SGCommand
Register
Advertisement

"Of all the gods he picked to impersonate, he chose the Devil."
Daniel Jackson[src]

Sokar was a powerful Goa'uld System Lord known for his cruel and sadistic nature. Unlike most Goa'uld, Sokar's followers served him more out of fear than reverence, regarding such things as unimportant and pointless as he reveled at being feared more than worshiped.

Biography[]

Background information[]

Sokar

Sokar's symbol.

Sokar is considered to be one of the most villainous and evil Goa'uld that ever plagued the galaxy. Not only was he one of the most reviled of the System Lords, but also one of the oldest. Sokar was able to quickly rise to power by inspiring fear in his followers, and equipping his Jaffa with the weapons they needed to terrorize those under his rule, even his own servants were not safe from his wrath. (SG1: "Living Gods: Stargate System Lords")

When the Goa'uld first arrived on Earth, Sokar played off humankind's greatest fears, and quickly established himself as a god of death. (SG1: "Living Gods: Stargate System Lords") He aligned himself with the personas of various underworld demons, including the Biblical Satan. During that period, Sokar held an Unas host, though he eventually moved to a human one. (SG1: "Jolinar's Memories") He became obsessed with his own mythology, surrounding himself with imagery to reinforce his claims. Worlds under Sokar's domination were transformed into barren wastelands and nightmarish domains that none could fearlessly tread. (SG1: "Living Gods: Stargate System Lords")

When Ra was distracted by Anubis' attack during the Second Goa'uld Dynasty, Sokar took advantage and deposed him from his seat of power on Earth. He then transformed the lands under his rule into vast swathes of darkness and decay, and threatened the rest of the planet with the same. Using a device he developed call the sun-shade, he covered the lands around the city of Memphis in perpetual night. Monsters roamed the lands as he allowed the Unas to freely walk the Earth alongside the Goa'ulds and Jaffa under Sokar's control. Large portions of Egypt literally became Hell on Earth, places to be feared and avoided. (SG1: "Living Gods: Stargate System Lords") He was eventually deposed by a vengeful Ra, who formed an alliance with several other System Lords, including Apophis and Cronus. They decimated his forces and believed him destroyed, but he survived though reduced to a minor System Lord. It would be several millennia before Sokar would once again rise to prominence and make an attempt to seize power over the other System Lords. (SG1: "Living Gods: Stargate System Lords", "Jolinar's Memories"). He later conquered the world of Delmak, making it his homeworld, and pyroformed its moon into a hell-like world, naming it Netu. His underling Bynarr ruled Ne'tu, traveling to Delmak by way of the transportation rings to inform Sokar of the suffering of the damned. (SG1: "Jolinar's Memories")

1999[]

In 1999, Sokar made his presence known again among the System Lords, by engaging in a war with Heru'ur while at the same time, attacking Earth when Apophis surrendered in hopes of taking the Tau'ri down with him. In order to bypass Stargate Command's iris, Sokar used a particle accelerator through the wormhole. After Apophis died, the SGC managed to dial out again to the planet they had found Apophis on and sent him through. Sokar ceased his attack on Earth with the Tok'ra Martouf warning that Sokar could revive Apophis with a sarcophagus. Sokar subsequently revived Apophis as Martouf predicted and imprisoned him on Netu. After learning of the death of Apophis' mate Amaunet, Sokar sent him word though Apophis did not believe Sokar. (SG1: "Serpent's Song", "Jolinar's Memories", "The Devil You Know")

On a mission, SG-1 encounters bounty hunter Aris Boch who was hunting the Tok'ra Korra to capture for Sokar. Boch press-ganged SG-1 into helping him, but agreed to let Korra go after being convinced that the Tok'ra were different from the Goa'uld. Though Boch originally intended to take Teal'c instead, he was convinced to change his mind and communicated to Sokar's ship about "technical difficulties" before he self-destructed his Tel'tak. SG-1 later learned from the Tok'ra that if Sokar had collected the bounty, he would have transported them to P3R-779, the beginning planet of the Trial of Ra rather than to the System Lords. (SG1: "Deadman Switch", "The Barque of Heaven")

SG-1 subsequently came up against an Unas in service of Sokar who pretended to be a demon on the medieval planet to get an easy source of hosts for Sokar's use. The Unas was killed by Simon and its symbiote by Colonel Jack O'Neill. On the orders of SG-1, the villagers buried the Stargate to prevent Sokar from returning for retribution with Major Samantha Carter predicting that the planet was too far away for Sokar to bother making the trip by ship. (SG1: "Demons")

Within a year of his return, Sokar was prepared to launch a massive attack against six key System Lords with a force large enough that it would guarantee him victory and rule the galaxy. The Tok'ra sent Jacob Carter/Selmak undercover in Sokar's court to discover the size of his forces. Jacob discovered that Sokar had a force ten times larger than the Tok'ra believed and was prepared to launch his attack within two weeks. However, Jacob was captured by Sokar's forces and sent to Netu before he could communicate this information.

