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lilyhargraveHello Dreamwidth, I am back! With a post! : )
There will be more fanfic chapter imports/updates as well, soon. For now, more of a journal thing?
Well, with regards to fanfic... Do you (general, non-specific, metaphorical you) know how hard it is to make Stargate Goa'uld society make sense from a "behind the scenes" perspective?? Like! We know nothing! Who even runs things? Supposedly, the Jaffa are all warriors (males) or priests (females). And the humans are all slaves kept in a "all technology is magic" state. So... so who does the shopping? Who does the building of technological things? Who makes the weapons, the ships? Where do any advancements come from? Yeah, so a System Lord will have minor Goa'uld in their court under them, but... but they're still not going to be soldering things together? Are they? Producing microchips, sorry, crystals? Like... you need skilled labour?? And if your human slaves aren't allowed to understand how any of it works... who's doing the skilled technological labour? I think... I think the most reasonable answer is "the Jaffa". So, yeah, so much for "they're only warriors/religious functionaries".
Yeah. Anyway. That's things I'm trying to figure out for my fanfic right now, : )
There will be more fanfic chapter imports/updates as well, soon. For now, more of a journal thing?
Well, with regards to fanfic... Do you (general, non-specific, metaphorical you) know how hard it is to make Stargate Goa'uld society make sense from a "behind the scenes" perspective?? Like! We know nothing! Who even runs things? Supposedly, the Jaffa are all warriors (males) or priests (females). And the humans are all slaves kept in a "all technology is magic" state. So... so who does the shopping? Who does the building of technological things? Who makes the weapons, the ships? Where do any advancements come from? Yeah, so a System Lord will have minor Goa'uld in their court under them, but... but they're still not going to be soldering things together? Are they? Producing microchips, sorry, crystals? Like... you need skilled labour?? And if your human slaves aren't allowed to understand how any of it works... who's doing the skilled technological labour? I think... I think the most reasonable answer is "the Jaffa". So, yeah, so much for "they're only warriors/religious functionaries".
Yeah. Anyway. That's things I'm trying to figure out for my fanfic right now, : )
Re: Well ...
Date: 14 May 2025 21:39 (UTC)Now, we do know that minor Goa'uld work for other Goa'uld, and it's canon that they actually like having defeated foes do that to, like, lord it over them, I guess. But all Goa'uld are arrogant with delusions of godhood, so I can't see them as a proper "worker class"- upper management, though, yeah. Some research and science- we do see Tok'ra scientists, and it's not like they're a different species.
So, yeah... Minor Goa'uld as managers and for less labour-like labour, and otherwise, it'll have to be the Jaffa. Right, I wanted to rewatch that episode with the fake SGC, where they pretend to all the SG-1 members that the others are dead, because I think we see some hints of there...