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general info | known Abydonians
Planet: Abydos. No SGC-standard designation.
Desert-dwelling, culture based on ancient Egypt. Once under Ra's rule, but free since Jack and Daniel blew up Ra's ship, with Ra on it. (Stargate the movie)
Abydos has two moons, and a 36-hour day. (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods)
There were some 5,000 people living in the city near Ra's temple. (Children of the Gods)
Daniel Jackson's adopted home and people. (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods)
He stayed behind after the first mission to marry Sha're, and spent more than a year among the Abydonians before Jack came back to retrieve him. (Children of the Gods)
The walls on one of Abydos's caves were covered in stargate addresses Daniel found the cave and figured it out, and when he explained it, Sam videotaped the walls, giving the SGC the " Abydos cartouche" -- hundreds of addresses to go to, without having to guess at them. (Children of the Gods)
" The caves of Kaleemah" -- supposed to be a safe place to hide. Possibly the same caves where the villagers hid from Ra in the movie. (Full Circle)
Abydos faced a brutal attack by Anubis. The women and children hid in the caves of Kaleemah (led there and guarded by Kasuf), while the men and boys used Tau'ri weapons to defend their village and the temple. (Full Circle)
Several of the Abydonian boys/young men, including Skaara, were wearing at least partial military garb, specifically the black vest. (Full Circle)
Oma Desala began ascending the dead and dying Abydonians during the battle. (Full Circle)
Anubis finally unleashed the full destructive force of his mothership against the planet, focusing its power on the temple. The temple exploded in layers, and the explosions worked their way into the ground from there, traveling outward, wreaking utter havoc on the world (or at least the known populated part of it). Oma ascended all the Abydonians. (Full Circle)
The Abydonians (or at least some of them) remained in ascended form long enough for SG-1 to return (thanks to Oma, who built an illusionary temple for them to return to, including working stargate) and see that they were all okay in their own way, then left. (Full Circle)
The Abydonian stargate worked only long enough to let SG-1 visit and return almost immediately. After that, it was gone (reburied?). (Full Circle)
Headman of the main (only?) Abydonian village. Completely loyal to Ra his whole life, but remarkably well-adjusted to freedom after Ra was killed. Father to Sha're and Skaara, and Daniel's father-in-law. (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods)
He lost his children to Goa'uld, both taken as hosts. (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods)
Sha're died a few years later. (Forever in a Day)
Skaara survived the extraction of his Goa'uld parasite, but it's not clear if he returned to Abydos or went elsewhere (Pretense). (As of Full Circle, Skaara was back on Abydos, but it's still not clear how long he was there.)
Kasuf has a grandson, Shifu, but Shifu is harsesis and is being raised by Oma Desala. (Secrets, Maternal Instinct, Absolute Power)
Kasuf took care of Shifu as a very young child (basically still an infant), then didn't see him again for at least a year, when Shifu reappeared on Abydos looking for Daniel. He'd been artificially aged (through nanites) to about age 10 or 12.
It's entirely possible that Kasuf never saw him again at all after that. (Absolute Power)
He led the women and children to the caves of Kaleemah to keep them safe from Anubis's attack. He died along with everyone else in the shockwave from the exploding temple.(Full Circle)
Kasuf's only daughter.
She was given to Daniel as a gift during the first mission to Abydos. (Stargate the movie)
She knew how to read, even though reading was forbidden. (Stargate the movie)
She instigated the rebellion carried out by the Abydonian boys to rescue Jack, Daniel, and the others, telling them about how their ancestors had been brought to Abydos and enslaved and telling them they shouldn't be slaves any more. (Stargate the movie)
Very possibly died after a Jaffa shot a staff at her. Whether dead or just badly injured, she was revived after Daniel put her in Ra's sarcophagus. (Stargate the movie)
She and Daniel hit it off for real, and Daniel stayed behind with her as her husband when Jack, Kawalsky, and Ferretti returned to Earth. (Stargate the movie)
She and Daniel lived together for more than a year on Abydos. (Children of the Gods)
While Daniel was living on Abydos, Sha're saw him writing in his journal with a ballpoint pen, and thought it was magic. (Forever in a Day)
Shortly after Jack returned with a new mission to retrieve Daniel, Apophis's troops (led by Teal'c) came through, kidnapping Sha're and her brother Skaara. (Children of the Gods)
She was given as a host to Amaunet, Apophis's queen. (Children of the Gods)
She bore the harsesis child, which Daniel and Teal'c promptly stole (to keep the boy safe, and away from Apophis). (Secrets)
About a year later, Amaunet stole the child back from Abydos, along with a whole lot of Abydonians as cover.
SG-1 and SG-3 went in to get the Abydonians out. Daniel spotted Amaunet/Sha're and went to her. Amaunet ribboned him, but Sha're managed to get a mental message to him about the child's whereabouts, begging him to protect the boy.
She did so by (probably) setting up a multi-stage hallucination for the dying Daniel, helping to speed him through the stages of grief so that when he woke up and watched her die for real, he was sad, but able to go on. (Forever in a Day)
She died a minute later, when Teal'c shot Amaunet to save Daniel -- but she died knowing Daniel still loved her, and able to tell him one last time that she loved him. (Forever in a Day)
Kasuf's only son.
He bonded with Jack on the first mission to Abydos, and was Daniel's brother-in-law after Daniel married Sha're. (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods)
A year or so later, he was kidnapped by Teal'c and taken to Chulak to be offered as a host. (Children of the Gods)
He was chosen, and became the host to Klorel. (Children of the Gods)
Skaara was strong and fought Klorel off as much as he could, retaining an astonishing level of control over Klorel, even though he usually lost in the end. (Serpent's Lair)
He was probably the reason Klorel didn't have Teal'c killed immediately after Apophis ordered it (he actually stopped the priest who was about to use a very ugly two-pronged knife to remove/kill Teal'c's symbiote) and later, he fought like hell to keep Klorel from putting up the shields around the ha'tak to protect it from the missile from Earth. (Serpent's Lair)
Klorel won that fight, but it was a close thing. It was enough to make Klorel ask Apophis for more time in the sarcophagus, to get strong enough to more effectively subdue Skaara. (Serpent's Lair)
On the run after a battle with Heru'ur's forces, Klorel crash-landed on Tollana, and Skaara seized his chance, asking to be freed of his " demon" .
The Tollans held a triad (trial), with Zipacna arguing for Klorel, Jack and Daniel arguing for Skaara, and Lya of the Nox as neutral third party. (Pretense)
Skaara specifically requested that SG-1 be brought to his triad to help him. (Pretense)
The decision went in Skaara's favor, and Klorel was removed, leaving Skaara free. (Pretense)
It's not clear where he went after this -- there's been no mention or sight of him being on Abydos.
update: Apparently he did go back to Abydos after Pretense, at least at some point. (Full Circle)
His style of dress after he returned to Abydos reflected a mix of Tau'ri and Abydonian -- SGC uniform pants (belted with a rope) and black vest, under traditional Abydonian robes. (Full Circle)
He was betrothed (the woman's name is unknown), and wanted Jack to " sha lo key" -- stand beside him at the ceremony. (Full Circle)
Daniel's urging and promise of support helped Skaara believe that the Abydonians could hold off Anubis. He in turn convinced the other boys and young men, assuring them that with Daniel's godlike help, they would succeed. (Full Circle)
During the battle with Anubis's Jaffa in Ra's temple, he took a staff blast to the torso. He lived long enough to be brought to the lower level of the temple with SG-1, but died shortly thereafter. He ascended as he died, helped by Oma. (Full Circle)
He was the ascended Abydonian who spoke with SG-1 (the others were all around, but not particularly interacting with the team) to assure them that although everyone had been killed in the final blast, they were all just fine. (Full Circle)
In his ascended form, he retained the quasi-military dress, but with the black vest open instead of closed. (Full Circle)
He hadn't seen Daniel since his (Skaara's) ascension. (Full Circle)
Planet: Adora (The Ties That Bind)
The planet has at least two moons ('We would ... lie, naked, under Adora's moons'). (The Ties That Bind)
The local civilization was at least somewhat technological - several people on the planet were familiar with alien technology and had researched it well enough to know how it worked. (The Ties That Bind)
There was at least one city. (The Ties That Bind)
Near the city were the springs of Aragatan. (The Ties That Bind)
He was one of the leading scientists on the planet, or at least one of the top researchers into alien technology. (The Ties That Bind)
He had a relationship with Vala - including stealing away from the city at night to bathe in the springs of Aragatan and lie naked under the moons together doing things Mitchell refused to let him go into detail about. (The Ties That Bind)
When Mitchell and Daniel arrived to ask him if he knew how the Goa'uld bracelets worked, he immediately figured out they were his stolen bracelets, and told them he wouldn't give them any information until he saw Vala again. (The Ties That Bind)
When Vala arrived he told her he was over her (and that he wasn't going to have her killed, since the lifelong memory of her callous treatment of him should be punishment enough), and all he wanted was his mother's necklace back - which Vala had stolen along with the bracelets. When it was clear he wouldn't deal unless it was returned, Mitchell promised they'd get it. (The Ties That Bind)
Planet: local name unknown. SGC designation P3X-367. (Metamorphosis)
Baseline human to begin with. After Nirrti got hold of them and started changing them, they may have remained slightly altered (despite plans to revert back to their base genetic makeup). (Metamorphosis)
Their people were almost wiped out by a plague. Nirrti found them and took some of the survivors to a fortress where she began putting them in a machine (possibly of Ancient origin) that altered their genetic makeup in realtime. The alterations changed them both physically and mentally. Physically, they became varyingly deformed. Mentally, they gained various psychic abilities, including telekinesis and telepathy. (Metamorphosis)
Brother to Wodan. A youth, roughly 18-20 at a guess, who questioned Nirrti's methods of " helping" his people after he saw one of them die horribly. She let him go and told him to return home, saying he was well enough -- when he did, he discovered the rest of his people were dead. He found the SGC's Russian team and begged help from them. Col. Ivanov brought him back to the SGC. Alabran barely had time to tell his story before the genetic " time-bomb" Nirrti had planted in him was triggered, and he liquefied (literally). (Metamorphosis)
One of the mutated locals who believed that Nirrti was helping them. His physical mutation involved some scarring on his face that made one eye unusable, and deformed hands. Mentally, he had become a strong telepath. He realized that SG-1 were there to stop Nirrti (and more specifically, that Jack wanted to kill her outright), and made sure Wodan knew. Later, he took a chance on Jack's telling the truth, and looked into Nirrti's mind. The truth of what he saw there -- that she had murdered Alabran, murdered hundreds more of their people, and planned to murder the rest as soon as she was done with them -- was enough to spark a mini-uprising. Before Wodan killed her, Eggar stripped the knowledge of how to use the alien machine from her mind, so he could reverse all the damage she'd done. (Metamorphosis)
Brother to Alabran. Nirrti's right hand among the locals, extremely devoted to her. His " mutation" involved an enlarged head and deformed hands, along with strong telekinesis. On hearing that SG-1 was a danger to Nirrti (from Eggar, as well as his own observations), he captured them all to await her pleasure, using telekinetic force to disarm them and trap them in cages. When Eggar, on Jack's urging, looked into Nirrti's mind and discovered the truth, Wodan killed her two Jaffa guards and then Nirrti telekinetically in his betrayed rage. (Metamorphosis)
general info | known Altairians
Planet: Altair. SGC designation P3X-989. (Tin Man)
Baseline human, from all appearances. (Tin Man)
The civilization began above-ground, but when the planet's biosphere could no longer support them, about 11,000 years ago, an underground complex was created by a man named Hubald, and a thousand people transferred their consciousness to synthetic bodies, so the race would survive in some fashion. The transfer process wasn't perfect, and some were lost, including Sakura, Ereath, and Tira. Hubald's new body also failed, and the survivors couldn't repair it -- all his secrets were lost with him. Of the survivors, some went through the stargate carrying small power packs, but never returned. Most of the rest suicided by going onto the surface, out of the range of the power source. Without the steady stream of power from the emitters, the synthetic bodies are only functional for a few hours. (Tin Man)
Only one final survivor remains in synthetic form: Harlan. Wallace was the last one to go before him, leaving Harlan alone. (Tin Man)
Died as a result of the initial transfer process, millennia ago. (Tin Man)
Final survivor among the synthetics.
