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Break out of the frame | Updated February 9, 2003 | Get the frame back

December 8, 2002

• Added to Main Characters:
  • Jack:
    • Detailed breakdown:
      • Housing: (...) Front door opens onto the main hallway; as you walk in, the door to the dining room is directly ahead, with bedrooms down the hall to the right and the living room to the left and down a step. On the same wall as the door, next to the window, is a clock. The kitchen, dining room, and living room are all in a straight line along the hallway, with the kitchen opening onto the dining room and a wall with a large cutout opening between the dining room and living room.
      • Career:
        • First (personal, and probably official mission as well) SGC report: Dated February 23, 1997, and read, in part: "Skaara was chosen. I tried to stop them from taking him away, but was struck by an alien staff weapon. In that moment, Apophis gave the order. [...] We met heavy resistance on our return to the stargate, and became pinned down by enemy aircraft." (Politics)
        • Officially reported as missing in action during the search for him and Sam after the wormhole jumped gates and dumped them in the Antarctic. (Solitudes)
        • (retirement info, etc., from the September 1999 edition of the Colonels's Information Handbook -- link removed, unfortunately, because the AF has moved this to a restricted URL.)
        • Pre-SGC: Sometime in the 1980s, he was on a covert operation over the borders of Iran and Iraq. He parachute opened late, and he fractured his skull when he hit the ground. It took him nine days to walk out to safety. (Solitudes)
      • Possessions/controlled:
        • (Under Hathor's spell) Better at fighting it than any of the other men, although still unsuccessfully. (Daniel also worked around it as much as possible, but appeared to be more susceptible than Jack) (Hathor)
      • Misc.:
        • Was probably still in love, at least to some degree, with Sara in first season; he was trying to write her a letter as he rapidly aged and faced death on Argos, and when he was slowly freezing to death in the Antarctic cavern he thought Sam was Sara, keeping him warm. (Brief Candle, Solitudes)
        • Infected with nanocites that caused him to rapidly age -- about 40 years (or more) in just a few days. (Brief Candle)
        • Turned into a Jaffa by Hathor, who used a device strapped on her stomach to carve the pouch into his abdomen. The process appeared quite painful. Pulled out of the vat of symbiotes before one could implant itself (too young?), and healed entirely of the pouch by Hathor's sarcophagus. (Hathor)
        • Skills and abilities:
          • Astronomy, to a degree. Small telescope on his roof for amateur astronomy (Children of the Gods, Singularity, 1969), and he has twice handled a large (observatory-level large) telescope successfully (Singularity, 1969).
          • Shooting left-handed: used his left hand to shoot a zat after the pistol in his right hand runs out of ammo in Serpent's Lair (...)
  • Daniel:
    • Detailed breakdown:
      • Presumed deaths:
        • (Presumed burnt to death on Nem's planet) The memorial service has full military honors (barring the gun salute, since it takes place inside the gateroom), with Jack giving the eulogy. (Fire and Water)
      • Misc.:
        • Owns an ancient Egyptian game -- the Jackal and the Hound -- that belonged to a Pharoah's daughter (god only knows how it wound up in Daniel's possession, along with all his other artifacts). Played it once with Teal'c. Made him feel like he was touching history. (Fire and Water)
  • Sam:
    • Detailed breakdown:
      • Romantic interests:
        • Her stalker boys also have a tendency to give her the experience of their emotions (Narim gave her the emotion-recorder he'd worn every time he was around her, so she could feel what he was feeling [Enigma]; Orlin did some sort of psychic merge with her so she could feel what he felt [Ascension]).
      • Career:
        • Officially reported as missing in action during the search for him and Sam after the wormhole jumped gates and dumped them in the Antarctic. (Solitudes)
      • Misc.:
        • Had some experience with hypnosis in an undergrad psych course. (Fire and Water)

        • Has a tendency to put science ahead of people unless someone (usually Jack) forces her to see what's happening to the people involved as well.

          • First real instance: in Singularity, while everyone else is focused on the deaths and on getting home safely, Sam brings up the point of leaving one person behind to photograph the singularity during the eclipse, so we don't lose this rare chance. (This is the most reasonable of her science-first reactions; she's also concerned about Cassie and the people who died on the planet. This time, everyone goes along with her, although she can't be the one to stay since Cassie attached herself to Sam.)
          • During A Matter of Time, she's fascinated by the sight of the black hole on the screen, losing sight of the fact that there's also a team of soldiers in the frame who are dying by slow millimeters.
          • During Meridian, even while honestly reacting to Daniel's radiation-sickness situation, she's focused on the need to maintain relations with Kelowna to ensure a supply of naquadria.
        • Can't draw human figures, just stick figures (Singularity, Learning Curve)
  • Teal'c:
    • Detailed breakdown:
      • Housing:
        • Pre-SGC: Lived aboard ha'tak vessels much of the time. On Chulak, he had been granted a nice house (stone walls, with wood beams inside) as a gift from Apophis for his service, where he lived with Drey'auc and had Rya'c. It was destroyed and Drey'auc and Rya'c driven out to the outcast encampments after Teal'c betrayed Apophis. (Bloodlines)
      • Career:
        • Requested permission to return through the stargate after Kinsey shut it down, so he could continue to fight the Goa'uld on his own; Hammond had to deny the request. (Politics)
      • Confirmed kills:
        • pre-show: Hanno's father (Cor-Ai)
        • An Unas (the Goa'ulded Unas in Thor's labyrinth; Teal'c forced him into Thor's Hammer, which killed the symbiote and left the host body unable to regenerate.) (Jack gave an assist, shooting the hell out of the Unas first along with Teal'c.) (Thor's Hammer)
        • Jaffa priest who was about to implant Rya'c's first symbiote in the prim'ta ceremony (this was an accidental kill; Teal'c threw him off during a fight, and the priest fell on his own knife as a result) (Bloodlines)
      • Miscellaneous:
        • The SGC originally tried to remove Junior at least once, but the drugs they tried (presumably to bolster or jumpstart Teal'c's immune system) failed, and Junior had to be returned. (Bloodlines)
        • Attempted to return to Chulak alone when it looked like Hammond wasn't falling forthe ruse designed by the rest of the team to fake a mission there so Teal'c could save Rya'c from the prim'ta ceremony. (Bloodlines)
        • Appears to be quite gifted at calculating different planetary rotations and how they correlate; he knew the time of Rya'c's scheduled prim'ta ceremony, despite not having been on Chulak for months. (Bloodlines)
        • Takes personal responsibility for all his actions, regardless of whether he was acting under orders or not. (Cor-Ai)
        • Offered his body (and his symbiote) to human medical science for study, in the event of his expected death. (Cor-Ai)
• Added to Universe:
  • History:
    • "Heliopolis". The name given by Ernest Littlefield to a castle/fortress on a world whose stargate address wasn't listed on the Abydos cartouche (and was therefore unknown to the Goa'uld). Ernest theorized that it was a meeting place for four ancient races to share knowledge or discuss relations, like a "United Nations of the stars". He came to that conclusion after studying a particular room in the castle, which had panels of writing in four distinctly different alphabets (one clearly Asgard), and a central energy column that when activated produced a holographic, floating 3D display of known elements (146 in this "table"-- compared with 111 for 1997 Earth, and 90 for 1945 Earth), which functioned as a basic, cross-species basis for communication (hydrogen always consists of one proton and one electron). That holographic display was just the first page in the "book"-- a tool to allow anyone to "read"what else was being said: a collaboration of the knowledge of all four races, and possibly the key to everything's existence. Given what else is known about the earlier stages of the civilized galaxy(ies), the other races were likely the Nox, the Furlings, and the Ancients. The column in the middle of the room appears to have been designed/engineered by the same race that built the stargates and DHDs -- the Ancients. (Torment of Tantalus)
  • Stargates:
    • Dialing:
      • Stargates can be used on a ship, but only if that ship is in orbit around a planet with a known address or point of origin, so the DHD can be properly dialled. A ship in transit can't use a stargate. (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC:
  • History:
    • Timeline:
      • 1997: Senator Kinsey cuts off all federal funding to the stargate, leaving Hammond with no choice but to shut the program down immediately (on orders from the president). This trapped Teal'c on Earth, despite his request to be allowed to leave to continue his fight against the Goa'uld. SG-1's actions -- against direct orders -- to stop Apophis's attack by ship despite the shutdown is enough to get the program reinstated. (Politics)
      • 1997: The SGC served as a command and control center for all USAF ops regarding the approaching Goa'uld ha'tak vessels. Had a link through AF SATCOM for encrypted communications to all AF bases and to NASA. (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
  • Cheyenne Mountain:
    • The SGC the ability/equipment to set up portable decontamination chambers. (Singularity)
    • The SGC can set up a decontam spray right in front of the stargate, to catch anyone coming through, and decontamination chambers around the doors into the gateroom to keep infection from spreading outward. (Singularity)
    • There's an abandoned nuclear facility just 20 minutes away from the SGC, where Hammond sent SG-1 and Cassandra, when Cassie had a bomb inside her chest that they couldn't figure out how to turn off. They brought her down into Storage Facility No. 68, into a chamber 30 stories underground through solid rock. (Singularity)
    • Physical layout:
      • Supply of tranquilizer guns in lockup C -- no idea what floor. (Hathor)
      • Original base-wide locker room was room 214 B; included a jacuzzi (possibly 214B was simply the jacuzzi/whirlpool room; no sign of actual lockers). (Hathor)
      • Level 3: Accounting department. (Politics)
      • Level 5: Has a storage area with a (huge) door leading out into section G-4 (and another, on a connecting wall, leading into section G-2), where the Tollans were housed after they were rescued from Tollan and released from the infirmary. (Enigma)
      • Level 16:
        • Section K-7 is restricted to authorized personnel, and appears to be where the holding cells are. (16K7-45 is where Hathor was held before she got control of Hammond; Teal'c was in 16K7-23) (Hathor)
      • Level 27:
      • Hammond's office:
        • Map board (on glass) between Hammond's office and the briefing room, with Earth as the central point. Right next to the central point is the Earth point of origin symbol.
  • Alpha site:
    • Planetary designation/address is P3X-984. (Serpent's Lair)
    • The first time the site is used, at least 13 teams of people are sent through the gate. (Serpent's Lair)
  • Who else knows:
    • Politics -- Senator Kinsey has been fully briefed. When he started asking questions about the line item for the unofficial project called Area 52, the president and the joint chiefs decided that if he were granted access to the project, he might recognize its importance and agree to support it. (The plan pretty horribly backfired...) After reading all the mission reports and being briefed vy Samuels, Kinsey decided to cut off all funding. (The SGC could have circumvented this by opening a discussion on the Senate floor, but that would have meant exposing the program to the public, and the president and joint chiefs didn't want to do that.) (Politics)
    • In the Serpent's Lair -- Dozens of people (at least 13 teams -- unknown how many people on each team) are brought in and sent through the stargate to the alpha site; all of them are now aware of the program. (...)
  • Civilians attached to the program:
    • Cassandra (Cassie) Fraiser:
      • SG-1 brought her back to Earth. Tests run on her howed her clear of the infection that wiped out her people, but with naquadah in her blood. The naquadah later reformed inside her to create a bomb by pulling potassium out of her bloodstream, and causing cardiac arrest which Fraiser responded to by shocking her -- the electrical stimulus the bomb needed to activate. One side of the bomb was made up of naquadah, the other of iron and potassium. The sides were separated by a (decaying) layer of fatty tissue. (Singularity)
      • She has a dog (name unknown), given her by Jack because there's "a rule on Earth -- every kid has got to have a dog"(Singularity)
      • Her "cover story"for assimilating into Earth culture is that she was born in Toronto. (Singularity)
      • She's been through a lot of trauma: (...) after Sam promised never to leave her, then to come right back when she actually left, she locked Cassie alone in a stone chamber with no explanation (Singularity); (...)
    • Ernest Littlefield:
      • He figured out that the 39 symbols on the "doorway to heaven" weren't a combination lock, they were destinations. (Torment of Tantalus)
      • The planet he was on was close to Abydos (which is why he could travel there in 1945 without having to compensate for stellar drift), but not listed on the Abydos cartouche. (Torment of Tantalus)
      • He called the castle/fortress he'd been living in "Heliopolis" -- after the ancient Egyptian city that served as a repository of philosophy and astronomy, and a central place of worship for Ra. (Torment of Tantalus)
  • Earth's stargate(s):
    • Computer dialing program:
      • The keyboard attached to the dialling computer has DHD symbols on it instead of letters. (multiple eps)
      • Hitting "escape"on the keyboard cancels a dialing sequence. (Bloodlines)
      • As well as dialing out, the computer controls incoming wormholes, by controlling the iris over the stargate. Anyone coming through the Earth's stargate has to send an appropriate code for the computer to recognize, or the iris will not be opened. (Children of the Gods, The Enemy Within)
        • Code upon recognizing Jack's incoming signal ("signal code response") first line: 7062957 second line: 0282002 (Fire and Water)
        • GDO code appearing on the SGC monitor: 32-333-0, identified as Jack (Fire and Water)
    • Second stargate:
    • The second gate was originally buried in the Antarctic, about 50 miles away from McMurdo Station.(Solitudes)
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC Personnel:
  • SG Units:
    • SG-1:
      • First mission as a team (consisting of Jack, Daniel, and Sam): Chulak, February 10, 1997 (Politics)
      • Scheduled for a two-day physical assessment in Torment of Tantalus. They were distracted by the mission to rescue Ernest Littlefield; it's never said if they completed the assessment later. It's also never said if this is an annual thing, or simply something that was done early on (speculation only: maybe for teams that hadn't gone through any assessment process in the first time? This could have been when they were in the process of setting up some screening and training for new teams.) (Torment of Tantalus)
      • Duplicated on Altair into robot bodies -- perfect replicas of the organic originals, other than Teal'c, who no longer had a Goa'uld symbiote. The robot team possessed all the memories and training of the originals, but required energy that they absorbed directly from the complex on Altair. The copies were physically stronger and faster, and better at mental math and the like. (Tin Man)
      • GDO / IDC code:
        • Appearing on the SGC monitor: 32-333-0, identified as Jack (Fire and Water)
      • SG-1 members assault other SG-1 members:
        • Broca Divide (Sam jumps Jack while infected with the Touched virus; Jack knocks Sam out to get her to the infirmary; Jack beats the crap out of Daniel while infected with the Touched virus; Daniel starts to attack Sam while infected with the Touched Virus; Jack shoots Daniel with a tranquilizer gun.)
        • Tin Man (robot-Teal'c whales on robot-Jack)
        • In the Line of Duty (Jack sticks Jolinar-blended Sam with a tranquilizer; she hits Jack in the face with her elbow, knocking him on his ass.)
        • Need (Daniel, in severe withdrawal, shoots a handgun at Jack)
        • Legacy (Daniel attacks Jack, whom he believes to be a Goa'uld in his deluded state)
        • Benath the Surface (Daniel ["Harlan"] pulls Jack ["Jonah"] away from a woman whose arm he's grabbed; Jack flips Daniel to the floor and they begin struggling, until Teal'c ["Tor"] pulls Jack off and holds him fast)
        • (Absolute Power -- dream!Daniel imagines using a hand device on Jack to fling him across the room; dream!Daniel has Teal'c killed; dream!Daniel imprisons Sam; Jack attempts to shoot dream!Daniel multiple times with a handgun)
        • Entity (Jack zats -- twice -- the entity-infested Sam)
        • Double Jeopardy (organic-Jack and robot-Jack go at it hand-to-hand)
        • Enemies (the brainwashed Teal'c shoots a staff weapon at both Jack and Sam; both Jack and Sam shoot P-90s at Teal'c, with Jack connecting)
        • Nightwalkers (Sam slaps Jonas hard across the face)
        • Shooting at teammates: (nb: these are included above, I just wanted to see them broken out as well)
          • Jack shoots (at):
            • Daniel
              • Broca Divide -- shot with tranquilizer gun while Daniel was infected with the Touched virus.
              • (Absolute Power -- shot at multiple times with handgun in an attempt to stop dream!Daniel from taking over the world)
            • Sam
              • Entity -- shot (twice) with zat when Sam was infested with the alien entity.
            • Teal'c
              • Enemies -- shot with P-90 when Teal'c was brainwashed by Apophis into believing SG-1 was the enemy.
          • Daniel shoots (at):
            • Jack
              • Need -- shot at him (but missed) with a handgun while suffering severe withdrawal symptoms.
          • Sam shoots (at)
            • Teal'c
          • Enemies -- shot at him (but missed) while Teal'c was brainwashed by Apophis into believing SG-1 was the enemy.
          • Teal'c shoots (at):
            • Jack
              • Enemies -- shot at him (but missed) with staff weapon while brainwashed by Apophis.
            • Daniel
              • In the Line of Duty -- shot with zat to save him from Sam/Jolinar.
            • Sam
              • Enemies -- shot at her (but missed) with staff weapon while brainwashed by Apophis.
    • SG-4: Assigned to travel to P8X-362, a planet whose preliminary report, especially the mineral scans, looked good. (Fire and Water) Assigned to escort Sam and Cassandra back to Hanka after it was decided that there was no way to remove the bomb from Cassie's chest without triggering it. The mission was scrubbed when the stargate accelerated the bomb's "countdown". (Singularity)
    • SG-5: (...) On an unnamed mission, brought back naquadah that was added to a Mark-12 warhead, which was then called a "Goa'uld Buster"-- pet project of Samuels and Maybourne, supposed to be able to destroy a Goa'uld mothership. Or not. (Serpent's Lair). (...)
  • SG Personnel:
    • Castleman: (...) He was injured during the search for the missing Jack and Sam, falling several meters from a rock face. (Solitudes) In charge of briefing at least some of the "alpha teams"preparing to go through the stargate to the alpha site ahead of the Goa'uld attack on Earth. (Serpent's Lair) (...)
    • Davidson: Under Hathor's "spell"; Sam shot him with a tranquilizer dart while he was protecting Hathor. (Hathor)
    • Ferretti: (...) When SG-1 disobeyed orders and went through the stargate to try to stop a possible Goa'uld attack on Earth, Ferretti put in a personal request to Hammond that SG-2 be allowed to go after them; he felt a personal obligation to Jack, since Jack had saved his life on several occasions. (Within the Serpent's Grasp) (...)
    • Fraiser:
      • Had some training with rifles, but hadn't touched one in years as of 1997, her first year at the SGC. (Hathor)
      • Uses Netscape, not IE. (Hathor)
    • Hammond:
      • Career:
        • Called off the search for Jack and Sam before they were found and officially listed them as MIA, once all the planets that fit Daniel's theory had been checked out. (Solitudes)
        • Tried everything he could to prevent the program's shutdown after Politics. He went to talk to Senator Kinsey, twice -- the second time he was forcibly removed from Kinsey's office (on Kinsey's order). He also spoke with the Secretary of Defense, and the Joint Chiefs, and finally called the president himself, all to no avail. (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
        • Disapproved of the Pentagon's decision to lay low until the Goa'uld ha'tak vessels on their way to destroy Earth got close enough to bomb; Hammond believed that the entire world should be warned about this, to give them all time to prepare defenses. He also disapproved of the fact that US forces weren't being mobilized, again in favor of lying low to keep the Goa'uld from knowing that Earth (or at least one little corner of it) was forewarned. (Serpent's Lair)
        • Rarely travels through stargate -- only twice so far. The first time was to pursue diplomatic efforts to get SG-1 out of life imprisonment (Prisoners); the second was to join Teal'c and Bra'tac in a desperate bid to rescue SG-1 and the teams that had gone in to rescue them earlier from Hathor (Into the Fire).
    • Warner: (...) Performed exploratory surgery on Cassie to find out what the foreign object in her chest was (and remove it if possible), and risked her life by not stopping when Fraiser said to -- Cassie's pulse was skyrocketing, and her heart monitor flatlined before Warner removed the scope to allow CPR to begin (which turned out to be unnecessary -- the bomb just wanted to be left alone, and restarted her heart when the scope was removed). (Singularity) (...)
• Added to Tau'ri, Non-SGC:
  • Politics:
    • Government:
      • Kinsey:
        • Has a hint of religous fervor about him -- not obviously in casual conversation, just enough to show up on the radar (when Teal'c said Apophis wouldn't rest until the people of Earth worshipped him as a god, Kinsey got very intense as he said "There is only ONE God, sir, and I do not believe for one moment that he would allow for one moment what you are trying to tell me to come to pass. We are, after all, 'one nation, under *God*'.") (Politics)
      • The president's name is unknown. Also unknown if it's the same president serving through two terms, although it seems likely, given that Hammond appears to maintain some sort of personal relationship with him. In the beginning of the program, he was very keen on the SGC, SG-1, and Jack O'Neill; when Kinsey questioned the necessity of the program, the president held Jack and SG-1 up "as a shining example of the fine work the SGC is doing,"and demanded that Kinsey give them a fair trial. (Politics)
  • Military:
    • Pentagon:
      • Maybourne:
        • First interaction with the SGC was to come bringing an order releasing the refugee Tollans into NID (=his) custody, so they could be held in a "secure facility" in the Rockies. When Hammond stalled him long enough to give Daniel a chance to help the Tollans escape, Maybourne reacted by threatening to shoot all the escaping Tollans and court-martial Daniel. Not the most auspicious start to his relationship with the SGC. (Enigma)
        • While still working at Area 51, he worked on a prototype weapon whose development was overseen by Colonel Samuels -- a naquadah-enhanced Mark-12A warhead. (Serpent's Lair)
      • Samuels: (...) He was the person who gave Senator Kinsey a (probably highly biased against) briefing about the SGC, to fill him in on all the details, and accompanied Kinsey to the SGC for the "hearing"Kinsey conducted, which resulted in the (temporary) shutdown of the program. (Politics) (...) Very likely suggested to the Joint Chiefs that the best move was to not do anything in terms of mobilizing forces while the Goa'uld ha'tak vessels were approaching the planet, so the Goa'uld wouldn't know Earth had been warned. He wanted to use a pre-emptive strike against the Goa'uld, using a new weapon -- a naquadah-enhanced Mark 12A warhead. The enhanced warhead yielded in excess of 1,000 megatons. He oversaw its development at Area 51 with Colonel Maybourne. He had two prototypes ready for launch at Vandenberg AFB. He truly believed that these weapons -- which he called "Goa'uld Busters"-- would be enough to utterly defeat the two Goa'uld vessels. (He was completely wrong.) After his plan utterly failed, he asked Hammond to be sent through the stargate to the alpha site. Hammond denied permission, insisting that Samuels stand and fight along with the members of the SGC. (Serpent's Lair)
    • Area 51:
      • After SG-5 brought back a small amount of raw naquadah sometime in mid-1997, colonels Mayboure and Samuels oversaw the development of a naquadah-enhanced Mark-12A warhead, yielding in excess of 1,000 megatons. (Serpent's Lair)
• Added to Goa'uld:
  • System Lords:
    • Hathor:
      • She had been trapped in a sarcophagus on Earth for thousands of years, in a Mayan temple -- the Temple of the Inscriptions, in Palenque, Mexico. (Hathor)
      • After her sarcophagus was opened and she killed the archaeologists who found her, she made her way to the SGC, sensing that that's where the stargate was. (Hathor)
      • When captured by security guards at the SGC, she was placed in room 16K7-45 -- a holding cell. (Hathor)
      • She possessed the ability to breathe out a chemical, some sort of pheremone (visible as pink breath), which left men extremely susceptible to her suggetion. If she got close enough, the men would breathe it in, and then do whatever she wanted. It didn't affect Jaffa (protected by their symbiotes) or women. Other than being totally amenable to her, though, the affected men didn't behave particularly differently. When she left, the effect was cut off, leaving temporary memory loss behind. (Hathor)
      • She attempted to take control by drugging all the men at the SGC with her pink breath; the only male on the base totally immune was Teal'c, because of his symbiote. (Hathor)
      • She intended to set up a new dynasty based on Earth. She chose Daniel as her beloved, her chosen one, her first pharaoh, and as part of that she wanted him to "donate"his DNA ("take the code of life from his juices") so she could spawn a batch of human-oriented offspring. She enjoyed the method of procuring the code with humans. (Hathor)
      • When the women foiled her plan, she fled through the stargate to Chulak. (Odd choice...) (Hathor)
    • Nirrti:
      • Once sent a peace emissary to negotiate a treaty with Apophis over a stargate Apophis had taken control of. The negotiation was a ploy, and the stargate was destroyed -- as soon as the emissary entered the stargate, there was a massive explosion. She repeated the ploy with Cassandra, in an attempt to destroy Earth's stargate. (Singularity)
    • Pelops: Called "the creator"and "the giver of days"by the Chosen -- people from the planet Argos who are the descendants of people Pelops took from ancient Greece and modified to live an incredibly sped-up life (100 days, instead of 100 years). He wanted to see how humans evolved, shortening the lifecycle enough that he could see 100,000 years of evolution in just 100 years. (The experiment seems to have been a failure; although conditions were right -- an isolated, limited gene pool -- there were no evolutionary differences, or at least visible differences, between the Argosians and Earth-normal humans, unless possibly in their astonishing ability to learn language with only the first day or so of life available with the proper mental window open.) He infected them all with nanocites (nanites) to alter their physiology. The nanocites themselves had a certain level of artificial intelligence, and the ability to adapt to new situations. A hidden transmitter gave off a signal at sunset every night, putting the Argosians to sleep and triggering the nanocites to go into action, aging them. A second hidden transmitter gave off a signal every sunrise, stopping the nanocites for the day and waking the Argosians up. (Brief Candle)
  • Biology:
    • Queens:
      • Although not necessary, Queens generally chose to use DNA from the host species when creating new Goa'uld ("taking the code of life from the juices of the species intended as the host") (Hathor)
        • Using DNA from the host species to create new Goa'uld ensures compatibility between Goa'uld and host. (Hathor)
  • Language:
    • cha'tii: (possibly "cha'til" -- closed-captioning was hard to read) no direct translation, but something on the order of "boys", "apprentices", "very young warriors" (Bra'tac: "I have trained these warriors since they were cha'tii.") (Serpent's Lair)
    • obi-tan or olvy sac: (first is from aired ep closed-caption, and is closer to the sound I heard; second is from DVD closed-caption for the same ep) (possibly "halt"or "freeze"-- it's the first thing Bra'tac yells at SG-1 the first time he sees them, threatening them with a staff weapon, before Teal'c comes around the corner to greet him) (Bloodlines)
    • quellshak: (this is probably actually "kelshak"or "kel shak", but "quellshak" is how the closed-caption rendered it: the gist of it seems to be "lead us"or "we'll follow"; Teal'c followed this with "honor us with your guidance"as he asked Bra'tac to help them find Drey'auc and Rya'c in the outcast camps. (Bloodlines)
    • shweek: (probably the equivalent of "hands up"; Bra'tac yells it repeatedly at SG-1 the first time he sees them, threatening them with a staff weapon, before Teal'c comes around the corner to greet him) (Bloodlines)
    • zat'n'ktel: alternative spelling for a zat (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
• Added to Jaffa:
  • Culture:
    • Jaffa use wills (Teal'c asks Bra'tac to hear his will when he thinks he's about to die). (Bloodlines)
    • Religious culture:
      • Seemed to be an odd combination of markings among the priests on Chulak; many of the priests wore Apophis tattoos, but at least one had a different one -- a silver starburst (four points -- two shorter ones on top, two lower ones on the bottom) inside a black circle; the cirle, at least, was a tattoo, although it's not clear if the starburst was silver ink or actual silver. Possibly this was the equivalent of a Second or First Prime? At the sepulcher of the temple (where Daniel wiped out an entire tank of infant Goa'uld), the symbol over the sepulcher was Apophis's , but the banners surrounding the area had the starburst symbol on top and Apophis's symbol underneath. (Bloodlines)
        • (Pure speculation: Possibly, the starbust symbol is the symbol of the gods, plural -- all Goa'uld. [Bloodlines])
      • Funerals:
        • On Chulak, the custom when someone dies is to not eat or drink for three days. (Fire and Water) (Seems to be contradicted by both Shan'auc's and Drey'auc's deaths. -- Crossroads, Redemption pt 1)
          
