Stargate SG-1 Research/Reference Info

Caveat Lector: This page contains spoilers for every episode up to and including Exodus. All spellings are taken from rdanderson.com. I don't claim that this is a complete collection of info, and I expect to be adding to it regularly -- both stuff from new eps, and stuff from older eps as I come across it.
Note on Double Jeopardy: I'm including things that happened to the robot team, always in (parens) since it's not specifically "our" team. But they are the SG-1 of our universe. Sorta. So stuff that happened to them counts. Sorta.

Last updated: March 2, 2001
A list of updates can be found here, if all you're looking for is new stuff.

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Galactic info (history, politics, timeline, stargates)

History

• Ages ago, built up over several millennia, there was an alliance of four races: the Asgard, the Ancients, the Furlings, and the Nox.

Politics

• The Asgard and the Goa'uld have a treaty in place (the Protected Planets Treaty), which currently runs to several hundred pages. Treaty Law Section 326 recognizes that humans exist for the purpose of serving the Goa'uld as hosts and slaves and requires that no human planet be allowed to advance technologically to a point where they may become a  threat to the Goa'uld -- and the Goa'uld get to determine what constitutes a threat. (Fair Game)
• Earth has been included in this treaty (addendum 10815 [the mind just boggles at nearly 11,000 addendums to a full treaty...]) as of 1999. The original inclusion was going to require the destruction of both of Earth's stargates, but after the SGC saved Cronus's life after Nirrti's attack, that clause was struck. Humans are safe from Goa'uld attack as long as they stay on Earth -- but any Tau'ri caught offworld will face dire consequences, with no repercussions from the Asgard. The Asgard, in return for Earth's inclusion in the treaty, granted the Goa'uld access to the Passage of Nilor.

Timeline

• Millennia ago: alliance of Asgard, Ancients, Furlings, and Nox
• 8,000 BC: Goa'uld are on earth, taking personae of terran gods and harvesting humans for hosts and slaves
• ca. 700 BC: Egeria is on Earth trying to stop Ra, and spawns the Tok'ra before she dies.
• 500-1000AD (?): the Asgard take some Norse to Cimmeria to protect them; Sokar takes Europeans to an unnamed world, posing as Satan to force them to do his bidding.
• This century: rediscovery of and reactivation of the stargate; humans from Earth start heading out into the galaxy, disturbing the balance of power.

Stargates

• Specific Earth stargate info: see Earth's stargate(s)
• The gate element is a super-conductor which absorbs energy in many forms and will convert and store energy in reservoirs making it possible to unlock and spin the mechanism manually when enough power is stored.
• Made of naquadah, which has a decay rate of 150 years (used for dating) (A Hundred Days).
• First-season (Solitudes) theoretical explanation of the stargate wormhole: The gate is a giant superconductor that creates an artificial wormhole that transfers an energized matter stream in one direction along an extra-dimensional conduit. A power overload, possibly from enemy fire, caused a malfunction, redirecting the energy stream to the second earth gate.
• The unique symbol on a gate is its point of origin.
• A wormhole can be maintained for 38 minutes. (There But for the Grace of God, Serpent's Song)
• If the stargate is being powered by an alternate source, a wormhole can remain open longer (A Matter of Time, Watergate)
• Most addresses consist of six points and a point of origin, but it's possible to use seven points and a point of origin (The Fifth Race). There's room on the stargate for nine chevrons, but no more than eight have ever been used.
• Stargates can draw power directly from a source at the far end of the wormhole, making it impossible to disconnect the 'gate from the point of origin (A Matter of Time, Watergate). Drawing power from the other end of the wormhole seems to negate the 38-minute window.
• Can be dialled without a DHD or dialling device; all it needs is enough power hooked up to the ring, and to be moved manually. Two truck engines is sufficient. (1969)
• To use an 8th chevron (which seems to be a galaxy code), a stargate needs 10 times as much power as it does normally (The Fifth Race)
• Explanations of wormhole physics (Watergate):
• A stargate cannot activate when buried, but it can engage under water.
• The wormhole only allows matter to travel one way, but radio signals can be transmitted both ways.
• The gate has the ability to use density, molecular structure, and the force being exerted on the event horizon to determine whether something is trying to pass through.
• The alpha gate supersedes the beta gate as long as the DHD is connected. If it is connected only when in use, it will prevent crossover to the beta gate.

Tau'ri (politics, military, SGC, technology)

Politics/Gov't

• U.S. Secretary of Defense is David Swift in 1997 (The Nox) and Arthur Simms in 1999 (Fair Game).
• Senator Kinsey, the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is categorically opposed to secret projects. He was  responsible for cutting all federal funding of the Stargate program after his inquiry into the program, believing the risk wasn't worth the price (in any terms). (Politics) When that attempt to shut down the program ultimately failed, he joined forces with the rogue NID group trying to gain as much technology as possible, however possible. Was "outed" to the SGC (or at least Jack, probably Hammond, and probably the rest of SG-1) when Maybourne brought Jack to see him in an effort to get enough info on the NID group to force them to reinstated the retired Hammond. To escape after getting the info, Jack calls an impromptu press conference for Kinsey, knowing Kinsey won't allow the NID guys on the street shoot Jack and Maybourne with cameras present. Jack "leaks" that Kinsey will be running for president; Kinsey confirms the rumor to the press. (Chain Reaction)
• Armin Selig, a reporter, had an unnamed source for information on the Stargate program. His death from a hit and run is listed officially as an accident. (Secrets)
• Ever since the beginning of the Stargate program, there have been philosophical skirmishes behind the scenes, with politicians pulling the strings outside the jurisdiction of the military. There was an initial push to bring back whatever was necessary, regardless of consequences, but it failed -- although Hammond believed that a major player never showed his face, and continued to work behind the scenes. (Touchstone)
• Civilians with access to the Stargate program must sign nondisclosure statements, making them susceptible to prosecution under the Espionage Act. (Secrets)
• Alliances: Tok'ra, Asgard, Tollan, Nox.
• The Asgard, Tollan, and Nox threatened to sever all diplomatic ties as a result of the rogue NID group's actions, and insisted that the SGC clean up its own mess with no help from them or anyone else. The Asgard further insisted that only O'Neill be involved in the sting operation. (Shades of Grey)
• Not a real alliance with the Nox, but the lines of communication appear to still be open, at least, despite the Nox's decision to bury their gate and cut off all chance of the SGC returning to their world.
• The alliance with the Tok'ra was supposed to be formalized in an agreement between the head of the Tok'ra High Council and the president of the United States; unknown if that meeting ever actually occurred. (Divide and Conquer)
• Unconfirmed: A secondary SGC base was to be established offworld as a backup, with O'Neill in command, but the Pentagon didn't grant the backing. Very possibly just part of Jack's cover story. (Shades of Grey)

Military

Pentagon

• Major Davis -- goes from not understanding the SGC mindset in Into the Fire (not wanting to waste personnel and materiel to rescue "one SG team", even if it is SG-1) to actually waiting, after Jack orders him to fire on the submarine in Small Victories, for Daniel to give the go-ahead. Truly a liaison between the SGC and the Pentagon/Joint Chiefs. Also seems to be spending more time at the SGC these days. (A Matter of Time, Into the Fire, Foothold, Nemesis, Small Victories, Tangent)
• Colonel Kennedy -- opposes the SGC and does what he can to undermine it. Originally tried to take Teal'c away from the SGC for scientific study.
• General Ryan -- 4-star general, and the Air Force member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Visits the SGC to promote the establishing of a permanent research facility on MC4-862 and terrifies Jack with his mere presence during Prodigy, and is very amused/sympathetic toward Hammond for having such a handful as Jack under his command.
• Major Bert Samuels (gets promoted to Lt. Colonel by Politics); starts out as Hammond's Exec., but gets bumped up to the Pentagon. Works Stargate Mission Analysis and is occasionally liaison between SGC and Pentagon. Proves himself a weaselly, arrogant coward during Serpent's Lair.
• General Vidrine -- 3-star general (outranks Hammond -- Lt. General to Hammond's Major General) assigned to the SG program. (Tangent). Incredibly dry sense of humor; can outsnark Jack.

 

Military intelligence/NID

• Colonel Harry Maybourne takes Samuels' place after Samuels moves on to the Pentagon (Enigma). Tried to worsen Teal'c's condition in Bane and took him away from the SGC for scientific study. Moves on to take command of Area 51, seems shocked when he finds out that the second stargate is missing from its sealed crate, replaced with a plastic copy, but isn't worried what will happen to his career, assuming that he'll be reassigned (Touchstone). Shows up again a year later when Sam contacts him to help her defeat an alien invasion that has incapacitated the rest of the SGC, and after fumbling it at first by contacting the aliens masquerading as SGC members and basically letting them know what Sam's up to, he comes through in the end, even getting some honest praise from Jack. Next appearance is Shades of Grey, where he 'recruits' Jack into his rogue operation (see below). Is presumed captured at the end of that, but then shows up in Russia helping with a clandestine Russian stargate program. (Watergate) Is recaptured and held in a federal facility (prisoner number S2989, facing the death penalty for treason, when Jack has to go to him for help after the NID forces Hammond into retirement and plants what is probably one of their own people in command of the SGC. Maybourne does as he promises, gets Jack enough info to threaten Senator Kinsey and get Hammond reinstated, then after Jack hands him back to the authorities escapes from custody and takes off to an island somewhere. (Chain Reaction) Uses hundreds of aliases, including "Charles Bliss". Keeps an incredibly underfurnished apartment under that name that no one knew about until he used it to track down info on the NID for Jack. (Chain Reaction)
• There's a cafe across the street from NID HQ in Washington, DC -- The Old Bailiff Cafe (Foothold)
• Maybourne heads a rogue group of NID agents -- some or many of whom wanted to be in the SGC but didn't make the cut -- who are of the "take what we want and screw the consequences" mindset. Their mission statement is to use whatever means necessary to acquire goods and technology that could help Earth in the battle against the Goa'uld, or other unforeseen aggressors. (Touchstone, Shades of Grey) PX3-595 is an Asgard protected planet. The natives, known as Tiernods, are primitive, and hide from predators in caves, using an Asgard device to vanish. The mission to PX3-595 (an Asgard-protected planet, where the natives, known as Tiernods, are primitive, and hide from predators in caves, using an Asgard device to vanish) was to steal the Asgard vanishing device for the rogue organization. (Shades of Grey)
• Col. Robert Makepeace -- mole inside the SGC
• Maj. Newman -- one of the four men who escaped during the Touchstone incident (Touchstone, Shades of Grey)
• Lt. Clare Tobias

SGC (Earth's stargate(s), SG units, SG personnel, military codes)