He had gotten pretty lonely and desperate, having to care for all the machinery alone, and when SG-1 came through the stargate he knocked them all out and created synthetics of them to keep him company. Eventually they accepted their fate, and remained behind with him when the original, organic team returned home. (Tin Man)
When the synthetic team -- who had developed better power packs and gone back to fighting the Goa'uld on their own terms -- failed to return from offworld on one mission, Harlan contacted the SGC and asked for help, eventually enlisting Jack, Sam, and Teal'c to go to the planet where the synthetics had gone. (Double Jeopardy)
Creator of the underground complex that the synthetic replicas of the final survivors of the race retreated to 11,000 years ago. His new body failed, though, and he died, taking all his secrets with him and leaving the survivors to struggle along as best they could. (Tin Man)
Died as a result of the initial transfer process, millennia ago. (Tin Man)
Died as a result of the initial transfer process, millennia ago. (Tin Man)
Second-to-last survivor among the synthetics.
Planet: Amra (SGC designation unknown)
(nb: This is possibly the name of the country, not the planet, but it's all I've got so I'm going with it.)
SG-5 brought two (unnamed) representatives from Amra back to the SGC to discuss a pending trade agreement. (Zero Hour)
The planet (country?) appeared to be split into factions, which, while not at war with each other, clearly had some negative feeling for each other.
The representatives at the SGC came from different areas -- one was from the plains, one was not (and was incredibly superior about that fact). (Zero Hour)
The plainsmen held that the Plains of Goran were sacred. That belief wasn't widespread outside the plains, apparently. (Zero Hour)
When Jack locked the two Amran representatives at the SGC into a room together after an hour of " negotiating" (bickering), they were appalled. (Zero Hour)
By the next morning, they were beyond appalled, they were furious. They demanded to be let go immediately, swearing that there would never be a trade agreement between their government and Earth's now. Jack left them locked up. (Zero Hour)
An unspecified number of days later, Mark Gilmor let them go -- they were apparently much more amenable to the idea of negotiating. (Zero Hour)
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general info | known Argosians
Planet: Argos. SGC designation P3X-8596.
People whose ancestors were apparently taken from the Peloponnesus by the Goa'uld Pelops and transported to Argos, where he messed with their genetic structure to speed up the pace of their lives -- they live a hundred years in a hundred days. (Brief Candle)
They call themselves the Chosen. Their favorite aphorism was " And to every man (or woman) the Creator gives one hundred blissful days" -- and they considered it a sin not to blissfully enjoy each one, partying all day long with good food and drink. (Brief Candle)
Each night, a hidden transmitter gave off a signal to the nanocites (nanites) infesting each Argosian to put them to sleep until sunup, and triggering the nanocites to continue the aging process. A second transmitter turned off the nanocites and woke everyone up at sunup. (Brief Candle)
SG-2 returned to the planet sometime late in 1997, to find that after the transmitters were destroyed, the Argosians reverted to human-normal, and began leading long, productive lives. (Politics)
Husband to Thetys and father to Dan-ell along with Thetys, he was the first to meet SG-1 when they came through the stargate. Blessed with a natural curiosity -- when the aging Jack asked him what he'd do if he had thousands of days of life, he instantly said he'd go exploring beyond the bounds of the Chosen's lands, to see what was there. When Jack told them all that Pelops considered them his slaves, Alekos was the first to declare himself no longer one of the Chosen. (Brief Candle)
Child of Thetys and Alekos, born right after SG-1 came through the stargate into Pelops's temple. Daniel was the midwife -- the boy was named after him. Dan-ell had a " tri-point" -- a vaguely pyramidal birthmark -- on his arm, which was believed to bring him luck. (Brief Candle)
A woman who found Jack very attractive, enough to offer him her people's traditional wedding cake and drug/seduce him into her bed. She was 30 days old at the time. She seemed genuinely fond of Jack, spending time with him as he " aged" as a result of Pelops's nanocites. (Brief Candle)
Argosian boy. (Brief Candle)
Wife of Alekos. She gave birth in Pelops's temple right after SG-1's arrival. Daniel was the midwife, and in gratitude, she named her child Dan-ell. She was 20 days old when Dan-ell was born. (Brief Candle)
Originally under Ares's domain. He abandoned it long ago, no idea why. (It's Good to Be King)
Possibly the naquadah mine ran dry. (It's Good to Be King)
They have a complicated lunar calendar. (It's Good to Be King)
Currently has a very medieval-northern-Europe feel, but no one specific period. (It's Good to Be King)
The locals avoided the area around the naquadah mine, the site of their former enslavement. (It's Good to Be King)
After Maybourne successfully predicted a great flood that would destroy their village and got them all to move to higher ground for safety, the locals made him their king out of gratitude, becoming known as King Arkhan the First. (It's Good to Be King)
It's not clear whether he took the name Arkhan when he first arrived on the planet, or if that was just his " royal" name. (It's Good to Be King)
When Maybourne told them of the prophecy that offworlders would come and save them from a new incursion of an old enemy -- the Goa'uld -- the people believed him. (It's Good to Be King)
He may have left out the bit about " offworlders" -- Garan didn't trust SG-1 at all, and she probably would have if she'd thought they were destined to help her people. (It's Good to Be King)
The villagers believed him a little too completely -- when he told them they'd have to leave after all to be safe, they were sure that such a thing couldn't possible be necessary. (It's Good to Be King)
The villagers were shocked and dismayed when " King Arkhan" exposed his own duplicity -- Maybourne told them the truth to try to save their lives, hoping that if they knew he was just a pretender that they'd agree to evacuate before Ares arrived. Before he could walk away after removing his crown, though, Garan recovered enough to rally the people around her, pointing out everything he'd done for them besides the prophecy and declaring him a true leader. To a steady chant of " Arkhan! Arkhan!" , Maybourne put his crown back on. (It's Good to Be King)
When Ares's Jaffa arrived, the villagers were resentful and didn't try to hide it, since they were sure they'd be safe. (It's Good to Be King)
One of the local fruits was called an " ojen fruit" until Maybourne described it as a cross between a guava and a mango, and Daniel sarcastically termed it a " guango" -- Maybourne liked the name and decreed that that was what it would be called henceforth. (It's Good to Be King)
aka Harry Maybourne. I have no idea why he went with " Arkhan" as a name, or if the locals gave it to him after he was crowned.
