Post by Jason Conway on Nov 18, 2010 15:16:29 GMT
Name Of Race: Nanomorph - Human form replicators
Homeworld(s): Asura, Pegasus Galaxy
Technological Advancement: Slightly higher than Alteran (pre-ascention ancients)
Any Ships: Several (now destroyed)
Brief Description: During the war with the Wraith, the Lanteans sought to create a weapon which would attack Wraith DNA. Turning to nanite technology, the Lanteans built nanites which would allow for organic assimilation and replication, encoded with an aggression code that surpassed even that of the Wraith. Without warning, the nanites suddenly began replicating and interlocking, taking the most advanced form they knew—human. Even in this form, the aggression codes remained. Fueled by a rage they could not understand, the machines begged the Lanteans to remove the aggression programming, but the Lanteans refused, for they had created base codes that prevented the Asurans from harming them, and they were desperate to find a weapon to destroy the Wraith.
When they concluded that the Asurans would not be the weapon they sought, the Lantean Council sent a fleet of Aurora-class warships to Asuras, wiping out the laboratory and the nanites, and deleted all references to the project from their database, save for Asuras' Stargate address. However, some of the nanites survived, and began to replicate again which resulted in the Second Birth. After the Lanteans lost the war and returned to the Milky Way galaxy the Asurans began to attack the Wraith. The Wraith created a shut down code that deactivated their directive to attack them. This resulted in them returning to their homeworld where they isolated themselves to that planet alone.
Description of first contact: When the Atlantis expedition contacted them, the Asurans welcomed them at first, claiming that they were a faction who had split with the Lanteans over how to act in the war with the Wraith. Upon learning that their visitors needed Zero Point Modules, they forcefully probed their minds and learned that their visitors, many of whom were descendants of the Lanteans, had taken up residence in a very much intact Atlantis. Intending to destroy Atlantis out of retribution, they sent one city-ship to Lantea; however, Rodney McKay, with the help of Niam, tried to alter their base code and remove their aggressive tendencies. McKay also created a program that froze the Asurans, and rigged the city-ship to detonate. Taking Niam with them, the team escaped via Jumper after the explosion. All was well until the other Asurans reset Niam's programming and he attacked Weir. Niam was then jettisoned into space from the back of a Jumper where now remains frozen among the Atlantis orbiting debris.
Update from Atlantis Expedition: After the Atlantis expedition developed the means to track the Asuran Aurora-class battleships deployed throughout the galaxy, they decided to put the Asurans on the defensive. Attacks by the Apollo and the Daedalus using new Asgard weapons forced them to retreat to their homeworld, congregating all of their ships at Asuras for safety in numbers. Thanks to a new plan developed by McKay, the Atlantis expedition, the Wraith, and the Travelers formed an alliance, and FRAN, a Replicator McKay created, the Daedalus, the Apollo, seven Wraith Hive ships and seven Travelers ships, including their Aurora-class battleship, launched an all-out assault on Asuras to turn all of the Replicators into a mass of nanites and overload their Zero Point Modules, destroying the planet in the process and taking the Asurans with it. Thanks to FRAN sacrificing herself as part of the plan, and some improvising by McKay and Colonel Samantha Carter, the Asurans turned into a dense mass as planned and sank to the planet's core causing it to implode, destroying Asuras and the Asurans. Later, it was revealed that at least some survived off-world, as an Asuran ship commanded by Dr. Elizabeth Weir arrived to investigate the planet's destruction, but it was indicated that they were not allies of the destroyed Asurans.
This group developed an artificial means of attaining Ascension after numerous failures. They lost their physical nanite bodies and existed as beings of energy embedded in subspace in order to be one step closer to true Ascension. However, there was no higher level as they had been reduced to bodiless beings of energy that traveled the galaxy in order to find new physical bodies. They encountered and inhabited both Wraith technology and other advanced races' which were hiding from the Wraith, but neither were sufficient for the task. As time grew on, this faction of Asurans were growing more and more bitter.
However, Dr. Elizabeth Weir - who was the leader of this group - attempted to locate Atlantis and use its technology to help the group regain physical bodies. She inhabited a Puddle Jumper piloted by Lt. Colonel John Sheppard and his team allowing her mind to return to and inhabit Atlantis. This allowed her to use the Nanite creation machine to construct a Replicator body that appeared as FRAN, and her eight other Asuran comrades then entered the city, wishing to regain physical bodies as well. When denied, they attempted to sink the city but relented when they feared the Nanite creation machine would be destroyed in such a move. Negotiations were made by Weir who convinced the Atlantis expedition to allow them to regain their bodies in order to create nanite created organic based ones. However, Koracen betrayed the group and used a time delay program to create a power outage allowing him to escape. He was ultimately killed by Weir who decided that even seven Asurans were a danger.Weir took her Asuran followers through the Stargate to enter a world where they could continue to make organic based bodies. However, this was a trick orchestrated by the Atlantis expedition who gated the group to a Spacegate, causing them to freeze and become immobile in the cold vacuum of space. This marked the death of all known Asurans in the Pegasus galaxy.