• The stargate, after being discovered by Professor Langford in 1928, and experimented upon before Ernest Littlefield's disappearance in 1945, was now locked away in an armory in Washington D.C. where the military did not acknowledge its existence. (1969)
• In 1945, President Roosevelt ordered experiments done on the gate to determine if it could be used as a weapon in the war. The experiments were headed by Professor Langford, Catherine's father. Catherine was 21 in 1945. After the program was closed, she petitioned several administrations to reinstate the program, finally succeeding 40 years later. Declassified documents from the Archives of the Joint Chiefs of Staff establish that gate activation occurred in January of 1945 when Dr. Ernest Littlefield went through the gate to a destination later designated as P3X-972. (The Torment of Tantalus)
• First mission to Abydos included Colonel O'Neill, Major Kawalsky, Major Ferretti
• General George Hammond replaced General West between the first mission (Stargate the movie) and Apophis's arrival through the gate, and has been in command ever since (Children of the Gods), with one brief interruption (Chain Reaction).
• The Stargate program costs the U.S. government some $7 billion per year. It is included as part of the national defense budget. (Politics)
• Stargate Command (SGC) is located at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado.
• Physical layout:
• Norad on main level
• SGC on sublevels (all are actually Level S-#)
• Levels 1-15:
• Level 16: Secure stargate and gateroom monitoring station (Chain Reaction)
• Level 17: a storage room (12-A) on level 17 was converted into a meeting room for the negotiations between the Asgard and the Goa'uld in Fair Game
• Level 18: Offices (Serpent's Venom -- on their way up to the surface, Jack, Sam, and Jacob stop on Level 18 to pick up Daniel, who's got bags of research material with him)
• Level 19:
• Level 20:
• Level 21: Infirmary (Entity)
• Level 22: Isolation quarters (Urgo)
• Level 23: Where the aliens stored all the humans they were impersonating (Foothold)
• Level 24: MALP storage (Entity)
• Level 25: Locker rooms (at least SG-1's) (Upgrades); VIP quarters (at least sometimes; Cronus, Nirrti, and Yu were housed on level 25 during the negotiations in Fair Game)
• Level 26:
• Level 27:
• Level 28: Stargate
• Stargate Command is an unofficial project designated by the Pentagon as "Area 52" and costs $7.4 billion per year to operate. (Politics)
• The SGC began with nine teams (Children of the Gods), then expanded to twelve (In the Line of Duty), then to fifteen (Into the Fire)
• Originally, the SG teams were known only to the President & Joint Chiefs. This soon changed:
• Politics -- Senator Kinsey has been fully briefed
• Secrets -- undisclosed leak to media; Hammond assumes that if Kinsey knows, his aides do. Not canon that they do know, therefore, but important because the SGC is assuming that (an indeterminate number of) other people know.
• A Matter of Time -- outside units being briefed and brought in.
• Touchstone -- Area 51, where it's very clear that these non-SGC personnel (military researchers) know about the SGC and the SG teams, know what they're doing and where they're going, and what they're bringing back (working on death gliders, medical advances, etc.).
• Tangent -- Gen. Vidrine knows everything about them, and can't possibly be one of the joint chiefs because he's only got three stars.
• Point of No Return -- Martin, a civilian, knows way too much about the SGC and the stargate, including knowing Jack by name; says he found out about it on an online conspiracy chatroom.
• Entity -- an Academy cadet is brought in and not only told about the program but sent to a research facility on a moon (and introduced to Teal'c, who admits he's not exactly human), all to give her incentive to stay in the Air Force.
• So, therefore, the original level of secrecy only lasted a very short time, and as the program goes, it gets known to more people. With every passing year, it gets more dangerous.
• As of Broca Divide, the new presidential directive is to evaluate the scientific & cultural value of each mission.
• The first mission to Chulak (Children of the Gods) occurred on February 10, 1997 (O'Neill's report dated February 23). The mission to the Land of Light (Broca Divide) occurred in March. Senator Kinsey's inquiry was held before the turn of the year (someone refers to Jack's report as being on Feb 23 "of this year") (Politics) If the other seasons hold to that general structure, airdates don't coincide with actual dates at all; seasons would end and begin around the turn of each year (so everything in first season was 1997, everything in second was 1998, everything in third was 1999, everything in fourth was 2000 [with the possible exception of the season finale in each case])
• The Groom Lake Facility in the Nevada desert at Nellis, known as Area 51, is where all technology brought back through the gate is sent for study, including the notes from "Heliopolis" and the two death gliders. Colonel Maybourne was reassigned there in 1998. (Touchstone)
• Four NID men escaped through the second gate to an unknown location. (Touchstone)
• Several TERs were left with the SGC, and hand scanners were installed to prevent the Reetou from controlling the iris. (One False Step)
• Returning teams have to go through progressively more thorough screening procedures as time goes on:
• Visual and tactile examination of the back of the neck after The Enemy Within
• MRI after In the Line of Duty
• High-frequency blast after Foothold
• Every SG team has a homing device to find the stargate if lost on a planet. (The Nox)
• Considered setting up a permanent research station on MC4-862 (a moon orbiting a gas giant), but after six weeks of uneventful existence, the scientists there were attacked by tiny glowy energy beings and forced to abandon everything. (Prodigy)

Earth's stargate(s)

• The Stargate is made of a quartz material, later identified as naquadah. The iris is pure titanium (Children of the Gods) and is less than three micrometers from the event horizon -- matter can't fully reintegrate as a result (splat!). Like the Goa'uld, the SGC personnel have a homing device to find the stargate if separated from it.
• A new iris is added after the original one is sucked into the black hole in A Matter of Time, strengthened with trinium.
• Earth doesn't use a standard Dial Home Device (DHD, goa'uld term unknown) to control the stargate, but instead uses a computer and a Terran-designed dialing program, which contains all the addresses that Daniel found on the Abydos cartouche (each of which is being corrected for galactic drift -- it takes several days to correct each address). It took fifteen years and three supercomputers to figure out a way to make the stargate work.
• Sam eventually developed a new cold dialing program that searches for new stargates by periodically redialling cartouche stargate addresses that hadn't connected the first time. The planet P2X-416 (Bedrosia & Optrica) was the first connection made by the new program. (New Ground)
• The SGC database includes stargate address references from both the Abydos cartouche (indicated in yellow, including the Loc'na ko, the group of planets that includes Kheb) and the Ancients' original map fed into the computer by Jack (indicated in red, and including Kheb itself). (Maternal Instinct)
• The second gate (from the Antarctic [Solitudes]) had been sealed, decommissioned, and sent to Area 51. It was moved under classified non-military authorization to an unofficial NID landing site in southern Utah, just south of the Black Mountains, about 40km west of Parowan. It was finally returned to Area 51, sealed with a permanent iris, and put under round-the-clock guard under the command of Hammond and the SGC. (Touchstone)
• An energy spike can be created deliberately, causing the wormhole to jump to the second Earth gate, and leaving a recognizable energy signature. (Touchstone)
• The space between the wormhole and the iris is enough to allow high-energy subatomic particles to reintegrate, moving at near-light velocities (i.e., a particle accelerator can shoot particles at it from the other side). Modulating the particle stream can create an image, and intense heat, up to 130 degrees in the gateroom, and 6-8 times that for the iris itself. (Serpent's Song)
• The first stargate was lost after Jack, Sam, and Teal'c transported it onto Thor's ship, the Biliskner, to give themselves a way to escape; the gate went down with the ship, which crashed into the Pacific. Hammond ordered that the second gate be unsealed and set up to take its place. (Nemesis)
• The first stargate was found by the Russians, who set up their own SG program with it, until they got in over their heads and needed SG-1 to come bail them out. (Watergate)

SG units (team leaders in blue, when known):

