn't completed made by all four races but not completed except by automated processes that managed to stay active.

With an amnesiac Asgard and an only partial database of planets with no real translation.

Plus you have all the centuries of change with the planet.

 

[Xon]

It would be a bit of a departure from canon, considering that Ancient ships don't appear to be sentient (there is a fair degree of automation, but no resident AIs).

In many ways the Ancient's/Alteran's computer function as an extension of the user's mind which is functionally more usefull than a fully independant AI. Also keep in mind, an Ancient/Alteran has vastly more mental capacity than base-line humans.

And Ancient computers can accurately figure out where Earth is after +30-40 million years of being abandoned.