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The Avenger is a Lantean cruiser, renamed Pride of the Genii by its current owners, the Genii.
History[]
At some point in the Lantean-Wraith war, the Avenger suffered heavy damage in battle with enough hull breaches to force a crash on an uninhabited planet. The crew either suffered no casualties or the survivors took them with them when they left through the planet's Stargate as no bodies were found on the ship.
At some point, 10,000 years later, the Genii discovered the wreckage of the Avenger and set out to repair the ship as their own. Repair teams led by Dahlia Radim were able to repair sublight engines and hyperdrive over the course of a year, but lacked the ATA gene and so could not get the ship's power or systems online. They also patched some of the hull breaches and closed the bulkheads to deal with others.
In 2385, after Doctor Rodney McKay is kidnapped by the Wraith, Colonel John Sheppard approaches Ladon Radim, Chief of the Genii for help finding him using the Genii's extensive intelligence network. Ladon offers a deal in which he will search for McKay if the Atlantis expedition aids the Genii in moving the Avenger to their homeworld, believing the repairs done to the ship have made it spaceworthy enough to make the trip to the Genii homeworld. Sheppard agrees to this deal, but due to a Wraith attack, the team loses their Puddle Jumper and Doctor Carson Beckett is seriously injured by reptiles while making their way to the ship.
Once aboard the Avenger, Sheppard determines that while they have sublight engines and hyperdrive, they don't have shields, weapons control, or long-range communications and the structural integrity is "lousy" with many of the bulkheads unlikely to hold up under vacuum. Rather than risk a seventeen-hour trip to the Genii homeworld, Sheppard chooses to take the ship to Atlantis which is six hours away where rescue will be on hand if the ship cannot be landed safely and further repairs can be done to make it more spaceworthy. During takeoff, the crew wears vacuum suits for safety, the ship suffers decompression in two compartments aft of engineering which Dahlia is able to seal off. Upon reaching space, one of the potable water and water reclamation tanks suffers a decompression and vents to space as well, but the ship suffers no more decompressions. Dahlia, mistaking Shepard's intentions, fear he wanted to steal the ship for Atlantis, made an attempt by to hijack the ship. She failed, and Sheppard is successfully able to take the Avenger to hyperspace.
Arriving at Atlantis, Sheppard has the city prepare a rescue Puddle Jumper in case he needs to ditch the Avenger in the ocean, but he is able to make a safe landing on the North Pier of Atlantis. Once at Atlantis, a team led by Doctors Radek Zelenka and Miko Kusanagi work on repairing the ship enough to get it to the Genii homeworld with Ladon demanding the ship be sent within a day after learning of the situation. The repair teams are eventually able to close the hull breaches, particularly two nasty ones aft of engineering.
After the Avenger is spaceworthy once more, Sheppard flies the ship to the Genii homeworld accompanied by Kusanagi, a team of Marines, and Dahlia. The ship is also escorted by the George Hammond in case of troubles. Despite some minor power fluctuations, the Avenger is able to make the thirteen hour trip to the Genii homeworld without incident and Sheppard lands the ship in a camouflaged field. (SGA: "The Lost")
When news comes of Queen Death's impending attack on Starbase Atlantis, Ladon offers Atlantis use of the repaired Avenger, now renamed the Pride of the Genii in defending Atlantis in exchange for giving his people the ATA gene therapy. Though reluctant to give the Genii the gene therapy, Richard Woolsey agrees and the Pride of the Genii, piloted by Major Evan Lorne and with a crew containing Ladon himself, fights in the battle alongside a Wraith fleet loyal to Guide, the George Hammond and Atlantis itself. During the battle, the Pride of the Genii takes on several F-302s unable to return to the George Hammond and sends a Genii boarding party to Queen Death's own hive ship to aid another boarding party led by Teyla Emmagan from a captured Wraith cruiser. (SGA: "Inheritors")
On the ship's maiden voyage after the repairs, the crew start to suffer from an illness that caused, among other things extreme diarrhea and loss of the ATA gene. They were forced to land on a grass planet populated by giant Hyena-like creatures that kept attacking their perimeter fences and unfortunately due to the loss of the gene in most of the crew, the ship would not be able to fly. They believed the source of the illness to be airborne, but when the Atlantis Expedition tracked them to the planet, they revealed it to be deliberate sabotage in the ship's water supply from one of the previous planets they visited. They were forced to dump the water and replace it with the aid of multiple Puddle Jumpers. After an attack by the creatures, the Genii were forced to retreat into the ship and close up the ramp. They achieved lift-off after repairing systems that were further damaged by a saboteur on board, who along with a small force attempted to take control of the ship. They were stopped by the loyalist, leading to the end of an attempted coup d’etat on the Genii homeworld by a high-ranking general who orchestrated it all. The Pride of the Genii and her crew made it safely back to their homeworld. The ship was in need of further, more permanent repairs to their internal systems. (SGA: "Pride of the Genii")