An alliance of Goa'uld resistance, dedicated to wiping out the System Lords
(In the Line of Duty).
To accomplish this, the Tok'ra developed a poison
-- two gases that, when mixed, create a toxin strong enough to kill any
symbiote that breathes it in. It's not harmful to humans per se, although
any host will die as well from the toxins released by the dying symbiote
inside. After the main crop (post-second-dynasty) of ranking System Lords
were destroyed, the Tok'ra planned to sweep through the disorganized remnants
of the empire and use the poison against all the Goa'uld they could find.
(Summit) It took weeks to synthesize, and the Tok'ra only ever
managed to produce a small amount before Revanna
was destroyed. Sam took the crystal with the data on it. (Summit)
The Tok'ra hadn't worked out a way to save the Jaffa who will die
without the symbiotes that currently sustain them, but considered
that an acceptable price for the destruction of the System Lords.
(Summit)
They infiltrate Goa'uld society to try to
destroy it from within; infiltrators have been caught on ships that the SGC
has destroyed. (Tok'ra)
After the destruction of the "second Goa'uld dynasty", the
Tok'ra developed new insurgency techniques. (Summit)
Tok'ra numbers have diminished over the years because of a lack of hosts;
they won't take any host unwillingly, forming a truly symbiotic relationship.(Tok'ra)
Tok'ra symbiotes enter through the mouth, not the back of the neck -- their
hosts are not horrified by the experience, so they don't have to worry about
remembering horror/terror in their reflections after they're blended. (Tok'ra,
part two)
Tok'ra keep no secrets from each other (in theory), and therefore have no
doors anywhere on their bases. Anyone can go anywhere. (Tok'ra, part
one)
Allied with Earth in the form of the SGC. They were given a remote access
code signaling device (GDO) to contact Earth, and left behind the Tollan sub-space
transmitter enabling Earth to contact the Tok'ra in the future. (Serpent's
Song)
One of their highest laws prohibits symbiotes from using their hosts. (Allegiance)
Tok'ra and Jaffa:
There are no Jaffa within the Tok'ra ranks. (Crossroads)
While developing the poison meant to wipe out
the System Lords, the Tok'ra hadn't worked out a way to save the Jaffa
who would die without the symbiotes that currently sustain them, but considered
that an acceptable price for the destruction of the System Lords. (Summit)
Tok'ra don't trust even rebel Jaffa, as a rule. (Allegiance)
The Tok'ra developed a new version of tretonin,
the drug made of "ground Goa'uld" (in Jack's words) used by the Pangarans
to prolong their lives. The new version was designed specifically for
Jaffa, to replace the effects of having a symbiote. Out of necessity,
the drug was first tried on Teal'c and Bra'tac. (The Changeling)
High Council:
consists of the most respected members of the Tok'ra, who make the major policy
decisions for the group (assign missions, make treaties, etc.)
Councilors: Persus (supreme high councilor), Garshaw, Ren'al
The council restricted access to zatarc
research, keeping Sam from finding anything out during the months that
she requested information after she shot Martouf.
(Summit)
Requests for mission reports are supposed to be made in person to the
council, not called in. But exceptions can be made. (Abyss)
Bases: usually
temporary, and are formed by crystals that are designed to create (grow) tunnels
underground, which can also be destroyed/filled in with crystals (Tok'ra,
parts 1 & 2, Summit). Each crystal is a different shape and size,
and creates a different tunnel. By carefully choosing the kind of rock to
tunnel through, the Tok'ra can avoid making air shafts; the rock releases
enough oxygen to keep them alive until they can get lifesupport set up. After
that, the only way in is via transport rings.
In addition to the main ring room, the bases have a secondary ring room for
emergencies. (Summit) They seem to use one main base at a time, although
there are never all that many Tok'ra there at once -- most are out on missions.
