Sarcophagus

From SGCommand

"We believe that to use the sarcophagus would drain the good from our hearts."

—Martouf

The alien species Goa'uld use a device called a sarcophagus to rapidly heal injuries and extend their lifespans. The device can also bring the recently deceased back to life.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Function 3 History 4 External links

[edit] Overview

Originally Daniel Jackson encounters a sarcophagus for the first time after being killed by a blast from a Jaffa's staff weapon, awakening inside with no wounds on his body. He uses the device again to revive his wife Sha'uri, who had been killed by another staff. Later, Jackson becomes addicted to the device, demonstrating symptoms common to the Goa'uld who regularly use them, including paranoia, egotism, and megalomania.

[edit] Function

A sarcophagus is based on the Ancients' healing device technology. It can heals all illness and damage done to the body. Using it very occasionaly produces no ill affects. However, when using regulaly, especially when unneeded, the side affects can be meglomania and feelings of superiority. This was one of the reaosns that makes the Goa'uld and Tok'ra different, as the Goa'uld are evil and meglomatic, some Goa'uld, such as Yu use the device nearly every day.

[edit] History

The first sarcophagus was created by an ancient Goa'uld known as Telchak. The sarcophagus was derived from the device (a sample of which was recovered from South America by Jackson), a technology which was too powerful itself to be used upon normal humans. The Tok'ra do not use the sarcophagus, claiming that it damages the soul. However, a sarcophagus is known not only to give life, but to actually sustain life in a form of stasis for several thousand years (As demonstrated by the Goa'uld Hathor, who had been sealed away in a sarcophagus for almost 2,000 years, without any age or ill-term effects). Another Goa'uld, Marduk, was known to have been sealed away in a sarcophagus for 4,000 years, along with a vicious and dangerous creature intended to devour the Goa'uld. Because of the sarcophagus's special ability to keep the Goa'uld alive, it may have taken the vicious creature a long while to slowly devour the Goa'uld. For the Goa'uld trapped inside, it was a long, painful, and agonizing process that resulted in an "eternal torture" (But the Goa'uld itself possessed the creature's body). The Goa'uld use the device on prisoners when their torture methods accidentally or intentionally kill their victims. The limits of the sarcophagus were demonstrated by Lord Yu, whose extreme age reduced the effectiveness of the sarcophagus's regenerative powers. This confirmed that as powerful as sarcophagus technology is, it cannot grant true immortality. (Stargate) (SG1: "Need", "Evolution")

[edit] External links

• GateWorld's article on Sarcophagus in The Stargate Omnipedia
• Sarcophagus on Wikipedia