Repository of Knowledge
The Ancient device that loads all their knowledge into a human mind, at a cost.
A Repository of Knowledge is a device the Ancients built shortly before they ascended to hold vast amounts of their knowledge. It downloads that knowledge straight into the mind of whoever triggers it.
Quick Facts
- Built by
- The Ancients
- Function
- Downloads knowledge into a mind
- Effect
- Overwhelms the user
Facts from the source article.
Background
The transfer takes only seconds, but the human brain cannot hold it: the person slowly loses the ability to function as the knowledge takes over. Jack O'Neill uses two such devices in Stargate SG-1, once by accident, and both times the knowledge slowly begins to take over his mind.
Source
Text adapted from Repository of knowledge 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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