The Aschen (æˈʃɛn) (ah-SHEN) are a fictional human race from the Stargate science fiction universe. This article is about modern humans. ... In the science fiction universe Stargate SG-1 the Tauri (Terran in Ancient) (Midgard in Asgard) Homo sapiens sapiens [tɔːɹi] or [taʊːɹi] (sometimes spelled Tauri, and often spoken as People of the Tauri) is a widespread term used to refer to humans of Earth (Milky Way... 2010 is an episode from Season 4 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... 2001 is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... FicTioNaL is a Gaming Legend. ... An activated Stargate, the central object of the fictional Stargate universe, here depicted in the SG-1 television series. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

Overview

The Aschen are an advanced human species, and have developed technology centuries ahead of Earth. They are not explorers, and are hesitant to travel outside their own Confederation. However, they are quite interested in increasing their knowledge about the rest of the Galaxy.

Aschen personality is quite different when compared to those of the Tau'ri, and most other encountered human civilizations. They have little to no personality, or even emotions in general, and lack a sense of humor. This has led Jack O'Neill to call the Aschen a race of "accountants". Also, individual Aschen can appear quite arrogant. However, the Aschen do compensate for these faults with their extreme intelligence and practicality.^[1] Look up Humour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Jonathan Jack ONeill (born October 20, 1952)[1] is a fictional character in the science fiction feature film Stargate and the subsequent television series Stargate SG-1 played by actors Kurt Russell in the film (name spelled as ONeil) and Richard Dean Anderson in the series. ... Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, is a certified accountancy and financial expert in the jurisdiction of many countries. ...

Because of this practicality, the Aschen tend to think on a long-term basis, sometimes planning centuries ahead. As a result, the Aschen are renowned for their patience. Also, they are very perceptive, and can recognise problems long before they present themselves as such. Patience, engraving by Hans Sebald Beham, 1540 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Patience Patience is the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties. ...

Aschen fashion consists predominantly of grey uniform-like tunics. They are also sensitive to loud sounds, such as gun shots.^[2] Achromatic redirects here. ...

Aschen is the German word for 'embers', and Asche is the German word for 'ashes.' These two terms easily describe the Aschen species' actions.

Aschen Confederation

The Aschen are the leaders of their own Confederation of planets, mainly located in close proximity to the Aschen homeworld. Most of these planets are primitive farm worlds and have very few Aschen living on them. Crops from these planets are transported back to their homeworld via the Stargate to meet the Aschen populace's requirements. The Confederation seems to be a collection of races that the Aschen have conquered, or are in the process of gradually conquering.^[1] A typical depiction of a Milky Way Stargate Stargate is one name for a class of fictional devices which allow instantaneous travel between places. ...

The Aschen usually invite newly-discovered worlds into their Confederation by sharing their advanced technology with them, only to gradually eliminate the population and use the member world for their own purposes. Earth almost became a member of this Confederation before uncovering the true plans the Aschen had with the planet.^[2]

Volians

One of the members of the Aschen Confederation were the Volians. When discovered by the SGC, the Volian civilization consisted only of a scattering of a few thousand people who farm their rural planet, Volia, for themselves and the Aschen Confederation. Their language was related to ancient Celtic, suggesting they lived in ancient Britain on Earth before being abducted by the Goa'uld. The Aschen had assisted the Volians in collapsing a gas giant in their solar system into a star, doubling the growing season on the planet. Prehistoric Britain was a period in the human occupation of Great Britain that extended throughout prehistory, ending with the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the astronomical object. ...

Originally the Volians were a peaceful and productive society who had reached a level of technology comparable to Earth's early twentieth century. However, the entire species was struck by a deadly plague and the Aschen, known to the Volians as the newcomers, provided a cure for the entire population. However, it also caused the majority of the population to become sterile. The Volians tried to fight back, but were abruptly silenced. The Aschen eventually covered the urban areas for farming and made certain no Volian remembered the truth about his or her people's history. Today, the few remaining Volians are ignorant of what the Aschen had done to their people, some Volians are even raised by Aschen families, brainwashing them into forgetting the past and providing maintenance to the farm land.^[1]

Alternate Earth

The note from the future

In an alternate timeline, Earth had contacted the Aschen in 2000 and formed an alliance with the Aschen against the Goa'uld. However, SG-1 failed to uncover the Aschen's true intentions, and anyone discovering the truth, such as George Hammond, was eliminated. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... George S. Hammond is a fictional character in the Stargate SG-1 television program, played by Don S. Davis. ...

