THE WONDER VARIATIONS (AU TIMELINE)

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NOTES

Original timeline compiled by Gateworld. Any variations from canon timelines are in italics. This timeline has had a lot of information removed to provide only the most important information that would be common knowldge (among the members of the Pegasus Expedition), though not everyone will know everything mentioned here.

PRE-HISTORY

In a distant galaxy, a race of humans called the Altera experience a fundamental split in cultural governance. The majority push for a religious focus, while a smaller group push for a scientific one. Fearing extreme persecution, the small Alteran group choose against using technology which could brainwash their brothers and depart in a ship for a galaxy to call their own. The scientific Alterans will henceforth be known as Ancients.

The Ancient Amelius begins to develop Stargate technology.

The Ancients come upon the Local Group and make the Milky Way their home. They seed numerous worlds with Stargates as well as human life, and settle on a planet they name Terra.

The religious-based Alterans will eventually ascend and be known as the Ori, establishing the Origin religion and creating planets full of worshipers to feed their need for energy.

3-50 MILLION YEARS AGO

The Ancients form an alliance with three other races in the galaxy including the Asgard, Nox and Furlings. They establish a meeting planet on Heliopolis as a form of galactic United Nations.

Proclarush Taonas is abandoned by the Ancients.

A terrible plague cripples the peoples of the Milky Way.

The Ancients of P4X-639 engineer a time machine to go back before the plague to reverse it, but discover the flawed technology only goes backwards by 10 hours. They eventually deactivate the device and accept their fate.

The Ancients create a device on Dakara to repair the damage caused by the plague.

The Ancients of Earth abandon their interests in the Milky Way and set course for the nearby Pegasus Galaxy in Atlantis. Ayiana, a carrier of the plague, is left behind.

The Dakara device activates to relaunch the Milky Way's evolution process.

The Ancients arrive in the Pegasus Galaxy. As before, they create a network of Stargates and seed life on numerous planets. Atlantis makes its home on Lantea.

The Ancients establish a network of defense satellites in the Lantean system.

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO

The Ancients dispatch the Destiny into the far reaches of the universe.

CA. 30,000 YEARS AGO

A crew of Asgard depart their planet in suspended animation. At this stage in their development they are still capable of sexual reproduction.

MORE THAN 10,000 YEARS AGO

Iratus bugs sample human flesh and evolve into Wraith.

The Wraith construct ships and weapons to feed their hunger for human life essence.

The Ancients engage the Wraith in battle. Though they are superior in technology, the Wraith are superior in number. A 100-year war ensues.

The Ancients construct the Replicators, but eventually abandon the project and bomb Asuras. The Replicators begin to rebuild their civilization.

The Ancient city Meropis is captured by the Wraith near the end of the war. During the attempt to gain control of Meropis, the city barricades itself against the attack and traps several hundred Wraith within. It is assumed the Wraith have survived by hibernating.

10,000 YEARS AGO (8000 BC)

Ra arrives on Earth via mothership and takes a host from the North African desert. He proceeds to collect samples of humans from across the planet to spread among the stars as slaves.

The Ancient warship Aurora is sent to the outer rim of the Pegasus Galaxy to gather information concerning a weakness in Wraith defenses. Life support fails before they can return to Atlantis with the information they have obtained. The crew survive in stasis pods.

An Ancient entrusts the Quindosim with a Zero Point Module.

The Quindosim are culled by the Wraith.

Chaya Sar ascends and takes on the guise of Athar, protector of Proculus. She lashes out with her ascended powers against the Wraith. Ascended beings in the Pegasus Galaxy punish her by forcing her to protect Proculus for all time.

The Ancients forfeit the 100-year war. They recall their forces to Atlantis for a final stand and create a window Ancient refugees to return. Numerous ships reach the Lantean system but are destroyed.

Having lost the war with the Wraith, the Ancients sink Atlantis deep beneath the Lantean oceans.

Realizing they have missed the evacuation of Atlantis, the crew of the Ancient warship Tria set a course for the Milky Way at light speed.

