GOA'ULD CHARACTERS IN STARGATE

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In the ''Stargate'' fictional universe, the Goa'uld are a fictional parasitic alien race that uses humans as hosts. Most Goa'uld pose as gods to control slave armies and are considered evil, egocentric megalomaniacs by those who do not worship them. The Tok'ra is a faction of Goa'uld that oppose the ways of the System Lords.
This is a list of the 'Goa'uld characters' that have appeared so far in ''Stargate'', ''Stargate SG-1'', and ''Stargate Atlantis''.

Amaterasu

Amaterasu was a powerful Goa'uld and member of the System Lords. She was based on Amaterasu, the sun goddess in Japanese mythology. She was one of the delegates sent by the System Lords to arrange a treaty with Earth after the destruction of Anubis' attack fleet.
Amaterasu came to the attention of the SGC after a great number of other System Lords were already dead. Her first contact with Stargate Command happened after Ba'al took over Anubis' forces after the System Lord was apparently killed by SG-1. Together with her comrades Yu and Camulus, she visited the SGC to seek an alliance with them so that they would use their Ancient weapon to destroy Ba'al's forces. Together with her comrades she ordered a Ha'tak to be sent to Earth so that they would be forced to use their weapon, although the vessel was later destroyed by Ba'al. After the negotiations broke down, she left together with Yu, as Camulus wanted to stay on Earth, and Amaterasu denounced Camulus as a traitor and coward. ^[1]
The next few months saw a sharp decrease in Amaterasu's allies. Bastet and Olokun were killed, and Morrigan defected to Ba'al. ^[2] During the Replicator invasion of the Milky Way, the Jaffa Resistance had planned to engage Amaterasu's fleet, although her ships were among the first to be infested by the self-replicating machines. Amaterasu's final fate remains unknown, although it is safe to assume that she has been killed. ^[3]

Amonet

Amonet (based on the ancient Egyptian Goddess Amonet) was Apophis's beloved Goa'uld queen. During his search for a proper human host, Apophis travelled to several worlds where he kidnapped women. Eventually, Apophis kidnapped Sha're, an Abydonian woman and wife of Daniel Jackson.
During Apophis' search for a new host, Amonet was forced to reside inside a female Jaffa. When she was eventually presented with Sha're, Amonet took her as her new host, after which she was introduced to Apophis' followers. Daniel Jackson however refused to accept the loss of his wife, and became a member of SG-1 to search for his beloved. ^[4]
Jackson was again confronted with his wife when he, together with Teal'c, visited Abydos to tell Sha're's father Kasuf what had happened to his children. However, a highly pregnant Sha're was hiding on Abydos at the time, to hide her child from Heru-ur. According to Sha're, Amonet allowed the host to surface, because if the Goa'uld were to awake the child would be born dead. Also, she informed Jackson that her child, fathered by Apophis, would be a Harcesis, an unpossessed human who contained all the genetic memory of the Goa'uld.
When Sha're, assisted by Daniel Jackson, gave birth to a boy, Shifu, Amonet again took control of Sha're and ordered Jackson to hand over the child. However, he refused, and hid the boy on Abydos instead. When Amonet returned to Apophis, she did not inform him about the presence of SG-1 on the planet, and even convinced him that his enemy Heru-ur had kidnapped the child. ^[5]
When Apophis fell from power, Amonet entered the service of Heru-ur. She led a raid on Abydos to acquire slaves, but Amonet really returned for the boy, sending him to the planet Kheb with one of her handmaidens. She also kidnapped several Abydonians, who were shortly thereafter rescued by SG-1. During these events, Daniel Jackson followed Amonet into her tent, where she attacked him with her hand device. To prevent Daniel from being killed, Teal'c was forced to fire his staff weapon at her, killing not only Amonet but also Sha're. Daniel mourned over the death of Sha're, but decided to find the Harcesis, the last legacy of his wife. ^[6]

Anubis

Main articles: Anubis (Stargate)

Anubis was once a powerful Goa'uld System Lord before he was banished by the others because his actions were deemed unspeakable, even among the Goa'uld. He was believed destroyed, but managed to partially ascend. Anubis was eventually neutralized by Oma Desala, who chose to battle him for all eternity. He was based on Anubis, the Greek name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology.

Apophis

Main articles: Apophis (Stargate)

Apophis was a powerful Goa'uld and member of the System Lords. He was the main antagonist of the Tau'ri during the first years of the Stargate Program, and had tried to destroy Earth on several occasions. Apophis was eventually killed by SG-1 as his Ha'tak crashed into his homeworld Delmak. Apophis was based on Apep in Egyptian mythology.

Athena

'Athena' was a minor Goa'uld, who appeared to ally herself with any System Lord in power. Most recently, she came to serve Ba'al, and was one of the Goa'uld sent to infiltrate the Trust. On Earth, she adopted the alias of ''Charlotte Mayfield'' and posed as a wealthy business woman.
Before serving Ba'al, Athena once allied herself with Qetesh and shared information that, as Athena believed, could lead the two to an unimaginable treasure left behind by the Ancients. Subsequently, Qetesh betrayed her and kept the information for herself. However, she was forcibly removed from her host's body by the Tok'ra before the treasure was located.
After Vala Mal Doran, who had once been host to Qetesh, became a member of SG-1, The Trust kidnapped her and attempted to extract the information from her subconscious memory. However, as several special operations teams interrupted the memory-retrieving procedure before its completion, Vala lost her memory yet was able to escape her captors.
Still bent on extracting the information from Vala's subconsciousness, both Athena and SG-1 searched for her. However, Athena was able to locate her before the SGC did, and sent Trust operatives to pose as SG-1 to pick her up. The car transporting the fake SG-1 and Vala crashes, however, and Vala escapes. ^[7]

★ Athena was named after the Greek goddess of wisdom, war and civilization.

Ba'al

Main articles: Ba'al (Stargate)

Ba'al is a powerful Goa'uld, and one of the few remaining System Lords. Less hostile to Earth than most of his fellow Goa'uld, he has assisted SG-1 in fighting both the Replicators and Ori. However, he remains an enemy of the SGC and the Free Jaffa Nation, who have both tried to capture him. He was based on the Ba'al of various ancient near-eastern religions.