By 2010 of this timeline, the Goa'uld had been defeated and Earth had become a technologically advanced paradise. Also, the Aschen had begun to distribute a drug among the Earth's population that promised to extend human life, but which also resulted in a 90% drop in the worldwide birth rate. The Aschen's plan, which would take decades to come to fruition, was to depopulate the Earth until only a bare remnant of humanity remained. They would then be able to simply take control of the planet without the need for costly invasion, conquest, and pacification. 2010 is an episode from Season 4 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ...

Eventually, the former SG-1 discovered the Aschen's conspiracy, which would otherwise have gone unnoticed until Earth would have been too weak to resist occupation. Using advanced Aschen technology, SG-1 could predict a solar flare, and by activating the Stargate simultaneously with the flare, dialing an address precisely opposite the Earth with the Sun in between, they would utilize the space-time warping properties of the Sun (much like the events from the episode "1969") to connect to their own Stargate in the past. Carrying out their plan, they sent a message ten years back in time, to the SGC before they had contacted the Aschen: "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES GO TO P4C-970."^[2] The note was in Jack O'Neill's handwriting with his signature written with a bio-degradable compound that had yet to be invented.^[1] The note was also stained with his blood. General Hammond subsequently ordered the Aschen homeworld locked out of the dialing computer and all contact with that planet forbidden. SG-1 arm patch SG-1 (Stargate Team 1) is the primary unit of Stargate Command in the science fiction TV show Stargate SG-1, of which its members are the main characters. ... A solar flare observed by Hinode in the G-band. ... 1969 is an episode from Season 2 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Jonathan Jack ONeill (born October 20, 1952)[1] is a fictional character in the science fiction feature film Stargate and the subsequent television series Stargate SG-1 played by actors Kurt Russell in the film (name spelled as ONeil) and Richard Dean Anderson in the series. ...

The message was another homage to the final message in Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two, "All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there." The other homages to the novel were the Aschen's planned conversion of Jupiter into a star, and of course, the episode's title, "2010".^[2] Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same... 2010: Odyssey Two, is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke (January 1982) and also a motion picture (1984) by Peter Hyams entitled simply 2010, or sometimes 2010: The Year We Make Contact. ... For other uses, see Jupiter (disambiguation). ... This article is about the astronomical object. ...

Aschen technology

Main article: Aschen technology in Stargate

In both episodes of 2010 and 2001 the Aschen possessed advanced technology that were commented by Samantha Carter as being at least a hundred years ahead of Earth.^[1] The Aschen are an extremely advanced human civilization in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... 2010 is an episode from Season 4 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... 2001 is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Samantha Sam Carter (born December 29, 1968)[2] is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, played by English-Canadian actress Amanda Tapping. ...

Impressive examples of their superior technology are Harvesters, enormous floating craft used to harvest crops. These crops are later transported to the Aschen homeworld or other Confederation planets offworld through the Stargate. The Aschen have also developed teleportation technology, capable of transporting persons between continents in only seconds, and advanced bio-weapons.^[1] Aschen medicine is also very advanced, capable of developing vaccines against deadly diseases including cancer, drugs to double human life-span, and machines that can mend broken bones in seconds.^[2] Teleportation is the movement of objects or elementary particles from one place to another, more or less instantaneously, without traveling through space. ... For the chemical substances known as medicines, see medication. ... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ...

History

The ancestors of the Aschen may have been kidnapped from Earth millennia ago by the Goa'uld to work as slaves, as most human races in the Milky Way. There has never been any direct evidence or reference to this stated during their appearances, but the inclusion of the Aschen homeworld's address on the cartouche on Abydos, containing every Stargate address known to the Goa'uld, would make this extremely likely. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Abydos (P8X-873, ) is the fictional world on which the film Stargate is set. ... A typical depiction of a Milky Way Stargate Stargate is one name for a class of fictional devices which allow instantaneous travel between places. ...

Also, the Stargate on the Aschen homeworld, a planet known to the SGC as P4C-970,^[2] was found buried, like the one found on Earth and several other worlds, suggesting an uprising against the Goa'uld and subsequently driving them from the planet. In the science fiction universe Stargate SG-1 the Tauri (Terran in Ancient) (Midgard in Asgard) Homo sapiens sapiens [tɔːɹi] or [taʊːɹi] (sometimes spelled Tauri, and often spoken as People of the Tauri) is a widespread term used to refer to humans of Earth (Milky Way...

