• Extremely humanoid, but never clear if they're really human or not.
• Their world's stargate has no DHD or address map, so all of their space travel happens by ship. This keeps them within the span of their own Aschen Confederation -- they can only travel so far in their ships.
• They travel to new worlds and make treaties with the people there, promising advanced technology, and entry into the Aschen Confederation.
  • As soon as the other planet agrees, the Aschen do start giving them advanced medicines and technology.
    • Medicines that eliminate disease and extend the lifespan.
    • Tech includes floating harvesters and transporters.
  • They also begin spreading a virus genetically modified to attack only the specific DNA of the people on the planet, causing widespread sterility. Within a generation, population growth slows to nearly nothing; within a few generations, population itself is down to a mere fraction of its original size.
  • The people who are left are kept ignorant of what's happened to them, and spend their lives farming to provide food for the Aschen, happy in the belief that the Aschen are their friends.
• Technology that Aschen allies don't find out about until it's too late includes bio-weapons containing living genetic material engineered to attack specific DNA, and the ability to create a secondary star by igniting a gas giant.
• They wanted to form an alliance with Earth, trading technology and membership in the Aschen Confederation in exchange for stargate technology and addresses.
• Very possibly all dead; Jack made sure that one of the stargate addresses that was given to them was for a black hole.

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• Planet: P3X-562 (Cold Lazarus)
• A crystalline race, largely destroyed. SG-1 found thousands of broken crystals in a pit a short distance from the stargate, but nowhere else. (Cold Lazarus)
  • About a thousand years ago, the Goa'uld showed up on the crytals' world, and one touched a crystal. The energy in the crystal killed him, and in retaliation, the Goa'uld gathered up all the Unity (crystals) and put them in a pit, then shot them with staff weapons, shattering almost all of them. (Cold Lazarus)
• The electromagnetic energy in the crystals has the ability to mimic things -- to the point of copying entire people if a crystal is intact. (Cold Lazarus)
• The separate crystals can sustain individual life and thought, but need to be part of the Unity to sustain existence. Left isolated, the energy in the crystal starts to decay, ionizing particle radiation. (Cold Lazarus)
• Physical death doesn't negate a member of the Unity's existence; the one that nearly killed Jack kept trying to find Charlie, not understanding that dead = gone for humans. (Cold Lazarus)

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• Humanoid race, with the main differentiating feature being yellow eyes. Their original homeworld had a dense ozone layer, and without one they risk blindness and death, since they're highly susceptible to even low levels of radiation. (Scorched Earth)
• The Goa'uld took Enkarans from their homeworld by ship centuries ago, and the Enkarans had no way to return there after they gained their freedom from the Goa'uld -- their homeworld had no stargate, and they didn't know where in the galaxy it was located. (Scorched Earth)
• When the world they were living on grew too dangerous for them -- many people were being blinded by the radiation levels, and it was only getting worse -- SGC worked like crazy to find them a new world, sending multiple units out to search, and succeeded. (Scorched Earth)
• Within a few weeks of finding the new world, the Enkarans had built hundreds of villages to house thousands of people. (Scorched Earth)
• Before they could even finish their celebratory feast, a Gadmeer ship appeared and begain "terra"forming the planet, stripping all organic material and turning the atmosphere sulfuric. (Scorched Earth)
• The Enkarans refused to be driven out of their new home, preferring to stay and die.
• Eventually the Gadmeer ship's avatar, Lotan, agreed to pause the terraforming, and Daniel figured out that the ship had actually found (and rejected) the Enkarans' original homeworld as a possibility. Lotan agreed to bring the Enkarans back to their original homeworld before returning to finish transforming the planet. (Scorched Earth)
  • The Enkarans insisted that Lotan join them as one of their own, since he'd been designed to look like an Enkaran, and he agreed. (Scorched Earth)

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• Planet: Original world unknown, and lost.
• A sulfur-based reptilian lifeform, wiped out an indeterminate time ago by a superior military force. The Gadmeer saved as much genetic material from their world as they could, and placed it along with all the knowledge and culture from their 10,000 years of civilization on a huge ship. They programmed the ship to travel through the galaxy looking for a world that matched the parameters of their homeworld, to "terra"form it and start a new Gadmeer colony. (Scorched Earth)
• The world that the ship finally found (after rejecting millions of planets as unsuitable) had just been inhabited by the Enkarans, who were themselves desperate to find a world suitable for their needs. Unfortunately, their needs didn't include a sulfuric atmosphere. (Scorched Earth)
• The ship created an avatar, Lotan, to speak with the Enkarans and convince them to leave, because the ship couldn't stop terraforming the planet; it had the ability to change one planet, no more, and couldn't stop the process halfway through. (Scorched Earth)
• Thanks to Daniel, Lotan eventually (after a few very tense hours) agreed to pause the terraforming, and then to bring the Enkarans back to what is almost certainly their original homeworld before returning to the disputed planet and finishing the job. (Scorched Earth)
  • The Enkarans offered to accept Lotan among them, since he now has a body and apparent sentience and going purely by appearance was Enkaran. Lotan accepted. (Scorched Earth)
• The Gadmeer are presumably in the process of being recreated (no mention of how long a trip it will be to take the Enkarans home, though, so the ship might still be in transit). (Scorched Earth)

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• Blue-skinned, bipedal, upright amphibian beings (with very sharp teeth). (Only one member of the species has ever been seen; no idea if there are significant variations in color or size within the species.) (Fire and Water)
• SG-1 discovered a sole member of the race (Nem) while exploring a planet (SGC designation P3X-866). Possibly Nem's native world; he seems to have been living there for some time, and appeared content to stay there. He lived in an underwater structure; forcefields seemed to be what held the water out, leaving the interior full of breathable atmosphere. It was in shallow enough water that Daniel could swim away to the surface without suffering any ill effects from pressure (or prolonged lack of oxygen). (Fire and Water)

  Known Oannes:

  • Nem: Nem abducted SG-1 and ran experiments on them all when they visited the world where he was living; after he decided that Daniel was the "oldest" (had the most useful historical knowledge), he tampered with the others' memories to make them think Daniel died in a volcanic-related burst of fire, and sent them home again. He kept Daniel, to help in his search for his missing mate, Omoroca, who had vanished on Earth some 4,000 years ago. He learned English very quickly, and obviously also knew Akkadian Babylonian (the writings in the room that he asked Daniel to translate were Akkadian). Nem was thousands of years old, and still mourning the loss Omoroca. (Fire and Water)
  • Omoroca: Nem's mate. She died on Earth about 4,000 years ago. Nem needed Daniel's memories of texts from/about that period in Babylon, to find out what happened to her. She had gone to Earth to try to free its people from Goa'uld tyranny; Nem believed she failed, and that Daniel and the others were slaves to the Goa'uld (probably not helped by Teal'c's presence in the group). Daniel eventually remembered a tale of Omoroca and Belus: according to the writings of Berossus, a contemporary of Alexander the Great, she was "a woman who came forth from the heavenly egg ... who walked among men by day, but at night, she would retreat to the great sea to sleep. One of the beings called Oannes. Omoroca. The god Belus came down onto Babylon, unto the place of Omoroca, and cut the woman asunder." Belus was a Goa'uld, who murdered her. (Note: Other than the bit about the heavenly egg, this story seems to come from this, or a similar, general source: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02514a.htm ) (Fire and Water)

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• Planet: unknown.
• A physically slight race, hunted nearly to extinction by the Goa'uld, who have been studying their ability to "vanish" -- they emit a chemical that, once absorbed into another person (via skin contact or inhalation), makes the other person "recognize" them by creating a sense of familiarity. The affected person's brain fills in details to make it reasonable for them to recognize the new person. The chemical resembles cortical acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that helps regulate and process human memory. (Fifth Man)
• A group of Reol have started an isolated colony in an attempt to save their race. (Fifth Man)

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• Planet is Reetalia. (Show and Tell)
• Insectoid race. (Show and Tell)
• Their particles are in phase with us, but the (light and sound) waves they emit exist 180 degrees out of phase with us - which makes them invisible/inaudible, but able to physically affect our world. (Show and Tell)
  • The only way to see them is to scan them with a Transphase Eradication Rod -- TER. The Goa'uld, and thus the Tok'ra, have these, and the Tok'ra left several with SGC as protection. (Show and Tell)
• Goa'uld symbiotes have a horrible reaction to the presence of Reetou, and seem to instinctively want them dead. (Worse than humans and cockroaches.) (Show and Tell)
• After their race was almost completely wiped out by the Goa'uld, a rebel faction has decided the best way to destroy all Goa'uld is to cut off their source of hosts: Earth. (Show and Tell)
  • The Reetou Central Authority created a human boy, modified to be able to see/hear Reetou, to warn Earth about the threat from the rebel faction. (Show and Tell)
    • The boy decided to call himself "Charlie", after Jack's son. (Show and Tell)
    • He was poorly made, and was going to die. The Tok'ra took him with them, to heal him with a symbiote.
      • No word on what happened to him after that. (Show and Tell)
• To prevent Reetou from from using the stargate if they managed to get onto the base, hand scanners were installed on the dialing computer. (Show and Tell)