  • Known Jaffa:
  • Bra'tac:
    • The first time he met SG-1, he insulted Sam, bit Daniel in the hand to prove how soft Daniel was, and beat Jack at hand-to-hand. (Bloodlines)
    • After helping SG-1 escape from Chulak (Bloodlines), Bra'tac worked hard to regain Apophis's trust, and was made First Prime to Klorel. (Serpent's Lair)
    • Outed himself as a rebel to Klorel, while he and SG-1 were attempting to escape Klorel's ship. He burned his bridges pretty thoroughly: after refusing to obey Klorel, he explained himself by saying, "Because you are not a god. You are a parasite within a child -- and I despise you."This got him ribboned in retribution; he would have died if Jack, Sam, adn Teal'c hadn't come in to help. To make his rebellion even more official, shortly thereafter he and the others ringed onto Apophis's ship with Klorel as hostage, and Bra'tac very clearly told Apophis that he would no longer worship false gods. (Serpent's Lair)
  • Shak'l: (...) Functioned as First Prime to Apophis, and carried the gold mark, but apparently was not secure in that position yet; when he found Teal'c on Cartago, he said Teal'c's death would assure his place as First Prime. Teal'c killed him 10 seconds later. (Cor Ai)
• Biology:
  • Jaffa born to the altered species seem to have an immune system before implantation of a larva; baseline humans turned into Jaffa by the forcing of a pouch lose their immune systems in the process. No idea how; it doesn't make a lot of sense that simply having a pouch carved out would trash the immune system. (Pure speculation here -- maybe the baseline human immune system is a bit too strong for larvae to easily overcome, so destroying it in the process of readying a human to become a Jaffa would help guarantee a successful implantation. Possible that Jaffa pass along a slightly weakened immune system, which in turn helps weed out weaker Jaffa before the rite of prim'ta.) (Hathor)
  • Once the symbiote is removed, a Jaffa has only a few hours before he dies. (Bloodlines)
  • The most painful death a Jaffa can know is removal of his prim'ta. (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
• Added to Tollans:
  • Culture:
    • 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)
  • Known Tollans:
  • Narim: (...) 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) (...)
• Added to Miscellaneous Races :
  • Aliens:
• Oannes:
  • 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's 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)
• Unas:
  • 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)
• Humans:
  • Abydonians:
    • Known Abydonians:
      • Skaara: (...) 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) (...)
  • Altairians:
    • 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.
  • Argosians:
    • 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's 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's nanocites. (Brief Candle)
      • Phillipos: Argosian boy. (Brief Candle)
      • Thetys: Wife of Alekos. She gave birth in Pelops's 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)
  • Byrsa:
    • 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's 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)
  • Cimmerians:
    • Planet: Cimmeria. SGC designation: P3X-974
    • 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)
    • 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)

        Known Cimmerians:

        • Gairwyn: (...) Carried a large sword strapped to her back. Rode a horse when need be. (Thor's Hammer) (...)
        • Kendra: (...) 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. (Thor's Hammer) (...)
  • Hankans:
    • 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.
  • Untouched:
    • Their farms produce rich harvest, and the rivers are full of fish and fowl. (Enigma)
    • Tuplo: (...) 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)
• Added to Miscellaneous:
  • Nicknames, diminutives, etc.:
    • Jack's nicknames for other people:
      • Samuels: "Sparky"(Politics)

October 25, 2002

• Added to SG Universe:
  • History:
    • Many stargated worlds were terraformed (wow, wrong word, but that's what Teal'c used) by the Goa'uld centuries ago -- thus all the forests and such. (First Commandment)
• Added to Main Characters:
  • Jack:
    • Detailed breakdowns:
      • Confirmed deaths:
        • changed "killed by Apophis's guard"to "killed by Apophis with a staff weapon"(The Nox)
      • Misc.:

        • Kept all his small keepsakes (wedding ring, family pictures, etc.) in a Van Dyck cigar box at the bottom of his locker as of first season; no idea what happened to them later. (Cold Lazarus)

        • Held in holding cell 19D -- containing bunkbeds, a table, a chair, a toilet, and a surveillance camera -- after he returned to the SGC, when everyone thought he was an imposter (rather than the initial "Jack"to come through, who was in fact a crystalline entity posing as Jack). (Cold Lazarus)
  • Daniel:
    • Detailed breakdowns:
      • Confirmed deaths:
        • changed "killed by Apophis's guard"to "killed by Apophis with a staff weapon"(The Nox)
  • Sam:
    • Detailed breakdowns:
      • Confirmed deaths:
        • changed "killed by Apophis's guard"to "killed by Apophis with a staff weapon"(The Nox)
  • Apophis:
    • Detailed breakdowns:
      • Confirmed kills:
        • Jack (with staff weapon) (The Nox)
        • Sam (with staff weapon) (The Nox)
        • Daniel (with staff weapon) (The Nox)
• Added to SGC Personnel:
  • SG units:
    • General info:
      • SG units had already visited 19 separate worlds before they made it to the Nox's world. (The Nox)
    • SG-1:
      • SG-1 captured, confined, or imprisoned
        • Broca Divide (...) Jack in room isolation room IS-19 (...)
    • SG-3:
      • (SG-3 went with SG-1 to the Land of Light...) After they met up with the locals, SG-3 continued standing guard while SG-1 sat down to talk to Tuplo, the headman of the Untouched. SG-3 members were the first to suffer the effects of the "Touched" virus. (The Broca Divide) (...)
    • SG-5:
      • Went to P3C-117 for standard recon (no word on what happened on the mission). (The Nox)
    • SG-9:
      • (...) Assigned to P3X-513 for several weeks, at least four or five, before things went bad. At that point, a child got lost, and Hanson went out into the day to find her, and was outside for two full days -- the last straw on the camel's back of his sanity, apparently. He went from pretending to be a god to believing it, and killed Frakes, along with many natives, before dying himself at the hands of his 'followers's (First Commandment). (...)
  • SG personnel:
    • Lt. Baker: (Member of SG-9) The only team member to stay fully loyal to Captain Jonas Hanson, even in Hanson's utter lunacy on the mission to P3X-513. He was killed by a native (whom SG-1 had pulled aside and explained things to, and who was helping them take Hanson down), who shot him with Teal'c's staff weapon to keep him from shooting Daniel.
    • Lt./Capt. Conner: (mission to P3X-513...) He refused to return to Earth to give a report on the situation when Jack ordered him to; he insisted on staying on the planet and helping them stop Hanson, partly to avenge his friend Frakes. (First Commandment). (...)
    • Fraiser:
      • Suffers from severe allergies, and requires daily antihistamines to control them. (Broca Divide)
    • Frakes: (Member of SG-9;) served as the team's anthropologist. On a mission to P3X-513, he went along with Hanson's initial decision to pretend to be gods, before Hanson went nuts and started believing it for real. He was shot with a (poisoned?) dart while trying to escape from Hanson's native troops, then brought before Hanson, who shot him dead. Afterward, the natives burned him down to ashes, leaving little but his dogtags behind. (1997, First Commandment).
    • Hammond:
      • Dressed more formally in first season: always in a tie, and often in his dress-blue jacket, complete with ribbons and badges.
      • Despite being behind the actual front lines as Commander in Chief of the SGC, Hammond has been affected more than once by alien threats brought through the gate.
        • Reverted to pre-human in The Broca Divide (and held in isolation room IS-19 along with Jack, at least temporarily -- while wearing a straitjacket).
        • Under Hathor's 'spell' in Hathor.
        • Taken over by aliens in Foothold.
    • Capt. Hanson: (...) Hanson had years of black ops under his belt before joining the SGC. Commanded SG-9. Upon being greeted as gods by the cave-dwelling natives of P3X-513, Hanson convinced his team that pretending to be gods would be a good way to help the locals set up a political structure to save themselves. About 4-5 weeks later, a child got lost from the caves, and Hanson went out into the day to find her, and was outside for two full days -- the last straw on the camel's back of his sanity, apparently. Later, when some of the cave-dwellers questioned him on the assumption he was just a man, not a god, he tied them to stakes and left them out in the sunlight for seven days -- by which time they were blind from the extreme solar radiation, and covered in giant bleeding burns; they died shortly after. Hanson didn't stop at killing natives; when two of his men, Frakes and Conner, tried to flee back to Earth to warn the SGC what was going on, he chased them down and shot Frakes himself. He began working the natives nearly to death, building him a temple, with the promise that he would "turn the sky orange"-- activate a Goa'uld energy shield that would keep out the worst of the radiation -- after they finished. He was really waiting for Sam and SG-1 to appear, so he could make Sam turn it on for him. She did (after he threatened Jack), and Hanson called an assembly of the locals to proclaim his power. He didn't realize the shield needed two devices working together; when Daniel explained that and signalled Teal'c to turn the other one on, the natives turned on Hanson, and threw him into an active Stargate -- dialled for Earth, but with no GDO signal sent through, so no open iris. (First Commandment)
    • Lt. Johnson: Was with SG-3 when they travelled to the Land of Light, and got infected by the "Touched"virus there -- he was the first to be affected. He attacked Teal'c in a briefing. (Broca Divide)
• Added to SGC:
  • Earth's stargates:
    • Computer dialing program:
      • Planetary designations: A six-character sequence based on a binary code the computer uses for extrapolation, usually taking the form P-number-letter number-number-number (if the sequence begins with M, it indicates a moon rather than a planet). E.g., the planet SG-1 travels to in Broca Divide is known as P3X-797. (Broca Divide)
• Added to Jaffa:
  • Known Jaffa:
    • Shak'l: (...) He spotted the Nox performing the Ritual of Life to save Lya (after Shak'l knifed her), and realized that the Nox were the real controllers of invisibility on the planet. He reported it to Apophis.(The Nox)
• Added to Goa'uld:
  • Culture:
    • The Goa'uld continue to look for and develop new technologies, to give them an advantage in their internecine wars as well as to help them against external enemies.
      • At least Apophis, and probably others, kept trying to hunt down a creature that lived on a (supposedly) unpopulated world that had the ability to become invisible, hoping to learn its secrets. (In actuality, it was a local animal -- the Fenri -- that the Nox concealed to protect it.) (The Nox)
      • First Hathor, and later Nirrti, worked on phase-shifting technology that allowed for invisibility, based on the Reetou's phase-shifted physiology. (Hathor, Fair Game, Rite of Passage)
      • Anubis has been working on stronger hatak shielding. (Between Two Fires, Revelations)
      • Baal was working on localized gravity-field generators, and pretty successfully. (Abyss)
• Added to Elder Races:
  • The Nox:
    • Known Nox:
      • Lya: Nox woman, probably the wife (or equivalent) of Anteaus and mother of Nafrayu. (The Nox) She was the Nox who came through the stargate (and the iris) to bring the Tollans to safety after Daniel and Narim contacted them. (Enigma) She was also the Nox who went to Tollana to participate in Skaara and Klorel's triad, to see who had the right to use Skaara's body. Lya was the impartial archon, with the deciding vote (she voted in favor of Skaara). (Pretense)
      • Anteaus: Nox man, probably the husband (or equivalent) of Lya and father of Nafrayu. (The Nox)
      • Opher: The oldest of the Nox (432 years old). Part of the family unit that includes Lya, Anteaus, and Nafrayu. (The Nox)
      • Nafrayu: a Nox boy, very inquisitive and friendly. He was attacked and badly hurt, probably killed, by Apophis when he went to greet the Goa'uld, and revived with the Ritual of Life. (The Nox)
• Added to Misc. Races:
  • Aliens:
    • Crystal Unity:
      • 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's 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)
  • Humans:
    • Untouched:
      • 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)
      • 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)
    • Cave-dwellers:
      • Planet: P3X-513 (First Commandment)
      • Culture: Fairly primitive, with hunting and guard "garb"reminiscent of the Mudmen of Papua New Guinea (picture or 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)
• Added to Miscellaneous:
  • Nicknames, etc.:
    • Daniel calls Jack "colonel":
      • Cold Lazarus (twice; once from a distance (offscreen), calling to what is actually the alien crystal impersonating Jack to tell him it's time to leave; once in the hospital hallway as he tossed Jack his protective gear.)
      • The Nox (when Jack is arguing with the Nox, trying to convince them they should be afraid of the Goa'uld.

October 4, 2002

• Fixed some typos.
• Added note to main page:
  • Stargate Infinity: Although the MGM Newsletter article about this implied that the show is going to expand the universe canon, I'm ignoring it. I watched the first couple of episodes, and I don't even know what to do with a Stargate universe where, in the space of a generation, the Goa'uld, Tok'ra, and Jaffa have been wiped out so completely that no one even considers a Goa'uld possibility when opening an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus that contains a mummy with a live, wormlike thing inside it. According to Gateworld , Brad Wright has said that it shouldn't be considered official canon, and I'm taking that at face value. If you want more information about the series, click on the Gateworld link; that's direct to their Stargate Infinity page.
• Updated Episodes, Writers, and Directors pages through Prometheus
• Updated Arcs page through Prometheus
• Added to Main Characters:
  • Jack, General info:
    • (snarky and insubordinate, but loyal to superiors he respects):
      • Early on, before getting to know Hammond, Jack didn't bother waiting for even implicit permission to leave when he hears Ferretti is conscious, just got up and headed out, leaving Hammond to dismiss everyone else to go with him. (Children of the Gods) He got more polite/respectful later on; while often taking liberties around Hammond, he clearly grew to respect him a great deal.
  • Jack, Detailed breakdown:
    • Confirmed kills:
      • Two Jaffa in Chulak prison (Children of the Gods)
      • Simmons and the unnamed Goa'uld inhabiting him (formerly inhabiting Adrian Conrad) (Prometheus)
    • Misc.:
      • Smoked (cigarettes) before and during the first mission to Abydos. (Stargate the movie) Never picked the habit back up again.
      • First used a staff weapon against a Jaffa who tried to stop an Abydonian caravan that Jack and Daniel were hiding in. (Stargate the movie)
  • Daniel, Detailed breadown:
    • Career:
      • He translated the capstone that had been laid over the stargate in Giza in just two weeks; the team working on it had spent two years at it without figuring it out. (Stargate the movie)
    • Misc:
      • Weapons:
  • On the first mission to Abydos, Daniel was handed his first weapon -- a pistol -- by Brown, after they spotted Ra's ship atop the pyramid for the first time. (Stargate the movie)
  • The first weapon he fired was a staff, given him by one of Ra's Jaffa so he could execute Jack and the others (he turned and fired at Ra and the Jaffa instead, but missed). (Stargate the movie)
  • First used a pistol when he and Jack snuck into Ra's temple with a caravan of Abydonians -- he helped take out the Jaffa who found them out. (Stargate the movie)
  • Armed and organized the militia of Abydonian boys who guarded Abydos's stargate. (Children of the Gods)
  • Carried a standard-issue sidearm and knife on every mission thereafter, and occasionally used a P-90 as well.
  • Stuff on his table while trying to translate the capstone for the stargate:
  • "The Face of Tutankhamun"by Christopher Frayling (god only knows why; it lent a nicely Egyptian-artifact-y feel, but the title was too obvious and there's no reason for Daniel to be using it)
  • Nature Valley granola bar (red package)
  • choco-chip cookies
  • some kind of crunchy-salty snack back. (Stargate the movie)
  • Stuff that he packed for the trip to Abydos (very small selection, from multiple bags that he brought):
  • "Egypt Before The Pharaohs"by Michael A. Hoffman
  • several 5th Avenue bars
  • Catherine's eye-of-Ra pendant (Stargate the movie)
  • Used a combination of Abydonian and English to talk to Sha're ("Sha're, ben qua ri Jack and his friends to see the vili tao an.") (Children of the Gods)
  • Sam, Detailed breakdown:
    • Vehicles: (...) As of sixth season, was driving something different -- I have no idea what it is (if anyone knows for sure, please drop me a line and I'll add it), but it's a late model silver four-door sedan, with keyless entry and a sunroof. (Prometheus)
  • Teal'c, Detailed breakdown:
    • Confirmed kills:
  • Four Jaffa in Chulak prison (Children of the Gods)
• Added to SGC:
  • History:
    • Timeline:
      • 1995: (...the gate is opened and a team is sent ...) -- Daniel, Colonel Jack O'Neill, Major Kawalsky, Major Ferretti, Lt. Brown, Lt. Freeman, Lt. Reilly, and Lt. Porro.
      • 1997: (...) The initial setup included nine teams, whose original (and continuing main) duties are to perform reconnassaince, determine threats, and if possible make contact with the peoples of the worlds they go to. The teams were to operate on a covert, top-secret basis, with only the Joint Chiefs and the president knowing of their existence. The initial briefing after Daniel was brought back from Aybdos was classified S.C.I. Top Secret. (Children of the Gods)
    • A team, including Dr. Catherine Langford, Dr. Gary Meyers (who did the initial, incorrect, translation on the stargate's capstone) and Barbara Shore at the stargate facility, and Dr. Sam Carter at the Pentagon, spent two years trying to make the stargate work. Catherine brought Daniel in on the project when he was at his rope's end; he immediately retranslated (correctly) the capstone (correct translation: "A milion years into the sky is Ra, the Sun God, sealed and buried for all time, his Stargate.") and within two weeks had figured out what the symbols in the center of the capstone (and on the stargate itself) really meant, and the gate was activated. (Stargate the movie)
    • First mission to Abydos included Colonel O'Neill, Major Kawalsky, Major Ferretti, Lt. Brown, Lt. Freeman, Lt. Reilly, and Lt. Porro (Stargate the movie)
  • New section: Abbreviations & Acronyms:

    With thanks for some of this to the official MGM Stargate FAQ, at http://www.stargate-sg1.com/home/faq/index.html. Any non-Stargate-specific terms are from the DOD Dictionary of Military Terms, at http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/, and the official DOD Dictionary (http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf).

  • DHD: Dial Home Device. The standard device connected to a stargate, covered in two concentric circles of symbols, with a central crystal. Pushing the right symbols in the right sequence, then the central cyrstal, activates the stargate. Without a DHD, travel is impossible unless a substitute is found (like the SGC's dialing computer), or unless the gate is hooked up to an external power source and the inside track is moved manually. (picture, with thanks to the old stargatesg-1.com site; I don't think this picture is still up on the new, non-Showtime site at the same URL.)
  • FRED: Field Remote Expeditionary Device. The small, six-wheeled, remote-controlled truck that carries supplies for field units on missions.
  • GDO: Garage Door Opener. The device all SG members carry strapped to their arms, from which they can transmit a signal to send through an open wormhole to let the SGC know it's safe to open the iris. (picture -- thanks, K!)
  • MALP: Mobile Analytic Laboratory Probe. This is sent through the stargate prior to every mission, to get information on local conditions. It also provides a camera and radio, through which the SG teams can communicate visually with the SGC.
  • MOPP: mission-oriented protective posture. This is usually followed by a number, indicating the level of protection (protective gear) being used.
    • From the official DOD dictionary (http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf)
      • mission-oriented protective posture — A flexible system of protection against nuclear, biological, and chemicalcontamination. This posture requires personnel to wear only that protective clothing and equipment (mission-oriented protective posture gear) appropriate to the threat level, work rate imposed by the mission, temperature, and humidity. Also called MOPP. See also mission-oriented protective posture gear. (JP 3-11)
      • mission-oriented protective posture gear — Military term for individual protective equipment including suit, boots, gloves, mask with hood, first aid treatments, and decontamination kits issued to soldiers. Also called MOPP gear. See also decontamination; mission-oriented protective posture. (JP 3-11)
  • SF: security forces; single frequency; special forces. In Stargate's case, where it's used for the guards on base, it likely means "security forces".
  • TER: Transphase Eradication Rod: detects objects operating in the light spectrum 180 degrees out of phase of human vision, like the alien race the Reetou.
  • Cheyenne Mountain Complex
    • Physical Layout
      • Level 27
        • Hammond's office
          • Two doors in Hammond's office: one leading onto the hallway, and one leading into the briefing room. (Children of the Gods)
      • Level 28
        • Gateroom was originally called the Embarkation Room (Enemy Within, 2010)
  • Who else knows:
    • Prometheus -- Julia Donovan (tv reporter for "Inside Access") and Hal (Julia's producer) were leaked some information by the NID (e.g., a sample of naquadah, and at least the beginnings of the money trail), and push until they're allowed to actually visit "Prometheus"-- the nearly complete X-303. The SGC was planning to doublecross them by confiscating and destroying all tapes and notes, leaving them no proof. Hal had been bribed by the NID, and the camera crew was made up of rogue NID members, who hijacked the X-303 as soon as they got aboard. Hal wound up dead; the rest were captured after the ship made it into space. Donovan wound up going with SG-1 to help the Asgard just because she was on the ship when Thor appeared and asked, and there was no way to go home first. No idea if anyone outside her camera crew and Hal knew anything about her story lead, but it's possible.
  • Weapons and Tactics:
    • Plausible deniability:
      • Sam told Julia Donovan that the X-303 was reverse engineered from an alien spaceship that crashed a hundred miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska in 1978. (Prometheus)
  • Technology:
    • Tau'ri:
      • X-303:
        • Codename is Prometheus. The ship is huge, far larger than the two-man X-301 or X-302, and is big enough to hold multiple landing/docking bays that easily fit death gliders. It looks like a cross between a Navy destroyer and an Asgard ship. (Prometheus)
        • Pretty much has to have been in the works since before Jonas appeared with the naquadria; it's just too big and complex to have been conceived, designed, and constructed in less than a year. (This is opinion, not canonical fact.) (Prometheus)
        • It was being built in the Nevada desert, in a facility hidden several hundred feet under a simple shed (painted in a red and white checkerboard pattern, for some unfathomable reason) surrounded by a chain-link fence -- supposedly the most secure facility on the planet (until it was breached by a camera crew...). Part of the protection was its location: on grounds labelled a weapons testing area, with signs promising criminal prosecution to any unauthorized person found within the area's boundaries. (Prometheus)
        • Hull and walls/decks are made of trinium alloy. (Prometheus)
        • Has at least eight decks; Carter was locked in a storage room (CC4-107) on deck seven, with the sublight control relay above her on deck eight. (Prometheus)
        • Capable of achieving orbit in under 30 seconds, but inertial dampeners and artificial gravity would keep the g-forces in check. Using sublight engines, the ship can reach 110,000 miles per second. (Prometheus)
        • If the hyperdrive generator is activated on the ground, with its energy not channeled into creating a hyperspace window, it will explode with huge force -- enough to turn Nevada into a smoking crater. (Prometheus)
        • It was hijacked by a rogue NID team in deep cover as a camera crew for Julia Donovan, who were working for Colonel Simmons and the Goa'uld inside Adrian Conrad. (Prometheus)
• Added to SGC Personnel:
  • SG units:
    • SG-1:
      • SG-1 directly defies orders/goes AWOL:
        • After being ordered to escape from Anubis's drowned mothership with Jacob, Jonas instead heads back into the mothership to try to save Jack, Sam, and Teal'c. (Descent)
      • SG-1 (or its individual members) are captured, confined, or imprisoned:
        • Prometheus (Sam locked in storage room on X-303; Jonas held under guard in engine room)
      • System Lords and minor goa'uld killed directly by SG-1 (or facsimiles thereof):
        • "Adrian Conrad"(Jack)
    • SG-2
      • (First incarnation...) and included Maj. Louis Ferretti, Warren, and Casey.
    • SG-3
    • (... commanded by Major Lawrence...) (nb: this [commanded by Major Lawrence during The Sentinel] is very probably a misnomer; it should be Major Warren, who had been in command of the unit before, including during the previous episode to this-- both Maj. Warren and this sole appearance of Maj. Lawrence are played by the actor Colin Lawrence, which could be the cause of the confusion)
  • SG Personnel:
    • Major Louis Ferretti, USAF: (...) When the SGC began he was added to SG-2 under Kawalsky's command. Started out calling Daniel "Dr. Jackson"to his face, and "Daniel"otherwise; eventually shifted to just "Daniel". Was badly injured in Apophis's attack on Abydos, including an eye injury, but nevertheless managed to get all seven symbols for Apophis's destination. (Children of the Gods)
    • General George Hammond:
      • Career:
        • Saw Apophis for the first time in the gateroom, just before Apophis left. (Children of the Gods)
        • Threatened to send a Mark 5 nuclear bomb through to Abydos to finish the job of destroying it, until his kindly nature won out and he decides to agree to let Jack contact Daniel instead. (Children of the Gods)
    • Major Kawalsky: (...) He was the one who found the cartouche that allowed Daniel to figure out how to get them home. (Stargate the movie) (...) By the end of the first mission to Abydos and therafter, he called Daniel "Daniel"(Stargate the movie, Children of the Gods); later, in Gamekeeper, the memory-Kawalsky called him "Dr. Jackson".
    • Major Lawrence: (...) (nb: this [Lawrence in command of SG-3 during The Sentinel] is very probably a misnomer; it should be Major Warren, who had been in command of the unit before, including during the previous episode to this -- both Maj. Warren and this sole appearance of Maj. Lawrence are played by the actor Colin Lawrence, which could be the cause of the confusion)
    • Dr. Nimiziki: Died almost as soon as he joined the program, apparently; he was on call when Kawalsky reported to the infirmary with a bad headache shortly after the second mission to Abydos, and Kawalsky's immature symbiote killed Nimiziki to keep from being detected. (Children of the Gods)
    • Major Warren: With SG-2 on Abydos under Kawalsky's command; no indication of rank (but he never called Kawalsky "sir", so possibly was a major at that early date as well). (Children of the Gods) In command of SG-3 in Prisoners. Was one of the soldiers taken over by the aliens in Foothold. Went with Jack and at least one other soldier to Reese's planet to find clues to the disaster that wiped her people out. Discovered Replicator blocks. (The Menace) Very possibly was in command of SG-3 during a joint mission with SG-1 to Latona, where SG-3 chased Jaffa all over the place while SG-1 attempted to repair the planet's defense systems (team leader is listed in the credits as Major Lawrence, but that seems unlikely -- the actor, Colin Lawrence, has played Warren since Children of the Gods, and I believe "Major Lawrence"to be an accidental misnomer for Warren). (The Sentinel)
• Added to Non-SGC:
  • Military:
    • Pentagon:
      • Major Davis: (...) Sent to talk to a reporter, Julia Donovan, who had info about an SGC project -- Prometheus -- to get her to back off on the story. He wasn't remotely successful; all he did was find out that her source told her that it was some sort of fusion reactor being built in the desert. After her (NID) camera crew took over the ship, he took charge of the command center set up to deal with them (Jack shows up after a bit, but Davis still seems to be in charge, oddly). After that, he went to collect Simmons to bring him, per the hijackers's demands. (Prometheus)
      • Colonel Kennedy: (...) When Hammond told hijm in no uncertain terms that that wouldn't happen, and got up and left the briefing table, Kennedy (and his personal aide) utterly failed to stand up, as they should have done (and as every other military person in the room did). (The Enemy Within)
      • Colonel Simmons: (...)
        • Indirectly (I'm assuming, since he was in jail at the time) leaked information about an SGC-related project, Prometheus, to a reporter, Julia Donovan, from "Inside Access"(a tv news show), saying it was a fusion reactor being built in the desert. He even gave her a piece of trinium and told her what it was (more or less). After his planted team (working as Donovan's camera crew) hijacked the X-303, they demanded that both Simmons and "Adrian Conrad"be brought to them. Simmons clearly still had a source of information (as well as a way to contact former NID people); he knew who and what Jonas was. He'd made a deal with the Goa'uld inside Conrad -- Conrad's freedom in exchange for coordinates to an Ancient weapons-cache. Stealing the ship was his way of getting to the weapons. After he ordered the ship into hyperspace, Conrad rushed him. Simmons shot Conrad, killing the human host, but the symbiote escaped and fled into Simmons. From there, he attacked both Jack and Teal'c in a corridor, doing some damage to both. Jack opened the airlock and spaced him, killing both Simmons and symbiote. (Prometheus)
• Added to Jaffa:
  • Culture:
    • Chulak:
      • Homeworld for many of Apophis's Jaffa, including Bra'tac, Teal'c and his family, and Fro'tak.
      • The stargate (chaapa'ai) sits in the center of two snaky lines of standing stones, which actually look like the arms of a spiral galaxy from above. (Children of the Gods) After Teal'c's betrayal and the prison break, guards were set on the Stargate -- sometimes warriors, sometimes priests. (Bloodlines, Family, etc.)
      • There are Grecian elements to the society, possibly at the very highest levels. (Children of the Gods)
      • Eventually Chulak was largely abandoned by the Jaffa, after Apophis nearly destroyed it in his search for his Harsesis child (Shifu).
• Added to Goa'uld:
  • System Lords:
    • Ra: (...)
      • Surrounded himself with very young human attendants, both male and female. The boys were bald except for long scalplocks, and wore long loincloths and wide necklaces (in the case of the older boys, a chest harness of sorts in addition to the necklace); the girls had straight bangs and their hair cut straight at about chin level, and wore shifts of some sort. Ra dressed more formally than most System Lords, using a full mask and headdress, which seemed almost organic -- he could make it not only retract, but seemingly vanish into his own head. (Possibly, therefore, it was just illusion.) His Jaffa -- Horus guards, with fully mobile helmets but not wearing much in the way of body armor -- didn't have incubator pouches. Ra kept cats aboard his mothership. Infuriated by the presence of uppity strangers on Abydos (Jack, Daniel, et al, on the first mission), Ra attacked the local city, and planned to send the Mark 3 nuclear bomb that Jack had brought along (intending to stay behind to detonate it and save Earth from any threat through the stargate) back through the gate to Earth, enhanced with naquadah to make it a hundred times more powerful. Instead, he himself died when Jack and Daniel ringed the fully armed (with only seconds to go on the timer), enhanced bomb onto his mothership as it left Abydos orbit. (Stargate the movie)
  • Minor Goa'uld:
    • Adrian Conrad X: (Host name; Goau'uld name unknown -- grr.) One of Cronus's offspring, incubated in a Jaffa that was eventually captured by the Russians and then kidnapped by the NID. The symbiote was implanted into Adrian Conrad at his own request; he wanted it to heal him of a terminal disease, on the assumption that his scientists and doctors could then remove it, leaving him fully human and healthy. He intended to use Sam as a guinea pig in the experiments, even at the cost of killing her to study her brain. The Goa'uld had other ideas, and took him over completely, killing Conrad's girlfriend and escaping. Before he could get very far, Simmons found him and took him captive, offering to deal luxuries for information. (Desperate Measures) Simmons held him in a cage in an NID "safehouse" in North Dakota, where he questioned him. After Simmons overplayed his hand against the SGC and was arrested, the goa'ulded Conrad was passed into SGC custody. (48 Hours) An NID team that the imprisoned Simmons was controlling eventually hijacked the X-303, demanding both Simmons and Conrad as their price for not blowing the ship (and all of Nevada) up. After the ship entered hyperspace, Conrad attacked Simmons. The host was shot and killed, but the symbiote escaped into Simmons's body. From there, he attacked both Jack and Teal'c in a corridor, doing some damage to both. Jack opened the airlock and spaced him, killing both Simmons and symbiote. (Prometheus)
    • Minor Goa'uld killed directly by SG-1:
      • "Adrian Conrad"(Jack)
  • Biology:
    • Once a goa'uld has completely blended with a host, it has the ability to kill its host if it chooses. (The Enemy Within)
  • Language:
    • cha'hai: probably either "it's okay" or "relax"or "lower your weapons"-- Daniel follows it in English with "lower your weapons"(Children of the Gods)
    • chula a lazla: "are you here to choose", more or less. (asked by the Jaffa on Chulak who ran into Daniel on the path) (Children of the Gods)
    • lako harrah a lazla: probably "they have come to choose"(Spoken by the Jaffa who brought the team to the Chulak citadel, apparently in explanation of their presence to the celebrants around the table. See chula a lazla) (Children of the Gods)
    • leaa: probably "come here"or "gather 'round"(what Daniel said to the Abydonians to gather them around him so he could tell them he was leaving and they should rebury their gate) (Children of the Gods)
    • na-ney: no (Children of the Gods, others)
• Added to Elder Races:
  • Ascendants:
    • Known Ascendants:
      • "Adopted" Ascendants:
        • Shifu:
          • Shifu was originally human -- sort of. He was the harsesis child of two Goa'uld, Apophis and Amaunet. He contained all the genetic knowledge of both his Goa'uld parents, and was considered a dangerous abomination by the Goa'uld. Apophis wanted him to use as a host body when the child grew up enough. Sha're was in control during his birth, with Daniel in attendance. Daniel stole the child, and although Amaunet probably knew exactly what had happened, she didn't give him up to Apophis. (Secrets) Instead, she kidnapped the child several months later, and had him sent to Kheb, where she could hide him from Apophis for her own purposes. Oma Desala rescued him from the Jaffa he was with, and took him into her own care. She fled the planet with him to an undisclosed location. (Maternal Instinct) She used nanite technology to accelerate his growth -- in a year's time, he grew into about a 12-year-old boy. He was also clearly at least partially ascended; although he had a physical self, he was capable of turning into pure energy as well. After visiting with Daniel long enough to impart some wisdom about power and knowledge and evil, Shifu left again, to continue on his own path, presumably still being taught by Oma. Or not. (Absolute Power)
  • Asgard:
    • Planets under their protection:
      • The Asgard monitor all hyperspace activity near Earth, and are capable of tracking ships through hyperspace. (Prometheus)
    • Known Asgard:
      • Thor:
        • Safely in his new (identical) body, he traced the X-303 after it left Earth's orbit so he could request Jack's help against the Replicators -- which have overrun the Asgard homeworld. (Prometheus)
• Added to Miscellaneous Races:
  • Abydonians:
• 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)
• Known Abydonians:
  • Sha're: (...)
    • 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)
• Added to Miscellaneous:
  • Reorganized page slightly to make the layout more consistent with the rest of the site.
  • Added two new "nicknames" sections:
    • Daniel calls Jack "Colonel"
      • Children of the Gods (kneeling by an injured Abydonian)
    • Daniel calls Sam "Captain-Doctor":
      • Children of the Gods (when addressing her in the cartouche chamber)
  • Added new section: Movie inconsistencies. (NB: This isn't exhaustive; it's just stuff that struck me as I happened to watch the movie again. Movie info that doesn't contradict the series has been worked into the main portion of the site, in appropriate areas. If I missed anything, as always, I'm happy to hear about it.)

