SGA - Something new from the "slow on the uptake"-column
Yesterday I watched "Childhoods End" and it occured to me (yeah, I *know* - as I said *slow* on the uptake) how many of the "seemingly on a low development stage"-societies in Pegasus have actually an advanced-tech past (and were most likely beaten down by the Wraith).
The Athosians have such a past - their Ancestors lived in big cities and Teyla still uses that high-tech firelighter (and I took it as actually being the Athosian ancestors, not the Ancients, living in the old city mentioned in "Rising"). Also, she's not surprised by advanced/high-tech and apparently familiar with its existence - might have seen it lying around, perhaps even not working anymore, or having seen advanced technology goods while trading on markets.
The Genii have such a past (great confederation of many planets, underground bunkers built for wars long forgotten), the Hoffans were reasonably advanced, Sateda, the Olesians, the Taranans, the people who build the personality storage device from "The Ark".
So, the society on the kids-planet was protected by a ZPM that powered a shield which rendered everything electronically based useless. Which means that either the Ancients came up with that plan and installed the technology on their planet to protect the population (why should the Ancients do that if they didn't do it anywhere else too? But if they had, why hadn't they used that same technology on Atlantis or on other worlds to protect the population?) or the kids' ancestors were technologically advanced enough to come up with that plan and technology on their own and traded for a ZPM to use it as a power source for their plan when the Ancients weren't even around anymore. Surely there were unclaimed ZPMs around after the war, downed warships and all that, scavengers taking what seems to be of use from any wrack and selling it on markets etc.
Of course their descendants would lose their technological achievements pretty fast over the generations when they killed themselves at age 24.
They also have "old cities" just like the Athosians, and are also not particularly fazed by the existence of technology, machines etc. They even accept awfully easily that it is actually a machine that protects them from the Wraith and not (at least not only) their sacrifice. That means, they could me more or less familiar with the concept of technology/machines - perhaps by the remnants of their ancestors equipment lying around, by legends, myths, rumours.
So, what do you think? Were their ancestors technologically advanced? What else "advanced in the past" societies in Pegasus have I missed? I think I'll look specifically for that when watching the re-runs this time.
The Athosians have such a past - their Ancestors lived in big cities and Teyla still uses that high-tech firelighter (and I took it as actually being the Athosian ancestors, not the Ancients, living in the old city mentioned in "Rising"). Also, she's not surprised by advanced/high-tech and apparently familiar with its existence - might have seen it lying around, perhaps even not working anymore, or having seen advanced technology goods while trading on markets.
The Genii have such a past (great confederation of many planets, underground bunkers built for wars long forgotten), the Hoffans were reasonably advanced, Sateda, the Olesians, the Taranans, the people who build the personality storage device from "The Ark".
So, the society on the kids-planet was protected by a ZPM that powered a shield which rendered everything electronically based useless. Which means that either the Ancients came up with that plan and installed the technology on their planet to protect the population (why should the Ancients do that if they didn't do it anywhere else too? But if they had, why hadn't they used that same technology on Atlantis or on other worlds to protect the population?) or the kids' ancestors were technologically advanced enough to come up with that plan and technology on their own and traded for a ZPM to use it as a power source for their plan when the Ancients weren't even around anymore. Surely there were unclaimed ZPMs around after the war, downed warships and all that, scavengers taking what seems to be of use from any wrack and selling it on markets etc.
Of course their descendants would lose their technological achievements pretty fast over the generations when they killed themselves at age 24.
They also have "old cities" just like the Athosians, and are also not particularly fazed by the existence of technology, machines etc. They even accept awfully easily that it is actually a machine that protects them from the Wraith and not (at least not only) their sacrifice. That means, they could me more or less familiar with the concept of technology/machines - perhaps by the remnants of their ancestors equipment lying around, by legends, myths, rumours.
So, what do you think? Were their ancestors technologically advanced? What else "advanced in the past" societies in Pegasus have I missed? I think I'll look specifically for that when watching the re-runs this time.