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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Stargate]Why didn't the first expedition to Abydos bring back a Staff Weapon?
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When O'Neill, Kawalsky and Ferretti returned after the original mission they left Daniel chose to stay behind and reported him as having died during the mission. They presumably also played down the presence of residual advanced technology to ensure Daniel and the Abydonian people would be left alone. At that time the Stargate project incorrectly believed the gate only operated between Earth and Abydos so with no apparent opportunity for further exploration and the high cost of "keeping the lights on" they decided to mothball the project.

Of course when Apophis unexpectedly showed up through the Earth gate and showed there was a much bigger universe out there - well, that's when things started to get *much* more interesting...