Vorash: The Tok'ra
base for many years; a desert world. (Jolinar's Memories, The
Devil You Know, Crossroads, Divide and Conquer, Exodus)
It was destroyed after the Tok'ra abandoned it and blew up the local sun
in an attempt to wipe out as much of Apophis's fleet as possible. (Exodus)
Revanna: Where the
Tok'ra moved to after Vorash was destroyed; a forested world (or at least,
they set up shop in a forested area). They'd been there only a short time
before the Goa'uld found out about it and attacked, destroying most of
the tunnels and equipment, and killing every Tok'ra on the planet. The
attack was led by Zipacna, working for
Anubis. (Summit, Last Stand)
Risa system: New Tok'ra
base after the destruction of Revanna. Didn't last long; an ashrak
infiltrated (using invisibility technology) and cleared the way for Anubis
to attack and destroy the base, forcing the few remainingTok'ra (less
than 1/4 survived) to flee to the SGC's alpha
site, after being unable to dial the SGC itself because of ohter incoming
traffic. (Allegiance)
Funeral practices:
The dead are placed on a high bier in front of a stargate, and after
ritual words are spoken ("Arik tree-ac te kek" ["We do not surrender,
even in death"] by one ranking Tok'ra (Malek), followed
by "Tak mal arik tiak" ["You will not be forgotten"] by another (Selmak)),
the gate is activated, vaporizing the bier in the kawhoosh's path. (Allegiance)
It's forbidden to speak during the ritual. (Allegiance)
It's not clear whether this is a full standard funeral or a cobbled-together
rite by Tok'ra in a refugee situation with no recourse to more traditional
rituals. (Allegiance)
Aldwin
X: Has orders from the Tok'ra High
Council to launch a weapon at the core of Netu, causing a chain reaction within
12 minutes that will destroy Netu as well as Sokar's ship in orbit. Without
Teal'c's intervention, this would also have killed SG-1, Martouf, and Jacob/Selmak.
(The Devil You Know) He's the Tok'ra who comes to Earth to verify that
Shifu is the Harseisis, by using the zatarc-detecting
device (Absolute Power). When SG-17, a new team, goes to Revanna
for the first time, Aldwin is their guide/lecturer, explaining things like
how the Tok'ra tunnels work. He died in the attack on Revanna. (Summit)
Cordesh
X: Betrayed the Tok'ra to the Goa'uld,
then after Cordesh jumped bodies, the host killed himself in the vanishing
tunnels.
Egeria
X: Reports
of her death some 2,000 years ago were greatly exaggerated, apparently. Rather
than being killed on Earth by Ra (timeline
screwup -- Ra was overthrown much more than 2,000 years ago), she
was imprisoned on the planet Pangara. (Probably began her life as an actual
System Lord; the System Lords are willing to kill lesser Goa'uld, but tend
to imprison/exile their own, regardless of the severity of their crimes.)
Millenia later, she was found (hostless) by the humans still living there,
and used for medical experiments for 50 years or more. For the last 30 years
of that, she was used to breed symbiotes that the Pangarans
used to create tretonin, a medicine
that rendered them impervious to all ailments. As her only defense, and only
protection for her offspring, she deliberately forbore from passing on any
of her genetic knowledge, leaving them nothing but mentally empty shells.
She also deliberately passed on a flawed gene, in hopes of making her offspring
useless as a source for tretonin; the medication didn't work anywhere near
as well as it should. Instead, the Pangarans just started making greater quantities
of the flawed medication, distributing it to more and more people, dooming
them all to death. She began to suffer massive cellular degeneration, and
was approaching death when SG-1 arrived on the planet. A Tok'ra, Kelmaa,
gave up her own life to leave a host for Egeria to inhabit, which allowed
her to talk to Malek, SG-1, and the Pangarans, explaining
what she'd done and giving them the antidote -- she'd never intended to get
them addicted to the medicine. (Cure)
Elliot/Lantash
X:Elliot was badly hurt during
his first SG mission when the Goa'uld attacked Revanna, and Lantash, whose
tank had been destroyed in the same attack, tried to save them both by entering
Elliot. Elliot found out all about Lantash and Jolinar,
Martouf and Sam, and Lantash and Sam, because of the
memories he shared with Lantash. Including the fact that Lantash loved Sam
just as he once loved Jolinar. (Summit) Lantash's knowledge got him,
Jack, Sam, and Teal'c up to the surface where they had a shot at escape, but
his and Elliot's combined injuries were too severe for him to heal. When Daniel
and Jacob caught up with them, Elliot offered to take the symbiote poison
and stay behind, as a living booby trap. He either died from his injuries
or, if he lived long enough to release it, from the symbiote poison. (Last
Stand)
Freya/Anise: Anise
is a Tok'ra archaeologist. First interaction with the SGC was to use SG-1
for human trials of an alien technology; armbands that increased natural physical
ability tremendously. Almost got SG-1 killed. (Upgrades) Second interaction
was negotiating to allow Shan'auc, a Jaffa priestess, to give them her symbiote
as a new Tok'ra; Anise and the others were aware that the symbiote could be
a double agent, but allowed it anyway, and didn't take steps to protect Shan'auc,
who died as a result. (Crossroads) Third interaction was during negotiations
for a formal treaty between the US president and the Tok'ra High Council,
when she brought out new technology she had developed, which can theoretically
find out if someone's been programmed by the Goa'uld as an assassin (a "zatarc").