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General info

• A purely mechanical race, made of self-replicating material. Generally choose to appear in arachnid or insectoid shapes. (Nemesis, Small Victories, Enemies)
• They can spray acid in defense/attack -- powerful enough to kill humans (Small Victories) or break through acid-resistant glass (The Menace)
• Originally created as "toys" by a lonely, scared, childlike robot named Reese. (The Menace)
  • She was made of self-repairing nanobots, and used those to form her "toys". (The Menace)
    • Her nanobots deactivated when separated from her body, but she seems to have been able to overcome that in making her toys, which were themselves self-repairing/replicating. (The Menace)
    • She could take any piece of metal, and, using her nanobots, reshape it into whatever she wanted, including the building blocks of her "toys". (The Menace)
  • The people on her planet were scared of her and what she could do, and wanted to destroy her and her toys. She taught them to defend themselves (and her). (The Menace)
  • Reese's toys escaped her control and defended themselves right into the entire destruction of that planet, leaving her the only survivor. (The Menace)
  • After everyone was dead, the "toys" left, leaving her alone, so she went to sleep. (The Menace)
  • SG-1 found her, brought back to the SGC, and woke her up. (The Menace)
    • She was held on Level 21, between doors M-4 and M-6 (interior numbers; on the exterior door, the M-4 door says M-5).
    • She told them she was was "asleep" to avoid the danger, and was waiting for her "father" to wake her up and tell her everything was okay. (The Menace)
    • She got bored again and started making "toys" once more, reverting right back to the (rather paranoid) pattern of feeling like she was under attack and using the toys as her defenders. (The Menace)
• At least some Replicators managed to escape their original planet and make it to the Asgard galaxy, although it's not clear how. There were no active Replicators left on the planet when SG-1 came across it, just a few of the building-blocks. (The Menace)
• They ingest metal, preferring the highest-tech equipment available. Energy blasts won't stop them, unless it's a blast strong enough to annihilate anything. (Nemesis, Small Victories)
• Projectile weapons can stop them, but not easily, and not completely -- Replicators can reform out of just a few shards (Small Victories).
• Replicators can function individually, but all have the same goals: to survive and replicate. (Nemesis)
• Intelligent, capable of learning and adapting. No apparent interest in communicating with any other races.
• If they land on a planet, they'll eat everything in sight.
• The Asgard found them on an abandoned planet and brought them aboard a ship to study, realizing too late what they had done. The Replicators learned everything they could about the technology on the ship then began conquering the Asgards' galaxy -- not to rule, just to self-replicate. They have no other purpose. (Nemesis)
  • Were on the verge of winning the war against the Asgard, which would leave them free to finish devouring everything in that galaxy and move on to ours, when the Asgard baited a trap for them, using the android Reese to call them all to the Asgard homeworld, Hala, where the Replicators were supposed to be caught by a time dilation device. (Unnatural Selection)
    • The Replicators figured out what the device was, and also figured out who and what Reese was. They decided that the next step in their evolution was to become more like their creator -- aspects of her technology were superior to their own -- and developed a cellular creature (rather than one made of relatively large blocks -- basically, they evolved into nanites) that took the form of a human. Presumably, having cell-level control over their forms allows the new Replicators to control such things as their density, allowing them to penetrate practically anything that's permeable in any way. (Unnatural Selection)
      • The flaw in Reese's emulation program was discovered during First's creation; they attempted to repair the flaw during Fifth's creation, but the Replicators disapproved of the result, considering Fifth to be far too weak. No other humanoid Replicators will be made with that flaw repaired. (Unnatural Selection)
      • The first of these celled creatures slid through a microscopic crack in the time dilation device's neutronium shell, and stopped it before it could activate. Later, the Replicators turned it on -- in reverse, speeding local time up by a factor of 10 squared (meaning that during one normal hour, four days pass in local time; during one 24-hour day outside the bubble, 96 days pass in local time inside it). (Unnatural Selection)
    • Once they'd reversed the machine, the Replicators took full advantage and ate Hala bare, until there was nothing left for most of them to do but line the surface of the planet, covered in drifting dust. Some remained aloft in ships, guarding the planet while more humanoid replicators were created. (Unnatural Selection)
    • Leaving SG-1 alive was a mistake; Sam convinced Fifth to help them, and they reset the time dilator to its original function, trapping the Replicators on the planet in an extremely slowed time-bubble, so that a few days to them would be hundreds of years to the rest of the universe. Any Replicators in orbit who escaped before the time dilation field hit them were hunted down by the Asgard, although there's no final tally on whether they were all caught. (Unnatural Selection)

Humanoid Replicators

• Oddly, given that the creator they were basing themselves on was a black female, they were white, and both male and female, and their First was a male (where did they find a male template to use?) (Unnatural Selection)
• Made up of millions of microscopic cell units organisms -- nanites. (Unnatural Selection)
• At least six exist: First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth (they're not much for original names) (Unnatural Selection)
  • Odd-numbered ones are male, even numbered are female. (Unnatural Selection)
  • Fifth is the most "human" of the lot; the others consider him deeply flawed. (Unnatural Selection)
• Can communicate via speech. (Unnatural Selection)
• Have some connection to insectoid Replicators at all times, but have to "merge" with them (we don't see how this happens) to communicate complex things, apparently. (Unnatural Selection)
• Are capable of entering a human subconscious by sticking their hands inside people's heads (which apparently gives the nanites the Replicators are made up of a chance to mesh with human neurons enough to see what's going on in there). (Unnatural Selection)
  • After seeing inside several human minds, the humanoid Replicators were convinced that their species was far superior; they likened it to a human seeing inside the mind of an animal used for food. (Unnatural Selection)
• Are capable of being amused, of understanding at least the concepts of humor and pain. (Unnatural Selection)

Known Replicators

• First: Male form. Has an urbane manner about him; god only knows where he picked it up from. He has the ability to be amused, and to understand at least the concept of emotional pain -- he uses the memory of Charlie's death, and Jack's guilt about it, to control Jack. (Unnatural Selection)
• Second: Female form. (Unnatural Selection)
• Third: Male form. (Unnatural Selection)
• Fourth: Female form. (Unnatural Selection)
• Fifth: Male form. Most "human" of the humanoid Replicators; the others consider him deeply flawed. He was the first to greet SG-1, and he was the one to bring them from the structure on Hala back to the X-303 to recover a bit. He didn't enter any of their minds when First went in; after SG-1 recovered and Fifth objected to them being used like that again, First insisted he go in to see "the disorder, the chaos", to compare himself to humans to see his own superiority. Fifth agreed, and took Sam's cue to go into her mind -- but instead brought her into his subconscious, in a small space where the other Replicators couldn't share his thoughts. Sam convinced him that he was more human than Replicator, and that the Asgard device was only meant to give the Asgard and humans a chance to solve the Replicators' programming flaw. She (sincerely) promised to take him with them if he helped SG-1 escape; he believed her. While Sam and the others were unconscious again from having Replicators in their brains, he reprogrammed the time dilator, back to the Asgards' original plan. He was utterly confused when they left without him (on Jack's order), leaving him to face First and the others alone. (Unnatural Selection)
• Sixth: Female form. Created shortly before SG-1 reversed the time-dilation device back to its original function. (Unnatural Selection)

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• Home planet is Hebridan.
• The alien half of the Hebridan culture.
• Physically humanoid (bipedal, upright, stereo vision and hearing, 5 digits per hand, general body size and facial features similar to humans), but apparently totally hairless, with some differentiating skull marking/structures, and skin coloring of a greenish-brown.
• They helped liberate the Hebridans from the Goa'uld thousands of years ago.
• They have lived in harmony with the Hebridans since liberating them, and gave them advanced technology.

  Known Serrakin:

  • Warrick: Actual captain of the Sebrus, a prison transport ship taking Corso, Pender, and Reynard to a prison colony. The ship got caught in an asteroid storm and began to lose power, and Warrick set down on a planet, then took the three prisoners out of transport stasis. His crew of eight (including himself) watched them in shifts. (The crew was mixed-race; at least one member was human, and left the distress recording that Sam found.) He and his first officer were out looking for supplies when the prisoners overpowered the rest of their guards and killed them in cold blood. The prisoners spent the next three years hunting the captain and his first mate down. Warrick was married to a human Hebridan, Athea.

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• Evolved on the same world as the Goa'uld, and were the original hosts used. (The First Ones, Demons)
  • Green-blooded, not blue-blooded like the Goa'uld. (Demons)
  • Aboriginal Unas still live on the mutual homeworld. They have societies and language, but no tech. (The First Ones)
  • Aboriginal Unas wear neck protection to keep from being infested, and consider aboriginal Goa'uld to be a meal -- no problems at all with eating symbiotes. (The First Ones)
• A few Goa'uld are still in Unas hosts, but not many; Sokar and his underlings appeared to be the final holdouts from switching entirely to human.
• One Goa'ulded Unas survived until 1997, trapped in the caves leading to Thor's Hammer. He used long periods of sleep to survive in the caves for up to a thousand years, and killed and ate almost everyone who got sent into the caverns. He was immensely strong, surviving multiple direct hits from Jack's M-5 and Teal'c's sidearm. He finally died when Teal'c forced him into Thor's Hammer, which destroyed the symbiote and left the host unable to regenerate from the damage inflicted by time and automatic weaponry. (Thor's Hammer)
• Extremely strong, with great regenerative powers -- very hard to kill.
• Chaka: An aboriginal Unas from the homeworld. He snatched Daniel from a dig, apparently to use him as a hunting trophy in a rite of passage. Daniel worked like hell at creating some sort of rapport to keep from being killed, and it worked. By the time they got back to the Unas' cave, Chaka seemed to consider him something of a friend; he wouldn't let Daniel be killed, going so far as to challenge the alpha male to protect Daniel, and he wanted Daniel to stay. (The First Ones) A year later, hunters from another world captured Chaka and brought him home to be a slave, and improve the gene pool among the inbred Unas slave population. With SG-1's help, Chaka escaped and started a rebellion that probably killed half the human population. (Beast of Burden)

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• Planet: Abydos. No SGC-standard designation.
• Desert-dwelling, culture based on ancient Egypt. Once under Ra's rule, but free since Jack and Daniel blew up Ra's ship, with Ra on it. (Stargate the movie)
• Abydos has two moons, and a 36-hour day. (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods)
• There were some 5,000 people living in the city near Ra's temple. (Children of the Gods)
• Daniel Jackson's adopted home and people. (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods)
  • He stayed behind after the first mission to marry Sha're, and spent more than a year among the Abydonians before Jack came back to retrieve him. (Children of the Gods)
• The walls on one of Abydos' caves were covered in stargate addresses; Daniel found the cave and figured it out, and when he explained it, Sam videotaped the walls, giving the SGC the "Abydos cartouche" -- hundreds of addresses to go to, without having to guess at them. (Children of the Gods)
• "The caves of Kaleemah" -- supposed to be a safe place to hide; possibly the same caves where the villagers hid from Ra in the movie. (Full Circle)
• Abydos faced a brutal attack by Anubis; the women and children hid in the caves of Kaleemah (led there and guarded by Kasuf), while the men and boys used Tau'ri weapons to defend their village and the temple. (Full Circle)
  • Several of the Abydonian boys/young men, including Skaara, were wearing at least partial military garb, specifically the black vest. (Full Circle)
  • Oma Desala began ascending the dead and dying Abydonians during the battle. (Full Circle)
  • Anubis finally unleashed the full destructive force of his mothership against the planet, focusing its power on the temple. The temple exploded in layers, and the explosions worked their way into the ground from there, travelling outward, wreaking utter havoc on the world (or at least the known populated part of it). Oma ascended all the Abydonians. (Full Circle)
  • The Abydonians (or at least some of them) remained in ascended form long enough for SG-1 to return (thanks to Oma, who built an illusionary temple for them to return to, including working stargate) and see that they were all okay in their own way, then left. (Full Circle)
  • The Abydonian stargate worked only long enough to let SG-1 visit and return almost immediately. After that, it was gone (reburied?). (Full Circle)