Bastet

'Bastet' was a member of the Goa'uld System Lords and gave rise to the Bastet of Egyptian mythology.
One of the more recent System Lords, Bastet did not come to power until the Goa'uld's second dynasty collapsed. The exact circumstances of how she came to power remain unknown, although she has been known to be extremely ruthless and not very trustworthy. Bastet once united forces with her fellow System Lord Kali, and the two later made a treaty with the Goa'uld Sobek. Then, at the celebratory feast, they moved against him and decapitated their would-be ally. Rumor has it that Sobek's head still decorates Bastet's palace in Bubastis.
Although Bastet claimed to have suffered heavy losses in surprise attacks by Anubis, she later voted to allow the powerful Goa'uld back to his former position as a System Lord. ^[8]
According to Tok'ra intelligence, Bastet was one of several System Lords eventually killed by Ba'al. ^[2]

Bynarr

'Bynarr' was a minor Goa'uld in the service of Sokar, and commanded the hell-like prison moon of Ne'tu.
Although weapons were forbidden on Ne'tu, Bynarr was allowed to possess a single hand device for himself and a Staff weapon for his First Prime. For some time during his reign on Ne'tu, Bynarr's First Prime was Na'onak, an alias of the former System Lord Apophis, who had been defeated by Sokar.
Bynarr once shared an intimate relationship with the Tok'ra Jolinar of Malkshur, who had been banished to Ne'tu after being caught spying on Sokar. The minor Goa'uld allowed himself to be seduced by the Tok'ra in his chambers. While he slept, Jolinar stole the key to access the ring transporter, allowing her to escape Ne'tu to Sokar's nearby homeworld of Delmak, where she stole a Tel'tak and was able to escape.
As punishment for allowing the Tok'ra operative to escape, Sokar ripped out one of Bynarr's eyes. Until his death, he felt betrayed by Jolinar, and wished nothing more than vengeance. Bynarr was killed with a staff blast in the back by his First Prime, who also succeeded him as lord of Ne'tu. ^[10]

Camulus

Camulus was a powerful Goa'uld and member of the System Lords. He was one of the delegates sent to the SGC after the Tau'ri destroyed Anubis' attack fleet. He was based on the Camulus in Celtic mythology.
When the SGC defeated Anubis, he arranged a meeting with Earth for negotiating a treaty with Earth. He was, in fact, hoping to discover the secret behind the Ancient super-weapon that defeated Anubis.
He arrived on Earth in a delegation of three System Lords: himself, Amaterasu and Lord Yu. Upon arrival on Earth, Camulus insisted that he did not wish to involve himself in trivialities such as the names of the slaves he was negotiating with. Throughout the negotiation he enforced his species' dominance, despite the fact that he had arrived with a plea for aid. The delegation wanted to lure Ba'al to Earth, who was quickly defeating the remaining System Lords after Anubis's defeat. In return, they offered the SGC hyperdrive engines for an entire fleet. Dr. Elizabeth Weir, the then commander of the SGC, refused their proposition.
During an impasse in the negotiations, Camulus and the other members of the delegation ordered a Goa'uld Ha'tak vessel to attack Earth, with the intent of testing the Earth's defensive capabilities. This vessel was, however, destroyed by Ba'al en route. This attack was detected before the delegation could return through the Stargate, and Dr. Weir made them the SGC's prisoners. Then, Camulus requested Weir's presence and informed her that he wished for asylum on Earth. In exchange for information he would not be killed, as he had recently lost all of his forces. As she left, Amaterasu denounced Camulus as a traitor and coward. ^[1]
Camulus remained at the SGC for several weeks, until Ba'al demanded him as ransom for the return of SG-1, whose members he alleged he had captured (he was in fact bluffing, having tricked SG-3 into "witnessing" the capture). As Camulus was desperate, he revealed the location of an offworld ZPM to General Jack O'Neill. However, Camulus had previously tampered with the device, so that it would explode with enough force to destroy an entire solar system.
Camulus offered to make the trade with Ba'al, hoping he would accept the trade and use the tampered ZPM to destroy himself. But General O'Neill gave him the depleted ZPM from Proclarush Taonas instead. Ba'al, likely not amused, probably tortured and killed Camulus. ^[12]

Cronus

'Cronus' was one of the most powerful and influential System Lords. He was the System Lord who originally banished Sokar, and was also an enemy of Apophis. He was probably the single most arrogant of the System Lords after Ra himself, and showed indications of fully believing his own propoganda about having been a god.
One of his First Primes was Teal'c's father. He was ordered by Cronus to attempt to win a battle that couldn't be won. When Teal'c's father returned defeated, Cronus killed him by crushing the Goa'uld parasite inside him causing the parasite's blood to mix with Teal'c's father's blood, causing a slow and painful death. This is how he later attempted to kill Teal'c. After killing Teal'c's father he exiled Teal'c and his mother. Teal'c, full of hatred for Cronus, swore to train hard to become the First Prime of Apophis, the sworn enemy of Cronus. ^[13]
He once sent an Ashrak after Jolinar who, at the time, had Captain Samantha Carter as a host. ^[14] Cronus also developed the Kormak linking bracelets which render the wearers unconscious and eventually dead if they become separated for too long. These bracelets were intended to assure that a prisoner did not escape from a Jaffa guard. ^[15]
Because of his power, Cronus was sent by the System Lords to negotiate including Earth in the Asgard's Protected Planets Treaty, meaning that the Goa'uld System Lords could not attack Earth, in exchange for the Asgard allowing the Goa'uld access to the passage of Nylor. However, the Goa'uld demanded that Earth should turn over both of its Stargates as part of the agreement.
During the negotiations, he was also confronted with Teal'c. However, when Teal'c was called into Cronus' room, both of them were attacked by an invisible person. While Teal'c remained nearly unharmed, Cronus was critically wounded. Carter was eventually able to heal him with a Goa'uld Healing Device, and he subsequently agreed that the Stargate on Earth could be kept open. Apparently Nirrti had been the one who attacked the System Lord. As Cronus left, with Nirrti in his custody, he told the Ta'uri that their world would be safe from attack, although anyone caught by the System Lords should expect no mercy. ¹⁴
Cronus eventually conquered the planet Juna, which was once freed by SG-1 from Heru-ur. At the time the Altairan robot duplicates of SG-1 were surveying the planet, and were quickly captured by Cronus' forces and brought before him. He ordered Daniel Jackson to be executed, although all people in the room - even Cronus - were shocked upon discovering Jackson's true nature. Fascinated by the machines, Cronus ordered that they should be studied.
However, as Harlan requested SG-1's aid in rescuing their duplicates, the real team was sent to Juna. As both the robot and real Teal'c were driven by their quest to kill the Goa'uld for the death of their father, the two attacked the System Lord during an audience. Although Cronus was able to overpower both of them, and subsequently attempted to kill the real Teal'c in the same way he killed his father, he was eventually shot in the back by the robot Teal'c, whose last words were "For our father". With Cronus dead, the planet was again safe from the Goa'uld. Cronus' Ha'tak was later brough back to Earth by SG-1. ^[16] Cronus is based upon the ruler of the Titans, and father of Zeus and Hades, in Greek Mythology.

