"To that," Rush pointed at the rift. "The Destiny was built to come here. This is the end of the line."

Throughout the series, the characters encounter various alien species, planets, and technologies, while also exploring the mysteries of the Destiny and its purpose.

We can go home, Eli thought. Back to Earth. Back to his mother. Back to video games and pizza and safety.

Then the Stargate activated without command.

Dr. Mira Vance had spent twenty years listening to the silence of deep space. As the chief astrophysicist aboard the George Hammond , she had catalogued pulsars, mapped dark matter filaments, and once, memorably, argued for fifteen hours about the spin-state of a quasar’s accretion disk. She loved the silence. It was clean. It was honest.