Decided that Jack and Sam were zatarcs before they decided that the reason
the machine had read deception was that they couldn't admit what they felt
for each other. Next interaction was completely offscreen, being yelled at
by Daniel for not being helpful enough. Freya has a thing for Jack; Anise
has a thing for Daniel.
Hebron/Tanith:
Hebron lived on a planet wiped out by the Goa'uld; the Tok'ra recruited him
to be Tanith's host, telling him he may wind up being used as a counterspy
in Goa'uld ranks for the dissemination of misinformation. Tanith was the symbiote
carried by Shan'auc, who convinced her that
he hated the Goa'uld and everything they did, and that he wanted to be a Tok'ra.
He was lying, and later, having taken Hebron as a host, he killed her for
her temerity in daring to tell him, her god, what he should think or feel.
He currently believes that the Tok'ra have been taken in by him, and that
he is acting as a concealed spy for the Goa'uld in the Tok'ra ranks. The Tok'ra
know what he is, and are using him to spread misinformation to the Goa'uld
when possible. (Crossroads) Has given at least one piece of useful
info to the Tok'ra: the location of the meeting between Apophis
and Heru'ur. (Serpent's Venom) Over
several months, the Tok'ra fed him enough misinformation to keep Apophis otherwise
occupied while they save hundreds of lives and pull agents out of dangrous
situations. When the Tok'ra had a chance to move their home base, they decided
it was too risky to keep Tanith around, and told him they knew about him.
He escaped custody, though, and managed to badly injure or kill Teal'c and
take him to Apophis. (Exodus) (all further info is under Minor Goa'uld,
Tanith)
Jacob/Selmak: To
cure a fatal cancer, Jacob Carter agreed to become a Tok'ra host -- thus saving
Selmak's life as well.
Jacob is getting more Tok'ra'ish all the time (e.g., in Tangent,
he told Sam she shouldn't have touched death-glider technology, that it
was too advanced for the infantile Tau'ri; in Exodus, he basically
tells Jack the same thing for why Jack should give Cronus' ha'tak to the
Tok'ra).
As a USAF general, he had enough pull to shoehorn Sam into NASA, ahead
of a mile-long waiting list, if she was willing to go talk to the head
of NASA to get things rolling (Secrets).
Is often away on missions. One of those had him pretending to be a minor
Goa'uld in Yu's service; he used that connection
to get Daniel onto Yu's planet, armed with a chemical that will make Daniel
appear to those around him as someone trusted and with a poison
that will wipe out any symbiote that breathes it, and sent Daniel in to
serve as a personal attendant to Yu during a meeting of System Lords so
that Daniel could kill them all. (Summit)
He's gotten more relaxed around SG-1 as time goes on; during the mission
to kill the System Lords, he refers to Daniel as "Danny" three
times (once on Revanna during the briefing, once
in transit to Yu's planet, and once while crashing into Revanna on their
return.) (Summit, Last Stand)
The SGC tries to contact him for help when Daniel is dying
of radiation, but he's off on a mission to recover the last remaining
undercover Tok'ra. He eventually arrives at the SGC, but by then Daniel
is so far gone that Selmac isn't sure they can save him -- or that if
they can, that they can restore him to full health. He attempts it, stopping
only when Jack asks him to. (Meridian)
Had to stand there and know that he couldn't do anything to keep Sam
from drowning. (Descent)
The only Tok'ra to know the location of the SGC's alpha
site, and is very careful not to let anyone else see the address when
he's forced to dial it to save the remnants of the Tok'ra as they fled
Anubis' attack on their base in the Risa
system. (Allegiance)
Used his influence to try to keep a lid on a volatile situation on the
SGC's alpha site, as the Tok'ra and Jaffa
were unwittingly turned against each other by an invisible ashrak;
in a showdown where two lines (one Jaffa, one Tok'ra) pulled weapons on
each other, Jacob was the only one to remain unarmed, and yelled the Tok'ra
leader's name, presumably to keep him from shooting Raknor.
