The Gate Historian: A Military History of the Stargate Universe

The Reetou fight the Goa’uld from outside normal human visual perception. Their unusual physical state makes them invisible without specialized equipment and exceptionally difficult to detect, track, or defend against. The central divide is between the wider Reetou population and a radical rebel faction created by attempted Goa’uld extermination. Concluding that humans supplied the hosts necessary for Goa’uld power, the rebels adopted a strategy of killing human populations to deny the enemy future bodies. A Reetou mother opposed that campaign and used the human child Charlie as an intermediary to warn Stargate Command of an approaching attack. With Tok’ra-supplied Transphase Eradication Rods, SGC personnel could finally reveal and engage the invisible infiltrators. The Reetou conflict demonstrates how genocide can produce insurgencies whose logic expands beyond the original enemy. Their rebellion targeted the biological foundation of Goa’uld rule, but it transformed potential allies and uninvolved civilians into acceptable casualties. Visit ImaginedBattlefield.com for more military and science fiction.