  • Movie															Series
    Jack's full name was Jonathan O'Neil.															Jack's full name is John O'Neill.
    Jack's son's name was Tyler.															Jack's son's name was Charlie.
    Kawalsky was a lieutenant.															Kawalsky was a major.
    Ferretti was a lieutenant.															Ferretti was a major.
    The stargate was located in a converted nuclear missile silo at Creek Mountain, Colorado.															The stargate is located underneath NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.
    The stargate went to a planet in the Kaliam (sp. from subtitles) galaxy to reach Abydos.															Abydos is a nearby planet, close enough that stellar drift hasn't affected its address yet. To reach another galaxy with the stargate requires massive amounts of energy and an eighth chevron.
    Daniel's wife's name was Sha'uri															Daniel's wife's name was Sha're

September 8, 2002

• Fixed several links and some typos.
• Broke the SGC page out into two pages: SGC, and SGC Personnel
• Updated Episodes, Writers, and Directors pages through Cure
• Updated Arcs page through Cure
• Added to Main Characters:
  • Apophis:
    • General info:
      • Also Ra's brother. (Cure)
    • Detailed Info:
      • Career:
        • About 300 years ago, defeated the System Lord Shak'ran. (Cure)
• Added to Goa'uld:
  • System Lords:
    • Ra: (...) Brother to Apophis. He was thought to have killed Egeria in Rome, but apparently not. At one point, he lived on Pangara, and brought Egeria there, sealed in stasis in a canopic jar, as his prisoner. He lost the world (and Egeria) to Shak'ran, who took over and moved in, building his own temple on top of Ra's and burying Egeria, presumably unknowingly. (Cure)
    • Shak'ran X: Warlord who was eventually defeated (and killed) by Apophis, about 300 years ago. Before his defeat, he used the world Pangar as his homeworld. He very likely won the world from Ra in battle -- he moved in and built himself a temple on top of the temple Ra already had there. (Cure)
  • Biology:
    • Queens:
      • Rare.
      • Able to fertilize their own eggs, in what is largely an asexual process. (Cure)
      • Voluntarily (rather than automatically) pass on genetic knowledge to their offspring. (Cure)
    • Birth, maturation, and implantation: (...)
    • The queen passes on her genetic knowlege voluntarily to her offspring. (Cure)
    • The fully developed personality emerges either before or during the goa'uld'ing of a host, allowing the symbiote to take full control immediately upon blending. (Cure)
    • Prior to the use of Jaffa as incubators, a Goa'uld's odds of successfully blending with a host were just one in two (50%). (Cure)
    • A failed blending results in death to both Goa'uld and host. (Cure)
• Added to Jaffa:
  • Biology:
• Originally created specifically to help the Goa'uld blend successfully with human hosts, improving their odds from the original 50% to what appears to be effectively 100%. (Cure)
• Added to Tok'ra:
  • Known Tok'ra:
    • 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!), 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)
    • 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)
    • Malek: (...) 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's 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)
• Added to Miscellaneous Races:
  • Pangarans:
    • 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 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)

September 1, 2002

• Added to Tau'ri, Non-SGC, Military, General Ryan: (... General Ryan was in fact the actual Air Force Chief of Staff, from October 1997 through September 2001, and was chief of staff during the filming of the episode.)
• Updated Episodes, Writers, and Directors pages through Allegiance
• Updated Arcs page through Allegiance
• Added to Main Characters:
  • Jack, General info:
    • Can't forgive Kanan for using him, regardless of Kanan's reasons for effectively stealing Jack's body then abandoning him to Baal. (Allegiance)
  • Jack, Detailed breakdown:
    • Misc.:
      • Doesn't forgive easily: can't forgive himself for Charlie's death (Children of the Gods); never forgave Frank Cromwell for leaving him behind in Iraq (A Matter of Time); can't forgive Kanan for using his body without his consent, regardless of Kanan's motivation (Allegiance).
  • Teal'c, General info:
    • After defeating K'tano (Imhotep) in the rite of joma secu, Teal'c by default became the leader of that part of the Jaffa rebellion. (The Warrior)
  • Teal'c, Detailed breakdown:
    • Career:
      • leader of the Cal Mah-based rebel Jaffa:
        • Clearly is indeed in a position of authority among the rebel Jaffa who left Cal Mah: he interferes several times when a Jaffa gets riled by a Tok'ra on the SGC's alpha site, and the Jaffa backs off without demur. (Allegiance)
          • During an emotional showdown between the Tok'ra and the Jaffa after two murders (a line of Jaffa holding weapons on a line of Tok'ra who were holding weapons on them in turn), Teal'c clearly allied himself with the Jaffa rather than stepping back -- he held a zat on the Tok'ra leader. He backed off when Jack called him aside, but didn't tell the Jaffa to lower their weapons. (In the same situation on the other side, Jacob did not pull his weapon on the Jaffa.) (Allegiance)
    • Misc.:
      • His loyalty to and feelings toward Bra'tac have never wavered; he narly throttled the Tok'ra leader Malek after Malek reported (erroneously) that Bra'tac had died -- and Malek hadn't done anything to save him. (Allegiance)
  • Jonas, Detailed breakdown:
    • Career:
      • Has been assigned to another unit temporarily at least once: was with SG-2 to help gather artifacts from P36 231 while the rest of SG-1 was at the alpha site dealing with the fallout from Anubis's attack on the Tok'ra base in the Risa system, and the refugees from that. (Allegiance)
• Added to SGC:
  • new section: Alpha site
    • Set up in 1997. (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
    • A planet that's held in reserve as a colony in the event of a catastrophic event or attack on Earth, meant to save the best and brightest of humanity (which translates into the best and brightest of US citizens who happen to have high clearances, and damned if I ever spotted anyone who looked remotely like a farmer in the group). (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
    • Chosen because the address is unknown to the Goa'uld. (Allegiance)
    • Has an infirmary. (Allegiance)
    • Has at least one holding cell, complete with bars. (Why? Bizarre thing to build into an emergency, let's save the entire human race facility that's designed to hold only hand-picked people.) (Allegiance)
    • Was put into use as a place for the rebel Jaffa army to stay, after Cal Mah was destroyed by Yu. (Allegiance)
    • Jacob knows the address, but no other Tok'ra does. (Allegiance)
  • SG units:
    • General info:
      • Uniforms:
        • No personally identifying marks or insignia on uniforms worn offworld by team members -- no rank, no names, nothing. Non-team military personnel who go offworld under safe conditions (e.g., to the alpha site) have standard identifying marks on their uniforms.
        • Each team member wears an SGC patch (not the SGC logo, but the Earth glyph, identifying them to anyone who can read it as Tau'ri) on the left sleeve and an SG unit patch on the right sleeve, at equal heights. (Links go to pictures on the rdanderson.com site.)
        • As of 2002 (Descent), SG-1 began wearing an additional patch, the Air Force patch, on their right sleeves (white on black), below the SG-1 patch. (Link goes to an AF site.) No other units were wearing military-branch patches.
    • SG-1:
      • (...)As of 2002, the team started wearing military branch patches (an AF patch -- the white on black one) below their SG unit patches (Descent) (NB: They clearly weren't wearing the AF patches in Redemption.)
    • SG-2:
    • (...)After a mission, they returned to the SGC, with Jonas, at just the wrong moment, preventing the fleeing Tok'ra from dialing Earth and forcing them to head for the alpha site. (Allegiance)
    • SG-12:
    • Wiped out in the first wave of a Goa'uld attack on the Tok'ra base in the Risa system. (2002) (Allegiance)
    • Wiped-out teams:
    • SG-12: 2002, Allegiance
  • Personnel:
    • Fraiser:
      • Gets offworld to the alpha site to help with the Tok'ra and Tau'ri wounded from Anubis's attack on the Tok'ra base in the Risa system. (Allegiance)
      • Functions as a medical examiner in a pinch; did the autopsy on Ocker to see who or what killed him. (Allegiance)
    • Captain Grier: On the alpha site when it was full of Jaffa and Tok'ra (not sure if he was part of the mission to rescue the Tok'ra from their base in the Risa system or not). He was killed by the ashrak along with the unknown Jaffa and Tok'ra he was teamed with to hunt the ashrak down. (Allegiance)
    • Pierce: (...) Later, still in command of SG-15. Part of the team helping the Tok'ra escape from Anubis's attack on their base in the Risa system. He came through it with just a few scrapes, to the SGC's alpha site. Put in charge of protecting the stargate against all comers when it becomes clear that there's a saboteur/assassin loose on the alpha site. When everyone headed off into the woods to look for the saboteur, in trios, he was assigned to Teal'c and an unknown Tok'ra. Later, he lost his GDO to the invisible ashrak in a scuffle around the stargate (recovered when the ashrak was killed). (Allegiance)
  • Technology:
    • Naquadah:
      • Portable naquadah reactor:
        • If it overloads and explodes, it would destroy an area several miles in circumference. (Allegiance)
        • If its output is modified to generate a high-energy EM field, in the range of 400-700 nanometers, it can be used as a sort of TER, to locate phase-shifted beings previously invisible, by exciting the phased particles enough to bring them into the visible light spectrum. (Allegiance)
• Added to Goa'uld:
  • Culture:
    • Use an ashrak to hunt down or take out enemies. Ashraks are immensely powerful goa'uld assassins. (Not sure where they stand in the overall ranking hierarchy.) Cronus sent one after Jolinar, killing her and nearly killing Sam in the process (In the Line of Duty, Fair Game) Anubis (probably) sent one using invisibility technology to infiltrate the Tok'ra base in the Risa system, opening them up to invasion and near destruction, and then following the few survivors through to the SGC's alpha site and sowing a lot of mistrust and anger (by killing first a Tok'ra, then a Jaffa) before everyone realized it was an outsider and hunted him down in turn. One ashrak alone killed all the Jaffa in the naquadah mines of Kawawn. (Allegiance)
  • System Lords:
    • Anubis:
      • Didn't let up in his attack against the Tok'ra; tracked them to the Risa system and attacked, doing massive damage to Tok'ra numbers and killing all of SG-12 in the process. (Allegiance)
  • Biology:
  • Symbiosis with human hosts:
    • Despite evidence that the Goa'uld symbiote molts its larger form (Enemy Within, possibly Tok'ra as well [Selmak was very small, looking like an immature symbiote, when he shifted from Saroosh to Jacob]), it appears that symbiotes remain relatively large and settle in at the base of the brain and down the spinal cord. The head and "upper"body are inside the cranium. (Allegiance)
  • Language:
    • Arik tree-ac te kek: (We do not surrender, even in death) (spoken at a Tok'ra funeral) (Allegiance)
    • Tak mal arik tiak (You will not be forgotten) (spoken at a Tok'ra funeral) (Allegiance)
• Added to Jaffa:
  • Rebellion:
    • The first big push to forming a rebel Jaffa army was started by K'tano, who intended to subvert it to his own ends. He set up shop on a world he called Cal Mah ("sanctuary"), gathering Jaffa from many Goa'uld, including at least six System Lords. When Teal'c killed him and exposed him as the Goa'uld Imhotep in the rite of joma secu, Teal'c by default gained leadership of the army. (The Warrior)
  • Warrior culture:
    • Jaffa don't take vengeance from behind -- they kill face to face. (Allegiance)
  • Known Jaffa:
    • Artok: Rebel Jaffa, probably one of Heru'ur's (had a Horus symbol on his forehead). He was part of Imhotep's army, and moved to the SGC's alpha site when Cal Mah was wiped out. He didn't like or trust the Tok'ra, and got into arguments with them after the Tok'ra were forced to take shelter at the alpha site as well. After being (wrongfully) accused of killing Ocker, the Tok'ra chief of security, Artok was killed by an ashrak while confined in an SGC holding cell on the alpha site. (Allegiance)
    • Bra'tac:
      • Has a lot of influence just in his very presence -- he talked down Artok from refusing to be held captive simply by looking at him. He broke the tension of an armed standoff between twin lines of Jaffa and Tok'ra by finding the footprints of whatever person had killed Artok, and admitting freely that they could have been either Jaffa or Tok'ra. In the search for the saboteur/assassin, he was paired with Jack and Malek. (Allegiance)
      • Best fighter ever -- he sensed the ashrak's presence and put up a good fight, even though he couldn't see him. Knocked Malek out of the way to safety first. Lost the fight and was dragged off and left to die, but is too tough for that, and managed to stagger back to the alpha site in time to save everyone by killing the ashrak. (Allegiance)
    • Raknor: (...) After Cal Mah was wiped out, he took refuge on the SGC's alpha site along with rest of K'tano/Imhotep's Jaffa army. Nearly co-instigated a bloodbath; when he pushed the point of Artok having been killed by grabbing the Tok'ra leader, Malek's, arm, getting himself thrown off in the process, twin lines of Jaffa and Tok'ra pulled weapons on each other, clearly prepared to use them. Jack appeared to be the voice of reason a moment later. When everyone teamed up in tri-racial trios afterward to hunt the saboteur/assassin, Raknor went out with Sam and Jacob. (Allegiance)
• Added to Tok'ra:
  • Culture:
    • One of their highest laws prohibits symbiotes from using their hosts. (Allegiance)
    • Don't trust even rebel Jaffa, as a rule. (Allegiance)
    • Bases:
      • 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)
  • Known Tok'ra:
    • Jacob:
      • (Getting steadily more Tok'ra'ish): (...) Clearly self-identifies as part of the Tok'ra rather than one of the Tau'ri when discussing the Tok'ra with Jack in Allegiance.
      • 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's 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
  • Technology:
    • Zatarc-detecting device:
      • Can also function purely as a regular lie (or deception) detector. (Allegiance)

August 14, 2002

• Fixed some typos
• Changed in Daniel, Detailed breakdown:
  • Career:
    • Old: (...) He hasn't published a paper since early 1998 at best (Crystal Skull [spring 2000] -- Nick says he hasn't published in two years).
    • New: (...) He hasn't published a paper since late 1997 at best (Crystal Skull -- Nick says he hasn't published in two years).
    • NB on the change: the original didn't match my season-timing method.

August 4, 2002

• Fixed some typos and links
• Updated Episodes, Writers, and Directors pages through The Other Guys
• Updated Arcs page through Abyss
• Added note to the site's homepage:
  • The Other Guys: Since my take on the episode is that the entire thing barring the very last minute in the lab was a MarySue fantasy on the part of Felger, I can't include anything beyond the two scientists's names.
• Added to Main Characters:
  • Jack, general info:
    • He missed at least one mission as a result [of being blended with the Tok'ra Kanan], as he remained among the Tok'ra waiting for a new host to be found. (Nightwalkers)
    • Was told by Daniel that he had the ability to ascend to a higher plane of existence, if he chose. (Abyss)
    • After spending time with Daniel during Abyss, he began basically putting forth Daniel's arguments about not giving military help to other worlds without being absolutely sure about how it was going to be used. (Shadowplay)
  • Jack, detailed breakdown:
    • Confirmed deaths:

      • Staff-shot to the back, revived by sarcophagus (NB: this is not strictly confirmed, but is an educated guess that I feel strongly enough about to list; the servant who opened the sarcophagus announced "the host lives, my lord", rather than "the host is recovered"or some such, so I'm assuming Jack was dead before he was put in there) (Abyss)

      • Tortured to death* by Baal (knives, and presumably dropped down a gravity shaft); revived by sarcophagus. (Abyss)

      • Tortured to death* by Baal (tal'vak acid, then dropped down a gravity shaft). Revived by sarcophagus. (Abyss)

      • Tortured to death* by Baal (mix of knives and acid, apparently, and presumably dropped down a gravity shaft); revived by sarcophagus. (Abyss) -- tortured to death by Baal (again, probably a mix of knives and acid, and presumably dropped down a gravity shaft); revived by sarcophagus. (Abyss)

      • (*NB on Baal's torture sessions: we never see Jack die, or dead, but it seems unlikely that Baal isn't killing him each time, since he speaks of repeatedly killing Jack, Daniel speaks of him repeatedly killing Jack, and Jack mentions having come back from the dead after one of the sessions.)
    • Misc.:
      • He's been in a sarcophagus at least five times: once in Hathor to heal/lose his symbiote pouch, and at least four times in Abyss to be revived after being shot and repeatedly tortured to death by Baal. It's possible he was killed and revived more often at Baal's hands, and we simply didn't see it happening.
  • Daniel, general info:
    • Returned (in ascended form) to make sure Jack wasn't alone while he was being repeatedly tortured to death by Baal. (Abyss)
      • He's technically not allowed to interfere, but wiggled around the rules a bit both to see Jack (claiming that he wasn't interfering, he was consoling a friend) and to give Teal'c an unobtrusive nudge in the right direction to rescue Jack (not explicit in canon, but very strongly implied by the timing of events). (Abyss)
      • He offered to help Jack ascend, as the only way he could keep Baal from destroying him (through repeated torture and trips to the sarcophagus). (Abyss)
  • Sam, detailed breakdown:
    • Housing: (...) Has a corded phone next to her bed. (Nightwalkers)
    • Misc.:
      • Leaves lights on in the house when she's asleep - living room and a back room of some sort -- but sleeps in a dark bedroom. (Nightwalkers)

      • Owns a pair of black leather pants. (Nightwalkers)

      • Seemed to enjoy slapping Jonas hard across the face. (Nightwalkers)

  • Teal'c, detailed breakdown:
    • Food preferences: Ginger ale. (Nightwalkers)
    • Misc.:
      • Owns a long black leather coat. (Nightwalkers)
      • Intends to return to Chulak with Rya'c when his time with SG-1 is over. (Nightwalkers)
      • Eventually added a sunburst figure to his kelno'reem candles. (Abyss)
  • Jonas, detailed breakdown:
    • Misc.:
      • On a world where none of them were carrying zats, he carried an intar, rather than a full working pistol. (Shadowplay)
      • Keeps fish in his office. (Shadowplay)
      • Wears a ring on his right hand, middle finger. (Shadowplay)
• Added to SGC:
  • History:
    • Acquired a substantial supply of naquadria when SG-1 took a stolen cache from Kelowna. (Shadowplay)
  • Units:
    • SG-1 is captured, confined, or imprisoned:
      • Nightwalkers (Teal'c and Jonas nabbed by NID; later nabbed by Goa'uld; Sam taken by Goa'uld and implanted with symbiote.)
      • Abyss (Jack, captured and tortured (repeatedly) by Baal)
  • Personnel:
    • Simon Coombs: Scientist attached to the SGC. (The Other Guys)
    • Jay Felger: Scientist attached to the SGC. Hero-worships Jack and SG-1. (The Other Guys)
    • Hammond: (...)
      • Willing to risk the SGC's relationship with the Tok'ra -- which admittedly had been less than stellar at that point -- to get information about what happened to Jack after the Tok'ra Kanan had blended with him. Later, he was equally indifferent to Councilor Thoran's threat to break off diplomatic relations at the SGC's idea of using a Goa'uld -- Yu -- to rescue Jack, pointing out that the Tok'ra need Earth a lot more than Earth needs the Tok'ra. (Abyss)
  • Technology:
    • Goa'uld:
      • One half-finished Goa'uld ship (unknown type), built by a bunch of cloned symbiotes as a way to escape Earth. (Nightwalkers)
    • Other
• Added to Non-SGC:
  • Alliances:
    • Alliance with Tok'ra: (...) Article 9 allows the SGC to request (and be given) Tok'ra mission reports -- and presumably vice-versa. (Abyss)
  • NID:
    • The NID was running an authorized mission (headed by Agent Cross & Agent Singer) to take advantage of the fact that a subsidiary (Immunitech Research) of Adrian Conrad's old company (Zetatron Industries) was continuing his research, and had clones many Goa'uld symbiotes from the one implanted in Conrad. They were waiting for the immature symbiotes -- who had implanted themselves in the locals -- to finish building a spaceship. They planned to take control of the ship, and as for the townspeople, they had "ways of dealing with that situation"-- not clear if Agent Cross meant the vaccine, or just that they would kill the locals. Cross was very happy to point out that when their plan was fulfilled, the NID would have succeeded where the SGC had failed for five years. (Nightwalkers)
      • They had a containment team on standby for emergencies, capable of having the town locked down and quarantined within 45 minutes. (Nightwalkers)
        • "Code six"triggered the containment team. (Nightwalkers)
• Added to Tok'ra:
  • Culture:
    • Requests for mission reports are supposed to be made in person to the council, not called in. But exceptions can be made. (Abyss)
  • Known Tok'ra:
    • Kanan: (...) 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)
    • Shallan: Not actually a Tok'ra, but a human who chose to stay with them. She had been Baal's lo'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)
    • Thoran: (...) 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)
• Added to Elder Races, Ascendants, Culture:
  • Despite their godlike abilities, they're not all-knowing, according to Daniel. (Abyss)
• "Adopted"Ascendants, Daniel Jackson:
  • (...) He seems to be keeping an eye on things back at the SGC after his ascension, or at least on Jack; he knew what was going on with him, and knew where to find him when Jack was being tortured by Baal. Despite technically not being allowed to interfere, Daniel went to Jack to keep him company, and while he wouldn't help Jack escape, he did offer to help him ascend. When Jack refused, it's highly likely (given the timing of events) that Daniel went back to the SGC long enough to nudge Teal'c in the right direction to mount a rescue. (Abyss)
• Added to Goa'uld:
  • System Lords:
    • Baal: (...)
      • Had a male lo'taur at the summit meeting with the other System Lords (possibly his traveling lo'taur?) (Summit/Last Stand).
      • Had a secret outpost where he was experimenting with weapons technology and gravity-field generators, with great success.
        • His lo'taur at this outpost was a femaled, Shallan.
        • He captured Jack after Jack's Tok'ra symbiote, Kanan, brought them to the stronghold. Jack was held in a gravity cell (a room off a corridor when the gravity was normal; a deep pit when it was shifted) between torture sessions; the torture itself took place over a high-gravity shaft that held Jack in place for Baal.
        • Baal himself repeatedly tortured Jack to death to gain information about the symbiote's mission, breaking him slowly but steadily. After at least one session, Jack was dropped down the gravity shaft, presumably to his death, to be revived in the sarcophagus. (Abyss)
      • Yu: (...)
        • Given the plans to Baal's secret gravity-field experimentation outpost by the SGC (although presumably Yu didn't know that that's where it came from), and did as the SGC had hoped: attacked the outpost, giving Jack a chance to escape, by attacking the power generators first. (Abyss)
  • Biology:
    • There was no naquadah in the systems of the group of symbiotes cloned from the Goa'uld that was implanted in Adrian Conrad. Either the cloning/genetic engineering was sophisticated enough to remove the naquadah, or Goa'uld are somehow given naquadah after they're spawned, rather than having it as a now-natural part of their makeup. (Nightwalkers)
    • new sub-section: Birth, maturation, and implantation (new stuff):
      • Larvae are spawned in liquid (Hathor) and spend their very early lives in tanks of liquid (Bloodlines) but are implanted in Jaffa pouches as soon as they're old enough (multiple eps).
      • Implanted larvae mature completely in 8-9 years; Teal'c is given an extremely young larva in 1997 (Bloodlines) and in 2001 Hammond mentions that it will be mature in four to five years (Threshold). In 2001, halfway through this maturation process, Teal'c's larva has developed small wings and darker skin, probably the equivalent of early adolescence. (Threshold)
      • Once fully matured out of its larval stage, a symbiote can't stay in a Jaffa pouch -- it causes the Jaffa great pain and would eventually kill it. It also seems to instinctively want to leave in search of a host. (Crossroads)
      • Immature larvae can apparently take a host if there are no Jaffa around. A very immature group of symbiote clones (that looked too young to be implanted in Jaffa, never mind a host) nearly succeeded in taking over the NID and SGC,, and presumably from there all of Earth. (The were defeated by a compound that killed them inside their hosts -- they'd been genetically engineered to be susceptible to it as part of their cloning.) (Nightwalkers)
      • There is at least one race out there that the Goa'uld can't use as hosts -- Aris Boch's race. (Deadman Switch)
    • A mature symbiote can take control of its host's body, but it doesn't work the other way around. (Abyss)
  • Technology:
    • Weapons:
      • Tal'vak acid: a small globule is sufficient to slowly burn all the way through a human body. It cauterizes the wound as it goes, but small amounts often get into the bloodstream anyway, and begin to spread. Torture weapon. A counteragent is also available, which neutralizes the acid and numbs the pain. (Abyss)
• Added to Misc. Races, Kelownans:
  • (canon glitch: in Shadowplay, the planetary designation is P2S 4C3 [in Meridian, it was listed as P3X 4C3]) (Shadowplay)
  • 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)
  • Kelownan stargate:
    • 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)
  • 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's 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 Tomas Leed: (...) 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: (...) 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) (...)
    • 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's 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's 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)

