No, he's treating Am-heh perfectly nicely.
He now has those devices, but he has a particular look at using power rings is almost always better anyway.
No. He has no real need for it at present. It would be easier to design something from scratch than modify existing jaffa armour.
He doesn't have jaffa.
Apart from all the ones who are dead because Heru'ur and Apophis are having a war there.
Eh, I'd take Goa'uld tech over the Power Ring that continually causes it's user to mind fuck themselves.
Zoat already confirmed that doing what he just did would have the normal result for the human.
Sadly that shouldn't actually fix the problem.
soul is the software and body is the hardware
How likely it is that Heset is Tokra spy?
Sarcophagi are indeed the reason why Goa'uld are evil beyond regular tyrants.
Ah, the meeting arrives quickly, and Mammon gets to meet other colleagues under Bastet. No doubt he's been leveraging his 'secret Ancient device' to improve his standing under her. And no doubt she's been trying to find out more about it...
A clear indicator of their favour with the System Lord, perhaps, or just representative of their newcomer status. Not letting them far from her sight, you dig?
An interesting alignment of proficiencies. But not unsurprising given that they were often associated in ancient cultures. After all, the processes of making perfume and the work of crafting early medicines were not all that different, I bet...
Interesting. Would he be dismissing his guards, and putting himself in the hands of the host's? Quite a sign of trust. Though they probably won't go far.
Ah, she's noticed his eyes glow when he used his 'device', then.
As in, with no-one around at all. Because this place is hardly private.
Just a small courtly gathering.
In other words, she's fully cowed into submission, and thus unlikely to consider rebellion anytime soon.
Good to see he's managed to get his head around filament use and discreet projection points. Probably emerging from the soles of his feet.
Heh. Yes, I can see him being concerned about whether his little passenger Construct Lantern could cause the same sort of behaviour in him...
Though managing to poison one without his kind of advantages would be risky in the extreme. Never mind affecting multiple.
And that only because Heset's new to her posting, I bet. And thus relatively newly joined?
Very sensible of her, asking for more information. Even if his 'Ancient Device' is highly effective, she's no doubt worried about what poking about in her head might do to her.
Of a sort... Of a sort...
Ah, well done, young lady... Well, I assume young, but due to the nature of the Sarcophagus use...
And Mammon has a far better device to keep him young and healthy, after all. Whereas many Goa'uld are too vain and foolish to not refrain from regular uses to maintain youth and vitality...
Ah, she's not so far gone that she can see how it would go eventually for her. A wise woman.
I bet the two hosts are related by blood. Or the symbiotes. They've got to have a bond that sidesteps the usual Goa'uld arrogance and paranoia. ...Or, as suggested, she's a spy.
Guess we'll see later?No, you're just using technology not really designed for what you're using it for...
And that shows impressive trust on her part, though the logic of the situation is pretty clear. If she comes down with a case of the Dead while Mammon is there, he's going to be a significant suspect. And he can't deal with the heat that would bring on his world.
Of course, now he's going to be stuck doing it for everyone she wants him to, unless their medical experts can suggest another treatment, other than the obvious 'stop using the Sarcophagus'.
Ah... So that they don't even realise they were affected by anything, hmm? Bastet keeping some secrets up her sleeve for later, no doubt.
Caught me by surprise, but really, why would she let so many underlings with potential for foolishness into her palace proper? So this place is more of a gathering hall, a place for visitors to gather... A hotel, basically.
It doesn't damage the brain at all.
Because the damn thing isn't properly calibrated for either humans or Goa'uld, Goa'uld are simply more resistant to the downsides.
Yes, he was lying, because Mammon would have those marks.
No, sarcophaguses messing up your brain is canon. SG1 end up having to hunt down the ancient device they're based on in order to fix it.
110%, with a 10% margin for error.
Bastet kind of half-assumes that during his 'dead time'' his priesthood got serious about education and when he got up again he just went with it. She knows that he also has teachers who know another language, but a lot of different languages are spoken across gou'ald space so that's not that weird.
by no means is anyone trying to say the Goa'uld aren't evil / brutal tyrants by default. It's that the worst of the Goa'uld usually comes from then going crazy or becoming mentally unstable from repeated use of the sarcophagus damaging their ability to self control.
Er...
That's a done deal. He understands it as well as Am-heh and all of his ancestors. He doesn't understand how sarcophaguses work for the reasons stated above, but anything else? No problem.
'links'?
Not really, when it was explained to SG-1 that the sarcophagus damages the soul, it was a metaphor or simplification in casual conversation. Iirc it was a quick justification for why the Tok'Ra don't use them. Soul could have been substituted with personality to the same result.
Stargate Season 6 Episode 6.