 

Known Abydonians:

• Kasuf: Headman of the main (only?) Abydonian village. Completely loyal to Ra his whole life, but remarkably well-adjusted to freedom after Ra was killed. Father to Sha're and Skaara, and Daniel's father-in-law. He lost his children to Goa'uld, both taken as hosts. (Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods) Sha're died a few years later; Skaara survived the extraction of his Goa'uld parasite, but it's not clear if he returned to Abydos or went elsewhere (Forever in a Day, Pretense). Kasuf has a grandson, Shifu, but Shifu is harsesis and is being raised by Oma Desala. (Secrets, Maternal Instinct) He led the women and children to the caves of Kaleemah to keep them safe from Anubis' attack. He died along with everyone else in the shockwave from the exploding temple.(Full Circle)
• Sha're: Kasuf's only daughter.
  • She was given to Daniel as a gift during the first mission to Abydos. (Stargate the movie)
  • She knew how to read, even though reading was forbidden. (Stargate the movie)
  • She instigated the rebellion carried out by the Abydonian boys to rescue Jack, Daniel, and the others, telling them about how their ancestors had been brought to Abydos and enslaved and telling them they shouldn't be slaves any more. (Stargate the movie)
  • Very possibly died after a Jaffa shot a staff at her; whether dead or just badly injured, she was revived after Daniel put her in Ra's sarcophagus. (Stargate the movie)
  • She and Daniel hit it off for real, and Daniel stayed behind with her as her husband when Jack, Kawalsky, and Ferretti returned to Earth. (Stargate the movie)
  • She and Daniel lived together for more than a year on Abydos. (Children of the Gods)
  • Shortly after Jack returned with a new mission to retrieve Daniel, Apophis' troops (led by Teal'c) came through, kidnapping Sha're and her brother Skaara. She was given as a host to Amaunet, Apophis' queen. (Children of the Gods)
  • She bore the harsesis child, which Daniel and Teal'c promptly stole (to keep the boy safe, and away from Apophis). (Secrets)
  • About a year later, Amaunet stole the child back from Abydos, along with a whole lot of Abydonians as cover. SG-1 and a rescue team from SGC went in to get the Abydonians out. Daniel spotted Amaunet/Sha're and went to her. Amaunet ribboned him, but Sha're managed to get a mental message to him about the child's whereabouts, begging him to protect the boy. She died a minute later, when Teal'c shot Amaunet to save Daniel -- but she died knowing Daniel still loved her. (Forever in a Day)
• Skaara: Kasuf's only son.
  • He bonded with Jack on the first mission to Abydos, and was Daniel's brother-in-law after Daniel married Sha're.
  • A year or so later, he was kidnapped by Teal'c and taken to Chulak to be offered as a host. He was chosen, and became the host to Klorel. (Children of the Gods)
  • Skaara was strong and fought Klorel off as much as he could, retaining an astonishing level of control over Klorel, even though he usually lost in the end. He was probably the reason Klorel didn't have Teal'c killed immediately after Apophis ordered it (he actually stopped the priest who was about to use a very ugly two-pronged knife to remove/kill Teal'c's symbiote) and later, he fought like hell to keep Klorel from putting up the shields around the hatak to protect it from the missile from Earth. Klorel won that fight, but it was a close thing. It was enough to make Klorel ask Apophis for more time in the sarcophagus, to get strong enough to more effectively subdue Skaara. (Serpent's Lair)
  • On the run after a battle with Heru'ur's forces, Klorel crash-landed on Tollana, and Skaara seized his chance, asking to be freed of his "demon". The Tollans held a triad (trial), with Zipacna arguing for Klorel, Jack and Daniel arguing for Skaara, and Lya of the Nox as neutral third party. The decision went in Skaara's favor, and Klorel was removed, leaving Skaara free. (Pretense) It's not clear where he went after this; there's been no mention or sight of him being on Abydos.
  • Apparently he did go back to Abydos after Pretense, at least at some point. (Full Circle
  • His style of dress after he returned to Abydos reflected a mix of Tau'ri and Abydonian -- SGC uniform pants (belted with a rope) and black vest, under traditional Abydonian robes. (Full Circle)
  • He was betrothed (the woman's name is unknown), and wanted Jack to "sha lo key" -- stand beside him at the ceremony. (Full Circle)
  • Daniel's urging and promise of support helped Skaara believe that the Abydonians could hold off Anubis. He in turn convinced the other boys and young men, assuring them that with Daniel's godlike help, they would succeed. (Full Circle)
  • During the battle with Anubis' Jaffa in Ra's temple, he took a staff blast to the torso. He lived long enough to be brought to the lower level of the temple with SG-1, but died shortly thereafter. He ascended as he died, helped by Oma. (Full Circle)
    • He was the ascended Abydonian who spoke with SG-1 (the others were all around, but not particularly interacting with the team) to assure them that although everyone had been killed in the final blast, they were all just fine. (Full Circle)
    • In his ascended form, he retained the quasi-military dress, but with the black vest open instead of closed. (Full Circle)
    • He hadn't seen Daniel since his (Skaara's) ascension. (Full Circle)

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• Planet: local name unknown. SGC designation P3X-367. (Metamorphosis)
• Baseline human to begin with; after Nirrti got hold of them and started changing them, they may have remained slightly altered (despite plans to revert back to their base genetic makeup).
• Their people were almost wiped out by a plague. Nirrti found them and took some of the survivors to a fortress where she began putting them in a machine (possibly of Ancient origin) that altered their genetic makeup in realtime. The alterations changed them both physically and mentally; physically, they became varyingly deformed. Mentally, they gained various psychic abilities, including telekinesis and telepathy.

  Known natives:

  • Alabran: Brother to Wodan. A youth, roughly 18-20 at a guess, who questioned Nirrti's methods of "helping" his people after he saw one of them die horribly. She let him go and told him to return home, saying he was well enough; when he did, he discovered the rest of his people were dead. He found the SGC's Russian team and begged help from them; Col. Ivanov brought him back to the SGC. Alabram barely had time to tell his story before the genetic "time-bomb" Nirrti had planted in him was triggered, and he liquefied (literally).
  • Eggar: One of the mutated locals who believed that Nirrti was helping them. His physical mutation involved some scarring on his face that made one eye unusable, and deformed hands; mentally, he had become a strong telepath. He realized that SG-1 were there to stop Nirrti (and more specifically, that Jack wanted to kill her outright), and made sure Wodan knew. Later, he took a chance on Jack's telling the truth, and looked into Nirrti's mind. The truth of what he saw there -- that she had murdered Alabran, murdered hundreds more of their people, and planned to murder the rest as soon as she was done with them -- was enough to spark a mini-uprising; befor Wodan killed her, Eggar stripped the knowledge of how to use the alien machine from her mind, so he could reverse all the damage she'd done.
  • Wodan: Brother to Alabran. Nirrti's right hand among the locals, extremely devoted to her. His "mutation" involved an enlarged head and deformed hands, along with strong telekinesis. On hearing that SG-1 was a danger to Nirrti (from Eggar, as well as his own observations), he captured them all to await her pleasure, using telekinetic force to disarm them and trap them in cages. When Eggar, on Jack's urging, looked into Nirrti's mind and discovered the truth, Wodan killed her two Jaffa guards and then Nirtti telekinetically in his betrayed rage.

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• Planet: Altair. SGC designation P3X-989. (Tin Man)
• Baseline human, from all appearances. (Tin Man)
• The civilization began above-ground, but when the planet's biosphere could no longer support them, about 11,000 years ago, an underground complex was created by a man named Hubald, and a thousand people transferred their consciousness to synthetic bodies, so the race would survive in some fashion. The transfer process wasn't perfect, and some were lost, including Sakura, Ereath, and Tira. Hubald's new body also failed, and the survivors couldn't repair it -- all his secrets were lost with him. Of the survivors, some went through the stargate carrying small power packs, but never returned. Most of the rest suicided by going onto the surface, out of the range of the power source. Without the steady stream of power from the emitters, the synthetic bodies are only functional for a few hours. (Tin Man)
• Only one final survivor remains in synthetic form: Harlan. Wallace was the last one to go before him, leaving Harlan alone. (Tin Man)

  Known Altairans:

  • Ereath: Died as a result of the initial transfer process, millenia ago. (Tin Man)
  • Harlan: Final survivor among the synthetics; he had gotten pretty lonely and desperate, having to care for all the machinery alone, and when SG-1 came through the stargate he knocked them all out and created synthetics of them to keep him company. Eventually they accepted their fate, and remained behind with him when the original, organic team returned home. (Tin Man)
  • Hubald: Creator of the underground complex that the synthetic replicas of the final survivors of the race retreated to 11,000 years ago. His new body failed, though, and he died, taking all his secrets with him and leaving the survivors to struggle along as best they could. (Tin Man)
  • Sakura: Died as a result of the initial transfer process, millenia ago. (Tin Man)
  • Tira: Died as a result of the initial transfer process, millenia ago. (Tin Man)
  • Wallace: Second-to-last survivor among the synthetics.