Hathor

'Hathor' was a Goa'uld, based on Hathor of Egyptian mythology. The Queen of Ra and mother of Heru-ur, she was imprisoned in a sarcophagus in Mexico. After her sarcophagus was discovered by a couple of archaeologists, she travelled to Cheyenne Mountain, drawn to the Stargate. However, knowing she would never be allowed to leave the planet, she attempted to take over the Stargate Command briefly due to her power over men.
Hathor was identified by Daniel Jackson as the Egyptian goddess of fertility, inebriety, and music, or as Jack O'Neill put it, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
Using a weaker version of the mind-changing drug Nish'ta, she managed to disable all the men in the Stargate Command. Using the drug, she subsequently raped Daniel Jackson, and produced a new strain of Goa'uld larvae from his sperm. She attempted to transform Jack O'Neill into her first Jaffa, but was ultimately stopped by the women of the Stargate Command and by Teal'c, who, as a Jaffa, was not influenced by her powers. However, she managed to escape through the Stargate before she could be apprehended. ^[17]
During the following months, she was able to brainwash a relatively large number of Jaffa, most of which originally were loyal to Apophis and Ra. However, as she had been imprisoned on Earth for five thousands years, she had little information regarding the status of the System Lords. In an attempt to gain access to more recent intelligence, she captured all the members of SG-1 except Teal'c.
By convincing the separate members of SG-1 that they had arrived in a future version of the SGC, she interrogated them. ^[18] However, when SG-1 discovered the truth, she put a Goa'uld symbiote into Jack O'Neill to attempt to extract his knowledge. A Tok'ra spy in Hathor's midst put O'Neill into stasis instead to prevent the Goa'uld from taking control.
When the SGC learned about SG-1's whereabouts from the Tok'ra, General Hammond and Teal'c journeyed to Chulak in search of troops to attack Hathor. Her small army was subsequently defeated by Hammond's strike team, backed up by a variant Death Glider designed to fit through a Stargate. After defeating the Goa'uld symbiote inside him, O'Neill eventually killed Hathor by throwing her into what appeared to be a vat of liquid nitrogen. ^[19]

Heru-ur

Heru-ur (based upon the Heru-ur (Horus) of Egyptian mythology) was one of the most powerful Goa'uld System Lords. He was the son of Ra and Hathor, and inherited much of Ra's empire after his father was killed by a Tau'ri expedition on Abydos. He was a mortal enemy of his fellow System Lord and uncle Apophis. He was less cowardly than was customary for a System Lord, and fought SG-1 directly, alongside his Jaffa, rather than simply giving the Jaffa orders from a remote location.
His military capabilities were significant. Heru-ur's Jaffa wore Horus helmets, similar to those of his father, and commanded one of the biggest Goa'uld fleets in the System Lords' domain. Heru-ur was also one of the more militaristic System Lords, being described as a conqueror, and wore golden battle armor, much like Apophis. ^[20] He once occupied the planet Tagrea, and was worshipped by the human slaves he had brought there. However, some three centuries ago, they rebelled against him, much like the people of Earth had rebelled against Ra five thousand years earlier. Similar to their distant cousins on Earth, they buried their Stargate to ensure that Heru-ur would never return. ^[21] He had also occupied the planet Juna, although SG-1 eventually staged a revolution against the System Lord. ^[16]

Contact with SG-1

Cimmeria occupied by Heru-ur.

Heru-ur first encountered SG-1 when he attempted to conquer the planet Cimmeria, a planet under the protection of the Asgard. As the team had destroyed Thor's Hammer, the planet's only defense, one year earlier, they were indirectly responsible for the attack on Cimmeria. Heru-ur's attempted to solidify his position on the planet, even building pyramids ships on Cimmeria.
Although they did not have the resources to successfully fight the powerful System Lord, they were able to contact the Asgard. When Thor subsequently arrived with the Beliskner and began to eradicate all signs of Goa'uld activity with his transporter beams, Heru-ur was forced to retreat through the Stargate. ²⁰
When he learned that Amonet, the queen of his mortal enemy Apophis, was pregnant, he planned to steal the child. Although Apophis was aware of Heru-ur's plans, he was unable to protect his queen himself, and was forced to hide his queen on Abydos. Heru-ur later followed her to the planet with his Jaffa. As Daniel Jackson and Teal'c were present on Abydos at the time, they took the child themselves and convinced Amonet that Heru-ur was responsible for the theft. The two later returned to the Stargate, where they again encountered the System Lord. Teal'c, impersonating a Horus guard, claimed Daniel was his prisoner, and that Serpent guards had managed to steal the child away. Daniel Jackson proposed an alliance against Apophis, but Heru-ur was not interested, vowing to make slaves of the Tau'ri, and attempted to kill him. When Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter arrived suddenly through the gate, Heru-ur was forced to flee by the Ring Transporter to his ship above. ^[5]
Heru-ur eventually planned to forge an alliance with Apophis, despite them being former enemies. Neither trusted the other, and the two arranged to meet inside a volatile minefield in the Tobin system, ensuring mutual destruction if either attacked. However, the Tok'ra were aware of the proposed alliance, and planned to sabotage the negotiations.
By reprogramming a mine to approach Apophis' ship and explode, the Tok'ra hoped to start a war between the two System Lords. However, although everything initially proceeded according to plan, Apophis unveiled a cloaked fleet and easily destroyed Heru-ur's ship, killing him. Thus, instead of sparking a conflict between the two, Apophis was simply able to usurp Heru-ur's forces, becoming stronger than ever before. ^[24]

Imhotep/K'tano

'Imhotep' was a minor Goa'uld who once built the Great Pyramids on Earth as landing platforms for the Goa'uld Ha'tak. He presumably served Ra, who controlled Earth at the time.
However, the power-hungry Imhotep, who had never achieved the rank of System Lord or other such power levels, decided to exploit the Jaffa rebellion for his own gain. Disguising himself as his own First Prime, ''K'tano'', he infiltrated the organization and planned to rule the Jaffa after they succeeded in toppling the System Lords. He was a powerful warrior, and quite skilled in a style of close-range combat.
To insure the success of his rebellion, which needed food and medical supplies that they were unable to procure for themselves, he attempted to create an alliance with Stargate Command from Earth. Bra'tac, who was impressed by what appeared to be a charismatic and determined Jaffa, contacted the SGC and arranged a meeting. K'tano quickly impressed Teal'c, showing devotion verging on fanaticism, and brought him and Bra'tac to the point where they would fight with him and the rest of his Jaffa army. However, Jack O'Neill did not accept K'tano's motivations so readily, concerned over his lack of consideration for the lives of his subordinates. In fact, K'tano crossed many boundaries by ordering his Jaffa on suicide missions with naqahdah-enhanced bombs, sacrificing their lives for morale-boosting yet inconsequential victories over the Goa'uld.
Despite Jack's words of caution Teal'c did not listen, and was even willing to embark on a mission for K'tano which planned on attacking Yu's homeworld. It was believed that Yu was in a vulnerable state and would be ripe for an assassination. However, when Teal'c arrived, he was quickly captured by Yu. He informed Teal'c that K'tano was a traitor and, though he was tempted to execute the shol'va, he sent Teal'c back to the rebels to expose K'tano.
After Teal'c returned to the Jaffa's rebellion planet, arriving just as the remainder of SG-1 was planning to return to Earth, he challenged K'tano to ''Joma'sequ'', a ritual battle to decide a leader. During this battle K'tano's true identity was revealed, after which he was killed by Teal'c in the ritual battle, securing Teal'c as ruler of the Jaffa Rebellion. ^[25]

Kali

'Kali' was one of the Goa'uld System Lords, and was also known as ''Kali the Destroyer''.
Kali was known for her ruthlessness and was not particularly trustworthy. She and her fellow System Lord Bastet were on fairly friendly terms, as the two once combined forces and made a treaty with the Goa'uld Sobek. However, during the celebratory feast, they moved against him, and he was eventually decapitated.
During the first months of Anubis' rise to power, Kali was one of the several System Lords who had been the victim of multiple surprise attacks by the then unknown Goa'uld. Kali herself had lost an outpost on the planet Cerador along with two motherships to him.
During one of these attacks, Kali's First Prime had been able to board one of the enemy motherships. Although he was killed soon after, the Jaffa did manage to inform his master that the ship was crewed with Jaffa bearing Olokun's mark. Therefore, she initially suspected him to be the mysterious attacker.
Eventually, it was discovered that these losses were in fact caused by the ancient Goa'uld Anubis, who wanted to rejoin the System Lords. Despite having been attacked several times herself, she later voted in favor of allowing Anubis to rejoin the ranks of the System Lords. ⁸

★ Kali was named after the Hindu goddess Kali. This is historically fallacious since at the time most of the Goa'uld assumed their respective personalities, she did not exist in Hindu theology.

