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アスガード (スターゲイト)

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    この記事はスターゲイト SG-1における架空のエイリアンについての記述である。


SFテレビドラマシリーズであるスターゲイト SG-1において、アスガードIdaと呼ばれる別の銀河出身の高度に発達した好意的な種族である。アスガードは度々地球を訪れ、北欧神話の元となったり、あの悪名高いロズウェル事件を引き起こしたエイリアンでもある。彼らは4大種族の同盟の一員で、スターゲイト世界において最も発達した種族の1つであり、オーライノックスそれとおそらくファーリングスにしかライバル視されていない。技術レベルは大部分が死滅したか高みの存在へ昇華したエンシェントに次いで高い。

歴史

アスガードが最初に移り住んだ惑星は、Ida銀河にある惑星オサラやハラである。[1]

30,000年前

仮死状態のクルーを乗せたアスガード船はアスガードの母星を去った。しかし、ナビゲーションコンピュータがどこかでダメージを受け、船は銀河間を漂流し、最終的には我々の銀河系を漂流していた。(意図した目的地であるかは不明。)その船は最近アスガードの科学者により発見され、中にいたのは完全に保存されたアスガードの祖先であった。Heimdall started research on it because the clone was from a time when their cloning program was "not yet irreversible" (i.e. leading to the contemporary problem of cellular degradation through reclonings).[2]

10,000年前

アスガードは銀河系における4大種族の同盟の一員であった。(他の種族はエンシェントノックスファーリングス)[3]

10,000年前から現在に至るまで

アスガードが警戒していたにも関わらず、ゴアウルドは銀河系における大きな脅威となり、ゴアウルドはこの間に人間を宿主として寄生を始めた。それによりアスガードは立腹したが同時に、かつての偉大な種族であるthe Alterans(エンシェント)のような人間らしさは卓越した潜在能力であると認識すのである。アスガードとゴアウルドは戦争になったが、アスガードはIda銀河におけるより大きな脅威に対処するため撤退を余儀なくされる。

ゴアウルドに銀河系を完全に明け渡すのは気が進まなかったが、アスガードは様々な世界の人間を解放し移住させ、自らの発達した技術を神の魔術としてしか理解できないような人間に対して守護神となるのであった。(これが北欧神話の起源であり、thus far only one protected planet besides Earth has realized its protectors' true power)これらの惑星の安全を保障するため、アスガードとゴアウルドは不可侵協定に同意し、アスガードはゴアウルドに様々な利益を認め、ゴアウルドは人間に危害を加えるのを止めた。両種族がこの協定に他の惑星を含める事に、同意したとき拡大することができこのときに地球が含まれた。この条約は、より強力な敵であるアスガードを怒らせたくないとして、全てのゴアウルドが遵守する数少ない条約のうちの一つであった。

しかし、真のところ、この条約はアスガード側のはったりであった。Ida銀河における脅威に気をとられてしまい、アスガードは度々ゴアウルドを圧倒する力を見せつけるだけで、条約を施行するほどの力は不足していた。もし支配階級が条約を遵守しないと決めたならば、アスガードは彼らを止めることはできなかったであろう。

レプリケーター

アスガードが地球と銀河系をゴアウルドから守ることができなかったのは、より強大な敵であるレプリケーターとの戦争のせいであった。レプリケーターはアスガードのエネルギー兵器にすぐに適応してしまうので、結果として戦争の大部分はレプリケーターを牽制するだけのものとなってしまう。しかし、内部の発射体を発火するための単純な化学反応だけを用いた人間の武器は、原始的ではあるが物理的には小さくて弱いレプリケーターが適応するのは難しいとわかった。人間はアスガードよりも「愚かな考え」を思いつくのに長けているとして、SG-1は度々アスガードに救援を送ることになる。カーター少佐の「愚かな考え」により、未完成の最新のアスガード船であるオニール号はハイパースペース航行をしレプリケーターを誘き寄せ爆発した。[4]トールはアスガードを代表して、レプリケーターを打ち負かした後には、アスガードはゴアウルドを打ち負かすためのあらゆる協力をすると約束をした。SG-1の助けにより、アスガードは全てのレプリケーターを何千年も閉じ込めておくという目的で時間膨張場へ誘き出すことに成功した。(ただし我々にとっての数千年はアスガードにとってほんの数分にすぎない。)