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• Planet: Argos. SGC designation P3X-8596.
• People whose ancestors were apparently taken from the Peloponnesus by the Goa'uld Pelops and transported to Argos, where he messed with their genetic structure to speed up the pace of their lives -- they live a hundred years in a hundred days. (Brief Candle)
• They call themselves the Chosen; their favorite aphorism was "And to every man (or woman) the Creator gives one hundred blissful days" -- and they considered it a sin not to blisffully enjoy each one, partying all day long with good food and drink. (Brief Candle)
• Each night, a hidden transmitter gave off a signal to the nanocites (nanites) infesting each Argosian to put them to sleep until sunup, and triggering the nanocites to continue the aging process. A second transmitter turned off the nanocites and woke everyone up at sunup. (Brief Candle)
• SG-2 returned to the planet sometime last in 1997, to find that after the transmitters were destroyed, the Argosians reverted to human-normal, and began leading long, productive lives. (Politics)

  Known Argosians:

  • Alekos: Husband to Thetys and father to Dan-ell; along with Thetys, he was the first to meet SG-1 when they came through the stargate. Blessed with a natural curiousity -- when the aging Jack asked him what he'd do if he had thousands of days of life, he instantly said he'd go exploring beyond the bounds of the Chosen's lands, to see what was there. When Jack told them all that Pelops considered them his slaves, Alekos was the first to declare himself no longer one of the Chosen. (Brief Candle)
  • Dan-ell: Child of Thetys and Alekos, born right after SG-1 came through the stargate into Pelops' temple. Daniel was the midwife; the boy was named after him. Dan-ell had a "tri-point" -- a vaguely pyramidical birthmark -- on his arm, which was believed to bring him luck. (Brief Candle)
  • Kynthia: Woman who found Jack very attractive, enough to offer him her people's traditional wedding cake and drug/seduce him into her bed. She was 30 days old at the time. She seemed genuinely fond of Jack, spending time with him as he "aged" as a result of Pelops' nanocites. (Brief Candle)
  • Phillipos: Argosian boy. (Brief Candle)
  • Thetys: Wife of Alekos. She gave birth in Pelops' temple right after SG-1's arrival. Daniel was the midwife, and in gratitude, she named her child Dan-ell. She was 20 days old when Dan-ell was born. (Brief Candle)

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• Highly humanoid -- effectively human, except with a different brain chemistry and with different abilities. (Frozen)
• The race's actual name is unknown. Possibly the Ancients, possibly an advanced stage in the human evolutionary process, possibly both. (Frozen)

  Known:

  • Ayiana:
    • Her EEG matched those of Jack under the influence of the Ancients' repository, and Cassie's under the influence of Nirrti's tampering. (Frozen)
    • Brain chemistry very different than humans, however. (Frozen)
    • Found perfectly preserved in the Arctic icecap, where she'd been frozen for several million years. At least 3 million years old, possibly as much as 50 million years. (Frozen)
    • Strong self-healing abilities (cellular level). (Frozen)
    • Carrier of a disease fatal to humans; she could heal it in others, but doing so drained her. (Frozen)

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• In a centuries-long religious war with the Optricans, who live on their world's other continent.
  • The Bedrosians believe that they evolved on this world, and worship Nefertum as their creator.
  • The Optricans believe that they evolved on another world, and were brought to this world via an interstellar gateway.

   

  Known Bedrosians:

• Nyan: A Bedrosian archaeologist who believed in Nefertum but who had to follow his instincts, and dug up the stargate just in time for SG-1 to come through it. Realizing that there really was an interstellar gateway, Nyan wound up throwing his lot in with SG-1 to keep them from getting killed, and burned all his bridges behind him. SG-1 brought him back to SGC, and while he was recovering from wounds sustained in the escape, Daniel offered him a job as his research assistant.

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• Planet: Cartago. SGC designation: P3X-1279 (Cor-Ai)
• People are baseline human. (Cor-Ai)
• Cartago was a favorite place for Goa'uld to "harvest" human hosts; unclear whether Teal'c meant Goa'uld in general, or just those in Apophis' personal hierarchy. (Cor-Ai)
• Standard reaction to people coming through the stargate was to run and hide in a local system of tunnels and caves ("the hiding"), leaving able-bodied men armed with a type of crossbow to defend against whatever had come through. Other than fighters, they leave no one behind; they all make it to shelter, or no one does. (Cor-Ai)
• The Byrsa live by a code of laws called the "mandates". (Cor-Ai)
• Seeking personal vengeance outside of the cor-ai (trial system) is counter to the mandates, and shames not only the person involved, but his entire clan. (Cor-Ai)
• Prisoners were held in a large undergound room, in a metal (looked like iron) cage (large enough to stand up in and move around in). (Cor-Ai)
• Men and women appear to have equal standing in the community; a woman was originally chosen to be Teal'c's "voice" (counsel) for cor-ai (trial), and a woman appeared to be the leader of the community. (Cor-Ai)
• Dress:
  • For men, boots, trews, linen (or other cloth) tunic, and a cloth or leather cap (no bill). Some of the warrior-men also wore a second, leather-looking sleeveless tunic (too long to be a jerkin) over their cloth tunics. (Cor-Ai)
  • For women, boots, long dresses, and caps or headveils (no face veils). (Cor-Ai)

   

  Language:

• circ kakona: "circle of woes" -- the stargate (Cor-Ai)
• cor-ai: trial, justice (Cor-Ai)
• pecca-ve: confession of guilt (Cor-Ai)

Known Byrsa:

• Hanno: Young man, who recognized Teal'c on first sight -- as a child, he watched Teal'c kill his father, and never forgot the horror. He still wanted vengeance for the death, and would have killed Teal'c where he stood, except his companions convinced him to get justice legally, through cor-ai. Hanno presided over Teal'c's cor-ai, since as the wronged party he was the only one who could adequately determine a just (equivalent) punishment. He wanted Teal'c to die in return for his father's death, and none of SG-1's arguments that Teal'c had originally been acting under orders, or that he had since changed, would sway him. Only Teal'c's selfless acts in saving other Byrsa from Jaffa when Apophis sent a squad through convinced him that Teal'c had changed. He declared the old Teal'c dead, and let the new Teal'c leave. (Cor-Ai)

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• Planet: P3X-513 (First Commandment)
• Culture: Fairly primitive, with hunting and guard "garb" reminiscent of the Mudmen of Papua New Guinea (picture -- link will open in a new browser window). Clothing otherwise seemed to be a gender-neutral skirt and shirt, or long shift, of pale fabric. The people live in caves that used to be mines, but their population was growing too fast for the caves to continue supporting them -- they didn't have the technology to dig more caves, and they didn't want to live outside, because the solar radiation is deadly. They had legends of the old gods (Goa'uld), and how they "turned the sky orange" -- put a shield of some sort in place in the atmosphere to protect them from the soalr radiation. Captain Jonas Hanson, of SG-9, went completely insane on the planet during a mission there, and set himself up as their new god, with the promise that he'd turn the sky orange and save them all if they worshipped him. When SG-1 proved him a false god, the locals turned on him and tossed him through the stargate (to his death, as it happens). (First Commandment)

Known Cave-dwellers:

• None

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• Planet: Cimmeria. SGC designation: P3X-974
• Norse-based culture.
• Cimmeria is an Asgard-protected world, under the specific protection of Thor. (Thor's Hammer)
  • The High Council of Asgard designated Cimmeria a safe world for developing sentient species by unanimous decree, era 40.73.29. The council then informed the Goa'uld, warning them not to trespass under penalty of death, and put onworld protections in place to protect the transplanted Norse folk. (Thor's Hammer)
• All Jaffa know its coordinates, to be sure that no Goa'uld ever goes there by accident. (Thor's Hammer)
• The people seemed pretty fearless about anyone who came through the stargate, fully expecting Thor's Hammer to take care of any threat. (Thor's Hammer)
• They use horses for transportation and labor, although there doesn't seem to be a surfeit of them. Riding gear includes stirrups and a saddle padded with what looks like sheepskin. (Thor's Hammer)
• They were given a box, designed by the Sagan Institute, explaining various Earth cultures and religions -- a greeting of sorts. The box itself had iridium in it, so that if they ever had to send it to Earth the SGC could analyze the residue on the iris and tell who had knocked on the door. Jack gave it to Gairwyn to pass along to Thor and his people, the next time the Cimmerians saw them. (Thor's Hammer)
• They call the Asgard homeworld Thrudvang ("Thor's home in the stars," according to Gairwyn) (Thor's Hammer)
• They refer to Goa'uld as "Ettins" -- the enemies of the Asgard -- and are aware that Ettins aren't human, even if they look human. (Thor's Hammer)
• They know they were taken from Midgard (Earth) by Thor in ancient times, and that Thor put up the Hammer to keep them safe from the Ettins. (Thor's Hammer)
• Thor's Hammer: stands in front of the stargate, and scans everyone that comes through. Anyone that has a Goa'uld inside (host or Jaffa) is transported to a labyrinth of caves, with only one way out -- through a device that kills Goa'uld while leaving the host/carrier more or less intact (it's painful as hell). (Thor's Hammer)
  • The scanning took a minute to kick in when SG-1 came through, which seems odd; if that fact got out, anyone coming through could presumably simply high-tail it out of range. (Thor's Hammer)
  • Once the Goa'uld or Jaffa has been transported to the caves, he's greeted by a holographic representation of a Norse warrior claiming to be Thor, and told that for the crime of trespassing on a protected world, as well as the crimes committed against the host and other life forms, the sentence is death. The caves will provide basic sustenance, nothing more, and when the Goa'uld gets tired of that, he or she must go to the Hall of Mjollnir and face the Hammer (different hammer) -- a doorway that kills any Goa'uld that goes through it, leaving only the host alive. (Thor's Hammer)
  • The caves contained a Goa'uld in an Unas host for centuries, maybe even a millenia, using long periods of sleep to survive -- he also killed the others who came through and ate them, and tried to do the same to Jack (by getting Teal'c to join him). No idea how he missed Kendra and her host. (Thor's Hammer)
• After SG-1 destroyed the Goa'uld-killing part of the equation to save Teal'c's life, Heru'ur invaded Cimmeria and nearly succeeded. Daniel and Sam had to find the Hall of Wisdom and pass several tests to gain a holographic audience with Thor (the first time he appeared in his true form), and ask him for help in stopping Heru'ur. (Thor's Chariot)

Known Cimmerians:

• Gairwyn: Headwoman. Tough, strong, smart. Carried a large sword strapped to her back. Rode a horse when need be. (Thor's Hammer) She's a friend of SG-1, and called them for help when Heru'ur attacked Cimmeria -- she lost her entire family in the attack. (Thor's Chariot)
• Kendra: Former Goa'uld host. Originally from a world called Jebanna, which seems to have been raided fairly often for hosts -- it was considered a curse to be beautiful there, because the Goa'uld want perfect hosts. Marduk heard about her, and raided the temple where her parents had hidden her. Her training in the temple helped her fight off the symbiote so it didn't take her over completely; part of her remained herself, free. She was able to influence her Goa'uld, whispering to it of power and riches on Cimmeria, hoping to make it go there and kill them both; her survival after her symbiote died was a complete surprise, and she attributed it to Thor and dedicated her life to his people and his ways. After surviving the laybrinth Kendra became something of a recluse among the Cimmerians. She could still use Goa'uld tech, and the healing device allowed her to become a healer. Despite having been a host and thus presumably knowing that "gods" is a relative term, she firmly believed in Thor as deity, and as her savior. (Thor's Hammer) She died in Heru'ur's invasion. (Thor's Chariot)

