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You are aware there are usually two major categories of crossover, right? One where both universes exist unhindered by the others rules, where often their obvious incompatibilities collide like sacks of bricks - and the other, perhaps slightly more common type, where one media is (sometimes carefully, sometimes not) folded into the other. In this second type of crossover, the rules of the \
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You are aware there are usually two major categories of crossover, right? One where both universes exist unhindered by the others rules, where often their obvious incompatibilities collide like sacks of bricks - and the other, perhaps slightly more common type, where one media is (sometimes carefully, sometimes not) folded into the other. In this second type of crossover, the rules of the \\\"superior\\\" (for lack of better word) media\\\'s canon overrides the canon of the \\\"lesser\\\" work whenever these two points happen to clash.
In Reunions Are A Bitch, the Stargate-verse, because of it\\\'s 50 million year long fake history, larger setting, larger tech, larger cultural, and far larger real-life media base, is the \\\"superior\\\" canon. This is not simply, say, the Battlestar-verse setting around a year before the movies running into the SG-1 setting. This is the Battlestar verse running by Stargate\\\'s rules. In the story, there is no \\\"Battlestar Galactica 2003\\\" and \\\"Stargate SG-1\\\"; it\\\'s ALL Stargate SG-1. It just happens to have the Stargate Universe\\\'s version of the Colonials and Cylons in it.
The Twelve Colonies aren\\\'t running by Galactica rules; they\\\'re running by Stargate rules. In the Galactica setting, the Twelve Colonies of Kobol are a transplanted (perhaps) or separately evolved culture that had minimal to no interference above hypothesized encounters with \\\"Angels\\\" or agents of God, in its past. Assuming no real interference, a.k.a. the Colonials were dropped of on Kobol and later left and that was the end of it; then they would have had a cultural development exactly like you said: little to no wars of religion, characters who are moderate like modern day Westerners (and Easterners, too) and a president who is not a complete maniac.
In the Stargate setting, however, all humans transplanted off of Earth within the last ten-thousand or so years were taken by the Goa\\\'uld. As demonstrated almost episodically within the series\\\' later seasons, the Goa\\\'uld were viciously competitive, fighting and murdering each other for dominance with every resource at their disposal (the Council of System Lords was only a stop-gate measure; it was not really an actual government, just a place for the System Lords to talk without ripping each others throats out). To the zealously religious slaves of the Goa\\\'uld, this extended pantheocide between the gods, between religions, was practically a way of life. Is it any wonder that a society sprung from such roots would not keep such a deeply embedded trapping? Even on our world, no religious holy text tells you to actively exterminate and forcibly convert worshipers of all other gods. There has been much forced converting of infidels, yes, but actual slaying of gods? Wars of pantheocide embedded that deeply into the very base of your entire culture would be hard to erase.
So, it doesn\\\'t matter that the Colonials are polytheist, and that on Earth, almost all nameable polytheistic religions have never had crusades, or jihads, or whatever equivalent you wish to name. The Goa\\\'uld have been messing with their original culture; The Colonial\\\'s aren\\\'t worshiping the Greek Gods, they\\\'re worshiping Goa\\\'uld. And Goa\\\'uld most certainly waged holy wars.
In Reunions Are A Bitch, the Stargate-verse, because of it\\\'s 50 million year long fake history, larger setting, larger tech, larger cultural, and far larger real-life media base, is the \\\"superior\\\" canon. This is not simply, say, the Battlestar-verse setting around a year before the movies running into the SG-1 setting. This is the Battlestar verse running by Stargate\\\'s rules. In the story, there is no \\\"Battlestar Galactica 2003\\\" and \\\"Stargate SG-1\\\"; it\\\'s ALL Stargate SG-1. It just happens to have the Stargate Universe\\\'s version of the Colonials and Cylons in it.
The Twelve Colonies aren\\\'t running by Galactica rules; they\\\'re running by Stargate rules. In the Galactica setting, the Twelve Colonies of Kobol are a transplanted (perhaps) or separately evolved culture that had minimal to no interference above hypothesized encounters with \\\"Angels\\\" or agents of God, in its past. Assuming no real interference, a.k.a. the Colonials were dropped of on Kobol and later left and that was the end of it; then they would have had a cultural development exactly like you said: little to no wars of religion, characters who are moderate like modern day Westerners (and Easterners, too) and a president who is not a complete maniac.
In the Stargate setting, however, all humans transplanted off of Earth within the last ten-thousand or so years were taken by the Goa\\\'uld. As demonstrated almost episodically within the series\\\' later seasons, the Goa\\\'uld were viciously competitive, fighting and murdering each other for dominance with every resource at their disposal (the Council of System Lords was only a stop-gate measure; it was not really an actual government, just a place for the System Lords to talk without ripping each others throats out). To the zealously religious slaves of the Goa\\\'uld, this extended pantheocide between the gods, between religions, was practically a way of life. Is it any wonder that a society sprung from such roots would not keep such a deeply embedded trapping? Even on our world, no religious holy text tells you to actively exterminate and forcibly convert worshipers of all other gods. There has been much forced converting of infidels, yes, but actual slaying of gods? Wars of pantheocide embedded that deeply into the very base of your entire culture would be hard to erase.
So, it doesn\\\'t matter that the Colonials are polytheist, and that on Earth, almost all nameable polytheistic religions have never had crusades, or jihads, or whatever equivalent you wish to name. The Goa\\\'uld have been messing with their original culture; The Colonial\\\'s aren\\\'t worshiping the Greek Gods, they\\\'re worshiping Goa\\\'uld. And Goa\\\'uld most certainly waged holy wars.