• SG-1: Flagship team. Col. Jack O'Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, Capt. (later Maj.) Samantha Carter, Teal'c. Briefly headed by Col. Makepeace, who was arrested shortly thereafter (Shades of Grey). Disbanded briefly when Hammond retired and General Bauer took his place; reinstated when Hammond returned. (Chain Reaction)
• SG-1 directly defies orders/goes AWOL:
• (Jack, largely at Daniel's urging, fails to blow up the Abydonian stargate as ordered, and lies about it in his official mission report -- Stargate the movie)
• On Daniel's urging, the team defies a presidential order that no one go through the gate again at the end of Politics and beginning of Within the Serpent's Grasp)
• Under orders not to fire at the unknown personnel who've stolen the Touchstone unless their lives are in clear danger, Jack starts shooting at the unarmed NID guys to keep them from going through the second gate -- and isn't shooting to miss, because he hits one of them (although he also isn't shooting to kill). (Touchstone)
• Jack, under orders to negotiate for technology with the Eurondans, instead sets them up for a brutal fall and shuts the door in their faces (The Other Side)
• Jack, under orders to find a non-military solution to the problem of aliens terraforming the Enkarans' new home instead tells Sam to build a naquadah bomb. Daniel, under orders to support Jack's decision (more or less) goes off to find a different solution. (Scorched Earth)
• After being effectively turned into a pack of adolescents, Jack, Daniel, and Sam took off from the base to go have dinner in town. (Upgrades)
• After being ordered to stay in restricted quarters, Jack, Daniel, and Sam went through the stargate to sabotage Apophos's new ship. (Upgrades)
• (Despite promising to do so, robot-team fails to bury the stargate on Altair, and instead creates powerpacks and replicas of their original clothes and weapons, and continue to function as SG-1 on missions through their own gate to fight the Goa'uld.) (Double Jeopardy)
• System Lords killed directly by SG-1 (or facsimiles thereof):
• Amaunet (Teal'c)
• Cronus (robot-Teal'c)
• Hathor (Jack)
• Ra (Jack and Daniel)
• Seth (Sam)
• SG-2: First incarnation headed by Maj. Charles Kawalsky (Children of the Gods). Was part of the first mission to Chulak (Children of the Gods). Kawalsky died after that mission, and Maj. Louis Ferretti, a member of the unit, took over command. (The Enemy Within). Under Ferretti, SG-2 was sent to retrieve SG-1, officially for court-martial but unofficially just to "bring them back alive" after SG-1 disobeyed orders and went through the stargate after the program had been shut down (Within the Serpent's Grasp). Sometime before the end of first season, SG-2 did a follow-up mission to Argos to check on the Argosian people and discovered that without the nanocytes they were living normal, healthy lives (Politics). Next incarnation (season three): headed by Major Coburn, includes Captain Griff, Pierce. SG-2 acted as a backup to SG-1 on Kheb (Maternal Instinct), and joined SG-1 in a search and rescue mission to P3X-888 (the Goa'uld planet of origin) to find Daniel and any remaining members of SG-11 (The First Ones). By Prodigy (and possibly as early as Beneath the Surface), headed by Major Griff, with no idea of what happened to Coburn. Was assigned to babysit a group of scientists trying to set up a permanent research facility on a moon (M4C-862) orbiting a gas giant; relieved by Jack and Teal'c and sent back home, much to Griff's relief (Prodigy).
• SG-3: Marine combat unit. Commanded by Col. Robert Makepeace, was sent with SG-1 to P3X-797 (the Land of Light) to reconnoiter in search of evidence that this was the Goa'uld homeworld (The Broca Divide). Headed by Maj. Castleman, SG-3 was part of the rescue missions to find Jack and Sam (Solitudes). In second season, Maj. Warren had command at first (Prisoners); the team was sent on a rescue mission to recover SG-1, and after that failed was sent on to its next mission on P2A-509, where SG-1 later met up with them after escaping from Hadante. Col. Robert Makepeace took over command again shortly thereafter, and the unit was sent in to extract Sam because her father was dying of cancer (Tok'ra, part 1). Was one of the units sent to Hathor's planet to rescue SG-1 (Into the Fire). Teal'c was briefly assigned to SG-3 when the SGC was put under the command of General Bauer; the unit at the time included Major Wade and Lt. Morrison (Chain Reaction).
• SG-4:
• SG-5: Marine combat unit. On an unnamed mission, brought back naquadah that was added to a Mark-12 warhead, which was then called a "Goa'uld Buster" -- pet project of Samuels and Maybourne, supposed to be able to destroy a Goa'uld mothership. Or not. (Serpent's Lair). When SG-1 didn't arrive as scheduled on P2X-555 (because a solar flare sent them back in time), SG-5 completed the mission in their place (1969). Was one of the units sent to Hathor's planet to rescue SG-1 (Into the Fire). Was one of the units assigned to find an alternative homeworld for the Enkarans when the Gadmeer ship started terraforming the planet that the SGC had already relocated them to. (Scorched Earth) Entire unit, including Lt. Barber, died in late 2000 after spending time on P4X-347 in an abandoned Goa'uld pleasure palace as a result of severe withdrawal from a chemical alteration in their brains (The Light).
• SG-6: Daniel was with them on a dig on PX3-808 (A Matter of Time). Was one of the units sent to Hathor's planet to rescue SG-1 (Into the Fire). On a mission to P3X-118, the team was captured and used as templates by aliens (with technology that allowed them to mimic forms and that granted access to people's thoughts) who invaded the base and then tried to take over. P3X-118 was locked out of the dialling program after the aliens were defeated. SG-6 is undoubtedly dead. (Foothold) Next incarnation: Was one of the units assigned to find an alternative homeworld for the Enkarans when the Gadmeer ship started terraforming the planet that the SGC had already relocated them to. (Scorched Earth)
• SG-7: Science corps. Sent to P8X-987 (Hanka) to observe the black hole. They were all killed by the bacterial infection that wiped out everyone on the planet except Cassie. (Singularity)
• SG-8: Medical team. According to the MGM FAQ, "This team typically will travel accompanied by SG-3 during medical emergencies."
• SG-9: First incarnation: headed by Capt. Jonas Hanson, and included Lt. Baker, Lt. Conner, and Frakes. Only Lt. Conner survived (promoted to Capt., given command of SG-11). Hanson went insane in 1997 on a mission to P3X-513, considering himself a god, and killed Baker and Frakes, along with many natives, before dying himself at the hands of his 'followers' (First Commandment). Second incarnation: Diplomatic unit, headed by Maj. Stan Kovacek; sent to Taldor to try to negotiate SG-1's release from the prison world of Hadante (Prisoners). Was one of the units assigned to find an alternative homeworld for the Enkarans when the Gadmeer ship started terraforming the planet that the SGC had already relocated them to. (Scorched Earth)
• SG-10: Added by In the Line of Duty. Headed by Maj. Henry Boyd. Whole team died gruesomely on its first mission, sucked into a black hole on P3W-451 (A Matter of Time)
• SG-11: Engineering corps. Added by In the Line of Duty. First incarnation: Headed by Capt. Conner. Discovered trinium on PXY-887. Though brittle in its raw state, trinium is 100 times lighter and stronger than steel, and a valuable resource. (Spirits) Was one of the units sent to Hathor's planet to rescue SG-1 (Into the Fire). Was captured by Apophis on P89-534 and declared MIA; gave little information to Apophis before they died, but enough to allow Apophis to set up a training camp for human infiltrators. (Rules of Engagement) Second incarnation -- archaeological team?: headed by Maj. Hawkins (who was taken over by a Goa'uld and killed), Loder (killed by the Unas), Sanchez (killed), Robert Rothman (taken over by a Goa'uld and killed). Daniel joined this team for an archaeological survey of P3X-888, the original Goa'uld homeworld, where he was captured and the others were killed.Next incarnation: unsure of team designation (whether they're still archaeologists or not), but Daniel joined them offworld to assist them on something in Prodigy.
• SG-12: Added by In the Line of Duty. Made an unscheduled early return from Alaris because of a broken ankle. (Window of Opportunity)
• SG-13: Requested as of Into the Fire.
• SG-14: Requested as of Into the Fire. Major Graham, Captain Blasdale, Lieutenant Astor, and Sergeant Louis. On a joint mission with SG-15 to meet 'n' greet the Lasarians on P6Y-325, the SG teams were attacked by Jaffa. SG-14 survived, but Graham and Astor were programmed as Zatarcs. Graham shot Blasdale and then committed forced suicide in a Tok'ra meeting chamber; Astor freaked out while Anise was trying to "cure" her, tried to kill everyone she could see (failed), and then shot herself. (Divide and Conquer)
• SG-15: Requested as of Into the Fire. On a joint mission with SG-14 to meet 'n' greet the Lasarians on P6Y-325, the SG teams were attacked by Jaffa and six team members, apparently all of SG-15, died. (Divide and Conquer) Next incarnation: went to P4X-639 and reported increasing solar activity, prompting an SG-1 mission to test the effects of the radiation. (Window of Opportunity)
• Wiped-out teams (general date of team's death in red):
• SG-5: late 2000, The Light
• SG-6: 1999, Foothold
• SG-7: 1997, Singularity
• SG-9: 1997, First Commandment (not really wiped out, but three out of four died; only Lt. Conner survived)
• SG-10: 1998, A Matter of Time
• SG-11: 1999, Rules of Engagement; 2000, The First Ones
• SG-15: 2000, Divide and Conquer

SG personnel (X = dead; general date of death in red)

• Lieutenant Astor X: Member of SG-14. Captured by the Goa'uld and programmed as a Zatarc; freaked out while Anise was trying to "cure" her and shot herself. (mid-2000, Divide and Conquer)
• Lieutenant Baker X: Member of SG-9; died at his commander's hands on a mission to P3X-513 (1997, First Commandment).
• Lieutenant Barber X: Member of SG-5; died as a result of chemical alterations in his brain that caused him to commit suicide by running into the kawhoosh of an opening wormhole after visiting the abandoned Goa'uld pleasure palace on P4X-347 (late 2000, The Light)
• Major General Bauer: Assigned to command the SGC after General Hammond was blackmailed into retiring. Probably a part of the NID conspiracy to gain offworld technology at any cost; if not an actual member, then a patsy that the NID could manipulate. (Seemed too aware of where the intelligence he was basing his decisions on was coming from to just be a patsy, though.) Pretty much his first action as commander was to dismantle SG-1, assigning Daniel to pure research as a consultant who goes offworld only when needed for a specific mission, Sam to a project building naquadah-enhanced nuclear bombs, and Teal'c to SG-3, while forcing Jack to take time off to consider whether he still wanted to be a part of the SGC. Refused to listen to Sam's and Daniel's warnings about why he couldn't test his nuclear bomb on a given planet, and as a result nearly destroyed not only the base but god knows how much of Earth when the bomb destroyed the other planet and started sending gamma radiation back through the open wormhole. Was removed from command when Hammond was reinstated. (Chain Reaction)
• Baker: (rank unknown) Joined Jack and Teal'c on the Russian submarine to fight the Replicators. (Small Victories)
• Captain Blasdale X: Member of SG-14. Got between Major Graham (who has become a zatarc) and his intended target, and was killed. (mid-2000, Divide and Conquer)
• Major Henry Boyd X: Commanded SG-10; Jack recommended him for the command. On the team's first mission, to P3W-451, he and his team members were trapped on the planet when a black hole sucked the planet into its gravity well, and they all died (1998, A Matter of Time).
• Major Castleman, USMC: In first season, commanded SG-3. Took over command of SG-1 temporarily while Jack was unable to speak English in The Fifth Race; got trapped on P9Q-281 with Sam, Teal'c, and another person until Jack came up with the plans to fix the DHD.
• Major Coburn: In command of SG-2 by season three (Maternal Instinct). By fourth season's Prodigy (and possibly as early as Beneath the Surface), Major Griff has taken that command; unclear where Coburn has moved to, or if he's still alive.
• Lieutenant/Captain Conner X: As a lieutenant, was part of SG-9, and the only survivor of the mission to P3X-513 (First Commandment). Promoted to Captain and given command of SG-11 (Into the Fire). Died after his team was captured and held by Apophis for information about the SGC (1999, Rules of Engagement) (NB: this is a guess; he's never mentioned by name in the ep, but he was leader of SG-11, which is the team that was captured and killed).
• Sergeant Walter Davis: Formerly known as "Technician", the guy with white hair and glasses who dials the stargate. (2010 -- Jack calls him "Walter", and his nametag clearly says Davis) Got to use a gun in the alternate reality in There But For the Grace of God.
• Major Louis Ferretti, USAF: Part of the original mission to Abydos (Stargate the movie). Was put on SG-2 under the command of Kawalsky, then took over command for an indeterminate time when Kawalsky died (The Enemy Within).
• Frakes X: (rank unknown) Member of SG-9; died at his commander's hands on a mission to P3X-513 (1997, First Commandment).
• Major Graham X: Commanded SG-14; on a mission to P3X-513 was captured by the Goa'uld and turned into a Zatarc. Tried to assassinate the head of the Tok'ra High Council and committed forced suicide when the attempt failed (after incidentally killing one of his own men, Capt. Blasdale). (mid-2000, Divide and Conquer)
• Captain/Major Griff: As a captain, member of SG-2. Got shot in the arm by Rothman (who was infested with a Goa'uld), but not badly (The First Ones). Gets promoted shortly thereafter; in Beneath the Surface (just a few weeks later) he's a major in command of an unspecified SG unit. By Prodigy, it's clear he's in command of SG-2; no idea what happened to Major Coburn.
• Captain Jonas Hanson X: Commanded SG-9. Hanson went insane on a mission to P3X-513, possibly from overexposure to the strong sun. Considering himself a god, he killed two of his teammates -- Baker and Frakes -- along with many natives, before dying himself at the hands of his 'followers' when SG-1 exposed him as a fake (1997, First Commandment).
• Major Hawkins X: Commanded SG-11; was infested by a Goa'uld and killed by Teal'c on on P3X-888 (the original Goa'uld homeworld) (late 2000, The First Ones).
• Major Charles Kawalsky, USAF X: Part of the original mission to Abydos (Stargate the movie). Got his first command after the second mission to Abydos, at Jack's recommendation -- was put in charge of SG-2 (Children of the Gods). Was almost immediately infested with a Goa'uld, and had to be killed (1997, The Enemy Within).
• Major Stan Kovacek: Attorney. Commands SG-9 in its diplomatic incarnation (Prisoners).
• Loder X: (rank unknown) Member of SG-11; killed by an Unas on P3X-888 (the original Goa'uld homeworld) (late 2000, The First Ones).
• Sergeant Louis: Member of SG-14. Was the only one to survive the aftereffects of the mission to P3X-513. (Divide and Conquer)
• Dr. MacKenzie: A psychiatrist on staff with the SGC. Has been called in for cases dealing with issues of mental health and delusional behavior. (Fire and Water, Legacy)
• Colonel Robert Makepeace, USMC: Barring a few interruptions, commanded SG-3, a Marine unit. Trusted member of the SGC until late third season, when he was revealed as a member of a rogue organization that was stealing technology from SGC allies; he was feeding the organization information about SG units' missions. Arrested by Jack. (early 2000, Shades of Grey)
• Lieutenant Morrison: Member of SG-3.
• Nyan: A Bedrosian native who helped SG-1 escape captivity, and who was badly wounded in the process. They brought him back and Daniel offered him a job as his research assistant. (New Ground)
• Pierce: (rank unknown) Member of SG-2.
• Dr. Robert Rothman X: Used to be Daniel's research assistant when Daniel was doing his dissertation. Member of the SGC's research division, working both on the base (Crystal Skull) and in the field (The First Ones). Daniel assumes that Rothman would be his replacement on SG-1 if he should leave (Forever in a Day) -- and that Jack wouldn't like Rothman. Jack is at least impatient with Rothman, even if he doesn't outright dislike him (Crystal Skull, The First Ones). Rothman is assigned to SG-11 to study the original Goa'uld homeworld -- P3X-888 -- and is infested with a primitive Goa'uld. Jack kills him (late 2000, The First Ones).
• Sanchez X: (rank unknown) Member of SG-11. Killed on P3X-888 (the original Goa'uld homeworld) (late 2000, The First Ones).
• Sergeant Siler: Assigned to the base. His area of expertise is the mechanical and electrical function of the Stargate, and he is often called upon to make corrections and repairs on the Stargate and the equipment. Also seems to help with research (Crystal Skull).
• Lt. Graham Simmons: A technician who also works in scientific research on the base. Had/has a crush on Sam. (Message in a Bottle, The Fifth Race, A Matter of Time, Serpent's Song)
• Stevens X: (rank unknown) Joined Jack and Teal'c on the Russian sub to fight the Replicators; died there. (mid-2000, Small Victories)
• Technician (the dialing guy): See "Sergeant Walter Davis"
• Dr. Warner: A surgeon and member of the medical staff of the SGC. Attempted to remove the Goa'uld from Kawalsky (The Enemy Within) and the organic explosive device implanted in Cassie (Singularity). Seems to have no knowledge of basic blood composition or how to do a safe transfusion (Legacy).
• Major Wade X: Commanded SG-3 after Makepeace. Died on P3S-452, a Goa'uld stronghold, on a mission ordered by General Bauer, to get more weapons-grade naquadah to use to enhance a nuclear warhead. (mid-to-late 2000, Chain Reaction [note on date: the ep aired in Dec 2000 in the UK and January 2001 in the US, but the clothes people were wearing indicated mid-fall at the latest).
• Major Warren: In command of SG-2 in Prisoners.

