Chaya Sar - Minor Characters

Minor Characters

• Amelius (played by Fabrice Grover) is an Ancient scientist in Stargate: The Ark of Truth. It is implied that he is the original inventor of the Stargate system, a schematic for a Stargate in his notebook and comments "I had the most amazing idea last night..." and the Ark of Truth. It is implied that Amelius (possibly with help from others) created the Ark in order to brainwash people into believing the truth, that is, that the Ori are not gods. He is stopped first by other Ancients.
• The Aurora Captain (played by Bruce Dawson) is the captain of the Ancient warship Aurora during the last days of the war with the Wraith. As revealed in "Aurora", he lived in the ship's stasis pod for ten thousand years until a Wraith gained access to the virtual reality they were experiencing. The Captain activates the ship's self-destruct sequence and asks Sheppard and his team to keep the memory of the Aurora and its valiant crew alive.
• Chaya Sar (played by Leonor Varela), is an ascended Ancient living secluded on Proculus in the Pegasus Galaxy, where she poses as the human high priestess of Athar. Sheppard allows her to accompany them back to Atlantis in the hopes of using her planet as a sanctuary for refugees in "Sanctuary". Chaya learns about the spiritual beliefs of the peoples of Earth and eventually takes a liking to Major Sheppard. McKay's discovery of her true identity coincides with a Wraith attack on Proculus. Chaya Sar returns to her planet, using her powers to destroy the Wraith in orbit. She later tells Sheppard that after she first ascended, she used her powers to destroy attacking Wraith. The other Ancients punished her for intervening with the human plane of existence by ostracizing her and limiting her protection only to the inhabitants of Proculus.
• Helia (played by Megan Leitch) was the Captain of the Ancient warship Tria, during the last days of their war with the Wraith. Her name is based on Helia, daughter of the sun god Helios in Greek mythology. The Daedalus locates her ship thousands of years later in the episode "The Return", finding the crew still alive because of the relativistic effects of travelling at 99.9% the speed of light.
• Hippaforalkus is an Ancient general after whom the Ancient warship Orion was originally named. Hippaforalkus's name is only mentioned in "Inferno".
• Janus (played by Gildart Jackson) is an Ancient scientist who lived during the first siege of Atlantis by the Wraith 10,000 years ago. He is named to imply that he is the being after whom Janus, the two-faced Roman god that represented time and change was named. Against the orders of the Atlantean High Council, Janus created a time machine and integrated it into a Puddle Jumper. An alternate Elizabeth Weir, who accidentally travels back through time in "Before I Sleep", encounters Janus and asks for help, but the Atlantean Council is unwilling to risk damage to the timeline. Janus disobeys his superiors and helps Weir to remain behind in stasis so that she can aid her future self saving the city. Before he leaves with his fellow Ancients to Earth, he is hopeful to build another Puddle Jumper capable of time travel. Such a Puddle Jumper is eventually found by SG-1 in the Milky Way galaxy in "It's Good to Be King"" and actually used in "Moebius." Janus was also responsible for the creation of the Attero Device in his secret lab that was cleverly hidden in Atlantis. The device projects interference into subspace, rendering Wraith hyperspace unstable. Any Wraith ship entering hyperspace is ripped apart. He abandoned the project when he discovered a side effect : energy begins to build up in any gate open at the time of its use, and the buildup prevents any attempts at shutting the gate down. Once the buildup of energy reaches a critical level, the naquadah that makes up the gate explodes, causing massive devastation.
• Melia (played by Melia McClure) was a member of the Atlantean High Council during the first siege of Atlantis some ten millennia ago. She is first seen as a hologram in "Rising", describing the history of the Ancients in the Pegasus Galaxy. In the episode "Before I Sleep", Melia explains the Wraith siege of Atlantis to an alternate version of Elizabeth Weir, who travelled back through time. While sympathetic to Weir and Janus, Melia agrees with the other members of the council to not send Dr. Weir back to her own time. Melia is last seen returning to Earth through the Stargate with her fellow Ancients.
• Trebal (played by Pascale Hutton) was the first officer of the Ancient warship Aurora during the last days of her people's war with the Wraith. As revealed in "Aurora", she lived in the ship's stasis pod for ten thousand years, where she experienced a virtual reality. She was eventually killed by an invading Wraith who assumed her identity to trick the ship's crew.