The Lantean survivors, now on Earth, attempt to avoid influencing the primitive tribes of man. Moros, Ganos Lal and numerous other Ancients seclude themselves and learn to ascend while the rest die out.

Some Lantean survivors are unsatisfied with Earth and leave for another planet in the Milky Way.

5,000 YEARS AGO (3000 BC)

Ishkur's elite force of Jaffa commanders rebel against him. He orders their deaths, but they flee in search of Kheb. The traitors find a secluded planet and become the Sodan.

SG-1 travels back in time and unwittingly participates in the uprising of Ancient Egypt, driving Ra from the planet. The rebels secretly bury the Stargate at Giza so that it may be found in the future. SG-1's presence in the past is hidden from history.

Ra loses interest in Earth. To prevent another uprising, he removes the written word from Abydonian culture.

CA. 2,000 YEARS AGO (0 BC/AD)

Egeria breaks from the Goa'uld and creates the first spawning cycle of Tok'ra. Ra imprisons her on Pangar.

CA. 450

Sensing the growing threat of the Ori, Moros abandons ascension to retake human form. Now known as Myrddin, he establishes an enclave of noblemen including Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. During this period Myrddin is the most powerful human being on the planet. Ganos Lal is ordered by the other ascended beings to retake human form and monitor him. She takes on the name of Morgan Le Fay.

Myrddin creates phase-shifting technology to secretly develop a weapon capable of destroying ascended beings. Realizing his intention to one day destroy the Ori, Morgan destroys the device and hides Myrddin in an isolated Stargate network.

CA. 1000

Sokar visits Earth and captures a colony of medieval Christians.

Anubis is banished by the System Lords. Though they believe him to be dead, he departs for Kheb. There, the ascended Oma Desala teaches him to ascend. The ascended collective witnesses Anubis's treachery and attempts to push him back to the mortal plane, but only succeeds halfway. Anubis departs the Milky Way with the Ancient knowledge he has learned. Oma is punished for her actions.

The Asgard lose their ability to sexually reproduce, and adopt a "quick-fix" with cloning technologies. Genetic degradation is inevitable.

CA. 1500

The last of several massive Wraith cullings occur in the Pegasus Galaxy, and will be come to be known as the great holocaust.

The people of M7G-677 institute a policy of suicide at the age of 25, which they believe keeps the Wraith away.

1928

Ra's Stargate is unearthed in Giza, Egypt by the Langford expedition.

1929

Cameron Mitchell is sent back in time from 2008 to stop the Goa'uld System Lord Ba'al from changing the course of history in 10 years.

1931

The Stuart Expedition fails. Numerous crates, including one carrying the canopic jars of Osiris and Isis, sink with the shipwreck.

1939

The Stargate is ferried across the Atlantic Ocean aboard the steamship Achilles. Ba'al's plan to travel back in time and alter history is thwarted by Cameron Mitchell.

1942

After half a century of digging, the Pangarans discover Egeria's stasis chamber.

1945

President Franklin Roosevelt suspects the Stargate to be a weapon and orders Dr. Langford to take advantage of the device for use against the Germans. The Stargate opens to the planet Heliopolis. Ernest Littlefield is sent to investigate and is trapped on the other side when the gate disconnects.

CA. 1948

The Russians capture the Giza dial-home device from the Germans.

1950

Egeria begins to be used in Pangaran medical experiments.

1984

The Asgard ban Loki from experimenting on humans from Earth.

1994

The Stargate is moved to Cheyenne Mountain Complex.

Samantha Carter joins Catherine Langford in developing a computer designed to interpret data pulses generated by the Stargate. After a period of trial and error they are able to unlock the gate's inner track and connect six chevrons.

CA. 1996 (Stargate the Movie)

Daniel Jackson is hired by Catherine Langford to interpret the Stargate's glyphs, as well as the seventh symbol.

The Stargate is successfully opened to Abydos.

Jack O'Neill leads a team to Abydos to assess any threats to Earth, and if necessary, use a nuclear device to destroy everything on the other side.