しかしその2年後、不幸にもレプリケーターは、時間膨張装置を使ってアスガードに作られたブラックホールから逃げ出し、アスガードの新しい母星であるOrillaに攻撃を開始する。レプリケーター船がハイパースペースから出たと同時に、シールドが上げられる前に攻撃するというAegirの抵抗も空しく、多くのレプリケーターが生き残りOrillaへ降り立ってしまう。その中に「Fifth」として知られる人間型のレプリケーターがいたのである。エンシェントの知識保管庫から知識をダウンロードしたオニール大佐は、レプリケーターの細胞間コミュニケーション網を永久に破壊し、自己再生不能で構成要素にまでばらばらにしてしまう武器を作り出した。トールはその巨大版の作成に成功し、Orillaの全てのレプリケーターを無力化するほどの大きな惑星サイズの一撃をしたが、またしてもFifthを含む多くのレプリケーターに逃げられてしまう。

生き残ったレプリケーターは次に、銀河系へと注意を向けた。彼らは対レプリケーター武器に適応できるのであるが、アスガードは救援にトールしか派遣できなかった。レプリケーターが最終的に破壊されたのは、タウリとバールがDakara Superweaponを使って銀河系の全てのレプリケーターを原子レベルにまで破壊した時である。銀河系外に少数の生き残りがいるかもしれないという懸念もあったが、仮に生き残っているとしてもそんなに遠くては連絡をとる手段はないであろう。

レプリケーターを倒してから絶滅まで

The Asgard in the season nine finale "Camelot" assisted in the united attack against the invading fleet of Ori motherships, but despite their efforts the attack met with little success. The Asgard also sent an O'Neill class battleship to the Battle of P3Y-229, which fared much better than the other ships (among them Tau'ri, Jaffa, and Lucian Alliance ships), and the Asgard vessel was not seen among the debris field and other destroyed ships, its fate unknown. They provided Earth's new battlecruiser, the Daedalus, with significant technological upgrades, and an Asgard engineer named Hermiod stayed on the Daedalus to help them understand and operate their technology, as thanks for destroying the Replicators. Another Asgard named Kvasir has appeared in SG-1 many times and helped the SGC overcome the dilemmas encountered in the episodes "Ripple Effect" and in "Camelot".

In the Stargate SG-1 series finale, "Unending", the Asgard informed the Tau'ri of the unfortunate reality that their species' irreparable genetic flaws due to their cloning process have cost the Asgard species the ability to ascend (it is unclear if the Ancients would have helped them ascend but could not), and would lead to the Asgard's imminent extinction, as a result of a rapidly progressing genetic disease spreading across the entire Asgard race. To avoid the pain and indignity of their unavoidable deaths, the Asgard chose to commit mass suicide on Orilla. Unwilling to allow their technology and history to be forgotten, but afraid of it falling to the wrong hands, they gave all of their knowledge and advancements to the Tau'ri, because they believed them to be the "Fifth race". Some Asgard were against this decision, but most agreed it to be the best choice.

Shortly after installing their advanced technology onto the Odyssey, three Ori motherships attacked the Asgard homeworld and the Odyssey, apparently able to track the distinctive signature of Tau'ri ships using Asgard power cores. With the new Asgard weapons technology, the Odyssey managed to put up a valiant defence against the Ori ships and managed to destroy one, but was forced to retreat into Hyperspace with the technology onboard. Their last act completed, all the Asgard teleported to the surface of Orilla, whereupon the planet self-destructed in a massively powerful explosion. This final act was witnessed by the Tau'ri and the Ori. All Asgard are believed to now be extinct.