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• Planet: local name unknown. SGC planet designation P4S-237 (Prophecy)
• The people have an ancient prophecy that one day strangers would come through the chapa'ai (stargate) to slay the gods and free their people. (Prophecy)
• The people live in what appear to be at least semi-permanent tents (all black) around the entrance to the naquadah mine, and are very poor. (Prophecy)
• Although Baal, their supposed god, hasn't shown his face in a hundred years or so, his "emissary" still arrives regularly to pick up the tribute -- Lord Mot (who in fact was stealing the tribute, which Baal had long forgotten about). (Prophecy)
• Mot earned the enmity of the local village when, after a winter that had brought a terrible sickness (so that many of the villagers couldn't work, and thus there wasn't enough naquadah to meet the tribute), he chose ten of the sickest -- including the headman's son-in-law -- and executed them in front of the entire village. Most of the villagers wanted to be rid of him more than anything. (Prophecy)
• The locals have a strong sedative -- kelmina root, which can knock someone out for hours, even a Jaffa. (Prophecy)

Known natives:

• Chazen: Still believed that the Goa'uld were the rightful rulers of the planet. When he realized that Ellori was happily colluding with SG-1 and SG-15 to destroy Lord Mot and free the locals, he called Mot on a long-range communicator and got him to come a day early, before anyone was prepared. When SG-1 and SG-15 escaped, he took it upon himself to sound the alarm, inadvertantly warning them that they were being pursued and giving them time to prepare for an attack. Mot was displeased -- he'd allowed the escape, hoping the Tau'ri would walk into the trap he had set by the stargate (and give him access to the SGC by having first opened the gate and sent the IDC). Mot ribboned Chazen nearly to death for upsetting his plans; only Natania's interference (she shot Mot) saved Chazen. (Prophecy)
• Ellori: Local headman, to all appearances. Father of Natania. He started dropping hints as early as possible about wanting SG-1 to free his people from Lord Mot; after a while, they stopped being hints. He had a personal reason for wanting Mot dead or gone: the previous year, after a bad, illness-stricken winter for the village in which they couldn't mine enough naquadah to meet the tribute, Mot took ten of the sickest -- including Ellori's son-in-law -- and executed them in front of the entire village. When Mot arrived a day early to put down the signs of local rebellion, he held Ellori in the village, to make an example of him. (Prophecy)
• Natania: Ellori's daughter. Widowed after Mot took her husband as one of the ten sickest villagers and executed them all as punishment to the village for not having mined enough naquadah, after a winter filled with terrible sickness. She was completely in sympathy with her father's plans to rid the village of Mot's rule. After Chazen captured SG-1 and SG-15 for Mot, she drugged the guards and freed both teams, leading them back to the stargate when Jack told her they couldn't rescue her captured father without reinforcements. While they were off battling a Jaffa ambush, Natania took matters into her own hand: she shot Mot twice with a Tau'ri pistol, killing him (and saving Chazen's life -- Mot had been ribboning him to death at the time). Strong, smart, practical, capable woman. (Prophecy)
• Sendear: One of Chazen's followers; he was sent to check on the prisoners after Chazen heard Hammond warning them about a trap on their captured radios. (Prophecy)

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• The Eurondans knew that they had once come from Earth after they dug up their stargate and deciphered some ancient writings. No idea how long they've been free of Goa'uld rule, but long enough to develop more than one society and a whole lotta tech. (The Other Side)
• Breeders: What the genetically "pure" Eurondans called the people who preferred to have babies the old-fashioned random way (more politely called the Enemy). They co-existed for centuries before the Eurondans made a pre-emptive strike and poisoned the entire planet's surface via gas pipes from beneath the surface. The Eurondans retreated underground to continue the fight and to wait for all the Breeders to die off, so they could reclaim the world for themselves. (The Other Side)
  • To save on resources, thousands of Eurondans were put into stasis, leaving only a relative handful awake to fight the war. (The Other Side)
• Technologically, slightly ahead of Earth, but not by far -- maybe 50-100 years. Eurondan tech includes medicine, cold fusion reactors, defense field generators, and remote weapons systems. (The Other Side)
  • Medicine includes beta cantin, a powerful drug that can heal almost anything (including a concussion) almost instantly. (The Other Side)
  • Remote weapons system is aeronautical: piloting of drone ships via a direct neural interface, while the pilot remains safely underground. Very cool, but prolonged exposure to the neural interface can be damaging (pilots turn into near-total vegetables who can do nothing but pilot these drones) (The Other Side)
• Tried to make a deal with Earth, trading any and all tech they had for as much heavy water as Earth could provide; they needed heavy water to power their cold-fusion reactors.
• Very probably all dead, with Breeders having taken over the world. After Jack and SG-1 realized that these were genetic purists who were commiting genocide to ensure their purity, they turned on the Eurondans. Jack sabotaged their defense systems to allow the Breeders through, and SG-1 abandoned the world just ahead of a probably fatal Breeder attack, refusing to allow Alar to follow them (no other Eurondan was close enough to try). (The Other Side)

  Known Eurondans:

• Alar: Leader of the Eurondans. His father helped start the civil war that had driven all the Eurondans underground and poisoned the planet's surface. He tried to create an alliance with the SGC, trading advanced tech for support in his war (in the form of heavy water, needed to power Eurondan cold-fusion generators), and nearly succeeded. When he failed, he failed spectacularly, and died along with all of his people.
• Farrell: Second in command.
• Ollan: Pilot who spent too long in the neural interface, and had turned into a near-vegetable.

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• Planet: Hanka. SGC designation: PX8-987 (Singularity)
• People are baseline human, living in a fairly small community (roughly 1,400 people). No word about any other people living on the planet. (Singularity)
• SG-1 was the contact team that discovered Hanka, and realized that the planet was due very shortly for a total eclipse, which would allow the nearby (astronomically speaking) singularity to be photographed -- a chance too good to pass up. The locals told Daniel that "With the darkness will come the apocalypse," but SG-1 reassured them that it was just an eclipse, and there was nothing to worry about. Three months later, when SG-1 returned to check on SG-7's progress the day before the eclipse, the Hankans and SG-7 were all newly dead (with the exception of Cassandra). (Singularity)
• The locals were friendly and willing to let the SGC set up an observatory and station a team there to monitor the telescope to see the local (in astronomical terms) singularity (black hole) that was forming. (Singularity)
• According to Hankan mythology, "With the darkness will come the apocalypse" -- they feared witnessing the eclipse of their sun. (Singularity)
• Almost the entire local population was wiped out a day or so before the eclipse, along with SG-7 -- 1,432 bodies confirmed -- when Nirrti released a fast-acting infectious bacterial agent into the soil and water. The only survivor was Cassandra. (Singularity)

  Known Hankans

  • Cassandra: Young girl; the only survivor of the infection Nirrti released among the population. She watched her parents die in front of her. Unbeknownst to her, she was left alive as a sort of Trojan Horse, with naquadah in her bloodstream that would come together to form a bomb after being triggered by the stargate. SG-1 rescued her and brought her back to Earth, where she nearly destroyed the SGC. After they found and managed to disable the bomb by getting her far enough away from the stargate during the critical period right before it exploded, she settled in to life as Janet Fraiser's daughter. See Cassie for more details.

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• Home planet is Herbridan.
• The human half of the culture from Hebridan; apparently descended of ancient Celts.
• Their world has no stargate; they achieved interstellar travel with ships, and thanks to an alien race -- the Serrakin -- that joined forces and cultures with them to help them advance.
• The combined culture is truly mixed, including inter-species marriage.
• Technology:
  • Ships capable of interstellar flight.
  • Equipped with sonic defenses, clearly meant for use on planets. It emits a deafening noise in a bandwidth that affects the alien half of the culture more strongly than the human half (although humans are also definitely affected).
  • Engines far more advanced than anything anyone on Earth could build. They use liquid nitrogen to fuel an ion propulsion system.
  • Photographic technology very similar to ours.

    Known Hebridans

    • Athea: Wife of Warrick, a Serrakin member of the Hebradin culture.
    • Aden Corso: ("Aden" after his uncle Aden who died swimming drunk across a river on a dare; "Corso" means "smells like a dead bird" in ancient Hebridian.) "Captain" of a group of escaped prisoners. Their ship (the Sebrus) had been forced to land after being caught in an asteroid storm while transporting three prisoners to a prison colony, and the captain, Warrick, had been forced to free the prisoners from stasis to keep them from dying. They had overpowered six of their eight guards and killed them (the other two were off looking for food), taking control of the ship and its defenses. They were busy still trying to find and kill their remaining two guards when SG-1 found them three years later. The three prisoners concocted a tale of being attacked by "aliens", hoping to enlist SG-1's help in killing Warrick and his first officer. He managed to sound credibly like the ship's captain at first, conning SG-1 into helping him and his people. He claimed that the "aliens" (his original captors) had killed five of his crew since the crash, skinning them and hanging the bodies in the trees. He spent a lot of time alone with Sam while she worked on repairing the Sebrus's engines, flirting with her for most of it. He almost lost control of his con when it became clear that Sam had indeed repaired the ship's power supply; he began accusing her of helping them for no other reason than to gain access to the Hebridans' technology. He kept trying, though; a while later, when Sam had discovered that the Sebrus had been a prison transport, Corso spun a tale of how he'd allowed the prisoners to escape during the storm, when life support when out in the cells. He claimed that the "aliens" who had been attacking them on the planet were prisoners of war.
    • Lyle Pender: "Navigator" among a group of escaped prisoners. Their ship (the Sebrus) had been forced to land after being caught in an asteroid storm while transporting three prisoners to a prison colony, and the captain, Warrick, had been forced to free the prisoners from stasis to keep them from dying. They had overpowered six of their eight guards and killed them (the other two were off looking for food), taking control of the ship and its defenses. They were busy still trying to find and kill their remaining two guards when SG-1 found them three years later. The three prisoners concocted a tale of being attacked by "aliens", hoping to enlist SG-1's help in killing Warrick and his first officer. He killed an "alien" (actually, one of his guards) that Jack had shot and wounded, in hopes of getting information from him later. He was the least successul at acting like respectable ship's crew; his determination to kill the "aliens" was too blatant.
    • Tanis Reynard: "First officer" among a group of escaped prisoners. Their ship (the Sebrus) had been forced to land after being caught in an asteroid storm while transporting three prisoners to a prison colony, and the captain, Warrick, had been forced to free the prisoners from stasis to keep them from dying. They had overpowered six of their eight guards and killed them (the other two were off looking for food), taking control of the ship and its defenses. They were busy still trying to find and kill their remaining two guards when SG-1 found them three years later. The three prisoners concocted a tale of being attacked by "aliens", hoping to enlist SG-1's help in killing Warrick and his first officer. According to Corso, Reynard didn't like men; nevertheless, when Jonas took her back to the SGC for medical treatment after she was injured during a battle, she did her best to seduce him into giving her access to the SGC's computers.

