An engineering team was trapped aboard *Destiny*, and the planned expedition team never arrived
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In *Stargate Universe: Back to Destiny*, a canon comic book followup to Season 2, [issue 1][1] shows Eli traveling to an unexplored section of the ship where there are stasis pods containing Ancients.

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In [issue 2][3], these Ancients explain that they were engineers, not the expedition team designated for the mission.

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> Vasi. My name is *Vasi*. It was not *our* mission. We are engineers, *not* explorers.

She later recounts what happened, explaining that there was a last minute malfunction before *Destiny* launched that trapped them aboard. They were ordered to go into the stasis pods and await rescue from the expedition team, but they never arrived and they don't know why.

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> Vasi (flashback): Then what are we supposed to do?

> Superior (flashback, via audio): *Repair* the power systems in your section and take *refuge* in hibernation pods. When the *expedition team* arrives, you will return through the Astria Porta [Stargate]. 

> Eli: So what *did* you do?

> Vasi: We followed orders. Now, as rescue would seem to be a million years in the past, we are trapped here with no way home.

> Eli: For what it's worth, *that's* something we have in common.

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  [3]: https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Stargate_Universe:_Back_to_Destiny_2
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