(Allegiance)
Continued his role as peacemaker after Malek
(erroneously) reported Bra'tac as
dead at the hands of an invisible enemy, when Teal'c tried to throttle
Malek for not helping Bra'tac and Jacob talked him out of it. (Allegiance)
Jalen: Female. Caught
SG-1's distress signal and came to render assistance after they rode the asteroid
through Earth. (Failsafe)
Jalrow: Host's
name unknown. He flew to the planet where Jack and Maybourne
disappeared and scanned it for human lifeforms, but found nothing. (Paradise
Lost)
Kanan
X: The symbiote who was blended with
Jack to save Jack' life and to give the Tok'ra a chance to retrieve Kanan's
intell. According to Thoran, Kanan would willingly seek
another host as soon as possible, and would sacrifice himself rather than
remain in an unwilling host for an unreasonable length of time (undefined).
(Frozen) Died on one of Baal's strongholds,
after using Jack's body to get him there in an attempt to rescue Baal's lo'taur,
Shallan, with whom he'd fallen in love during an earlier
mission. He left Jack's body (via Jack's mouth) when Baal's Jaffa caught up
to them, presumably to keep Baal from finding out what he knew -- he had kept
Jack completely suppressed during his week or so of occupation. His final
mission before that was as an operative aboard a mothership in Zipacna's
fleet. He escaped during a battle with Yu's forces.
(Abyss)
Kelmaa: Host's
name unknown. Went along with Malek to Pangara, to try
to sort out the problem the Pangarans
were having with tretonin. When she
discovered that it was Egeria being used to breed the
symbiotes for the medication, and that the Pangarans were unlikely to let
her go because of how many of their people would die without tretonin, she
broke into the manufacturing facility and offered her host to her queen, sacrificing
her own life. (Cure)
Korra: Host's name
unknown. A spy in Sokar's ranks, who feared
discovery and fled to PJ6-877, where Aris Boch (the bounty hunter) tracked
him dow and tried to use SG-1 to capture him. They freed him (and Boch) instead.(Deadman
Switch)
Malek: Host's name
unknown. Commander of the Tok'ra base in the Risa system.
Refers to Jacob/Selmak as Jacob, not Selmak, until he
specifically wants to ask Selmak a question. Seemed to be very reasonable
for a Tok'ra; even when asked to do things that offended him (like trust the
Jaffa), he bowed to necessity with decent grace. But he nearly co-instigated
a bloodbath; when Raknor pushed the point
of Artok having been killed by grabbing Malek's
arm, Malek threw him off and caused twin lines of Jaffa and Tok'ra to pull
weapons on each other, clearly prepared to use them. Jacob yelled Malek's
name to keep him from shooting Raknor (presumably) and Jack appeared to be
the voice of reason a moment later. Afterward, Malek was teamed with Jack
and Bra'tac to hunt down the saboteur/assassin.
