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Atlantis is the lost City-ship of the Ancients. In the series Stargate SG-1, our heroes discovered how to get to Atlantis, but the power requirements to get there made it a one-time, one-way trip. You can come back often to these Free Stargate Atlantis Forum Avatars

Stargate Atlantis follows the present-day adventures of John Sheppard and his military team from Earth that, along with two dozen other teams, venture to distant planets. They use an alien device known as a Stargate, which is housed in the city of Atlantis on the planet "Lantea". The city was built thousands of years ago by one of the most advanced races of the Stargate universe: the Ancients. Five to ten thousand years ago, due to a plague in the Milky Way Galaxy, they were forced to flee to the Pegasus Galaxy, and there they seeded life on hundreds of worlds as they had done in the Milky Way. After encountering a powerful enemy known as the Wraith and going to war with them for more than one hundred years, the Ancients ultimately lost and were forced to submerge their city beneath Lantea's ocean, which, in the Stargate universe, is the source of the Greek myth of the Lost City of Atlantis.

Sheppards Air Force career appears to have been checkered, to say the least. When viewers meet him, he has been assigned to McMurdo Station in Antarctica, apparently a punishment detail for having attempted to rescue downed U.S. airmen against direct orders. This "black mark" on Sheppard's record is mentioned by Colonel Marshall Sumner, the first military leader of the Atlantis expedition, when he protests Sheppards inclusion in the expedition. No one could protest these sweet Free Stargate Atlantis Forum Avatars!