• Goa'uld queens serve their pharoahs, not the other way around. (Summit)
• Despite being largely genderless themselves (with the probable exception of the true queens), Goa'uld are influenced by their hosts' gender, and notice attractiveness (sexual as well as aesthetic) in other hosts. (Children of the Gods, Summit)
• 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)
• The System Lords have been experimenting with time manipulation for years. (Gamekeeper)
• 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)
• Use an ashrak to hunt down or take out enemies. Ashraks are immensely powerful goa'uld assassins. (Not sure where they stand in the overall ranking hierarchy.) Cronus sent one after Jolinar, killing her and nearly killing Sam in the process (In the Line of Duty, Fair Game) Anubis (probably) sent one using invisibility technology to infiltrate the Tok'ra base in the Risa system, opening them up to invasion and near destruction, and then following the few survivors through to the SGC's alpha site and sowing a lot of mistrust and anger (by killing first a Tok'ra, then a Jaffa) before everyone realized it was an outsider and hunted him down in turn. One ashrak alone killed all the Jaffa in the naquadah mines of Kawawn. (Allegiance)
• 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)
• After spreading "like a plague" for thousands of years, the Goa'uld are suddenly showing zero population growth. (Summit)
• The System Lords, at least, are showing cannibal behavior; after a summit meeting, the System Lords in attendance ritually ate live Goa'uld symbiotes, and planned to do so every night as long as the summit continued. (Last Stand)
  • This could be a new behavior pattern, but these were not new Goa'uld; they'd been around for a long time, and Osiris at least should still have been accustomed to ancient practices (having been in stasis for millennia until a year earlier) -- but Osiris was the first to chomp. (Last Stand)
  • If this is a new patterns, it could account for the sudden plunge in the population growth. (Last Stand)
• Often choose neutral territory to hold meetings/councils:
  • the Tobin system (where Apophis and Heru'ur met to discuss a possible alliance, before Apophis obliterated Heru'ur and his forces). (Serpent's Venom)
  • the Hassarra system (where the post-second dynasty System Lords met to discuss their new secret enemy and then accepted him into their ranks). (Summit, Last Stand)
• The Goa'uld continue to look for and develop new technologies, to give them an advantage in their internecine wars as well as to help them against external enemies.
  • At least Apophis, and probably others, kept trying to hunt down a creature that lived on a (supposedly) unpopulated world that had the ability to become invisible, hoping to learn its secrets. (In actuality, it was a local animal -- the Fenri -- that the Nox concealed to protect it.) (The Nox)
  • First Hathor, and later Nirrti, worked on phase-shifting technology that allowed for invisibility, based on the Reetou's phase-shifted physiology. (Hathor, Fair Game, Rite of Passage)
  • Anubis has been working on stronger hatak shielding. (Between Two Fires, Revelations)
  • Baal was working on localized gravity-field generators, and pretty successfully. (Abyss)
• Despite the constant internecine struggles, the Goa'uld have long avoided a particular source of power. Legend has it that there were six "Eyes", including those held by Apophis, Osiris, Tiamat, and Ra. Separately, they were very powerful; combined, their power increased tenfold. Anubis eventually managed to track down five of the six Eyes, lacking only Ra's. (He has to have dug the Eye of Tiamat out of the rubble where Marduk died in The Tomb.) (Full Circle)

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• 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.
  • System Lords appear to have varying ranks, with a select few forming the ruling core -- the number seems to depend on how much power how many people have grabbed. The ruling System Lords can (and do) make treaties that all Goa'uld must abide by, such as the Protected Planets Treaty with the Asgard. (various eps, but mainly Fair Game, Summit, and Last Stand)
• At the top of the post-Ra heap were Apophis, Sokar, Cronus, 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]).
• After the collapse of what the Tok'ra call the "second Goa'uld dynasty" (unclear whether that includes Ra or not), the Goa'uld fought among themselves, suffering heavy losses before declaring a truce. Seven System Lords rose to power out of this: Bastet, Kali the Destroyer, Baal, Morrigan, Olukun, Svarog, and Yu -- the only surviving member of the old order. (Summit) Meanwhile, Anubis had been working behind the scenes, fighting with all of them in his own bid for power (seems to be hoping to become the next Ra), and eventually won himself a place among the ruling System Lords, bringing the total to eight. (Summit, Last Stand)
• According to Teal'c, after talking to Yu, the System Lords knew about the rebel Jaffa army raised by K'tano, and allowed it to continue and grow, biding their time until they could launch an attack to wipe out all rebel Jaffa. (The Warrior)
• 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.
• There are groups 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)
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• Anubis: Funerary god in Egyptian mythology.
  • Used to be a System Lord; banished, never to be allowed to return, for crimes that were unspeakable even to other goa'uld (Last Stand).
  • The System Lords also attempted to murder him, and for a thousand years thought they had, before he reappared to take advantage of the power vacuum after the collapse of the second Goa'uld dynasty (Last Stand). He began using any Jaffa he could find: godless Jaffa from defeated goa'uld (lots from Cronus and Sokar, for instance); captured Jaffa (some from one of Olukun's motherships) (Summit). He's also good at turning goa'uld to his side; as he first reappeared on the scene, he seemed to favor goa'uld who served Apophis (Tanith [Between Two Fires], Zipacna [Summit, Last Stand]) but didn't limit himsef to them -- recruited Osiris, using Zipacna as an emissary (Summit, Last Stand). He was making a massive power play from hiding, attacking anyone and everyone without letting anyone know who was attacking, and doing a lot of damage as he threw the remaining System Lords into disarray and distrust.
  • He's not a pure Goa'uld any longer: he's half-ascended. The Goa'uld in him figured out how to ascend long ago, but the Others didn't want him, and sent him back. It didn't quite work, though; they couldn't send him all the way back. (Full Circle)
    • He's still some form of energy (glowing white, like Ascendants/Ancients), kept intact by his face shield (and presumably his other clothing/armor). But he's stuck halfway between human existence and ascension. (Full Circle)
    • Goes cloaked and hooded (dark material), so no one can see body shape or face. What's visible of his face is shiny and shifting -- metallic? Dimensional? (Revelations)
  • When he'd made enough of an impact to have all the new System Lords worried, he sent Osiris as his proxy to request that he be allowed to rejoin the System Lords. He was accepted (by Baal, Bastet, Kali, Morrigan, Olukun, and Svarog, but not by Yu, the only dissenting vote) and became a System Lord again.
  • Through Osiris, he promised Yu privately that he would destroy Earth before actively taking his place among the System Lords, and promised the council at large the he would destroy the Tok'ra. He had more luck with the second promise: Zipacna's forces attacked the Tok'ra's new base on Revanna, killing every Tok'ra there, leaving only those Tok'ra out on missions as survivors. Although there's no direct evidence linking him, he has probably made two attempts to destroy Earth by the time he requested re-entry to the council, both failures: Tanith tried to get the Tollan to send a bomb through Earth's iris (Between Two Fires); and a huge naquadah-heavy asteroid was hauled into Earth's solar system and set on a collision course with Earth (Failsafe).
