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stargate - How do the Replicators get to the Asgard galaxy?


I was rewatching Stargate-SG1 and noticed something while I was watching "Menace" where we learn that the android Reese created the Replicators and sent them out in to the galaxy.


We know that the Replicators integrate technology they consume to their own and lastly we know of no race that were capable of travelling between galaxies (and that lives in the Milky Way) aside from the ancients


My question is, how did they end up in the Asgard galaxy (Ida) and why didn't they consume everything in the Milky Way long before the series began?


Is is ever explained?


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Answer




The short answer is that it's not explained in canon. Although the Asgard have had a presence in the Milky Way Galaxy for a very long time (and hence it would be logical to assume they encountered the Replicators there) Thor explictly states that they were first encountered in the Ida Galaxy.



THOR : They were discovered on an isolated planet in our home galaxy some years ago. The creators were not present.


TEAL'C : Most likely destroyed by their own creation.


THOR : The Replicators were brought aboard an Asgard ship for study before the danger could be fully comprehended.


O'NEILL : We do that all the time. I kinda expected more from you guys.


THOR : Overconfidence in our technologies has been our undoing. The entities learned from the very means that were employed to stop them. They have become a plague on our galaxy that is annihilating everything in its path.



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