Given that the Ori were alerted to life in the Milkyway by humans from Earth, why didn't they start their crusade there?
Why didn't the Ori attack Earth first?
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Well they did try to kill everybody with a plague but htey didn't have their fleet in place yet.
They probably didn't expec the Tau'ri to be as big of a pain in the ass as they were, so there was no point in starting at Earth. A conquered/ converted galaxy is still a conquered galaxy, whether they start at Earth or Alpha Centauri.
If it weren't for the Ancient weapon in Antaractica and later the Asgard tech, Earth is a very minor and weak power in the galaxy. The Jaffa on the other hand are a militaristic culture and probably the largest and most powerful entity in the Milky Way when the Ori arrived. It makes sense that you'd want to weaken them first.
Remember, shortly after the Ori arrived in our galaxy Earth cut off their reinforcements. They had no guarantee that their existing forces were enough to take on the Ancient defences and if they had invaded and conquered Earth they would have to commit pretty much all of their existing ground forces to occupying the planet.
They only had 3 ships at the point when it would be practical and therefore a direct assault would be risky. We know from on-screen evidence in AOT the weapons platform cannot take on six Ori battle cruisers, but it is quite possible it could deal with three.
That's pretty much it. It's like asking why didn't the aliens in War of the Worlds/ID4 just attack from orbit or why the Borg only sent one cube (twice) to assimilate all humanity. Trying to apply real-world logic and mores to any space opera is an exercise in futility.
In the Spielberg version at least the aliens didn't have ships in orbit and did not seem to be attacking the planet's infrastructure, only people.
We never saw any indication that the mothership was able to do that. A synchronised strike against Earth's major cities actually makes a lot more sense.
The Borg are patient and one cube can carry tens of thousands of drones. Once they establish themselves it would be very difficult to get them out.
It's fun though.
no.. cos of the Tauri.. the centuries old dominance of the goa'uld was ended.. the asguard replicators were destryed.. it wasnt done single handedly.. but the emergence of the tauri brought it about..
i always assumed there was a reason given in Season 9 why the Ori didnt go to earth as one of the first targets.. was there not? didnt they know its location from the gate address of earth?
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I'm not 100% but I think I remember someone mention in ep that the Ori were unlikely to attack Earth from fear that Earth might use the Ancient weapon in Antarctica. That's why they sent the plague instead.
L. Thompson Lincoln?
it was cos of the tauri tho... otherwise the galaxy was very much stagnant otherwise
Anubis still would have come back, the Replicators and the Asgard still would have been at war (although the Asgard would have lost without us), a lot of things would have still gone the same way.
The Replicators might not have developed in to human form if it wasn't for us, though.
The Tau'ri beat Apophis, Hathor, Anubis and Ba'al and they had a had in beating Sokar, Cronus and Heru'ur. That's not bad at all.
whatever.. the Replicators were defeated.. and the Jaffa Nation was being indoctrinated.. the Tauri wasnt.. so should have been destroyed.. if one plan failed the next should have been put into action.