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• Planet: P3X-4C3
• Human, but not quite baseline, anymore; according to Nirrti, thousands of years of isolation allowed them to evolve differently (to an unstated degree). (Metamorphosis)
• Kelowna is one of the three major countries on P3X 4C3. They're at a similar stage of development as the US in the 1940s, and are involved in a Cold War of sorts. They believe themselves at risk of oppression from their neighbors, and are working on developing weapons of mass destruction. (Meridian) (canon glitch: in Shadowplay, the planetary designation is P2S 4C3)
• Warning/all clear signals are similar to ours: orange for warning, blue for all-clear, rather than red and green.
• Their leader (equivalent to a president or prime minister) is called the High Minister. (Meridian)
• The government, working on information given by the scientists, claimed that Daniel had tried to sabotage their research project, and that he had been injured as a result. They only let him go home on compassionate grounds, but demanded that he be returned to face charges if he survived. Even after Jonas Quinn told them the truth, they refused to admit Daniel's heroism in saving millions of Kelownan lives. (Meridian)
• The country is in a three-way rivalry among the planet's major powers: Kelowna, Tirania, and the Andari Federation. (Shadowplay)
  • The grievances between the three go back for generations; the most recent conflict was 20 years ago, with nothing really solved. (Shadowplay)
  • The rivalry kept things at an uneasy balance until Tirania and the Andari Federation signed a non-aggression pact, putting Kelowna in a very bad position. (Shadowplay)
  • The Kelownans have possibly been wiped out by their enemies. (Shadowplay)

   

  Kelownan stargate:

• Discovered approximately in 1986, along with a number of Goa'uld artifacts, in what appeared to be an ancient temple. The Kelownans' knowledge of the gate is limited, but they're extremely interested in it and eager to learn more, and to trade with Earth (offering any technology that they may develop in return). (Meridian)
• The stargate is a secret there, much like on Earth (except apparently a better-kept secret). Only the Kelownan government and approved scientists know about it. (Shadowplay)
• Research related to the stargate is one of the Kelownans' most secret and important research operations, leading to tight security. (Meridian)
• The main research is to develop a naquadria-based bomb that would eventually (if they succeed) be as powerful as a naquadah-enhanced nuclear warhead. (Meridian)
  • After Jonas left, Kelownan archaeologists discovered large amounts of naquadria in mine shafts beneath the original site -- 300 pounds. (Shadowplay)
  • The scientists managed to complete a successful test of a naquadria bomb after Jonas left. (Shadowplay)
• Daniel translated some writings from the temple and discovered that 10,000 years ago, a Goa'uld had tried the same experiments, and had nearly destroyed the world. The scientists refused to believe him, and continued with their experiment. (Meridian)
• During a test of the device, it malfunctioned and began putting out radiation -- enough to kill the scientists in the room. Daniel broke through the protective glass and removed the core, preventing a massive explosion that could have killed millions of people, and suffered severe radiation exposure in the process. (Meridian)

Known Kelownans:

• Ambassador Dreylock: Part of the delegation sent to Earth to re-open diplomatic relations, and part of the delegation on Kelowna sitting at the table during negotiations for trading Earth weapons tech for Kelownan naquadria. (Shadowplay)
• Commander Hale: When Jonas was still on the planet, Hale was Undersecretary for Military Appropriations. Within a few months, had been promoted to Chairman of the Kelownan Defense Council. He was part of the delegation sent to Earth to re-open diplomatic relations, and part of the delegation on Kelowna sitting at the table during negotiations for trading Earth weapons tech for Kelownan naquadria. (Shadowplay)
• Doctor Kieran (aka Professor Kieran): One of Jonas' old teachers at university, and one of the three original members of the naquadria project along with Leed and Silas. He recruited Jonas into the project. He began having nightmares after he witnessed the first test of the naquadria bomb, and realized how powerful it was. He went schizophrenic as a result of exposure to high levels of naquadria radiation, and deluded himself into thinking he was part of a resistance movement set to overthrow the existing goverments (Kelowna, Tirania, and the Andari Federation) and bring peace to his world. As part of this "resistance movement", he had been stealing small amounts of naquadria and squirreling it away for three months, and had ammassed a fairly large amount. He tried to get SG-1 to help with his "coup", asking them to bring an invasion force into the government building that housed the stargate (bringing the soldiers through the stargate) and take it over as quickly and bloodlessly as possible. Jack refused. Later, on his way to meet the "resistance" to set up a meeting with them and SG-1, Kieran fell and was badly injured. He was brought to Earth and after a brief stay in the SGC infirmary he was placed in an institution and medicated, in hopes of preventing further mental damage from the naquadria radiation (the existing schizophrenia was physically irreversible). (Shadowplay)
• Doctor Tomis Leed: Chief Physicist, responsible for overseeing the Kelownans' most critical project: developing a naquadria-based bomb that would eventually (if they succeed) be as powerful as a naquadah-enhanced nuclear warhead. When the device began to malfunction and threatened to explode, releasing massive radiation, he ran like hell, leaving Jonas and Daniel behind. (Meridian) He was one of the three original members of the naquadria project, along with Kieran and Silas. He went schizophrenic as a result of naquadria radiation, and had to be removed from the project and placed in an institution. (Shadowplay)
• Jonas Quinn: Special Advisor to the High Minister. He was responsible for overseeing the stargate-related research from an ethical perspective. He had several degrees from the Kelownans' most honored education institution: social studies, ancient Kelonan history, and others. (Meridian) Recruited into the stargate/naquadria project by one of his university teachers, Professor Kieran; they worked together on the project for six years before Jonas defected. (Shadowplay) He's a very fast reader (read a text Daniel gave him in just one night), but is more intrigued by exploration than by academics. Although he originally went along with the other scientists and his government in laying blame for the naquadria-device accident on Daniel, after Jack gave him what for, and after seeing his leaders' glee at the reports of the device's power (after watching his comrades die horrible deaths as a result of that power), he changed his mind. He told his leaders the truth, and when they wouldn't acknowledge what Daniel had done, he stole as much naquadria as he could, and brought it to the SGC, along with the real story of what happened. If he got caught returning, he would be considered a traitor. In return for bringing the naquadria, he asked that the SGC share any defense technologies (such as shields) they develop. (Meridian)
• Doctor Silas: One of the three original members of the naquadria project, along with Kieran and Leed. He went schizophrenic as a result of naquadria radiation, and had to be removed from the project and placed in an institution. (Shadowplay)
• First Minister Valis: Knew Jonas well; called him by his first name, and got him in a private discussion away from the negotiations to try to convince him to return to Kelowna and help them. He asked Jonas to "watch over" Doctor Kieran, who had been behaving erratically, offering a full pardon and a reinstatement into Jonas' position at the academy if Jonas agreed. (Shadowplay)

 

Relations with Earth:

• Started normally enough, with SG-1 on what appeared to be a standard meet'n'greet, getting to know the Kelownans and setting up basic diplomatic relations. (Meridian)
• Collapsed after the Kelownans accused Daniel of sabotaging their naquadria project (when in fact he'd risked his life and eventually effectively died to save many Kelownan lives). (Meridian)
• The Kelownans re-opened diplomatic channels to the SGC when they realized that their rival powers, the Tiranians and the Andari Federation, had signed a non-aggression pact that was probably the precursor to a joint attack on Kelowna. (Shadowplay)
  • The Kelownans were offering some of their surplus naquadria, in exchanged for Earth weapons and technology. Specifically, they wanted help getting their Jet Interceptor Program off the ground (not my pun, I swear, that came straight off the screen), because they were badly outmatched by their enemies in the air. (Shadowplay)
  • The SGC (through Jack and Sam) refused to supply weapons tech or help, instead offering antibiotics, which the Kelownans lacked. (Shadowplay)
  • The Kelownans switched to asking for surface-to-air missiles, to be used as a defensive weapon against enemy aircraft. (Shadowplay)
  • Jack (on behalf of the SGC) also refused that, on the grounds that there was no way to guarantee that the Kelownans wouldn't decide to use the weapons offensively, to take out enemy aircraft over enemy territory as well. (Shadowplay)
• When the Kelownans' enemies began massing along their borders, Sam suggested allowing an SG diplomatic team to sit down at the negotiating table with the three powers; the Kelownans refused, unwilling to reveal the secret of the stargate to anyone. (Shadowplay)
• Jonas convinced the council to allow the SGC to take the injured Doctor Kieran, because of Earth's better medical facilities. (Shadowplay)
• The SGC lost contact with Kelowna shortly after Kieran arrived. It could mean that the Kelownans have been conquered. (Shadowplay)

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• Peaceful, nonconfrontational race. Their society has regressed technologically; no one remembers how anything works anymore, as long as it still works. They're dependent for their defense upon a weapon built by their ancestors. (The Sentinel)
  • The people of Latona ignore the Jaffa-imposed curfew and otherwise don't prepare for Svarog's arrival, because they don't understand that they're being conquered -- they have no real concept of true conflict on that scale. They have no wish to serve anyone, and don't understand why the Jaffa and Svarog don't just go away after being told that. (The Sentinel)
• They are possibly related to the people of P2A 463 -- they share a similar written language. (The Sentinel)
• "Led" (there doesn't seem to be much of a leadership structure) by Marul. (The Sentinel)
• The Sentinel: Built three hundred years ago by the Latonans ancestors as a defense for the entire planet. It was created to free the people to pursue matters of the mind and spirit, without fear of invasion, war, or conquest. The people know that it's protecting them as long as a particular flame burns in the city. When an enemy ship appears, it gets "sent away" in a flash of bright light. The Goa'uld (or anyone else, for that matter) have never successfully invaded Latona since it was built. (The Sentinel)
  • Protected by a force field, supposedly impenetrable. The original NID team that discovered it got through in 48 hours; when they returned with SG-1, they were through in a short time with Daniel's help. The patterns -- over a hundred of them -- in the mechanisms generating the force field change randomly, and the code that opens the force field changes constantly, relative to the harmonics of the notes in each pattern. To crack the code, you have to listen for the mathematical progression of the harmonic in each given pattern relative to its spectral equivalent. (The Sentinel)
  • Its caretaker is a human, somehow bound to it. Works in tandem with the Sentinel, giving the weapon purpose and direction (without the caretaker, the weapon won't fire). He wears a band around his wrist (deadman switch) -- as soon as the caretaker dies, the people in the city know because the flame goes out. The caretaker is the only person allowed to see the Sentinel. (The Sentinel)
  • Its condition is known by a flame in Marul's office -- as long as the flame burns, the Sentinel is looking after the planet, and is in turn being looked after. The flame can be fooled, though; after Colonel Grieves killed the caretaker, Lieutenant Kershaw rigged a device that would convince the monitor he'd been wearing that he was still alive, so the flame never went out and Marul never knew that the planet was now unprotected. (The Sentinel)

   

  Known Latonans:

  • Marul: The Latonans' leader. An inoffensive, seemingly ineffective man who nonetheless holds firm to his people's principles and laws. It might just be that he doesn't understand what he's doing, but he stands up to a Jaffa commander who's trying to intimidate the Latonan people. He also calls Jack on a few pertinent points -- like why should he believe Jack, if Jack admits that other Earth people have been lying to him.