  • Has learned how to use Asgard holographic technology. (Redemption, part 1)
  • Despite his sudden climb to power, he still only controls a handful of worlds, according to Bra'tac. (Redemption, part 1)
  • Didn't let up in his attack against the Tok'ra; tracked them to the Risa system and attacked, doing massive damage to Tok'ra numbers and killing all of SG-12 in the process. (Allegiance)
  • Uses a mix of regular Jaffa and ninja (ish) Jaffa. (Descent, Full Circle)
  • First Prime was/is Herak. (Full Circle)
  • Gathered together five of the six Eyes (including the Eye of Tiamat, which he has to have dug out of the rubble where Marduk died in The Tomb) of legend, lacking only Ra's. He searched all of Ra's old hangouts until only Abydos was left, and made his way there to search for it. (Full Circle)
    • In his initial attack on Abydos in search of the Eye of Ra, he sent in a double wave -- death gliders and al-kesh at the same time. Ground forces landed almost immediately thereafter. (Full Circle)
    • The System Lords rallied behind Yu to try to keep him from getting or keeping the Eye of Ra; Anubis waited until he had the Eye in hand, then powered up his weapons and attacked, wiping out a portion of the fleet and running the rest off. (Full Circle)
    • Daniel, in an attempt to both save Abydos and keep Anubis from finding a tablet of the Ancients' with information about a vital lost city, went to Anubis to make a deal: the lives of SG-1 and all the Abydonians in return for the Eye of Ra (which Jack had). Anubis accepted the deal. After he took care of the System Lords, he reneged, attacking Abydos with powerful weapons and killing everyone by causing a massive explosion in the temple with a deadly shockwave effect. (Full Circle)
  • Anubis' technology (more advanced than other Goa'ulds')
    • The more powerful shields, which are probably being given to other Goa'uld as part of the price for accepting him. These shields can withstand the Tollans' ion cannons and standard Asgard weaponry. (Between Two Fires, Revelations)
    • Brain-sucker. (Name obviously subject to change, if I get any canonical hint about what it's called.) Small (in the hand -- huge for something inside one's brain) metal globe, with spikes sticking out all over it. It gets implanted into a brain, and forms a link between the victim and the ship's computer (presumably, any assigned Goa'uld computer, if they're not using it on a ship), downloading all the victim's knowledge into the memory banks. (Revelations)
    • Has developed the means to detect cloaked ships. (Redemption, part 2)
    • Stargate-killer. Anubis has discovered (or built?) a weapon of the Ancients, designed to let one stargate attack (and destroy) another: a double ring of standing stones (on two levels) surrounding the firing mechanism. The outer ring appears dormant but actually generates a protective force field; energy steadily circles the inner ring. The mechanism in the middle shoots a beam of energy straight across the circle into the stargate at the far end. Rya'c destroyed the weapon in a glider attack. (Pure speculation: the energy circling the inner ring possibly feeds down through the stones into a below-ground "capacitor"; when the weapon is destroyed the resulting explosions look like underground things blowing up, and if the energy doesn't feed downward, I'm not sure what it's doing circling around like that.) (Redemption, part 2)
    • His flagship isn't a ha'tak; rather than being pyramidal, it's more circular (but not spherical; it has a main, wide disk with a second, smaller tiered disk on top of it), and rather than being mostly golden, it's black. The interior is more traditionally Goa'uld, with pyramidal/triangular shapes, lots of black and gold, and open flames for lighting/effect. (Full Circle)
      • In battle, the ship's configuration changes, with a central column rising up where the smaller round tier was, with triangular panels radiating outward from the top of the (now flat-topped) column. (The panels folded out from their non-battle state, where they were basically the outer layer of the smaller round tier.) (Full Circle)
      • Power surges up the central column and out through the triangular panels, allowing Anubis to attack in several directions at once with incredibly powerful weapons, easily capable of penetrating a ha'tak's shields. (Full Circle)
• Apophis X:
  • Serpent God.
  • Direct rival/enemy of Ra; in a power struggle to gain ascendance over the other System Lords since Ra's death.
    • Also Ra's brother. (Cure)
  • His mate was Amaunet; his Goa'uld son was Klorel (but he was apparently not Amaunet's son, although it's never made explicit either way). (Children of the Gods) He and Amaunet also had a harsesis child -- a child born of their human hosts -- Shifu. (Secrets). Shifu was eventually taken and raised by Oma Desala. (Maternal Instinct, Absolute Power)
  • Changing taste in clothes. Early in Teal'c's career went for a robe with a feathery motif, plus neck/shoulder/chest armor of plain panels with a large scarab on each panel (Theshold). Toward the end of Teal'c's career was in more "traditional" Egyptian garb, with a shirt that left his midriff bare and no scarabs anywhere (Children of the Gods). After his revival and escape from Sokar, he shifted to outfits in Sokar's colors/styles, with a lot of red leather (Serpent's Venom, Exodus, Enemies)
  • Career:
    • Steadily worked his way up the System Lords' ladder, regularly coming back from apparent defeat stronger than ever.
    • About 300 years ago, defeated the System Lord Shak'ran. (Cure)
    • Actively at war with Ra throughout much of Teal'c's career with him. (Threshold)
    • Saw an opportunity for supreme power when his rival Ra was killed. (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods)
    • Lost face and warriors when SG-1 blew up two of his ha'tak vessels (The Serpent's Lair)
    • Was captured and tortured by Sokar, escaped, and died of his injuries on Earth (in an attempt to bring the SGC with him into death). (Serpent's Song)
      • This is the first confirmed death for him we saw. (Serpent's Song)
      • Injuries included two broken femurs, internal bleeding, withdrawal from the sarcophagus, rapid aging, and severe damage to the symbiote from torture by the same device used by the Ashrak. The symbiote was unable to repair the damage. (Serpent's Song)
    • The SGC returned him (his dead body, at least) to Sokar, where he was revived to be tortured more, then banished by Sokar to Netu. (Jolinar's Memories)
      • On Netu, as First Prime to Bynar, went by the alias "Na'onak" (Jolinar's Memories)
    • From his banished state on Netu he staged a coup that probably would have failed if not for the Tok'ra killing Sokar as they destroyed Netu. Inherited Sokar's armies -- which were enough to destroy at least six System Lords, maybe more. (Serpent's Song, Jolinar's Memories, The Devil You Know). 
      • Had Sokar's troops from The Devil You Know on -- as of Maternal Instinct the Jaffa still bear Sokar's mark but claim to be in the service of Apophis; by Serpent's Venom, they bear Apophis' serpent mark.
    • Captured SG-11 and tortured them for information, but didn't get much before they died. (Rules of Engagement)
    • Attacked and destroyed Chulak, searching for the harsesis child. (Maternal Instinct)
    • Lost several thousand warriors from his new army when Oma Desala lashed out at them. (Maternal Instinct)
    • Building a new class of battleship that could assure his dominance over the Goa'uld and the galaxy. SG-1 destroyed the (first?) ship on PX9-757 by sabotaging the cooling system. (Upgrades; planet designation stated in Divide and Conquer) 
    • Met with Heru'ur in an ancient deadly minefield to discuss an alliance to topple the System Lords; when Jacob, SG-1 (barring Teal'c, who was being tortured on Heru'ur's ship at the time, unbeknownst to anyone), and a Tok'ra operative on Apophis's ship interfered in an attempt to make both System Lords retreat, Apophis uncloaked an entire fleet of mother ships. He destroyed Heru'ur's ship, and his fleet surrounded him to sacrifice themselves to save him from the mines. Inherited all of Heru'ur's armies (at least in theory). (Serpent's Venom)
    • Made a bid to wipe out the Tok'ra with much/most of his fleet but failed when the Tok'ra managed to escape ahead of him. Lost most of his fleet when SG-1 and Jacob blew up the sun in the Vorash system with his fleet nearby, catching the ships in the supernova. Escaped on his own mothership and followed SG-1 through hyperspace to another galaxy. (Exodus, Enemies)
    • Escaped his Replicator-infested mother ship with a few loyal Jaffa (including a brainwashed Teal'c) and used Teal'c to gain access to SG-1's stolen ha'tak vessel. Idiotically brought Replicators with them. Apophis went down with the ship when SG-1 steered it straight into a planet to blow it to smithereens. (Enemies)
      • Might actually be dead this time. (Enemies) The actions of Goa'uld rising to power strongly imply that Apophis died in the explosion. Imhotep finally pronounced him dead (The Warrior), so I now consider this to be a confirmed death.
