Reasons Why No One Came To Earth For 10,000 years.

[Borg451]

Hi. ITT we come up with reasons that Earth was left alone for so long between the uprising against Ra and the present day..

i mean.. everyone must of known about it.. for sure all the current System Lords who had followers on Earth such as Yu and the Gods.

so why did no one come here.. did they think Ra owned it still? or what?

and howcome no other humans came back to Earth.. in the Milky Way.. there is fewer gate capable human civilisations than Pegasus... but there still are some.. as evidenced by Season 9 and 10. Plus Earth would likely be a better known address if it truly was the home of humanity..

 

[All Seeing Eye]

THE GATE WAS BURIED! Therefore nobody could get there by gate travel and only via ship.
Since the last time Ra was there there was an uprising he probably didn't want to go back any time soon and besides that he was likely too busy fighting Apophis and the other system lords. As the years, decades and centuries past Ra probably forgot all about Earth until we sent a team to Abydos.
Don't forget also we find out that Humans throughout the Galaxy wern't actually seeded by the Goa'uld taking Humans from Earth (only a small number of worlds controlled by Ra were), they were infact seeded by the Ancients using the device at Dakara so there is absolutely no reason to believe that Earth was known about by the other system lords or was even considered important.

We see from the first ep of season one that Apophis was the first system lord to gate to Earth (we know from certain eps that Apophis was Ra's nemesis more than the other system lords), since Ra disappeared Apophis likely started to survey the worlds that were considered in Ra's area of the Galaxy.

 

[Jax]

Also weren't the ships drives back then rather slow as Teal'c was surprised how quick they arrived at Earth in the season 1 finale. So no gate = too long a trip to Earth.

 

[David cgc]

That's about the sum of it. Once Ra was driven away and the stargate was buried, it became much harder to go to and from earth, and there was such a large off-world population base there wasn't really much point, especially with hyperdrives as slow as ten times the speed of light. And even with that, various goa'uld (and others) did drop by from time to time in their ships.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Also a point I forgot to mention, what use was Earth really? Goa'uld ships and technology relied heavily on Naquadah, Earth and Earths solar system is completely devoid of Naquadah and therefore of very little use to the Goa'uld.
That's possibly another reason why Ra didn't bother going back, Abydos was far more important with its Naquadah mines.

 

[DontFeedPhil]

Also in the overall scheme of things earth and its people werent anymore important than any other planet. It wasnt till we were left alone for 9,000 + years or so that we seem to have developed a civilization that was getting its act together enough to be of any interest or pose any problem to anyone.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Also as you can see there are countless other worlds left alone by the Goa'uld and left to develop into advanced societies. I don't think the influence of the Goa'uld on the Galaxy was as great as people think, the system lords were but a handfull of people and unable realistically to maintain their influence on too many worlds so they likely dug deep on some 'core worlds' and left much of the galaxy alone for long periods of time.
The core world for Apophis was Chulak, he likely spent most of his time there and occasionally visited many other worlds when he had the chance to but fighting the other system lords is probably very time consuming.

There are thousands possibly hundreds of thousands of worlds in the Milky Way, could you keep track of them all?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

It wasnt till we were left alone for 9,000 + years or so that we seem to have developed a civilization that was getting its act together enough to be of any interest or pose any problem to anyone.

more specifically it's only the last couple of hundred or so years where any significant technological advancements have took place and especially so since the industrial Revolution. To any passing Goa'uld we'd still be considered pretty primitive 200+ years ago. The world Population hadn't even hit 1 Billion until about 1825.

 

[Jax]

What I want to know is why did RA only control Egypt and not the rest of Earth ?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

What I want to know is why did RA only control Egypt and not the rest of Earth ?

What makes you believe he only controlled Egypt? he can't be everywhere on the planet at the same time, his ship was landed in the area of Egypt near to where the gate was which makes sense.
That's like asking why does the president of the United States only control Washington DC, he doesn't only control washington DC that's just where the white house is.

 

[Borg451]

What I want to know is why did RA only control Egypt and not the rest of Earth ?

What makes you believe he only controlled Egypt? he can't be everywhere on the planet at the same time, his ship was landed in the area of Egypt near to where the gate was which makes sense.
That's like asking why does the president of the United States only control Washington DC, he doesn't only control washington DC that's just where the white house is.

yeh.. but what of other gods? what of Camulus, Yu, Nirti, Chronus, Athena.. they must have all had domains on Earth.. how else were they worshipped here..

why didnt they stay on Earth, but instead leave it. if it was after the gate burying.. they musta come in ships.. and if before.. why dint they have another gate sent..

plus. there are 2 gates anywho..

