Arrogant bastards. (Enigma, Pretense, Shades of Grey)
Clothing tends toward dark neutrals, particularly greys, for both men and
women. (Between Two Fires)
Science has advanced far beyond Terran science; they're about 800 years
ahead of us, having never gone through a dark age (ignoring the fact that
the dark ages weren't that dark...) (Enigma)
Tollans have implants
in their wrists/forearms that are used to monitor their
health (each has a monitoring device they can use to check their implants,
which stores a record of their health data). The implants are connected to
a central system as well; if there's a problem, health officers are dispatched
immediately. Normal response time is less than five minutes. (Between Two
Fires)
Sher-mal: Legendary
Tollan figure similar to an angel, said to appear at the moment of death and
take you to her dwelling in the stars. (Enigma)
The Tollans don't trust more primitive cultures to be able to handle technology,
after a devastating experience. The Tollans had discovered civilization on
a neighboring planet, and waited until it was at a level of technology similar
to Earth's in the very late 20th century, and then made contact and offered
them technology that would produce unlimited productive energy. The Satirans
used it to make war, destroying their entire world in the space of one day.
The destruction shifted Tollan's orbit slightly, enough to destabilize the
planet and start the chain of events that caused the Tollans to flee. The
Tollans have developed an iron-clad Prime Directive
as a result (without calling it that). (Enigma)
If their world is threatened, they're willing to look past the "prime
directive" if need be -- they offered ion cannons to Earth in exchange
for help while they were being suborned by the Goa'uld Tanith. (Between
Two Fires)
Travel by ship as well as by stargate (Enigma, A Hundred Days,
Tangent)
Refused to go live in the Land of Light after the SGC got Tuplo to agree
to offer them a place there; they considered it far too primitive a world.
(Enigma)
Their word for quantum physics is "quilebrium physics" -- and they consider
it a "misconception of elementary science". (Enigma)
Laws/Security/Crime:
Legal system involves "triad",
a ceremony of justice similar to a trial, in which two "seekers" (defendants)
select "archons" (attorneys) to represent them until a decision is reached
by a neutral third neutral archon. A moderator presides over the proceedings,
and renders judgement after the three archons vote. (Pretense)
Security forces (who always seem to be wearing
some sort of leather getup on Tollana) can use the health implants to track
people, although under ordinary circumstances that's illegal. (Between
Two Fires)
Violent crime is almost unknown among the Tollan;
Narim can't even remember another murder occurring. Their security system
keeps crime from happening; mostly what slips through are "crimes
of indiscretion," whatever that actually means. (Between Two Fires)
The records of all Curia meetings were public, and inviolate by custom and
law -- although that didn't stop the Curia from altering them when need be.
(Between Two Fires)
Government deceit of the people is considered
a more heinous crime than murder; to Narim, such deception is unthinkable.
(Between Two Fires)
Only the highest ranking members of the Curia would have access
to the security system in the building where Travell's office is located.
(Between Two Fires)
An official protest of Tollan policy is filed
with every branch of every level of government, making it impossible to erase
without a vast conspiracy. (Between Two Fires)
Worlds:
Their original homeworld, Tollan, had had no living
animals for generations. It was destroyed by natural causes (volcanoes, orbital
instability), and they moved to a new one, which they cleverly named Tollana.
(Enigma)
Tollana was attacked by Tanith
after SG-1 and Narim sabotaged his plans to gain highly
destructive bombs from the Tollans. The Tollan stargate was destroyed in the
attack, and the Tollans were forced to flee in ships, hoping to escape the
Tanith's ha'tak vessel. (Between Two Fires)
Narim: One of the
ten Tollan left behind on their original homeworld to seal the stargate and
wait to be picked up; saved by SG-1. Is slightly less arrogant than the others,
mainly because he's got a crush on Sam and wants to keep in her good graces.
He wore an emotion-recorder every time he was around Sam, and before he left
he gave it to her so that she could play it back and feel exactly what he
was feeling. (Enigma) Has an orange tabby named Schroedinger that Sam
gave him. (Enigma, Pretense) Turns out to be a stalker-boy;
he used Sam's voice as the voice of his house computer, much to Sam's surprise.
Was honestly horrified at the thought that his government might be acting
without the public's knowledge, and for all that he clearly wasn't used to
making these sorts of decisions, did the right thing and risked his planet's
and his people's utter destruction by sabotaging the bombs the Tollan high
council were building for Tanith. Possibly
died in the resulting attack/escape attempt. (Between Two Fires)
Omoc X:
Leader of the ten Tollan left behind on their original homeworld to seal the
stargate and wait to be picked up; saved by SG-1. Arrogant as hell. (Enigma)
Murdered by the rest of his own High Council when he refused to go along with
collaborating with the Goa'uld. (Between Two Fires)
Travell: High
Chancellor, very good at turning down Jack's requests for tech. Head of the
Curia, the Tollan's highest governing body. (Pretense, Shades of
Grey) Wound up collaborating with Tanith -- to the point of being involved
in Omoc's murder -- in an attempt to save her world, but failed when SG-1
and Narim sabotaged the bombs the Tollans were building. Possibly dead in
the subsequent attack on Tollana. (Between Two Fires)
Detachment device, worn around the chest, suppresses
a Goa'uld's ability to silence his host, thus allowing each to speak at will,
indicated by the red light for a symbiote, blue light for the host. (Pretense)
Ion cannons, capable of destroying Goa'uld
motherships. (Pretense) At least one Goa'uld has developed technology
that can defend against the ion cannons, though. (Between Two Fires)
It would take a minimum of 38 ion cannons to defend the entire earth. (Between
Two Fires)
Scanners that can disable any and all weaponry
(at least projectile or energy weapons; unlikely that it affects things like
knives/clubs).
Ability to build their own stargate on their
new world. (Pretense)
Devices to produce unlimited energy, to alter
molecular structure of solid matter (allowing them to pass through
solid matter and to appear invisible), and to record
emotions. (Enigma)
