Stupidest possible reasons I can think of for Atlantis to lose contact again and/or secede from Earth
Gate and ship travel to the Pegasus galaxy was suspended for six months to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In that time Atlantis had to move again and also drained its ZPM, and now the SGC simply cannot fucking find it.
Due to an unfortunate series of procurement request errors which lead to a run where the Daedalus cargo consisted entirely of several tons of Teyla’s popcorn, Atlantis now believes Earth has been conquered by the Lucian Alliance and refuses any contact.
Somebody (Rodney) fucked up by setting off an EM pulse before all the earth computers could be shut down, frying absolutely everything that ran on microchips instead of crystals. They’re perfectly capable of dialing Earth, but they can’t send any of the requisite computer codes to prove who they are.
Another replicator faux-Atlantis had been limping towards the Milky Way on a low powered hyperdrive for years. SG1 found it and blew it up, thinking it was the real Atlantis. The whole expedition was declared heroically dead. Meanwhile back in Pegasus everyone’s upset because Earth ghosted them after their last call.
The Wraith finally figured out that there are actually a lot of inhabited worlds in the Milky Way and they don’t actually need earth’s exact coordinates to find one. What they’re not smart enough to do is vary the route they take to the Milky Way. Atlantis has been parked in the middle of the intergalactic void for a year blowing ships up as they go by. (“Shooting fish in a barrel”) Since there’s no coordinates to dial out there Earth thinks they finally went fully feral and just fucked off somewhere.
Due to a hyperdrive malfunction, Atlantis slid into an alternate reality and nobody noticed because everything was exactly the same except that reality’s Atlantis got vaporized about ten minutes before. Meanwhile main reality Earth thinks their Atlantis got vaporized. This mix up will never be corrected.
Zelenka had to hide the intergalactic dialing crystal from another wraith intruder. By the time the crisis was over he’d forgotten where he stashed it. Being too embarrassed to admit this, he instead told everyone the Wraith must have found and took it. AR-1 has now been trying to hunt this single random Wraith to get it back for two years. (From the wraith’s perspective he is in a horror movie where the galaxy’s best wraith killers have for some reason focused on only him to hunt.)
The finally found the real Weir. Knowing that Earth would never let them put someone who was in Replicator hands for so long back in charge of the expedition like they wanted, they hatched a plan: they woke Woolsey up in the middle of the night, told him they were under attack and the self destruct was going off in seconds, and then chucked him through the wormhole. Faking their deaths worked with the wraith, it’ll work with earth too.
The fabled “congress defunds the stargate program” finally came to pass for real. O’Neill accidentally-on-purpose forgot to go get them before they ran out of fuel for the Daedalus. Everyone is fine with this.
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