 

[RoJoHen]

Do we really know that the other Goa'uld were worshipped on Earth? With Stargate travel, it's very possible for word of these other "gods" to have spread to Earth, and over thousands of years, they just became a part of Earth's religious/mythological history.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Do we really know that the other Goa'uld were worshipped on Earth? With Stargate travel, it's very possible for word of these other "gods" to have spread to Earth, and over thousands of years, they just became a part of Earth's religious/mythological history.

That is precisely how I see it, I can't imagine several system lords taking residence on Earth at the same time seeing as they are always in conflict with eachother. I can imagine however the people of Earth hearing stories from Ra's Jaffa about the other Gods and telling stories of Ra fighting Apophis etc

 

[Jax]

What I want to know is why did RA only control Egypt and not the rest of Earth ?

What makes you believe he only controlled Egypt? he can't be everywhere on the planet at the same time, his ship was landed in the area of Egypt near to where the gate was which makes sense.
That's like asking why does the president of the United States only control Washington DC, he doesn't only control washington DC that's just where the white house is.

Well there are signs of them in Egypt like the Great Pyramids as landing pads for his ships but nothing for the rest of the world. Everything we were told about him seems to indicate Egypt only which never made any sense.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

What I want to know is why did RA only control Egypt and not the rest of Earth ?

What makes you believe he only controlled Egypt? he can't be everywhere on the planet at the same time, his ship was landed in the area of Egypt near to where the gate was which makes sense.
That's like asking why does the president of the United States only control Washington DC, he doesn't only control washington DC that's just where the white house is.

Well there are signs of them in Egypt like the Great Pyramids as landing pads for his ships but nothing for the rest of the world. Everything we were told about him seems to indicate Egypt only which never made any sense.

you're not thinking logically, why does he need landing pads all around the world? the Stargate is located in Egypt, he only needs to land in one place and close to where the gate is. If he wants to control the rest of Earth he only needs to send his Jaffa out in Gliders or send an Alkesh bomber, he does not need to keep moving his ship around the planet.
In the movie we only saw his mothership and a few gliders but if he was able to fight the other system lords and hold an empire then obviously he will have had some Hat'ak motherships, lots of Alkesh bombers and cargo ships which he no doubt utilised to spread his power across Earth and other worlds.

 

[Tom]

was the Antartic gate working? Been a while since i saw the episode when they accidentaly came back to that gate, but was there a reason for that one not working when the Egypt one was buried?

 

[A Clockwork Lim]

Stargate the movie addressed the worshipping far mroe than the series ever did. In the movie, Ra was the king of the pantheon he created around himself as well as the only surviving member of his species. All of the other gods were represented by his servants, hence the armor they wore. There were no other "real" gods beyond Ra.

The other pantheons that evolved after Ra's departure were either independant and entirely man-made (yes I know, it's rare in sci-fi for humans to actually be original and creative all on their own... Heaven forbid) or inspired by other encounters via the stargate or other stargates later on. The sequels to the movie were supposed to address this.

The television series did a horrible job with the whole thing. There's no way to rationalize it without evoking tens or hundreds of other questions and problems with any of said rationalizations. It was just a complete and utter clusterfuck. Especially if you try rationalizing it with what we saw in the movie.

 

[Nerroth]

The Earth was not necessarily left alone in that time - remember, many Ancients fleeing the Wraith war were present (most notably causing a ruckus when Moros and Ganos Lal had that little spat in sub-Roman Britain) and weren't the Asgard popping in from time to time, to see how 'Midgard' was doing?


If the Asgard were known to be operating in the vicinity of Sol, that mght be enough to keep any Goa'uld factions with spaceflight capacity from taking any major risks.

 

[David cgc]

was the Antartic gate working? Been a while since i saw the episode when they accidentaly came back to that gate, but was there a reason for that one not working when the Egypt one was buried?

It seems the final tally on that was "No." The Ancients somehow deactivated it after they came back from Atlantis (probably the same way they keyed the Atlantis gate to reject all connections that didn't come from Earth), so Ra assumed there wasn't a gate at all when he discovered Earth soon after, and had one brought here. It would appear the Serpent Guard they found got there the same way O'neill and Carter did, either sometime during the past year during one of Apophis's impotent sieges of the SGC, or millennia before trying to force a connection to the Giza gate.

 

[RoJoHen]

was the Antartic gate working? Been a while since i saw the episode when they accidentaly came back to that gate, but was there a reason for that one not working when the Egypt one was buried?

The humans on Earth rebelled and overthrew Ra. Once Ra left Earth, he probably had no reason to return. I doubt he had any reason to try to dial Earth again, as he had no way of knowing there was another Stargate there.

And even if some people had dialed managed to activate the Antarctic gate, they would have arrived and seen an "ice planet," as Carter put it. Assuming the DHD was still working for a while in the past, they would have just left, assuming the planet was barren.