特徴

哲学

30,000年前

アスガードはかつて背の高いヒューマノイド型の種であった。当時は、人類と同じように有性生殖を行っていたが、それ以来その能力は失ってしまった。

現在

Due to decay in the Asgard genome, a result of excessive cloning, they no longer possess the ability to reproduce sexually, and all Asgard that were still alive at the time of their self annihilation were clones. They survived for many millennia by cloning their bodies then transferring their minds into their clones. The lifespan of a specific clone is unknown. Thor states in the Stargate SG-1 finale episode "Unending", "The final attempt to solve our physiological degeneration has left each of us with a rapidly progressing disease." As a result of having cloned themselves for so long, the evolutionary process necessary to ascend is no longer possible for the Asgard. "Everything that can be done, has been done," continues Thor; and so the Asgard wish to give the Tau'ri everything: all their knowledge and all their current technology (even though many Asgard still believed humanity is too young). Much as the Ancients silently passed the role of protector of the Milky Way on to the Asgard, so the Asgard have passed it on to the Tau'ri.

The Asgard look very much like the Roswell Greys with webbed hands and feet. As they have admitted to visiting Earth multiple times, it can safely be assumed that they are the Roswell Greys.

社会

言語

The Asgard language is believed to have influenced the formation of the Germanic languages[要出典]. It is written in the same visual style as various runic systems, and appears to be very close the Norse system of runes. Within the continuity of the show, the Norse people inherited their writing system from the Asgard, this is no surprise as the Norse people would have wanted to imitate their gods. As with the connections between other alien languages and those of Earth in the Stargate universe (such as the Goa'uld language inspiring Ancient Egyptian, and the Ancient language inspiring Latin), this disagrees with real-world science, since the Norse Runic alphabet clearly developed in parallel to the Etruscan, Latin, Greek and Gothic alphabets.

In Stargate Atlantis, the Asgard Hermiod speaks infrequently in Asgard, which is simply English played backwards. This is a trait seen exclusively in Hermiod, as all other Asgard speech in the Stargate universe is not a reverse of English.

Asgard as Deific Benefactors to Humanity

As the Goa'uld posed as gods from the pantheons of many mythologies in order to enslave humanity, members of the Asgard race positioned themselves as deities to the Norse in order to give them a moral code and guide their development, as very few human civilizations can separate advanced technology from magic. They used human-form holograms as their façades. The name of their species came to mean the home of the gods: Asgaard, connected to Midgaard, the world of men, by a rainbow bridge. Some of the Norse gods who are actually Asgard:

Name Origin Traditional appearance Notes
Thor God of Thunder Powerful Viking Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet
Heimdall Guardian of Bifrost Bridge Powerful Viking Scientist[5]
Loki God of Mischief Weak, cunning man; capable of shape-shifting Rogue geneticist[6]
Aegir Lord of the Sea Giant Commander of the Valhalla who orchestrated the defense of the new Asgard homeworld, Orilla
Kvasir God of wisdom Powerful Viking Scientist
Hermiod Messenger of the Gods Powerful Viking Engineer[7]
Freyr Male fertility God Powerful Viking Member of the Asgard High Council

Asgard High Council

The Asgard High Council is the governing body for the Asgard race. The size and structure of the council is unknown, but there are at least seven sitting members, including Freyr, Thor, and Penigal (Red Sky, as well as New Order). The Asgard High Council makes decisions that affect the whole race, though their exact political power is unknown. In addition, it has entered into negotiations on behalf of the Tau'ri, most notably involving the Protected Planets Treaty.

They gather in a large meeting hall equipped with holographic projectors to allow contact with those in other galaxies, O'Neill became acquainted with the system.

The Protected Planets Treaty Amendment

One of the most notable occasions when the Asgard came to Earth's assistance occurred when it was learned that the Goa'uld System Lords had decided to attack Earth ("Fair Game"). The Asgard called a meeting between delegations representing the Goa'uld, the Tau'ri and the Asgard, the purpose of which was intended to include Earth under the protection of the "Protected Planets Treaty". This treaty has served to maintain a millennia-long, if fragile, peace between the Goa'uld and the Asgard.