Military Codes:

• Code to abort auto-destruct command: 81452667 (The Enemy Within)
• A Code Five Lockdown mandates that the mountain be sealed and anyone attempting to leave will be shot. (The Broca Divide)
• Remote Access Code for SG-1: 7062957 0282002 (Bane)
• Wildfire Directive (authorization code red dash beta): requires level 4 quarantine, internal power and life support, and nothing in or out of the mountain. In the event of containment failure, Wildfire kicks in automatically. (Message in a Bottle)
• O'Neill's authorization code is 81452667 (A Matter of Time) -- same as code to abort auto-destruct in "Enemy Within".

Technology (in the SGC's possession)

• Death gliders (Serpent's Lair, Touchstone)
• Converted death gliders. Combination of death glider and jet fighter (the X-301 Interceptor). Designed as a platform from which to launch an attack on  invading Goa'uld vessels. Equipped with stealth capability, and armed with two Aim 128A air-to-air missiles, each loaded with a  naquadah-enhanced warhead and a shield modulator, which would in theory allow the missiles to break through a Goa'uld force shield. The detonation would be enormous. Following testing, the ship was to be assigned to orbital defense under the command of the SGC. Unfortunately, the death gliders were programmed by Apophis to return to Chulak. The pilot would inevitably die en route. Jack and Teal'c nearly died in space as a result, but were rescued just in time. Unknown if the plane was rescued as well, or if it's still floating in space. Also unknown if more are being built. (Tangent)
• Goa'uld healing device; was Kendra's, given by Gairwyn to Sam (Thor's Chariot, Fair Game)
• Technology for a naquadah reactor (Learning Curve)
• The portable naquadah reactor can be used as a power source to manually dial the stargate.
• If a feedback loop is created within a naquadah reactor, it will build up energy rather than releasing it and create a powerful bomb.
• Page-turning device (PTD) (Legacy)
• Ma'chello's altered PTDs, which contain Goa'uld-killing bioengineered thingies. Ma'chello's inventions are activated ten at a time by the PTD. They infiltrate the host body, killing the symbiote, and die when they recognize the protein marker. In an uninfected human they cause symptoms of schizophrenia, including increased dopamine levels, migraines, paranoid delusions, and auditory and visual hallucinations.
• Quantum mirror found on P3R-233, which gives access to alternate realities. (There But for the Grace of God)
• Goa'uld ribbon device; was Kendra's, given by Gairwyn to Sam (Thor's Chariot, Fair Game)
• A ring used to "call down lightnings" by the canons of the medieval village ruled by Sokar. (Demons)
• Tollan sub-space transmitter left behind by the Tok'ra so that the SGC can contact them (Show and Tell)
• Several TERs left behind by the Tollan so the SGC can find/fight Reetou (Show and Tell)

Goa'uld (culture, biology, technology, language)

Culture (system lords)

• Basically a feudal society, with a few dozen (? -- exact number unknown) System Lords at the top of the hierarchy, and thousands of lesser-ranked Goa'uld serving them (presumably all of varying rank). It seems to be possible to move up and down the ladder. Ra was the greatest system lord before he was killed (Stargate the movie), and his death created a vacuum that the other system lords are fighting to fill.
• At the top of the current heap were Apophis, Sokar, and Heru'ur. Apophis is rising and falling in power, but after each fall (The Serpent's Lair [loses his power base and most of his Jaffa as a result of SG-1's having destroyed the motherships he'd committed to wiping out Earth], Serpent's Song [captured and tortured by Sokar, only to die on Earth of his injuries after escaping], Jolinar's Memories/ Devil You Know [revived and tortured more at Sokar's hands, then thrown into hell where the best he could manage was servant to one of Sokar's servants]) he comes back stronger than ever (Maternal Instinct [now commands all of Sokar's vast troops -- an army that can conquer the other system lords], Serpent's Venom [presumably inherits Heru'ur's troops when Apophis destroys Heru'ur's mothership, with Heru'ur on board; has discovered technology to cloak an entire fleet of motherships]).
• The Goa'uld will unite to defend against outside threats such as the Asgard or Reetou, but will battle among themselves for control of individual domains. (Fair Game)
• A Goa'uld's power is more often challenged by his son than by his enemies. (The Serpent's Lair) -- Other than this one statement, though, we haven't actually seen proof of this; mostly it's been enemies whaling away on each other.
• Goa'uld symbiotes prefer to enter via the back of the neck because they do not wish to remember the horror on the face of the host when they see their own reflection.
• System Lords are willing to use other-species bounty hunters to do their hunting for them. (Deadman Switch)
• There are rival factions trying to unseat the System Lords:
• The Linvris are a rival league of nine lesser Goa'uld who challenge the System Lords. They are all found dead on PY3-948 by SG-1; they've been dead a month. (Legacy)
• The Tok'ra
• The System Lords seem perfectly willing to kill Jaffa and presumably lesser Goa'uld, but have a tendency to banish their defeated System Lord enemies: Hathor to South America (Hathor); Isis and Osiris to coptic jars (The Curse); Sokar to Delmak (Jolinar's Memories/The Devil You Know).
• Often use humans as cannon fodder. (Rules of Engagement)
• It is forbidden, punishable by death, for two Goa'uld hosts to have a human child. Such a child is Harsesis, and contains all the knowledge of the Goa'uld, because the genetic memory in the Goa'uld DNA is passed on to the human offspring. Harsesis are hunted down and destroyed by the Goa'uld. (Forever in a Day)
• The Goa'uld fear and despise the world Kheb. According to ancient legend it was discovered long ago by a few Jaffa and kept secret from the Goa'uld. When a Jaffa could no longer carry a prim'ta, he would make the journey to Kheb where his kalach (soul) would learn the path through the darkness into the next life. When the Goa'uld learned of Kheb and travelled there, they did not return, and so it was forbidden to speak of it. (Maternal Instinct)