Ra is killed and the oppressed Abydonian civilization is freed.

CA. 1997-98 (SG-1 Season One)

Apophis searches the galaxy for new Goa'uld hosts, including one for his queen. He travels to Earth with his forces, unintentionally reactivating Cheyenne Mountain Complex to assess his threat.

Stargate Command and Sierra Golf teams 1 through 9 are formed.

Teal'c betrays Apophis and is branded shol'va, paving the way for an outright Jaffa rebellion.

SG-1 makes contact with the Nox.

SG-1 is sent to Heliopolis with Catherine Langford to rescue Ernest Littlefield. There, they discover the ancient meeting place of the four great races, as well as knowledge of their existence.

Nirrti wipes out all the inhabitants of Hanka to prevent Stargate Command from discovering her hok'taur experiments. Cassandra, the lone survivor, is sent back to Earth as a trojan horse. Her explosive breaks down inside her body instead. Janet Fraiser adopts Cassandra.

The Antarctic Stargate is discovered.

Senator Robert Kinsey cuts funding to Stargate Command.

Daniel Jackson, having received a warning from an alternate reality (as well as a gate address to a Goa'uld stronghold), convinces the rest of SG-1 to stop the threat. They emerge aboard Klorel's mothership, en route to destroy Earth.

SG-1 and Bra'tac neutralize Apophis and Klorel's motherships.

Funding to Stargate Command is reinstated.

1998

The Wraith cull Sateda.

CA. 1998-99 (SG-1 Season Two)

Scientists at Area 51 recover two Goa'uld death gliders and begin to retrofit them for the X-301.

SG-1 meets the Tok'ra and establishes a tentative alliance.

Jack O'Neill accidentally downloads the entire database of the Ancient repository of knowledge into his mind. The information in his brain allows him to install numerous new Stargate addresses, not known to the Goa'uld, into the dialing computer. O'Neill sends himself to the Ida Galaxy where the Asgard remove the knowledge.

CA. 1999-00 (SG-1 Season Three)

The Asgard mediate with the Goa'uld System Lords on Earth and place the planet under the Protected Planets Treaty.

Sokar is killed. Apophis takes his armies for himself.

CA. 2000-01 (SG-1 Season Four)

The Russians recover the Egyptian Stargate from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and soon establish their own Stargate program in Siberia.

A Russian team is sent to P2X-338 to recover the Eye of Tiamat.

The Rogue N.I.D. begin to experiment with combining human DNA with that of the Goa'uld Sekhmet.

SG-1 is sent to Siberia to deactivate their Stargate and investigate the Russians' failed program.

The X-301 is deemed a failure.

George Hammond resigns from Stargate Command. General Bauer takes his place. Jack O'Neill works with Harry Maybourne to uncover Robert Kinsey's involvement and force Hammond to be reinstated.

Robert Kinsey announces his plan to run for President of the United States.

SG-1 and the Tok'ra detonate Vorash's sun, destroying most of Apophis' fleet.

CA. 2001-02 (SG-1 Season Five)

Apophis dies. Again.

Jonas Quinn smuggles naquadria to Earth.

CA. 2002-03 (SG-1 Season Six)

The X-302 interceptor is completed.

Naquadria-based hyperspace technology is deemed a failure.

Anubis destroys the Antarctic Stargate, but fails in destroying Earth.

The Tok'ra locate Egeria on Pangar and set her free before she dies.

The Pangarans share tretonin with Earth.

Frank Simmons and Adrian Conrad steal the X-303 Prometheus. Simmons and Conrad are killed.

SG-1 isolates the entire Replicator civilization inside a time dilation field. The Replicator Fifth is tricked into becoming part of the plan.

The governments of Great Britain, France and China are informed of Stargate Command. Seeds for the International Oversight Advisory are planted. The nations currently informed of the Stargate's existence are the four nations that hold permanent seats on the UNSC (United Nations Security Council).

A Free Jaffa summit at Kresh'ta is ambushed. One hundred eight Jaffa are slaughtered. Both Teal'c and Bra'tac lose their symbiotes and must adapt to tretonin.