Klorel

'Klorel' was a young Goa'uld, and the son of Apophis and his queen. Apophis also chose the host in which his son was to live out eternity, the Abydonian Skaara.
When Apophis had finally gathered an army with which to attack the Tau'ri, Klorel joined his father in the campaign against Earth. However, unknown to him, SG-1 had boarded and sabotaged his Ha'tak. Although Jack O'Neill, who had known Klorel's host for many years, was determined to get through to Skaara, he was eventually forced to shoot Klorel to keep him from killing Jackson with a hand device. ^[26]
Eventually, Klorel was revived with a Sarcophagus and was forced to escape alongside his father through the Stargate on board his ship when SG-1 and Bra'tac were successful in destroying the two attack ships. However, this defeat severely weakened Apophis' position among his fellow System Lords, and probably affected Klorel's position the same way. ^[27]
Two years later, Klorel was chased by two Ha'tak's dispatched by the System Lord Heru-ur, and was forced made his way to the planet Tollana. The Tollan, who possessed advanced technology, destroyed the two motherships, and Klorel subsequently crash-landed on the planet in a death glider. His injuries allowed his host to surface, who asked the Tollan to have the symbiote removed from his body.
The Tollan subsequently set up a triad, the Tollan equivalent of a private law proceeding, to decide who would permanently be in charge over Skaara's body. In the end, the swaying vote fell to Lya of the Nox, who declared Klorel should be removed from Skaara's body. The verdict was carried out, and Klorel was removed by the Tok'ra. He was presumably sent through the Stargate to a Goa'uld world of his choice, although it remains unknown if he survived long enough to possess another host. ^[28]

Marduk

'Marduk' was a powerful Goa'uld, possibly a System Lord, based on the Marduk in Babylonian mythology, who defeated the beast Tiamat and split it in two, creating the Earth and the sky. Marduk possessed an advanced piece of technology, the "Eye of Tiamat", which could be combined with five other similar devices, including those held by Apophis, Osiris and Ra, to form a most powerful weapon.
Marduk was rumored to be so evil that his own priests eventually rebelled against him. They sealed him inside a Sarcophagus with a creature that would continually consume his flesh as the Sarcophagus worked to keep him alive, a very slow and agonizing death.
However, the symbiote would not go so easily. He left his host and took possession of the creature, and subsequently managed to survive in the Sarcophagus for thousands of years. When a Russian Stargate team found its way into Marduk's ziggurat temple and accidentally freed him, he killed them all and consumed their flesh.
When SG-1 discovered Marduk's temple and evidence that a Russian team had once visited the planet, the SGC contacted the Russian military, who sent another Russian team to investigate the temple alongside SG-1. However, after the two teams eventually became trapped inside the ziggurat temple, Marduk left the creature and took over a Russian team member. When he eventually revealed his true nature to Jack O'Neill, Marduk was incapacited by an exploding grenade, but survived. Tracking SG-1 to the site of his sarcophagus, O'Neill detonated C-4, and Marduk was buried in rock when parts of the temple collapsed. ^[29]

Moloc

'Moloc' was a powerful Goa'uld who controlled several planets and vast armies. It is unknown if Moloc was a System Lord, but it is very likely.
Some thirty years before SG-1 met a group of Jaffa women formerly in his service, Moloc decreed only male children born in his domain would be allowed to live, as only they would lead his warriors to victory in the wars against his enemies. Female Jaffa children were supposed to be sacrificed in the ''Ceremony of Fire'', in which they were burned alive.
However, Ishta, Moloc's high priestess and the Jaffa responsible for performing the Ceremony of Fire, couldn't watch her sisters die and brought many of them to a planet she called Hak'tyl, meaning "liberation". The Hak'tyl eventually became an impressive resistance group which performed regular attacks against Moloc and his Jaffa. ^[30]
Eventually, Moloc did learn of the Hak'tyl, and launched a surprise attack on one of their meetings with the Jaffa Rebellion. He could also capture and torture Ishta, although he was eventually killed by two missiles fired by the SGC through the Stargate, which were aimed at his chest by Aron. ^[31]

★ Moloc was named after Moloch, a Phoenician god and particular kind of sacrifice.

Morrigan

'Morrigan' was a powerful Goa'uld, and one of the System Lords.
Little has been revealed about Morrigan. However, she was well-known among the Goa'uld for using her human servant to draw out strategic information from the servants of her enemies, as she once did with one of Yu's previous lo'tar slaves.
Morrigan was one of the System Lords who attended a Goa'uld summit in 2002 to discuss the possibility of forming a new order. She voted in favor of allowing Anubis to rejoin the ranks of the System Lords. ⁸
In 2005, after Ba'al had gained control of most of Anubis' former military assets, Morrigan was forced to capitulate to him. ² She has not been seen since, although it is safe to assume that she was killed during the Replicator invasion of the Milky Way.

★ Morrigan was named after the figure in Irish mythology.

Mot

'Mot' was a minor Goa'uld and underling in the service of Ba'al.
Mot controlled the world of P4S-237, whose people were terrorized into mining the almost depleted naqahdah mine. He kept Ba'al in the dark regarding a still-active stash of naqahdah provided by the planet, keeping the spoils for himself. He intended to ultimately use the collected naqahdah to build an army and to rise up against his master.
When SG-1 assisted the people of P4S-237 to liberate themselves, several villagers remained loyal to Mot and informed him of the planned uprising. Mot himself came to the planet to quell the rebellion, and captured SG-1. He subsequently attempted to extract Jack O'Neill's Iris code to destroy the SGC, although this plan was eventually foiled when one of the villagers, a girl called Natania, shot him in the back, presumably killing him. ^[32]

★ Mot was named after the Semitic god of death.

Nerus

'Nerus' was a minor Goa'uld based on the Nereus of Greek mythology. He is closely associated with the character Ba'al. He was played by the actor Maury Chaykin.

Background

Nerus was a minor Goa'uld who had served Ba'al for many centuries. An inventor, Nerus claimed to be responsible for inventing many Goa'uld technologies, including the Goa'uld holographic projector. However, he prided himself with figuring out how to dial all the Stargates in the Milky Way simultaneously, as he claimed he did for Ba'al during the Replicator invasion of the Milky Way.
He was known for his "many appetites", and was regarded as little more than a gluttonous pig by Vala Mal Doran.
However, some time before he eventually contacted the SGC, Nerus was intercepted by the Ori, or more likely a Prior, who successfully convinced him that they were the closest thing to pure godliness. They subsequently instructed him to travel to Earth and supply them with disinformation to trick SG-1 into actually helping them establish their first Supergate. ^[33]

Contact with the SGC

Nerus feasting at the SGC.

