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Ancient Empire Foundation
Around 840,000 B.C.E., the Ancients discovered a "great belt of stars", which they named "Avalon" (Milky Way Galaxy) where they eventually built an impressive empire. The Ancients discovered many Astria Porta (Mass Relays), which were spread out throughout the Milky Way. Given their advance and technological society, the Ancients soon discovered the mechanisms behind the Mass Relays and soon began to send out "seed ships" to construct more Mass Relays than the sparse networks allowed. Among the planets they settled was Earth, which they called Terra.

The status of Earth in the Ancients' empire is currently unknown as no ruins of the Ancients has ever been discovered. However, as the Sol-system's Mass Relays was Ancient and not Reaper-built, it holds the distinction as the oldest of the second generation Mass Relays in the galaxy, meaning Earth was probably one of their more important or older worlds. Other important planets they have colonized were Proclarush Taonas, Dakara and Valos Cor.

Haaken Crisis
Roughly around 810,000 B.C.E., during the rise of the Ancient Empire, the Ancients aided the old and proud Haaken by giving them technological secrets. However, the Haaken corrupted these gifts and used them to embark on a reign of terror across known space. This saw them ravage the races of that era which included the primitive Asgard, Goa'uld, Nox and Furlings that fell before the Haaken's might. The Ancients were, however, indifferent to the Haaken and refused to give their technology over to the younger races who battled them. Their stance changed when they saw how freely the Haaken used the technology given to them and thus moved them in opposing this threat. During this time, what remained of the Asgard, Goa'uld and Nox worked together to face the final strike of the Haaken. At this point, the Ancients created an "Artifact" that was responsible for imprisoning them and they vanished from the galaxy.

This event became a point of contention and divide amongst the Ancients which was the reason they instituted a policy of non-interference.

Ancients-Reaper War
Little is known about the Reapers first invasion of the Ancients, other than it happened around 800,000 B.C.E. and it is noted that the Reapers were surprised by the Ancients' advance civilization, or the fact their galactic trap on the Citadel had been thwarted when the Ancient's made the station a memorial instead of their capital. As a result their first strike methods to decapitate the Ancient's government failed and for the first time the Reapers actually suffered a military defeat when they first attempted to push into Ancient-colonized space.

To counter this, they released a plague upon the Ancients, resulted in most of the civilization they had built in the Milky Way falling in a matter of weeks.

Some Ancients attempted to escape the plague and the Reaper invasion, without much success. Most that attempted to hide were found out by the Reapers slow and methodical scouring of the galaxy and those few that got away fled the Milky Way all together. The Reapers ignored the primitive Asgard, Goa'uld, Nox and Furlings, since they were barely rated as space-faring, a result that had been incurred from the Haaken Crisis. The Ancients who remained in the Milky Way galaxy either vanished or died out, to the younger races, they simply disappeared in only a single year.

Successor Civilization
Though their civilization was destroyed by the Reapers, a population of Ancients managed to survive and eventually became the Lanteans, founding the Lantean Empire.