System Lords

• Amaunet X: Apophis's mate and queen, who bore him a human son. Used the body of Sha're as a host. Was killed by Teal'c during Forever in a Day when she tried to kill Daniel using a ribbon-device.
• Apophis: Serpent God. Direct rival/enemy of Ra; in a power struggle to gain ascendance over the other system lords since Ra's death. Every time he's defeated he comes back stronger. Most of his original Jaffa (Serpent Guards) are dead or have turned against him, but he's since picked up all of Sokar's Jaffa and presumably all of Heru'ur's as well. The SGC and SG-1 in particular seem to be helping him inadvertently in this sweep toward total power; every time they do something to weaken him, they put him in a position to gain even more power (especially by giving his dead body back to Sokar, which may turn out to be the biggest mistake they've ever made -- it eventually gave him a powerbase like he'd never had before, and which he's building on).
• Nefertum, the Blue Lotus Blossum of Ra, son of Sakmet, was an under System Lord to Ra, and probably brought the people to the planet P2X-416 (Bedrosia & Optrica). The Bedrosians believe he is the creator of the planet and its people, as related in their holy book, the Book of Nefertum. (New Ground)
• Zipacna was one of Apophis' most loyal underlords, who apparently preferred South American mythology to Egyptian. He was chosen by Klorel to be Klorel's archon in triad to decide Klorel's and Skaara's fate, and while he was at it set up a sneak attack on the Tollans to take out their ion cannons and destroy their world (foiled by Teal'c and Lya). (Pretense)
• The climb to power:
• Started his bid for total power after Jack and Daniel killed Ra. (Stargate the movie)
• Took over Sokar's power base after SG-1 and the Tok'ra killed Sokar and left Apophis alive. (The Devil You Know)
• Took over Heru'ur's power base after the Tok'ra engineered a fake attack that Apophis was only too prepared for, which resulted in Heru'ur's death. (Serpent's Venom) Didn't get it all, though; Cronus grabbed at least one planet, and maybe more.
• Possibly (probably) will take over Cronus's power base, now that Cronus is dead at the hands of the robot-Teal'c. (Double Jeopardy)
• Cronus X: Cronus, the god of fate, and the father of Zeus, was among the earliest Greek gods, one of 12 Titans. The most influential of the System Lords, he banished Sokar, is an enemy of Apophis, and sent the Ashrak to kill Jolinar. He killed Teal'c's father, who had been his First Prime, when Teal'c was a child, and thus became a bitter sworn enemy of Teal'c. He's probably the Goa'uld who sent the ashrak to kill Jolinar. He agreed to the Protected Planets Treaty after Nirrti's betrayal. (Fair Game) Claimed at least one of Heru'ur's planets (presumably after Heru'ur's death in Serpent's Venom), and on a visit to it was killed by the robot Teal'c (who was created Tin Men) while torturing the flesh-and-blood Teal'c by torturing Teal'c's symbiote (gotta give him points for symmetry in trying to kill Teal'c the way he killed Teal'c's father) (Double Jeopardy).
• Hathor X:Goddess of fertility, inebriation, and music. Daughter and wife of Ra, friend to humanity. She was a Queen; one of the few Goa'uld capable of actually having young, for which she needed the DNA of whatever the host species would be (to make adaptation easier). She had been trapped in a sarcophagus on Earth for thousands of years, and found her way to the SGC where she attempted to take control by drugging all the men, and using Daniel as her source of DNA. (Hathor) When the women foiled her plan, she fled through the stargate and started working on another plan, stealing Jaffa from various Goa'uld to form an army. She recaptured SG-1 a year later in an attempt to both gain information and turn one (Jack) into a Goa'uld host, but was once again defeated -- Jack threw her into a cryogenic vat. (Out of Mind/Into the Fire) Somewhere she developed the ability to become invisible; learned from Nirrti?
• Heru'ur X: "Horus the Elder", Son of Ra and Hathor. Was the first Goa'uld to dare invade Cimmeria (an Asgard-protected world) after SG-1 was forced to destroy Cimmeria's protective device to save Teal'c (Thor's Hammer), Heru'ur was the first Goa'uld to dare invade the planet. He was defeated when the Asgard arrived, but escaped safely through the stargate (Thor's Chariot). In direct competition with Apophis for ascendance after Ra's death. Possibly inherited Ra's armies after Ra's death; said to have one of the two largest armies among the Goa'uld (Serpent's Venom). In an ancient minefield during a parley with Apophis, Heru'ur was blown up with his ship (presumably) (Serpent's Venom). His Jaffa are the Horus Guard, and presumably now belong to Apophis.
• Isis X: Sister and wife of Osiris. Trapped (by Seth, her brother) in a jar on earth for millennia. Died when the jar she was in cracked, destroying the seal on the stasis chamber. (The Curse)
• Klorel: The son of Apophis, using the body of Skaara as a host. Was forcibly removed from Skaara during Pretense and sent to a Goa'uld homeworld in search of another host. No idea if he found one or not.
• Nirrti: A Hindu destructive goddess of darkness. Used a biological infection to destroy the planet Hanka and planted a bomb in Cassie's chest to destroy Earth's stargate (Singularity). She was involved in the negotiations with Earth for the Protected Planets Treaty, but used deception and powers of invisibility to sabotage the negotiations (Fair Game). Has been experimenting with phase shifting to fight the Reetou and has the technology to become invisible. (Fair Game)
• Osiris: Brother and husband of Isis. Trapped (by Seth, his brother and enemy) in a jar on Earth for millennia. Finally released in 2000 when the jar he was contained in was opened by Sarah, a research assistant of Daniel's old professor. Found his way back to the temple where the jar had been found, which also hid a ribbon device and a small ship. Daniel, Sam, and Janet followed him there (believing him to be in the body of Steven Rayner, who had also travelled to the temple, looking for more information). Osiris hurt Steven badly, then flung Janet and Sam against the wall. Learned from Daniel that the SGC had killed Ra, Hathor, Seth, Sokar (not exactly true, but close enough -- it was the Tok'ra who killed Sokar) and used a ribbon device on him trying to find out the location of the stargate and of Isis, his sister and wife, until Daniel managed to stick him/her with a tranquilizer dart. Symbiotes can counteract sedative, though, and Osiris, although obviously dizzy/lightheaded, released his ship and escaped. Is now loose in the galaxy in the body of Daniel's old girlfriend.
• Ra X: Sun God. Highest-ranking Goa'uld (died on Abydos during first mission) (Stargate the movie)
• Seth X:Brother and enemy of Osiris. (The Curse) Also known as Setekh, Set, Seti, Setesh, is the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, the embodiment of hostility and outright      evil. He tried to overthrow Ra, and both the System Lords and Tok'ra want him dead. The record of Seth on Earth ended when the Earth gate was buried in Egypt, and he has been hiding out here. He could remain alive with a sarcophagus, or if he changed hosts approximately every 400 years. His modern name is "Seth Fargough", and he had a well-armed compound of followers/worshippers. The Tok'ra used his possible existence on Earth as an excuse for Jacob to see his son, and were more than surprised when Daniel actually found him. Sam killed Seth using a ribbon device (and basically embedding him in the floor with it). Setesh was represented by an animal that is either fictitious or extinct. For this reason, the helmets of the Setesh guard continue to be the source of many jokes among the Jaffa. (Seth)
• Sokar X: Once ruler of the System Lords, defeated by an alliance of Goa'uld including Ra and Apophis. In The Book of the Dead he was the most feared deity in ancient Egypt, the original god of death, similar to Satan. At one time he ruled all of Earth, his lands around Memphis were covered by darkness and inhabited by serpents. His portion of Tuat, the Other World, was filled with lakes of fire where the wicked were thrown as punishment after torture and mutilation, as in hell. Sokar may inhabit Unas, first hosts of the Goa'uld. (Serpent's Song) He was banished to Delmak millennia ago (world orbited by Netu, which is effectively Hell), built up a power base that could have beaten the other system lords (ten times larger than anyone expected, and he was prepared to launch an attack against six key System Lords, which would have upset the balance of power completely), but was instead killed in a blast from a Tok'ra bomb. Had he succeeded, he could have become the dominant power, with an army big enough to rule the galaxy. Apophis has taken over his power base and Jaffa (symbol is a multi-pointed star of sorts) (The Devil You Know). At war with both Apophis and Heru'ur.
• Yu, or Yu the Great: may have been one of China's earliest emperors and did not assume the role of god per se. According to legend he possessed great mythic powers and sprang into the world from a dragon's body. He founded the first recorded dynasty, governing under harsh rule, but bringing advances and positive influences. Was part of the System Lord delegation to Earth for the negotiations initiated by the Asgard, and agreed to the Protected Planets Treaty after Nirrti's betrayal. (Fair Game)
• System Lords killed directly by SG-1 (or facsimiles thereof):
• Amaunet (Teal'c)
• Cronus (robot-Teal'c)
• Hathor (Jack)
• Ra (Jack and Daniel)
• Seth (Sam)

Biology

• A race of parasitic reptiles. A Goa'uld invades a host body (so far we've only seen upright bipedal) and wraps itself around the spinal cord and attaches itself to the brain stem, effectively taking over the body. The host survives but has no control unless the Goa'uld gives him/her control.
• Goa'uld blood is blue (hints in Crossroads; clearly seen in The First Ones). The Unas, the other sentient native race from the original Goa'uld homeworld, have green blood (The First Ones)
• There is at least one race out there that the Goa'uld can't use as hosts -- Aris Boch's race. (Deadman Switch)
• Goa'uld are born with full genetic memory of their direct line of ancestry. (Crossroads)
• Other, older species have been used as Goa'uld hosts before humans. "Unas" was the first Goa'uld host, from the same world as the Goa'uld came from, but became a myth. They have great regenerative powers and can use long periods of sleep to survive (one may have been in the Labyrinth on Cimmeria for 1000 years.) (Thor's Hammer, Demons). The Unas still exist on the original homeworld, but remain primitive -- as do the Goa'uld that still exist there (which the Unas seem to find tasty for dinner). (The First Ones)
• At some point in the past, Goa'uld have evolved to include naquadah in their bodies; it didn't exist in the fossils discovered on the original Goa'uld homeworld. (The First Ones)
• It's possible, though difficult, for a Goa'uld to leave a host body w/o killing the host; most Goa'uld wouldn't even dream of it. Only the Tok'ra are willing to make the effort.. (In the Line of Fire)
• Cryogenic freezing prevents blending with a host, and kills the Goa'uld. (Into the Fire)
• When a Goa'uld symbiote dies, it decays and is absorbed by the host, leaving behind a unique protein marker. (Legacy)
• When a Jaffa is in the deepest state of kelno'reem, some communication with the symbiote is possible, in the form of primitive images, can be achieved. The symbiote is only fully capable of communication once it takes a host, which is its primal instinctual behavior. (Crossroads)
• Symbiote is very resistant to most sedatives (The Enemy Within, The Curse)

Technology

• The Blood of Sokar: a strong hallucinogen, taken orally. (The Devil You Know)
• Cloaking device: Sokar's cargo ship had a cloaking device (Deadman Switch); Apophis cloaked an entire fleet of motherships (Serpent's Venom)
• Ha'tak vessels: pyramid mother ships (Within the Serpent's Grasp). There are no weapons capable of penetrating a mother ship's force shield (The Devil You Know).
• Healing device: Worn over the hand, with the front facing out from the palm. Seems to function on the same theory as the ribbon device; can't heal fatal wounds, or death, which need a sarcophagus. (Thor's Hammer, Fair Game)
• Homing device to find the stargate if separated from it. (The Nox)
• Intars are weapons used in training. They can take the form of any weapon, use a crystal power source, and are only meant to stun.
• Invisibility? Nirrti was experimenting with invisibility to fight the Reetou, and used it to attack Cronus (and frame Teal'c) (Fair Game); Hathor had the ability to become invisible in Out of Mind.
• Nish'ta: A biological compound that once inhaled infects all body tissue and makes the mind highly suggestible. It may have been used on Rya'c, and is similar to, but stronger than, the organism used by Hathor to control the men on the SGC (nish'ta isn't restricted to use on one sex). Its effects can be reversed by an electrical shock after it has infected all tissues (approximately one hour); any earlier, and it will reinfect the host. Once the effects of the nish'ta are completely reversed, the host becomes immune. (Seth)
• Personal force field shield, the power of which is proportional to the velocity used against it. (The Nox)
• Ribbon device: A jewel set in hand jewelry so that it is placed in the wearer's palm, controlled mentally by the wearer. Uses a modified version of the power source for a staff weapon, and channels energy through amplification crystals, using thought control amplified with emotion. Capable of inflicting great pain and even death (Stargate the movie and many eps), but can also be used to send mental messages (Forever in a Day)
• Ring weapon: (no idea what the real name is) Worn like a ring. One touch expands it on the inside of the hand; pointing the hand at someone (and presumably using mental control?) shoots energy sufficient to kill -- even to go right through one person and hit another. (Divide and Conquer)
• Sarcophagus: can heal any wound and even revive the dead (no idea how quickly after death someone needs to be placed inside to recover). (Stargate the movie, The Serpent's Lair, Serpent's Song) Can extend life, but causes addiction and possible loss of "soul" -- increases adrenaline, endorphin, and other hormone levels (Need)
• Shock grenades: cause extreme pain, knock unconscious, and cause temporary blindness (The Serpent's Lair)
• Tacluchnatagamuntoron, or "tac": a Goa'uld automatic remote weapon.
• Tel'tac: Goa'uld cargo ship.
• Transphase Eradication Rod (TER), which relies on the Reetou emissions that Goa'uld are sensitive to, in order to make the Reetou visible in our phase, and to terminate them.
• Transportation rings (Stargate the movie and many eps) work like stargates, transmitting a matter stream over shorter distances. Each ring mechanism has sensors that can locate other rings and detect the coordinates to make a connection. (Jolinar's Memories) Transport rings don't need a specific receiving end to work. A ship equipped with rings can transport aboard something below the ship, but it must be within about five meters. (Tangent) A Goa'uld transport vessel can transport an object out through the transport rings while cloaked, but cannot receive a matter stream while still in stealth mode. (Serpent's Venom)
• The vo'cume is a device that projects a recorded audio/video image, used as a symbol of authority. (Rules of Engagement)
• tech to create zatarcs: A zatarc is a victim of Goa'uld mind control, with true memories/programming suppressed under complex, complete false memories. The programming waits for a specific trigger, then takes over; the zatarc commits suicide after his/her mission is carried out. It only takes moments to implant such programming, and the victim is never aware of it. (Divide and Conquer)
• Zat'nik'tel ("zat" or "zat gun"): Goa'uld weapon using a different form of energy from a staff weapon. 1 shot disables/stuns with pain, 2 kills, 3 disintegrates (Within the Serpent's Grasp, others)