Somewhere along the way, he picked up enough Ancient to be able to read it. (It's Good to Be King)
He had at least two wives, possibly more. (It's Good to Be King)
Maybourne got dropped off on the planet by the Tok'ra after the events of Paradise Lost and lived among the locals for more than a year, presumably with no special privileges. When on a long walk one day he discovered some ruins, including pillars that held Ancient writing -- one of them holding a detailed description of what would happen in the future. He took the knowledge he gained from reading that and warned the village about a great flood that would destroy their village, convincing them to move to higher ground for safety. In gratitude, they made him their king. (It's Good to Be King)
The shield behind his throne was quartered (heraldic terms in parens at the end of each, and hopefully I got them right):
(top left) gold crown on black background (sable on a quarterly, a crown or)
(top right) black lion rampant (facing left), on a gold background (or on a quarterly, a lion rampant sable)
(bottom right) gold star on a black background (sable on a quarterly, a star or)
(bottom left) black stargate on a gold background (or on a quarterly, a stargate sable)
He was having a lot of fun being king, naming whatever took his fancy (e.g., the " Grateful Dead" burial ground) and generally just revelling in the power. (It's Good to Be King)
While king, he introduced some new things into the culture:
Designed a new water mill
Introduced new medicines
Introduced a legal code
Set up an irrigation system
He admitted to having used his " prophetic" knowledge to his own advantage at first, but said that after being made king, he'd grown to truly care about his people, and that he wanted to help them. To all appearances, he was telling the truth. (It's Good to Be King)
He believed the prophecies a little too thoroughly, without thinking them out -- when he saw that offworlders would arrive and defeat " the old enemy" according to the pillar, he assured the villagers that they would be safe when the Goa'uld showed up, never stopping to think about casualties. When Jack pointed that possibility out, Maybourne tried to talk the village elders into leaving, but they also believed him and the prophecies a little too thoroughly. It didn't help that he clearly didn't want to admit to having been wrong originally. (It's Good to Be King)
Very much to his credit, when he realized that the villagers had no intention of leaving because they believed him infallible, Maybourne came down off the stairs (where he'd been speaking) to their level and admitted he hadn't been completely honest, saying he wasn't a seer, just a " regular guy" who found the prophecies on the wall of the old temple and knew how to interpret them. He removed his crown as he apologized for taking advantage of them. (It's Good to Be King)
When Garan pointed out all the other things he'd done for their people beyond the prophecies and got the people rallied behind her chanting his name, he put the crown back on, clearly pleased (okay, and a little smug, but he'd earned it there). (It's Good to Be King)
He started playing for time when Ares's Jaffa showed up, sucking up to Trelak (the First Prime) and assuring him that he'd have the people's cooperation. He did his best to cover for the villagers' obvious resentment of the Jaffa and gave no hint of SG-1's or Jack's presence, going so far as to ask " What's a 'Tau'ri'?" when Trelak heard gunfire in the distance. (It's Good to Be King)
Trelak didn't buy that Maybourne hadn't known anything, and started to throttle him. After Trelak tossed him aside to go after Teal'c when Teal'c and Daniel started fighting their captors, Maybourne took a second to recover then grabbed a nearby pot and smashed it over Trelak's head. It didn't do any good, but it was a nice move. He went for a length of metal pipe (or something) next, but Teal'c took out Trelak before he needed to use it. (It's Good to Be King)
She was the leader of a hunting party, and had no problem capturing SG-1 after they came through the gate. Later, she took a sortie to capture Sam, Daniel, and Jack near the Ancient ship on her own initiative, not trusting the strangers who appeared to be trying to take the villagers' king away from them. (It's Good to Be King)
She was devoted to King Arkhan (Maybourne). (It's Good to Be King)
She didn't trust SG-1 at all, and thought Jack was lying when he said Arkhan wasn't a seer. (It's Good to Be King)
When Arkhan told the villagers that he'd been lying about being a seer, and instead had just gotten his prophetic knowledge off the walls of the old temple, Garan was clearly shocked. When he took off his crown and started to walk away, though, she rallied and started listing off all the things that he had done for the villagers without aid of the temple writings, saying that those weren't the acts of a pretender, but a leader. (It's Good to Be King)
When Teal'c and Daniel were busy fighting the Jaffa in the courtyard, she pitched in by shooting the Jaffa currently trying to strangle Daniel, getting him in the back with a crossbow bolt. She probably killed him, but it's not confirmed. (It's Good to Be King)
Highly humanoid -- effectively human, except with a different brain chemistry and with different abilities. (Frozen)
The race's actual name is unknown. Possibly the Ancients, possibly an advanced stage in the human evolutionary process, possibly both. (Frozen)
Her EEG matched those of Jack under the influence of the Ancients's repository, and Cassie's under the influence of Nirrti's tampering. (Frozen)
Her brain chemistry was very different than that of humans, however. (Frozen)
Found perfectly preserved in the Antarctic icecap, where she'd been frozen for several million years. At least 3 million years old, possibly as much as 50 million years. (Frozen)
Strong self-healing abilities (cellular level). (Frozen)
Carrier of a disease fatal to humans -- she could heal it in others, but doing so drained her. (Frozen)
Planet: P2X-416
The planet is split into two continents: Bedrosia and Optrica. (New Ground)
About 2,000 years ago, the planet underwent a period of violent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, called the Upheaval. (New Ground)
Their world's stargate was on the Bedrosian continent, buried in a cliff face during the Upheaval. The DHD was buried in the ground. (New Ground)
The peoples of the two continents had been at war for decades by the time SG-1 showed up, over religion.
The Bedrosians believed that life was created on Bedrosia by Nefertum, the creator. (New Ground)
The Optricans believed that they had evolved on another world and been brought to this one via an interstellar gateway -- which they considered holy, and believed (correctly) to be on Bedrosia. (New Ground)
The Bedrosian government tracked its people with something called the Bedrosian Central Registry. When Rigar's lieutenant analyzed SG-1's blood, none of them showed a particle match with the Registry. Rigar took this as proof that they were Optricans. (New Ground)
Electrified cages:
To hold prisoners in -- just big enough to sit in without touching the edges. (New Ground)
Hand weapons/rifles that looked something like long curved sticks the stock and barrel design was very simple (a place to grip the end, with a long simple curve leading to the muzzle end), with a double, pointed, triangular muzzle. The top point was almost dart-like the lower was longer and more dangerous-looking. They shot energy bursts, not physical projectiles. They could also be used to deliver contact jolts of energy. (New Ground)
They also lock and unlock the cages prisoners are kept in, and can electrify or un-electrify the cages. (New Ground)
Ergonomic chairs:
Common enough to bring to a remote quarantine site (where they'd set up to interrogate SG-1, near the stargate) they look like Aerons. (New Ground)
Force fields:
These protected the ships, and could also be projected from the airships to enclose people on the ground four of them formed a box that then pulled in. When the force field touched Jack, Sam, and Daniel, they were knocked unconscious. (New Ground)
Healing device:
Among other things, it can regenerate visual nerves, if it's used within the first 30 hours after an injury. (New Ground)
It emits a beam that regenerates the nerve, and is applied in short bursts, with time between. Too short a break between treatments could do more harm than good. (New Ground)
Portable blood analysis machines.(New Ground)
Quarantine shield:
A larger force field in a dome shape, protecting an area so that only shuttlecraft could get in. Rigar set one up around Nyan's archaeological dig, with enough space for several large tents and some shuttlecraft as well. (New Ground)
Shuttlecraft (airships)
Could fly or hover equally easily -- boxy affairs with no wings. (New Ground)
Technology/weapons/gear left behind by SG-1 (New Ground):
Naquadah reactor and the wires needed to hook it to a stargate
MALP (the electrics are probably fried, since it was zatted) -- Staff weapon
Three radios
Six grenades
At least two pistols, fully loaded
Two M5s, with six clips (nb: I don't know guns, and I can't swear that it was an M5 at that point all I'm sure of is that it isn't a P-90. If someone knows differently, by all means, let me know and I'll change it.)
Three compasses
Three watches
Three GDOs
Three knives
Three vests
various field rations
two notebooks, probably Daniel's no idea if they'd been written in yet
An archaeologist working with Nyan to uncover what turned out to be the stargate. Her first assumption was that it was something that their ancestors had used for astronomical calculations. (New Ground)
They were searching for a settlement that had been there before the Upheaval, to prove the Bedrosian theory that human life was created on Bedrosia by Nefertum, without a gateway. (New Ground)
When the chevrons on the stargate started lighting up, she got scared and told Nyan they should leave. When he walked up to the event horizon to see what it was, she told him he'd drown. (New Ground)
She didn't run when the MALP came through, though -- she stayed to see what it was. (New Ground)
After Daniel started talking, and said he was on another planet, she decided it was a trick (Optrican, presumably), and told Nyan they should report it. (New Ground)
When Nyan said he thought they'd found the gateway, Mallin got nervous -- she said the gateway didn't exist, it was just Optrican legend, and that it would be very dangerous to assume that this was the gateway. (Basically, it would be blasphemy, and would undermine their entire culture's belief system/basis.) (New Ground)
She wanted Nyan to say no when Daniel asked to come through. When he said yes, she took off running to report the situation. (New Ground)
Commander Rigar brought her with him to investigate the " aliens" . She insisted that they'd come through the circle, even though Rigar was convinced that it was nothing more than a trick. (New Ground)
Her insistence got her sent back to Rigar's base to be questioned further. (New Ground)
A Bedrosian archaeologist who believed in Nefertum as his creator. (New Ground)
He was working with Mallin and at least one other person (unnamed), searching for a settlement that had existed before the Upheaval, to prove the Bedrosian theory that human life was created on Bedrosia without a gateway. Instead, they uncovered the stargate, just in time for the SGC's cold-dialing program to dial in. (New Ground)
Open-minded and curious.