The Prometheus is officially launched, but soon becomes stranded across the galaxy and begins a year-long journey back to Earth.

The System Lords formally disavow Anubis.

Oma Desala banishes Daniel Jackson from ascension, leaving him destitute on Vis Uban. She ascends the entire Abydonian population.

Anubis destroys Abydos.

CA. 2003-04 (SG-1 Season Seven)

Stargate Command establishes a mining treaty with the Unas of P3X-403, which will expedite the construction of BC-304s.

Anubis develops Kull warriors to begin to phase out the increasingly rebellious Jaffa.

Samantha Carter and Jacob/Selmak develop a technology to combat the Kull warriors.

United States President Henry Hayes takes office with Vice President Robert Kinsey.

Jack O'Neill again downloads the knowledge of the Ancients into his mind, leading SG-1 to Proclarush Taonas to locate a Zero Point Module.

George Hammond is relieved as leader of Stargate Command, and is sent to Washington to advise Henry Hayes. Elizabeth Weir takes his place.

Anubis takes his battle to Earth.

Henry Hayes learns of Robert Kinsey's treachery and forces him to resign from the office of vice president.

SG-1 installs the Taonas Zero Point Module into the Atlantus defense system. Jack O'Neill uses it to destroy the 30 Goa'uld ships in orbit.

CA. 2004-05 (SG-1 Season Eight)

The System Lords travel to Earth to ask for assistance in destroying Ba'al.

The Replicators are loosed from their time dilation prison. Fifth captures and tortures Samantha Carter.

A viable means of combating the Replicators is developed into a weapon.

Elizabeth Weir steps down as leader of Stargate Command. Jack O'Neill is promoted to brigadier general and made leader of Stargate Command. Samantha Carter is promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Anubis is imprisoned on KS7-535. He eventually finds a means of escaping.

Vala Mal Doran attempts to sell the Prometheus to the Lucian Alliance.

The Replicators enter the Milky Way Galaxy and declare war on the Goa'uld. The Goa'uld are all but defeated. The Dakara super-weapon is reconfigured to destroy the Replicators.

Oma Desala saves Daniel Jackson from death at the hands of Replicator Carter by ascending him. Again.

With the Goa'uld dynasty in ruins, Baal enters hiding on Earth.

Realizing Anubis cannot be killed, Oma Desala occupies him in a direct confrontation for all eternity. In order to avoid interference from the Others, Oma ascends Anubis to her own plane of existence.

A new and improved battlecruiser, the Daedalus, is completed and launched under the command of Col. Steven Caldwell.

CA. 2005-06 (SG-1 Season Nine)

The Ori become aware of humans living under the protection of the ascended Ancients in the Milky Way Galaxy. Though they cannot confront the Ancients themselves, they begin sending missionaries to persuade the masses.

The Ori destroy Kallana in an attempt to install a Supergate in the Milky Way, but they are thwarted by Vala Mal Doran. Vala is accidentally transmitted back to the Ori Galaxy.

Baal acquires numerous corporations on Earth and funnels their resources into creating clones of himself.

Anubis's clone son Khalek provides a vital clue for the creation of a Prior inhibitor.

The Aurora crew, still in their stasis pods, become compromised by a Wraith infiltrator posing as an officer. The disguised Wraith gains knowledge of advanced hyper-drive technology and destroys the Wraith intelligence gathered by the Aurora. The stasis pod used by the Wraith to infiltrate the virtual Aurora eventually malfunctions and the Wraith is exposed and killed by the Aurora crew.

The Prior inhibitor is field-tested and proves largely successful at stopping the powers of the Ori missionaries.

Prometheus is destroyed.

The Odyssey is launched, under the command of Col. Paul Emerson.

The Priors release flesh-eating insects on certain worlds which refuse to accept Origin.

Merlin's anti-Ori research is discovered by SG-1, who begin a search for the weapon he created to defeat them.

The Korolev, exchanged for full ownership of the Antarctic Stargate, is rushed into service to defend against the Ori fleet.

