Ancient Culture - Accountability
From the Encyclopedia Atlantica
Ancient Culture - Accountability
I will preface this by noting that before they ascended, the Ancients believed strongly in the concept of individual accountability. One of the reasons that those known in the Milky Way Galaxy as the Ancients left their own world was a dissatisfaction with the corruption they saw running rampant within their own people. This revulsion lead to the development of a strict code of personal accountability; anyone in the community could be called before the governing body and forced to account for their actions in a particular incident. By extension, they held themselves as a people responsible for those that they deemed the 'younger races', nurturing growth and development whenever possible. Upon developing the ability to ascend, the cultural sense of responsibility faded and was replaced by a general apathy.
What follows are the two primary views upon the responsibility that the ancients were so quick to claim while in corporeal form.
The younger races must find their own way.
The majority of those who ascend, and as a result what is referred to as the governing concensus, ascribe to a policy of non-interference following ascension. This policy applies to all of the younger races, not merely those seeded by the ancients. It forbids those who have ascended from lending their abilities and knowledge to one side of a conflict, regardless of the severity. At any time, one who is ascended may be called to account before the concensus for their actions; the potential outcomes for such an accounting range from removal of priviledges to the most severe punishment conceivable - expulsion from the ranks of the ascended.
Despite what is written above, there are exceptions to this policy. The conditions surrounding them are complicated and if further detail is desired the reader is encouraged to peruse the Encyclopedia Atlantica under Ancient Culture - Governing Laws, Exceptions to
Ascension does not remove the obligation to aid those left behind.
A small minority of ascended believe that the ancients still have an obligation to those whom they nurtured while in corporeal form. An obvious example of this being the countless cultures left behind when the ancients fled the Wraith and returned to the Milky Way Galaxy. A few of the more 'vocal' ascended in this group acted upon their beliefs and were promptly expelled. The most notable among these being Sar, Chaya who was bound to the world of Proculus for her actions.
Ancient Culture - Accountability
I will preface this by noting that before they ascended, the Ancients believed strongly in the concept of individual accountability. One of the reasons that those known in the Milky Way Galaxy as the Ancients left their own world was a dissatisfaction with the corruption they saw running rampant within their own people. This revulsion lead to the development of a strict code of personal accountability; anyone in the community could be called before the governing body and forced to account for their actions in a particular incident. By extension, they held themselves as a people responsible for those that they deemed the 'younger races', nurturing growth and development whenever possible. Upon developing the ability to ascend, the cultural sense of responsibility faded and was replaced by a general apathy.
What follows are the two primary views upon the responsibility that the ancients were so quick to claim while in corporeal form.
The younger races must find their own way.
The majority of those who ascend, and as a result what is referred to as the governing concensus, ascribe to a policy of non-interference following ascension. This policy applies to all of the younger races, not merely those seeded by the ancients. It forbids those who have ascended from lending their abilities and knowledge to one side of a conflict, regardless of the severity. At any time, one who is ascended may be called to account before the concensus for their actions; the potential outcomes for such an accounting range from removal of priviledges to the most severe punishment conceivable - expulsion from the ranks of the ascended.
Despite what is written above, there are exceptions to this policy. The conditions surrounding them are complicated and if further detail is desired the reader is encouraged to peruse the Encyclopedia Atlantica under Ancient Culture - Governing Laws, Exceptions to
Ascension does not remove the obligation to aid those left behind.
A small minority of ascended believe that the ancients still have an obligation to those whom they nurtured while in corporeal form. An obvious example of this being the countless cultures left behind when the ancients fled the Wraith and returned to the Milky Way Galaxy. A few of the more 'vocal' ascended in this group acted upon their beliefs and were promptly expelled. The most notable among these being Sar, Chaya who was bound to the world of Proculus for her actions.