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• Planet is Nasya; SGC designation unknown. (In the Line of Duty)
• Nasya had been free of Goa'uld attack for three centuries. After Jolinar fled to their planet, Cronus sent an ashrak to hunt her down, and sent an attack force as well. The SGC had two teams on the planet at the time -- SG-1 and SG-6 -- there to set up a research outpost. (In the Line of Duty)
• The SGC managed to rescue 237 people from the attack, but some were critically injured/burned. Those were transferred to the Air Force Academy hospital. (In the Line of Duty)
• The Naysans were relocated to another world; not sure which one. (In the Line of Duty)

   

  Known Nasyans:

  • Talia -- wife to the man Jolinar originally inhabited when she fled to Nasya to hide. Talia survived the attack on Naysa and was brought through to the SGC, and to the USAF Academy Hospital for treatment. (In the Line of Duty)

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• World is called Pangar. (Cure)
• The people/government are relatively trusting: with no more than a month of radio contact behind them, they're willing to tell the SGC anything and everything about their culture, offering full access to their citizens as well -- barring the truth about the tretonin. (Cure)
• Architecture/design: at least in their public meeting spaces, an interesting (and oddly comfortable) mix of Japanese and Western-feeling design; tables and chairs seem Western-standard, but the walls, doors, etc. feel very Japanese -- open, light, airy, with what appears to be screens (but may well be translucent walls) separating the room from the hallway, and a step down into the room. (Cure)
• Air traffic seemed to be strictly dirigible -- and there was only one in the sky. (Cure)
• They discovered a Goa'uld temple a hundred years ago, and have been steadily digging at the site ever since to discover things. (Cure)
• They figured out that the stargate was a way of travelling, but never figured out any addresses by themselves. (Cure)
• Sixty years ago, they found a symbiote (Egeria) perfectly preserved in a canopic jar, in a secret chamber under the temple, and began experimenting, first on her and then on her offspring. (Cure)
• Pangar Security Contingent: security force that makes sure no one spills the beans about the tretonin. Has enough power/reputation to seriously worry Zenna Valk, and keep her from talking freely to Jonas and Teal'c. (Cure)
• Tretonin: "Medicine" derived from goa'uld symbiotes that's designed to make the human immune system impervious to any ailment, but with severe side effects -- it completely, and permanently, suppresses the immune system as soon as it enters the bloodstream, and its healing effects are temporary. It's necessary to keep taking the drug after just one dose, to remain healthy. (Cure) Tretonin didn't work on Jaffa -- Fraiser checked. (The Changeling)
  • Tretonin project:
    • Tretonin didn't work as well as it should, and the Pangarans were incapable of refining it further, despite years of trying. (Cure)
    • The government had been holding the Tok'ra queen, Egeria, "prisoner" to produce as many symbiotes as possible, to be turned into tretonin, unaware that she wasn't simply a Goa'uld. (Cure)
      • They were using her for medical experiments for about 50 years, and using her to breed symbiotes for tretonin for 30 years of that. (Cure)
    • Symbiotes were kept in a large building, in vats. Presumably all had naquadah in their systems, because Teal'c could sense them when he got close enough. (Cure)
    • Symbiotes retained their instinctive behaviors -- looking for hosts -- but were effectively harmless, unable to properly mingle with the host mind, thanks to Egeria's deliberate messing with their DNA. (Cure)
      • The result was a vegetative state for the host, with lower-brain and autonomic functions unaffected, but no response to other stimulus at all. (Cure)
    • Egeria had messed with more than her offspring's knowledge; she had subtly altered their genetic makeup, making it much more difficult to analyze or create an antidote for the tretonin created from them. (Cure)
      • After Kelmaa sacrificed herself to give Egeria a host body, Egeria explained what she had done, giving Malek the ability to begin the process of creating a viable antidote after all before she finally died. (Cure)
    • Tretonin wasn't available to everyone; it was considered a privilege that could be revoked. (Cure)
    • The government wanted to trade tretonin for the addresses of several Goa'uld homeworlds, uncaring of the danger. They needed to obtain a new queen to produce more symbiotes, to continue producing tretonin for the people who were de facto addicted to it. (Cure)

     

  Known Pangarans

  • Commander Tegar: Head of security? Military? Paranoid suspicious type, none too happy about letting aliens onto his world and telling them what they want to know. (Cure)
  • Zenna Valk: Archaeologist. Supervisor of the temple research project that found her planet's stargate. Her father was the one to find Egeria's canopic jar in the first place. (Cure)

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• Planet: P7J-989 (nb: Teal'c calls it PJ7-989) (Gamekeeper)
• The world was nearly destroyed by a chemical disaster 1,022 years ago (as of 1998), and the few surviros placed their bodies into suspended animation to keep the race alive until the planet could restore itself. People were physically connected to pods in an enclosed dome, with tubes feeding nutrients into them (and presumably something like electrical stimulation to keep the muscles from atrophying?), and connectors from their brains tying them all into a giant network, effectively making it into a giant virtual reality game Within the network, the Keeper could control the environment, using people's memories and imaginations to set up scenarios for them to live through or observe. After a thousand years of this, though, things were getting stale, and the Keeper leapt at the chance to have SG-1's minds and memories tied in -- or at least Jack and Daniel's. Sam and Teal'c's minds were resistant, thanks to Jolinar and Junior. They could experience other people's memories, but couldn't contribute any of their own. SG-1 eventually caused enough of a stir to get the Residents questioning their existence, and after a few mindgames with the Keeper, escaped and wound up showing the Residents the way out. (Gamekeeper)

   

  Known "Residents":

  • The Keeper: The person who created and was in charge of controlling the environment. He can appear as anyone he chooses, inserting himself into any "game". Although he knew the external world had renewed itself into a fertile garden, he refused to tell his Residents, wanting to maintain his control (and in part to keep them from repeating the destruction of the world -- he didn't trust them to be able to maintain order in the outside world). He was very pleased to have SG-1's memories and imaginations to play with, until they started shaking up the status quo by telling the Residents that their world was renewed. He tried to trick them by pretending to set them free, when in fact he just dumped them into another simulation (with himself as Hammond). The team figured it out, and finnally escaped for real, showing the rest of the Residents the way out in the process and pissing the Keeper off royally. (Gamekeeper)

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• Planet -- no local name, SGC designation P3R-636 (Need)
• The ruler, Pyrus, held court in a Goa'uld pyramid -- with, oddly enough, a giant Mayan-style bas relief carving behind the "throne". There were also Mayan-style carvings on the container that held the sarcophagus, and possibly on the throne itself (there were carvings, but not clear enough to see). (nb: these carvings looked Mayan to me, so that's what I'm calling them, but I'm no expert; it's also possible that they're Aztec or Toltec.) The sarcophagus had standard Egyptian/Goa'uld hieroglyphs on it. (Need)
• The SGC was going to work on diplomatic relations, to gain access to some of the naquadah from the mines. No word if this world became a source for the SGC. (Need)

   

  Known natives:

  • Pyrus: "The God-slayer", ruler of the kingdom. He gained control by killing the Goa'uld who used to rule there (unnamed). His people worshipped him in the Goa'uld's place, because he "liberated them from the evil god". Their lives weren't much different, though; he basically set himself up as another Goa'uld, living in the pyramid, using guards dressed as Jaffa and armed with staff weapons, and keeping his people working themselves to death in the mines to produce naquadah, which he sent through the stargate at regular intervals so no other Goa'uld would get suspicious and come through to take over the world. He used the dead Goa'uld's sarcophagus to extend his life to an extraordinary degree, far beyond the point where full humans are supposed to be able to surive. When SG-1 found the planet, he was 700 years old and extremely paranoid. He imprisoned them all on suspicion of trying to thieve "his" naquadah. Shyla saved Daniel and started grooming him to be her spouse, which Pyrus wasn't terribly pleased about but did nothing to stop. The sarcophagus had stopped being particularly effective in his case, and he knew he would die soon, and Shyla would take over. He died while SG-1 was back at the SGC, leaving Shyla to inherit alone. (Need)
  • Shyla: Princess. Only (surviving?) child of the 700-year-old ruler, Pyrus. Raised on stories of a prince from the stars coming to take her away from all this, basically (her mother told her that "a great man would come from beyond the stars... just for [her]") -- ripe to fall into a fantasy world about Daniel after he saved her from suicide, believing him to be her destiny. She had given up hope and was standing on the edge of the cliff wishing one last time for her dream man, and Daniel appeared at exactly the right moment. She couldn't admit to her father that she was trying to kill herself, though, so Daniel and the rest of SG-1 were captured and imprisoned in the naquadah mines after Daniel was found with her. After an escape attempt left Daniel near (or actually -- unclear which) dead from a rockfall, Shyla had him brought to the palace and revived in her father's sarcophagus. She dressed him up in royal robes and got him completely addicted to the sarcophagus by repeated uses, all the while planning their perfect life together knowing that he'd be unable to leave her (and the sarcophagus). Once she thought he was addicted enough, she let him (and the rest of the team) go home, sure that he'd have to return to her. Her father died before Daniel came back, and Daniel returned free of the sarcophagus's influence to tell her he wouldn't be marrying her. He convinced her to destroy the sarcophagus, so she wouldn't fall into the same traps her father did. (Need)