When the stargate he'd just unburied first activated, he walked up to the event horizon and stuck his hand in to see what it felt like. A few minutes later, when the MALP came through and Daniel started addressing him through it, Nyan's first thought was that he was dealing with a mechanical life form. (New Ground)
As soon as he realized there was life on the other side of the circle, Nyan told Mallin that he thought it was the gateway -- and that if it was, the Bedrosians were wrong, and the Optricans were right. (New Ground)
He brought the blinded and injured Teal'c to a cave that held supplies for safety. They spoke of Nefertum, and Teal'c told Nyan that he had been an under-System Lord to Ra, and had likely brought Nyan's people through the stargate as slaves thousands of years ago. Nyan was a bit horrified faced by the blatant blasphemy, but his scientific training took over, leading him to want to present the truth at the " research academy" to his fellow scientists, sure that they would be able to overcome their religious upbringing in the face of clear evidence. (New Ground)
When Teal'c pointed out that the military had the stargate under its control, Nyan said it was Teal'c he wanted to use as proof. Teal'c didn't take that well -- all he wanted was to rescue his teammates. (New Ground)
He was as excited to have his theories conclusively proved wrong as he would have been to have had them proved right he was all about the pure science. (New Ground)
He brought a healing device back to the cave to help regenerate Teal'c's visual nerves, and basically bullied Teal'c into using it, saying he refused to be part of a suicide mission to rescue the rest of the team, which is what it would be if Teal'c remained blind. (New Ground)
He wasn't intimidated at all by Teal'c's size or strength, even after nearly being throttled by him when he first came across the injured Teal'c. (New Ground)
When he and Teal'c went off to rescue the rest of SG-1, he insisted that they shoot to stun, not kill. (New Ground)
Despite having never used a weapon before, he proved adept at using both a zat and one of the Bedrosian weapons. (New Ground)
It's possible that Nyan killed a soldier without meaning to -- one of his zat blasts sounded like a double shot. No confirmation, though. (New Ground)
Running for the stargate behind Jack and Teal'c, Nyan took a full-force stun blast from Rigar and collapsed. Teal'c went back for him and he and Jack brought Nyan through the stargate to Earth. (New Ground)
While recovering from the stun blast, Nyan, who had just been granted refugee status by the Air Force, was offered the position of Daniel's research assistant at the SGC. He probably accepted, but we never actually saw it. (New Ground)
A Bedrosian commander. (New Ground)
He walked with a limp, presumably from an injury he got in battle with the Optricans. (New Ground)
Mallin reported her suspicions to him, and he led a troop to the stargate to capture SG-1. (New Ground)
He refused to believe that they were aliens, accusing them of being Optrican spies sent to simulate the Optrican beliefs about the gateway in order to undermine the most basic Bedrosian beliefs. (New Ground)
He was adamant about this, even when others began to question it. He refused to accept that his people had spent generations praying to a god that didn't exist, and that many of their people had died meaningless deaths in battle. (New Ground)
Even when the SGC redialed the gate and Rigar watched the kawoosh shoot out, with the event horizon there afterward, he insisted that it wasn't the gateway, just an Optrican trick. (New Ground)
He had no trouble figuring out how a zat worked. (New Ground)
He shot Nyan with one of the energy rifles when Nyan was trying to escape with Jack and Teal'c. (New Ground)
Jack zatted him once after he shot Nyan, and he collapsed. (New Ground)
Rigar's second-in-command, by the look of it, or possibly his personal aide. (No visible insignia, and no rank was ever given for her -- her name was never even said by anyone, I got it off the credits.) (New Ground)
She traveled with Rigar to the stargate to capture SG-1, and used a very big needle to the neck on Jack, Daniel, and Sam as soon as they arrived, presumably drawing blood -- she reported that blood analysis showed that they were all human, but weren't listed in the Bedrosian Central Registry. (New Ground)
She was secure enough in her position to question Rigar's commitment to the idea that the stargate was a trick, asking him what if it really were the gateway, and the Optricans were right. When he insisted that it was a fake, though, she went along. (New Ground)
She was the first Bedrosian to go down in the final escape attempt. She went to the shuttlecraft to tell them to launch, and Teal'c shot her with a Bedrosian energy rifle. She should have been just stunned, not killed. (New Ground)
general info | known Byrsa | language
Planet: Cartago. SGC designation: P3X-1279 (Cor-Ai)
People are baseline human. (Cor-Ai)
According to Teal'c, Cartago was a favorite place for Goa'uld to " harvest" human hosts unclear whether he meant Goa'uld in general, or just those in Apophis's personal hierarchy. (Cor-Ai)
Standard reaction to people coming through the stargate was to run and hide in a local system of tunnels and caves (" the hiding" ), leaving able-bodied men armed with a type of crossbow to defend against whatever had come through. Other than fighters, they leave no one behind they all make it to shelter, or no one does. (Cor-Ai)
The Byrsa live by a code of laws called the " mandates" . (Cor-Ai)
Seeking personal vengeance outside of the cor-ai (trial system) is counter to the mandates, and shames not only the person involved, but his entire clan. (Cor-Ai)
Prisoners were held in a large underground room, in a metal (looked like iron) cage (large enough to stand up in and move around in). (Cor-Ai)
Men and women appear to have equal standing in the community a woman was originally chosen to be Teal'c's " voice" (counsel) for cor-ai (trial), and a woman appeared to be the leader of the community. (Cor-Ai)
Dress:
For men, boots, trews, linen (or other cloth) tunic, and a cloth or leather cap (no bill). Some of the warrior-men also wore a second, leather-looking sleeveless tunic (too long to be a jerkin) over their cloth tunics. (Cor-Ai)
For women, boots, long dresses, and caps or headveils (no face veils). (Cor-Ai)
Young man, who recognized Teal'c on first sight -- as a child, he watched Teal'c kill his father, and never forgot the horror. He still wanted vengeance for the death, and would have killed Teal'c where he stood, except his companions convinced him to get justice legally, through cor-ai. Hanno presided over Teal'c's cor-ai, since as the wronged party he was the only one who could adequately determine a just (equivalent) punishment. He wanted Teal'c to die in return for his father's death, and none of SG-1's arguments that Teal'c had originally been acting under orders, or that he had since changed, would sway him. Only Teal'c's selfless acts in saving other Byrsa from Jaffa when Apophis sent a squad through convinced him that Teal'c had changed. He declared the old Teal'c dead, and let the new Teal'c leave. (Cor-Ai)
" circle of woes" -- the stargate (Cor-Ai)
trial, justice (Cor-Ai)
confession of guilt (Cor-Ai)
Planet: P3X-513 (First Commandment)
Culture:
Fairly primitive, with hunting and guard " garb" reminiscent of the Mudmen of Papua New Guinea (picture -- link will open in a new browser window). Clothing otherwise seemed to be a gender-neutral skirt and shirt, or long shift, of pale fabric. (First Commandment)
The people live in caves that used to be mines, but their population was growing too fast for the caves to continue supporting them -- they didn't have the technology to dig more caves, and they didn't want to live outside, because the solar radiation is deadly. (First Commandment)
They had legends of the old gods (Goa'uld), and how they " turned the sky orange" -- put a shield of some sort in place in the atmosphere to protect them from the solar radiation. (First Commandment)
Captain Jonas Hanson, of SG-9, went completely insane on the planet during a mission there, and set himself up as their new god, with the promise that he'd turn the sky orange and save them all if they worshipped him. When SG-1 proved him a false god, the locals turned on him and tossed him through the stargate (to his death, as it happens). (First Commandment)
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Planet: Cimmeria. SGC designation: P3X-974
Norse-based culture.
Cimmeria is an Asgard-protected world, under the specific protection of Thor. (Thor's Hammer)
The High Council of Asgard designated Cimmeria a safe world for developing sentient species by unanimous decree, era 40.73.29. The council then informed the Goa'uld, warning them not to trespass under penalty of death, and put onworld protections in place to protect the transplanted Norse folk. (Thor's Hammer)
All Jaffa know its coordinates, to be sure that no Goa'uld ever goes there by accident. (Thor's Hammer)
The people seemed pretty fearless about anyone who came through the " portal" (stargate), fully expecting Thor's Hammer to take care of any threat. (Thor's Hammer)
They use horses for transportation and labor, although there doesn't seem to be a surfeit of them. Riding gear includes stirrups and a saddle padded with what looks like sheepskin. (Thor's Hammer)
The Cimmerians were given a box, designed by the Sagan Institute, explaining various Earth cultures and religions -- a greeting of sorts. The box itself had iridium in it, so that if they ever had to send it to Earth the SGC could analyze the residue on the iris and tell who had knocked on the door. Jack gave it to Gairwyn to pass along to Thor and his people, the next time the Cimmerians saw them. (Thor's Hammer)
They call the Asgard homeworld Thrudvang (" Thor's home in the stars," according to Gairwyn). (Thor's Hammer)
They refer to Goa'uld as " Ettins" -- the enemies of the Asgard -- and are aware that Ettins aren't human, even if they look human. (Thor's Hammer)
They know they were taken from Midgard (Earth) by Thor in ancient times, and that Thor put up the Hammer to keep them safe from the Ettins. (Thor's Hammer)
After SG-1 destroyed the Goa'uld-killing part of the Hammer to save Teal'c's life, Heru'ur invaded Cimmeria and nearly succeeded.
