Sodan
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| Species | Jaffa |
| Homeworld | P9G-844 (SGC designation) |
| Governing body | Unknown; head of government is Lord Haikon |
| Alliances as of season 10 | Tau'ri |
| Prior Alliances | Ori |
| Key episodes | "Babylon" (first appearance) |
The Sodan are a fictional group of rebel Jaffa in the science fiction series Stargate SG-1.
[edit] History
The Sodan are a group of Jaffa who, over 5,000 years ago, realized that the Goa'uld were not gods and rebelled against their ruling Goa'uld, the System Lord Ishkur. Because they were now considered traitors by the Goa'uld, they started to travel through the galaxy and searched for Kheb. They finally settled on a hidden planet which had apparently previously been settled by the Ancients and found a large amount of Ancient technology there, including a transportation device which transports them to the other end of the planet, ensuring safety. The Sodan have waited these past five thousand years for the return of the Ancients and their eventual Ascension.
The Sodan are a proud warrior people, bearing the mark of no Goa'uld, and stealing their prim'tahs (larval Goa'uld) from the Goa'uld in secret raids and killing their prim'tahs when the symbiote reaches maturity.
The Sodan fighting style is generally considered superior to anything else that the Jaffa have yet produced. A prisoner of the Sodan who killed a Sodan warrior must undergo Kel Shak Lo: ritual combat with another Sodan warrior, typically the deceased's closest male relative; because of the skill of Sodan warriors, the prisoner almost never survives. Like all Jaffa, however, the Sodan have a strong sense of honor, and teach their prisoners the fighting style of the Sodan before the Kel Shak Lo.
Ancient writings are everywhere on the Sodan homeworld and as a result, the Sodan have long worshipped the Ancients, seeking after Ascension. However, the similarities between the Ancients and the Ori and the promise of Ascension caused the Sodan to officially convert to Origin, though there were still some dissenters. Soon after, an Ori Prior dispatched the Sodan to a planet to exterminate a group of nonbelievers who were conspiring against the Ori. However, when the Sodan arrived at the planet they found that the people were nothing but simple farmers. Leaving them unharmed, the Sodan traveled to another planet, rumoured to have defied the Ori. They found the entire civilization destroyed by a mysterious plague (the same plague which the Ori had released on Earth). As of "The Fourth Horseman", the Sodan have officially rejected the Ori and assisted SG-1 in their attempt to capture their Prior, which later resulted in the Prior's death. It is unknown if any Sodan still worshipped the Ori after this incident.
As a result of the Sodan treachery, a Prior infected Vol'nek, the Sodan who was almost killed by Mitchell, with a disease that killed him, then revived him in a manner remarkably similar to the Ancient Healing Device. Crazed, he proceeded to kill every Sodan man, woman, and child, with the sole exception of Lord Haikon, who survived solely because members of the SGC arrived and were able to administer a supply of tretonin to replace the symbiote that Vol'nek had killed. He was finally killed by Mitchell, Teal'c, and SGs 3 and 12 with a buried claymore which destroyed the entirety of his body. ("Arthur's Mantle").
In the episode Uninvited, the SGC has collected every Sodan cloaking device that they could find and has been using them for stealth recon missions to investigate planets that have converted to Origin. However, these devices shift the wearer to another dimension which a slug like parasite resides and can shift into our dimension if they are in the field at the right time, as a safeguard, the Sodan cloaking devices emit a field of radiation to protect to wearer from these creatures, being Jaffa, this radiation is harmless to them, however, when the SGC used these devices they disabled the radiation field which resulted in a number of these parasites shifting to our dimension and occupying the bodies of indigenous animals of various planets and mutating them.
[edit] See also
| Alien races in the Stargate universe | Edit | |
| Five Great Races | Ancients, Asgard, Furling, Nox, Tau'ri |
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| Humans | Tau'ri, Tollan, Aschen, Genii, Athosians, Prior | |
| Jaffa | Sodan, Free Jaffa, Hak'tyl, Illac Renin | |
| Ascended beings | Ancient, Ori | |
| Goa'uld | System Lords, Tok'ra, Kull Warrior | |
| Other | Asurans, Iratus bug, R-75, Re'ol, Re'tu, Replicator, "Spirits", Unas, Wraith | |
