Deserum
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M31-927 (also called Deserum, The Wasteland, or The Wilderness) is a planet once controlled by the Ancients. They built at least one research facility there, with a ZPM and a set of Communication Stones and a Terminal to use them. Ultimately, some Ancients built the place to use the Stones to make contact with the Ori or Celestis, to ask for help in the War with the Wraith. The plan itself did not come to fruition, however, and the planet is abandoned for a long time. It has a Stargate on the ground and the planet is sometimes visited by scavengers or inquisitive travelers.
elegeia | nou ani atlantusAR-2 do a recon of M31-927 in 2005 CE after the Expedition finds a reference to the planet in the City's database, there called "Deserum" or The Wasteland. When they find some Ancient ruins, they report back to Atlantis, and Sheppard comes to check it out. Ronon Dex, as a Runner, takes refuge in the Ancient ruins he finds on this planet. He also finds signs and footprints from people that recently have been here (AR-2), but decides to risk spending the night. He meets, stuns and takes John Sheppard hostage, which eventually leads to his freedom from being a Runner, as the Lanteans help remove his subspace tracking device.
The Wraith find the planet and, after Sheppard, Ronon and the marine Sanchez makes it off the planet, the Wraith bomb the facility from orbit. It does not destroy it completely but almost. The Gate is buried in the process. seeking antebellumThe Aurora makes a fly-by of Deserum in January 2006 CE, under command of Sheppard. AR-1, AR-4 and AR-9 go down to explore the ruins and search for clues to the outpost's function. Damaged power conduits and the unstable ground causes tremors while they are there, and the facility collapses, trapping John and Rodney beneath the debris. John is severely injured, Rodney mildly so. Thinking they are about to die, Rodney asks John to marry him when/if they make it out of there (he says yes, of course).
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