He appears to have learned special ops hand signals somewhere along the line,
having no difficulty understanding what Jack signalled him to do. Didn't know
how to handle the invisible attacker when the ashrak
went after him and Bra'tac, and let Bra'tac be taken. He didn't follow when
Bra'tac was dragged away (just sat there holding his zat looking totally freaked),
instead running off -- and straight into Jack -- and reporting Bra'tac as
dead. Teal'c nearly throttled him to death when he found out -- with no interference
from Jack or anyone else, until Jacob finally stepped in and pointed out that
Bra'tac wouldn't want it. Redeemed himself (somewhat) by coming up with the
way to see the invisible ashrak -- generating a high-frequency EM field. (Allegiance)
SG-1 brought him to Pangara to help figure out why a Goa'uld'ed man was basically
a vegetable instead of a Goa'uld. He found out about the Pangarans'
medical experiments on a Goa'uld queen and her offspring, and had no problem
with that at all until he found out that it was Egeria
they were experimenting on, at which point he demanded immediate cessation.
(Cure)
Martouf/Lantash
X: Mate to Jolinar
for more than 100 years. Transferred his affections to Sam after Jolinar died.
Fairly high-ranking among the Tok'ra, by all appearances. Turned into a zatarc
and then killed in Divide and Conquer. The body was taken back to Vorash
and held in stasis for several months, but eventually the Tok'ra decided that
the damage was too great; Lantash would probably be unable to heal both himself
and Martouf. Lantash was removed from Martouf, who died -- and was presumably
studied for proof/evidence of zatarc-tampering. Lantash was held in a tank
while he slowly healed, and moved with the rest of the Tok'ra to Revanna.
When the Goa'uld attacked Revanna, Lantash's tank was destroyed, and he did
the only thing he could to survive -- he entered Lt.
Elliot's body, which was nearby, badly hurt by the attack. (Summit)
It's possible that the choice to let Martouf die while saving Lantash
was at least partly so that the Tok'ra could examine his brain tissue
and further their zatarc research. (Summit)
Ocker: Host's name
unknown. Chief of security on the Tok'ra base in the Risa
system. Doesn't trust or like Jaffa. Died at the hands of an ashrak
(probably working for Anubis). (Allegiance)
Persus: Supreme
High Councilor of the Tok'ra. Came to Earth to sign an official treaty with
the US president that outlines a new alliance in the fight against the Goa'uld.
(Divide and Conquer)
Ren'al
X: (Closed-captioning shows no apostrophe;
I'm going with rdanderson.com's
spelling, since I automatically pronounce "Renal" as "reenal",
and associate it with kidneys.) Councilwoman who came to Earth to inform Hammond
that the Tok'ra were safe after the evacuation of Vorash, but that there was
no sign of SG-1 or Jacob/Selmak, and that Selmak was
now officially regarded as a fallen war hero. (Enemies) She was part
of the team that held Martouf's body in stasis, then
chose to let him die in order to save Lantash. She headed the team that modified
a chemical that SG-1 got from the Reol (the race of beings that emit a chemical
substance that convinces other beings that they recognize and trust the Reol,
from Fifth Man), making it work on Goa'uld as well, so that Daniel
could use it to get close enough to release a poison that is meant to wipe
out the ranking System Lords. She died in the attack on Vorash.
(Summit)
Rosha/Jolinar of Malkshur:
Mate to Lantash for more than 100 years. She once tried
to overthrow a System Lord but was defeated when Apophis joined the battle,
and escaped during the slaughter of her armies. While escaping an ashrak (hunter/assassin),
she invaded Sam. After blending with Sam,
she tried to fit in; Sam was possibly fighting her off, because Jolinar's
reactions were off-kilter even though she obviously had access to Sam's memories
(calling Teal'c "just a Jaffa" -- although that was probably more cultural
habit than anything else; punching Jack in the arm in a friendly way Sam would
never do; calling out to Jack as "Jack" instead of "colonel"). Jolinar kept
trying to get the SGC to help her by alternately threatening Sam and offering
to free her; she seemed surprised that no one went for it (possibly not yet
understanding how much a soldier Sam was?). When even Daniel was willing to
risk Sam's life rather than let Jolinar go, she finally resorted to telling
him she knew where Sha're was, and could get her back for Daniel. She was
being held on Level 12, holding room 22 -- set up as an actual jail cell,
with bars and lasers to prevent her escape, and cameras recording everything.