Heru'ur's troops had already killed off more than half the Cimmerians by the time SG-1 came through in response to Gairwyn's call for help. (Thor's Chariot)
Daniel and Sam had to find the Hall of Thor's Might and pass several tests to gain a holographic audience with Thor (the first time he appeared in his true form), and ask him for help in stopping Heru'ur. (Thor's Chariot)
After Thor arrived to drive Heru'ur off Cimmeria, he promised to leave an Asgard teacher behind to teach the Cimmerians. He also replaced Thor's Hammer, with a twist the new one was programmed not to target Teal'c, so he could return to the planet any time he wanted. (Thor's Chariot)
The first part of it is a tall standing stone that stands in front of the stargate, and scans everyone that comes through. Anyone that has a Goa'uld inside (host or Jaffa) is transported to a labyrinth of caves, with only one way out -- through the real Hammer, a device that kills Goa'uld while leaving the host/carrier more or less intact (it's painful as hell). (Thor's Hammer)
The scanning took a minute to kick in when SG-1 came through, which seems odd if that fact got out, anyone coming through could presumably simply hightail it out of range. (Thor's Hammer)
Once the Goa'uld or Jaffa has been transported to the caves, he's greeted by a holographic representation of a Norse warrior claiming to be Thor, and told that for the crime of trespassing on a protected world, as well as the crimes committed against the host and other life forms, the sentence is death. The caves will provide basic sustenance, nothing more, and when the Goa'uld gets tired of that, he or she must go to the Hall of Mjollnir and face the Hammer (different hammer) -- a doorway that kills any Goa'uld that goes through it, leaving only the host alive. (Thor's Hammer)
The caves contained a Goa'uld in an Unas host for centuries, maybe even a millennia, using long periods of sleep to survive -- he also killed the others who came through and ate them, and tried to do the same to Jack (by getting Teal'c to join him). No idea how he missed Kendra and her host. (Thor's Hammer)
According to ancient tales, a hall where Thor placed all of his powers to help or defend Cimmeria. Daniel and Sam thought it might be a weapons-cache of some sort. It turned out to be an obelisk in the woods. Touching the red stone in the middle of the obelisk transports one to an underground (apparently -- it's completely enclosed in rock) chamber, where a hologram of Thor gives a greeting and explains that one must be proved worthy before seeing his might. A test follows (unknown if it's always the same test presumably, this would be less effective it it were only one person involved). For Daniel, Sam, and Gairwyn, it was the illusion of the floor falling away to leave a narrow stone span across the chamber that they needed to cross when Daniel was willing to risk his own life to save Gairwyn (who had fallen after Thor shook the bridge), they passed the test, and were transported to another chamber, where they had to show wisdom by solving the riddle of the runes. (Actually, this wasn't so much about wisdom as it was about knowledge: specifically, a combination of math and language skills.) Answering the riddle meant that one was advanced enough to see Thor in his true form -- no weapons involved. (Thor's Chariot)
Headwoman. Tough, strong, smart. Wears a tunic and trews, not a dress. Carried a large sword strapped to her back. Rode a horse when need be. (Thor's Hammer) Her husband and his brothers died sending the Sagan box back through the stargate to call for help from the SGC when Heru'ur attacked Cimmeria -- she lost her entire family in the attack. (Thor's Chariot)
Former Goa'uld host. Originally from a world called Jebanna, which seems to have been raided fairly often for hosts -- it was considered a curse to be beautiful there, because the Goa'uld want perfect hosts. Marduk heard about her, and raided the temple where her parents had hidden her. Her training in the temple helped her fight off the symbiote so it didn't take her over completely part of her remained herself, free. She was able to influence her Goa'uld, whispering to it of power and riches on Cimmeria, hoping to make it go there and kill them both her survival after her symbiote died was a complete surprise, and she attributed it to Thor and dedicated her life to his people and his ways. After surviving the labyrinth Kendra became something of a recluse among the Cimmerians. She could still use Goa'uld tech, and the healing device allowed her to become a healer. Despite having been a host and thus presumably knowing that " gods" is a relative term, she firmly believed in Thor as deity, and as her savior. (Thor's Hammer) She died in Heru'ur's invasion. (Thor's Chariot)
Believed that SG-1 were the direct cause of the " Ettin" invasion he thought that SG-1's evil ways in destroying Thor's Hammer brought the Ettins down on the Cimmerians. He didn't trust them at all at first sight -- even arguing with Gairwyn about it -- but agreed to guide Jack and Teal'c to show them the extent of the Goa'uld invasion, after Jack said they wanted to help and Teal'c promised to stay and fight until the Goa'uld were driven from Cimmeria. After a run-in with Heru'ur and some Jaffa (the Jaffa were holding him while Heru'ur first questioned, then ribboned him Jack and Teal'c shot the heck out of the Jaffa, freeing Olaf), and later battling with them side by side against more Jaffa, Olaf changed his mind about them. He calls them " Sons of Midgard" . (Thor's Chariot)
Planet: P3X-289 (Revisions)
Located about 6,000 light years from Earth. (Revisions)
Likely originally ruled by Morrigan, and thus the people were probably descended of Celts. (Revisions)
The planet itself was utterly uninhabitable the atmosphere was toxic, composed of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, ammonia, and possibly other substances, as a result of technology run amok. The civilization that had existed there had been almost completely wiped out, its people dying of disease and starvation, and from the poisoned air and water. (Revisions)
The hazmat suits SG-1 wore to explore the planet were capable of withstanding the corrosive atmosphere for about 12 hours before starting to degrade. (Revisions)
The only livable place on the planet was a single dome. When the SGC found it, it was 2.2 kilometers across and 500 meters high. It was located no more than half an hour's walk from the stargate. (Revisions)
The energy barrier that made up the outside of the dome gave off a static charge and provided a level of resistance to passing through it, presumably to keep people from accidentally going outside it. For things passing from outside to inside, the barrier scrubbed off all toxicity. (Revisions)
It was permeable to large solid objects, but wouldn't allow atmosphere either in or out. (Revisions)
The only survivors on the planet (or rather, their descendants) lived inside the dome, in a single town. The original survivors had made a deliberate decision to live a simpler life than they were used to, giving up most everyday technology in favor of clean air and drinkable water. They created the dome more than 400 years before SG-1 found it. (Revisions)
When the dome first went operational, everyone signed a contract establishing communal land ownership rights. There were more than 100,000 people living there. Some four hundred or so years later, the population had dwindled to just over 1,370, without anyone ever realizing that the population was shrinking. (On SG-1's second day in the dome, Daniel asked about the population size and Evalla replied " 1,373" , but at least one person had already died since their arrival with no one the wiser. The number could have been changing every hour, for all anyone knew.) (Revisions)
No one who lived inside the dome had knowingly ventured outside since it was built, although they monitored the level of toxicity. Their " memories" of the outside were of a city with tall buildings, made out of glass and steel no one had seen the shattered ruins that were all that remained. They hoped that one day the planet would become habitable again, and they could go out of the dome and reclaim it, but didn't expect it to happen in their lifetime. (Revisions)
The community had a strict zero-population growth culture each couple was allowed no more than two children. There was nothing stopping anyone from breaking the custom, but no one ever had. (Revisions)
The town was run by a council, originally made up of four people (three men and a woman, at the time SG-1 arrive). Because one of the councilors (the woman) was the one sent outside the dome to conserve dome resources (and was thus wiped from everyone's memory), the entire town's population was convinced that the council had always been made up solely of three people, and that a woman hadn't served on it in at least two years. (Revisions)
The dome was completely self-sufficient, generating enough food and water to handle everyone's needs. The energy to run the system came from geothermal vents located beneath the town. The control room that ran the system was underground, reachable by stairs, and monitored all systems, including atmospheric analysis, dome integrity, and power utilization. (Revisions)
It began to lose power about 200 years after its inception, when the geothermal vents that powered it began to cool. The computer handled it by steadily shrinking the dome to accommodate the lower power levels, and picking people (apparently at random) and manipulating their thoughts into walking out in the toxic atmosphere to die (and erasing all memory of them from the minds of all those that remained), thus reducing the drain on the dome's resources. By the time SG-1 arrived, some 200 years after this began, the dome was losing power at approximately 4% a day. (Revisions)
The natives named their stargate " the gate of Mahg Mar" when they discovered it 563 years before SG-1's arrival (circa 1440 by our calendar). It was believed to have been of ritual significance in the worship of the goddess Morrigan. It was taken from the ruins of Danaan and put on display in the national museum of history. (Revisions)
All the locals were connected to a central computer via " the link" , a direct neural interface with the databank (consisting of a small, vaguely rounded-boomerang-shaped piece of metal that self-attached to the wearer's left temple). (Revisions)
The databank contained all the knowledge of their civilization -- history, culture, science, etc. -- instantly available to anyone wearing a link. (Revisions)
Since the link had so much information, the natives had only a small book library left -- not particularly well maintained, with books just piled all over the place. It included legal documents from before the dome was established. (Revisions)
After Sam and the rest of SG-1 figured out that the computer was in its own way controlling the minds of the locals, they took steps to interfere, in order to save everyone's lives -- the dome was collapsing quickly, and the locals would have all been dead soon. They basically suborned Pallan (showed him proof of the computer's manipulation, and got him to reprogram it), who gained access to the computer's main program, and began rewriting it a bit, enough so that his people went with SG-1 and the backup SG team sent through the gate. They left the planet before the dome could collapse utterly. (Revisions)
Married to Pallan. The two of them took in Sam and Daniel when SG-1 arrived, and sort of split them between them. Evalla took Daniel, showing him the library the next day and helping him to translate the books he found there. While they were working, the computer tapped her to be the next to die, and she just walked out and went through the dome, never even hearing Daniel calling after her. (Revisions)
Nevin's father -- a gardener. He was the first adult to greet SG-1, and brought them to meet the council. He offered to put up Jack and Teal'c for the night. After seeing Nevin's fascination with Jack, and enthusiasm for the idea of exploring, Kendrick asked Jack and Teal'c to take the two of them to Earth when they left -- he wanted his son to grow up with sky and clouds that weren't part of a computer-generated illusion. Before they could, the computer reworked his and Nevin's memories, so the idea of leaving was as unwelcome to them as to everyone else in the town. (Revisions)
A young boy, around 9 -- Kendrick's son. He was the first to discover SG-1 after they passed through the energy barrier, and led them to the local town (after trading the information for wearing Jack's hazmat suit). When he found out that Jack (and the others, but mostly Jack) had been to many worlds, he decided he wanted to be an explorer when he grew up. Although his father actually asked Jack and Teal'c to take the two of them through the gate when they left, the computer got there first, and reworked Nevin's thoughts so he was convinced he wanted to be a gardener when he grew up, like his father. (Revisions)
Married to Evalla. The two of them took in Sam and Daniel when SG-1 arrived, and sort of split them between them. Pallan took Sam along with him to work the next day he was one of the technicians who maintained the generators -- or so he believed. He never knew that the computer was almost constantly changing his memory, so that he never noticed how the readings were changing, or what danger the town was in. After the computer chose Evalla to walk outside to conserve resources for the rest, he forgot her completely when it reset everyone's memories so it was like she'd never existed. After Sam and Daniel convinced him that the computer had been manipulating his mind, he helped them by reprogramming it so everyone in the town would have a chance to escape through the stargate. (Revisions)
Planet: Edora. SGC designation P5C-768. (A Hundred Days)
" Fair day" was the standard parting (instead of goodbye). (A Hundred Days)
The planet travelled through an asteroid belt each year, causing a massive meteor shower, beginning on the same night every year. (A Hundred Days)
The locals called the meteor shower the " fire rain" . (A Hundred Days)
The display got more spectacular by the year the locals didn't realize that also meant it was getting more dangerous by the year. (A Hundred Days)
Although the fire rain hadn't struck the ground in living memory, there was a " tale of the ancestors" that long ago, on the second day of the fire rain, there was a distant thunder, and the horizon burned as though the sun never set. (A Hundred Days)
