Traveler

"We're Travelers. We land on planets when we need to for supplies, trade. The rest of the time we keep moving."

- Larrin

The Travelers are a technologically advanced race of humans in the Pegasus galaxy who have escaped being culled by the Wraith by hiding aboard generational ships which travel throughout the Pegasus galaxy.

History
Although once able to build new ships as needed, long term space travel has deprived them of the resources necessary to construct new vessels. Overpopulation and heavy amounts of "jerry rigging" are prevalent. Despite the level of desperation faced by the Travelers, they allied with the Atlantis Expedition in order to destroy the Replicators. With the help of the Atlantis Expedition, the Travelers newest ship, a Lantean Aurora-class warship, was made ready to fight. However, one of their ships was lost in the battle for the Asuran homeworld.

Later in 2008, the race actually decided to start a permanent settlement on a planet for the first time in generations. However, the settlement was destroyed when the Attero device caused the active Stargate to explode. The explosion could be seen from orbit, and the destruction killed thousands of Travelers and destroyed two ships, including the Aurora-class vessel. They helped the Atlantis Expedition to destroy the Attero device on M6H-987.

Culture
The Travelers are led by a governing council which makes all major decisions pertaining to the race as a whole such as alliances and decisions of war. Individual ship captains, however, make most decisions that apply to their ships individually, such as weather or not to enter a battle. Travelers are not above violating the basic human rights of friendly races, as during their first encounter with the Atlantis expedition, they captured and tortured Sheppard.

Technology
Traveler technology is relatively advanced, and superior to that of most other Pegasus Galaxy civilizations. Traveler technology is different from most FTL capable races as their technology is not based on Control crystals, but on the more primitive wires-and-chips, and currently they are the only known civilication that has mastered interstellar travel before mastering crystal or other forms of more "exotic" technologies, aside from the Tau'ri.

Travelers live onboard their generational ships, and since their ships are very old and are held together with a large amount of "jury rigging", most of their scientific resources and efforts are spent maintaining their old and relatively large fleet. This means that they aren't likely to make any significant advancements in their technology, and most likely have no real R&D "department".

Travelers do however poses some limited knowledge of Lantean technology (enough to operate Lantean ships and condut basic repairs,) probably about the same as the Tau'ri, and most likely an understanding of Wraith technology also.

They have certain advanced technology including;
 * Armbands
 * Particle magnums
 * Generational ships