The ashrak found her and killed her anyway, and she made sure Sam survived
her death. (In the Line of Duty) She had once been captive on Netu
(Sokar's "Hell") but had escaped by seducing one of the guards. (Jolinar's
Memories)
Saroosh
X/Selmak: Saroosh was at the edge
of death, and talked Jacob into taking Selmak as a host,
pointing out that "he is the oldest and wisest" of the Tok'ra. (Tok'ra,
part 1/Tok'ra, part 2)
Shallan: Not actually
a Tok'ra, but a human who chose to stay with them. She had been Baal'slo'taur, and had had an affair with Kanan
when he infiltrated Baal's base during one of his missions. Kanan had left
her behind, but later returned for her after he blended with Jack. Both Jack
and Shallan were caught before they could get offworld; Kanan left Jack's
body and died before the capture. Jack managed to protect Shallan while he
was being tortured so Baal wouldn't realize how complicit she was in the escape,
and when Yu attacked Baal's outpost and gave
him a shot at escaping for good, Jack brought Shallan with him. She chose
to stay with the Tok'ra in order to continue Kanan's fight in his name. (Abyss)
Sina: Host's name
unknown. She brought information about Baal
to the SGC. (Prophecy)
Thoran: Came to
the SGC to help heal Jack when Jack was dying of Ayiana's contagion, but Jack
was too ill. Instead, Thoran offered to bring Jack back with him, to be blended
with a symbiote (Kanan) that had recently lost its host.
(Frozen) Councilor. Good friend of Kanan's. He
brought the news to the SGC that Kanan/Jack had left the Tok'ra base without
a word to anyone, and were presumably lost for good. Held "as a guest" by
the SGC until he agreed to convince the Tok'ra to hand over Kanan's most recent
mission reports. Later, when the SGC came up with a plan to use the Goa'uld
to rescue Jack from Baal, Thoran threatened
to break off diplomatic relations, claiming that this sort of thing was why
the Tok'ra were reluctant to share information in the first place. (Abyss)
Yosuuf/Garshaw of Belote:
Aleader of the Tok'ra, very powerful (Grand Counsel). She's the most hunted
Tok'ra of all time. (Tok'ra, parts 1 & 2)
Tok'ra are descended from the same queen -- Egeria,
Roman goddess of fountains and of childbirth, who was an advisor to Numa Pompilius,
a legendary ruler. She broke from the Goa'uld more than 2000 years ago and
came to Earth to stop the Goa'uld from taking humans as slaves [let's just
ignore how incredibly badly this screws up the timeline -- grr!]. Ra killed
her after she founded the Tok'ra movement. (Upgrades)
Like the Goa'uld, the Tok'ra pass on knowledge through genetic memory --
since they've been out of the Goa'uld gene pool for more than 2,000 years,
they're out of the loop and need Goa'uld knowledge. (Upgrades)
Tok'ra can leave a host's body without harming it (although it's difficult,
and dangerous), and can jump from one host to another. (Tok'ra, part 2)
The lifespan is double that of a normal human (at
least; Goa'uld seem to be able to make a human body last about 400 years w/o
a sarcophagus [Seth]), but with no sarcophagi and no forced hosts,
population growth is zero to negative (Tok'ra, part 1).
For the most part, the Tok'ra restrict themselves to Goa'uld technology,
since they're infiltrators and being caught with anything else would mean
exposure. See Goa'uld technology.
Crystals: specifically,
cave-forming crystals. Each one is designed to create a different kind of
tunnel.
small square: short, straight openings
long rectangle: long straight tunnel
diamond: tunnel that angles up to the surface
Memory device: one part is implanted into a
person's temple, and the other part touches it, activating full-sensory memories
(Into the Fire). It can be adjusted for different settings of sensory
responses (Jolinar's Memories).
Warning system: long-range sensors detect incoming
ships and send signals into deep space warning them away, in the event of
a catastrophic attack. (Last Stand)
Zatarc-detecting device:
Based on a modified memory device, it can compare subconscious memories with
conscious ones to see if someone's lying even without being aware of it. The
assumption is that that sort of lie implies tampering by the Goa'uld, meaning
that someone has become a zatarc.
Can also function purely as a regular lie (or deception) detector. (Allegiance)
