Lantean Domain

Lantean Domain
Political information
Type of government	Republican Empire
Head of State	High Counselor
Head of Government	High Counselor
Executive branch	Council of Atlantis
Legislative branch	Council of Atlantis
Societal information
Capital	Lantea
Official language	Ancient
State religion	"Science"
Historical information
Formed from	Ancient Domain
Date ofestablishment	c. Five million years ago
Date of reorganization	c. Five million years ago
Date of dissolution	Sometime after c. 8,000 B.C.

"...in the hope of spreading new life in a galaxy where there appeared to be none. Soon the new life grew, and prospered. Here, [...] we built a system of stargates, so that fledgling civilisations could travel between the stars, exchange knowledge and friendship. In time, a thousand worlds bore the fruit of life in this form."

―Melia

The Lantean Domain was a vast empire in the Pegasus galaxy, foundered by the Ancients who left the Milky Way after a virulent plague nearly wiped them out after being unable to cure it. The surviving Ancients left Terra in a huge space-borne city, which they named Atlantis, and settled Lantea, becoming known as the Lanteans.

History

For some thirty million years, the Ancients resided in the Milky Way, continuing their expansion and placing Stargates on planets they visited, regardless of whether they colonized it or not. However, at some point, the Ancients began to suffer from a plague. The Ancients attempted to cure the virus, but were unable to. They began further research on Ascension as a way of escape, but only a few managed to escape that way. Unable to cure it, some of the surviving Ancients fled in the city-ship Atlantis and possibly other ships to the Pegasus galaxy.

Upon arriving in the Pegasus galaxy, the Ancients settled on Lantea, and renamed themselves the Lanteans after their new homeworld. After exploring the Pegasus galaxy, the Ancients found the galaxy devoid of sentient life. The Lanteans decided to seed humans on the various worlds and established some relations with the galaxy's humans, such as the Dorandans, but for the most part the Lanteans appear to have remained outside the seeded Humans developments, leaving them to their own devices.

However, one of the planets seeded was home to a creature known as the Iratus bug, and this bug fed on the Humans, becoming the Wraith. The Wraith destroyed the Lantean Domain until Lantea and Atlantis were virtually all that remained. Unable to win the war, the Lanreans sank Atlantis under the ocean and returned to Terra. (SG1: "The Fifth Race", "Window of Opportunity", "Frozen", "Full Circle", "Lost City, Part 2", "Avalon, Part 2", "The Fourth Horseman, Part 1", "The Fourth Horseman, Part 2") (SGA: "Rising", "Before I Sleep", "The Siege, Part 2", "Trinity")