Subsequently, the Aschen rediscovered the Stargate. However, no DHD was ever recovered, and without the device to compensate for stellar drift, the Aschen could only use the Stargate to travel to their closest worlds. This situation was comparable to how the Tau'ri could only dial to Abydos and the planet Ernest Littlefield became trapped on in 1945 before they discovered the Abydos Cartouche. However, the Aschen were able to adapt the Stargate for their own benefits, and eventually used it to travel and trade between the members of their Confederation, mostly composed of nearby planets. In the science fiction television Stargate universe, a DHD (for Dial-Home Device) is an Ancient machine used to control a stargate. ... ... Abydos (P8X-873, ) is the fictional world on which the film Stargate is set. ... Dr. Ernest Littlefield is a minor character from the science fiction series Stargate SG-1 who first appeared in the episode The Torment of Tantalus and is credited for both discovering the fact that the symbols on the Stargate are actually coordinate inputs and for being the first human to...

By the Tau'ri year 2001, the Aschen had developed their own technologically advanced society. Aschen technology had advanced to a point where it had surpassed that of the Goa'uld, much like the Tollan.^[1] In the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, the Tollan are a human civilization. ...

Contact with Earth

In 2001, SG-1 made contact with the Volians, when the team discovered their homeworld. The native Volians, members of the Aschen Confederation, subsequently introduced SG-1 to the Aschen. 2001 is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ...

The Aschen, quite interested in increasing their knowledge about the galaxy but fearing travel outside their Confederation themselves, were quite eager to start negotiations with the natural explorers the Tau'ri so obviously were. The SGC was offered advanced Aschen technology and assistance in Earth's battle against the Goa'uld in exchange for information about the Stargate system. Negotiations between the United States and the Aschen were subsequently initiated, sending diplomats to the Volian homeworld. The Aschen however had ulterior motives. Like in the alternate timeline, it was their intention to slowly sterilise Earth's population and transforming the planet into yet another farming world.

During the first stages of these negotiations, the Aschen, who had no iris to protect their Stargate, and were therefore extremely vulnerable, were hesitant to share the address of their homeworld with Earth. Because no one at the SGC knew the identity of the inhabitants of P4C-970, or had the address to the Aschen homeworld, they didn't immediately make the connection between the advanced people and the mysterious note they had received a year earlier. However, the SGC suspected the Aschen from being the race they had been warned for, and began sending teams and probes in search for confirmation. The United States government on the other hand had high hopes for these negotiations and subsequently prevented the SGC from continuing their search. The SGCs Stargate with the Iris closed In the sci-fi television show, Stargate SG-1, the iris is a large, metal protective device that opens and closes over Earths Stargate. ...

However, the Aschen's intentions were eventually uncovered when members of SG-1 unearthed the remains of what used to be a thriving urban civilization on the Volian world. Upon finding a newspaper which made mention of sterility caused by an Aschen's vaccine against a deadly plague, contact was broken off.

What became of the Aschen after that remains unclear. As part of a planned treaty, the Aschen were given access to the Stargate network as a gesture of good faith. The deal fell through when Earth discovered their treachery, but only after the Aschen were given a laptop computer containing a list of gate addresses. However, since SG-1 had already been suspicious, the aforementioned addresses were all useless and/or dangerous locations. The exact addresses are unknown, but were described by Jack O'Neill as "first one being a black hole and all. They get progressively darker from there."^[1] Therefore, even dialing the first address could potentially have destroyed the Aschen homeworld, as almost happened to Earth.^[3] For the band, see Laptop (band). ... Jonathan Jack ONeill (born October 20, 1952)[1] is a fictional character in the science fiction feature film Stargate and the subsequent television series Stargate SG-1 played by actors Kurt Russell in the film (name spelled as ONeil) and Richard Dean Anderson in the series. ... For other uses, see Black hole (disambiguation). ...

Background Information

Apparently Brad Wright has been attempting to do another story with the Aschen since season six, but the episode failed to make the cut and did not make it into the 10th and final season of SG1.^{[citation needed]} Brad Wright is probably best known as the co-creator and executive producer of the hit Sci-Fi Television Series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} "2001" (Stargate SG-1)
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "2010" (Stargate SG-1)
3. ^ "A Matter of Time" (Stargate SG-1)

2001 is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. ... 2010 is an episode from Season 4 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. ... A Matter of Time is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. ...

See also

• Aschen characters in Stargate
• Aschen technology in Stargate
• Human civilizations in Stargate SG-1

In the fictional series of Stargate SG-1, the Aschen are an extremely advanced human civilisation, and leaders of the Aschen Confederation. ... The Aschen are an extremely advanced human civilization in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... This is a list of the human civilizations featured in the television series Stargate SG-1. ...

External links

• "Aschen" at GateWorld Omnipedia.

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