Language (this includes Goa'uld, Jaffa, Abydonian, and ancient Egyptian terms)

• Cal mah: sanctuary (Serpent's Song)
• Chaapa'ai: stargate
• Chel nak: very cool (Tok'ra, part 2)
• Dal shakka mel: I die free (The Nox)
• Depet reshwet herew. (And now I awaken only to die again.) (Serpent's Song)
• Hasshak: insult basically meaning fool (Bloodlines)
• Ha'taaka: Jaffa term of insult, similar to "shol'va", or traitor (Family)
• In'trom popra cursor're. "to enter by infiltration." (Goa'uld dialect similar to Latin) (Legacy)
• Kalach: soul (Need)
• Kal'ma: child (Crossroads)
• Kel mar tokeem: Jaffa term meaning "revenge by the wearer of horns", a reference to being a cuckold. (Family)
• Kelno'reem: deep meditation, hibernation
• Korush-nai: "turn back", used on a planet destroyed by the Goa'uld and left contaminated by radiation.(There But For the Grace of God)
• Kree: "attention", "listen up", "concentrate"... "Yoo-hoo"
• Kresh'taa: Outcasts, living outside the city (Bloodlines)
• Mikta: "ass" ( as in, pain in the...) (Deadman Switch)
• Peltak: the bridge or control room of the space ship
• Ral tora ke: Jaffa term for "good luck" (A Hundred Days)
• Rech yah... gereh... per nejes ha gareh. Set, reta... (I have been in an unending dream. I hoped to awaken to see my wife and children.) (Serpent's Song)
• Remoc: deceleration or arrival at the destination (on a ship).
• Sech achet per taa ra sejem ched. (I was a scribe in the Temple of Amon at Karnak, but that was another lifetime ago, before the nightmare.) (Serpent's Song)
• Sejem secher hereh, neswet. Hekat irt kaping at weben taa. Weya set se rech reshwet weben. Shiak hanweysun, herew. Herew. (I will speak the words of power and do the rites. You will be returned to Egypt and buried with honor. You will pass through the seven gates and see your wife and children again, and rejoice with them forever.) (Serpent's Song)
• Shesh'ta: Jaffa unit of money (Family)
• Shim rota! Shim rota! Reta! Reta! (Serpent's Song)
• Shol'va: Traitor, term used to refer to Teal'c (Bloodlines)
• Sin kesiw... Pet taa ra achet. Himyah kaiek arcunay. (This funerary statue will take your last breath and carry your soul back to Egypt.) (Serpent's Song)
• Tal mak: A world that once supported life that is now extinct.
• Tal ma'te: expression of greeting (Crossroads)
• Tal met. Priem ta shree, tal ma: Our love does not end in death. (Crossroads)
• Tal pat ryn: Jaffa term for "falling star" (A Hundred Days)
• Tec'ma-te: "Master"
• Zatarc: Victim of Goa'uld mind control, with true memories/programming suppressed under complex, complete false memories. The programming waits for a specific trigger, then takes over; the zatarc commits suicide after his/her mission is carried out.
• Zat'nik'tel ("zat" or "zat gun"): Goa'uld weapon using a different form of energy from a staff weapon. 1 shot disables/stuns with pain, 2 kills, 3 disintegrates (Within the Serpent's Grasp)

Jaffa (culture, biology, technology, language)

Culture

• Probable caste society: warrior- and priest-caste seem to have equal status; in Family, Teal'c snaps at a priest at the stargate, who accepts it, and later in the same ep a priest at the stargate refuses entry to Bra'tac, who accepts it. Neither caste has clear prominence over the other (reasonable in a society where the military leaders are also gods, at war with other gods). No indication of status of other castes (farmer, merchant, bureaucrat, etc.)
• Outcaste Jaffa live in encampments outside the cities (Bloodlines).
• Rite-of-passage for young Jaffa is the Prim'ta, the implantion of a larval Goa'uld into the abdominal pouch designed for it (Bloodlines).
• Lack of medical training and medicines, since all adults carry larval Goa'uld and thus don't need medicine. Possibly a way of continuing to select for only the strongest, healthiest people? (Weak, sickly children die for lack of medicines or from severe injuries, so only the strong survive to adulthood.) (Bloodlines)
• God/Goa'uld affiliation and high status are indicated by forehead tattoos. All Jaffa "belonging" to a particular Goa'uld wear the mark of that Goa'uld in a forehead tattoo. High-ranking Jaffa have molten metal poured into channels dug in the shape of the tattoo on their foreheads ("The skin is cut with an orak knife, and pure molten gold is poured into the wound" [Teal'c, in Bane]); in the military, a Second Prime's brand is silver, a First Prime's is gold (NB: This is supposition, not fact, but some ranking Jaffa definitely have silver brands, not gold ones). Presumably, a similar color difference holds true in the religious caste.
• Different Jaffa serve different Goa'uld. The Serpent Guard serve Apophis. The Horus Guard (falcon-headed helmets) serve the family of Ra, and are the elite Jaffa army loyal to Heru'ur. (Thor's Chariot)
• Jokes are standard human, if in different cultural terms ("A Serpent guard, a Horus guard, and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's nose drips.") (Seth)
• In legend, when a Jaffa could no longer carry a prim'ta, he would make the journey to Kheb where his kalach (soul) would learn the path through the darkness into the next life. When the Goa'uld learned of Kheb and traveled there, they did not return, and so it was forbidden to speak of it. The story was still passed on in secret by some Jaffa, though. (Maternal Instinct)
• Since Apophis attacked and slaughtered many of the people on Chulak (Maternal Instinct), the remaining Jaffa are more sympathetic to Teal'c's ideas. But not all of them agree; some remain loyal to Apophis or even other Goa'uld. (Serpent's Venom)
• Jaffa don't believe in ghosts. (Spirits)
• Celebrations:
• Birthdays: Jaffa don't celebrate birthdays, although they keep track of them. (The Light)
• Religious culture:
• Priest-caste (which includes priestesses) possibly celibate (Daniel points out that temple priestesses "don't do a lot of dating" in Crossroads).
• Jaffa religious belief includes concepts of sin, a soul and an afterlife. By repenting of his "sin," Terok claims, Teal'c could free his soul and those of all who followed him from eternal punishment. (Serpent's Venom)
• Warrior culture:
• A Jaffa warrior's head must be shaved. (Holiday)
• The Rules of Engagement are the code of battle during a young Jaffa's training, as dictated by Apophis. The Final Challenge is the day in a warrior's training when first blood is shed, and the games become real. (Rules of Engagement)
• It's customary on Chulak to sing a song of lament when a great warrior retires from the field of battle. (Chain Reaction -- but could've just been a joke)

Biology

• Humans, possibly genetically modified (still unclear whether Jaffa are born with pouches or given them at puberty). They're bred to serve the Goa'uld, as warriors, priests, slaves, and incubators, carrying the larval form of the Goa'uld. Jaffa do not communicate with the larval Goa'uld they carry.
• Granted long life and perfect health by the larval Goa'uld that all Jaffa carry from childhood. Bra'tac is still a strong fighter at 133-plus years old.
• Larval Goa'uld takes the place of the Jaffa's immune system, which collapses completely when the first one is implanted during the Prim'ta; if the goa'uld is removed, the Jaffa soon dies.
• Kelno'reem is similar to hibernation or very deep meditation. In a state of waking sleep, the subconscious mind of a Jaffa becomes one with the symbiote, which allows it to repair an illness. (Holiday) A Jaffa has to enter Kelno'reem every day to remain healthy. (Beneath the Surface)
• Possibly begin to feel effects of old age once past 130 or so; Bra'tac feels that he's getting to the point where he will no longer be able to carry a prim'ta at about 135. (Maternal Instinct)
• If there is no available host when the prim'ta matures, it will take over the Jaffa carrying it (1969) (this seems to contradict the idea that Goa'uld never use Jaffa for hosts, but possible it's a temporary measure until the Goa'uld can find a "proper" host)
• Can survive drowning by going into a deep state of kelno'reem, during which time the symbiote, in its natural environment, can filter the oygen from the water and feed it to the Jaffa. (Demons)
• In the deepest state of kelno'reem, the heart beats so slowly it may stop. The practice is forbidden. In this state, some communication with the symbiote, in the form of primitive images, can be achieved. (Crossroads)

Technology

• Little specific Jaffa technology; the culture doesn't seem to be even slightly industrial. All advanced tech comes from the Goa'uld, making for a strange combination of primitive and highly advanced in Jaffa daily life.
• See Goa'uld Technology

Language

• See Goa'uld Language

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Tok'ra (culture, biology, technology, language)

Culture

• An alliance of Goa'uld resistance, dedicated to wiping out the System Lords (In the Line of Duty).
• They infiltrate Goa'uld society to try to destroy it from within; infiltrators have been caught on ships that the SGC has destroyed.
• Tok'ra numbers have diminished over the years because of a lack of hosts; they won't take any host unwillingly, forming a truly symbiotic relationship.
• There are no Jaffa within the Tok'ra ranks.
• Tok'ra symbiotes enter through the mouth, not the back of the neck -- their hosts are not horrified by the experience, so they don't have to worry about remembering horror/terror in their reflections after they're blended.
• Allied with Earth in the form of the SGC. They were given a remote access code signaling device (GDO) to contact Earth, and left behind the Tollan sub-space transmitter enabling Earth to contact the Tok'ra in the future. (Serpent's Song)

Known Tok'ra (host/symbiote, if both are known):