Claiming to have information about the Ori and their intentions to establish a beachhead from which to launch their invasion, Nerus was brought to the SGC. Eager to meet SG-1, he was disappointed when he found out that Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter were no longer with the unit. He revealed that it was he who spread the virus the SGC sent to disable Ba'al's Stargate to the entire network.
It was the Ori's intention to create a working Supergate to allow their fleet to enter the Milky Way. However, as even the Ori were unable to project the energy required through the Stargate, they were forced to rely on outside help. Knowing both the Free Jaffa Nation and the SGC would react, they convinced Nerus to relay information regarding the invasion to SG-1, who subsequently sent the Prometheus to the planet.
Playing right into the Ori's hands, SG-1 and several Ha'taks fired on the force field and detonated a Mark IX nuclear warhead inside the shield. Their combined effords provided enough energy to allow the shield to completely envelop the planet, which subsequently crushed the planet into a micro black hole. If Vala Mal Doran hadn't inserted a Goa'uld Tel'tak in place of the last link of the gate, causing a power surge that prevented the completion of the device, the Ori's plan would have been successful.
After Nerus' treachery was discovered, he hoped that the Tau'ri would kill him after they discovered his plan, thus allowing him to Ascend. Instead, General Landry locked him in Area 51, with the threat that if he did not help Stargate Command fight the Ori, he would not be allowed to eat. ³³
Eventually, when Ba'al began stealing Stargates in an elaborate plan to rebuild his former empire, Nerus confirmed General Landry's suspicions regarding the mysterious thefts. In exchange for Ba'al's supposed location, Nerus was later released. It was only after he had returned to Ba'al's ship that he became aware of the tracking device implanted in his stomach.
As Landry had not only been tracking Nerus, but had also implanted a computer virus into one of his devices, Ba'al's Ha'tak eventually lost power. After annoying Ba'al with circumlocutions, Nerus was shot by Ba'al and presumably killed. ^[34]

Nirrti

'Nirrti' was a Goa'uld System Lord who is based on of Hindu mythology. She was interested in creating an advanced human, also known as a "hok'tar," to be used as a perfect host. For this purpose, she experimented on humans on several planets. She had a vast knowledge of genetics which she also used to create living bombs. One of these living bombs was sent to Apophis, where the person in question blew up, destroying everything in the surrounding area. She also developed a personal cloaking device, which worked by phase-shifting based on her studies of the Re'tu.

Cassandra

One of the planets on which she was experimenting was Hanka, where she spent years performing genetic experiments on the population from a secret laboratory in a forest. She was even able to create several humans with telekinetic abilities by the use of a retrovirus. When Stargate Command first came through the Stargate she unleashed a deadly virus, killing nearly everyone on the planet, including one SG team. There was only one survivor of the plague, a human girl named Cassandra.
Cassandra was later discovered by SG-1, who brought her back to Earth. There, she was soon found to contain the explosive elements of Nirrti's human bombs, and it was only due to the quick thinking of Carter that Stargate Command was not completely destroyed. Meanwhile, back on Hanka, Jack O'Neill and Teal'c were engaged by Nirrti's Ha'tak, but were able to flee through the Stargate in time.^[35]

Encounters in person

SGC met Nirrti in person when she was one of the three Goa'uld System Lords who went to Earth to negotiate with the Asgard regarding the inclusion of Earth in the Protected Planets Treaty. During this meeting however, she used her cloaking device to attack Cronus and Teal'c, mortally wounding Cronus. Although she pretended to be unable to heal him with a Goa'uld healing device, her lies were discovered and she attempted to flee. She was quickly captured by the personnel of Stargate Command, despite her personal cloaking device, and was handed to Cronus as a prisoner.^[14]
After SG-1 killed Cronus, she was able to flee and continued with her experiments. When Cassandra began exhibiting signs of telekinesis, SG-1 went back to Hanka, where they found Nirrti's laboratory. As she was present in her laboratory, Nirrti followed the team back through the Stargate, and arrived at the SGC where she tried to come near Cassandra. When Cassandra sensed her presence, she alarmed the base and the Goa'uld was captured when she attacked O'Neill and Dr. Janet Fraiser.
When she was ordered to heal Cassandra, Nirrti demanded to be let free along with a sample of Cassandra's blood. Although General Hammond at first refused, he later agreed, although he would not allow her to keep Cassandra's blood. After Nirrti healed the girl, she was allowed to leave the base, but told the SGC that she would continue with her experiments. She also mentioned, while she found their willingness to go along with the deal instead of merely killing her honorable, she doubted that she would have done the same herself.^[37]

Using the DNA Resequencer

Nirrti using the DNA Resequencer.

Nirrti later came to a world, the name of which is unknown, where she found a device of the Ancients, the DNA Resequencer, which allowed her to read and alter a person's genetic code. With this device, she started to experiment upon the local population under the guise of helping them, and gave them various mental powers such as telepathy and telekinesis. However this led to them becoming badly mutated and deformed. After being warned of this, Stargate Command sent two Stargate teams through the Stargate on a mission to kill or capture her, but both were instead captured.
She performed her genetic experiments on both Samantha Carter and Jonas Quinn. In the meantime, Colonel O'Neill convinced one of the aliens, Eggar, who has developed telepathic abilities, to read her mind, where he found out that she was only using them for her own ends. Another native, Wodan, who is telekinetic, subsequently strangled her using his power, and then killed her by breaking her neck, despite O'Neill's urging to keep her alive. Eggar, however, first read her mind to discover how to fix the damage she had done to them all.^[38]

Olokun

'Olokun' was a powerful Goa'uld and one of the System Lords. He attended the Goa'uld summit to consider the possibility of a new order in 2002.
As Anubis was rising to power at the time, the enigmatic Goa'uld had conducted several surprise attacks against his fellow System Lords without revealing his identity. Kali subsequently accused Olokon of being in league with the System Lords' enemy when some of his Jaffa were encountered on one of the mysterious attacking ships.
However, Olokon confessed that some time ago, one of his Ha'taks was captured by Anubis, and that the Jaffa on board had betrayed him, switching their allegiance after being defeated in battle rather than fighting to the death. Although Olokon had suffered losses during Anubis' attacks, he eventually voted in favor of allowing him to rejoin the System Lords. ⁸
Although Olokun had voted in favor of Anubis, he was eventually attacked by his Kull warriors. His Jaffa were unable to keep their ground, and were slaughtered. As the Tok'ra had a spy within Olokun's ranks at the time, the Jaffa Rebellion asked the Tok'ra to assassinate the System Lord in the hopes that his Jaffa would be free. However, the Tok'ra feared that Anubis would instead usurp Olokun's armies, and refused to do so. This created tension between the two groups, and eventually led to the end of the Tok'ra-Tau'ri-Jaffa alliance. ^[39]
According to Tok'ra intelligence, Olokun was one of several System Lords eventually killed by Ba'al. ²

★ Olokun was named after the great-great-grandson of the first-existing deity in Yorùbá mythology, born from a raped mother who birthed fifteen others.

