- "You've all been briefed on the mission by Colonel Makepeace. You know the enemy, you know the risks. What I'm trying to say is, I would rather not order you to do this. So, I would like all of those willing to attempt a rescue of SG-1 to take one step... [...] Very well. SG units three, five, six and eleven...bring them home."
- ―Major General George S. Hammond[src]
The Battle of Eskal was a major conflict during the Tau'ri-Goa'uld War. It saw the death of the Goa'uld queen Hathor and saw rise to the Jaffa Rebellion.
Prelude[]
Colonel Jack O'Neill is probed for information.
On a mission to an unnamed planet, SG-1 except Teal'c, who she leaves badly wounded, are captured by the rogue Goa'uld System Lord Hathor and taken to her base where she has them placed in Stasis pods.
Three weeks later, she releases them and has her First Prime Trofsky and Dr. Sarah Raully, who is really a Tok'ra operative, pretend its seventy years in the future using a mock-up of Stargate Command inside her base. Trofsky and Raully use the Memory recall device to question SG-1 on the state of the Goa'uld Empire.[3]
Hathor implanting a Goa'uld in Colonel Jack O'Neill.
At the same time, Teal'c recovers from his injuries and travels to Chulak to gather reinforcements to try to rescue his team. There he finds a badly injured Bra'tac and starts the beginning of the Jaffa Rebellion.[4]
Colonel Jack O'Neill grows suspicious of what is going on and escapes, searching Hathor's base and rescuing Captain Samantha Carter and Dr. Daniel Jackson before searching for a way out.[3] They are recaptured by Hathor who plans to implant O'Neill with a Goa'uld symbiote, but is stopped by Raully when he tries to kill it under the pretense of stopping his attempt to kill it.[4]
Battle[]
Meanwhile, SG-3 encounters the Tok'ra who give them the location of Hathor's base and Major General George S. Hammond organizes a rescue mission made up of SG-3, 5, 6 and 11. At Hathor's base, she straps O'Neill into a cryogenic tank and implants him with the Goa'uld, but Raully secretly puts him into stasis, which prevents the blending and kills the Goa'uld before Hathor discovers her and severely injures her with a Kara kesh.
Carter and Jackson are rescued by the rescue team, but SG-3, who are guarding the Stargate, are captured and the rescue team is cut off from the Stargate by a giant shield and Sentry gun posts. The attack kills a few members of the rescue team, but blasts a hole into Tok'ra tunnels which the survivors escape into.
Hammond, getting worried about the team, dials the planet and makes radio contact with them and after learning their situation, promises to send reinforcements in six hours while the team plans to take out the shield. Carter heads off armed with explosives to try to locate the generator while Jackson and the rest of the team are captured by Hathor's Jaffa.
Carter finds Raully who tells her how to release O'Neill, which she does, but she is found by Hathor who starts to kill her with a hand device before O'Neill recovers and throws Hathor into the super-cool cryogenic fluid, killing her. The two find out from Raully that the shield generator is hidden behind the fake Stargate in the SGC mock-up and head there to plant explosives on it.
The Needle Threader attacks.
At the same time, Hammond is unable to get authorization to send more men to rescue those already captured and travels to Chulak himself to get help from Teal'c and Bra'tac. The three uncover a Needle Threader hidden by Bra'tac to give them an advantage over Hathor's forces and prepare their attack. Near the Stargate, Trofsky uses his captives to try to draw Carter out and O'Neill decides to pretend to be possessed by the Goa'uld to trick him. Trofsky quickly sees through it and refuses to give up even when learning of Hathor's death. As soon as the Stargate starts dialing, Carter blows the C-4, taking down the shield and O'Neill shoots Trofsky. The Needle Threader comes through first, piloted by Teal'c and Hammond and destroys one of the Sentry gun posts.
Bra'tac and several rebel Jaffa arrives and Bra'tac kills Trofsky, who survived O'Neill's attack thanks to his armor, with a staff weapon blast. After Hammond destroys the other attack tower with the Needle Threader's cannons, Bra'tac gets Hathor's few remaining Jaffa to surrender, ending the fight.[4]
Aftermath[]
Following the successful rescue of SG-1 and the death of Hathor, the Goa'uld system lords began to turn their attention to towards Earth. Wanting to protect Earth from the System Lords, the Supreme Commander of the Asgard fleet, Thor, negotiated with the System Lords to include Earth in the Protected Planets Treaty which would prevent any Goa'uld attack on Earth.[5]
Appearances[]
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References[]
- ↑ (SG1: "1969")
- ↑ (SG1: "Seth")
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 (SG1: "Out of Mind")
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 4.25 4.26 4.27 4.28 4.29 4.30 4.31 4.32 4.33 (SG1: "Into the Fire")
- ↑ (SG1: "Fair Game")