• Aldwin: Has orders from the Tok'ra High Council to launch a weapon at the core of Netu, causing a chain reaction within 12 minutes that will destroy Netu as well as Sokar's ship in orbit. Without Teal'c's intervention, this would also have killed SG-1, Martouf, and Jacob/Selmak. (The Devil You Know)
• Cordesh: Betrayed the Tok'ra to the Goa'uld, then after Cordesh jumped bodies, the host killed himself in the vanishing tunnels.
• Freya/Anise: Anise is a Tok'ra archaeologist. First interaction with the SGC was to use SG-1 for human trials of an alien technology; armbands that increased natural physical ability tremendously. Almost got SG-1 killed. (Upgrades) Second interaction was negotiating to allow Shan'auc, a Jaffa priestess, to give them her symbiote as a new Tok'ra; Anise and the others were aware that the symbiote could be a double agent, but allowed it anyway, and didn't take steps to protect Shan'auc, who died as a result. (Crossroads) Third interaction was during negotiations for a formal treaty between the US president and the Tok'ra High Council, when she brought out new technology she had developed, which can theoretically find out if someone's been programmed by the Goa'uld as an assassin (a "zatarc"). Decided that Jack and Sam were zatarcs before they decided that the reason the machine had read deception was that they couldn't admit what they felt for each other. Next interaction was completely offscreen, being yelled at by Daniel for not being helpful enough. Freya has a thing for Jack; Anise has a thing for Daniel.
• Hebron/Tanith: Hebron lived on a planet wiped out by the Goa'uld; the Tok'ra recruited him to be Tanith's host, telling him he may wind up being used as a counterspy in Goa'uld ranks for the dissemination of misinformation. Tanith was the symbiote carried by Shan'auc, who convinced her that he hated the Goa'uld and everything they did, and that he wanted to be a Tok'ra. He was lying, and later, having taken Hebron as a host, he killed her for her temerity in daring to tell him, her god, what he should think or feel. He currently believes that the Tok'ra have been taken in by him, and that he is acting as a concealed spy for the Goa'uld in the Tok'ra ranks. The Tok'ra know what he is, and are using him to spread misinformation to the Goa'uld when possible. (Crossroads) Has given at least one piece of useful info to the Tok'ra: the location of the meeting between Apophis and Heru'ur. (Serpent's Venom) Over several months, the Tok'ra fed him enough misinformation to keep Apophis otherwise occupied while they save hundreds of lives and pull agents out of dangrous situations. When the Tok'ra had a chance to move their home base, they decided it was too risky to keep Tanith around, and told him they knew about him. He escaped custody, though, and managed to badly injure Teal'c and take him to Apophis. (Exodus)
• Jacob/Selmac: To cure a fatal cancer, Jacob Carter agreed to become a Tok'ra host -- thus saving Selmac's life as well. Jacob is getting more Tok'ra'ish all the time (e.g., in Tangent, he told Sam she shouldn't have touched death-glider technology, that it was too advanced for the infantile Tau'ri.)
• Korra: A spy in Sokar's ranks, who feared discovery and fled to PJ6-877, where Aris Boch (the bounty hunter) tracked him dow and tried to use SG-1 to capture him. They freed him (and Boch) instead.(Deadman Switch)
• Martouf/Lantash: Mate to Jolinar for more than 100 years. Transferred his affections to Sam after Jolinar died. Fairly high-ranking among the Tok'ra, by all appearances. Turned into a Zatarc and then killed in Divide and Conquer.
• Persus: Supreme High Councilor of the Tok'ra. Came to Earth to sign an official treaty with the US president that outlines a new alliance in the fight against the Goa'uld. (Divide and Conquer)
• Rosha/Jolinar of Malkshur: Mate to Lantash for more than 100 years. She once tried to overthrow a System Lord but was defeated when Apophis joined the battle, and escaped during the slaughter of her armies. While escaping an ashrak (hunter/assassin), she invaded Sam. The ashrak found her and killed her anyway, and she made sure Sam survived her death. (In the Line of Duty) She had once been captive on Netu (Sokar's "Hell") but had escaped by seducing one of the guards. (Jolinar's Memories)
• Saroosh/Selmac: Saroosh was at the edge of death, and talked Jacob into taking Selmac as a host, pointing out that "he is the oldest and wisest" of the Tok'ra. (Tok'ra, part 1/Tok'ra, part 2)
• Yosuuf/Garshaw of Belote: a leader of the Tok'ra, very powerful (Grand Counsel). She's the most hunted Tok'ra of all time.

Biology

• Symbiotes have no gender, but take on the gender of the host, generally picking the same gender repeatedly. (Tok'ra, part 1)
• They can cure many diseases in humans, including cancer and arthritis. (Tok'ra, part 2)
• They're all descended from the same queen -- Egeria, Roman goddess of fountains and of childbirth, who was an advisor to Numa Pompilius, a legendary ruler. She broke from the Goa'uld more than 2000 years ago and came to Earth to stop the Goa'uld from taking humans as slaves [let's just ignore how incredibly badly this fucks up the timeline -- grr!]. Ra killed her after she founded the Tok'ra movement. (Upgrades)
• Like the Goa'uld, the Tok'ra pass on knowledge through genetic memory -- since they've been out of the Goa'uld gene pool for more than 2,000 years, they're out of the loop and need Goa'uld knowledge. (Upgrades)
• Tok'ra can leave a host's body without harming it (although it's difficult, and dangerous), and can jump from one host to another. (Tok'ra, part 2)
• The lifespan is double that of a normal human (at least; Goa'uld seem to be able to make a human body last about 400 years w/o a sarcophagus [Seth]), but with no sarcophagi and no forced hosts, population growth is zero to negative (Tok'ra, part 1).

Technology

• For the most part, the Tok'ra restrict themselves to Goa'uld technology, since they're infiltrators and being caught with anything else would mean exposure. See Goa'uld technology.
• Memory device: one part is implanted into a person's temple, and the other part touches it, activating full-sensory memories (Into the Fire). It can be adjusted for different settings of sensory responses (Jolinar's Memories).
• Zatarc-detecting device: Based on a modified memory device, it can compare subconscious memories with conscious ones to see if someone's lying even without being aware of it. The assumption is that that sort of lie implies tampering by the Goa'uld.

Language

• See Goa'uld Language

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Asgard (culture, biology, technology, language)

Culture

• Appeared to humans as the Norse gods, and brought a group of humans to a safe world, Cimmeria, to allow them to evolve w/o interference from the Goa'uld, under Thor's protection. When Daniel and Sam solved the riddle proving they were advanced enough to know the truth, Thor appeared to them from his ship the Biliskner in his true form: a Roswell Gray. He said he was the Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet. (Thor's Chariot)
• Thrudvang is Thor's home in the stars. (Thor's Hammer)
• The Asgard have several planets under their protection:
• The High Council of Asgard designated Cimmeria a safe world for developing sentient species by unanimous decree, era 40.73.29. (Thor's Hammer)
• PX3-595 is an Asgard protected planet. The natives, known as Tiernods, are primitive, and hide from predators in caves, using an Asgard device to vanish. (Shades of Grey)
• They have a treaty with the Goa'uld (the Protected Planets Treaty), and worlds under their protection can't be invaded by the Goa'uld. But they're largely bluffing about enforcing it; they're caught up in a war against a far more powerful enemy in their own galaxy, and much though they'd like to protect people in our galaxy from the Goa'uld, they can't devote much in the way of resources to do so. (Fair Game)
• The Replicators are the enemy that is more dangerous than the Goa'uld. They were discovered on an isolated planet and brought aboard an Asgard ship for study. They infested the ship, feeding off the metals. They used the metals/alloys to replicate, increasing their numbers incredibly fast and becoming a plague on the galaxy. They have an extremely high learning ability, and are capable of functioning both independently and as a group with a single purpose. (Nemesis)
• The Asgard world Othala is in the galaxy of Ida. (The Fifth Race)
• The Asgard speak many languages, and have been studying humans very closely for a long time. (The Fifth Race)
• Thor, in particular, is exceedingly fond of Jack, repeatedly tapping him for important missions (Shades of Grey, Nemesis). He also named his car -- er, brand-new, most-advanced-ever ship after him (The O'Neill, in Small Victories).

Biology

• Longevity: completely unknown. If Thor is really the same Thor who brought people to Cimmeria, he's at least 1,000 years old. But it's also possible that the supreme commander of the Asgard fleet sort of inherits the position of protector of Cimmeria -- but from what Thor said, seems more likely he's really that old.

Technology

• Ships that travel incredibly much faster than light, through hyperspace; can travel from one end of the galaxy to another "in no time". (Small Victories)
• Kickass transporters on their ships; the ship can't be between the transporter and the object, but they can transport people/things into or out of inside buildings or whatever. (first show up in Thor's Chariot; limitations appear in Nemesis)
• Ships that can avoid detection by satellites and telescopes. (Fair Game)
• The Biliskner, Thor's Asgard ship, is powered by four neutrino ion generators. It uses a molecular transportation device which was disabled in one direction to prevent escape, and was destroyed on entering Earth's atmosphere. (Nemesis)
• The O'Neill was the first ship designed solely to fight the Replicators. It had a hull of carbon, trinium, and naquadah, and was the most advanced technological creation of the Asgard. Sam blew it up. (Small Victories)
• Device that turns people invisible when attached (and presumably turned on, although no obvious mechanism to do so). Once the device is removed (even held in hand), they're visible again. (Shades of Grey)

Language

• Completely unknown

Tollan (culture, biology, technology, language)

Culture

• Arrogant bastards. (Enigma, Pretense, Shades of Grey)
• Legal system involves "triad", a ceremony of justice similar to a trial, in which two "seekers" (defendants) select "archons" (attorneys) to represent them until a decision is reached by a neutral third neutral archon. A moderator presides over the proceedings, and renders judgement after the three archons vote. (Pretense)
• Science has advanced far beyond Terran science; they're about 800 years ahead of us, having never gone through a dark age (ignoring the fact that the dark ages weren't that dark...)
• Their old world, Tollan, was destroyed by natural causes (volcanoes, orbital instability), and they moved to a new one, which they cleverly named Tollana. (Enigma)
• Their original homeworld had had no living animals for generations.
• Sher-mal: Legendary Tollan figure similar to an angel, said to appear at the moment of death and take you to her dwelling in the stars. (Enigma)
• The Tollans don't trust more primitive cultures to be able to handle technology, after a neighboring planet wiped itself out with the technology the Tollans had offered (and managed to destabilize the Tollans' homeworld's orbit, to boot). They've developed an iron-clad Prime Directive as a result (without calling it that). (Enigma)
• Travel by ship as well as by stargate (Enigma, A Hundred Days, Tangent)

Known Tollans:

• Narim: One of the ten Tollan left behind on their original homeworld to seal the stargate and wait to be picked up; saved by SG-1. Is slightly less arrogant than the others, mainly because he's got a crush on Sam and wants to keep in her good graces. Has an orange tabby named Schroedinger that Sam gave him. (Enigma, Pretense)
• Omoc: Leader of the ten Tollan left behind on their original homeworld to seal the stargate and wait to be picked up; saved by SG-1. Arrogant as hell. (Enigma)
• Travell: High Chancellor, very good at turning down Jack's requests for tech. Head of the Curia, the Tollan's highest governing body. (Pretense, Shades of Grey)
• Tuplo: One of the ten Tollan left behind on their original homeworld to seal the stargate and wait to be picked up; saved by SG-1. (Enigma)

Biology

• Seem to be baseline human; what sets them apart is their culture and technology.