    • The climb to power:
      • (The SGC and SG-1 in particular seemed to be helping him inadvertently in this sweep toward total power; every time they did 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 could have turned 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 was building on]).
      • 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) took over Cronus's power base, now that Cronus is dead at the hands of the robot-Teal'c. (Double Jeopardy)
      • His death left a final, massive power void, which new Goa'uld hastened to fill.
    • Confirmed kills:
      • the blonde sergeant from Children of the Gods
      • Jack (with staff weapon) (The Nox)
      • Sam (with staff weapon) (The Nox)
      • Daniel (with staff weapon) (The Nox)
• Baal:
  • Tends to be a bit touchy and possessive; he wiped out two star systems -- 60 million people -- rather than lose them to Sokar in a territorial dispute. Daniel said of him: "His gifts have a habit of exploding, especially when he feels he's been slighted."
  • Seemed to be nominally in charge/the host of the council meeting of the new System Lords, although that didn't appear to give him any more power there than anyone else. (Summit)
  • Despite having suffered losses at Anubis' hands (Baal lost his flagship and 2,000 Jaffa in battle with him), Baal accepted Anubis' bid to rejoin the System Lords. (Last Stand)
  • Had a male lo'taur at the summit meeting with the other System Lords (possibly his traveling lo'taur?) (Summit/Last Stand).
  • Had a secret outpost where he was experimenting with weapons technology and gravity-field generators, with great success.
    • His lo'taur at this outpost was a femaled, Shallan.
    • He captured Jack after Jack's Tok'ra symbiote, Kanan, brought them to the stronghold. Jack was held in a gravity cell (a room off a corridor when the gravity was normal; a deep pit when it was shifted) between torture sessions; the torture itself took place over a high-gravity shaft that held Jack in place for Baal.
    • Baal himself repeatedly tortured Jack to death to gain information about the symbiote's mission, breaking him slowly but steadily. After at least one session, Jack was dropped down the gravity shaft, presumably to his death, to be revived in the sarcophagus. (Abyss)
  • At one time, had the planet P4S-237 (where Ellori's people lived) as part of his dominion; he gave it up more than a hundred years ago. (Prophecy)
  • Somewhere between Abyss and Prophecy, he suffered a military defeat at Yu's hands; Anubis was very disappointed in him. Baal's campaign was meant to be a final crushing blow, but Yu escaped, and Baal suffered heavy losses. (Prophecy)
• Bastet: A minor (but still fairly powerful, by all indications) goa'uld until the second ruling dynasty collapsed. She may have a long-term alliance with Kali; they seem to be on fairly friendly terms, and at least once were spoken of as a unit ("Bastet and Kali have also suffered..." -- Baal, Summit). The two of them made a treaty with Sobek, then moved against him during the celebratory feast. Rumor has it that his head still decorates Bastet's palace in Bubastis. (Summit) Despite suffering losses at the hands of Anubis' forces, and having gone to a council to determine a course against him (before they knew who he was), Bastet voted to let Anubis back among the System Lords. (Last Stand)
• 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 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 in 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). (Hathor)
  • She had been trapped in a sarcophagus on Earth for thousands of years, in a Mayan temple -- the Temple of the Inscriptions, in Palenque, Mexico. (Hathor)
  • After her sarcophagus was opened and she killed the archaeologists who found her, she made her way to the SGC, sensing that that's where the stargate was.
  • When captured by security guards at the SGC, she was placed in room 16K7-45 -- a holding cell. (Hathor)
  • She possessed the ability to breathe out a chemical, some sort of pheremone (visible as pink breath), which left men extremely susceptible to her suggetion. If she got close enough, the men would breathe it in, and then do whatever she wanted. It didn't affect Jaffa (protected by their symbiotes) or women. Other than being totally amenable to her, though, the affected men didn't behave particularly differently. When she left, the effect was cut off, leaving temporary memory loss behind. (Hathor)
  • She attempted to take control by drugging all the men at the SGC with her pink breath.; the only male on the base totally immune was Teal'c, because of his symbiote. (Hathor)
  • She intended to set up a new dynasty based on Earth. She chose Daniel as her beloved, her chosen one, her first pharaoh, and as part of that she wanted him to "donate" his DNA ("take the code of life from his juices") so she could spawn a batch of human-oriented offspring. She enjoyed the method of procuring the code with humans. (Hathor)
  • When the women foiled her plan, she fled through the stargate to Chulak. (Odd choice...) (Hathor)
  • She began working on another plan, stealing Jaffa from various Goa'uld to form an army. (Out of Mind/Into the Fire)
  • 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. Odds are extremely high that she's dead for good. (Out of Mind/Into the Fire)
  • Somewhere she developed the ability to become invisible; learned from Nirrti? (Out of Mind/Into the Fire)
• 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). 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; we never saw the body) (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)
• Kali: "The Destroyer". A minor (but still fairly powerful, by all indications) goa'uld until the second ruling dynasty collapsed. She may have a long-term alliance with Bastet; they seem to be on fairly friendly terms, and at least once were spoken of as a unit ("Bastet and Kali have also suffered..." -- Baal, Summit). The two of them made a treaty with Sobek, then moved against him during the celebratory feast. (Summit) She had an outpost on Cerador. Despite suffering losses at the hands of Anubis' forces (she lost two motherships in battle against him), and having gone to a council to determine a course against him (before they knew who he was), Kali voted to let Anubis back among the System Lords. (Last Stand)
• Marduk X: Lived on Earth as a Babylonian creation god. So evil that even his priests rebelled, and sealed him in a sarcophagus with an animal that ate his host until it died (a long, long time given the sarcophagus' regenerative powers). Marduk entered the animal to save himself, and was eventually released by a Russian team who died for their efforts. He took over a Russian member of a joint Russian-SGC rescue mission. He was badly injured by the Russian commander, Colonel Zukhov, but survived long enough to be blown to bits by SG-1. Presumably. (A pile of C-4 blew up in his face, bringing down the temple on top of his blown-up remains and the sarcophagus. Highly doubtful that he could have revived, climbed out of tons of rubble, unburied the sarcophagus from tons of rubble, and climbed in to recuperate. Even if he did, it's doubtful he'd be able to do anything about getting out, since the transport rings were also blown up and buried.) (The Tomb)
• Morrigan: Very little known about her. She uses her lo'taur to try to get information about other System Lords through "casual" conversation with other lo'taurs. She rose to power after the collapse of the second Goa'uld dynasty, and despite having suffered at Anubis' hands, voted to let him return to the System Lords. (Last Stand)
• Nirrti X: A Hindu destructive goddess of darkness.
