Asuras

"...you were a constant pain in the ass. It's good to see you go."

- Dr. Rodney McKay

Asuras, designated M7R-227 by the Tau'ri, is the homeworld of the Asurans. During the war with the Wraith, the Atlanteans built a laboratory on Asuras, intending to create nanites which would destroy the Wraith on a cellular level. Instead, the nanites took human form. Concluding that they would never be the weapon they wanted, the Ancient Council sent a fleet of Aurora-class warships to devastate Asuras. However, some nanites survived, and remodled Asuras into a new version of Atlantis. After the Tau'ri retook Atlantis, the Asurans built a fleet intended to attack Earth, but the Apollo launched an attack using Horizon, destroying the shipyards.

Later, Sheppard, McKay, Weir and Ronon returned to steal a ZPM to save Atlantis. Using Weir's recently reactivated nanites and a Puddle Jumper equipped with a hyperdrive, they succeed in reaching the planet and easily steal a single ZPM. The team also discovers a deactivated attack command in the Asurans base code that would force them to attack the Wraith and decide to go after the Asuran's data core to upload the reactivated attack command. They succeed, but Weir is left behind as she sacrifices herself so the others can escape. They are attacked by 3 Asuran warships, but manage to escape with help from a timely appearence by the Apollo, which returns to the planet to help them.



Eventually, a cloned copy of the team and Weir hitches a ride to Asuras on the back of an Asuran warship. There they find that at least one of the destroyed shipyards has been rebuilt and then some and steal a ship to get to New Athos to link up with the real team from Atlantis. There they gave the real team a means to track Asuran warships in real-time. McKay finally manages to get the Aurora-class warship tracker working, only to discover in horror that the Asurans have at least 40 Aurora-class warships all over the Pegasus Galaxy. A fleet of 16 ships consisting of the Daedalus, the Apollo, 7 Hive-ships and 7 Traveler ships, including their Aurora-class warship, attack the planet in a final plan to destroy the Replicators. McKay, with the help of a Replicator he created called Fran, turns all the Replicators into a mass of nanites which he manages to cause to sink to the planet's core causing it to implode destroying Asuras and the entire Replicator mass, but not before the Wraith are manage to steal three ZPMs. Later, a Replicator Warship commanded by Dr. Elizabeth Weir returns to examine the remains and confirms that the Asurans were destroyed.