Technology

• Detachment device, worn around the chest, suppresses a Goa'uld's ability to silence his host, thus allowing each to speak at will, indicated by the red light for a symbiote, blue light for the host. (Pretense)
• Ion cannons, capable of destroying Goa'uld motherships. (Pretense)
• Scanners that can disable any and all weaponry (at least projectile or energy weapons; unlikely that it affects things like knives/clubs).
• Ability to build their own stargate on their new world. (Pretense)
• Devices to produce unlimited energy, to alter molecular structure of solid matter (allowing them to pass through solid matter and to appear invisible), and to record emotions. (Enigma)

Language

• Triad: legal process, similar to a trial
• Archons: legal representatives, similar to attorneys

Nox (culture, biology, technology, language)

Culture

• The Nox are pacifists, not taking sides in the conflict between the Goa'uld and anyone else. They won't help the Goa'uld, but they won't hinder them, either.
• After SG-1 visited their world and brought the Goa'ulds' attention to bear, the Nox said they were going to bury the stargate, making return impossible.
• The Ritual of Life is a ceremony in which the dead can be revived. During the ceremony, the Nox are unable to maintain invisibility.

Biology

• Ohper, among the oldest of the Nox, is 432 years old.

Technology

• The Nox possess a level of technology far above that of both Earth and the Goa'uld, including the ability to control molecular structure at will, creating the effect of invisibility. (The Nox, Pretense).
• Ability to dial stargate without using a DHD or computer, and without causing the kawoosh.
• Cities that float in the sky (The Nox).

Language

• Unknown

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Ancients (culture, biology, technology, language)

Culture

• Teachers who willingly shared their knowledge.
• At one point, on one colony world, there was a catastrophe/cataclysm of some sort, and the Ancients tried to create a time-travel device to circumvent it. They failed; it caused a short-term continuous loop. In the end, they gave up, shut it down, and let the end come. They left behind the equivalent of 400 pages of text on the walls surrounding an altar near the stargate, including a planetary history and description of the device. The translation revealed that P4X-639 was once a colony of the Ancients. (Window of Opportunity)

Biology

• Unknown

Technology

• Stargates
• Time-looping device (Window of Opportunity)

Language

• Cruvas: wrong. ("There is nothing cruvas with me." -- The Fifth Race)
• Cozars: legs. ("You've got to bend your cozars." -- The Fifth Race)
• Domavatus vestul motabilium: Master of an uncertain past (Window of Opportunity)
• Eetium: yes or understood. ("Understood? Eetium, Sir." -- The Fifth Race)
• Egoo deserdi asordo. Comdo asorda. (Jack requesting help from the Asgard -- The Fifth Race)
• Egoo indeeo navo lochus: "I need a new location." (The Fifth Race)
• Euge: ("Good") (The Fifth Race)
• Fallatus: ability. ("Apparently I have lost the fallatus to speak properly." -- The Fifth Race)
• Fron: mind, brain. ("I'm just looking at it and the words pop right into my fron." -- The Fifth Race)
• Feggus: finished, done. ("No, not yet! I'm not feggus!" -- The Fifth Race)
• Hic qua videeum: The Place of our Legacy (The Fifth Race)
• Noo ani anqueetus: "We are the Ancients" (The Fifth Race)

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Full sets of medals

Jack	Hammond
Note: Jack's medals vary slightly from picture to picture; this is the set he was wearing in Fair Game. In other pictures, there are NO Vietnam medals, and he's wearing a Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon (with a bronze cluster) and an AF Training Ribbon. In my personal universe, this latter set makes far more sense, for reasons given in the "career" section for Jack. (Besides, who could believe that Jack doesn't have a marksmanship ribbon??)  Devices*: Meritorious Service Medal -- 3 silver stars Air Medal -- 2 silver clusters Air Force Commendation Medal -- 2 silver stars Air Force Achievement Medal -- 2 silver stars Air Force Outstanding Unit Award -- V device & 2 silver stars (??) National Defense Service Medal -- 1 bronze star Combat Readiness Medal -- 1 bronze star Southwest Asia Service Medal -- 1 bronze star Air Force Longevity Service Award -- 3 bronze clusters (?) [Air Force Small Arms Expert Ribbon --  1 bronze star] Badges:  Master Parachutist Master-level Space/Missile (?)	Devices*: Legion of Merit -- 1 bronze cluster Meritorious Service -- 3 bronze clusters Air Medal -- 1 silver cluster, 3 bronze clusters Air Force Commendation -- 3 bronze clusters Air Force Outstanding Unit -- 3 bronze clusters National Defense Service -- 1 bronze star Vietnam Service Medal -- 1 bronze star Air Force Overseas Ribbon Long -- 2 bronze clusters Air Force Longevity Service -- 1 silver cluster     Badges:  Master Pilot Master-level Space/Missile (?)
Sam	Jacob
Devices*: National Defense Service -- 1 bronze star Air Force Longevity -- 1 bronze cluster Badges: Senior level Space/Missile (?)	Devices*: None that I can tell Badges: Master Pilot

Explanation of devices (worn on ribbons):

Silver star:  The silver star is worn in the same manner as the bronze star, but each silver star is worn in lieu of five bronze stars.

Bronze cluster:  The bronze oak leaf cluster represents second and subsequent entitlements of awards.

Silver cluster:  The silver oak leaf cluster is worn for the sixth, 11th, etc., entitlements or in lieu of five bronze oak leaf clusters.

The Valor Device:  The "V" device represents valor and does not denote an additional award.  Only one may be worn on any ribbon

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Nicknames, diminutives, etc.

• Emancipation

• Cold Lazarus (duplicate Jack)
• Fire and Water
• Singularity (twice)
• Solitudes (twice)
• In the Line of Duty (7 times; 3 repeated, twice referenced in third person)
• Secrets (twice)
• Spirits
• Serpent's Song
• Point of View (three times, but always the alternate Sam)

• Hathor (twice)
• Demons

• Prisoners
• Holiday

• The Serpent's Lair: "Space Monkey"
• One False Step: "Plant Boy"
• Maternal Instinct: "Grasshopper"

• The Curse

• Prodigy: "Rocko"

• Solitudes (pretending to be Sara to comfort him)
• [There But For The Grace of God (alternate-reality Sam to a-r Jack)]
• In the Line of Duty (twice, while blended with Jolinar)
• Point of View (five times, but only the alternate Sam calls him "Jack")

 

• Broca Divide
• Forever in a Day (in Daniel's mind)

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Speaking in unison -- Jack and Daniel

• "I have an idea."

• "We have a number of, of..." (unison) "shuttles."

• "Nick?"

• "What's that smell?" (I don't care what Merry says, they said that at the same time, dammit!)

• "Wow..." "...that's..." (unison) "ambitious."

Addresses

Daniel lives at 1152 Mainland Street, Apt. 8-3. (apt. # seen in The Light)
 

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Links (military, show-related, mythology)
(send me your links, I'll add 'em!)

Military:

http://www.capnhq.gov/nhq/capnews/11-98/af.htm (has a snapshot overview of the Air Force make-up as of 1998)

http://afas.afpc.randolph.af.mil/ofcr-cpguide/New_Folder/attach.htm (list of AF acronyms and abbreviations)

http://afas.afpc.randolph.af.mil/afas/afas-main1.htm (Officer assignments page -- Air Force Assignment System)

http://www.arpc.org/ (Air Reserve Personnel Center)

http://www.arpc.org/awards/chart.htm (medals and badges)

http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/awards/decs.asp?Mode=Graphics (Air Force Ribbons Chart)

http://www.aetc.randolph.af.mil/ (Air Education and Training Command)

http://www.au.af.mil/ (Maxwell Air Force Base, home of Air University)

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awchome.htm (Air War College -- for Senior Service School courses [for lt. colonels and colonels])

http://www.au.af.mil/au/cepme/college.htm (College for Enlisted Professional Military Education)

http://wwwacsc.au.af.mil/ (Air Command and Staff College -- for Intermediate Professional Military Training [primarily for majors and major selects])

http://www.hurlburt.af.mil/usafsos/ (USAF Special Operations School)

http://members.aol.com/veterans/warlib6f.htm (U.S. Air Force Veteran and Military sites -- huge list)

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awcgate.htm (AWC [Air War College] Gateway to Internet Resources)

http://www.colonels.hq.af.mil/ (Air Force Colonel Matters Office -- includes link to Colonels' Handbook)

http://www.dtic.mil/ (Defense Technical Information Center)

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/ (US Air Force Museum)

http://www.stratcom.af.mil/ (U.S. Strategic Command)

http://www.spacecom.af.mil/hqafspc/ (Air Force Space Command)

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004604.html (U.S. Military Pay Grades)

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004606.html (monthly basic pay by grade)

http://www.dtic.mil/perdiem/bahfaq.html (basic allowances for housing; includes estimate of regular pay [including allowances])

http://www3.opm.gov/oca/01tables/execses/html/01slstle.htm (Pay rates for civilians in senior-level or scientific or professional positions)
 
 

Show-related:

http://www.thesumners.com/stargate/ (this would be the other main source -- also great stuff)

http://129.100.142.50/sg-9cultures/gdict/Cover.html (Goa'uld dictionary and who's who reference, although the latter doesn't seem to be working)

http://www.site-street.com/members/coljackoneill/database4.html (database of SG info -- reasonably thorough, although the site is fairly blinding)

http://www.s_g_c.homestead.com/ (Stargate Central -- some good info. Use no-frames version. Also has eps to download.)

http://www.gammaquad.com/sg1/ (Gamma Quadrant -- SG-1 episodes to download. They seem to be completely up-to-date. The eps are in Windows Media format.)
 
 
 

Mythology:

http://www.egyptianmyths.com/ (Ancient Egypt: the Mythology)

http://egyptmyth.com/ (Egyptian Mythology Today; click through a couple of pages and you get a page full of links to ancient Egyptian information)

http://touregypt.net/gods1.htm (Gods of Ancient Egypt)

http://www.mythinglinks.org/afr~egy~myth.html (Mythinglinks... -- this page is largely links to other sites, but she gives her reasons on why she's chosen them, which is helpful)

http://www.kemet.org/glossary/introduction.html (Kemet.org -- odd site, apparently by a temple where the ancient Egyptian gods are worshipped as the many names of Netjer, the One God of Ancient Egypt. But a nice big list, including Egyptian names, the Greek/Roman versions [which is largely what we get on SG -- even includes Harseisis!], and Wallis Budge's translations [usually wrong, but still well-known])

http://www.symbols.com/ (encyclopedia of Western symbols and ideograms)
 
 

Questions, comments, additions, corrections, etc. to arduinna@trickster.org
 

Last updated March 2, 2001