Pegasus Before Atlantis: The Ancients, Humans, and the Wraith

Before the Atlantis expedition entered Pegasus, the galaxy had already endured one of its defining wars. The Ancients, later known in Pegasus as the Lanteans, arrived millions of years earlier, built a new Stargate network, founded cities, and established human civilizations across many worlds. Over time, the Wraith emerged, apparently through the interaction of human populations with the predatory iratus bug, creating a species that required human life to feed. This episode reconstructs the strategic world that existed before modern Earth rediscovered Atlantis: scattered human settlements, advanced Lantean strongholds, and an expanding Wraith population whose survival depended on periodic cullings. It also explains how the very network and population growth encouraged by the Ancients gave their future enemy mobility and sustenance. Pegasus was not an empty frontier waiting for exploration. It was the aftermath of an ancient imperial collapse whose survivors still lived under the consequences. Visit ImaginedBattlefield.com for more military and science fiction.