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Original release / air date: 11 August 2006
Runtime: 44 minutes
Season: 3
Episode: 5
Country / region: United States; Canada
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: Sci-Fi Channel
Production company / studio: Acme Shark; MGM Television; Pegasus Productions
Distributor / platform: MGM Television
Artificial character(s): Asurans, Niam
Performer(s): John O’Callaghan
ASFR type: Built

Overview

The Atlantis team encounters the Asurans, who initially appear to be surviving Ancients.

ASFR Content

Niam reveals that the apparently human civilisation is actually composed of microscopic machines originally created by the Ancients as weapons; McKay later gains access to their base code.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Key ASFR scene

The Asurans are revealed as machines

McKay identifies the apparently human inhabitants as Replicators rather than biological people.

Character(s): Asurans
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

Niam explains human-form construction

Niam describes microscopic machines interlocking into increasingly complex organisms until they adopted the form of the Ancients.

Character(s): Asurans, Niam
Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

McKay modifies Asuran base code

Niam gives McKay access to the underlying programming so he can alter restrictions written into the Replicators.

Character(s): Asurans, Niam
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