High Councilor of the Asuran people, and the first of the molecular machines that assembled themselves into a likeness of their creators -- the Ancients. It is likely because of his seniority, and apparent inability to die, that he has remained High Councilor for over ten thousand years. Like all Asurans, Oberoth is governed by the same base aggression that was encoded into their governing programming from the beginning when the Ancients wished to make them into a devastating weapon. When the Ancients decided to abandon their creation they dispatched countless warships to where they had thrived and destroyed their civilization in an aerial assault. But Oberoth and others managed to survive -- or replicate. Oberoth has no interest in having the base aggression deleted from his or his people's personalities. Additionally, he has no immediate interest in following the Ancients in their path to ascension, as the aggressive subroutines may be the only hindrance to this evolutionary leap. It is this aggression that eventually led him back to Lantea where he intended to annihilate the lost city from the face of the Pegasus Galaxy in a retributive rage. Oberoth accuses the Ancient Lanteans of arrogance, just as he claimed in a lie, which led them to greatly underestimate the Wraith. During a visit of the Atlantis expedition he tried to appease Dr. Elizabeth Weir by informing her that eradication of the Wraith was among his people's long-term goals. But because the Asurans have never had difficulty with the life-sucking race, this is doubtful. Oberoth and many of his brethren were destroyed aboard a copy of Atlantis that had arrived in Lantean orbit to obliterate the actual city of the Ancients when Dr. Rodney McKay rigged three Zero Point Modules to overload. Considering his long-lasting history, it is extremely unlikely that he is truly gone. PLAYED BY - David Ogden Stiers FIRST APPEARED - Progeny
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