Magog (Andromeda)
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The Magog are an alien race in the television series Andromeda
. The most significant Magog character in the series is Rev Bem, who eschews the "brutish violence" of the rest of the Magog.
personal weapons.
named Kroton at the behest of the Spirit of the Abyss. At the end of Season 4, it was thought to be destroyed, but it was later revealed to merely be crippled in Season 5.
. He appears to be a powerful but not omnipotent energy being. He has been shown to be able to take over people's bodies, and absorb energy. The Magog say that he is their creator. In an earlier episode, Rev Bem says that the Divine created the Magog: "...the Divine also has nightmares, for he created us."
Andromeda (TV series)
Andromeda is a Canadian-American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt...
. The most significant Magog character in the series is Rev Bem, who eschews the "brutish violence" of the rest of the Magog.
The Species
The Magog are human-sized predators covered in a loose, shaggy pelt. They feed on sapient beings, whether human, alien or Nietzschean, which they paralyse with toxin, and reproduce by laying their eggs in another living being: the larvae hatch and consume their host.Technology
The attacking Magog swarms — savage, naked, non-technological animals interested only in eating and reproducing — arrive in their own well-designed space-craft. It is suggested that the Spirit of the Abyss taught them how to create, or at least gave them, their technology. The swarms are described as the juvenile form in Series 1. Whatever the source, at least some are intelligent enough to learn how to operate it effectively. Some Magog aboard their Worldship are armed with coilgunCoilgun
A coilgun is a type of projectile accelerator that consists of one or more coils used as electromagnets in the configuration of a synchronous linear motor which accelerate a magnetic projectile to high velocity...
personal weapons.
Magog World ship
This is the Magog 'mothership'. It is a superstructure made of 20 connected planets surrounding an artificial sun, the size of a small solar system. It is armed with point singularity weapons, carries an unknown but massive number of smaller vessels, and is home to trillions of Magog. In the beginning of Season 4, it was discovered the ship was built by an immortal cyborgCyborg
A cyborg is a being with both biological and artificial parts. The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space. D. S...
named Kroton at the behest of the Spirit of the Abyss. At the end of Season 4, it was thought to be destroyed, but it was later revealed to merely be crippled in Season 5.
The Spirit of the Abyss
Their leader, or god, is the Spirit of the AbyssSpirit of the Abyss
The Spirit of the Abyss is the leader and god of the Magog in the TV series Andromeda. The Abyss is also referred to as "the Darkness" many times in the series...
. He appears to be a powerful but not omnipotent energy being. He has been shown to be able to take over people's bodies, and absorb energy. The Magog say that he is their creator. In an earlier episode, Rev Bem says that the Divine created the Magog: "...the Divine also has nightmares, for he created us."