July 17, 2002

• Updated Episodes, Writers, and Directors pages through Frozen
• Updated Arcs page through Frozen
• Added to Universe, Timeline:
  • 8,000 BC (...) : According to the movie and early episodes, this is when the Tau'ri threw off their oppressors, throwing the Goa'uld off the planet. This is later utterly (and ridiculously, IMO) contradicted, with the assumption that the Goa'uld were on Earth until around the beginning of the Common Era. (We have extensive written records for that period in the areas where the Goa'uld appear to have been concentrated, and there's no way that all those chroniclers would have missed such a massive event.)
• Added to Main Characters, Jack:
  • General info/background/highlights:
    • Became a Tok'ra, at least temporarily, after he was an inch away from dying of a fatal disease. He still wouldn't have done it, except Sam convinced him the Tok'ra needed the knowledge of the symbiote they were hoping to implant in Jack. (Frozen)
  • Detailed breakdown:
    • Posessions/controlled:
      • Blended with the Tok'ra symbiote Kanan in Frozen
    • Near-deaths:
      • Nearly drowned on Anubis's mothership (Descent)
      • Deathly ill from the contagion Ayiana was carrying, which eventually acted like cerebral spinal meningitis, attacking the brain. Saved by being sent wtih the Tok'ra to be blended with a symbiote, Kanan. (Frozen)
    • Misc.:
      • pop culture: (...) When he's in the Antarctic on a mission, he's annoyed with himself for forgetting to set the tape for The Simpsons. (Frozen) (...)
    • Bad knees/back: Descent ("knee gets a little stiff in cold water")
    • Tech he's lost out on:
      • Cronus's mothership (Enemies) -- in his possession before it was destroyed
      • Tollan ion cannon(s) (Between Two Fires)
      • Anubis's mothership (Descent) -- in his possession before it was destroyed
    • Skills and abilities:
      • Can pilot a glider (a real glider, not a converted one) (Descent)
• Added to Main Characters, Sam:
  • Detailed breakdowns:
    • Near-deaths:
      • Nearly drowned on Anubis's mothership (Descent)
• Added to Main Characters, Teal'c:
  • Detailed breakdowns:
    • Brings candles with him to the Antarctic to help him with kelno'reem. (Frozen)
• Added to Main Characters: Jonas
  • General info/background/highlights:
    • Originally a Kelownan. After standing by and watching Daniel risk his life to save Jonas's people, and later refusing to refute his government's official story that Daniel had been sabotaging an experiment when he was fatally irradiated, Jonas finally decided to steal some naquadria and headed for Earth and the SGC to seek asylum. In the process, he admitted that Daniel had been a hero, not a saboteur. (Meridian)
    • After three months on Earth, he began suggesting that he should join SG-1 as Daniel's replacement. (Redemption, part 1)
    • He was brought onto SG-1 at Jack's request, after the program was nearly scuttled by an attack from Anubis that resulted in the destruction of one of the Earth's stargates. Jonas had made some comments that Sam took and ran with, coming up with the idea to boost the stargate off the planet to avoid being destroyed when it exploded. He was also the only choice other than a Russian soldier. (Redemption, part 2)
  • Detailed breakdown:
    • Education: Several degrees from the Kelownans's most honored education institution: social studies, ancient Kelonan history, and others. (Meridian)
    • Housing: On the base. (Redemption, part 1)
    • Career:
      • On Kelowna, he was a Special Advisor to the High Minister (who was the equivalent of a president or prime minister). (Meridian)
      • Joined SG-1 after three months on Earth, after Daniel's more-or-less death saving Jonas's planet during Meridian left a vacancy open. (Redemption, part 1)
      • First mission: continuity problem. Ostensibly, his first mission was when the whole team walked through the gate at the end of Redemption part 2. Teal'c later says that the mission to Anubis's supposedly empty ship in Earth orbit is his first mission (Descent).
        • It's possible that at the end of Redemption pt 2 the team was heading off to meet up with Jacob, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense -- it would probably be easier to have Jacob meet them on Earth, and in any event there didn't seem to be any urgency about them at the end of Redemption pt. 2, which there would have been had they known a Goa'uld mothership was hanging in orbit. (Descent)
    • Languages: English, Cherokee (why or how he learned Native American languages in his first few months on Earth is completely beyond me) (Frozen)
    • Severe emotional trauma: Presumably, betraying and abandoning his entire world to join the SGC. (Meridian). But if so, he doesn't show it. (Meridian, Redemption pts. 1&2, Descent, Frozen)
    • Hobbies: Watching the Weather Channel (Redemption, pt 1; Frozen)
    • Misc.: Carries a zat, not a pistol. (Descent)
• Added to SGC:
  • History
    • Timeline:
      • 0001 (or thereabouts): The stargate at Giza is buried. (Frozen) (This is beyond absurd. We have extensive written records from the period, and people would have jotted down a note or two about hordes of godlike alien enslavers being thrown off the planet en masse by a widespread uprising of the downtrodden. Really.)
• Research station in the Antarctic (White Rock Research Station), established after the second gate was found. The Pentagon re-evaluates their presence every year. (Frozen)
  • Headed by Dr. Michaels, and included Drs. Woods and Osbourne. (Frozen)
  • Facility housed a research lab, observation room, and quarantine room, along with quarters (bunkbeds), a rec room, and storage rooms. (Frozen)
  • The team dug up the two Jaffa stuck in the ice when they arrived. In four years of looking after that, they found nothing until finally discovering "Ayiana"-- a (very) humanoid female who was effectively in cryogenic stasis for several million years. (Frozen)
• Earth's stargates, general info:
  • At various times, the stargate being used by the SGC was the Giza or Antarctic gate. See timeline for details.
  • Antarctic DHD: worked a few times after they dug it out, then just died and never worked again. (Frozen)
  • Antarctic gate: possibly the oldest gate in the entire system, as much as 50 million years old. (Unfortunately, it's also been destroyed. See timeline.) (Frozen)
  • Daniel apparently theorized that after the Giza gate was buried (timeline glitch: "roughly 2,000 years ago", which makes no sense, given the extensive written records we have from that time), the Goa'uld managed to open the buried Antarctic gate, because it was in a crevasse, which the wormhole made larger. (Frozen)
• Personnel:
  • Fraiser: (...) Was extremely ill with the disease that Ayiana was carrying; healed by Ayiana. (Frozen)
  • Friesen X: Scientist attached to the SGC. Died on a mission to find out why Anubis's apparently empty ship had entered Earth orbit, killed by Jaffa. (Descent)
• Added to Non-SGC, Pentagon:
  • Major Davis: (...) Makes it offworld to help figure out what Anubis's empty ship is doing in Earth orbit. (Descent)
• Added to Tok'ra, Known Tok'ra:
  • Jacob: Had to stand there and know that he couldn't do anything to keep Sam from drowning. (Descent)
  • Kanan: 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)
  • 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)
• Added to Goa'uld, Technology:
  • Hatak (mothership): (...)
    • Self-destruct: the only way to stop it is with a command override, which erases the sequence (rather than suspending it). (Descent)
    • Security measure: if there's a hull breach (or presumably a gas leak, etc.), all doors around the breach close and seal automatically. (Descent)
    • Escape pods are jettisoned through pressurized tubes (Descent)
  • Teltac (cargo ship): (...)
    • Cargo-ship sensors can't pick up lifesigns of a Jaffa in a deep state of kelno'reem (to a point where the heart beats only once or twice a minute). (Descent)
• Added to Elder Races, Asgard:
  • Thor:
    • After he was captured by Anubis and hooked up to Anubis's ship's computer, Thor let his consciousness take up residence in the computer. He basically took over the ship, and halted the self-destruct that Anubis started in order to destroy him, then aimed the ship for Earth. After Sam figured that out, she put his consciousness into a single small bank of crystals and removed it, to bring it to the Asgard to be downloaded into a new clone body. (Descent)
• Added to Misc. Races:
  • Ayiana's race:
    • 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)
    • Ayiana:
      • Her EEG matched those of Jack under the influence of the Ancients's 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)
• Added to Miscellaneous Info, Nicknames/diminutives:
  • Teal'c calls Daniel "Daniel":
    • The First Commandment (pointing out a flaw in Daniel's plan to undermine Jonas Hanson's power among the natives)

June 17, 2002

• Fixed some typos and links
• Updated Episodes, Writers, and Directors pages through Redemption, part 2
• Updated Arcs page through Redemption, part 2
• Added to Main Characters, Jack, Career:
  • Assigned to fly the X-302, carrying the active stargate, into space to launch the stargate through a hyperspace window before it could blow up on Earth. Codename Starflight. (Redemption, part 2)
  • When the program is shut down after the attack, Jack decides to retire and take up fishing rather than ask for re-assignment (he was offered any assignment he wanted). Only the prompt re-instatement of the program kept him on active duty. (Redemption, part 2)
• Added to Main Characters, Teal'c, Food preferences:
  • Fruit. Lots of fruit. (Redemption, part 1)
• Added to Universe:
  • Physical structure:
    • According to the universal language created by the four members of the ancient alliance, there are 146 elements. (Torment of Tantalus)
      • Trinium: Brittle in its raw state, it can be refined into a material 100 times lighter and stronger than steel. (Spirits) The SGC used trinium to reinforce the titanium iris over its stargate after the original iris was sucked into a black hole. (A Matter of Time)
      • Naquadah: An element not naturally occurring in our solar system (Failsafe), but common enough elsewhere to form the basis of a great deal fo Goa'uld technology, and eventually part of the biological Goa'uld makeup (The First Ones). It was the element the Ancients's used to make the stargates out of.
      • Naquadria: Mineral substance with highly unstable radioactive properties, with the potential for great bursts of energy. Even a tiny amount of the mineral emits an energy pulse greater than anything else, including weapons-grade naquadah. This could be the missing link to discovering how to create and maintain a hyperspace window, or to generate the sorts of shields used by Goa'uld motherships. Discovered by the Kelownans. (Meridian) Its nstability increases exponentially as more energy is extracted from it. (Redemption, part 1)
• Added to Universe, Stargates, Physical structure:
  • Weigh 64,000 pounds. (Redemption, part 2)
  • If a stargate's energy-absorption capacity is exceeded, the naquadah the gate is made of could become charged and explode, in a tremendous blast: 2,000-3,000 megatons, with environmental effects that could wipe out all life on a planet. (Redemption, part 1)
• Added to Universe, Stargates, Wormholes:
  • To keep a wormhole open, you have to send something through, even if it's just a radio wave. (Redemption, part 1)
  • Ordinarily, a wormhole will close within a short period if nothing enters it. (Redemption, part 1)
• Added to SGC, History:
  • Timeline: Not a series summary as such; more a tracking of major events that have affected the program itself, and a way to keep track of which gate is where, when. I consider each season to be a calendar year. (See the note on the front page for details on timing.)
    • 1928: Dr. Langford discovers a stargate at a dig at Giza. (1969)
    • 1945: President Theodore Roosevelt orders tests done on the stargate to see if it could be used as a weapon. The experiments are headed by Professor Langford, Catherine's father. In January of that year, according to declassified documents from the Archives of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gate activation occurred when Dr. Ernest Littlefield went through the gate to a destination later designated as P3X-972. After Ernest vanishes through the wormhole, the program is shut down. The gate is crated and sent to an armory, where the military could deny its existence. (Torment of Tantalus)
    • Late 1940s (post-WWII): Russian military takes a DHD away from the Germans, who had found it at Giza. They study it even without a gate to attach it to. (Watergate)
    • 1969: Time-travelling SG-1 hooks the gate up to a bunch of truck engines and creates a wormhole to send them back to their own time. (1969)
    • 1992 or 1993: After years of trying, Catherine Langford finally succeeds in petitioning the administration to reopen the project. The Stargate Project officially starts up as a secret project under Pentagon control, as they try to unlock the gate's secrets, under the command of General West. Some research is being done at Cheyenne Mountain with the gate itself, other research is being done at the Pentagon. Captain Samantha Carter is part of the Pentagon team. (Children of the Gods)
    • 1995: With the help of Dr. Daniel Jackson, the gate is opened and a team is sent through to Abydos. After most of the survivors return home and declare the other end of the wormhole destroyed, the gate is covered with a tarp and the program is largely scrapped. (Stargate, the movie) (NB: I know the movie was 1994. This is fudging to make it fit with show canon, where Daniel -- who was recovered in early 1997 -- had been on Abydos for "over a year", but not two years. That puts the first Abydos mission in late 1995. Best I can do.)
    • 1996: General George Hammond replaces General West, assigned to oversee the secure shutdown of the program as his last act before retirement. (Children of the Gods)
    • 1997: The program is in the final stages of shutdown when Apophis comes through the gate and starts it back up again. Daniel is retrieved from Abydos and members of the SGC begin making regular trips through the gate, with Hammond remaining in command. (Children of the Gods)
    • 1997: The stargate is covered with a retractable iris made of titanium, to prevent unwanted intruders. (Children of the Gods)
    • 1997: A presidential directive is issued to evaluate the scientific & cultural value of each mission -- ensuring that the SGC will never be a purely military operation. (Broca Divide)
    • 1997: A second stargate, complete with DHD, is discovered buried in Antarctica, and is retrieved and sent to Area 51 for storage. (Solitudes)
    • 1997: Alpha site is set up -- a planet that's held in reserve as a colony in the event of a catastrophic event or attack on Earth, meant to save the best and brightest of humanity (which translates into the best and brightest of US citizens who happen to have high clearances, and damned if I ever spotted anyone who looked remotely like a farmer in the group). (Within the Serpent's Grasp)
    • 1998: The second (Antarctic) stargate and the DHD are stolen from Area 51 and used to conduct a covert operation to gain as much technology as possible, with no regard to alliances or propriety. Once the program is shut down, the second gate is sealed again -- complete with welded-on solid cover -- and returned to storage at Area 51. No word on the DHD or where it went. (Touchstone)
    • 1998: The Giza stargate (and the program) is nearly destroyed when it's inadvertantly connected to a black hole. (A Matter of Time)
    • 1998: The Giza stargate's iris is replaced with a new one, with trinium enhancing the titanium. (A Matter of Time)
    • 1999: The stargate program is nearly shut down when the Asgard negotiate a treaty with the Goa'uld that at first includes a section insisting that the Tau'ri stay on Earth. Only Goa'uld internecine squabbling saves the program. (Fair Game)
    • 1999: The Giza gate is beamed aboard Thor's ship and used to transport SG-1 to safety, then crashes into the ocean along with Thor's rapidly exploding ship. (Nemesis)
    • 1999: The Antarctic gate is unsealed and installed at the SGC, to become the program's sole stargate. Hooked up to the computer, just like the original gate. (Nemesis/Small Victories)
    • 2000: The Russians salvage the Giza gate from the ocean's floor and begin their own stargate program, using the Giza DHD to dial addresses. The program is active for more than a month before the SGC finds out about it, and is then shut down. The Russians retain control of the Giza gate and DHD, but agree not to use them. (Watergate)
    • 2000: Hammond retires (ostensibly of his own free will, actually because he's being blackmailed into doing so), and is replaced with General Bauer. After some fairly disastrous proceedings (during which Bauer nearly blows up the entire planet) and some serious string-pulling by Jack to get Hammond clear of his blackmailers, Bauer is relieved of command and Hammond is reinstated. (Chain Reaction)
    • 2001: To save Teal'c's life, the SGC requests, and receives, a loan of the Giza DHD from the Russians. The process used to save Teal'c creates an energy backlash that destroys the DHD. (No idea why they couldn't use the Antarctic DHD, or even where that DHD is -- it should be at Area 51, but clearly isn't.) (48 Hours)
    • 2002: Antarctic gate, locked up and rapidly building up dangerous levels of energy due to an attack by Anubis, is removed and sent through a wormhole, and explodes 3 million miles away from Earth. The program is shut down completely for a brief period to prevent a repetition of the attack, then re-opened when Teal'c arrives via cargo ship and announces that Anubis's weapon has been destroyed. The Giza gate is rented from the Russians and lowered down to take its place, and once again becomes the SGC's only stargate. (Redemption, part 2)
• Added to SGC, Physical layout, Level 28:
  • Ceiling in the gateroom retracts, opening onto a shaft that goes all the way to the surface, to allow the stargate to be lowered in and lifted out as need be. (Redemption, part 2)
• Added to SGC, Earth's stargates:
  • General info:
    • The stargate was lowered into the gateroom via a shaft that contains a crane. The shaft runs from from the surface all the way down to the gateroom, which has a retractable ceiling. The gate can be removed or replaced as needed. It takes two hours to hoist the stargate back out of the gateroom to the surface. (Redemption, part 2)
    • The stargate is covered with a retractable iris.
    • The stargate is controlled by computer, rather than DHD.
• Added to SGC, SG units:
  • Four-man teams: No regulation saying that teams have to be four people, but most of them are. (Redemption, part 1) (SG-15 appears to be the only exception to this; in Divide and Conquer, SG-14 and SG-15 were on a mission together. All of SG-14 (four people) survived, but six SGC personnel died -- presumably, all members of SG-15.)
• Added to SGC, SG units, SG-1:
  • Makeup:
    • Went through nine archaeologists/anthropologist/science types in the three months following Daniel's ascension. (Redemption, part 1)
    • Jack would have preferred to keep the team a three-person one, rather than replace Daniel. (Redemption, part 1)
    • As an alternative to adding a Russian officer, Jack requests that Jonas Quinn be added to the team. (Redemption, part 2)
  • SG-1 captured/confined/imprisoned:
    • Redemption, part 2 (Teal'c captured by Anubis's Jaffa)
• Added to SGC, SG personnel:
  • Captain Hagman: PhD, anthropologist (probably), assigned to SG-1 as a possible replacement for Daniel. His spectacular failure in assessing the locals's attitudes (resulting in Jack getting a partially torn ligament in one knee as the team raced for the safety of the gate) kept his tenure with the team brief. (Redemption, part 1)
  • Jonas Quinn: Civilian, originally from Kelowna. After three months at the SGC, Jack (under orders to accept a Russian officer) requests that he be added to SG-1. (Redemption, part 2) Not a scientist, but according to tests Fraiser ran, he learns much faster than the average human; appears to consider himself competent to understand advanced archaeology and advanced physics/engineering, by simply reading about them. (Redemption, part 1) He brought naquadria to the SGC (Meridian), and consequently was given access to all naquadria-related research materials. (Redemption, part 1) Misc: Watches the Weather Channel more or less nonstop, apparently. (Redemption, part 1) Tea-drinker. (Redemption, part 2)
  • Captain Matthison: Assigned to SG-1 as a potential replacement for Daniel, and had the distinction of lasting a shorter time than anyone else: two hours. (Redemption, part 1)
  • Lt. Graham Simmons: (...) Worked on gate diagnostics to try to figure out what was holding it open for so long when the team was under attack from Anubis -- seemed to be over his crush. (Redemption, part 1)
• Added to SGC, Technology, Goa'uld:
  • Cargo ship: Originally Jacob's (Summit/Last Stand). The SGC went to Vorash to commandeer the battered ship to save the Earth from an asteroid (Failsafe). They hung onto it at least long enough to use it to rescue Heimdall and Thor. (Revelations) No word on it being destroyed or returned to the Tok'ra, but no mention was made of it as a possible answer to the problems in Redemption (either to remove the stargate or to go for help).
• Added to SGC, Technology, Tau'ri:
  • X-302: Unlike the X-301, the X-302 was entirely human-built, although many of its systems were reverse-engineered from Goa'uld tech. It has four different sets of engines: air-breathing jets, modified aerospikes for high altitude, a rocket booster, and a hyperspace window generator. (Redemption, part 1) Engines were designed for a craft with an inertial dampening system that effectively reduced its overall mass. (Redemption, part 2)
    • Potentially the first human-built spacecraft capable of interstellar travel. It went on its first test flight weeks too early, in an attempt to contact the Asgard to get help fending off Anubis's attack. The hyperspace generator failed to work properly, generating an unstable window. (Redemption, part 1)
    • 605-3 error: if the X-302 can't get a lock on its destination once the hyperspace window is opened, it auto-aborts. Built-in safety procedure. (Redemption, part 1)
  • X-303: No idea, other than that it's at least on the drawing board. Possibly very similar to the X-302, but with a more stable hyperspace-window generator. (Redemption, part 2)
• Added to Non-SGC, Russians:
  • Rented the Giza gate to the SGC after the Antarctic gate had to be taken offworld to explode. (Redemption, part 2)
    • Terms of the loan:
      • Money
      • The plans for the X-302 and X-303.
      • A Russian officer on SG-1.
    • The final term will not be met -- Jack added Jonas Quinn instead, having no wish at all for a Russian on his team. He suggested "throwing them a bone"by giving them their own team instead. So it's possible that the Russians have their own unit at the SGC. (Redemption, part 2)
  • Russian personnel:
    • Doctor Britski: Russian archaeologist, trapped with the team caught offworld after the Russian stargate program was shut down. He died along with all the others. (The Tomb)
    • Colonel Chekov: First interaction with the SGC was when he arrived to debrief Lt. Tolinev, the only survivor of the rescue mission to try to save an abandoned Russian team. He was a friend of Colonel Zukhov's, who died on the mission. (The Tomb) Chekov was the person who dealt with Daniel and Major Davis's request for the use of the DHD; despite his own misgivings, he agreed to loan it to the SGC, then had to watch as it was accidentally blown up to save Teal'c. (48 Hours) By 2002, he had become the official Russian envoy to the SGC. (Redemption, part 1) In exchange for continued cooperation and the plans for the X-302, Chekov offers to allow the SGC to rent the Giza gate when the Antarctic gate is destroyed to save the Earth. Also insisted that a Russian officer be added to SG-1, but Jack pre-empted that by adding Jonas Quinn. (Redemption, part 2)
    • Major Valentine Kirensky: Commander of a rogue Russian team (similar to a rogue NID team) that was trapped offworld when the official Russian stargate program was shut down. He died offworld along with his entire team. (The Tomb)
    • Lieutenant Marchenko: Assigned to travel offworld with the team that went with SG-1 to rescue an abandoned offworld Russian team from the active Russian stargate program. He was crushed by a stone doorway trying to get out as the ziggurat began a partial collapse. (The Tomb)
    • Doctor Svetlana Markov: Brilliant physicist, on a par with Sam. She ran the science aspects of the Russian stargate program, and when the Russians got into trouble with it specifically requested SG-1's help. (Watergate)
    • Lieutenant Tolinev: Assigned to travel offworld with the team that went with SG-1 to rescue an abandoned offworld Russian team from the active Russian stargate program. She was bitten by the creature that had been trapped in the sarcophagus with Marduk (and had eventually been infested with Marduk), and nearly died, but was brought back to the SGC in time to recover fully. Colonel Chekov wasn't pleased with her report, expecting her to lay a lot more blame at SG-1's door for what had happened to the rest of the Russian team. Tolinev was the only survivor. (The Tomb)
    • Colonel Sokalov: Commander of the Russian stargate program. When the lifeform they had inadvertantly brought back with them began attacking/infesting people trying to get back home, Sokalov activated the "Extreme Measures" protocol. The program sealed their gate room, disconnected the DHD from the stargate, and released "Substance 35", a non-persistent nerve gas that evaporates after three hours. He died along with everyone else on the base, barring the lifeform and Maybourne (nearly frozen to death in a kitchen freezer). (Watergate)
    • Major Vallarin: Assigned to travel offworld with the team that went with SG-1 to rescue an abandoned offworld Russian team from the active Russian stargate program. He was infested with a Goa'uld (Marduk), and eventually died. (The Tomb)
    • Colonel Zukhov: Friend of Colonel Chekov's, and Jack's Russian counterpart. He blew himself up in an attempt to kill the Goa'uld that had inhabited Lt. Marchenko, to keep it from getting its hands on the Eye of Tiamat. His death gave Jack a chance to escape, and to finish the job Zukhov started by blowing the entire ziggurat up. (The Tomb)
• Added to Non-SGC, Area 51, personnel:
  • Dr. McKay: (...)
    • Returned to the SGC to help with figuring out how to shut down the stargate when Anubis had locked it open, on Pentagon orders. (Redemption, part 1)
    • As a child, wanted to be a concert pianist. After he was told he had no shot at it (technically capable, but no feel for the music), he switched to science. (Redemption, part 2)
    • While impressed with Sam's scientific "artistry"(which he believes he lacks, just as in music), he has no compunctions about yelling at her and calling her a lunatic quite publicly if he thinks she's come up with something dangerous or stupid. (Redemption, part 2)
  • Dr. Larry Murphy: Probably joined in late 2001 or 2002 -- has heard of the problems with the X-301, but wasn't around for them. He headed the research and development of the X-302 (and can hold his own against snarky Jack). (Redemption, part 1)
• Added to Jaffa, Culture, Rebellion:
  • Refugees from Chulak appear to be living on a new world, in camps, under harsh conditions. (Redemption, part 1)
  • The rebellion is having dangerous consequences; as symbiotes mature, there are no replacements to keep rebel Jaffa alive. They're going to start dying in large numbers soon if something isn't done. (Redemption, part 1)
    • The rebel Jaffa aren't willing to sacrifice other Jaffa lives just to gain their symbiotes. (Redemption, part 1)
    • The Goa'uld began distrusting Jaffa priests after the dissent began to spread, so there are no readily accessible vats of larvae to steal. (Redemption, part 1)
  • The rebel Jaffa have at least one cargo ship at their disposal. (Redemption, part 1)
• Added to Jaffa, Culture, Religious:
  • After dissent began to spread through the Jaffa ranks, Jaffa priests were no longer trusted with Goa'uld young. (Redemption, part 1)
  • Funerals: Funeral pyre rather than burial. (Redemption, part 1) Unsure whether this is a new custom adopted because of the refugee situation, or the traditional method.
    • Before lighting Drey'auc's pyre, Teal'c says: "Shel mak. Shel assah." (Redemption, part 1)
• Added to Jaffa, Known Jaffa:
  • Bra'tac: Has been training Rya'c, teaching him how to be a warrior (including how to fly a glider) (Redemption, parts 1&2)
  • Drey'auc: (...) Died in 2002 after her symbiote matured. She refused to let the other Jaffa procure her a new one, since that would mean killing another Jaffa to get it. (Redemption, part 1)
  • Rya'c: (...) Grew into his teens under Bra'tac's tutelage, and has the makings of a fine warrior. He and his mother moved to the refugee camp to be with the other refugees from Chulak. Rya'c was very angry at Teal'c after Drey'auc died, and beat the crap out of him with a staff weapon. (Redemption, part 1) Teal'c allowed him to go on the mission to save the Tau'ri from Anubis's attack on their stargate, then allowed him to ring down to the planet to help take out Anubis's weaponry. Rya'c took a staff hit to the back, but not a fatal one, and after Teal'c and Bra'tac were captured, he stole a glider and freed them via air attack, then destroyed Anubis's weapon. He chose to remain with Bra'tac and help with the Jaffa rebellion rather than spending time on Earth with Teal'c and the others. (Redemption, part 2)
  • Shaq'rel: One of Apophis's Jaffa, and an old friend of Teal'c's. He brought word of Anubis's attack on the Tau'ri stargate. (Redemption, part 1)
• Added to Goa'uld, System Lords, Anubis:
  • Has learned how to use Asgard holographic technology. (Redemption, part 1)
  • Despite his sudden climb to power, he still only controls a handful of worlds, according to Bra'tac. (Redemption, part 1)
  • Anubis's Technology: (...)
    • Has developed the means to detect cloaked ships. (Redemption, part 2)
    • Stargate-killer. Anubis has discovered (or built?) a weapon of the Ancients, designed to let one stargate attack (and destroy) another: a double ring of standing stones (on two levels) surrounding the firing mechanism. The outer ring appears dormant but actually generates a protective force field; energy steadily circles the inner ring. The mechanism in the middle shoots a beam of energy straight across the circle into the stargate at the far end. Rya'c destroyed the weapon in a glider attack. (Pure speculation: the energy circling the inner ring possibly feeds down through the stones into a below-ground "capacitor"; when the weapon is destroyed the resulting explosions look like underground things blowing up, and if the energy doesn't feed downward, I'm not sure what it's doing circling around like that.) (Redemption, part 2)
• Added to Goa'uld, language:
  • Shel mak. Shel assah.: (no translation; what Teal'c says as he lights Drey'auc's funeral pyre) (Redemption, part 1)

