https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmr80Bf0zg
Rush (Robert Carlyle) finally reveals Destiny's mission to Colonel Young (Louis Ferreira) after finding it in the Ancient database - and initially keeping it

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stargate/comments/1aw9930/what_wouldve_been_the_conclusion_to_destinys/
In that episode Rush reveals the true reason for Destiny's mission; to discover the mystery of the cosmic microwave background radiation's imprint. Perhaps that of intelligent design to the universe. In Gauntlet, we see Rush annoyed about Destiny skipping some of the programmed route. I'm aware (can't find a link) that the show runners

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stargate/comments/xpkve2/where_was_destiny_going_sgus_sudden_ending/
All things dedicated to the 1994 Stargate movie and the MGM franchise: SG-1, Atlantis, Universe, Origins, video, RPG games and everything else. Where Was Destiny Going? SGU's Sudden Ending Interview. Cool interview with u/JosephMallozzi and Paul Mullie on Gate World today about where SGU might have been going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B96gIXfTYA
For the last million years or so an Ancient exploratory vessel named Destiny has been careening through the bowels of the Universe, hopping from galaxy to ga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwy0A6nzYm4
A tribute to Stargate Universe. Nicholas Rush reveals Destiny's mission.Credit : 2WEI - Leaving Chromosphere

https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/09/where-was-destiny-going-sgus-sudden-ending/
Mullie also speculated a bit about just where it was that Destiny might have ended up — although series co-creators Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper never revealed their full plan for the ship's mission and the planned series finale to the rest of the writers room. He said there was some talk about Destiny's course perhaps being not a straight line out to the edge of the universe, but

https://www.gateworld.net/wiki/Destiny
Destiny (translated from its Ancient name) was designed to be a follow-up craft to numerous seeder ships which preceded it in the universe. These automated ships were sent out to gather data, resources, manufacture Stargates and deposit them on habitable worlds. Thus there may be hundreds to thousands of isolated Stargate networks in the universe.

http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/SGU_2.07_%22The_Greater_Good%22_Episode_Guide
Syfy.com Official Summary. Just as the crew is wondering why Destiny has dropped out of FTL, an alien ship is sighted in their path. Fears of another hostile alien encounter are quelled when an auto-piloted kino reveals the ship to be devoid of any life. Rush suggests that the ship be explored by an away team, and, of course, nominates himself

https://www.gateworld.net/wiki/Nicholas_Rush
Nicholas Rush. A scientist placed in charge of the top-secret Icarus Project, Dr. Nicholas Rush would find himself the leading scientific mind on board the Ancient deep-space vessel Destiny -- traveling in a distant galaxy with no means of returning home. Rush is brilliant and cunning, someone who keep his cards close to his chest and always

https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top-10-stargate-moments
#9: Rush Reveals Destiny's Mission "Stargate Universe" (2009-11) Dr. Nicholas Rush and Colonel Everett Young are two of the leading members of the ad hoc crew of the runaway ship Destiny, and they clash numerous times throughout the series, but their conflict comes to a head when it's revealed that Rush has been in control of the ship

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Destiny
Destiny docked with a seed ship.. Following the Lucian Alliance invasion of Destiny, Dr. Nicholas Rush discovered the ship's bridge, along with information about its mission.However, he attempted to conceal this information in the belief that nobody else in the crew would be able to understand the implications of his discovery, resulting in the death of Sgt. Hunter Riley when Rush programmed

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Yeah, Rush implies that Destiny's mission isn't some speedrun to one location where it will reveal all secrets of the universe. It's trying to solve a puzzle, the pattern in cosmic background radiation. Which filled the entire universe after Big Bang, technically it's everywhere.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1720543/plotsummary/
Young reveals that he will stay with Rush on Destiny and Rush says they need at least ten more people to work the ship. Before they can present Rush's case, however, they are called to the bridge by Telford. When the Destiny dropped out of FTL, they discovered something orbiting the local star, the one they are set to pass through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxI292hXjok
The clip viewed here is from Stargate: Universe and is property of MGM Studios. Copyright 2009-2011. All Rights Reserved.Rush finally explains to Colonel You

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Nicholas_Rush
Doctor Nicholas Rush is a brilliant, albeit erratic, scientist and an expert in Ancient technology, comparable to the likes of Colonel Samantha Carter and Dr. Rodney McKay. He is a member of the team sent and later trapped aboard the Ancient vessel Destiny. Nicholas Rush was born into a poor family. His father worked in the shipyards of Glasgow. Rush was working two jobs until he earned a

https://forum.gateworld.net/stargate-universe/89356-rush-dialing-destiny-with-earth-s-point-of-origin
Of course, O' Neill has two power sources built - one for the Earth's Icarus base and one for Destiny, thus, allowing a two-way trip between the ship and the Earth. Of course, Rush helps out in modifying the ship's Stargate systems so they could use external power source with Destiny's gate to connect to Earth.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/198709/when-was-destiny-launched
Stargate Universe: Back to Destiny #2 — "Approximately one million years ago" Issue #2 of the official comic continuation of Stargate Universe shows a flashback of Destiny being built in Earth orbit. Earth orbit. Approximately one million years ago… This comic also establishes that Atlantis was "a competing project with the same mission".

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The seed ships were in front of Destiny, placing the Stargates they use in the show. The purpose of Destiny is that the Ancients discovered some structure in the very early universe. The Destiny was sent out to investigate. I think more along the line to get a different vantage point on the signals they were seeing.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/stargate-universe-re-destinys-mission-contains-s1-s2-spoilers.569321/
That said maybe originally Destiny completed its mission (creating the Message) without the Terrans on board, but now that they're on the ship they've messed it all up and the whole thing is now an alternate universe (which may explain the 9th Chevron and the series title - 7 chevrons gets you to a different planet in the same galaxy, 8

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286039/plotsummary/
An attack on a secret off-world base by a rebel organisation has stranded the remaining survivors on an Ancient ship "Destiny", a large unmanned ship launched millions of years ago. At the far end of the universe, Colonel Everett Young and Dr. Nicolas Rush now lead the new "Destiny" crew on a journey to discovering new worlds as well as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stargate_Universe_characters
Rush explains his motives for doing so to Young, including Destiny's true mission, and asks Young for his support in completing it. Young accedes to the point that when the crew has a chance to return home and Rush intends to stay behind with volunteers to complete the mission, Young chooses to stay as well to lead those who stay; in an

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stargate/comments/yn9gh/the_biggest_unanswered_question_of_sgu/
What they found instead based on Destiny's data are the traces of a message from the very beginning of the universe itself. Destiny is essentially following the trace of this message. Destiny will reach the end of its mission as the crew realizes that they have reached the very center of our universe, the starting point for the big bang.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/stargate-universe-season-3-how-the-series-could-get-an-ending-after-13-years/ar-BB1jLyHh
S targate Universe aired from 2009 to 2011 as the third series in the Stargate franchise. Unlike its predecessors, Stargate: SG-1 and the first spin-off, Stargate: Atlantis, which shared a similar

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Essentially it's a mobile version of Stargate Command that allowed the Ancients to gate to a vicinity close to the seedships. So Destiny was a type of base of operations where the ancients could oversee and manage the seeding operation and the exploration they had been planning on doing. 3. Reply. Z_for_Zontar.