
The Web's most complete, most updated Stargate news and reference guide! Summary. This is an element of any uplifting that SGverse Earth has to obtain to survive.Changelog. They must also somehow do this covertly to avoid invalidating the PPT and risk the Goa'uld invading the other planets the Treaty protects. To avoid this fate, the Asgard must at some point before first contact or at least before Earth gets conquered with the Goa'uld provide Earth with a means to deter the Gao'uld. If by that point, we don't have the tech to deter the Goa'uld then Earth either gets stomped or is put under the PPT. That said, considering the prevalence of Goa'uld in the galaxy, we'll encounter them sooner rather than later. We might be satisfied by the resources in the Sol system for a long time, but the wanderlust will likely push us outwards. Expansion into new frontiers is pretty inherent to human nature imo. The problem with this approach is that at some point, regardless of what civilization the Asgard chose to nudge in the right direction or what changes to our history they manipulate into taking place, Earth humans are most likely seek to expand outside the Sol system either through the Stargate network or through conventional spaceflight at some point. The way I see it, my definition of long-term may be far too narrow, but my basic concern is still valid. I'm replying to The Unicorn, but this really applies to everyone who's advocating a long-term uplift.

Other ways of avoiding the dark ages would be helping some of Rome's more civilized enemies having portions of the empire conquered by someone who will not smash everything because they don't care would either have the culture in Rome change enough to allow them to fend off their enemies or have them conquered by someone new and energetic who will be able to fend off the barbarians.Īs for Byzantium, if someone could pound some sense into Emperor Justinian so he doesn't bankrupt his empire it would last a lot longer however any plan which revolves around polity X surviving intact as technology develops from pre dark-ages levels to the point they can be a threat to the Goa'uld is doomed to failure. This might reduce corruption and allow the empire to last a bit longer but the important part is that it would insure there are enough copies of everything even when the empire fell the knowledge wouldn't (for the most part) be lost.


There are various ways you could avoid the dark ages, the simplest would be to get the printing press or mimeograph developed and spread throughout the roman empire.