  • Once sent a peace emissary to negotiate a treaty with Apophis over a stargate Apophis had taken control of. The negotiation was a ploy, and the stargate was destroyed -- as soon as the emissary entered the stargate, there was a massive explosion. She repeated the ploy with Cassandra, in an attempt to destroy Earth's stargate. (Singularity)
  • 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 (she had been experimenting with phase shifting to fight the Reetou, but didn't share the technology she developed with the System Lords) to sabotage the negotiations, nearly succeeding in killing Cronus and blaming the SGC (and specifically Teal'c) for it. Her actions got her taken prisoner by Yu and Cronus. (Fair Game).
  • After Cronus' death, she was freed by default from his captivity, and returned to Hanka where she had created a genetic retrovirus in Cassie's people, which the people called "the mindfire", designed to create an improved host for herself. The virus triggered in teenagers a few years after puberty; the teens went into the forest where they were lured into standing over transport rings that brought them to Nirrti's lab. Nirrti "cured" them in her lab, keeping them alive so that the rewritten DNA the virus had produced could be passed on, so each generation wound up one step closer to what she wants. She returned invisibly with SG-1 in hopes of gaining access to Cassie, but got caught and wound up working a deal for her freedom; she saved Cassie and was freed, but without her invisibility technology or a sample of Cassie's blood. She intended to start up her experiments somewhere else. (Rite of Passage)
  • Months later, was still persona non grata among the Goa'uld, with no chance of being accepted among the ruling System Lords (Last Stand).
  • Found a new planet to play on -- P3X-367. The local population was suffering from a plague when she arrived. She took advantage of the situation, taking some of the survivors to her fortress to "heal" them. The treatments were actually sessions with an alien device she had found on the planet (possibly Ancient in origin), which she used to alter the locals' genetic makeup, in her ongoing quest to create a hok'tar she could use as a host. The "treatments" took place in her local fortress, where all of the "ill" locals had been moved. Unbeknownst to them, the rest of their village had been killed. The mental mutations included various forms of psychic abilities, from telekinesis to telepathy; the physical mutations manifested as extreme deformity. To get rid of dissenters, or those she was done with, Nirrti set a time-delay mutation into their genes that caused them to eventually liquefy. Capturing SG-1 turned out to be her downfall; the locals eventually listened to Jack and the others, and Eggar, the telepath, looked into Nirrti's mind to see what she'd done and what she planned. He told Wodan, Nirrti's local right hand, who snapped and killed her telekinetically, breaking her neck after nearly strangling her. (Metamorphosis)
• Olukun: Has battled with Yu, and is still angry over his losses. Rose to System Lord rank after the collapse of the second Goa'uld dynasty. (Summit) Despite losses to Anubis' forces (and having lost Jaffa who defected to Anubis when their mothership was taken), he voted to allow Anubis back among the System Lords. (Last Stand)
• 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. (The Curse)
  • Remained in Sarah's body by choice, even though most Goa'uld prefer not to change their hosts' gender. In about a year, had managed to amass an impressive army. (Summit) Claimed to serve no one -- and got very testy at the idea that he may have served Isis, insisting that she served him -- but was quickly recruited to Anubis' cause, and agreed to serve as his emissary and proxy to the new council of System Lords. (Summit, Last Stand)
  • His style of dress becomes steadily more revealing, but always sticks to the same basics: in The Curse, it's white pants and top, with a long white coat (lightweight material over all). In Summit/Last Stand, it's tighter white/gold pants and top, the latter midriff-baring, covered with a gauzy white long sleeveless vest/coat that gathers in front at the waist but drapes backward from there. By Revelations, it had shifted to a dark, almost leather-looking base outfit -- still tight trousers and midriff-baring tank top, and with a gauzy, dark-gold patterned sleeveless vest over all, cut so that it covers the host's back and sides, without ever meeting in the front; it's held together in the middle by a Horus hawk figure. Also wearing wrist-high, fingerless leather glove (dark brown) on her right hand and a standard Goa'uld hand device (covering fingertips and palm, wrapping up around the wrist) on her left, and leather arm protectors (also dark brown) from forearm to just below the biceps on both arms. The whole effect is much more about strength than the Summit/Last Stand seductive version, but doesn't lose any of it's seductiveness, either. Osiris clearly has no problem flaunting his host's physical attributes.
  • On orders from Anubis to test a new shield system, Osiris entered a protected system (Adara) and waited for an Asgard ship. When Thor appeared and told him to leave, Osiris refused, and when the shields held, attacked Thor's ship with more powerful weaponry than the Asgard had expected, destroying it. (Revelations)
  • While dealing with Thor and Anubis, Osiris had ships in battle with Yu, attempting to kill him. The battle wasn't going well, and Osiris sent the two motherships that had accompanied him to the Adara system to help. (Revelations)
• Pelops: Called "the creator" and "the giver of days" by the Chosen -- people from the planet Argos who are the descendants of people Pelops took from ancient Greece and modified to live an incredibly sped-up life (100 days, instead of 100 years). He wanted to see how humans evolved, shortening the lifecycle enough that he could see 100,000 years of evolution in just 100 years. (The experiment seems to have been a failure; although conditions were right -- an isolated, limited gene pool -- there were no evolutionary differences, or at least visible differences, between the Argosians and Earth-normal humans, unless possibly in their astonishing ability to learn language with only the first day or so of life available with the proper mental window open.) He infected them all with nanocites (nanites) to alter their physiology. The nanocites themselves had a certain level of artificial intelligence, and the ability to adapt to new situations. A hidden transmitter gave off a signal at sunset every night, putting the Argosians to sleep and triggering the nanocites to go into action, aging them. A second hidden transmitter gave off a signal every sunrise, stopping the nanocites for the day and waking the Argosians up. (Brief Candle)
• Ra X: Sun God. Highest-ranking Goa'uld while he lived.(Stargate the movie) Brother to Apophis. (Children of the Gods) He was thought to have killed Egeria in Rome, but apparently not. At one point, he lived on Pangara, and brought Egeria there, sealed in stasis in a canopic jar, as his prisoner. He lost the world (and Egeria) to Shak'ran, who took over and moved in, building his own temple on top of Ra's and burying Egeria, presumably unknowingly. (Cure) Surrounded himself with very human young attendants, both male and female. The boys were bald except for long scalplocks, and wore long loincloths and wide necklaces (in the case of the older boys, a chest harness of sorts in addition to the necklace); the girls had straight bangs and their hair cut straight at about chin level, and wore shifts of some sort. Ra dressed more formally than most System Lords, using a full mask and headdress, which seemed almost organic -- he could make it not only retract, but seemingly vanish into his own head. (Possibly, therefore, it was just illusion.) His Jaffa -- Horus guards, with fully mobile helmets but not wearing much in the way of body armor -- didn't have incubator pouches. Ra kept cats aboard his mothership. Infuriated by the presence of uppity strangers on Abydos (Jack, Daniel, et al, on the first mission), Ra attacked the local city, and planned to send the Mark 3 nuclear bomb that Jack had brought along (intending to stay behind to detonate it and save Earth from any threat through the stargate) back through the gate to Earth, enhanced with naquadah to make it a hundred times more powerful. Instead, he himself died when Jack and Daniel ringed the fully armed (with only seconds to go on the timer), enhanced bomb onto his mothership as it left Abydos orbit. (Stargate the movie) Possessed one of the six Eyes, which he kept hidden in a secret chamber, itself hidden inside another secret chamber (the outer one for general treasures, the inner one solely for the Eye) under his temple The outer chamber was accessible only by shining a laser on a specific spot on the door; unknown by what mechanism the inner chamber was accessed (Sam shot it open). (Full Circle)
• 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)
• Shak'ran X: Warlord who was eventually defeated (and killed) by Apophis, about 300 years ago. Before his defeat, he used the world Pangar as his homeworld. He very likely won the world from Ra in battle -- he moved in and built himself a temple on top of the temple Ra already had there. (Cure)
• 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 (presumably -- we never saw the body, but Apophis' actions since definitely imply that Sokar is permanently out of the picture). 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.
