The Replicator Wars were a series of conflicts spanning over four-thousand years, largely fought between the Asgard and Replicators in the Ida Galaxy. After appearing from beyond the galactic rim, the Replicator forces began decimating and assimilating the technology of the other races that inhabited the Asgard home galaxy, quietly absorbing their lesser foes to build up strength. When the Asgard themselves finally realized why many of their neighbor species had ceased communication, the Replicators had amassed an enormous force of captured vessels. The two sides ultimately came to blows, and at first, it seemed that the technological advantage of the Asgard would be more than enough to crush the weaker ships their enemy had taken over. But the Replicators were eventually able to take cont