Daniel's examination of the geological evidence showed that meteors (containing naquadah) likely impacted the planet in significant numbers (or a single impact of significant size) roughly every 150 years the last one had been 150 years earlier. (A Hundred Days)
Sam's calculations showed that hundreds of car-sized asteroids were directly in the planet's path during the time the team was there. (A Hundred Days)
The population in the stargate's immediate vicinity appeared to be the only descendants of the people brought there by the Goa'uld thousands of years earlier. (A Hundred Days)
The culture appeared to be descended of northern Europeans of some sort, based on the architecture, thatching, and general clothing and appearance. (A Hundred Days)
The regular bombardments with meteors probably did a lot to keep the population's numbers down. (A Hundred Days)
At least some of " the ancestors" likely sheltered in a cave system near the village during one of the recent bombardments by meteors, allowing them to survive it. (A Hundred Days)
SG-1 arrived on the planet in 1999, when the fire rain had gotten dangerously close, and stayed for several days, becoming particularly friendly with a woman named Laira. They were working out a treaty between Earth and Edora. (A Hundred Days)
The trade treaty was largely because the Edoran soil was rich in naquadah (possibly from all the meteor strikes over the centuries). (A Hundred Days)
When the meteors began coming close enough to start hitting, SG-1 offered to evacuate the village. Despite initial resistance (based on the face that no one could remember the fire rain hitting the ground), most of the village (2/3) went for it when a meteor struck relatively close by, with a visible/audible explosion and some ground-shaking. (A Hundred Days)
Garan and Naytha retreated to the caves, believing they could shelter there Laira and Jack went after them and were trapped by the meteor strikes. (A Hundred Days)
The rest of the villagers hung on as best they could, although at least three families were killed when a meteor struck the house they were sheltering in. (A Hundred Days)
After three days of strikes, the villagers couldn't take anymore and tried to escape through the stargate (stone ring), but it had been completely buried, trapping them. (A Hundred Days)
With much-reduced numbers, they began to rebuild their lives, including Jack in the community. (A Hundred Days)
Sam believed that the molten naquadah of the meteor strike had hardened just above the event horizon of the active wormhole, forming a sort of iris -- allowing a wormhole to be established, but not allowing anything to pass through it and survive. (A Hundred Days)
She eventually got the idea to copy Sokar, and use a particle accelerator shot through an open wormhole to dig out some space in the naquadah shield, making enough room for a kawoosh to form and dig out an even bigger hole, making enough room for a person (Teal'c) to go through and finish the job by hand. (A Hundred Days)
The remaining villagers (including Jack) all pitched in to rebuild and bring in a good harvest good enough that they could manage to make a jug or two of moonshine (tolka) as well for a village-wide party. (A Hundred Days)
Jack had been accepted enough into the community that he was brought into a dance where he was blindfolded so the " ancestors" could dance him to the person they thought he should be betrothed to -- the villagers guided him to Laira, who didn't have any objections at all. (A Hundred Days)
When the SGC managed to reconnect with the Edoran stargate and dig an opening through with Jack and Garan's help, the Edorans who'd been trapped on Earth were reunited with their families still on Edora. (A Hundred Days)
Laira's teenage son (15 or 16). (A Hundred Days)
He used to bring his girlfriend, Naytha, up to the local caves for privacy. (A Hundred Days)
When the meteors started getting close enough to hit, he and his girlfriend retreated to the caves, which Daniel had told them had once sheltered their ancestors during meteor strikes. (A Hundred Days)
After the barrage was over and the stargate was buried, leaving Jack trapped on Edora, Garan felt guilty about it, believing it was his fault Jack couldn't go home. (A Hundred Days)
When Laira told Jack that she'd heard a voice coming from his radio, Garan raced after him with a shovel to the stargate site, and dug with him when Teal'c told them he had little oxygen left. (A Hundred Days)
A widow who befriended SG-1 when they visited her planet. (A Hundred Days)
When her husband died, she mourned him for 100 days -- never leaving her house, never speaking to anyone. After that, she began living again. (A Hundred Days)
When she was a child, her father told her the " fire rain" was the tears of their ancestors, longing to be reunited. (A Hundred Days)
She had a teenage son, Garan. (A Hundred Days)
She was clearly interested in/fond of Jack pretty much from the beginning, talking with him about the treaty between their worlds and other things while the rest of SG-1 did more wandering to find out what was going on. (A Hundred Days)
When SG-1 gathered the village to offer to evacuate them to the SGC because the meteors were about to start impacting the planet, she backed them, saying she would go because she trusted them. (A Hundred Days)
Garan retreated to the caves, so Laira and Jack went after him, only to all be trapped when a meteor struck the stargate. (A Hundred Days)
After the barrage of meteor strikes stopped and they discovered that the stargate was buried, Laira mourned her lost friends (who wouldn't be able to return home without the gate) and began to include Jack in the community, first by making him a part of her home, despite Paynan's objections and dislike. (A Hundred Days)
When a fairly depressed Jack told Laira that the gate may just be buried, clearly wanting to get to work digging it out, she interrupted him to fake-brightly point out that they had to rebuild before the harvest, and that there were fewer of them now. (A Hundred Days)
She waited roughly 100 days for Jack to finish mourning his lost life before she kissed him. (A Hundred Days)
Some time later (not the same night), after a very cheerful village-wide party, complete with moonshine, Laira told Jack she wanted him to give her a child. She'd waited until he had put as much of his old life behind him as possible. Jack told her there was part of him that would never be able to let go of his old life, but that was okay by her. (A Hundred Days)
The next day she put his SG things into a basket and went to toss it Jack objected briefly, but when she asked if it reminded him of home, agreed that she should get rid of it. (A Hundred Days)
She poked at the radio before tossing it, turning it on and hearing Sam saying " fifteen seconds till shutdown" and counting down by five-second increments. She didn't tell him about it right away, but couldn't keep it a secret, and eventually gave him the radio and told him she may have heard a voice coming from it. (A Hundred Days)
She'd only had the one night with him, but clearly hoped she'd gotten pregnant (when he left to go home, she was standing with her hands on her lower abdomen in a very " I'm pregnant" way). (A Hundred Days)
There's been no indication since that Jack has a child on Edora.
Garan's girlfriend. (A Hundred Days)
She went with him to the caves to try to wait out the meteor strikes like " the ancestors" , and wound up being trapped on the planet along with him, Laira, Jack, and the one-third of the villagers who had chosen to stay behind and take their chances. (A Hundred Days)
She survived, but believed she had lost her mother and father, who went through the stargate before it was buried. (A Hundred Days)
A fisherman, at least part of the time. (A Hundred Days)
While he wasn't overtly antagonistic to Jack the first time he met him, he was clearly suspicious of the idea of trading with Earth, saying " what we have, we need" . (A Hundred Days)
When Jack and SG-1 suggested that the villagers evacuate to be safe from the meteors, Paynan dug in his heels, telling the others that it was a trick to get them to give up their land. (A Hundred Days)
After the barrage of meteor strikes had stopped, Paynam (who had bandages wrapped around both hands, probably for burns) blamed Jack for the division of the village, and the small numbers of those that remained. He claimed that if Jack hadn't told the rest of the village to go through the stone ring (stargate), they'd all be together. He wasn't impressed when Jack told him that if he'd just listened in the first place and gone through the stargate, they wouldn't all be in such a precarious position now. (A Hundred Days)
After Jack had lived in the village for three months, Paynan invited him to supper in thanks for his help in rebuilding Paynan's home. (A Hundred Days)
They finally bonded over hangovers while chopping wood, after the night spent drinking tolka at the party. Paynan basically told Jack it had taken him long enough to figure out that Laira was a fine woman. (A Hundred Days)
His home was struck by one of the meteors, with three families inside. (A Hundred Days)
Planet: local name unknown. SGC planet designation P4S-237 (Prophecy)
The people have an ancient prophecy that one day strangers would come through the chaapa'ai (stargate) to slay the gods and free their people. (Prophecy)
The people live in what appear to be at least semi-permanent tents (all black) around the entrance to the naquadah mine, and are very poor. (Prophecy)
Although Baal, their supposed god, hadn't shown his face in a hundred years or so, his " emissary" still arrived regularly to pick up the tribute -- Lord Mot (who in fact was stealing the tribute, which Baal had long forgotten about). (Prophecy)
Mot earned the enmity of the local village when, after a winter that had brought a terrible sickness (so that many of the villagers couldn't work, and thus there wasn't enough naquadah to meet the tribute), he chose ten of the sickest -- including the headman's son-in-law -- and executed them in front of the entire village. Most of the villagers wanted to be rid of him more than anything. (Prophecy)
The locals have a strong sedative -- kelmina root, which can knock someone out for hours, even a Jaffa. (Prophecy)
Still believed that the Goa'uld were the rightful rulers of the planet. When he realized that Ellori was happily colluding with SG-1 and SG-15 to destroy Lord Mot and free the locals, he called Mot on a long-range communicator and got him to come a day early, before anyone was prepared. When SG-1 and SG-15 escaped, he took it upon himself to sound the alarm, inadvertently warning them that they were being pursued and giving them time to prepare for an attack. Mot was displeased -- he'd allowed the escape, hoping the Tau'ri would walk into the trap he had set by the stargate (and give him access to the SGC by having first opened the gate and sent the IDC). Mot ribboned Chazen nearly to death for upsetting his plans only Natania's interference (she shot Mot) saved Chazen. (Prophecy)
Local headman, to all appearances. Father of Natania. He started dropping hints as early as possible about wanting SG-1 to free his people from Lord Mot after a while, they stopped being hints. He had a personal reason for wanting Mot dead or gone: the previous year, after a bad, illness-stricken winter for the village in which they couldn't mine enough naquadah to meet the tribute, Mot took ten of the sickest -- including Ellori's son-in-law -- and executed them in front of the entire village. When Mot arrived a day early to put down the signs of local rebellion, he held Ellori in the village, to make an example of him. (Prophecy)
Ellori's daughter. Widowed after Mot took her husband as one of the ten sickest villagers and executed them all as punishment to the village for not having mined enough naquadah, after a winter filled with terrible sickness. She was completely in sympathy with her father's plans to rid the village of Mot's rule. After Chazen captured SG-1 and SG-15 for Mot, she drugged the guards and freed both teams, leading them back to the stargate when Jack told her they couldn't rescue her captured father without reinforcements. While they were off battling a Jaffa ambush, Natania took matters into her own hands: she shot Mot twice with a Tau'ri pistol, killing him (and saving Chazen's life -- Mot had been ribboning him to death at the time). Strong, smart, practical, capable woman. (Prophecy)
One of Chazen's followers he was sent to check on the prisoners after Chazen heard Hammond warning them about a trap on their captured radios. (Prophecy)
The Eurondans knew that they had once come from Earth after they dug up their stargate and deciphered some ancient writings. No idea how long they've been free of Goa'uld rule, but long enough to develop more than one society and a whole lotta tech. (The Other Side)
What the genetically " pure" Eurondans called the people who preferred to have babies the old-fashioned random way (more politely called the Enemy). They co-existed for centuries before the Eurondans made a pre-emptive strike and poisoned the entire planet's surface via gas pipes from beneath the surface. The Eurondans retreated underground to continue the fight and to wait for all the Breeders to die off, so they could reclaim the world for themselves. (The Other Side)
To save on resources, thousands of Eurondans were put into stasis, leaving only a relative handful awake to fight the war. (The Other Side)
Technologically, slightly ahead of Earth, but not by far -- maybe 50-100 years. Eurondan tech includes medicine, cold fusion reactors, defense field generators, and remote weapons systems. (The Other Side)
Medicine includes beta cantin, a powerful drug that can heal almost anything (including a concussion) almost instantly. (The Other Side)
Remote weapons system is aeronautical: piloting of drone ships via a direct neural interface, while the pilot remains safely underground. Very cool, but prolonged exposure to the neural interface can be damaging (pilots turn into near-total vegetables who can do nothing but pilot these drones) (The Other Side)
Tried to make a deal with Earth, trading any and all tech they had for as much heavy water as Earth could provide they needed heavy water to power their cold-fusion reactors.