Osiris

'Osiris' is a Goa'uld based on the Osiris of Egyptian Mythology.
Though the exact circumstances are unknown, thousands of years prior to the events of Stargate SG-1 Osiris was trapped on Earth with his mate Isis, each in a separate canopic jar. The two jars were found by archeologists at an unspecified date in the early 20'th century, though they were presumed destroyed when the ship transporting them to America was lost at sea. Although Isis was dead, when the jars were recovered in the early 21'st century Osiris managed to escape and to take a new host: Sarah Gardner, a woman who had worked with and dated Daniel Jackson when the two of them worked under Dr. David Jordan in their pre-PhD days. Osiris hid his identity from Daniel Jackson, partly by making Daniel believe that Sarah's research partner, Dr. Steven Rayner, was the host to Osiris. However, Osiris revealed himself to Daniel and his comrades when Dr. Rayner returned to the tomb where the canopic jars were found. Now known to be in control of Sarah, Osiris fled from Earth on his ship located under the desert sands. During his meeting with Daniel, Osiris learned what had become of his mate, Isis, his brother Seth, and many of the other Goa'uld.^[40]
''During the Goa'uld reign on Earth, Osiris possessed the body of a male and took on a male persona, the Goa'uld often assuming the gender of their longest possessed host. As a result, there is continued use of 'him' and 'he' to refer to the symbiote, despite its current possession of a female host.''
Osiris reentered Goa'uld society and, with the assistance of Zipacna, eventually came in contact with Anubis, with whom he allied himself. Osiris even represented him on a meeting with the other System Lords, finally revealing to them who was dealing them so much damage. During the meeting he also saw Daniel, who had disguised himself as Yu's Lo'tar. Osiris did not reveal Daniel's identity to the other System Lords, but confronted him in secret. However, Daniel was able to use the Re'ol derivative on him, deluding him into believing the cover story. Later in the summit, Osiris negotiated with the other System Lords about Anubis' status. Although Daniel was ordered to flee, he instead planned on taking Osiris with him to save Sarah. His plan failed when Yu intervened and Daniel had to escape without Sarah.^[41]^[42]
Osiris later appeared at the end of season five, when he commanded a ship in search of a hidden Asgard laboratory. When Thor arrived to protect the lab, Osiris destroyed his ship and imprisoned him. When he finally found the lab he discovered only Samantha Carter there. The research had already been removed. While interrogating Carter, Osiris learns that Daniel is dead (in fact he ascended), which shocks him.^[43]
In season seven, Osiris returned to Earth to try and gain access to the location of the Lost City of the Ancients, which he believed was stored inside Daniel's subconscious mind. During one of his attempts to extract the information from Daniel, SG-1 managed to capture him. Osiris was then removed from Sarah Gardner, restoring her to her original self, except for all of the memories of what the Goa'uld had done while in control of her body.^[44]

Qetesh

Qetesh (goddess of Love and Beauty in Egyptian mythology and Canaanite religion) was the Goa'uld who possessed the body of Vala Mal Doran.
Qetesh ruled over at least one world, P8X-412, where she forced the inhabitants to mine naquadah deposits. When quotas were not met she instituted both mass executions and mass torture. Qetesh allied herself with Athena in search of the Clava Thessara Infinitas but Qetesh betrayed Athena and kept the information for herself. Eventually, Qetesh was captured by the Tok'ra who removed her from Vala. It is assumed that she was killed immediately following the extraction.
In the alternate reality created in '', Qetesh is Ba'al's queen.

Ra

Main articles: Ra (Stargate)

Ra was an extremely powerful Goa'uld, considered the Supreme System Lord by his peers, which made him nominal Emperor of the Goa'uld, and controlled Earth for thousands of years. He was the first Goa'uld ever encountered by the Tau'ri, and was killed by Jack O'Neil during their original encounter by a nuclear warhead exploding on board his ship, forever changing the balance of power among the System Lords. Ra was based on the sun god in Egyptian mythology.

Ramius

'Ramius' was a minor Goa'uld lord who once attempted to form an alliance with Tilgath, a fellow minor Goa'uld.
During the negotiations for the alliance, he suffered losses at the hands of Anubis's new supersoldier, including the death of his First Prime. However, Ramius was able to escape, and subsequently returned to his base of operations.
Teal'c and Bra'tac, who later visited the same planet and barely survived their encounter with the same supersoldier, realized that Anubis had attempted to murder both minor Goa'uld to usurp their armies in preparation for his war against the System Lords. As the SGC did not want to see Anubis grow more powerful, SG-1,3,12 were sent to Ramius' homeworld, where they attempted to stop another supersoldier bent on killing Ramius.
However, SG teams' attempts to stop the soldier failed, and the teams were captured by Ramius' Jaffa. Ramius did not believe that the SG teams had come to his aid, and almost executed them. However, eventually Jack O'Neill was proven right as Ramius was killed by another supersoldier when attempting to flee to a nearby Ring transporter. Anubis likely absorbed Ramius' army into his own. ^[45]

Seth

'Seth' was a former System Lord, who eventually turned against Ra, and made an enemy of both the System Lords and the Tok'ra. According to Egyptian mythology, he was said to have cut Osiris into bits and thrown him into the Nile River. This later appeared to be true, in that Seth placed Osiris in a Goa'uld stasis jar and discarded him in the Nile.
When the Tok'ra attempted to locate and catalogue all System Lords, it was discovered that all records of Seth ended with the ancient human rebellion against Ra, leading the Tok'ra to believe Seth had never left Earth. Jacob Carter was subsequently sent to the SGC, where he was supposed to cooperate with SG-1 in an attempt to locate him. Because Goa'uld were known for seeking power through false religion, SG-1 searched for cults which worshipped Seth.
It was later discovered that Seth, who became trapped on Earth when the Stargate was buried several thousand years ago and was able to survive by switching hosts several times, currently led a cult somewhere north of Seattle. The cult turned out to be heavily armed, and was monitored by the ATF.
Seth controlled his followers with a powerful, mind-controlling, inhaled biological agent. According to Selmak, this agent could be killed using an electrical shock, such as the shot of a Zat. Furthermore, once someone was cleared of the agent, they could not be reinfected. Using small electrical devices contained within their ears to prevent infection from taking hold, the members of SG-1 (except Teal'c) infiltrated the cult, where they subsequently freed the other members. Although Seth tried to flee, he was eventually killed by Samantha Carter, who used a Goa'uld hand device to slam him into the floor. ^[46]
Seth was one of the few Goa'uld to have a set of unique helmeted Guards, the others being the Serpent Guards of Apophis and the Horus Guards of Ra, Heru-ur and Hathor. Seth's guards were known as ''Setesh Guards'', and their helmets were modelled after the Seth Animal. They are also the cause of many Jaffa jokes.