June 9, 2002

• Added note to front page:
  • Timing of events: I consider each season to happen during a calendar year, rather than going by airdates, for several reasons, largely revolving around the difficulties of reconciling airdates with length of action (e.g., cliffhanger season endings). Most important, though, was the show's own dated canon: in Politics, reference is made to Jack's report about the first mission to Chulak (Children of the Gods) being dated February 23 "of this year", and the mission itself occuring on February 10, 1997. With Politics being at the end of the season, and the reference being phrased like that, everything between CotG and Politics has to have happened in 1997. So I use that as my basis for every season thereafter. That means the seasons break down like this (with a certain amount of wiggle room for cross-season cliffhangers, of course):

    Season	Year
    One	1997
    Two	1998
    Three	1999
    Four	2000
    Five	2001
    Six	2002

• Added to episodes page: years for each season.
• Updated Arcs page through Revelations, and added:
  • Anubis
  • Osiris
• Added to Main Characters, Sam, Serious injuries:
  • Ribboned by Osiris (Revelations)
• Added to Main Characters, Teal'c:
  • Reaction to Daniel's ascension: misses him, but is impressed that Daniel ascended to a higher plane of existence; it's something that many Jaffa dedicate their lives to achieving. (Revelations)
• Added to SGC, Physical layout, Level 18, Daniel's office:
  • (...) It's between two doors, one of which is L-7. (Revelations)
• Added to SGC, SG units, SG-1:
  • After Daniel ascends, they go on at least one mission as a three-person team: to rescue Heimdall of the Asgard, and from there to rescue Thor. (Revelations)
  • The team is known to more Asgard than the High Council: Heimdall has heard of them (and knows the team makeup, asking "Dr. Jackson isn't with you?") and about their actions on behalf of the Asgard. It's not clear if he knows this because he's working in the Tau'ri galaxy and thus might meet up with them, or if SG-1 is more generally known to the Asgard people. (Revelations)
• Added to SGC, SG units, SG-1, SG-1 captured/confined/imprisoned:
• Revelations (Jack and Teal'c gassed and imprisoned by Osiris; Sam later zatted and captured by Osiris, then ribboned)
• Added to SGC, SG personnel, Hammond:
  • Served in Viet Nam. No indication of what years he was there, or at what rank, but probably a lieutenant, given that he was one in 1969. (Revelations) (NB: His Vietnam service was already evident in his medals, but this was the first aired canonical support for it.)
    • Saw his best friend shot down, and despite knowing that he was alive (he saw the chute open), he never found out what happened to him -- just had to live with it. (Revelations)
• Added to Goa'uld, Anubis:
  • (...) Goes cloaked and hooded (dark material), so no one can see body shape or face. What's visible of his face is shiny and shifting -- metallic? Dimensional? (Revelations)
    • Anubis's technology (more advanced than other Goa'uld tech)
      • The more powerful shields, which are probably being given to other Goa'uld as part of the price for accepting him. These shields can withstand the Tollans's ion cannons and standard Asgard weaponry. (Between Two Fires, Revelations)
      • Brain-sucker. (Name obviously subject to change, if I get any canonical hint about what it's called.) Small (in the hand -- huge for something inside one's brain) metal globe, with spikes sticking out all over it. It gets implanted into a brain, and forms a link between the victim and the ship's computer (presumably, any assigned Goa'uld computer, if they're not using it on a ship), downloading all the victim's knowledge into the memory banks. (Revelations)
• Added to Goa'uld, Osiris:
  • His style of dress becomes steadily more revealing, but always sticks to the same basics: in The Curse, it's white pants and top, with a long white coat (lightweight material over all). In Summit/Last Stand, it's tighter white/gold pants and top, the latter midriff-baring, covered with a gauzy white long sleeveless vest/coat that gathers in front at the waist but drapes backward from there. By Revelations, it had shifted to a dark, almost leather-looking base outfit -- still tight trousers and midriff-baring tank top, and with a gauzy, dark-gold patterned sleeveless vest over all, cut so that it covers the host's back and sides, without ever meeting in the front; it's held together in the middle by a Horus hawk figure. Also wearing wrist-high, fingerless leather glove (dark brown) on her right hand and a standard Goa'uld hand device (covering fingertips and palm, wrapping up around the wrist) on her left, and leather arm protectors (also dark brown) from forearm to just below the biceps on both arms. The whole effect is much more about strength than the Summit/Last Stand seductive version, but doesn't lose any of it's seductiveness, either. Osiris clearly has no problem flaunting his host's physical attributes.
  • On orders from Anubis to test a new shield system, Osiris entered a protected system (Adara) and waited for an Asgard ship. When Thor appeared and told him to leave, Osiris refused, and when the shields held, attacked Thor's ship with more powerful weaponry than the Asgard had expected, destroying it. (Revelations)
  • While dealing with Thor and Anubis, Osiris had ships in battle with Yu, attempting to kill him. The battle wasn't going well, and Osiris sent the two motherships that had accompanied him to the Adara system to help. (Revelations)
• Added to Goa'uld, Yu:
  • Under attack from Osiris's forces some time after the summit, but was holding his own, at least before Osiris sent reinforcements. No idea if the added ships made a difference. (Revelations)
• Added to Goa'uld, Technology:
  • Shields: all Goa'uld ships seem to have shields of some sort, from ha'tak on down to cargo ships.
  • Shields, advanced: New on the scene in fifth season (first mentioned in Between Two Fires), presumably developed by Anubis. These ship shields (so far only on ha'tak vessels) are powerful enough to withstand the Tollans's ion cannons and standard Asgard ship weaponry. (Between Two Fires, Revelations)
• Added to Jaffa, Culture:
  • Signs of Dissent, Discontent: One of Osiris's Jaffa -- not even a First or Second Prime -- questions his orders to send Jaffa down to the planet where Heimdall has his base, pointing out that it's dangerous. Later, the same Jaffa objects to Osiris's order to release coolant from the hyperdrive into the ventilation system on the levels where intruders (SG-1) are, because the gas is toxic and there are Jaffa on those levels as well. The Jaffa also wants to evacuate the engine room, since the engines will overheat from the lack of coolant and will release radiation into the room, killing many Jaffa. Osiris doesn't care. He obeys the order, but neither he nor the other Jaffa in the room are happy about it. (Revelations)
• Added to Jaffa, Culture, Religious Culture:
  • Ascension (to a higher plane of existence): Many Jaffa dedicate their lives to achieving this. (Revelations)
• Added to Asgard, Culture:
  • A race of effective immortals, with everyone's consciousness being repeatedly placed into younger versions of themselves as their old bodies wear out. (Revelations)
  • 30,000 years ago, a ship was launched from the Asgard homeworld, its crew in suspended animation. The ship was lost, and sometime in 2001, the Asgard discovered it floating in the Tau'ri/Goa'uld galaxy, with one crewmember still perfectly preserved. (Revelations)
• Added to Asgard, Culture, Protected planets:
  • Adara: no apparent life on the planet, given the unlivable conditions (atmosphere of 80% carbon dioxide, and an average surface temperature above 400 degrees Farenheit). The Asgard chose this planet to house Heimdall's vital research lab. (Revelations)
• Added to Asgard, Culture, War with Replicators:
  • The war with the Replicators finally reached a critical state, occupying the Asgard to the point where they couldn't respond to SGC requests for contact (Menace, Meridian). They also had almost no ships to spare to handle situations in Earth's galaxy; Thor was dispatched in the only available ship to handle a Goa'uld problem, and when his ship was destroyed in the battle, it left the Asgard with none to spare. Freyr came directly to Earth when he could to ask for Reese, in hopes that the Asgard could figure out a way to defeat the Replicators. (Revelations)
    • It seems to have helped; after they took possession of her, they finally managed to gain the upper hand in the war, to the point where they could spare three ships to help SG-1 rescue Heimdall (just in time to keep Anubis from capturing or destroying the cargo ship they were escaping on). (Revelations)
• Added to Asgard, Culture, Known Asgard:
  • Freyr: (...)
    • Finally made a trip to Earth to ask for the SGC's help, after Thor was presumed dead after a Goa'uld attack on his vessel in a protected system. The battle left an Asgard scientist, Heimdall, stranded in a research facility on the planet, and Freyr needed SG-1 to go get him out. The Asgard had no ships available to do it themselves, because of the war with the Replicators. Thanks to the information they got from Reese after the SGC handed her over, the Asgard were in good enough shape that Freyr in turn could dash off to the rescue of SG-1, Heimdall, and Thor, all in danger of capture or destruction by Anubis. (Revelations)
  • Heimdall: Scientist working alone in the Adara system for six months in 2001, on the Asgards's most important project. Doesn't appear to have met any humans before, and was pleased to see SG-1; he's heard of them and their "exploits on behalf of the Asgard". He was working on the genetic history of the Asgard, and both he and Thor were very concerned that his research not fall into Goa'uld hands: the Asgard need the knowledge to ensure the existence of their race. (Revelations)
    • He was using the perfectly preserved body of an Asgard from 30,000 years ago, found on a ship that was drifting in space, to try to find ways to reverse the genetic manipulation that had locked the Asgard onto a dying path -- their inability to sexually reproduce and lack of genetic diversity are going to kill them off as a race eventually if nothing is done. (Revelations)
    • He was willing to die (and to watch SG-1 die) to keep the research from falling into Goa'uld hands. (Revelations)
  • Thor: (...)
    • Arrived in the protected Adara system after a Goa'uld ship showed up there, and ordered it to withdraw. Osiris, in command of the ha'tak, refused, and Thor opened fire -- only to have the ha'tak's new shields hold against his attack.Osiris returned fire, with weapons that were also more advanced than the Asgard had expected, and destroyed Thor's ship, taking Thor prisoner but letting the Asgard think he was dead. (Revelations)
    • While Thor was imprisoned, Anubis arrived and implanted a device in Thor's brain, linking his mind with the ship's computer to download all Thor's knowledge. (Revelations)
      • Thor took advantage of this to use the ship's internal communications to talk to the captured Jack (and Teal'c), and to help them escape from their holding cell. (Revelations)
      • After he was rescued the Asgard managed to remove the device, but it was too late: Thor had lapsed into a coma. (Revelations)
    • Age: at least a thousand years old. The Asgard are all clones of themselves, and for a thousand years, each time a body has begun to wear out, the consciousness has been transferred into a younger version of it. (Revelations)
• Deleted from Asgard, Biology:
  • Longevity: completely unknown. If Thor is really the same Thor who brought people to Cimmeria, he's at least 1,000 years old. But it's also possible that the supreme commander of the Asgard fleet sort of inherits the position of protector of Cimmeria -- but from what Thor said, seems more likely he's really that old.
• Added to Asgard, Biology:
  • 30,000 years ago, the Asgard were taller and closer to human looking, with a less pronounced skull and more solid bodies/musculature. (Revelations)
  • Through genetic manipulation of themselves as a race, the Asgard have painted themselves into a corner. (Revelations)
  • Eventually, they reached a point where the manipulation was irreversible. (Revelations)
  • For a thousand years, they've been incapable of sexual reproduction. (Revelations)
  • Instead, they reproduce exclusively through a process of enhanced cellular mitosis: cloning. When one body begins to wear out, a clone takes its place. Over the generations, the lack of genetic diversity has led to deterioration in the physical makeup. (Revelations)
  • They introduced controlled mutation to keep from complete genetic breakdown, but have reached the limits of their technological capabilities. (Revelations)
• Added to Asgard, Technology:
  • Holographic communicators: (...) Quality of the signal possibly dependent on distance? Usually the effect is clearly holographic -- the image is a bit washed out, as well as being slightly flickery -- but when Jack and Sam use the tech to communicate between Heimdall's research base and people on Osiris's mothership in orbit, the image is perfectly clear except for an occasional rolling flicker and appears solid, as though the person is actually there. (Revelations)
  • Cloning on a massive scale: the entire population.
  • Transfer of consciousness from one body to its clone, apparently with no mishaps.

June 6, 2002

• Updated episodes, writers, and directors pages through Revelations.
• Added to Main Characters, Jack:
  • Reaction to Daniel's imminent death in Meridian:
    • Tries to get offworld help (despite Daniel's express comment that his life isn't any more important than anyone else's, and they don't go to their allies for other people's lives); when the Asgard and Jacob are unavailable, he suggests a sarcophagus found by SG-3 two months earlier, and tries to argue when Hammond points out that it's too heavily guarded. (Meridian)
    • Refuses to let Daniel's name be sullied by anyone, whether it be the Kelonans or his own government -- he's perfectly willing to give up diplomatic relations and a shot at naquadria to save as much of Daniel as he possibly can, even if that's only his good name and reputation. (Meridian)
    • After putting up the biggest fight to save Daniel, he's the one who's able to let him go so he can ascend to a higher plane. (Meridian)
• Added to Main Characters, Daniel, Confirmed Deaths:
  • Exposed to massive radiation from a device housing an unstable radioactive variation of naquadah: 8-9 grays (gray = the amount of energy actually absorbed by any tissue or substance from exposure to radiation) of neutron radiation to his right hand, with full-body exposure of more than 7 grays. (This is a fatal level, when absorbed so quickly; see the Merck Manual for details.) The radiation sickness followed a standard path: nausea; then tremors, convulsions, and ataxia (inability to coordinate muscular movements); then (or simultaneously?) necrosis (surface tissue, brain tissue, and internal organs begin to inflame and degrade). All that happens within 10-15 hours, and his death would come from either drowning in his own blood and fluids, or bleeding to death. There is no medical treatment to stop this. Daniel didn't believe the SGC should go to offworld allies to help them, but they did anyway. Attempts to contact the Asgard and Jacob to help him failed, however. Sam attempted to heal him using the Goa'uld healing device, and sent him into seizures instead. Oma Desala appeared to him inside his mind, and began to guide him further along the path to ascension. After bringing Jack into his mind to explain what was going on, Daniel asked Jack to stop all resuscitation attempts; Jack did, and Daniel ascended to a higher plane, leaving a dead body behind. (Meridian)
    • NB: this isn't a true confirmed death, since Daniel is still alive in another form. It also isn't a near death, or a presumed death, or a severe injury, or any of the other categories I've got to sort out damage. Only Daniel could manage to die and not die at the same time!
• Added to Main Characters, Sam:
  • When Daniel is in imminent danger of dying, Sam risks using the Goa'uld healing device that the SGC still has. Her ability with it is erratic at best, though, and she inadvertantly (and to her horror) makes him worse.
• Added to SGC, Civilians:
  • Nicholas (Nick) Ballard: Daniel's maternal grandfather. Dutch, but living in the US for at least 20 years between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, and probably before then as well. Although he could have done so, he chose not to adopt Daniel when Daniel's parents died in 1973, presumably at least in part because he was too caught up in his own obsession. Like his daughter, son-in-law, and grandson, he was an archaeologist. In 1971 he discovered a crystal skull in a ruined temple in Belize, which transported him to an alien world where he found "giant aliens"who rose up like mist to greet him. When he was transported back to the temple, it collapsed around him, and he barely escaped. The academic community drove him out when he explained his theory that gazing into the eyes of the crystal skull would transport a person to see aliens (like grandfather, like grandson). A few years later, he suffered a mental breakdown and checked himself into a psychiatric institute in Oregon, where he stayed for 20 years, suffering a variety of hallucinations. Daniel was a regular visitor until right before he joined the Stargate program, when they had a falling out. Daniel couldn't buy Nick's theories about the giant aliens, and Nick thought Daniel was as insane as he was for thinking the pyramids were landing platforms for alien spaceships. In 1999, Daniel was trapped out-of-phase from looking into a crystal skull, and the rest of SG-1 went to ask Nick for help. In return, he demanded access to the skull they'd found. Possibly due to his experience with the skull, he could see the out-of-phase Daniel, and the two reconciled. To help rescue Daniel, Nick insisted on going with SG-1 to the planet of the giant aliens, where he renewed his "acquaintaince"with Queztlcoatl and was invited to stay, so he could learn what the aliens had to teach. He accepted, and has been there ever since. (Crystal Skull)
• Added to SGC, Weapons and Tactics, Standard weaponry
  • Sidearm... (a Beretta, per The Sentinel) ....
• Added to SGC, SG units, SG-1:
  • The team suffered no attrition for five solid years, then lost Daniel, who got lethally irradiated while preventing an naquadria-device explosion on P3X 4C3 that would have killed millions of Kelownans. Despite everyone's best efforts, he was barely an inch away from death when he finally completely accepted Oma Desala's teaching, and ascended to a higher plane, leaving his body behind. (Meridian)
  • SG-1 captured/confined/imprisoned:
    • The Warrior (Teal'c is captured by Yu's Jaffa and beaten up a fair amount before Yu releases him)
    • The Sentinel (Jack captured by Svarog's Jaffa and tortured (fairly mildly, in SG-1 terms) in front of his team)
• Added to SGC, SG units, SG-3:
  • (...) Under the commanded of Major Lawrence, SG-3 took point on the joint mission to Latona with SG-1, with a dual objective of finding SG-9 and repairing the Latonans's planetary defense system, the Sentinel. SG-3 wound up chasing Jaffa all over the place while SG-1 found the sole survivor of SG-9 and attempted to repair the Sentinel. (The Sentinel) Discovered a world with a working sarcophagus, but it's heavily guarded. (Meridian)
• Added to SGC, SG units, SG-9:
  • Possibly still a diplomatic unit at the end of fifth season: commanded by Major Benton, and including Lt. Grogan, Tarkman, and Winters (ranks unknown on the last two), SG-9 was on an extended mission to Latona to renew diplomatic relations with the Latonans, after a rogue NID group had ruffled too many feathers a couple of years earlier in trying to gain access to the planetary defense system, known as the Sentinel. Months into their mission, which included an attempt to negotiate SGC access to the Sentinel, a Jaffa exploratory force came through the stargate to test the planet's defenses. When the Jaffa survived, a bigger force moved in and began subduing the population. Benton, Tarkman, and Winters were all killed by Jaffa; only Grogan escaped. (The Sentinel)
• Added to SGC, SG personnel :
  • Major Benton: Commander of SG-9. Months into a mission to Latona to both renew diplomatic relations and gain access to the Latonans planetary defense system, the Sentinel, Benton was killed by a staff blast to the chest on his way to the stargate as Jaffa invaded the planet. (The Sentinel)
  • Lieutenant Grogan: (...) (Continuity glitch: in The Sentinel, he identifies himself as "Sergeant Grogan". Jack later correctly refers to him as "lieutenant". Grogan was an academy graduate, so there's no way he was a sergeant.) Member of SG-9 -- the only member of SG-9 to survive the mission to Latona. After SG-1 found him, he led Jack into the capital city and vouched for him with Marul, but was later captured along with Jack by Svarog's Jaffa. He was beaten up, but not too badly, and used along with Jack as a way of forcing the rest of SG-1 to give up the secrets of the Sentinel. (The Sentinel)
  • Hammond:
    • Caught between a rock (Jack) and a hard place (the Pentagon) when Daniel returns from Kelowna lethally irradiated: the government wants to maintain diplomatic relations with the Kelownans (despite their accusation that Daniel sabotaged their research, causing his own fatal injuries as a result) to gain access to the Kelownans's store of naquadria, in hopes of being able to develop defensive shields such as those used by the Goa'uld on their motherships. (Meridian)
  • Lieutenant Johnson: Member of SG-3. (Broca Divide)
  • Major Lawrence: Commander of SG-3 (The Warrior). Went with Jack and at least one other soldier to Reese's planet to find clues to the disaster that wiped her people out. Discovered Replicator blocks. (The Menace)
  • Tarkman: (rank unknown) Member of SG-9. Died on the mission to Latona, presumably killed by Jaffa. (The Sentinel)
  • Winters: (rank unknown) Member of SG-9. Died on the mission to Latona, presumably killed by Jaffa. (The Sentinel)
• Added to SGC, Technology, Goa'uld:
  • Healing device: (...) It's kept in a locker (likely on level 21, and probably somewhere in the infirmary itself, but no actual proof of that); keypad code is five digits, the first three of which are 9-1-8. (Meridian)
• Added to SGC, Technology, Tau'ri:
  • Missiles: Not specifically SGC-related, but the launch function is. Launched from a device either connected to the gateroom's ceiling and lowered, or brought in as a crane of some sort. The launching system holds two missiles that are launched independently. (The Sentinel)
  • UAVs: Not specifically SGC-related, but they get used a lot. They function not only as recon (One False Step, Beast of Burden), but also paint targets for missile attacks. (The Sentinel)
• Added to Non-SGC, NID, Rogue NID:
  • (...) One of the groups was headed by Colonel Sean Grieves. Their missions included a mission to Latona to gain access to the Latonans's planetary defense system, the Sentinel. When they weren't granted access, the team worked covertly for weeks to access, dismantle, and reassemble the machine to learn about it, but never reported this. (The Sentinel)
  • Rogue NID members:
    • Colonel Sean Grieves: Leader of a rogue NID team under Maybourne. He's a true believer in the cause -- he honestly believes that the SGC is endangering Earth by not taking more aggressive steps to get technology however possible, and by relying on alien allies for protection. He's ruthless in the pursuit: while stealing a powerful beam weapon from P3Y 294, he turned the weapon on his pursuers, killing all three and destroying any chance of future diplomatic relations between Earth and that world. Even after the weapon was returned, the government of P3Y 294 would have nothing to do with Earth. Among other missions, he led his team to Latona to learn about the planetary defense system known as the Sentinel, where he first tried front channels (negotiating with Marul) and when that was unsuccessful worked covertly for two weeks with Lieutenant Kershaw to get through the protective force field, dismantle the machinery, and rebuild it. During those two weeks, Grieves killed the Sentinel's caretaker -- he shot in self-defense (the caretaker was about to heave a spear at him), but then refused to bring him to the city for medical attention, despite the caretaker's pleas. Kershaw protested, but Grieves was convinced that the technology was too important to risk losing by exposing themselves. Neither he nor Kershaw reported that they'd actually tampered with the Sentinel, or that they'd killed the caretaker. They were recalled immediately afterward to meet their new CO -- Jack. (The Sentinel) After Jack exposed the overall rogue NID operation (Shades of Grey) and had all of them arrested, Grieves was convicted of high treason for his acts, and sentenced to death. Later his sentence was commuted to life in prison, when he agreed to help SG-1 fix whatever had gone wrong with the Sentinel after Grieves and Kershaw messed with it. He eventually redeemed himself somewhat by taking the caretaker's place and merging with the Sentinel to defend Latona and SG-1 against the intensifying Goa'uld attack by Svarog's forces. (The Sentinel)
  • Lieutenant Kershaw: Member of a rogue NID team led by Colonel Grieves. She helped dismantle and reassemble the Latonans's planetary defense system, the Sentinel. She objected to Grieves's killing of the Sentinel's caretaker during the process (she wanted to bring the wounded man back to the city, but Grieves forbade it), but did nothing to stop it, and didn't report it. Jack had her sentence commuted (from death to life in prison) in return for helping the SGC repair the damage done to the Sentinel. She takes a fatal staff shot to the back while putting a force field back up to protect Grieves, Daniel, Sam, and Teal'c from Jaffa. While she was lying there dying, she admitted to having seen Grieves kill the caretaker, and to having rigged the caretaker's deadman-switch bracelet so that it didn't give away that he was dead, so no one in the city would suspect them. She lived just long enough to see Grieves sacrifice himself to use the Sentinel to neutralize the Jaffa and Svarog's mothership. (The Sentinel)
• Added to Goa'uld:
  • Svarog: One of the System Lords who rose to power after the collapse of the Second Goa'uld Dynasty. He voted Anubis back into the ranks of the System Lords. (Summit, Last Stand) After successfully sending Jaffa through the stargate as a test of Latona's planetary defense system, Svarog claimed Latona as part of his domain, and his Jaffa began cowing/conquering the locals (who were nonconfrontational enough to make it difficult, since they simply refused to obey orders they didn't understand -- and they didn't understand any of the orders they were being given).Svarog brought a mothership to finish the conquest of the planet, firing on the main city to force them to submit. He and all his Jaffa were driven away by the Sentinel in a burst of blinding white light -- no idea if that means they're dead or just transported elsewhere. (The Sentinel)
• Added to Goa'uld, Technology, Weapons:
  • Torture stick: The trident (three-pronged thingie) used to shock people, sending gold energy streaming out the mouth and eyes. Obviously extremely painful, but doesn't seem to do any lasting damage. (Serpent's Venom, Beast of Burden, The Sentinel, others) (nb: I got the name from the commentaries on the Season Four DVDs; I don't remember ever hearing a name for these things in canon.)
• Added to Tok'ra, Known Tok'ra, Jacob:
  • 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)
• Added to Elder Races:
  • Changed name of Oma Desala's race from Others to Ascendants (I want a real name for this race, dammit).
• Added to Elder Races, Ascendants, Culture, Known Ascendants:
• Oma Desala: (...) She also took it upon herself to begin teaching Daniel when she first met him, knowing that he was open-minded enough to listen to what she had to say. She started him on the path in Maternal Instinct; Shifu sent him further along it in Absolute Power; Oma returned and told Daniel that he could ascend rather than dying, if he so chose, when he was barely an inch away from death (Meridian).