The Ori construct a Supergate in a hidden location in the Milky Way. Priors pilot ships full of armies prepared to unleash Origin by force. Four Ori warships swiftly defeat the human, Jaffa, Tok'ra, Asgard and Lucian Alliance forces.

The Korolev is destroyed.

CA. 2006-07 (SG-1 Season Ten)

Vala Mal Doran gives birth to a daughter, Adria, fathered by the Ori.

Daniel Jackson attempts to convince the IOA to greenlight a mission to the Pegasus Galaxy in the hope there may be Ancients willing to help against the Ori. With all current funding going into 304 construction, he is yet again denied.

SG-1 attempts to disrupt the open wormhole of the Ori Supergate by hopefully making it jump to a nearby gate. Ganos Lal intervenes and closes the wormhole, allowing SG-1 to dial out and block the Ori ships.

SG-1 discovers an Ancient city built by those who left Earth after the Wraith war. A holoroom is supposedly activated by Jack O'Neill and shows an image of the ascended being Ganos Lal. Posing as an interactive database, Ganos Lal provides Daniel Jackson with information crucial to defeating the Ori before he discovers she is not a hologram. Ganos Lal is whisked away to be punished by the others before she can reveal a key piece of information.

SG-1 joins Ba'al and Adria on a quest to track down Merlin's weapon, but instead discover Merlin himself. Before dying, Merlin transfers his consciousness into Daniel Jackson so that he may rebuild the weapon once more. Adria kidnaps Jackson.

Adria transforms Daniel Jackson into a Prior. Despite his dramatic change in appearance, Merlin's consciousness provides him with the protection from her influence. Jackson completes the weapon and sends it through the Ori supergate aboard one of their ships, killing the ascended beings in their galaxy.

A planet unknown to the Goa'uld is explored. The amount of naquadah discovered allows for the production of more 304s.

The Apollo, Noryang, Glushko, Nijinsky, Descartes and Victoria are completed. The Apollo remains in the hands of the USAF, while the remaining 304s are given to Japan, Russia, France and Great Britain respectively as part of the full disclosure agreement.

CA. 2007-08 (The Ark of Truth)

SG-1 takes the Odyssey into the Ori Galaxy to locate the Ark of Truth, originally created by Amelius long ego to forcibly brainwash the opposing Asurans. The ark is unveiled before the Doci, who communicates his knowledge to all other priors. The ascended Adria is then confronted by Morgan Le Fay in eternal combat.

CA. 2008 (Continuum)

Baal travels back in time to 1939. In the present, his last clone symbiote is extracted from the clone host.

Benjamin Hamish is given command of Cheyenne Mountain.

In response to demand, more 304s are completed and given to the nations involved in the Stargate Treaty. The Tsander and Gagarin give the Russians a total of four 304s, equal with the USAF's fleet, while Great Britain, France and Japan now have two each - Diana, Charles Martel and Sun Tsu respectively.

2009

The Trust gains control of the Russian 304s Nijinsky, Gagarin, Tsander and Glushko.

On November 15th, the Trust attacks Cheyenne Mountain as a distraction from their original target: Area 51. In the ensuing battle, the Glushko is destroyed over Colorado Springs and lands near the city. The Trust members responsible escape.

The Stargate Program is made public to the world. A summit is called to discuss the future of the SGC.

In exchange for continued involvement, the Russian government returns the stolen artifacts and remaining 304s to the USAF.

Using the ZPM discovered in Egypt, the SGC dials the gate a final time (with a little too much pomp and ceremony) only to discover their destination is flooded. In an effort to discover what the location was, a four-man submarine is sent through the stargate with a half depleted ZPM to re-dial Earth.

Atlantis is raised to the surface and Earth contacted. The Odyssey departs with the full ZPM, followed by the rest of the Tau'ri fleet.

CA. 2009-10

The Odyssey arrives at Atlantis. The rest of the Tau'ri fleet arrives two weeks later. SG teams begin exploring a new galaxy.