• Svarog: One of the System Lords who rose to power after the collapse of the Second Goa'uld Dynasty. He voted Anubis back into the ranks of the System Lords. (Summit, Last Stand) After successfully sending Jaffa through the stargate as a test of Latona's planetary defense system, Svarog claimed Latona as part of his domain, and his Jaffa began cowing/conquering the locals (who were nonconfrontational enough to make it difficult, since they simply refused to obey orders they didn't understand -- and they didn't understand any of the orders they were being given).Svarog brought a mothership to finish the conquest of the planet, firing on the main city to force them to submit. He and all his Jaffa were driven away by the Sentinel in a burst of blinding white light -- no idea if that means they're dead or just transported elsewhere. (The Sentinel)
• Tiamat: She was part of the Babylonian creation myth, as a winged serpent: Marduk slew her and used half of her body to form the sky, and the other half to form the earth. (The Tomb) Little is known about her as a System Lord, other than that she possessed one of the six Eyes (Full Circle) and was definitely connected to Marduk; he had the Eye of Tiamat in the ziggurat where he was entombed (The Tomb).
• 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. (Fair Game)
  • 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)
  • His full name and title is the Jade Emperor, the Exalted Lord Yu Huang Shang-Ti. He lives in a Chinese-style palace/fortress in a mountainous region of his planet, and is fond of tea. (Summit)
  • His lo'taur prior to Jarren (whom Daniel wound up impersonating) unwittingly gave up the location of Yu's secret base in Valon, but then died in the surprise attack. (Summit)
  • Yu was the only surviving member of the old order of ruling System Lords, but didn't have enough power to take a position of precedence (or possibly simply didn't want to). (Summit)
  • He was the only member of the new council of System Lords to deny Anubis' request to rejoin them. (Last Stand)
  • He was stabbed in the stomach by Osiris when he came upon Daniel (whom he knew as Jarren) trying to kidnap Osiris/Sarah. (Last Stand)
  • Survived the attack by Osiris thanks to the sarcophagus, but it left him weak. Not so weak he couldn't figure out what was going on with "K'tano", though, and to capture Teal'c and tell him about the destruction of K'tano's plans, infuriating Teal'c enough to go back and kill K'tano/Imhotep. He goes so far as to say to Teal'c "Your faith is not blind - I know this of you", counting on Teal'c's ability to think for himself as a strength to all appearances, and is willing to forgo killing the shol'va who basically began the wave of unrest in the Jaffa ranks in order to unseat the leader of the rebellion -- who was about to be attacked and maybe killed anyway. Yu's motivations are a bit murky here -- he appears to be much smarter and capable of more long-term planning than most Goa'uld. (The Warrior)
  • Under attack from Osiris' forces some time after the summit, but was holding his own, at least before Osiris sent reinforcements. No idea if the added ships made a difference. (Revelations)
  • Given the plans to Baal's secret gravity-field experimentation outpost by the SGC (although presumably Yu didn't know that that's where it came from), and did as the SGC had hoped: attacked the outpost, giving Jack a chance to escape, by attacking the power generators first. (Abyss)
  • Somewhere between Abyss and Prophecy, he gained a military win over Baal that was sufficient to leave Anubis very disappointed in Baal. Baal's campaign was meant to be a final crushing blow, but Yu escaped, and Baal suffered heavy losses. (Prophecy)
  • As of Prophecy, Yu remained the sole System Lord in opposition to Anubis.
  • Finally rallied the other System Lords behind him, and headed a fleet that confronted Anubis over Abydos. Yu demanded that Anubis hand over the Eye of Ra, or face destruction. Anubis attacked first, destroying part of the fleet and forcing the rest into retreat. Unknown whether Yu survived the battle or not. (Full Circle)
• System Lords killed directly by SG-1 (or facsimiles thereof):
  • Apophis (Jack, Sam, Daniel, with Jacob's help)
  • Cronus (robot-Teal'c)
  • Hathor (Jack)
  • Ra (Jack and Daniel)
  • Seth (Sam)
  • Marduk (whole team)

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• Adrian Conrad X: (Host name; Goau'uld name unknown -- grr.) One of Cronus' offspring, incubated in a Jaffa that was eventually captured by the Russians and then kidnapped by the NID. The symbiote was implanted into Adrian Conrad at his own request; he wanted it to heal him of a terminal disease, on the assumption that his scientists and doctors could then remove it, leaving him fully human and healthy. He intended to use Sam as a guinea pig in the experiments, even at the cost of killing her to study her brain. The Goa'uld had other ideas, and took him over completely, killing Conrad's girlfriend and escaping. Before he could get very far, Simmons found him and took him captive, offering to deal luxuries for information. (Desperate Measures) Simmons held him in a cage in an NID "safehouse" in North Dakota, where he questioned him. After Simmons overplayed his hand against the SGC and was arrested, the goa'ulded Conrad was passed into SGC custody. (48 Hours) An NID team that the imprisoned Simmons was controlling eventually hijacked the X-303, demanding both Simmons and Conrad as their price for not blowing the ship (and all of Nevada) up. After the ship entered hyperspace, Conrad attacked Simmons. The host was shot and killed, but the symbiote escaped into Simmons' body. From there, he attacked both Jack and Teal'c in a corridor, doing some damage to both. Jack opened the airlock and spaced him, killing both Simmons and symbiote. (Prometheus)
• 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.Was possibly allied secretly with Heru'ur against Apophis; her guards in Forever in a Day were Horus guards, not Serpent guards, and Sha're at the end said, "Amaunet took the Abydonians as a show, so that Heru'ur would not know her true goal." -- so not only was she likely allied with Heru'ur, she was apparently betraying him even as she used him to betray Apophis. And she was pulling it off. The only thing she hadn't counted on was Kasuf getting a message to SG-1, and SG-1 bringing enough troops along to wipe out the power base Amaunet was building. Given that Apophis called her his "new queen" in Children of the Gods, it seems likely that she was all of three years old when she did all of this.