Sokar

'Sokar' replaced Apophis as the principal enemy of SG-1 for a very short period of time during the third season, until his death. Although he was mentioned as a growing threat to the galaxy in several episodes, he only appeared in person in a single 2-episode story arc, at the end of which he was killed. He was very intelligent and relentlessly harsh to his enemies.
A Goa'uld who was outcast by the System Lords, Sokar was one of the most powerful of the Goa'uld. He had posed as the god of death on many different worlds.^[47] On Earth, this took the form of the Judeo-Christian fallen angel Satan.^[48] It is said that thousands of years ago, when the Goa'uld occupied Earth, Sokar's host body was that of an Unas. Sokar later became the ruler of the System Lords, but an alliance consisting of Ra, Apophis, Kronos, and others eventually overthrew him.⁴⁷
Sokar's homeworld was Delmak. He terra-formed the nearby moon of Ne'tu to fit the myth of hell, exposing its molten core to make its atmosphere hot and chemically toxic. There he sent his captured enemies, and enjoyed regularly hearing tales of their torture and suffering by his appointed warden, Bynarr.
The Tok'ra Jolinar of Malkshur once tried to overthrow one of the System Lords, and was defeated only when Apophis joined the battle against her. Based on the fact that Jolinar spent some time in Sokar's prison, this System Lord may have been Sokar himself. Jolinar was also the first person to escape from Ne'tu.^[49]
One of his most noteworthy enemies was the Goa'uld Apophis. After the loss of a significant portion of his forces during his failed attack on Earth, Apophis was captured and tortured by Sokar. He escaped and fled to Earth, demanding sanctuary. However, Sokar followed his enemy and nearly destroyed the iris guarding Earth's Stargate using a directed particle weapon. Sokar threatened to destroy Earth if the humans would not return Apophis to him, and after Apophis's death, they were forced to comply.⁴⁷ He was subsequently revived by Sokar using a Sarcophagus.
Several months later, Sokar had amassed the most powerful fleet in the entire Goa'uld domain, and was days away from launching an all-out attack on the System Lords, an attack that the Tok'ra believed he would have won. He was, in fact, at war with many other Goa'uld. His plan was to attack several key System Lords in order to tip the tenuous balace of power in the galaxy in his favor.
After Jacob Carter was captured by Sokar, the Tok'ra Martouf visited the SGC searching for assistance in rescuing Carter. When SG-1 and Martouf arrived on Ne'tu, they were informed by Jacob Carter/Selmak of Sokar's massive army and his plans to attack the System Lords.¹⁰ The Tok'ra launched a plan to take out Sokar, launching a weapon into the core of Ne'tu to cause it to explode. Sokar's ship was in orbit, and he was destroyed along with the planet.
As Apophis, who had been forced to serve Sokar after his defeat, was also trying to assassinate his new master at the time, he was able to seize control of Sokar's massive army. Apophis took his place as the most powerful member of the System Lords.^[50]

Tanith

'Tanith' was a Goa'uld symbiote, who was incubated in the Jaffa priestess Shau'nac. During this time Shau'nac was able to communicate with her symbiote and Tanith tricked her in believing that he was not like the other Goa'uld. Because of this she contacted Teal'c and Stargate Command, who then contacted the Tok'ra because Tanith wanted to join them. The Tok'ra accepted his offer and when Tanith matured he was implanted in a new host named Hebron. However Tanith quickly took over Hebron and showed his real face: he confronted Shau'nac, told her about his betrayal and finally murdered her. He then planned to work as a spy for Apophis, but the Tok'ra were aware of his betrayal. They tricked him in believing that they did not know about his betrayal so that they can use him to send disinformation to Apophis. Teal'c, who loved Shau'nac, was not happy about this situation because he wanted to kill Tanith himself but finally accepted this plan. However he hoped that one day he would be able to kill Tanith. ^[13]
Tanith then stayed with the Tok'ra for nearly a year while working as a spy for Apophis but all the time being tricked by the Tok'ra. This changed when SG-1 was able to capture a Goa'uld Ha'tak, which they took from Cronus whom they killed. With this ship they wanted to help the Tok'ra relocate their base and the Stargate to another planet, which was unknown to the Goa'uld and had no Stargate. After SG-1 arrived they confronted Tanith, who was unaware of this plan, and revealed to him that they knew all about him and his betrayal. He was then imprisoned and it was planned to remove the symbiote Tanith from Hebron and let him die in the desert of Vorash (the planet where they currently resided). Despite this Tanith stayed surprisingly calm and shortly thereafter he tricked his guards, escaped and contacted Apophis, who then came with a massive fleet. Tanith then hid on the planet and planned to be saved by an Al'kesh - which however was then shot down by Teal'c. When Apophis arrived Tanith, together with some Jaffa, captured Teal'c, but Tanith was wounded by Col. O'Neill. He then brought Teal'c onboard Apophis' ship and then left it in an escape pod. Because of this he was able to survive Apophis' death. ^[52]
After the death of his former master, Tanith then joined a new and more powerful Goa'uld: Anubis. Under his order he flew to Tollana, where he showed Anubis' power when his ships' shields could not be penetrated by the Tollan Ion cannon. He then remained on Tollana and ordered them to build new and powerful weapons for his master or he would destroy their world. He also planned to destroy SGC by sending a bomb, equipped with Tollan phase shift technology, through the Stargate. However, when SG-1 convinced Narim of the Tollan to destroy the newly built weapons, he led an attack on their home world, presumably destroying it. ^[53]
Tanith was confronted with SG-1 one last time during the team's visit to a planet the Goa'uld had been scouting in order to set up a base. While he was chasing them with an Al'kesh, he forced SG-1 to retreat back to the SGC through the Stargate. Teal'c, who finally used this chance to gain his revenge, fired a shot directly inside the cockpit, thus apparently killing Tanith. His Al'kesh however crashed into the DHD, resulting in an emergency for the SGC as the wormhole cut out before Teal'c could depart on the other side, and they apparently had only a limited time to get Teal'c out before his pattern would degrade. ^[54]

Terok

'Terok' was a minor Goa'uld in the service of System Lord Heru-ur.
An expert torture master, Terok was assigned to make an example of Teal'c's betrayal of his "god" in hopes of crushing the spirit of the Jaffa Resistance. When the Jaffa Rak'nor betrayed Teal'c and handed him over to the Goa'uld, Terok tortured him in front of a recording device.
Terok had attempted to force Teal'c to admit that the Goa'uld were the gods they pretended to be, but he was eventually unsuccessful as Teal'c held his ground. Although Heru-ur had originally planned to hand over Teal'c to his former master, Apophis, as the two System Lords were negotiating an alliance at the time, Terok swore to kill Teal'c at least once.
However, eventually Rak'nor, who had become impressed with Teal'c resolve, had a change of heart and turned on Terok, killing him. His body was subsequently sent over to Apophis' mothership in Teal'c's place. The act helped to throw the new alliance into chaos, and Apophis later destroyed Heru-ur's mothership. ^[24]

Thoth

'Thoth' was a minor Goa'uld who served Anubis.
A competent engineer and inventor, Thoth was responsible for overseeing the genetic engineering and maintenance of the Kull warriors, Anubis' newly developed and highly effective army of supersoldiers.
When SG-1 had extracted the location of his home base, Tartarus, from a captured Kull warrior, the team was sent to the planet along with Selmak. They sabotaged Anubis' production facility, but also attracted Thoth's attention.
Although Thoth was armed with a hand device, he was eventually killed by Samantha Carter. ⁴⁵

★ Thoth was named after the deity in Egyptian mythology.