When questioned by O'Neill as to why the Asgard even had a treaty with the Goa'uld despite the fact they are much more technologically advanced and hate them, Thor reveals that while the Asgard could defeat the Goa'uld, the Asgard fleet was engaging a far more dangerous enemy in their home galaxy (later revealed to be the Replicators), tying up the Asgard fleet to the point where they were largely powerless to interfere in the Milky Way Galaxy. In effect, the Asgard were bluffing the Goa'uld.

Attending on behalf of the Goa'uld were the System Lords Yu, Nirrti and Cronos. Thor represented the Asgard and chose Colonel Jack O'Neill to represent the Humans.

Although events did not start off well, an accommodation that satisfied all parties was eventually reached after the attempted assassination of Cronos by Nirrti.

The treaty for Earth was that the System Lords should not attack Earth and that the Council of System Lords would be responsible for preventing any rogue Goa'uld from attacking earth. However any Tau'ri found offworld were fair game. This treaty was later broken several times, mostly by Anubis, but most of the System Lords remained neutral to Earth for fear of the Asgard's wrath.

22 other planets are included in the treaty.

戦術

Little is known of Asgard military tactics as their advanced technology tends to dominate their enemies. They use this to achieve victory over their enemies, as the only factions capable of fighting the Asgard on even terms are the Replicators and the Ori, and possibly the Nox and Furlings (both of whom are friendly towards the Asgard). It is known that the Asgard are not above employing trickery against their enemies, such as bluffing the Goa'uld with the Protected Planets Treaty by appearing as capable of destroying the Goa'uld yet being powerless to intervene directly due to other problems.

It should be noted that the Asgard have no hesitation in sacrificing themselves in battle, as was the case when Thor decided to self destruct his ship in hyperspace in order to destroy a Replicator starship heading towards his new homeworld of Orilla. This is consistent with Norse mythology involving valiant battle-ready gods.

Furthermore, its been stated that the Asgard race have some problems with developing viable military tactics, as their brains are simply too advanced and complicated, making almost incapable of resorting to more primitive means in defeating their enemies. This was the prime reason why the Asgard took Samantha Carter to develop a primitive tactic (blowing up a ship) to use against the Replicators despite the fact that she was one of the smartest people on Earth.

While the Asgard maintain a large fleet of ships with defensive capabilities, as a whole they are not a militaristic race, and strongly disapprove of the use of technology for aggressive purposes (this is the origin of their distaste for the Goa'uld).

テクノロジー

The Asgard possess a vastly superior level of technology than the Goa'uld do, although they do not seem to extensively employ the cloaking technology so common among the Goa'uld, they do possess it. Indeed, the only races with technology on the level of the Asgard are the Nox, Furlings, Ancients, and Ori (and now the Tau'ri). Their ships are capable of traversing thousands of light years of space in minutes, and they have mastered advanced transporter and holographic projection. Their ships are capable of operating with as few as one person on board. This suggests that their ships possess many automated systems. However, this is not standard procedure as, in certain episodes, Thor has made references to evacuating the crew off the ship.

The Asgard have at least 3 types of ships: the Beliskner-class cruiser, the Daniel Jackson-class science vessel and the O'Neill-class battleship. It was shown in Unending that Asgard directed-energy weaponry is capable of destroying Ori Motherships in a few shots and their shields can take even direct attacks from Ori weapons.

アスガードの全てのテクノロジーと知識は現在タウリに帰属する。絶滅の前の人類への贈り物である。

参照

  1. ^ スターゲイト SG-1 episode S06#12 レプリケーター人間
  2. ^ スターゲイト SG-1 episode S05#22 絶滅の危機を救え!
  3. ^ スターゲイト SG-1 episode S01#10 一人ぼっちの星
  4. ^ スターゲイト SG-1 episode S04#01 レプリケイター地球侵入
  5. ^ スターゲイト SG-1 episode S05#22 絶滅の危機を救え!
  6. ^ スターゲイト SG-1 episode S07#03 不安定なDNA
  7. ^ スターゲイト アトランティス episode S02#01 迫り来る危機
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