• Imhotep X: Symbol is an inverted step pyramid (very cool, especially in the First Prime gold form). From a backwater planet, whose only claim to fame was developing a particular fighting style (very Eastern, and rife with Matrix-y effects): mastaba. Full of kicking and staff work, and based on the idea that one must strive with single-minded purpose to victory, without regard for survival. All of his Jaffa were required to master it. In an attempt to gain power during the upheaval period after the collapse of the second Goa'uld dynasty, he disguised himself as his own First Prime (K'tano), pretended to have killed Imhotep, and raised a Jaffa army from freedom-seeking Jaffa of many Goa'uld. He snookered every Jaffa he met, including Bra'tac and Teal'c; possibly used a sublimal hint of Goa'uld voice to influence them? (They all fell for his act very very fast, and completely, for no apparent reason.) He gained many Jaffa from the ranks of the System Lords that SG1 have killed, and had Jaffa from at least six different System Lords (including Horus guards and Serpent guards). Used a combination of freedom-fighting rhetoric and religion (promising that fallen warriors would go to Kheb). Skilled at manipulating people and situations; he seduced Teal'c away from SG-1, making very deliberate moves to call him to his side and away from Jack any time Jack wanted Teal'c to go with him (weakening Jack's alpha image, strengthening his own, and putting Teal'c in a beta position from which he was less likely to challenge K'tano). Offered to make Teal'c his second in command, if Teal'c survived the suicide mission against Yu. Seemed sincere in his desire for an alliance with Earth - very Goa'uld-y betrayal and doublecross potential all over the place there. Teal'c killed him in the rite of joma secu to expose him as the betrayer to the Jaffa cause that he was, and also wound up exposing him as Imhotep. (The Warrior)
• Klorel: The son of Apophis, using the body of Skaara as a host. Had a run-in with SG-1 when he and Apophis tried to destroy Earth; during it, he taunted Jack a lot and tried to kill Daniel by ribboning him. Jack shot and killed him, but Bra'tac, trying to buy time, put him in the sarcophagus to recover. After he revived, he and Apophis were forced to flee their exploding motherships. (Within the Serpent's Grasp, Serpent's Lair) About a year and a half later, during a battle with Heru'ur's forces, Klorel was fleeing in a glider and crash-landed on Tollana. Skaara had control when the Tollans found them, and begged to be freed from Klorel. After a "triad" (trial, with three arguing sides), Skaara won, and Klorel was forcibly removed and sent to a Goa'uld homeworld in search of another host. (Pretense) No idea if he found one or not.
• Mot: (mythologically, the Canaanite god of death, who was defeated by Baal and forced to live in the underworld; in Goa'uld terms, there was likely a power struggle between the two, and Baal won and forced Mot into servitude) Set himself up as an emissary of Baal, to continue taking tribute (in the form of naquadah) from P4S-237 (where Ellori's people lived, a planet Baal abandoned a hundred years or more ago. He never passed the naquadah along; was probably saving/using it to build himself a powerbase. He earned the enmity of the local village when, after a winter that had brought a terrible sickness (so that many of the villagers couldn't work, and thus there wasn't enough naquadah to meet the tribute), he chose ten of the sickest -- including the headman's son-in-law -- and executed them in front of the entire village. He had a spy on the planet -- Chazen -- who informed Mot of Ellori's plan to have SG-1 (and SG-15) help them free themselves of Mot. Mot left it to Chazen to capture them all (using a Goa'uld shock bomb), then arrived a day early to ensure that any plans would fail. He spoke with the Tau'ri long enough to make it plain that he knew about the iris and the need for a code, and he'd guessed correctly which part of their equipment sent it. After that, he allowed SG-1 and SG-15 to escape, hoping they would walk into an ambush by the gate (an ambush that included their opening the gate and sending through the iris code, which Mot badly wanted). When Chazen inadvertantly ruined the ambush by sounding the alarm, Mot started to ribbon him to death. Before he could finish, Natania (the headman's daughter) shot him with a Tau'ri pistol, then shot him again to make sure he was dead. (Prophecy)
• 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)
• Tanith X: 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 believed that the Tok'ra were taken in by him, and that he was acting as a concealed spy for the Goa'uld in the Tok'ra ranks, unaware that the Tok'ra were using him to spread misinformation to the Goa'uld when possible. (Crossroads) As part of his cover, he gave 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 saved hundreds of lives and pulled agents out of dangerous 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 or kill Teal'c and take him to Apophis. (Exodus) He didn't die in the explosion of the sun with Apophis' fleet; he was in the single one-man pod that escaped, and found himself a new master to serve. Hasn't lost his hatred of Teal'c or the rest of SG-1, and nearly succeeded in destroying Earth by getting the Tollans to do his dirty work for him. (Between Two Fires) While scouting a new planet to use as a base, along with a contingent of Jaffa, he was killed when Teal'c shot directly into bridge of the al-kesh Tanith was flying, causing it to crash and burn. (48 Hours). Eventually, it becomes clear that the new, unnamed master must have been Anubis. (Summit)
• 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) After Apophis's death, he seems to have been recruited by Anubis, and became one of Anubis's main emissaries. The position seems more powerful than the one he held under Apophis, and he definitely started dressing better -- although still in a kilt, rather than trousers. He recruited Osiris to the cause, and captured a Tok'ra spy in his ranks, managing to get information about Revanna and about a new superweapon (the symbiote poison). He went to Revanna, engaging the Revanna stargate as soon as his ships were within sensor range to cut off any escape, and loosed his Jaffa in an attack (led by al-kesh that bombed the planet, then gliders that strafed the surface, then ground troops that infiltrated the Tok'ra tunnels to find any survivors) that destroyed the base and killed every Tok'ra there. Only SG-1 escaped. (Summit, Last Stand)
• Minor Goa'uld killed directly by SG-1:
  • "Adrian Conrad" (Jack)
  • Amaunet (Teal'c)
  • Tanith (Teal'c)
  • Imhotep (Teal'c)

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• A race of parasitic reptiles. A Goa'uld invades a host body (they seem to prefer 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.
  • Can survive in hosts other than bipedal and large-brained with "normal" stereo vision; Marduk lived inside a creature with at least four legs, possibly more, with a fairly small head and multi-faceted eyes with presumably no better than animal intelligence. (The Tomb)
  • Absorbs language at a very fast rate; Marduk learned modern Russian and English in what was probably less than 15 minutes, and probably no more than a couple of hours. (The Tomb)
• Goa'uld are born with full genetic memory of their direct line of ancestry. (The Enemy Within, Crossroads)
• At some point in the past, Goa'uld evolved to include naquadah in their bodies; it didn't exist in the fossils discovered on the original Goa'uld homeworld. (The First Ones)
  • There was no naquadah in the systems of the group of symbiotes cloned from the Goa'uld that was implanted in Adrian Conrad. Either the cloning/genetic engineering was sophisticated enough to remove the naquadah, or Goa'uld are somehow given naquadah after they're spawned, rather than having it as a now-natural part of their makeup. (Nightwalkers)
• Queens:
  • Rare.
  • Able to fertilize their own eggs, in what is largely an asexual process. (Cure)
  • Voluntarily (rather than automatically) pass on genetic knowledge to their offspring. (Cure)
  • Although not necessary, Queens generally chose to use DNA from the host species when creating new Goa'uld ("taking the code of life from the juices of the species intended as the host") (Hathor)
    • Using DNA from the host species to create new Goa'uld ensures compatibility between Goa'uld and host. (Hathor)
• Birth, maturation, and implantation:
  • The queen passes on her genetic knowlege voluntarily to her offspring. (Cure)
  • Larvae are spawned in liquid (Hathor) and spend their very early lives in tanks of liquid (Bloodlines) but are implanted in Jaffa pouches as soon as they're old enough (multiple eps).