• "Adopted" Ascendants:

  • Daniel Jackson: Daniel was originally human, and a founding member of the SGC and SG-1. Oma Desala began teaching him the path to ascension when he was looking for Shifu -- the harsesis child of Sha're's body -- who was being raised by Oma. She started him on his path in Maternal Instinct, making him start thinking about what he was doing and why. A year later, a rapidly-aged pre-teen Shifu sent him into a dream to continue his lessons, about power and choices. (Absolute Power) After Daniel was lethally irradiated while saving millions of lives, Oma appeared to him again, giving him the chance to complete his path to ascension. After some fairly brutal (and unfair to himself) soul-searching, he chose to ascend rather than die, believing that he could continue to do more to help people that way. (Meridian)
• Added to Misc. Races:
  • Kelownans
    • 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.
    • 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)
    • Kelownan stargate:
    • Discovered approximately in 1986, along with a number of Goa'uld artifacts, in what appeared to be an ancient temple. The Kelownans's 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)
    • Research related to the stargate is one of the Kelownans's 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)
    • 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:
    • Tomis Leed: Chief Physicist, responsible for overseeing the Kelownans's 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)
    • 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's most honored education institution: social studies, ancient Kelonan history, and others. 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's 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)
  • Latonans
    • 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, 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. (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)
• Added to Miscellaneous Info, Nicknames
  • Jack calls Sam by other names:
    • Seth: "Dorothy"
  • Jack's "cover"names for the team:
    • Jack himself:
      • "James T. Kirk"(1969)
      • "Luke Skywalker"(1969)
      • "Moe"(of Three Stooges fame) (Seth)
      • "Starsky"(Chain Reaction, Desperate Measures -- along with Maybourne as "Hutch")
    • Daniel:
      • "Everyone's favorite -- Curly"(Seth)
        
    • Sam:
      • "Larry"(of Three Stooges fame) (Seth)
    • Teal'c:
      • "Murray"(Point of No Return)
• Added to Miscellaneous Info, Speaking in Unison -- Jack and Daniel
  • Pretense:
    • (after Narim announces that the person on triad is Skaara) "What?"

May 8, 2002

• Added to Main Characters, Jack:
  • Misc: Takes the stairs two at a time. (The Menace)
• Added to SGC, Cheyenne Mountain, Physical layout:
  • Level 21: (...) Lab/holding room between doors M-4 and M-6 -- the exterior portion of door M-4 says M-5). There's a glassed-in, slightly elevated observation room at one end, clearly visible to the room's occupants. (The Menace)
  • Level 28:
    • Stairway up to gate monitoring room is behind door B-2. (The Menace)
    • Self-destruct mechanism is behind door B-5, accessible for setting manually if computer access is cut off. (The Menace)
• Added to SGC, Weapons and tactics:
  • SFs standing guard around the facility wear the Defensor Fortis patch: Defender of the Forces, the credo of the USAF Security Forces. (The Menace)
• Added to SGC, SG units, SG-2: (...) The team gets sent to K'tau to contact the Asgard through the Hall of Wisdom after SG-1 discovers the original creator of the Replicators, but get no reply. (The Menace)
• Added to Elder Races, Asgard:
  • When the SGC finds the original creator of the Replicators and tries to get word to the Asgard, the Asgard don't reply -- they've possibly finally been overrun by the Replicators. (The Menace)
• Added to Misc. Races, Replicators:
  • 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)

May 7, 2002

• Updated Eps, Writers, and Directors pages through Sentinel

May 5, 2002

• MAJOR SITE REVAMP -- new URL, new(ish) name, new(ish) look, new layout. The new URL is
  http://trickster.org/arduinna/stargate -- the old main-page URL will bring you straight there. Please change your bookmarks.
  • Everything has been broken out into new, smaller pages, with some information rearranged and some new info added throughout the site (some of it minor enough that I didn't put it here, since there was so much else going on).
• Added many more cross-referencing links throughout pages. (If you see anyplace that should have a link and doesn't, please let me know. Thanks.)
• Added to Main Characters (new page)
  • John "Jack"O'Neill
    • A colonel in the US Air Force, and commander of SG-1. He's snarky and insubordinate, but has a fierce personal loyalty to his team and to superior officers he respects.
• He is effectively the second in command of SGC, at least when he's on-world. (We're never actually told he's the second in command, but his actions and everyone else's attitudes toward him in Hammond's abscence make it pretty clear that he is.)
• He was suicidally depressed over the death of his son Charlie (who accidentally shot himself with Jack's gun) when he was recalled to active duty to assist on the Stargate project. (Stargate the movie)
  • Daniel, Kawalsky, and Ferretti were with him on the first exploratory mission through the gate, to Abydos.
  • His secret mission was to set off a nuke if there was any danger on the other end of the stargate.
  • Grew attached to Skaara, a local boy, while he was on Abydos, and moved from an antagonistic relationship with Daniel to one of mutual respect and (presumably) liking. Those two things and having to fight for his and his men's lives were enough to force him out of his depression, and instead of blowing up the Abydonians, he and Daniel blew up Ra's ship. (Stargate the movie, highly condensed version...)
  • Agreed to tell his superiors that he'd destroyed the other stargate with the nuke, and left Daniel behind with his new wife Sha're to live the life he wanted. He and his men deliberately falsified their reports to keep anyone from sending a second bomb back and killing the Abydonians and Daniel. (Children of the Gods)
• Retired again after returning from Abydos, for about a year, until Apophis came through Earth's stargate and jump-started Stargate Command. (Children of the Gods)
  • After admitting to falsifying his report to save thousands of lives, Jack was put back on active duty and sent back to Abydos to retrieve Daniel and find out who or what had come through Earth's gate. (Children of the Gods)
  • The kidnapping of Skaara (and Sha're) gave Jack a very personal reason to continue the hunt for the Goa'uld.
  • He was assigned command of SG-1 immediately
• Extremely fond of both kids and dogs.
• Seems to have been the Asgards's favorite human -- especially Thor's favorite -- since he first ran into them, despite his less than diplomatic dealings with them (especially Freyr).
• Daniel Jackson
  • A linguistic archaeologist who got laughed out of his field for suggesting that the pyramids were landing platforms for UFOs, and who promptly got snapped up by the Stargate program (in the person of Catherine Langford) where he found out his theories were right.
    • Joined Jack, Kawalsky, and Ferretti (among others) on an exploratory mission to Abydos. During their visit, Abydos was visited by Ra, and in the ensuing fights Daniel died saving Jack's life, was revived, talked Jack out of blowing up the locals, and helped Jack to blow up Ra and Ra's ship instead. And he fell in love.
  • After the first mission to Abydos, he remained behind and married Sha're, and stayed there for more than a year before Jack came back for him.
    • Teal'c snatched Sha're (along with Skaara) while Daniel was off talking to Jack, and Daniel returned to Earth demanding to be part of the team that went to rescue her. Hammond eventually agreed, and Daniel joined SG-1, as a permanent member, as it turned out.
  • Over the years he's lost a lot of his naivete (like wondering if the thumps against the iris could possibly be people), and learned a lot about weapons, strategy, and tactics. But while he understands military thinking better, he still doesn't think that way himself.
• Samantha Carter
  • Brilliant astrophysicist who just missed being part of the first Stargate project with Daniel. Instead, she spent two years at the Pentagon working on theory.
  • Joined SGC after Apophis came through Earth's stargate, and was assigned to the second mission to Abydos.
    • Still a captain at that point.
    • Bonded with Daniel over geekiness.
    • Annoyed the hell out of Jack at first.
  • She's a skilled combat warrior as well as a skilled scientist, and functions in both capacities.
    • Promoted to major in third season. (Fair Game)
  • She was blended temporarily with a Tok'ra symbiote (Jolinar), which has left her with various abilities.
  • Her instincts about Goa'uld (and other alien) tech are more likely to be right than other people's theories, thanks to steady hands-on practical experience (and probably remnants of Jolinar).
  • It probably also doesn't hurt that she's been around Daniel so much, given his abilities to think outside the box.
• Teal'c
  • Jaffa warrior, born in Cronus's service but later sworn to Apophis after Cronus killed his father.
  • Rose to the rank of First Prime in Apophis's service, but over the years began to lose his faith in his god.
  • After kidnapping Sha're and Skaara for Apophis, Teal'c met the proto-SG-1 (Jack, Daniel, and Sam) in a Chulak prison, and cast his lot in with them, helping them to kill his fellow Jaffa and escape, and then accepting a place among them.
  • Has been fighting for his people's freedom ever since he betrayed Apophis, while also functioning as a full member of SG-1 and swearing allegiance to SGC.
    • Among the Tau'ri, his first allegiance is to Jack, then the rest of the team, then Hammond, then the military hierarchy -- and pretty much everyone knows that.
• Apophis (deceased)
• Serpent God.
• Direct rival/enemy of Ra; in a power struggle to gain ascendance over the other System Lords since Ra's death.
• Every time he was defeated he came back stronger.
  • Most of his original Jaffa (Serpent Guards) are dead or have turned against him, but he's since picked up all of Sokar's Jaffa (from The Devil You Know on -- as of Maternal Instinct the Jaffa still bear Sokar's mark but claim to be in the service of Apophis; by Serpent's Venom, they bear Apophis's serpent mark) and presumably all of Heru'ur's as well (from Serpent's Venom).
  • He did not gain all of Heru'ur's power base, though; Cronus took at least one world (Double Jeopardy).
  • The SGC and SG-1 in particular seemed to be helping him inadvertently in this sweep toward total power; every time they did something to weaken him, they put him in a position to gain even more power (especially by giving his dead body back to Sokar, which may turn out to be the biggest mistake they've ever made -- it eventually gave him a powerbase like he'd never had before, and which he's building on).
    • SG-1 with Jacob's help destroyed a huge part of Apophis's new combined fleet by blowing up a sun in their presence (Exodus).
• Apophis escaped the destruction of his fleet by following SG-1 and Jacob through hyperspace, but lost his huge mother ship to Replicators. He boarded Jack's ha'tak vessel, but brought Replicators with him. SG-1 and Jacob, with the brainwashed Teal'c in tow, escaped the ship after setting it on a collision course with Delmak, Sokar's old world and Apophis's new base.
  • Apophis was still on the ship when it crashed full-speed into the planet, blowing both to smithereens. Might actually be dead this time. (Enemies) The actions of Goa'uld rising to power strongly imply that Apophis died in the explosion. Imhotep finally pronounced him dead (The Warrior), so I now consider this to be a confirmed death.
• The climb to power:
  • Started his bid for total power after Jack and Daniel killed Ra. (Stargate the movie)
  • Took over Sokar's power base after SG-1 and the Tok'ra killed Sokar and left Apophis alive. (The Devil You Know)
  • Took over Heru'ur's power base after the Tok'ra engineered a fake attack that Apophis was only too prepared for, which resulted in Heru'ur's death. (Serpent's Venom) Didn't get it all, though; Cronus grabbed at least one planet, and maybe more.
  • Possibly (probably) took over Cronus's power base, now that Cronus is dead at the hands of the robot-Teal'c. (Double Jeopardy)
  • His death left a final, massive power void, which new Goa'uld hastened to fill.
• Added to Jaffa:
  • Known Jaffa
    • Bra'tac: First Prime to Apophis for decades; Teal'c's teacher and mentor. Since Teal'c's very public break with Apophis, Bra'tac has been working more or less behind the scenes, continuing to foment rebellion among Jaffa warriors, and also helping to train Rya'c.
      • Born around 1864 ("I am one hundred and thirty-three years old" as of Bloodlines [1997]; 135 as of Into the Fire [1999]; 137 as of Threshold [2001])
      • former First Prime of Apophis, some 100 years ago (Into the Fire) (makes for odd timing, since he would only have been in his mid-30s -- was he strictly a teacher after that?).
      • Known throughout Chulak as one of the greatest Jaffa that ever lived (Family)
        • Also greeted, and treated, with great respect by the rebel Jaffa army that was drawn from at least six different System Lords's Jaffa. (The Warrior)
      • Very carefully primed Teal'c (and other Jaffa?) to prepare him to doubt and eventually work against the Goa'uld, without ever giving himself totally away, although he made himself vulnerable to betrayal (e.g., hinted that he didn't think the Goa'uld were gods, and certainly not all-knowing). (Threshold)
      • Passed the rebel torch to Teal'c when Teal'c became First Prime and finally had the power to actually do something. (Threshold)
      • Fought against Apophis during the destruction of Chulak; Moac, his newest apprentice, died from injuries received during the battle. (Maternal Instinct)
      • Has attempted the rite of m'al sharran three times; two of the warriors died, but Teal'c survived intact after the rite succeeded.(Threshold)
      • Killed: One of Klorel's Jaffa, for failing to protect Klorel from Jack and Teal'c (The Serpent's Lair); one of the Jaffa guarding Rya'c in the clearing, during SG-1's rescue of the boy (Family)
      • Was reported to have been tortured to death by Terok, Heru'ur's torturer -- unverified, could have just been a ploy to make Teal'c break. (Serpent's Venom) Verified still alive in Threshold.
      • Ribboned by Klorel (The Serpent's Lair)
      • Left for dead by the remnants of Apophis's personal guard after he tried to stage an uprising on Chulak at the news of Apophis's death. (Into the Fire)
      • Presumably has ability to sense Reetou.
      • Has been fomenting dissent/rebellion for decades.
      • Has an SGC remote transmitter and code, to be used in an emergency (to let him through the iris). (Family) SGC receives this code as "special code 2"(Maternal Instinct)
      • Had a special death glider hidden away since the days he was First Prime of Apophis. (Into the Fire)
      • Starting to feel old by end of third season (Maternal Instinct), especially after his latest student dies, but gets new lease on life during the ep.
      • As of fifth season, he's having more and more trouble achieving kelno'reem. (Threshold)
      • His prim'ta will mature within a couple of years (2003-ish, presumably, when Bra'tac is about 139), and will be his last one; even if he could find another symbiote it would reject him. He won't try to extend his life; life for the sake of life means nothing. (Threshold)
    • Drey'auc: (of the Cord'ai Plains) Teal'c's wife, left behind with their son Rya'c when Teal'c turned shol'va. She wound up being outcaste and having to scrounge to survive, including having to beg the priests to come and perform a Prim'ta ceremony on Rya'c to save his life when he was dying of fever (scarlet fever, according to Jack). With Teal'c gone, she divorced him and married his best friend, Fro'tak, to provide for her and Rya'c. After Fro'tak was killed, Drey'auc left Chulak with SG-1 and Rya'c, and moved to the Land of Light, where she's lived ever since. (Bloodlines, Family, other mentions)
    • Fro'tak: (of the High Cliffs) Teal'c's best friend on Chulak, who later married Drey'auc after Teal'c abandoned her and Rya'c. After seeing Teal'c and Drey'auc rekinding a spark or two, Fro'tak attempts to betray SG-1 to Apophis, but Jack kills him before he gets the chance. (Family)
    • Moac: Bra'tac's most recent apprentice -- the finest warrior Bra'tac had ever trained. He was badly injured during Apophis's destruction of Chulak, and despite Fraiser's best efforts, died of his injuries. (Maternal Instinct)
    • Rak'nor: Betrayed Teal'c to Heru'ur; his father, Delnor, had believed in Teal'c enough to have burned off Rak'nor's serpent tattoo on the assumption that soon all Jaffa would be free of their masters (Teal'c, while still First Prime, had spared Delnor's life, gaining lifelong loyalty in return, whether he knew it or not), but Rak'nore had watched the sparks of rebellion fail and had lost faith. When he saw that Teal'c wouldn't cave under torture, he began to change his mind again, and rescued Teal'c from Heru'ur and Apophis just in time to keep them from being destroyed in the minefield where they were meeting. (Serpent's Venom) Later, he joined K'tano's rebel army, then after K'tano was killed and revealed as Imhotep, he rallied the rebel Jaffa to Teal'c. (The Warrior)
    • Rya'c: Son of Teal'c and Drey'auc, effectively fatherless since Teal'c's decision to betray Apophis -- he and Drey'auc were left behind, without a word from Teal'c. At about 12 years old he was due for his first prim'ta. He'd also developed scarlet fever, and was going to die without a symbiote. Teal'c tried to stop the implantation, but when he realized how ill Rya'c was he gave up his own symbiote so his son would live. Teal'c left again, and Rya'c and Drey'auc moved in with Fro'tak. Apophis got hold of Rya'c and brainwashed him into publicly denouncing his father. SG-1 rescued him and brought him and Drey'auc back to SGC, where Teal'c eventually had to zat him to break Apophis's conditioning. Once free, he was overjoyed to see his father again. He and Drey'auc moved to the Land of Light to live, where they've been ever since, with occasional visits from Teal'c.
    • Shak'l: Warrior who served under Teal'c, and who succeeded him as First Prime to Apophis. He led the Jaffa hunting SG-1 on the Nox's world, was injured in a fight, and was healed by the Nox, later nearly killing Lya as he escaped. He survived that encounter, but was killed on another planet when Teal'c stabbed him.
    • Shan'auc: (of the Red Hills) Priestess on Chulak, and old "friends" with Teal'c. She came to believe that the Goa'uld were not gods, and began attempting to subvert her symbiote away from evil through communicating with it while in deep kelno'reem. When the symbiote was ready for implantation, Bra'tac sent her to Earth so she could ask for their help in giving her reformed symbiote to the Tok'ra, believing that it had renounced its race's ways. Teal'c was overjoyed to see her again, and they re-established their relationship at some level (personally, I don't think they had sex, not with her in that much constant pain). Eventually everyone agreed that she should see the Tok'ra, and SG-1 brought her to Vorash. The Tok'ra gave her symbiote to Hebron, who was aware of the dangers. The symbiote, Tanith, thanked Shan'auc for setting him free, then later in private killed her for daring to dictate to her god. Teal'c was not happy.
    • Va'lar: Friend of Teal'c's from his days serving Apophis. Va'lar didn't share Teal'c's doubts. He led a troop of warriors in a battle against Ra, but on seeing that they were hopelessly outnumbered, decided to retreat to get reinforcements. Apophis disapproved of this "cowardice", and ordered Teal'c to take Va'lar down to the planet and kill him as an example. Teal'c set Va'lar free instead, warning him to never get caught. Va'lar was horrifed that he'd do this, since Apophis would know and Teal'c would be killed; Teal'c wasn't so sure, and used this deception as a sort of test of Apophis's powers, becoming sure that the "gods"weren't as all-powerful as they claimed when he succeeded in deceiving Apophis. Later, Teal'c was ordered to destroy the very village where he'd told Va'lar to hide out, so wound up killing him anyway.
• Added to Asgard, Culture:

  • Known Asgard:

• Freyr: Apparent head of the Asgard High Council -- at the council, he wears a jewel around his neck, is in a chair bathed in purple light, and does most of the talking. He knows who Jack is, but isn't as personally invested in him as Thor is. He's the personal protector of K'tau.
• Thor: High Commander of the Asgard fleet. Thrudvang is Thor's home in the stars. (Thor's Hammer) He has the people of Cimmeria under his personal protection (Thor's Hammer, Thor's Chariot), and seems to have quite the soft spot for Earth, as well -- or at least for Jack O'Neill.
  • Repeatedly taps Jack, specifically, for important missions. (Shades of Grey, Nemesis)
  • Named his car -- er, brand-new, most-advanced-ever ship after him (The O'Neill, in Small Victories).
• Added to Others, Culture:

  • Known Others:

• Oma Desala: A rogue, who helped members of lesser races to advance more quickly. She took up residence on Kheb (probably banished there by her own kind), and established a temple meant to guide people on to the next plane of existence. Eventually Kheb became a religious byword among the Jaffa; the Goa'uld were terrified of it (Oma didn't suffer Goa'uld gladly) and forbade any mention, but in secret Jaffa whispered of how a dying Jaffa could go to Kheb and find peace. Amaunet, knowing no Goa'uld would think to look there, hid the Harsesis child on Kheb, and Oma took over his care. When SG-1 and Apophis found out and each moved in to take the child, Oma wiped out several thousand Jaffa and took the baby through the stargate, abandoning Kheb. (Maternal Instinct) She accelerated his physical development through nanites, and unlocked strong mental powers as well as she taught him her ways. (Absolute Power)
• Orlin: A rogue who gave advanced weaponry to the people of Velona to save them, only to watch as they later tried to conquer all of their neighbors. The rest of his kind wiped them out. He was banished to remain on that world, alone, where he stayed for hundreds of years until SG-1 arrived. He fell for Sam as she was trying to figure out the tech left behind on the planet, and attempted to "share"with her (telepathic/empathic type of thing, a "sharing of spirit"rather than directly reading thoughts). When all he managed to do was knock her out, he followed her home, literally, and stalked her in the comfort of her own home, eventually giving up his ascendant status and becoming human to have a better chance with her. He created a perfect, huge emerald for her, then wound up building a baby stargate in her basement, escaping through it right before the military broke in to kill him. He went straight to Velona to stop the activation of the weapon he'd originally told the Velonans how to build. He gets shot but stops the activation, and as a reward his people help him to re-ascend. (Ascension)
• Added to Misc Races: (new page)
  • Aliens:
    • Aschen:
      • 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.
    • Enkarans:
      • 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. There is no stargate on the Enkaran home world. (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's 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)
    • Gadmeer:
      • 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)
    • Reol:
      • 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)
    • Reetou:
      • 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)
    • Replicators:
      • A purely mechanical race, made of self-replicating material. Generally choose to appear in arachnid or insectoid shapes. (Nemesis, Small Victories, Enemies)
      • The Asgard found them on an abandoned planet and brought them aboard a ship to study, realizing too late what tehy had done. The Replicators learned everything they could about the technology on the ship then began conquering the Asgards's galaxy -- not to rule, just to self-replicate. They have no other purpose. (Nemesis)
      • 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.
    • Unas:
      • 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.
      • 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's 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)
  • Humans:
    • Abydonians:
      • 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)
      • 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)

        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)
      • Sha're: Kasuf's only daughter. She was given to Daniel as a gift during the first mission to Abydos, and when they hit it off for real, Daniel stayed behind with her as her husband. (Stargate the movie) They lived together for more than a year on Abydos. Shortly after Jack returned with a new mission to retrieve Daniel, Apophis's troops (led by Teal'c) came through, kidnapping Sha're and her brother Skaara. She was given as a host to Amaunet, Apophis's 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, but usually lost. 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.
    • Bedrosians:
      • 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.
      • Nyan was 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.
    • Cimmerians:
      • Norse-based culture.
      • Cimmeria is an Asgard-protected world, under the specific protection of Thor.
        • All Jaffa know it's coordinates, to be sure that no Goa'uld ever goes there by accident.
      • 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).
      • 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.

        Known Cimmerians:

        • Gairwyn: Headwoman. Tough, strong, smart. 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.
        • Kendra: Former Goa'uld host, who survived the labyrinth and 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. She died in Heru'ur's invasion.
    • Eurondans:
      • 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

April 27, 2002

• Changed some of the big character-table info at the top of the page, so that there are only two tables now:
  • Deleted Cassie's column, put her info elsewhere in the body of the page
  • Moved Bra'tac to the Hammond, Fraiser, Apophis table
  • Deleted the Catherine, Siler, and Martouf columns, putting their info elsewhere in the body of the page.
• Amended the layout for the big character tables that open the page, making it easier to see who goes with what.
• Added to Jack, Career:
  • Was intended for command of the alpha site if the asteroid struck and destroyed Earth. (Failsafe)
• Added to Jack, Income:
  • As of 2002 (based on the military pay calculator and an educated guess or two): about $116,164/year in regular compensation (including allowances), based on his rank and an assumption of 27 years of service (this only works if his retirement years don't count against him; if those aren't included, I'm figuring 25 years of service, which makes it $111,855). Probably making more in hazard pay.
  • Base monthly pay (not including allowances, and based on 27 years of service) is $7,675.
• Added to Jack, Misc.:
  • Still no diplomat; managed to insult the Asgards (including making a reference to Freyr's mother) once again, despite being the Earth's de facto ambassador to the Asgard. (Failsafe)
  • His name is cursed by every Goa'uld (The Warrior)
• Added to Daniel, Income:
  • As of 2002 (based on the salary table for senior scientific or professional positions): $112,315 to $138,200. I'd guess, given his importance to the project, that he's at the high end of this (although given his shaky status in his field, maybe not). He could also be getting hazard pay on top of this.
• Added to Daniel, Misc.:
  • Has served as a personal attendant to a Goa'uld System Lord (Yu), and attended a System Lord summit meeting. (Summit, Last Stand)
  • Is clearly getting more comfortable around tech, at least Goa'uld tech: knows enough about flying a cargo ship to use manuevering thrusters to slow the ship without being told to do so, and doesn't hesitate when Sam tells him to bypass power from hyperdrive, just gets up and heads for the correct console to do it. Possibly the ten days in transit on a barely working ship gave him the incentive to learn it. (Failsafe)
  • Is still better at thinking outside the box than pretty much anyone; he came up with the idea of extending the cargo ship's hyperdrive field to encompass the entire asteroid that was threatening Earth, so they could ride it through Earth to the other side safely. (Failsafe)
• Added to Sam, Career:
  • In the space of about a year, she's gone from having to be talked through hyperdrive repair to leading a repair team herself. (Enemies, Failsafe)
• Added to Sam, Income:

  • As of 2002 (based on the military pay calculator and an educated guess or two): about $81,322/year in regular compensation (including allowances), based on her rank and an assumption of 14 years's active service. Could also be getting hazard pay.

  • Base monthly income is $5,092, not including allowances.

