Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary is a novel written by Martha Wells and published by Fandemonium.
Publishers Summary[]
Knowledge is power...
While exploring the unused sections of the Ancient city of Atlantis, Major John Sheppard and Dr. Rodney McKay stumble on a recording device that reveals a mysterious new Stargate address. Believing that the address may lead them to a vast repository of Ancient knowledge, the team embarks on a mission to this uncharted world.
There they discover a ruined city, full of whispered secrets and dark shadows. As tempers fray and trust breaks down, the team uncovers the truth at the heart of the city. A truth that spells their destruction.
With half their people compromised, it falls to Major John Sheppard and Dr. Rodney McKay to risk everything in a deadly game of bluff with the enemy. To fail would mean the fall of Atlantis itself – and, for Sheppard, the annihilation of his very humanity...
Chronological Placement[]
The events depicted in this adventure take place during season one of Stargate Atlantis, between The Defiant One and The Gift.
Publishers Extract[]
An extract from chapter 2:
The spiral design in the center of the chamber floor was moving, becoming three-dimensional as the little metal tiles forming it shifted fluidly. The whole floor was still vibrating, making the glass and metal debris jump and dance. Something groaned again below their feet, and the spiral began to sink into the floor.
Standing at John's elbow, McKay glared at Kavanagh, his mouth twisted in annoyance. “What did you do?”
John wasn't thrilled either. “Some warning would have been nice, Doctor.”
Teyla and Ford watched the spiral uneasily, Kolesnikova a few steps behind them. Kavanagh shook his head, his eyes still on the metal sinking into the floor, his gaze rapt. “I wasn’t sure it was really here, if the power source was still active. If I was...imagining it...”
The groaning rumble of metal parts undisturbed for ages was growing louder, and John wasn't sure he had heard right. “What?” he said, having to raise his voice over the din. “Why did you think you were imagining it?”
“I was imagining what?” Distracted, Rodney stepped sideways, moving along the edge of the shaft, craning his neck to watch the spiral's progress.
“I wasn’t talking to you,” John shouted back, “I was—”
“Wait.” Rodney straightened up suddenly, looking at John. “It occurs to me that something may come out of here that could kill us.”
John swore and yelled, “Fall back, now!”
References[]
Notes of Interest[]
- The novel shows that one of the Lanteans that imprisoned the villain looked exactly like John Sheppard. It is possible that he is a close relative of Ikaros, a Lantean who is also bored a striking resemblance to John Sheppard, as described in Mirror, mirror.
- Also, a continuity breach showed then-Major Sheppard and Rodney McKay dialing the Stargate by rotating the inner ring. Pegasus gates do not have an inner ring but are a solid annulus. The only way Sheppard and McKay could have dialed out in that situation would have been to use Sheppard's ability to communicate with the Stargate to tell it the coordinates to dial. Aside from that, dialing without a DHD or power supply and dialing laptop would have been impossible. It is likely that the author just used it as a plot device without knowing about the lack of a rotatable inner track as in Milky Way 'gates.
External links[]
- Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary on Fandemonium
- Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary on Amazon UK
- Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary on Amazon US
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