Having learned of Jacob's capture, the Tok'ra enlisted the help of SG-1 to rescue him and learn what Jacob knew about Sokar's forces, aided by the fact that Major Samantha Carter was once the host of Jolinar of Malkshur, the only person to ever escape from Netu. On the prison moon, the team and Martouf learned from Jacob about the size of Sokar's forces and the planned attack and relayed it to Teal'c who remained in orbit in a Tel'tak. Bynarr visited Sokar to thank him for sending Jolinar's host to him to allow Bynarr to get his revenge, but Sokar realized that the people on Netu were intruders and ordered Bynarr to torture them for information then kill them, giving Bynarr one day to find out. Sokar also ordered Jumar to find the ship that brought the intruders to Netu. (SG1: "Jolinar's Memories")

After the escape of Teal'c in the Tel'tak, Jumar reported on the development to Sokar who decided to move up his plans as Sokar believed the ship to contain spies. Instead of waiting another several days, Sokar ordered that the attack be launched in two days. At the same time, having learned of the threat Sokar posed from Teal'c, the Tok'ra decided to take advantage of the fact that Sokar would take his Ha'tak into orbit of Netu to cleanse the denizens to launch an attack of their own to stop Sokar from rising to dominant power amongst the System Lords. They planned to send a weapon into Netu's core that would destabilize it, causing the moon to explode and destroy Sokar's ship in orbit.

Once the fleet was ready, Sokar took his Ha'tak into Netu's orbit as the Tok'ra predicted and called for Bynarr to report. Instead, Sokar was contacted by Apophis who had killed Bynarr and taken over Netu. Though Sokar threatened to bring the full force of his weapons to bear against Apophis, Apophis offered the information he had extracted from SG-1 and Martouf in exchange for Sokar making Apophis the lord of Netu. In reality, this was a ploy by Apophis to get close enough to Sokar to assassinate him and take his place. Sokar agreed to Apophis' request and Apophis boarded the ship through the transportation rings as Aldwin of the Tok'ra launched the weapon into the moon's core once Sokar's ship was in position. Brought before Sokar, Apophis revealed that the Tok'ra were based on Entac, a fact that Apophis had learned from Martouf. However, Sokar had recently conquered the planet and knew the Tok'ra were not located there and ordered Apophis tortured to death.

Kara kesh 2

Sokar activating his shield on his Kara kesh to block a staff blast from Apophis.

As Sokar enjoyed Apophis' pain, Jumar arrived with the news that Netu had become unstable and was going to explode. Apophis took advantage of the moment of surprise to kill the Jaffa and attempted to shoot Sokar with a staff weapon. However, Sokar used his kara kesh' personal shield to block the shot and Apophis ran away, leaving the enraged Sokar behind. Netu exploded shortly afterwards, destroying Sokar's ship and killing Sokar. However, Apophis was able to use the ship's ring transporter to escape to Delmak and took advantage of Sokar's death and his already poor relations with his followers to take control of Sokar's forces for himself, establishing himself as a liberator who freed them from a tyrant and an unjust god. (SG1: "The Devil You Know")

Personality[]

Aside from the standard Goa'uld traits of arrogance and egotism, Sokar was made infamous for his sadism and cruelty, which were greater than just about any other Goa'uld, aside from Anubis. Sokar would frequently torture people right in front of him and took extra pleasure in prolonging the suffering of his victims to the point of maniacal laughter. This happened to both Jolinar of Malkshur and Apophis during their incarceration on Netu. Sokar apparently had a fair sense of the Tau'ri version of Hell, and was so inspired by it, he formed his prison world by bombarding the moon from orbit to crack the mantle and allow magma to seep to the surface and turn the sky red. Like other Goa'uld, he had a flair for the dramatic. His speech was twisted, and he usually had a flame nearby. Unlike other Goa'uld who demand worship, Sokar cares nothing for it as his followers serve him more out of fear rather than religious devotion. (SG1: "Jolinar's Memories")

Sokar never made any effort to appease or reward his followers, instead he preferred to rule as an iron-fisted despot. His Necropolis Guards functioned as both his shock troops and as agents of terror that kept his subjects in line, who lived in constant fear of their master. Neither his followers or servents had any privacy or any real love for Sokar and were in constant fear of dying at his hands. Every one of his followers constantly toiled to provide Sokar with whatever he required to increase his military power. Sokar made sure that the oppression of those under his rule was complete, allowing no room for rebellion.