  • Implanted larvae mature completely in 8-9 years; Teal'c is given an extremely young larva in 1997 (Bloodlines) and in 2001 Hammond mentions that it will be mature in four to five years (Threshold). In 2001, halfway through this maturation process, Teal'c's larva has developed small wings and darker skin, probably the equivalent of early adolescence. (Threshold)
  • Once fully matured out of its larval stage, a symbiote can't stay in a Jaffa pouch -- it causes the Jaffa great pain and would eventually kill it. It also seems to instinctively want to leave in search of a host. (Crossroads)
  • Immature larvae can apparently take a host if there are no Jaffa around. A very immature group of symbiote clones (that looked too young to be implanted in Jaffa, never mind a host) nearly succeeded in taking over the NID and SGC,, and presumably from there all of Earth. (The were defeated by a compound that killed them inside their hosts -- they'd been genetically engineered to be susceptible to it as part of their cloning.) (Nightwalkers)
  • The fully developed personality emerges either before or during the goa'uld'ing of a host, allowing the symbiote to take full control immediately upon blending. (Cure)
  • Prior to the use of Jaffa as incubators, a Goa'uld's odds of successfully blending with a host were just one in two (50%). (Cure)
  • A failed blending results in death to both Goa'uld and host. (Cure)
  • Symbiosis with human hosts:
    • Despite evidence that the Goa'uld symbiote molts its larger form (Enemy Within, possibly Tok'ra as well [Selmak was very small, looking like an immature symbiote, when he shifted from Saroosh to Jacob]), it appears that symbiotes remain relatively large and settle in at the base of the brain and down the spinal cord. The head and "upper" body are inside the cranium. (Allegiance)
  • There is at least one race out there that the Goa'uld can't use as hosts -- Aris Boch's race. (Deadman Switch)
• A mature symbiote can take control of its host's body, but it doesn't work the other way around. (Abyss)
• Once a goa'uld has completely blended with a host, it has the ability to kill its host if it chooses. (The Enemy Within)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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) It also leaves behind traces of naquadah. (Desperate Measures)
  • contradiction: a dying symbiote releases a toxin that kills the host. (Summit)
• Traditionally, "A Jaffa does not communicate with the Goa'uld it carries." (Teal'c, in The Enemy Within) When a Jaffa is in the deepest state of kelno'reem, though, 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)

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General tech

• 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)
• 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)
• Hyperdrive: a faster-than-light drive installed on vessels including tel'tacs (cargo ships) and ha'taks (pyramid motherships), but not in death gliders.
• 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.
• Nanites: The Goa'uld have the ability to develop nanites that affect human biology, particularly human growth, speeding up well past normal rates. (A Hundred Days, Absolute Power)
• Page turning device: Works with a specific type of tablet, turning the "pages" so the "book" can be read. (Brief Candle, Legacy, Rite of Passage)
• Personal force field shield, the power of which is proportional to the velocity used against it. (The Nox, Secrets)
• 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)
• Shields: all Goa'uld ships seem to have shields of some sort, from ha'tak on down to cargo ships.
• Shields, advanced: New on the scene in fifth season (first mentioned in Between Two Fires), presumably developed by Anubis. These ship shields (so far only on ha'tak vessels) are powerful enough to withstand the Tollans' ion cannons and standard Asgard ship weaponry. (Between Two Fires, Revelations)
• Space station: Cargo ships don't board or enter docking bays; they connect to docking arms on the sides of the station. (Summit)
• 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)
  • Seem to be many ways of triggering them:
    • controls worn on the body (Stargate the movie)
    • keyed controls (Jolinar's Memories, Devil You Know)
    • on cargo ships, either by a keypad set in a control column in the main chamber (Serpent's Venom), or by a key combination on the top of the control column (Failsafe)
• 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)

Vessels

• Al-kesh: mid-range bomber with cloaking capability. (Exodus) The word is both singular and plural. (Last Stand)
• Death gliders: two-man fighter ships, capable of both space and atmosphere flight and combat, armed with a staff-weapon-like cannon (the weapon is about halfway between a staff weapon and a mounted cannon in size; Teal'c managed to carry one and fire it manually in Fifth Man, but it was pretty big even for him.). The ships are based on/launch from Ha'tak vessels. (multiple eps, starting with Children of the Gods)
• Ha'tak vessels: pyramid mother ships (Within the Serpent's Grasp).
  • They can carry armies of Jaffa (up to several thousand [Maternal Instinct]) and carry fleets of death gliders (Within the Serpent's Grasp).
  • They seem to have been upgraded significantly since Teal'c turned shol'va; he claimed that it would take months or years with many slave armies to get anywhere by spaceship (Enemy Within) and later said that the ships were capable of travelling ten times the speed of light, confirming his earlier estimate -- instead, the ship they were on took days, travelling far faster than Teal'c had assumed (Within the Serpent's Grasp).
  • There are no weapons capable of penetrating a mother ship's force shield (The Devil You Know). Later this is contradicted:
    • Tollan ion cannons are an effective deterrent against Goa'uld attack in ships with standard Goa'uld shields. (Pretense)
    • Selmak says that Apophis' humongous mothership has weaponry that could go right through Cronus' ha'tak's shields. (Enemies)
  • Self-destruct: the only way to stop it is with a command override, which erases the sequence (rather than suspending it). (Descent)
  • Security measure: if there's a hull breach (or presumably a gas leak, etc.), all doors around the breach close and seal automatically. (Descent)
  • Escape pods are jettisoned through pressurized tubes (Descent)
• Tel'tac: Goa'uld cargo ship. (Deadman Switch, multiple others)
  • They're not equipped with seatbelts (Summit)
  • Cargo-ship sensors can't pick up lifesigns of a Jaffa in a deep state of kelno'reem (to a point where the heart beats only once or twice a minute). (Descent)

Weapons

• Cannon: two types: the smaller type is mounted on death gliders and can be carried separately by a warrior if need be (Fifth Man); the larger type is mounted, either at waist-level (There But For the Grace of God, others) or in a tower (Into the Fire), and used for more massive destruction. The waist-high ones in particular are incredibly phallic weapons.
• 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. (Rules of Engagement)
• 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)
• 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)
• Shock grenades: cause extreme pain, knock unconscious, and cause temporary blindness (The Serpent's Lair)
• Staff weapon: long, spear-like weapon carried by Jaffa that uses an energy crystal for power and shoots a blast of very hot energy that can badly damage or kill (the blast is hot/high-energy enough that wounds can smoke or be self-cauterizing [Jolinar's Memories, others]). First appear in the Stargate the movie; appear in almost every ep thereafter.
• Tacluchnatagamuntoron, or "tac": a Goa'uld automatic remote weapon. (Deadman Switch)
• Tal'vak acid: a small globule is sufficient to slowly burn all the way through a human body. It cauterizes the wound as it goes, but small amounts often get into the bloodstream anyway, and begin to spread. Torture weapon. A counteragent is also available, which neutralizes the acid and numbs the pain. (Abyss)
• Torture stick: The trident (three-pronged thingie) used to shock people, sending gold energy streaming out the mouth and eyes. Obviously extremely painful, but doesn't seem to do any lasting damage. (Serpent's Venom, Beast of Burden, The Sentinel, others) (nb: I got the name from the commentaries on the Season Four DVDs; I don't remember ever hearing a name for these things in canon.)
