The Stargate program has gone public. Tales of soldiers fending off hostile forces and invasions from space are the stuff of legend. With the Ori and Goa'uld defeated Earth has begun a new era of exploration and growth - but just what dangers still lie out there?

With mankind spreading further outward into space, and the myriad factions of the planet beginning to become a unified whole, the Stargate programme is now a massive international operation. Working to secure Earth's future and prosperity it has hundreds of willing soldiers and an entire network of off world bases.

The planet Tagrea meanwhile is virtually unheard of; an ally with the people of Earth, it has been the staging ground for many traumatic and devastating events in the past. These localised events have forced the people of this desert world to bury their past, forgetting it for thousands of years. But when a routine exploration of the planets wastelands leads to the triggering of something deep within Tagrea, millennia old technology stirs and a powerful enemy awakens to claim it - racing to change the course of our universe - and all other universes forever.

But this reawakened and Ancient force may have plans of its own...