In addition those living in his domain were constantly assaulted by their infernal environment. Nearly every world under Sokar's control was turned into an image of hell. It gave him great pleasure coming up with new hellish landscapes for the cultures he dominated, resulting that the vision of his realm varied from society to society. His followers were constantly exposed to his dangerous whim and frequently were forced to live through the terraforming of a new planet into Sokar's desired nightmarish landscape.

Sokar was a loner, even more so than the average System Lord, and had very few allies. Occasionally he would form an alliance with another Goa'uld, but he preferred having servants and enemies, not allies. His agents were a unique group, ranging from Demon-impersonating underlords to Bynarr, the scarred lord of Netu. Sokar also stood out as being one of the few Goa'uld that still embraced the Unas as valuable agents. Several of his underlords possessed Unas bodies, and serving in his armies alongside the Jaffa were a number of Unas warriors. (SG1: "Living Gods: Stargate System Lords")

Sokar has quite a disturbing appearance in his human host. Under Sokar's hood is shown to be a man with pale skin, yellow eyes and prominent black veins all across his face. This disturbing appearance further highlights Sokar's chosen role as the Devil.

Equipment[]

This section requires expansion

Weapons[]

Vehicles[]

Appearances[]

Appearances for Sokar

In chronological order:

References[]

Links and navigation[]

Wiki2
Stargate Wiki has a collection of images related to Sokar.
v  e
Goa'uld
Goa'uld AmaterasuAnkerAnnaAnubisAnubis' AshrakAnubis' Goa'uld LieutenantApophisAresAthenaBa'alBastetBelusBynarrCamulusCronusDemonEdrekhAdrian Conrad's Goa'uldKianna Cyr's Goa'uldSteven Caldwell's Goa'uldHeru'urImhotepJa'dinKaliKlorelMardukMolocMorriganMotNefertumNerusNirrtiNutOlokunOsirisPelopsQeteshRaRamiusRuaxSeteshSokarSvarogTanithTelchakThothTiamatTilgathWepwawetYu-huang Shang TiZipacnaZirstyr
Goa'uld queens AmaunetAnatAnubis' queenAsherahBadbCleo (Goa'uld)Cronus' QueenDanuEgeriaEphadriaGoa'uld Queen (Core Rulebook)HathorIsisMarasisMatMorgauseMorriganNutPamchadraTaweretXiwangmuZarpani
Goa'uld hosts AdriaApophis' hostAziruSteven CaldwellCanonRuslan ChernovshevAdrian ConradCrossKianna CyrSeth FargoughRichard FlemmingSarah GardnerHebronDaniel JacksonK'tanoCharles KawalskyKendraAnatole KonstantinovLiandraVala Mal DoranCharlotte MayfieldMalcolm McCaffreyRa (Human)Ruax's Unas HostSha'reFrank SimmonsSingerSkaaraSergei VallarinAlexi Vaselov
Goa'uld outposts AbydosAkkadAnubis' WorldApophis' training planetArgosArkhan's worldAsdadChodawwaChulakCo'rakDakaraDelmakDenderaDendredErebusEskalHankaHasara space stationJebannaJunaKhonsu's WorldLangaraMalkshurMedieval planetMemphisNasyaNetuNirrti's planetP2C-257P2X-338P2X-887P3X-042P3X-367P3X-584P4A-771P4S-237P5S-117P6Y-325P8X-412P8X-873PangarParavalPraxyonPX9-757Ra's planetRamius' homeworldTartarus
Goa'uld technology Al'keshArk bombAerial Zat'nik'tel PlatformAnubis' mothershipAnubis' superweaponArchaic Tel'takBattleshipGoa'uld bodiceBreathing filtration systemCanon's ringCheops class warshipCloakCryogenic storage deviceDeath GliderDeath Glider communication systemDeath Glider propulsion systemGoa'uld control consoleGoa'uld GDOGoa'uld force fieldGoa'uld hologramGoa'uld hyperdriveGoa'uld recording deviceGoa'uld sensorGoa'uld shieldGoa'uld grenadeHa'takHara'keshGoa'uld healing deviceGoa'uld homing deviceIncomplete Goa'uld spacecraftIntarInvisibility screenKara keshKor mak braceletKull armorLight Matrix HologramLong range visual communication deviceMa'Tok staffMask of AnubisMind probeNaniteNaquadah bombNeedle ThreaderPage turning devicePlasma chargePlasma repeaterGoa'uld remote controlRecall deviceReconnaissance probeRing remoteRod of AnguishGoa'uld scanning deviceSarcophagusScarab miniature naquadah bombGoa'uld shield generatorShort range communicatorSolar radiation shieldStaff cannonStargate dialerStasis jarTacluchnatagamuntoronTel'takTransphase Eradication RodTransportation ringsTroopshipVo'cume projectorZat'nik'tel
Advertisement