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• Planet Tagrea, SGC designation P3X-744 (Memento)
  • One of the planets listed on the Abydos cartouche; the SGC had had no luck contacting it, and assumed that the stargate was buried. (Memento)
• Originally one of Heru'ur's worlds; he apparently abandoned it centuries or more ago. (Memento)
• First exposure to the SGC was when the Prometheus' naquadria reactor exploded above their atmosphere, in what looked to them like an unprovoked attack by aliens. They responded by launching long-range ballistic missiles. (Memento)
• The halls in the main building (apparently the focal point of political power, probably at least vaguely equivalent to the White House) have highly stylized hawk images on the walls, and the conference tables are triangular -- very probably remnants of when Heru'ur was the true power on the planet (nb: the last bit is a compete guess on my part, but I think it makes sense given that Heru'ur's symbol was a hawk, and the Goa'uld used triangles everywhere). (Memento)
• The artwork in the main political building was abstract, mainly consisting of color blocks arranged in circles and squares (and portions of both) (Memento)
• Tagreans call the stargate "the ring of the gods", and considered it a myth, with no evidence to prove its existence. (Memento)
• Their history goes back only 300 years; prior to that, according to their oral history, Tagrea lived through a long, terrible dark age, which the people wanted to forget. Thus, it wasn't until after they emerged from it that historians began to record events again. All evidence of anything that happened during their more ancient (more than 300 years ago) history was destroyed -- almost. A few fragments survived, but nothing more. (Memento)
  • The Tagreans generally believe that what happened before Year Zero has nothing to do with their current society, and therefore doesn't matter. As Kalfas put it, "The society of the new era has no need to know how they suffered." (Memento)
  • More likely, Heru'ur abandoned the planet, and the de facto freed slaves destroyed every trace of him and the culture surrounding him they could, eventually building a new society out of the wreckage. The stargate itself was buried under a stone reading "Here lies the chapa'ai of Heru'ur, false god to the people of Tagrea. May it never know the daylight again." (Memento)
  • A few modern Tagreans still believe in Heru'ur as their creator, and have sought out relics of the past. One in particular, Tarek Solamon, had a piece of ancient writing (in a variant of pre-Dynastic Egyptian) that just happened to contain directions to the buried stargate. (Memento)

   

  Known Tagreans:

  • Chairman Ashwan: The Tagreans' political leader. He was at odds with Commander Kalfas about how to react to the presence of aliens on their world -- he thought it was a great opportunity. He had hand-picked the commanders of the dirigibles that were guarding the downed Prometheus, so when Kalfas staged what amounted to the beginnings of a coup (capturing Jonas and Teal'c against Ashwan's wishes, after they had found and unburied the stargate), Ashwan ordered that the Prometheus be allowed to go freely to aid their comrades. To prove his sincerity, he travelled aboard the ship with the crew and SG-1. He faced down Kalfas at the stargate site, winning back control of his people and military and freeing the captured SG-1 members. (The absolute hugeness of the Prometheus, hovering over everyone's heads with lots of weapons, probably helped.) He made the stargate freely available for travel back to Earth (and presumably for travellers from Earth to return and begin repairs on the Prometheus). (Memento)
  • Commander Kalfas: The first Tagrean to make contact with the SGC. Commander of the Tagrean Security Forces. He didn't want aliens on his planet, and didn't trust any of the SGC people he met. After arguing steadily with Ashwan about how to handle the situation, Kalfas finally took matters into his own hands, capturing Teal'c and Jonas at the site of the newly dug up stargate. His victory didn't last long; Ashwan arrived on the Prometheus, and between the ship's presence and Ashwan's rhetoric, the coup ended rapidly. (Memento)
  • Tarek Solamon: Professor of mathematics at the university where Teal'c and Jonas were going through archives in search of some hint of the Tagreans' history that mentioned the stargate. He'd spent his life seeking out artifacts and relics of the Tagreans' ancient history, and was a staunch believer (one of the few) in Heru'ur as creator-god -- even going so far as to wear a hawk necklace. He had several relics in his possession, including a bit of a text (in pre-Dynastic Egyptian) that happened to give fairly specific directions on where to find the buried stargate. He was captured along with Jonas, Teal'c, and the rest of the digging cew when Kalfas staged something of a coup at the stargate site. (Memento)

   

  Technology:

  • Powered flight
    • Some sort of dirigible, with ballons that are more rounded than the dirigibles that were built on Earth. (Memento)
  • Powered land vehicles (Memento)
    • Tanks (Memento)
    • Trains -- they looked high-speed, but not mag-lev. (Memento)
  • Weapons: projectile, much like Earth weapons (recognizable rifles, etc.). (Memento)

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• (The race name is a probably inaccurate guess; it's the only word we're given, but it more specifically applies to the judicial body that sentences criminals.) (Prisoners)
• Planet designation is P3X-775. (Prisoners)
• Far more technologically advanced than Earth. (Prisoners)
• A civilization of island states, ruled by strict, immutable law. Those found guilty of any crime are sent through the stargate to the prison world of Hadante, for life -- no appeals process, and a zero-tolerance policy toward crime of any sort. (Prisoners)
• Taldor as judiciary: Hand down sentences in anonymity, speaking from darkness while defendents (or supplicants, in the case of SGC representatives trying to retrieve SG-1 from imprisonment) are bathed in a beam of bright blue-white light. They believe that punctuality is emblematic of civilized behavior. Highly xenophobic (and arrogant, narrow-minded, self-centered... according to Major Kovacek). (Prisoners)
• Hadante: Prison world, used much the way the British used Botany Bay in Australia. According to Daniel's rather cursory investigation, Hadante was likely an alien gate terminal, roughly 15,000 years old. When new prisoners arrived (through the stargate), the existing prisoners set up a weird whistling. Food was sent through from Taldor every day at the same time -- a sort of gruel, which poured through the gate in a single stream, to be caught on a piece of wood that aimed down into a trough, from which all the prisoners ate (by scooping out a bowlful). (Prisoners)

   

  Known Taldor:

  • Linea: aka The Destroyer of Worlds. She's extremely smart and strangely honest, while being totally misleading. In her words, "There was an experiment with tragic consequence. People died. ... It began with a terrible plague... Time was short. I offered my knowledge. Instead of inhibiting the disease's progress, my medicine accelerated its effects. ... Do not think that I am innocent." Sam, and through her SG-1, believed this, and allied with her. In reality, she was sent to Hadante for creating a terrible plague -- to which she was immune -- that wiped out half the population. She came and offered her help in stopping it, but instead made it worse. It spread from island to island, and by the time she was caught she had destroyed half the world. She rose to a position of power in the prison (and even when she -- clearly in charge of things there -- told Jack and Sam that there are two ways to control a society: fear and hope, they totally failed to get that she controlled that particular society through fear). She's capable of murder on a smaller scale, as well; to keep SG-1 intact and available to her purposes, she covertly killed Vishnoor while he was strangling Daniel, making it look like somehow Daniel had done it. Her biochemistry skills are impressive; while on Hadante and working with local materials and no lab equipment, she developed medicines that helped Daniel recover from near-suffocation, as well as a medicine that completely reversed a degenerative eye disease that had caused blindness in Simian. Working alone in a primitive setting, she also managed to come up with cold fusion, using liquid "activators" on the root of a plant. She teamed up with SG-1 to escape Hadante, offering her cold fusion technique to manually power the gate in return for going with them back to Earth. Given access to the SGC's computer system, she figured out the stargate system in record time, knocked Sam and another scientist out, and fled through the gate. She crashed the entire system behind her, leaving a message: "Thank you for your help. All debts have now been paid." (Prisoners)
  • Rosure: Criminal to the Taldor -- accused of murder. On the run on his home planet, he literally stumbled into SG-1, begged them for help, and got them to go with him, which eventually contributed to their list of crimes in the Taldor's eyes. Roshure went his separate way once they were all sent to Hadante, and within a day or so of their arrival made his bid for freedom -- by standing in the path of the kawoosh and being killed instantly. (He thought it was a way of escape, that he'd be sent back through the stargate.) (Prisoners)
  • Simian: Sent to Hadante because he stole food. He was blind when he arrived; Linea put medicine in his eyes and restored his sight. He recognized her as the Destroyer of Worlds, and fled her presence. Later, he followed SG-1 through the stargate to P2A-509; SG-3 found him lurking near their basecamp relatively soon after SG-1 had returned to Earth, and brought him back to the SGC in handcuffs. Once there, he gave them Linea's true history. (Prisoners)
  • Vishnoor: Strong like ox, dumb like bull. Totally subservient to Linea on Hadante, but other than that, he ruled the prison by virtue of being the hardest to kill. When SG-1 first appeared he made a grab for Sam; she backward-head-butted him in the mouth and then Linea intervened and announced that Sam was protected. Later, either to regain face or just because he's like that, he decided that Daniel had insulted him and picked a fight. He nearly managed to kill Daniel through strangulation before Linea, working covertly, killed Vishnoor herself. (Prisoners)

   

  Language:

  • tal'al: speaking area, where criminals and supplicants are brought to speak to the Taldor. (Prisoners)
  • taldor: justice. Also, apparently, the general name for the rulers of several island states on P3X-775 (Prisoners)

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• Planet is P3X-797; local community calls itself the Land of Light. (Broca Divide)
• The planet's rotation isn't, really: instead, half the planet is eternally dark, and the other eternally light (ignore the horrible science involved in this). (Broca Divide)
• Their farms produce rich harvest, and the rivers are full of fish and fowl. (Enigma)
• The culture is derived from Minoan culture -- lots of bull iconography and statuary, and Grecian clothing. The natives believe that the Heelksha -- the gods of the underworld, evil gods -- cursed people into savagery, making them violent beyond redemption. The "Touched", as the 'cursed' are called, were driven into the dark side of the planet, to survive in the forest as what amounted to prehuman creatures, and were considered dead by their relatives and friends; in fact, they were the victims of a virus. The Goa'uld had left them alone for at least a generation when SG1 and SG3 found them. (Broca Divide)
• "Touched" virus: A parasitical virus that feeds on alines and cholines -- chemical transmitters in the body, including neurotransmitters. As the transmitters are depleted, all but the most primitive parts of the brain shut down. The organism releases a hormone that stimulates the primitive parts of the brain that are normally dormant. It's a histaminolytic -- it breaks down histamines. Eventually, Dr. Fraiser figured out that antihistamines (specifically chlorpheniramene malleate) in high enough doses could control and even reverse the effects of the virus. (Broca Divide)

  Known Untouched

• Melosha: Daughter of Tuplo (the headman), who was caught by the Untouched and infected. Later rescued by the SGC via antihistamine injections to counteract the infection. (Broca Divide)
• Tuplo: Headman of some sort. (Broca Divide) He was the first visitor from the Land of Light to visit the SGC. He offered sanctuary to the refugee Tollans the SGC had rescued from volcano-ridden Tollan, but they refused it on the rather insulting grounds that it was far too primitive a place for them. (Enigma)

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