• Added to Teal'c, Career:
  • By killing K'tano/Imhotep in the rite of joma secu, he's earned the right to lead the army of rebel Jaffa. (The Warrior)
• Added to Teal'c, Income:
  • As of 2002 (based on the military pay calculator and the above assumptions): if I use 10 years's service as the base, about $59,979. (10 years is the minimum requirement for Chief Master Sergeant.) It's unlikely that he wouldn't have gotten a raise in three years, but since all this is a guess anyway I have no clue what it would have gone up to. But I think it's safe to assume, given that, that he's making at least $60,000/year, and possibly is making more to put him on a more even footing with the rest of the team (although not having to pay for housing probably counts for a lot). Could also be getting hazard pay.
• Added to Teal'c, Confirmed kills:
  • Imhotep (The Warrior)
• Added to Hammond, Career:
  • Refused to leave his post, even at the apparent urging of the president, when the world was in imminent danger of being destroyed by an asteroid. (Failsafe)
• Added to Hammond, Income:
  • As of 2002 (based on the military pay calculator and an educated guess or two): about $142,710/year in regular compensation (including allowances).
  • Base monthly pay is $9,852, not including allowances.
• Added to Janet Fraiser, Career:
  • No idea how long she's been in the Air Force; doctors join as captains, not lieutenants, so I don't know how long it took her to make major. At a guess, it's been more than 10 years; I doubt she would have been assigned SGC without at least a few years's military service under her belt.
• Added to Janet Fraiser, Income:
  • As of 2002 (based on the military pay calculator and assuming 10 years's service and a pay grade of 04): about $80,379/year in regular compensation (including allowances), plus about $1100/year in special pay for medical officers. That regular pay is probably too low; I'm guessing completely on her years of service, and if those go up, her income goes up. Special pay goes down as years of service go up.
  • Base monthly income (on 10 years's service, not including allowances or special pay) is $4,696.
• Added to Apophis, Friends:
  • None. Occasional allies were about it.
• Added to Apophis, Education:
  • The genetic memory of the line of both Goa'uld who created him.
• Added to Apophis, Confirmed deaths:
  • Destruction of his base when the hatak vessel he was on struck Sokar's old world and blew everything to hell. (Enemies)
• Deleted from Apophis, Presumed deaths:
  • Destruction of his base when the hatak vessel he was on struck Sokar's old world and blew everything to hell. (Enemies)
• Added to Galactic Info, Politics (pulled all specific Protected Planets Treaty info up into this section to make it all easier to find)
  • The Asgard and the Goa'uld have a treaty in place (the Protected Planets Treaty), which currently runs to several hundred pages. Treaty Law Section 326 recognizes that humans exist for the purpose of serving the Goa'uld as hosts and slaves and requires that no human planet be allowed to advance technologically to a point where they may become a  threat to the Goa'uld -- and the Goa'uld get to determine what constitutes a threat. (Fair Game)
    • The Asgard part of the treaty includes a promise to do nothing to help the people on the planets they're protecting to advance technologically, or to artifically advance them through technological means -- which includes using technology to save them from natural (or unnatural) disasters. Any breach of treaty on the Asgard's part will nullify the entire treaty, leaving all the worlds under their protection (including Earth) open to Goa'uld attack. (Red Sky)
    • The Goa'uld part of the treaty includes a promise to never attack any world under Asgard protection, on pain of being wiped out by the Asgard. (Fair Game) The System Lords take this threat seriously, and enforce the treaty among all Goa'uld.
      • The Goa'uld have broken the treaty in spirit, if not in letter, at least twice:
        • Tanith (on Anubis's orders) set up a situation where the Tollans would bomb Earth for the Goa'uld, and was barely thwarted in this plan. (Between Two Fires)
        • Some Goa'uld, *probably* Anubis, sent a naquadah-heavy asteroid on a collision course with Earth, knowing that it would destroy all life there in what would seem to be a natural accident, whether the Tau'ri managed to plant a nuke on it or not. (Failsafe)
    • The treaty provides for arbitration of disputes. (Failsafe)
      • Arbitration requires a commission of inquiry, consisting of equal numbers of Asgard and Goa'uld representatives. (Failsafe)
      • Also requires corroborating testimony from involved parties. (Failsafe) If the parties aren't available (e.g., the Tollans, after their world was destroyed), the dispute remains unresolved.
• Added to Tau'ri, Politics/Gov't, unconfirmed secondary SGC base:
  • (...) Jack was definitely supposed to take command of the alpha site in the event SG-1 couldn't prevent an asteroid from destroying Earth. (Failsafe)
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC:
  • Standard weaponry:
    • Sidearm, either regular military issue or zat.
    • Knife
    • P-90: carries 50-round top-loading magazine with teflon-coated ordinance, at a cyclical rate of 900 rounds per minute.
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, who else knows:
  • Failsafe -- SG-1 is sending uncoded radio signals via AF SatCom (for any AF radio operator to pick up? I don't know enough about how SatCom works), and NASA is tracking their progress in getting up close and personal to destroy the asteroid, and giving SGC updated status reports on the mission.
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC:
  • Uses AFSatCom to bounce radio signals from teams in space. (Failsafe)
  • Civilians connected to SGC:
    • Cassie Fraiser: Born in 1985 (turns 16 in Rite of Passage [2001]; earlier references are hazier about her age, but Rite of Passage has her actual birthday celebration). She was raised on the planet Hanka until she was about 12 years old, when Nirrti wiped out her entire people with a virus. SG-1 brought her back to Earth, where she was nearly the cause of SGC's destruction (from a bomb that Nirrti had implanted in her chest). (Singularity) She bonded with Sam during that, but wound up being fostered/adopted by Janet Fraiser, although she also stayed close to Sam -- comforting Sam when she was depressed (In the Line of Duty), going boating with her and Janet on a weekend trip (Urgo), playing chess with her every other Saturday if Sam is onworld (Rite of Passage). Sam was also the only person other than Janet at Cassie's 16th birthday dinner. (Rite of Passage) Jack also maintained contact, enough that the kids from Cassie's first school on Earth still knew him the year after she left for her junior high (not middle school) (Learning Curve). Refers to the team by first names; calls Jack "Jack"in Rite of Passage. In her very early teens, she liked art and had been told by her teacher that she had talent at it. (In the Line of Duty) She has the ability to sense blended Goa'uld, presumably because of the naquadah still in her system. (In the Line of Duty) At 15-turning-very-snotty-16 in high school, she was dating a boy named Dominic. (Rite of Passage) She's been through a lot of trauma: she witnessed the deaths of her parents and all her people (Singularity), a goa'ulded Sam threatened her with death (In the Line of Duty), and she nearly died from a retro-virus that Nirrti had infected all of Cassie's people with, triggered at age 16. The virus caused her to generate a fluctuating, strong EM field, strong enough to disrupt electronic equipment and to make it impossible to give her an MRI. Eventually she could control the field, allowing her to manipulate things like magnets. To save her life, the effects had to be reversed, leaving her unable to manipulate EM fields anymore. She was saved by (a very grumpy) Nirrti. (Rite of Passage)
    • Catherine Langford: Born in 1924 (Torment of Tantalus -- she was 21 in 1945). She's single (at least the last we heard), but was engaged to Ernest Littlefield as a young woman and reunited with him in her 70s. (Torment of Tantalus) She has a PhD, probably in archaeology, and is very smart. Her father was Professor Langford, an archaeologist who worked on the original stargate project. After the program was closed, she petitioned several administrations to reinstate the program, finally succeeding 40 years later. Began her 'gate research again in the late 1960s. (1969) She recruited Daniel into the Stargate program in the mid-1990s (1994 by movie canon, 1995 by show canon), and knows Sam from Sam's Pentagon days. She she left the program after the first mission to Abydos, and didn't find out what was going on with the SGC until The Torment of Tantalus when Daniel came to her asking about her father's records. Her first and only trip through the stargate was to recover Ernest, whom she had believed was dead for the past fifty years. (Torment of Tantalus) She has enough money to live in a great big house -- the same one she grew up in -- with a staff (at least a housekeeper), and to be chauferred around in a limo even after retirement. (Torment of Tantalus) She's fluent in German, and seems fond of tea -- and has continued to use the same teaset she used as a young woman in the 1920s. (Torment of Tantalus, 1969) She always wears a Ra pendant, for luck (Children of the Gods, Torment of Tantalus, There But for the Grace of God, 1969). She gave it to Daniel on the first Abydos mission, and Daniel gave it to Jack to give back to her when he decided to stay behind (Children of the Gods, Torment of Tantalus)
    • Ernest Littlefield: One of the archaeologists working on the original stargate project with Professor Langford. He was engaged to Catherine Langford in the 1920s, but as part of his work on the program he volunteered to go through the stargate, and was trapped offworld for fifty years on an abandoned world. He deciphered as much as he could of the alien languages he found there, staying remarkably sane for a human left completely alone for so long (barring a few hallucinations about Catherine). SG-1 and Catherine came to rescue him as soon as they found records of what had happened to them, and barely got him and themselves out in time as the building he was living in collapsed around them in a massive storm. He and Catherine seem to have rekindled their relationship, after a slightly bumpy start. (Torment of Tantalus) No idea what's happened to him since then, although the odds are extremely high that he's staying away from crowds and is probably in more or less nonstop SGC-sponsored therapy.
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, SG units, SG-1, Goa'uld killed by SG-1:
  • Apophis (Jack, Sam, Daniel, with Jacob's help)
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, SG personnel (moved from character table):
  • Sergeant Siler: Assigned to the base. His area of expertise is the mechanical and electrical function of the Stargate, and he is often called upon to make corrections and repairs on the Stargate and the equipment. Also seems to help with research (Crystal Skull). He was under Hathor's 'spell' in Hathor. He wound up with a concussion and broken arm after a suped-up Jack tapped him in Upgrades.
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, Technology:
  • Ability to build a naquadah-enhanced nuke that packs 1,200 megatons -- the most powerful bomb ever built on Earth (equivalent to 1 billion tons of TNT) (Failsafe)
    • Particular bomb used against the asteroid in Failsafe:
      • deactivation code: 03310310
      • faulty design: wires from timer to detonator were all yellow -- there was supposed to be a red one to cut to deactivate the bomb
      • toolbox on back: S6/94882
  • Repair: now have instruction sheets on how to repair Goa'uld systems (hyperdrive, life support, etc.) (Failsafe)
• Added to Goa'uld, Culture, Political structure, System Lords:
  • System Lords appear to have varying ranks, with a select few forming the ruling core -- the number seems to depend on how much power how many people have grabbed. The ruling System Lords can (and do) make treaties that all Goa'uld must abide by, such as the Protected Planets Treaty with the Asgard. (various eps, but mainly Fair Game, Summit, and Last Stand)
  • According to Teal'c, after talking to Yu, the System Lords knew about the rebel Jaffa army raised by K'tano, and allowed it to continue and grow, biding their time until they could launch an attack to wipe out all rebel Jaffa. (The Warrior)
• Added to Goa'uld, Culture, System Lords:
  • Apophis X: (Beyond the actions of Goa'uld rising to power, one Goa'uld has pronounced him dead (The Warrior), so I now consider this to be a confirmed death.)
  • Yu: (...) Survived the attack by Osiris thanks to the sarcophagus, but it left him weak. Not so weak he couldn't figure out what was going on with "K'tano", though, and to capture Teal'c and tell him about the destruction of K'tano's plans, infuriating Teal'c enough to go back and kill K'tano/Imhotep. He goes so far as to say to Teal'c "Your faith is not blind - I know this of you", counting on Teal'c's ability to think for himself as a strength to all appearances, and is willing to forgo killing the shol'va who basically began the wave of unrest in the Jaffa ranks in order to unseat the leader of the rebellion -- who was about to be attacked and maybe killed anyway. Yu's motivations are a bit murky here -- he appears to be much smarter and capable of more long-term planning than most Goa'uld. (The Warrior)
• Added to Goa'uld, Culture, System Lords, killed by SG-1:
  • Apophis (Jack, Sam, Daniel, with Jacob's help)
• Added to Goa'uld, Culture, Minor Goa'uld:
  • Imhotep X: Symbol is an inverted step pyramid (very cool, especially in the First Prime gold form). From a backwater planet, whose only claim to fame was developing a particular fighting style (very Eastern, and rife with Matrix-y effects): mastaba. Full of kicking and staff work, and based on the idea that one must strive with single-minded purpose to victory, without regard for survival. All of his Jaffa were required to master it. In an attempt to gain power during the upheaval period after the collapse of the second Goa'uld dynasty, he disguised himself as his own First Prime (K'tano), pretended to have killed Imhotep, and raised a Jaffa army from freedom-seeking Jaffa of many Goa'uld. He snookered every Jaffa he met, including Bra'tac and Teal'c; possibly used a sublimal hint of Goa'uld voice to influence them? (They all fell for his act very very fast, and completely, for no apparent reason.) He gained many Jaffa from the ranks of the System Lords that SG1 have killed, and had Jaffa from at least six different System Lords (including Horus guards and Serpent guards). Used a combination of freedom-fighting rhetoric and religion (promising that fallen warriors would go to Kheb). Skilled at manipulating people and situations; he seduced Teal'c away from SG-1, making very deliberate moves to call him to his side and away from Jack any time Jack wanted Teal'c to go with him (weakening Jack's alpha image, strengthening his own, and putting Teal'c in a beta position from which he was less likely to challenge K'tano). Offered to make Teal'c his second in command, if Teal'c survived the suicide mission against Yu. Seemed sincere in his desire for an alliance with Earth - very Goa'uld-y betrayal and doublecross potential all over the place there. Teal'c killed him in the rite of joma secu to expose him as the betrayer to the Jaffa cause that he was, and also wound up exposing him as Imhotep. (The Warrior)
• Added to Minor Goa'uld killed by SG-1:
  • Imhotep (Teal'c)
• Added to Goa'uld, Technology, Transportation Rings:
  • Seem to be many ways of triggering them:
    • controls worn on the body (Stargate the movie)
    • keyed controls (Jolinar's Memories, Devil You Know)
    • on cargo ships, either by a keypad set in a control column in the main chamber (Serpent's Venom), or by a key combination on the top of the control column (Failsafe)
• Added to Goa'uld, Language:
  • Blame any bizarre variations in spelling on whoever close-captions the show. Argh. (My kingdom for a real lexicon!)
  • bashaak: training (wooden) staff weapons (The Warrior)
  • hal mek: possibly "hold your fire"- what K'tano/Imhotep says to Nirrti's Jaffa when he walks into the middle of live fire to recruit them to his cause. (The Warrior)
  • joma secu: "challenge of leadership"-- a duel to the death to decide who is more worthy (and has the right) to lead. Possibly a purely Jaffa term, although that isn't definite. (The Warrior)
  • kalach shal tek: "victory or death"(The Warrior)
  • tak mal tiak: greeting of some sort, probably respectful (what K'tano/Imhotep says to Bra'tac)
  • tec'ma-te: (...) see tek matte for later spelling and meaning
  • tek ma'tek: friends well met ("we come in peace)
  • tek matte: variant spelling of "tec'ma-te"-- a greeting of respect (dammit, that is *not* how it started out; it was a title, not a greeting) (The Warrior)
  • ya duru arik kek onac: (K'tano/Imhotep to Teal'c, followed by "I honor he who would kill his god") (The Warrior)
  • zatnuketel: horrible, horrible variant spelling of zat'nik'tel (The Warrior)
• Added to Jaffa, Culture, Warrior culture:
  • Despite years of exposure to Tau'ri weapons, Jaffa still consider them less than "true"weapons, preferring to trust in staff weapons and zats. A direct demonstration of staff v. P-90 changes a few minds. (The Warrior)
  • Not accustomed to thinking of women as warriors, but not freaked at the thought, either. (The Warrior)
  • Training staffs (wooden versions of staff weapons) are bashaak (The Warrior)
• Added to Jaffa, Technology, little tech of their own:
  • The rebel Jaffa army, cut off from all Goa'uld tech, uses cloth drawn-in maps, waterskins, pottery cups, firelight/torches -- no tech or industrialized materials at all beyond some scavenged weapons and body armor. (The Warrior)
• Added to Tok'ra, Known Tok'ra:
  • Jalen: Female host. Caught SG-1's distress signal and came to render assistance after they rode the asteroid through Earth. (Failsafe)
• Added to Asgard, Culture, Protected Planets Treaty:
  • The treaty provides for arbitration of disputes. (Failsafe)
    • Arbitration requires a commission of inquiry, consisting of equal numbers of Asgard and Goa'uld representatives. (Failsafe)
    • Also requires corroborating testimony from involved parties. (Failsafe) If the parties aren't available (e.g., the Tollans, after their world was destroyed), the dispute remains unresolved.
• Deleted from Links, Military, Military pay:
• http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004606.html (monthly basic pay by grade) -- dead link
• Added to Links, Military, Military pay:
  • http://militarypay.dtic.mil/actives/pay/calc/index.html (military pay calculator)
• Note on Links, Show-related:
  • I know, these are thin (and getting thinner as I weed out dead links). That's because I hate spoilers, and going to show-related sites of any sort often results in being spoiled. If you've got links you want me to put here, let me know what they are and I'll add them.
• Changed in Links, Show-related, Show canon:
  • http://scifiguide.net/stargate/index.html changed to http://www.gateworld.net/ -- the site moved and was renamed.
• Deleted from Links, Show-related, Eps:
  • http://www.s_g_c.homestead.com/ (Stargate Central -- some good info. Use no-frames version. Also has eps to download.) -- dead link
  • http://www.gammaquad.com/sg1/ (Gamma Quadrant -- SG-1 episodes to download. They seem to be completely up-to-date. The eps are in Windows Media format.) -- moved to http://www.sg1archive.com/ , already listed.

April 14, 2002

• Updated arcs page through The Warrior; added arc for Yu
• Updated eps, directors, and writers pages through The Warrior
• Started adding more cross-reference links throughout the page
• Added spelling note:
  • Closed-captioning and rdanderson.com both say that Tau'ri is actually Tauri. I can't bring myself to take the apostrophe out; it just looks wrong to me without it. So for this one instance, I'm going with my personal quirk rather than the official ruling.
• Added to Jack, Confirmed kills:
  • Three Jaffa, outside a lab on Revanna during Zipacna's attack. (Last Stand)
• Added to Teal'c, Confirmed kills:
  • Three Jaffa, outside a lab on Revanna during Zipacna's attack. (Last Stand)
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, SG units, SG-17:
  • Four-man team -- no women (Summit). Mansfield and two others were killed in the goa'uld attack on the Tok'ra base on Revanna (Summit); Elliot survived briefly as a Tok'ra after Lantash entered him in an attempt to save both their lives, but was too badly injured, and died soon after (Last Stand).
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, Wiped-out teams (general date of team's death in red):
  • SG-17: 2001, Summit/Last Stand
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, SG personnel, Lt. Elliott X:
  • (...) First mission was a cakewalk: go to Revanna, be polite to the Tok'ra and learn their new insurgency tactics while everyone waited for Jacob and Daniel to complete their mission. Revanna was brutally attacked, and Elliott watched his entire team die, and nearly died himself before Lantash entered him in an attempt to save both their lives (Summit). Their respective injuries were too severe, and they willingly remained behind to cover SG-1 and Jacob's retreat, waiting their chance to release a deadly poison that would kill every Goa'uld, Tok'ra, and Jaffa in range, including them. (2001, Last Stand)
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, SG personnel, Major Mansfield X:
  • (...)Died in the attack on Revanna when the ceiling caved in on him after he'd already suffered severe injuries in another bomb-induced cave-in. (2001, Last Stand)
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, Technology (in the SGC's posession):
  • Formula for symbiote poison, which the Tok'ra saved on a crystal and which Sam took possession of. The poison kills any symbiote exposed to it. (Summit)
• Added to Goa'uld, Culture:
  • Goa'uld queens serve their pharoahs, not the other way around. (Summit)
  • Despite being largely genderless themselves (with the probable exception of the true queens), Goa'uld are influenced by their hosts's gender, and notice attractiveness (sexual as well as aesthetic) in other hosts. (Children of the Gods, Summit)
  • After spreading "like a plague"for thousands of years, the Goa'uld are suddenly showing zero population growth. (Summit)
  • The System Lords, at least, are showing cannibal behavior; after a summit meeting, the System Lords in attendance ritually ate live Goa'uld symbiotes, and planned to do so every night as long as the summit continued. (Last Stand)
    • This could be a new behavior pattern, but these were not new Goa'uld; they'd been around for a long time, and Osiris at least should still have been accustomed to ancient practices (having been in stasis for millennia until a year earlier) -- but Osiris was the first to chomp. (Last Stand)
    • If this is a new patterns, it could account for the sudden plunge in the population growth. (Last Stand)
  • Often choose neutral territory to hold meetings/councils:
    • the Tobin system (where Apophis and Heru'ur met to discuss a possible alliance, before Apophis obliterated Heru'ur and his forces). (Serpent's Venom)
    • the Hassarra system (where the post-second dynasty System Lords met to discuss their new secret enemy and then accepted him into their ranks). (Summit, Last Stand)
• New Section: Goa'uld, Culture, Political Structure (newly added info):
  • Basically a feudal society, with a few dozen (? -- exact number unknown) System Lords at the top of the hierarchy, and thousands of lesser-ranked Goa'uld serving them (presumably all of varying rank). It seems to be possible to move up and down the ladder. Ra was the greatest System Lord before he was killed (Stargate the movie), and his death created a vacuum that the other System Lords are fighting to fill.
  • At the top of the post-Ra heap were Apophis, Sokar, Cronus, and Heru'ur. Apophis is rising and falling in power, but after each fall (The Serpent's Lair [loses his power base and most of his Jaffa as a result of SG-1's having destroyed the motherships he'd committed to wiping out Earth], Serpent's Song [captured and tortured by Sokar, only to die on Earth of his injuries after escaping], Jolinar's Memories/ Devil You Know [revived and tortured more at Sokar's hands, then thrown into hell where the best he could manage was servant to one of Sokar's servants]) he comes back stronger than ever (Maternal Instinct [now commands all of Sokar's vast troops -- an army that can conquer the other System Lords], Serpent's Venom [presumably inherits Heru'ur's troops when Apophis destroys Heru'ur's mothership, with Heru'ur on board; has discovered technology to cloak an entire fleet of motherships]).
  • After the collapse of what the Tok'ra call the "second Goa'uld dynasty"(unclear whether that includes Ra or not), the Goa'uld fought among themselves, suffering heavy losses before declaring a truce. Seven System Lords rose to power out of this: Bastet, Kali the Destroyer, Baal, Morrigan, Olukun, an unnamed Goa'uld (rdanderson.com says that he's Svarog, but I can't find any evidence in the show so far), and Yu -- the only surviving member of the old order. (Summit) Meanwhile, Anubis had been working behind the scenes, fighting with all of them in his own bid for power (seems to be hoping to become the next Ra), and eventually won himself a place among the ruling System Lords, bringing the total to eight. (Summit, Last Stand)
  • The Goa'uld will unite to defend against outside threats such as the Asgard or Reetou, but will battle among themselves for control of individual domains. (Fair Game)
  • A Goa'uld's power is more often challenged by his son than by his enemies. (The Serpent's Lair) -- Other than this one statement, though, we haven't actually seen proof of this; mostly it's been enemies whaling away on each other.
  • There are rival factions trying to unseat the System Lords:
    • The Linvris are a rival league of nine lesser Goa'uld who challenge the System Lords. They are all found dead on PY3-948 by SG-1; they've been dead a month. (Legacy)
    • The Tok'ra
• Deleted from Goa'uld, Culture, System Lords:
  • Entries for non-ruling goa'uld; added a new section called Lesser Goa'uld that includes them. Where I wasn't sure which category a given goa'uld fit, I left him/her in System Lords.
• Added to Goa'uld, Culture, System Lords:
  • Anubis: Funerary god in Egyptian mythology. Used to be a System Lord; banished, never to be allowed to return, for crimes that were unspeakable even to other goa'uld (Last Stand). The System Lords also attempted to murder him, and for a thousand years thought they had, before he reappared to take advantage of the power vacuum after the collapse of the second Goa'uld dynasty (Last Stand). He began using any Jaffa he can find: godless Jaffa from defeated goa'uld (lots from Cronus and Sokar, for instance); captured Jaffa (some from one of Olukun's motherships) (Summit). He's also good at turning goa'uld to his side; as he first reappeared on the scene, he seemed to favor goa'uld who served Apophis (Tanith [Between Two Fires], Zipacna [Summit, Last Stand]) but didn't limit himsef to them -- recruited Osiris, using Zipacna as an emissary (Summit, Last Stand). He was making a massive power play from hiding, attacking anyone and everyone without letting anyone know who was attacking, and doing a lot of damage as he threw the remaining System Lords into disarray and distrust. When he'd made enough of an impact to have all the new System Lords worried, he sent Osiris as his proxy to request that he be allowed to rejoin the System Lords. He was accepted (by Baal, Bast, Kali, Morrigan, Olukun, and one more [possibly Svarog?-- see rdanderson.com 's database for Summit], but not by Yu, the only dissenting vote) and became a System Lord again. Through Osiris, he promised Yu privately that he would destroy Earth before actively taking his place among the System Lords, and promised the council at large the he would destroy the Tok'ra. He had more luck with the second promise: Zipacna's forces attacked the Tok'ra's new base on Revanna, killing every Tok'ra there, leaving only those Tok'ra out on missions as survivors. Although there's no direct evidence linking him, he has probably made two two attempts to destroy Earth by the time he requested re-entry to the council, both failures: Tanith tried to get the Tollan to send a bomb through Earth's iris (Between Two Fires); and a huge naquadah-heavy asteroid was hauled into Earth's solar system and set on a collision course with Earth (Failsafe).
  • Apophis X: (...) (Currently presumed dead by all and sundry, but given his history I'm not putting this X in red just yet.)
  • Baal: Tends to be a bit touchy and possessive; he wiped out two star systems -- 60 million people -- rather than lose them to Sokar in a territorial dispute. Daniel said of him: "His gifts have a habit of exploding, especially when he feels he's been slighted."Seems to be nominally in charge/the host of the council meeting of the new System Lords, although that doesn't give him any more power there than anyone else. (Summit) Despite having suffered losses at Anubis's hands (Baal lost his flagship and 2000 Jaffa in battle with him), Baal accepted Anubis's bid to rejoin the System Lords. (Last Stand)
  • Bastet: A lesser (but still fairly powerful, by all indications) goa'uld until the second ruling dynasty collapsed. She may have a long-term alliance with Kali; they seem to be on fairly friendly terms, and at least once were spoken of as a unit ("Bastet and Kali have also suffered..."-- Baal, Summit). The two of them made a treaty with Sobek, then moved against him during the celebratory feast. Rumor has it that his head still decorates Bastet's palace in Bubastis. (Summit) Despite suffering losses at the hands of Anubis's forces, and having gone to a council to determine a course against him (before they knew who he was), Bastet voted to let Anubis back among the System Lords. (Last Stand)
  • Kali: "The Destroyer". A lesser (but still fairly powerful, by all indications) goa'uld until the second ruling dynasty collapsed. She may have a long-term alliance with Bast; they seem to be on fairly friendly terms, and at least once were spoken of as a unit ("Bastet and Kali have also suffered..."-- Baal, Summit). The two of them made a treaty with Sobek, then moved against him during the celebratory feast. (Summit) She had an outpost on Cerador. Despite suffering losses at the hands of Anubis's forces (she lost two motherships in battle against him), and having gone to a council to determine a course against him (before they knew who he was), Kali voted to let Anubis back among the System Lords. (Last Stand)
  • Morrigan: Very little known about her. She uses her lo'taur to try to get information about other System Lords through "casual" conversation with other lo'taurs. She rose to power after the collapse of the second Goa'uld dynasty, and despite having suffered at Anubis's hands, voted to let him return to the System Lords. (Last Stand)
  • Nirrti: (...) Months later [after Rite of Passage], is still persona non grata among the goa'uld, with no chance of being accepted among the ruling System Lords (Last Stand).
  • Olukun: Has battled with Yu, and is still angry over his losses. Rose to System Lord rank after the collapse of the second Goa'uld dynasty. (Summit) Despite losses to Anubis's forces (and having lost Jaffa who defected to Anubis when their mothership was taken), he voted to allow Anubis back among the System Lords. (Last Stand)
  • Osiris: (...) Remained in Sarah's body by choice, even though most Goa'uld prefer not to change their hosts's gender. In about a year, had managed to amass an impressive army. (Summit) Claims to serve no one -- and gets very testy at the idea that he may have served Isis, insisting that she served him -- but is quickly recruited to Anubis's cause, and agrees to serve as his emissary and proxy to the new council of System Lords. (Summit, Last Stand)
  • Yu: (...) His full name and title is the Jade Emperor, the Exalted Lord Yu Huang Shang-Ti. He lives in a Chinese-style palace/fortress in a mountainous region of his planet, and is fond of tea. (Summit) His lo'taur prior to Jarren (whom Daniel wound up impersonating) unwittingly gave up the location of Yu's secret base in Valon, but then died in the surprise attack. Yu was the only surviving member of the old order of ruling System Lords, but didn't have enough power to take a position of precedence (or possibly simply didn't want to). (Summit) He was the only member of the new council of System Lords to deny Anubis's request to rejoin them. (Last Stand) He was stabbed in the stomach by Osiris when he came upon Daniel (whom he knew as Jarren) trying to kidnap Osiris/Sarah. (Last Stand)
• New section: Goa'uld, Culture, Lesser Goa'uld -- Non-System Lords (but fairly high-ranked) (newly added):
  • Amaunet X: Apophis's mate and queen, who bore him a human son. Used the body of Sha're as a host. Was killed by Teal'c during Forever in a Day when she tried to kill Daniel using a ribbon-device.Was possibly allied secretly with Heru'ur against Apophis; her guards in Forever in a Day were Horus guards, not Serpent guards, and Sha're at the end said, "Amaunet took the Abydonians as a show, so that Heru'ur would not know her true goal."-- so not only was she likely allied with Heru'ur, she was apparently betraying him even as she used him to betray Apophis. And she was pulling it off. The only thing she hadn't counted on was Kasuf getting a message to SG-1, and SG-1 bringing enough troops along to wipe out the power base Amaunet was building. Given that Apophis called her his "new queen" in Children of the Gods, it seems likely that she was all of three years old when she did all of this.
  • Klorel: The son of Apophis, using the body of Skaara as a host. Was forcibly removed from Skaara during Pretense and sent to a Goa'uld homeworld in search of another host. No idea if he found one or not.
  • Nefertum, the Blue Lotus Blossum of Ra, son of Sakmet, was an under System Lord to Ra, and probably brought the people to the planet P2X-416 (Bedrosia & Optrica). The Bedrosians believe he is the creator of the planet and its people, as related in their holy book, the Book of Nefertum. (New Ground)
  • Tanith X: Tanith was the symbiote carried by Shan'auc, who convinced her that he hated the Goa'uld and everything they did, and that he wanted to be a Tok'ra. He was lying, and later, having taken Hebron as a host, he killed her for her temerity in daring to tell him, her god, what he should think or feel. He believed that the Tok'ra were taken in by him, and that he was acting as a concealed spy for the Goa'uld in the Tok'ra ranks, unaware that the Tok'ra were using him to spread misinformation to the Goa'uld when possible. (Crossroads) As part of his cover, he gave at least one piece of useful info to the Tok'ra: the location of the meeting between Apophis and Heru'ur. (Serpent's Venom) Over several months, the Tok'ra fed him enough misinformation to keep Apophis otherwise occupied while they saved hundreds of lives and pull agents out of dangerous situations. When the Tok'ra had a chance to move their home base, they decided it was too risky to keep Tanith around, and told him they knew about him. He escaped custody, though, and managed to badly injure or kill Teal'c and take him to Apophis. (Exodus) He didn't die in the explosion of the sun with Apophis's fleet; he was in the single one-man pod that escaped, and found himself a new master to serve. Hasn't lost his hatred of Teal'c or the rest of SG-1, and nearly succeeded in destroying Earth by getting the Tollans to do his dirty work for him. (Between Two Fires) While scouting a new planet to use as a base, along with a contingent of Jaffa, he was killed when Teal'c shot directly into bridge of the al-kesh Tanith was flying, causing it to crash and burn. (48 Hours) Eventually, it becomes clear that the new, unnamed master must have been Anubis. (Summit)
  • Zipacna was one of Apophis's most loyal underlords, who apparently preferred South American mythology to Egyptian. He was chosen by Klorel to be Klorel's archon in triad to decide Klorel's and Skaara's fate, and while he was at it set up a sneak attack on the Tollans to take out their ion cannons and destroy their world (foiled by Teal'c and Lya). (Pretense) After Apophis's death, he seems to have been recruited by Anubis, and became one of Anubis's main emissaries. The position seems more powerful than the one he held under Apophis, and he's definitely dressing better -- although still in a kilt, rather than trousers. He recruits Osiris to the cause, and captures a Tok'ra spy in his ranks, managing to get information about Revanna and about a new superweapon (the symbiote poison). He went to Revanna, engaging the Revanna stargate as soon as his ships were within sensor range to cut off any escape, and loosed his Jaffa in an attack (led by al-kesh that bombed the planet, then gliders that strafed the surface, then ground troops that infiltrated the Tok'ra tunnels to find any survivors) that destroyed the base and killed every Tok'ra there. Only SG-1 escaped. (Summit, Last Stand)
  • Lesser Goa'uld killed directly by SG-1:
    • Amaunet (Teal'c)
    • Tanith (Teal'c)
• Added to Goa'uld, Biology, dying symbiote absorbed by host:
  • contradiction: a dying symbiote releases a toxin that kills the host. (Summit)
• Added to Goa'uld, Technology:
  • Space station: Cargo ships don't board or enter docking bays; they connect to docking arms on the sides of the station. (Summit)
  • Tel'tac: (...)They're not equipped with seatbelts (Summit)
• Added to Goa'uld, Language:
  • lo'taur: the highest-ranking human slave, basically a personal attendant. It's considered a position of honor. (Summit)
• Added to Jaffa, Culture:
  • Jaffa serve purely a military function (presumably the priest-caste has nothing to do with humans, only Jaffa). (Summit)
• Added to Tok'ra, Culture:
  • 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 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)
  • 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.
  • 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. (Summit, Last Stand)
• Added to Tok'ra, Culture, Known Tok'ra:
  • Indicators on which Tok'ra are dead (X)
  • Aldwin: (...) 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)
  • 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)
  • Jacob/Selmak: (...) 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)
• Martouf/Lantash: (...) The body was taken back to Vorash and held in stasis, 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's body, which 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)
• Ren'al: (...) 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)
• Added to Tok'ra, Technology:
  • Crystals: specifically, cave-forming crystals. Each one is designed to create a different kind of tunnel. (Summit)
    • small square: short, straight openings
    • long rectangle: long straight tunnel
    • diamond: tunnel that angles up to the surface
  • 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)