Yu

Main articles: Yu (Stargate)

Yu was the eldest of the Goa'uld System Lords, and the one who was more friendly to Earth. Yu was an enemy of Anubis, and opposed his request to rejoin the System Lords. He commanded the System Lords' collective armies against Anubis until his old age forced him to turn over command to Ba'al. He was later killed by RepliCarter during the Replicator invasion of the Milky Way. Yu was based on two conflicting figures in the Chinese history and mythology.

Zipacna

'Zipacna' is a Goa'uld who was one of Apophis's most loyal underlings. He shares a name with a demon in Maya mythology.
An underlord in the Goa'uld political structure, Zipacna tends to serve whatever Goa'uld is in power. He was once allied with Apophis, and then served Apophis's son Klorel when the System Lord was killed.^[28] Following Klorel's own downfall, Lord Zipacna moved into the service of Anubis, who was just coming to power.^[8]

Fictional character biography

Zipacna in his tropical outfit.

In 2000, Klorel, inhabiting the body of Skaara, fled to Tollana, hoping that the Goa'uld motherships, under the control of Heru-ur, pursuing him would be destroyed by the Tollan Ion cannons defending the planet. After Klorel crashed on the planet, his host, Skaara, asked to have the Goa'uld removed, and a Triad was organised to determine who could control the body. Skaara asked SG-1 to defend his interests, while Zipacna represented Klorel.
However, Zipacna was unable to sway the other archons, and the Tollan decided to have the symbiote removed. Unwilling to abide by the judgement, Zipacna ordered an orbiting Ha'tak to attack the planet, using prepositioned targeting transmitters to allow the mothership to destroy the Tollan defenses before they had a chance to fire. When his plan was thwarted by SG-1, he escaped through the Stargate.²⁸
Eventually, Zipacna pledged his allegiance to Anubis, who was just coming to power at the time. He was responsible for enlisting the aid of Osiris to represent Anubis at the summit of the Goa'uld System Lords. Later, after having captured a Tok'ra spy and using Anubis's mind probing technology to find the location of their primary base, Zipacna led a devastating attack upon Revanna, wiping out the Tok'ra there.⁸ However, he failed in his secondary objective of finding the formula for the symbiote poison the Tok'ra had developed.^[58] Though the Goa'uld himself has not reappeared since, the Goa'uld Imhotep, posing as a Jaffa, carried out several successful material raids against Zipacna's Jaffa soon afterwards,^[25] and the Tok'ra Kanan's last mission was infiltrating one of Zipacna's Ha'tak's.^[60]

Other Goa'uld

Name	Known Hosts	Role	First Appearance	Played by
Ares (System Lord)		Fled from Ba'al when they made their attempts at power. The planet on which the Tok'ra had settled Harry Maybourne had previously belonged to him, and his Jaffa attempted to reclaim it. However, when Ares himself arrived, SG-1 used a Puddle Jumper to destroy his Ha'tak, killing him.	"It's Good to Be King"	Wayne Brady
Grannus		One of Camulus' lieutenants, who was eventually killed by his own Jaffa. However, he is still worshiped by fanatical followers.	"The Ties That Bind"	Unseen
Ishkur (System Lord)		Former ruler of the Sodan.	"Babylon"	Unseen
Isis (Queen)		Queen of Osiris. She was imprisoned within a canopic jar by Seth, and killed when the jar was damaged on route to America.	"The Curse"	Unseen
"Junior"		Goa'uld larva carried by Teal'c. Was eventually killed during an ambush by the System Lords. ^[61] The larva carried the memories of Cronus, suggesting that the two might be related.	"Bloodlines"	Unseen
Khonsu (Undercover Tok'ra)		An undercover Tok'ra posing as a Goa'uld System Lord. Had SG-1 captured by his Jaffa in order to pass on important information. He was killed by his First Prime Her'ak before this information could be passed on when his status as a Tok'ra was uncovered.	"The Other Guys"	Adam Harrington
Montu		Minor Goa'uld who served Ra, and later Ba'al when his former master was killed. His First Prime was Gerak.	"Avalon"	Unseen
Nefertum		Sekhmet's son, represented by a lotus blossom. He remains worshiped by the Bedrosians.	"New Ground"	Unseen
Pelops		Worshiped by the Argosians, and implanted nanobots into the Argosians to dramatically decrease their life to a hundred days so that he could study human evolution.	"Brief Candle"	Unseen
Qetesh	Vala Mal Doran	Possibly a servant of Camulus, she appears to have had several affairs with other Goa'uld, most notably Ba'al. She was eventually extracted from her host and killed by the Tok'ra.		Claudia Black
Sekhmet	Anna	Once served Ra. Her DNA was used by the NID to create the Goa'uld/human hybrid Anna.	"Resurrection"	Unseen
Shaq'ran		Goa'uld who once ruled the planet Pangar, who conquered it from Ra. Shaq'ran was defeated by Apophis Circa 1700 A.D.	"Cure"	Unseen
Sobek		Decapitated by Bastet and Kali. His head is rumored to be displayed in Bastet's palace.	"Summit"	Unseen
Svarog (System Lord)		Attacked the Latonans, who were protected by a powerful weapon, known as the ''Sentinel''. He was transported away by the weapon when it activated.	"Summit"	Unknown actor
Telchak		Discovered the Ancient Healing Device and used it to develop the Sarcophagus. After Anubis learned of Telchak's study of the device, he declared war on Telchak in the hopes of stealing the device for himself. Although Anubis finally defeated Telchak, he never found the device.	"Evolution"	Unseen
Thanos		Occupied the planet Langara approximately 3,000 years ago, and managed to create a small amount of naqahdriah. His fate remains unknown, although he was probably killed in a naqahdria induced accident.	"Meridian"	Unseen
Tiamat		Killed by Marduk. Previously possessed one of the six Eyes, which could be combined to form an extremely powerful weapon.	"Full Circle"	Unseen
Tilgath		Minor Goa'uld who was killed by a super-soldier so that Anubis could usurp his armies.	"Evolution, Part I"	Unseen
Unnamed	Adrian Conrad, Frank Simmons	Adrian Conrad willingly offered himself as host to cure his terminal illness; was then captured by Simmons, who used him to hijack the Prometheus; was shot by Simmons, then took him as host. Was eventually blown out of the Prometheus' airlock by Jack O'Neill.	"Desperate Measures"	Bill Marchant, John de Lancie
"The First One"	An Unas	was imprisoned in the labyrinth on Cimmeria, died when Teal'c kept him in Thor's Hammer.	"Thor's Hammer"	Vincent Hammond, James Earl Jones (voice)
Unnamed	Charles Kawalsky	Possessed Major Kawalsky during his first mission to Chulak. Was eventually killed by Teal'c.	"Children of the Gods"	Jay Acovone
Unnamed	Kianna Cyr	Sent by Ba'al to Kelowna to discover why Anubis was interested in the planet. She found the humans, and Jonas Quinn in particular, so interesting that she betrayed Ba'al to help them, and eventually sacrificed herself so Kyanna would survive. She was killed by exposure to nocive gases.	"Fallout"	Emily Holmes
Unnamed	Col. Steven Caldwell	Infiltrated Atlantis in an attempt to destroy it. Was eventually removed by Hermiod using Asgard transporter technology.	"Critical Mass"	Mitch Pileggi

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