Ascension Machine
A Lantean machine that drives a human's evolution toward ascension, with a deadly catch.
The ascension machine is a piece of Lantean technology from the Pegasus galaxy, made to speed up the evolution of a human being. It changes the subject's genes until the body is capable of ascension, and along the way grants abilities such as healing, telekinesis and telepathy and a sharp rise in intelligence.
Quick Facts
- Built by
- The Lanteans
- Effect
- Evolves the body toward ascension
- Power
- Zero Point Module
- Episode
- Tao of Rodney (Stargate Atlantis season 3)
Facts from the source article.
Background
Its flaw is that it changes only the body, not the mind: a subject who cannot reach the mental state needed to let go of the physical form is eventually killed by the changes. The Lanteans used it in their own experiments with ascension, and Elizabeth Weir suspects it was meant as an escape from the war with the Wraith rather than a weapon in it. In the Stargate Atlantis episode Tao of Rodney, Rodney McKay sets it off by accident, gains new powers and learns that he must ascend or die; before it is too late he gives Carson Beckett what is needed to undo the changes, and he is returned to normal.
Source
Text adapted from Ascension machine on SGCommand (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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