Very probably all dead, with Breeders having taken over the world. After Jack and SG-1 realized that these were genetic purists who were committing genocide to ensure their purity, they turned on the Eurondans. Jack sabotaged their defense systems to allow the Breeders through, and SG-1 abandoned the world just ahead of a probably fatal Breeder attack, refusing to allow Alar to follow them (no other Eurondan was close enough to try). (The Other Side)
Leader of the Eurondans. His father helped start the civil war that had driven all the Eurondans underground and poisoned the planet's surface. He tried to create an alliance with the SGC, trading advanced tech for support in his war (in the form of heavy water, needed to power Eurondan cold-fusion generators), and nearly succeeded. When he failed, he failed spectacularly, and died along with all of his people.
Second in command.
Pilot who spent too long in the neural interface, and had turned into a near-vegetable.
Nothing known about them, not even if they're a human race or not, or if this is the correct race name. One of the applicants Mitchell interviewed for SG-1 was fluent in Golap. (Avalon part 1)
Planet: Hanka. SGC designation: PX8-987 (Singularity)
People are baseline human, living in a fairly small community (roughly 1,400 people). No word about any other people living on the planet. (Singularity)
SG-1 was the contact team that discovered Hanka, and realized that the planet was due very shortly for a total eclipse, which would allow the nearby (astronomically speaking) singularity to be photographed -- a chance too good to pass up. The locals told Daniel that according to their mythology, " With the darkness will come the apocalypse," and they feared witnessing the eclipse of their sun, but SG-1 reassured them that it was just an eclipse, and there was nothing to worry about. (Singularity)
The locals were friendly and willing to let the SGC set up an observatory and station a team there to monitor the telescope to see the local (in astronomical terms) singularity (black hole) that was forming. (Singularity)
Three months after discovering Hanka, when SG-1 returned to check on SG-7's progress the day before the eclipse, the Hankans and SG-7 were all newly dead (with the exception of Cassandra) -- 1,432 bodies confirmed. Nirrti had released a fast-acting infectious bacterial agent into the soil and water. (Singularity)
Young girl. (Singularity)
The only survivor of the infection Nirrti released among the population -- she watched her parents die in front of her. Unbeknownst to her, she was left alive as a sort of Trojan Horse, with naquadah in her bloodstream that would come together to form a bomb after being triggered by the stargate. SG-1 rescued her and brought her back to Earth, where she nearly destroyed the SGC. After they found and managed to disable the bomb by getting her far enough away from the stargate during the critical period right before it exploded, she settled in to life as Janet Fraiser's daughter. (Singularity)
See Cassie for more details.
general info | known Hebridans
Loop of Kon Garat | Tech Con Group | Relations with Earth
Home planet is Hebridan. (Forsaken)
The culture is a combination of Human and Serrakin, and is truly mixed, including inter-species marriage and breeding. (Forsaken, Space Race) (nb: the listing here covers both human and mixed for pure Serrakin, see the Misc. Aliens page.)
The news/sports announcer says that " Major Samantha Carter's participation will mark the first inclusion of an alien in Loop history." -- clearly, both human and Serrakin Hebridans are considered Hebridans first. (Space Race)
The human half of the culture is apparently descended of ancient Celts. (Forsaken)
Their world has no stargate they achieved interstellar travel with ships, and thanks to an alien race -- the Serrakin -- that joined forces and cultures with them to help them advance. (Forsaken)
Gambling was perfectly legal, with betting kiosks scattered around. (Space Race)
" Eat greeven" is an insult. (Space Race)
An annual space race sponsored by Tech Con Group (the largest corporation on the planet), which awards a lucrative contract to the winner. The theory is that it's the best way to find the most qualified pilot with the best ship. (Space Race)
The race has resulted in deaths in the past. (Space Race)
The race is open to anyone who wants to enter. (Space Race)
The rules are simple: the winner must arrive first, and intact. (Space Race)
No smaller prizes are awarded winner takes all. (Space Race)
The Loop is a course that consists of four distinct stages: defense, navigation, maneuverability, and speed. (Space Race)
Defense: Tested each ship's defense capabilities as it flew through a field of armed drones attacking it. Both shields and apparently weapons (to destroy the drones) are acceptable methods of passing through. If a ship becomes disabled, the drones stop firing on it. (Space Race)
Navigation: The ships must fly trough the coronasphere of the local sun, which disrupts communications and navigation equipment. (Space Race)
Maneuverability: Flying through an asteroid field. (Space Race)
Speed: A looping run for the finish line. (Space Race)
At the starting line, the competing ships line up in space (along a single [horizontal] plane) behind a temporary force field waiting for the start signal. (Space Race)
In 2003, the 59th race was run for the first time, an offworld alien participated, as Sam signed on as Warrick's co-pilot on the Seberus. The prize for this Loop was a contract for deep space exploration. Ten ships competed in the race. (Space Race)
After the first phase, one ship was out (Shibo's Tritan). Muirios had the lead, followed by La'el Montrose and Golon Jarlath. (Space Race)
Ships began dropping out or falling behind because of sabotage. (Space Race)
The Seberus lost its primary engines while flying through the local sun's coronasphere if it weren't for the naquadah generator, which allowed them to bypass the damaged power converter and supply power directly to the engines, Sam and Warrick would have died as a result of being pulled straight into the sun. (Space Race)
The Oran lost almost all of its oxygen Jarlath would have died if Warrick and Sam hadn't been behind him and willing to stop to pick him up. (Space Race)
After stage two (navigation), only six ships remained out of the original ten, with the Seberus in last place. (Space Race)
After stage three (maneuverability), the Seberus had regained almost all the ground it had lost, but was forced to drop out of the race after Muirios complained about it to Del Tynan, who called Warrick and Sam to tell them he had Eamon and Teal'c hostage. (Space Race)
During stage four (speed), La'el Montrose took advantage of the few seconds that Warrick, Sam, and Jarlath bought by jamming Muirios's instruments after Eamon and Teal'c were freed, and won the race. (Space Race)
The largest corporation on Hebridan. Motto: " Tech Con Group -- People and progress, working in total harmony." (Space Race)
Miles Hagan was its president. (Space Race)
Del Tynan was Eamon's supervisor. He had been passed over for advancement three times he believed it was because he was a human in a Serrakin-dominated culture, but in reality it was because he was under investigation for corruption. The investigators couldn't prove anything until he made a deal with the pilot Muirios and tried to rig the Loop of Kon Garat. (Space Race)
Tech con had gaming/gambling kiosks in urban centers everywhere, to facilitate betting on the Loop of Kon Garat. (Space Race)
The company philosophy encourages mutual trust no one locks their office doors. (Space Race)
Diplomatic channels with Earth were open, but progress in developing relations was slow. (Space Race)
During the diplomatic visit Warrick had arranged for SG-1, Jack and Daniel managed to negotiate a deal whereby Earth would help bring a stargate to Hebridan, and in return would be given an ion drive to study. (Space Race)
Wife of Warrick, a Serrakin member of the Hebridan culture. (Forsaken) When she thought Warrick was dead, she remarried and had children. (Space Race)
A two-time winner of the Loop of Kon Garat. Before the 59th Loop began, he picked Muirios to be the winner. Mixed Serrakin/Human ancestry. (Space Race)
(" Aden" after his uncle Aden who died swimming drunk across a river on a dare." Corso" means " smells like a dead bird" in ancient Hebridian.) (Forsaken)
" Captain" of a group of escaped prisoners. Their ship (the Seberus) had been forced to land after being caught in an asteroid storm while transporting three prisoners to a prison colony, and the captain, Warrick, had been forced to free the prisoners from stasis to keep them from dying. They had overpowered six of their eight guards and killed them (the other two were off looking for food), taking control of the ship and its defenses. (Forsaken)
They were busy still trying to find and kill their remaining two guards when SG-1 found them three years later. The three prisoners concocted a tale of being attacked by " aliens" , hoping to enlist SG-1's help in killing Warrick and his first officer. (Forsaken)
He managed to sound credibly like the ship's captain at first, conning SG-1 into helping him and his people. He claimed that the " aliens" (his original captors) had killed five of his crew since the crash, skinning them and hanging the bodies in the trees. He spent a lot of time alone with Sam while she worked on repairing the Seberus's engines, flirting with her for most of it. (Forsaken)
He almost lost control of his con when it became clear that Sam had indeed repaired the ship's power supply -- he began accusing her of helping them for no other reason than to gain access to the Hebridans's technology. He kept trying, though -- a while later, when Sam had discovered that the Seberus had been a prison transport, Corso spun a tale of how he'd allowed the prisoners to escape during the storm, when life support when out in the cells. He claimed that the " aliens" who had been attacking them on the planet were prisoners of war. (Forsaken)
See Eamon Finn. (Space Race)
See Warrick Finn. (Space Race)
Sports or news announcer for TCNN, a Hebridan " television" network. (Space Race)
President of Tech Con Group -- mixed Serrakin and Human ancestry. (Space Race)
Captain of the Oran, and one of the pilots racing in the 59th Loop of Kon Garat. (Space Race)
He was once caught running illegal weapons to the outer mining colonies -- Warrick had thought him in prison. There was no love lost between the two, with a fair amount of personal sniping back and forth whenever they came into contact. (Space Race)
