Pegasus GalaxyTYPE Irregular dwarf galaxy
RELATIVE LOCATION IN UNIVERSE Local group of the Milky Way Galaxy (Avalon), companion to Andromeda SIZE 13,000 lightyears across DISTANCE FROM EARTH 3.1 million lightyears NUMBER OF STARS ~100,000,000+ NUMBER OF STARGATES ~10,000+ |
The Pegasus Galaxy is an irregular dwarf galaxy located 2 million lightyears from Earth, part of the same group of galaxies as the Milky Way. It is relatively small, only 13,000 lightyears in diameter (compared to the Milky Way's 100,000 lightyears).
After a Plague struck the Ancients, millions of Earth years ago, they evacuated from Terra to a planet in Pegasus with Atlantis and possibly other Cityships. Eventually, Atlantis made a new home on Lantea, where the City stayed until found by the Expedition in 2004. Ancients seeded human life here. Many human inhabitants of Pegasus merely calls the galaxy "The Known Stars". The Ancients who had lived here for thousands of years started calling it "The Home Galaxy" (with their original galaxy being "The Origin Galaxy"). The Wraith evolved on an unknown planet because an Ancient experiment to let humans develop on a planet with Iratus bugs, which gave rise to the Wraith. The Wraith may have been technologically primitive at first, but by 8,000 BCE the Wraith are very advanced and a formidable enemy and the resulting Ancient-Wraith War ended the Ancients' presence in this galaxy, as they fled back to Avalon. The Ancients built a second (technically third, although the Destiny and her Stargate design would go undiscovered for a long time) generation of Stargates here, placing them on many worlds. The Stargate design differs slightly from that of the Milky Way network; instead of the symbols being engraved on the inner ring, they consist of blue lights. The inner ring itself does not spin when a Pegasus Gate is dialed; rather, the lights within the ring spin. Otherwise they are similar - same size and made primarily of naquadah. Because of the difference in design, dialling manually without a DHD is not so easy a task although achievable with the right knowledge. Known planets and worlds in the Pegasus Galaxy
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