March 19, 2002

• Updated continuity and arcs pages through 48 Hours
• Updated eps, directors, and writers pages through 48 Hours
• Added to Jack, Personal enemies, Maybourne:
  • Doesn't believe that Maybourne is the one who "sullied the good name of the NID"(48 Hours) -- which makes no sense, given Jack's history with Maybourne.
• Added to Jack, Misc., pop media culture:
  • Gets into pop refs with Maybourne, as well; he refers to the pair of them as Starsky and Hutch (he's Starsky, Maybourne's Hutch) as "cover" in Chain Reaction. Repeats the ref in Desperate Measures, when he sends a message to "Hutch"signed "Starsky" to contact Maybourne. Later, his first reaction to being told Maybourne is using the name "Cassidy"is to ask whether it's David or Shaun (48 Hours).
• Added to Daniel, Career:
  • Is being used for his diplomatic/negotiating skills; gets sent to Russia (language skills can't have hurt there) along with Major Davis to negotiate for the loan of the Russian DHD, needed to rescue Teal'c from inside the stargate. He's the one who made the deal happen. (48 Hours)
• Added to Sam, Food preferences:
  • Blue Jell-O. (Urgo, Proving Ground, 48 Hours)
• Added to Teal'c, Confirmed kills:
  • Tanith -- using the cannon he salvaged from a downed glider in Fifth Man (48 Hours)
• Added to Teal'c, Near-deaths:
  • Trapped inside the stargate itself for more than two days -- although he has no memory of this. (48 Hours)
• Added to Teal'c, Misc.:
  • Has developed a fondness for the cannon he salvaged from the downed glider in Fifth Man; seems to have become his weapon of choice, and was the weapon he used to kill Tanith in 48 Hours.
• Added to Galactic Info, Stargates:
  • Safety protocols: (...)
    • Another safety protocol is designed to keep energy signatures from mixing together; one way the gate does this is to erase the energy buffer (the memory of energy signatures stored in its crystals) every time a new wormhole engages. (48 Hours)
  • Wormholes:
    • Explanations of wormhole physics:
      • The stargate on the receiving end of a wormhole temorarily stores the energy signature of each object passing through the wormhole before reforming the object, to be sure that it has all the necessary information. Reintegration of the object clears the signature, as does a new wormhole engaging (incoming or outgoing). (48 Hours)
        • Cutting off power to an outgoing wormhole prematurely can trap objects withing the stargate system as energy, if the stargate on the receiving end doesn't have enough time to recreate the object. (48 Hours)
        • The signature is stored not in the energy itself, but is imprinted on the crystals in the receiving stargate, to be held in "memory"until the object is reformed. (48 Hours)
        • If an object is trapped, it is lost completely the next time a wormhole engages, clearing/erasing the "buffer". The only way to reintegrate it is to remove the DHD's master control crystal before attaching the DHD. (48 Hours)
          • Removal of the master control crystal could result in massive uncontrolled energy flows -- and if stray current goes into the wrong conduit, the entire stargate could explode. (48 Hours)
  • Dialing:
    • The stargate can emit up to 400 feedback signals during the dialing process (tied in to the system's safety protocols?) (48 Hours)
• Rearranged/Added to Tau'ri, Politics, the Russians (newly added):
  • Took the Giza DHD from the Germans during WWII. (Watergate)
  • Stargate program:
    • Had a stargate program of sorts going before even getting a stargate; someone recognized dhd symbols in a Russian archaeologist's report and suppressed the knowledge, and the Russians later added that gate address to the ones supplied by Colonel Maybourne. (The Tomb)
    • Salvaged the original gate from the ocean after it crashed (Nemesis) and set up their own secret program, aided with info from the NID, with Maybourne as an onsite advisor. (Watergate)
    • During one mission, they captured one of Cronus's Jaffa and held him prisoner, leaving that fact out of the offical records. (Desperate Measures)
    • Had their own version of an NID based in Russian Army Intelligence, running secret missions beyond the ones that were logged to gain technology. Whoever was in charge of it still has pull -- gave secret orders to the Russian rescue team to make getting the Eye of Tiamat a priority. (The Tomb)
    • Left a team of four offworld for 10 months after their program was shut down rather than admit to having unauthorized missions. (The Tomb)
    • Official program had only gone to 37 other gates. (The Tomb) If that number is right (i.e., that they actually went to them all, not just that they had addresses for them), they were whipping through planets at an incredible rate -- according to Jack, they had to call in the SGC to help with the water-gate after a month.
  • Cooperation with SGC/Pentagon:
    • The Pentagon has made a deal with the Russians, to share information and technology gained through the stargate as long as the Russians decommission the gate their salvaged gate. (Watergate, Chain Reaction, Absolute Power)
      • Neither Russia nor the US is holding up their end of the agreement between them -- which both sides acknowledge. (The Tomb, 48 Hours)
    • The Russians have been pushing for more direct involvement in the stargate program. (The Tomb)
    • The Russians are willing to do at least the minimum; on request, they contacted and then brought home eight teams caught offworld when Teal'c got trapped in the stargate. (48 Hours)
    • Despite his government's agreement to SGC terms, the general in charge of dealing with Major Davis and Daniel (sent to request help and the Russian DHD) is still very angry about the lack of sharing and about the death of the three Russian soldiers in The Tomb, and at first refuses to do more than contact and bring home the stranded SG teams. He uses SGC's need of his help to make demands his goverment hasn't, looking for something of "significant value"in return for the use of their DHD, unwilling to simply be walked over by SGC interests. (48 Hours)
      • Demands that a Russian team be permanently stationed on the SGC base, all mission reports go through the Russian onsite officer, and all technology procured and developed as a result of stargate travel -- past, present, and future -- be shared equally. To back up these demands, he points out that the DHD means that the Russians could ensure that their stargate remains the dominant one. (48 Hours)
      • Thanks to Daniel's ability to cut to the heart of things, the general agrees to loan the DHD as long as he can come with it to see exactly what happens, in return for naquadah generator technology. (48 Hours)
    • After it's loaned to SGC to rescue Teal'c, the DHD is destroyed in a backlash of energy. (48 Hours)
    • Russia now has a naquadah-generator program, supervised by Dr. McKay (formerly of Area 51).
• Added to Tau'ri, Military, Pentagon, Major Davis:
  • (...) Gets sent to Russia along with Daniel to negotiate for the use of the DHD to rescue Teal'c, where his Pentagon leanings show more clearly -- he isn't actually interested in dealing with the Russians, just in getting what he wants without giving anything up. But he goes along with Daniel's idea to offer naquadah generator technology, which tips the balance in their favor. (48 Hours)
• Added to Tau'ri, Military, Pentagon, Colonel Harry Maybourne:
  • (...) He obviously keeps fairly steady tabs on the NID, or at the very least on NID files that relate to SGC (or possibly Jack), and is probably living somewhere in the US -- he finds out that Teal'c is trapped in the stargate and shows up to talk to Jack about it in what seems to be about 24 hours (is staying locally at the Accent Inn under an alias). He can still hack into restricted NID databases with no problem, and is one of the few people who knows the current location of all the NID's "safehouses"(special ops bases). With nothing in it for himself beyond a chance to get at Simmons on some level, he helps Jack break into an NID safehouse and raid it for the Goa'uld and the information SGC needs to rescue Teal'c. (48 Hours)
    • He recruited Simmons, and the two of them "go back". Neither of them trusts the other at all. (48 Hours)
      • This history with Simmons is unpleasant enough that Maybourne basically offers to assassinate him when Jack comes looking for help, sweetening the idea with the guess that Simmons is the one that shot Jack. (48 Hours)
    • Aliases:
      • Charles Bliss (Chain Reaction)
      • Hutch (Chain Reaction, Desperate Measures -- Jack's choice, not Maybourne's)
      • Butch Cassidy (48 Hours)
• Added to Tau'ri, Military, Pentagon, Colonel Frank Simmons:
  • (...)Was recruited by Maybourne (48 Hours). (...) He managed to keep a lid on the fact that he shot Jack (Maybourne didn't know, despite his good connections) (48 Hours). He was holding the nameless Goa'uld in North Dakota, somewhere near Minot AFB. When Teal'c got trapped in the stargate, Simmons moved fast to put himself in a better position of power. After talking to the Goa'uld, he went to Cheyenne Mountain and attempted to extort a Goa'uld hand device from Hammond, withholding information on how to rescue Teal'c if Hammond didn't pony up, apparently uncaring that this was effectively an admission that he had the Goa'uld, to those in the know. He was arrested on Hammond's orders after Jack found videotaped evidence of his collusion with the captive Goa'uld. (48 Hours)
    • Never wears his uniform, despite being a colonel -- he's always in a suit. (Ascension, Fifth Man, Desperate Measures, 48 Hours)
    • He and Maybourne "go back". (48 Hours)
• Added to Tau'ri, Military, Pentagon, General Ryan:
  • (...) (Outside the SG universe, General Ryan is in fact the actual Air Force Chief of Staff.)
• Added to Tau'ri, Military:
  • Area 51
    • aka The Groom Lake Facility, at Nellis AFB in Nevada
    • Personnel is a mix of military (NID) and civilian:
      • Run briefly by Maybourne (Bane, Touchstone), who used his access to the technology there to help set up a rogue NID group that ran unauthorized missions through the second stargate to gain technology (Touchstone, Shades of Grey).
      • Major Reynolds, part of the research team at Area 51 (Touchstone), was eventually promoted to colonel and transferred to SGC where he was put in command of SG-16 (Ascension).
      • Dr. McKay, a civilian scientist (probably astrophysicist -- appears to consider himself Sam's better in her field), has been studying the stargate program at Area 51 for more than a year as of 48 Hours, so probably began sometime in 1999. With no access to a working stargate (and clearly no contact with the scientists who were working on the real gate, since Sam didn't know him at all when she met him), he was working with a virtual model that was built when the second gate was at Area 51 (leading to the question of when exactly it was built, and by whom, since the gate was originally supposed to have arrived sealed up, and the second time it was sealed almost immediately with SG-1 in attendance). The Pentagon considered him the world's foremost expert on the stargate. He was on the Air Force payroll, not the NID's or directly on Colonel Simmons's. Reports directly to the Air Force Chief of Staff (which would be General Ryan). He's deathly allergic to citrus. (48 Hours)
        • Believes Sam is reckless and unsafe in her methods. (48 Hours)
        • Because of his belief that that the energy itself holds the signature of everything passing through a wormhole, he believed that once that energy began to dissipate the person/object was dead, couldn't be successfully reintegrated. Consequently, he told the Pentagon that Teal'c couldn't possibly survive being trapped inside the stargate for longer than 48 hours, and thus ensures that they will not extend the deadline for any reason. (48 Hours)
        • After he makes enough of a nuisance of himself and Hammond has had Simmons arrested, Hammond assigns McKay to Russia, to supervise the development of the Russia's naquadah generator program. (48 Hours)
    • All technology brought back through the stargate is sent to Area 51 for study and research:
      • The gliders that were salvaged from Apophis's mothership Serpent's Lair -- eventually turned into combination of death glider and jet fighter (the X-301 Interceptor) (Threshold)
      • The quantum mirror that Daniel discovered in There But For the Grace of God is stored at Area 51 (Point of View).
      • The second stargate was stored at Area 51 (Solitudes, Touchstone, Nemesis) until it was transferred to SGC when Jack transported the original stargate up to Thor's ship (Nemesis); thereafter, the Russians salvaged the original gate and SGC has continued to use the second gate as the primary one.
• Added to Tau'ri, Military, NID :
  • Has several bases for special ops scattered throughout the country, called "safehouses". (48 Hours)
  • Unofficial operations are finance by the private sector and kept off the books; official operations must be filed with the Pentagon. (48 Hours)
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, SG units, SG-2:
  • (...) As of 48 Hours, is composed of three men and a woman, with no sign of Griff. Either he's no longer in command or he's temporarily reassigned/injured.
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, SG units, SG-5:
• One of the eight teams that was caught offworld when Teal'c was trapped in the stargate, and had to be brought home through the Russian gate (48 Hours).
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, SG units, SG-8:
  • One of the eight teams that was caught offworld when Teal'c was trapped in the stargate, and had to be brought home through the Russian gate (48 Hours)
• Deleted from Tau'ri, SGC, SG units, Teams that have never been mentioned...:
  • SG-8
• Rearranged and added to Tau'ri, SGC, Earth's stargate (newly added):
  • The Stargate is made of a quartz material, later identified as naquadah. The iris is pure titanium (Children of the Gods) and is less than three micrometers from the event horizon -- matter can't fully reintegrate as a result (splat!). Like the Goa'uld, the SGC personnel have a homing device to find the stargate if separated from it.
  • A new iris is added after the original one is sucked into the black hole in A Matter of Time, strengthened with trinium.
  • The iris sits just in front of the plane where the event horizon is formed. Offsetting it just slightly would effectively stop a wormhole from forming -- like burying the gate. (48 Hours)
  • The space between the wormhole and the iris is enough to allow high-energy subatomic particles to reintegrate, moving at near-light velocities (i.e., a particle accelerator can shoot particles at it from the other side). Modulating the particle stream can create an image, and intense heat, up to 130 degrees in the gateroom, and 6-8 times that for the iris itself. (Serpent's Song)
  • Computer dialing program:
    • Earth doesn't use a standard Dial Home Device (DHD, goa'uld term unknown) to control the stargate, but instead uses a computer and a Terran-designed dialing program, which contains all the addresses that Daniel found on the Abydos cartouche (each of which is being corrected for galactic drift -- it takes several days to correct each address). It took fifteen years and three supercomputers to figure out a way to make the stargate work.
    • The original research team had to create an interface between the computer and the stargate. They did this by generating a aseries of instructions based on electrical impulses to which the gate's control crystals would respond. They found these by trial and error -- thus the fifteen years. (48 Hours)
    • The dialing program ignores 220 of the 400 feedback signals the gate can emit during a dialing procedure. (48 Hours)
    • A margin of error in calculating planetary shift caused travellers to experience a rough ride in the early days of the SGC program, but once they figured it out they fixed it. (Red Sky)
    • Sam eventually developed a new cold dialing program that searches for new stargates by periodically redialing cartouche stargate addresses that hadn't connected the first time. The planet P2X-416 (Bedrosia & Optrica) was the first connection made by the new program. (New Ground)
    • The SGC database includes stargate address references from both the Abydos cartouche (indicated in yellow, including the Loc'na ko, the group of planets that includes Kheb) and the Ancients's original map fed into the computer by Jack (indicated in red, and including Kheb itself). (Maternal Instinct)
  • Second Gate:
    • The second gate (from the Antarctic [Solitudes]) had been sealed, decommissioned, and sent to Area 51. It was moved under classified non-military authorization to an unofficial NID landing site in southern Utah, just south of the Black Mountains, about 40km west of Parowan. It was finally returned to Area 51, sealed with a permanent iris, and put under round-the-clock guard under the command of Hammond and the SGC. (Touchstone)
    • An energy spike can be created deliberately, causing the wormhole to jump to the second Earth gate, and leaving a recognizable energy signature. (Touchstone)
    • The first stargate was lost after Jack, Sam, and Teal'c transported it onto Thor's ship, the Biliskner, to give themselves a way to escape; the gate went down with the ship, which crashed into the Pacific. Hammond ordered that the second gate be unsealed and set up to take its place. (Nemesis)
      • The first stargate was found by the Russians, who set up their own SG program with it, until they got in over their heads and needed SG-1 to come bail them out. (Watergate)
• Added to Goa'uld, System Lords, Tanith:
  • While scouting a new planet to use as a base, along with a contingent of Jaffa, he was killed when Teal'c shot directly into bridge of the al-kesh Tanith was flying, causing it to crash and burn. (48 Hours)
• Added to Goa'uld, System Lords, System Lords killed directly by SG-1:
  • Tanith (Teal'c)
• Added to Miscellaneous, Nicknames, Jack's nicknames for other people:
  • Siler: "Sparky"(48 Hours)

March 9, 2002

• Updated continuity page through Proving Ground
• Updated eps, directors, and writers pages through Proving Ground
• Added to Sam, Misc.:
  • Has both a protein marker and traces of naquadah in her blood from Jolinar. (Desperate Measures)
• Added to Tau'ri, Military, Pentagon:
  • General Kerrigan -- not specifically Pentagon (although Sam seems to be referring to him when she mentions "Pentagon staff"in Proving Ground). One-star general (brigiadier general, like Jacob Carter), and commander of the Air Force Academy located near Cheyenne Mountain. Knows Sam from her time at the academy, and they clearly have a fairly fond professional relationship. (Prodigy) At first has no clue what goes on at SGC (Prodigy), but is eventually brought in on the secret and becomes part of the recruitment effort, helping to hand-pick recruits from the academy and following their progress through their SGC training. (Proving Ground) Is on friendly, fairly relaxed terms with Hammond, and is clearly convinced of SGC's importance and the need for good training. (Prodigy)
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, Stargate Command, Physical Layout:
  • Access:
    • Main access is through Norad, which is on the main level.
    • Access shaft running from surface straight down to Level 28, possibly with no ladder; Major Cromwell and his team were ready with ropes to go down it. Surface hatch has no lock (but is possibly guarded), and is located in a woody area but next to a concrete shed (use unknown). Within the SGC, the hatch on 28 was bolted shut; Cromwell had to burn through the locks to get out of the shaft. (A Matter of Time)
    • Second (?) direct external access shaft to the surface, with the surface hatch located in a completely wooded area. (If it's the same shaft Cromwell used, they've torn down the shed and let the area get overgrown.) The surface hatch is unguarded and has no locks of any sort on it (this is a security *nightmare*). Sam accesses the shaft on Level 16 via hatch: LV 16 / 28842 (unbolting it to gain access). The hatch has no internal indicator of what floor it exits onto, and there's no way to tell if it goes any deeper than Level 16 since she later returns to that level via the same shaft. (Foothold)
    • Third access shaft? Surface access hatch (in very wooded area) requires a five-digit code (on a keypad) to get in; tear gas is released if the wrong code is entered. Jack and his trainees exit the hatch (and the trainees later re-enter it to move around the SGC undetected) on Level 19 via hatch: LV 19 / 28841 (burning through the bolts to open the hatch from the inside). (Proving Ground)
      • The number is just barely different than the one on the shaft Sam used in Foothold. If this is the same shaft (with the different final number possibly indicating the deeper level of access, rather than a different shaft location), the surface lock was added after Sam's easy access to the SGC in Foothold.
  • Level 16: (...) Security monitoring office is in room 1612-15 (Proving Ground).
  • Level 18: (...) Daniel's office is confirmed on Level 18 in Proving Ground.
  • Level 19: (...) (Sam has a lab on 19, between sections/doors B-4 (or B-3 -- inconsistency in the ep) and B-5 in Proving Ground; ...) (...) Level 19 also has an armory: room 19A3-210 (Proving Ground).
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, growth of teams:
  • (...) As of Proving Ground, it's up to at least seventeen teams.
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, people who know about the SGC:
  • Proving Ground -- the commander of the nearby Air Force Academy, General Kerrigan (who as of fourth-season Prodigy had known nothing about the SGC), is an active part of the recruitment program, and watches training sessions with Hammond (making bets on the outcome...).
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC:
  • Training program:
    • Training appears to have been mainly on-the-job for the first several years, but by 2001 (the year, not the ep) a more formal program was put in place, at least for recruits with no field experience.
      • Every few months, a small group is brought in and trained as a unit, with one as unit commander. (Proving Ground)
      • Training appears to include studying old mission reports; Lt. Elliot recognizes the name "Argos", knows that it was where Pelops was doing his rapid-aging experiments, knows about the nanotech involved, and knows how Jack was affected by it. (Proving Ground)
        • It's possible that the trainees were given a selection of mission reports that included information they'd need for their training tests, rather than being given access to all mission reports.
      • Field training consists of several days of obvious training excercises, in a training area, followed by a real-life-scenario that the trainees are unaware is a test, taking place at SGC and shutting down the use of several floors for the duration of the test. (Proving Ground)
      • Trainees are given intars to use.
      • The units are trained by a real SG team commander (with the help of his team). (Proving Ground)
        • SG commanders take training duty on a rotating basis, according to the trainees in Proving Ground. But SG-1 has clearly done this at least once before, and it seems unlikely that they've trained enough people to have rotated all the way through 17 SG commanders. It's possible that either SG-1 alone is responsible for the training sessions (at least while the program shakes out) or that a limited set of more experienced SG commanders and teams make up the rotation.
    • The success of the program has prompted Hammond to decide to request funding for an offworld training facility in the next year's budget.
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, SG units:
  • SG-3: (...) Came under heavy Goa'uld fire and had to come home ahead of schedule, nearly disrupting a real-life-scenario training exercise (Proving Ground).
  • SG-17: Added by Proving Ground. Commanded by Major Mansfield, eventually included Lieutenant Elliot. (Proving Ground)
• Added to Tau'ri, SGC, SG personnel:
  • Lieutenant Elliot: Recruited straight out of the academy (where he was top of his class), trained under Jack, was accepted to the SGC and made a part of SG-17 in Proving Ground.
  • Lieutenant Grogan: (No rank is actually given, but as an academy graduate he must be a lieutenant.) Recruited straight out of the academy, trained under Jack. Despite an unfortunate tendency to be repeatedly shot during training exercises, he was accepted to the SGC, and is waiting for an assignment to an SG team when a slot becomes available. (Proving Ground)
  • Lieutenant Hailey: Recruited straight out of the academy after having already been on one SGC mission (during Prodigy). Was possibly given accelerated training as a result and joined the SGC ahead of her apparent peers; in the final training exercise during Proving Ground, she's aware and a part of everything that's going on, and remarks to a co-trainee "You should have seen what they put me through."Not assigned to any particular SG team.
  • Major Mansfield: Commander of SG-17.
  • Lieutenant Satterfield: (No rank is actually given, but as an academy graduate she must be a lieutenant.) Recruited straight out of the academy, trained under Jack. She was accepted to the SGC, and is waiting for an assignment to an SG team when a slot becomes available. (Proving Ground)
• Added to Tau'ri, Technology (in the SGC's possession):
  • Intars taken from the Jaffa training camp in Rules of Engagement. They look exactly like real weapons, except instead of bullets they project energy in low doses (meant to stun, not injure). Intars are easily identifiable by the glowing red square on their handles. They're now being used in SGC training exercises. (Proving Ground)
  • Voice disguisers -- presumably engineered at Area 51, since the SGC didn't get them from any other source that we know of. Makes the user sound Goa'uld or Tok'ra, and can be turned on or off at will. (Proving Ground)
• Added to Goa'uld, Biology (newly added):
  • When a Goa'uld symbiote dies, it decays and is absorbed by the host, leaving behind a unique protein marker. (Legacy) It also leaves behind traces of naquadah. (Desperate Measures)

March 1, 2002

• Deleted from Universe, Tollan, Known Tollans:
  • Tuplo: One of the ten Tollan left behind on their original homeworld to seal the stargate and wait to be picked up; saved by SG-1. (Enigma) (Tuplo is the headman in the Land of Light)

February 19, 2002

• Added to Sam, Hobbies:
  • Pool -- clearly enjoys it and is good at it. (Upgrades)