The Tomb {could spoil it so don't look if you ain't seen it}

[System Lord Gypsy]

If you take a season to be a year which is the timespan I think it's supposed to be then it was closer to 3 years so I suppose your right but then as I said it shouldn't be anything that couldn't be fixed with a healing device and we know that although the Tok'ra won't use a sarcophagus on themselves they will on others in extreme cases. Also i'm pretty sure the Tollans would be advanced enough to have their own miracle healing technology.

Gypsy

 

[Jedispara]

ya... so it is extremly fast acting...

 

[PTeppic]

Originally posted by Jedispara
ya... so it is extremly fast acting...

And whilst we think it operated a lot slower in some other circumstances (on dead Goa'uld or even Daniel (again, and again, and again)) when Jack used the sarcophagus in Hathor, he was barely in there at all before the room was stormed and he came out again fully healed.

There is a big question - whilst the LARVAL Goa'uld totally suppresses the immune system, does this happen with ADULT Goa'uld? Perhaps not, since it is a symbiotic relationship - or can be - whereas the incubator role of Jaffa is less tolerant and more carrying a mostly inert foreign object.... {something to think about anyway}

 

[System Lord Gypsy]

Certainly something to think about. Something you made me think of is that a symbiont could well suppress the imune system but I am thinking, in races that already had an imune system before being taken over it would mean that the Goa'uld had basicaly broken the system and I'm wonderign if a sarcophagus would right the damage done to it and restore the imune system.

This is getting too much like the technical threads. I think I might ask Allan to transfer it accross.

Gypsy

 

[PTeppic]

In "Hathor", it was her nifty little all-in-one immune-system-remover and pouch-cutter that did for Jack...

I am racking my brains to think of whether they ever mention the immune system for adult Goa'uld symbiotes. We know the symbiotes can help cure disease, (e.g. Selmac/Jacob), but I don't think it specifically mentions actual suppression/replacement by the symbiote. Interesting and yet subtle difference perhaps?

 

[System Lord Gypsy]

I don't remember it ever acually being mentioned but it's worth thinking about.

Gypsy

 

[Jedispara]

mabye the immune system has to be represed so that it doesn't kill the gould... so basically anyone who takes on a gould has to have some way to kick start there immune system, right?

 

[PTeppic]

The immune system could be repressed for two reasons:

a) to stop killing a foreign body (the Goa'uld)
b) to allow the superior immune/regenerative system of the Goa'uld to operate on the hosts body


Afraid I don't follow your "anyone who takes on a Goa'uld" sentence though. :blush:

 

[Jedispara]

i meant if someone has a gould removed that the person ahs to have some way to get the immune system going again.