• 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. (Show and Tell) They also function against the phase-shifting technology Nirrti developed, which was specifically meant to combat the Reetou at first (Fair Game, Rite of Passage)
• Zat'nik'tel ("zat" or "zat gun"): Goa'uld weapon using a different form of energy from a staff weapon, shooting what amounts to an electrical charge. 1 shot disables/stuns with pain, 2 kills, 3 disintegrates (Within the Serpent's Grasp, others)

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• al-kesh: a mid-range bomber; has cloaking capabilities (Exodus)
• ashrak: assassin (In the Line of Duty)
• Arik tree-ac te kek: (We do not surrender, even in death) (spoken at a Tok'ra funeral) (Allegiance)
• bashaak: training (wooden) staff weapons (The Warrior)
• cal mah: sanctuary (Serpent's Song)
• chaapa'ai: stargate (Children of the Gods, multiple others)
• cha'hai: probably either "it's okay" or "relax" or "lower your weapons" -- Daniel follows it in English with "lower your weapons" (Children of the Gods)
• cha'tii: (possibly "cha'til" -- closed-captioning was hard to read) no direct translation, but something on the order of "boys", "apprentices", "very young warriors" (Bra'tac: "I have trained these warriors since they were cha'tii.") (Serpent's Lair)
• chel nak: very cool (Tok'ra, part 2)
• chel nok: probably "good luck" (Shaq'nel to Teal'c, Bra'tac, and Rya'c as they head down to a planet to take on Anubis' forces) (Redemption, part 2)
• chula a lazla: "are you here to choose", more or less. (asked by the Jaffa on Chulak who ran into Daniel on the path) (Children of the Gods)
• dal shakka mel: I die free (The Nox)
• depet reshwet herew. (And now I awaken only to die again.) (Serpent's Song)
• hakorr kra terak shree: banished to oblivion (The Curse)
• hal mek: possibly "hold your fire" - what K'tano/Imhotep says to Nirrti's Jaffa when he walks into the middle of live fire to recruit them to his cause. (The Warrior)
• hara kash: ring device, carried by the ashrak who hunted Jolinar down. When activated, three gems each produced a beam of light that rose into a pyramid, which in turn generates a much stronger energy beam. It's aimed at the victim's head, and can be fatal. (In the Line of Duty)
• hasshak: insult basically meaning fool (Bloodlines)
• ha'taaka: Jaffa term of insult, similar to "shol'va", or traitor (Family)
• hok'tar: "advanced human" (Rite of Passage)
• in'trom popra cursor're: "to enter by infiltration." (Goa'uld dialect similar to Latin) (Legacy)
• joma secu: "challenge of leadership" -- a duel to the death to decide who is more worthy (and has the right) to lead. Possibly a purely Jaffa term, although that isn't definite. (The Warrior)
• kalach: soul (Need)
• kalach shal tek: "victory or death" (The Warrior)
• kal kek m'al shol'va: something the brainwashed Teal'c snarls to Bra'tac; Bra'tac's reply is "Where is your god now?" (Threshold) (at a total guess, it's something like "you die a traitor" implying that Bra'tac is going to die at Teal'c's hands in Apophis' name -- but that is *totally* a guess, based on "dal shakka mel" meaning "I die free" and "m'al sharran" meaning "last rite")
• kal mek: (no direct translation, but probably means "where are you?" since that's what Teal'c's saying in English at the time) (Threshold)
• kal'ma: child (Crossroads)
• ket mattet: challenge (to a duel, presumably to the death)
• kel mar tokeem: Jaffa term meaning "revenge by the wearer of horns", a reference to being a cuckold. (Family)
• kelno'reem: deep meditation, hibernation
• kelshak, kel shak: see quellshak
• kel shal, kree, shol'va: something Teal'c says to a roomful of Jaffa before ringing down to a planet with Va'lar, who's been sentenced to death (Threshold)
• kel tal shree, shol'va: something the brainwashed Teal'c snarls at Bra'tac when Bra'tac is talking about them working together. (Threshold) (more guesses: "kel" could mean "revenge" or "vengeance" [see "kel mar tokeem"]; "shree" could mean "banished" or "oblivion" [see "hakor kra terak shree"]. So it could be a nice concise way of saying "you're going to be obliterated in vengeance for your actions, traitor". Or not. Oh, for a translator for these!)
• 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)
• lako harrah a lazla: probably "they have come to choose" (Spoken by the Jaffa who brought the team to the Chulak citadel, apparently in explanation of their presence to the celebrants around the table. See chula a lazla) (Children of the Gods)
• leaa: probably "come here" or "gather 'round" (what Daniel said to the Abydonians to gather them around him so he could tell them he was leaving and they should rebury their gate) (Children of the Gods)
• lo'taur: the highest-ranking human slave, basically a personal attendant. It's considered a position of honor. (Summit)
• Mak tal shree! Lok tak. Mekta satak Oz! Mok tal Oz kree!: I am the Great and Powerful Oz (Tangent)
• m'al sharran: "The last rite", a rite in which a warrior is brought to the edge of death so the events of his life wash over him like a great wave, in hopes of reminding him who he truly is and breaking a System Lord's brainwashing. (Threshold)
• mikta: "ass" (as in, pain in the...) (Deadman Switch)
• na-ney: no (Children of the Gods, others)
• obi-tan or olvy sac: (first is from aired ep closed-caption, and is closer to the sound I heard; second is from DVD closed-caption for the same ep) (possibly "halt" or "freeze" -- it's the first thing Bra'tac yells at SG-1 the first time he sees them, threatening them with a staff weapon, before Teal'c comes around the corner to greet him) (Bloodlines)
• peltak: the bridge or control room of the space ship (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
• quellshak: (this is probably actually "kelshak" or "kel shak", but "quellshak" is how the closed-caption rendered it: the gist of it seems to be "lead us" or "we'll follow"; Teal'c followed this with "honor us with your guidance" as he asked Bra'tac to help them find Drey'auc and Rya'c in the outcast camps. (Bloodlines)
• 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). (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
• 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)
• sha lo key: (slight emphasis on the "lo") "stand beside me", probably specifically meaning the equivalent of "be my best man" at a wedding (Skaara says this to Jack when speaking of his upcoming wedding). Possibly purely an Abydonian term. (Full Circle)
• shal met: probably the equivalent of "cheers" -- Teal'c and Raknor both say it when they lift their cups to each other to drink (The Warrior)
• shek kree: (no direct translation; possibly something along the lines of "for shame!" given the context both times it's used) (Threshold)
• Shel mak. Shel assah.: (no translation; what Teal'c says as he lights Drey'auc's funeral pyre) (Redemption, part 1)
• 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)
• shweek: (probably the equivalent of "hands up"; Bra'tac yells it repeatedly at SG-1 the first time he sees them, threatening them with a staff weapon, before Teal'c comes around the corner to greet him) (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)
• tak mal tiak: greeting of some sort, probably respectful (what K'tano/Imhotep says to Bra'tac) (or possibly something along the lines of "you are a memorable person", given the meaning of "tak mal arik tiak", below) (The Warrior)
• Tak mal arik tiak (You will not be forgotten) (spoken at a Tok'ra funeral) (Allegiance)
• 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)
• tar: slang for "human" (short for Tau'ri) (Rite of Passage)
• tec'ma-te: "Master"; see tek matte for later spelling and meaning
• tek ma'tek: friends well met (sort of "we come in peace") (The Warrior)
• tek matte: variant spelling of "tec'ma-te" -- a greeting of respect (dammit, that is *not* how it started out; it was a title, not a greeting) (The Warrior)
• ya duru arik kek onac: (K'tano/Imhotep to Teal'c, followed by "I honor he who would kill his god") (The Warrior)
• 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. (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)
• zat'n'ktel: alternative spelling for a zat (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
• zatnuketel: horrible, horrible variant spelling of zat'nik'tel (The Warrior)

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