His ship lost oxygen during the race, and he was going to die, but idiotically decided that would be better than accepting help from anyone, particularly Warrick and the Seberus. He got very pissy when Warrick and Sam ignored him and saved his life anyway. He spent most of the rest of the trip telling them that they were insane to keep trying to win, then eventually helped by rigging the communications system through the naquadah generator, so he could send a directed communications blast at Muirios's ship to temporarily disable its command controls. (Space Race)
She was an independent cargo runner from the parallel colonies, with a very fast ship she raced in the 59th Loop of Kon Garat. Despite Del Tynan's sabotage, she stayed in the race, finally winning it when Jarlath managed to disable Muirios's ship temporarily near the finish line. (Space Race)
One of the racers in the 59th Loop of Kon Garat his piloting skills were legendary. He was flying a crooked race, aware that Del Tynan had both outfitted Muirios's own ship with experimental Tech Con boosters not available to any other pilots, and sabotaged the other ships as added insurance that Muirios would win. (Space Race)
" Navigator" among a group of escaped prisoners. Their ship (the Seberus) had been forced to land after being caught in an asteroid storm while transporting three prisoners to a prison colony, and the captain, Warrick, had been forced to free the prisoners from stasis to keep them from dying. They had overpowered six of their eight guards and killed them (the other two were off looking for food), taking control of the ship and its defenses. They were busy still trying to find and kill their remaining two guards when SG-1 found them three years later. The three prisoners concocted a tale of being attacked by " aliens" , hoping to enlist SG-1's help in killing Warrick and his first officer. He killed an " alien" (actually, one of his guards) that Jack had shot and wounded, in hopes of getting information from him later. He was the least successful at acting like respectable ship's crew -- his determination to kill the " aliens" was too blatant. (Forsaken)
" First officer" among a group of escaped prisoners. Their ship (the Seberus) had been forced to land after being caught in an asteroid storm while transporting three prisoners to a prison colony, and the captain, Warrick, had been forced to free the prisoners from stasis to keep them from dying. They had overpowered six of their eight guards and killed them (the other two were off looking for food), taking control of the ship and its defenses. They were busy still trying to find and kill their remaining two guards when SG-1 found them three years later. The three prisoners concocted a tale of being attacked by " aliens" , hoping to enlist SG-1's help in killing Warrick and his first officer. According to Corso, Reynard didn't like men nevertheless, when Jonas took her back to the SGC for medical treatment after she was injured during a battle, she did her best to seduce him into giving her access to the SGC's computers. (Forsaken)
Captain of the Tritan (Space Race)
He was one of the racers in the 59th Loop of Kon Garat. His ship got disabled during the first phase, when it failed to defend adequately against the drones firing on it. He had to drop out of the race. (Space Race)
A parts supplier for space ships, who sold Warrick a reconditioned long-range scanner unit when Warrick's credit was too overdrawn to get him a new one. (Space Race)
Eamon's supervisor at Tech Con Group. He had been passed over for advancement in the company three times. He was a racist who believed that the Serrakin were steadily undermining " pure-blood" humans, and who intended to dominate the planet just as the Goa'uld had done long ago. He was convinced that he had been passed over for promotion because he was human, and it made him angry enough to want to do something about it. He planned to sabotage the Loop of Kon Garat to ensure that a full human won it, and had schematics of every ship in the race to make it easier, so he could sabotage each one differently. He also outfitted " his" pilot's ship (Muirios) with experimental Tech Con boosters that no private sector pilot should have been able to lay hands on. Tynan definitely sabotaged the Seberus himself, and possibly all the others as well, rather than sending a flunky to do it. When Warrick and Sam managed to repair the Seberus and make up most of their lost ground, Tynan resorted to blackmail he called them and told them that he had Eamon and Teal'c as hostages (which he did), and demanded that they drop out of the race. As it turns out, he was passed over for advancement because he had been under investigation for corruption for more than a year. (Space Race)
Ships capable of interstellar flight. (Forsaken)
Equipped with sonic defenses, clearly meant for use on planets. It emits a deafening noise in a bandwidth that affects the alien half of the culture more strongly than the human half (although humans are also definitely affected). (Forsaken)
Engines far more advanced than anything anyone on Earth could build. They use liquid nitrogen to fuel an ion propulsion system. (Forsaken)
Photographic technology very similar to ours. (Forsaken)
Lots of air traffic, both small craft and things that look like airborne trains. (Space Race)
Television or some other audio/visual broadcast technology huge floating screens that carry it (which make no sense, since one of the ones that's visible appears to be pointing at empty space over water a second appears to be between two buildings in the nearby city, which makes more sense.). Commercials are run during the regular programming, at least during news/sports broadcasts, as the announcer makes pitches for products and companies. (Space Race)
Power sources to rival naquadah generators -- but too expensive for the average pilot to get hold of. (Space Race)
Planet: Latona. SGC designation unknown.
Peaceful, nonconfrontational race. Their society has regressed technologically no one remembers how anything works anymore, content as long as it still works. They're dependent for their defense upon a weapon built by their ancestors. (The Sentinel)
The people of Latona ignored the Jaffa-imposed curfew and otherwise didn't prepare for Svarog's arrival, because they didn't understand that they were being conquered -- they have no real concept of true conflict on that scale. They have no wish to serve anyone, and didn't understand why the Jaffa and Svarog didn't just go away after being told that. (The Sentinel)
They are possibly related to the people of P2A-463 -- they share a similar written language. (The Sentinel)
" Led" (there doesn't seem to be much of a leadership structure) by Marul. (The Sentinel)
Built three hundred years ago by the Latonans's ancestors as a defense for the entire planet. It was created to free the people to pursue matters of the mind and spirit, without fear of invasion, war, or conquest. The people know that it's protecting them as long as a particular flame burns in the city. When an enemy ship appears, it gets " sent away" in a flash of bright light. The Goa'uld (or anyone else, for that matter) have never successfully invaded Latona since it was built. (The Sentinel)
Protected by a force field, supposedly impenetrable. The original NID team that discovered it got through in 48 hours when they returned with SG-1, they were through in a short time with Daniel's help. The patterns -- over a hundred of them -- in the mechanisms generating the force field change randomly, and the code that opens the force field changes constantly, relative to the harmonics of the notes in each pattern. To crack the code, you have to listen for the mathematical progression of the harmonic in each given pattern relative to its spectral equivalent. (The Sentinel)
Its caretaker is a human, somehow bound to it. Works in tandem with the Sentinel, giving the weapon purpose and direction (without the caretaker, the weapon won't fire). He wears a band around his wrist (deadman switch) -- as soon as the caretaker dies, the people in the city know because the flame goes out. The caretaker is the only person allowed to see the Sentinel. (The Sentinel)
Its condition is known by a flame in Marul's office -- as long as the flame burns, the Sentinel is looking after the planet, and is in turn being looked after. The flame can be fooled, though after Colonel Grieves killed the caretaker, Lieutenant Kershaw rigged a device that would convince the monitor he'd been wearing that he was still alive, so the flame never went out and Marul never knew that the planet was now unprotected. (The Sentinel)
The Latonans's leader. An inoffensive, seemingly ineffective man who nonetheless holds firm to his people's principles and laws. It might just be that he didn't understand what he was doing, but he stood up to a Jaffa commander who was trying to intimidate the Latonan people. He also called Jack on a few pertinent points -- like why should he believe Jack, if Jack admits that other Earth people have been lying to him. (The Sentinel)
general info | known natives | technology
Planet: P3W-924 (Holiday)
Opposed to the Goa'uld. (Holiday)
Two billion people died rather than surrender Ma'chello to the Goa'uld. (Holiday)
Very old -- older than Teal'c. He was a fugitive from the System Lords, and had been since before Teal'c was born (ca. 1899). (Holiday)
He fought the Goa'uld for fifty years before his wife, who had been turned into a host without him realizing it, betrayed him to the System Lords. (Holiday)
He was developing/had developed advanced technology to fight the Goa'uld. He was successful enough that the System Lords marked him down as a host after they captured and tortured him, so his knowledge wouldn't be lost. Before he could be implanted, he killed several Jaffa and escaped. (Holiday)
After his escape he continued to fight the System Lords, and believed that he had kept several from attacking and destroying Earth. (Holiday)
When SG-1 discovered his world and him, he saw a chance to hide his face for good, and switched bodies with Daniel. He truly believed that he was owed a body by someone, after fighting so long against the Goa'uld. (Holiday)
He died of pulmonary failure (probably -- he'd been suffering pulmonary damage) after a bout of body-switching. (Holiday)
He kept a database of all his inventions, written in a code he developed himself. The code used Latin and Greek alphabets (similar to Ma'chello's native l