Goa'uld Empire

"Many hundreds. Perhaps more."

- Teal'c when asked how many worlds the Goa'uld control.

The Goa'uld Empire was the collective holdings of the Goa'uld. Territorially, it was the largest grouping in the Milky Way. Politically, however, the Empire was factional and prone to chaos.

History
The Empire was divided into individual domains ruled by the System Lords, the most powerful Goa'ulds. Leadership of the Goa'uld Empire was held by the System Lords. While they were constatnly fighting and scheming against each other, they would ally against external threats (such as the Asgard, the Tau'ri, and the Replicators) or mutual internal threats (such as the Tok'ra, the Jaffa Rebellion, and rogue Goa'uld such as Sokar and Anubis). The System Lords would occasionally hold a Council for purposes of mutual concern. For many years, Ra was the Supreme System Lord and functioned as the effective leader of the Empire. His death forever altered the balance of power within the Goa'uld Empire, and no System Lord was able to achieve his level of power for years. It was also at this point that the Goa'uld began to experience something of a population boom neccessitaing new host raids.

The Empire was further destabalized in 2001, when Apophis, Heru'ur, and Cronus, the three System Lords who had come to fill the viod left by Ra's absence, were killed. The lack of dominant power caused chaos within the Empire until the return of Anubis. For two years, Anubis was the dominant force in the Empire, causing the others to ally in a United Alliance of System Lords. Their efforts were meager until Anubis' fleet was destroyed by the Tau'ri. Ba'al took over most of Anubis' possessions, and began to style himself Supreme Commander of the Goa'uld Domain. When the Replicators invaded the Milky Way, most of the System Lords were killed, and Ba'al assumed control of the rest of their forces, but he quickly began to lose the war. The Goa'uld Empire was destroyed when Rebel Jaffa took Dakara from Ba'al, and the rest of the Jaffa rose up against the remaining Goa'uld.

Domains

 * Amaterasu's domain
 * Anubis' domain
 * Apophis' domain
 * Ba'al's domain
 * Camulus' domain
 * Cronus' domain
 * Heru'ur's domain
 * Moloc's domain
 * Nirrti's domain
 * Olokun's domain
 * Ra's domain
 * Sokar's domain
 * Yu's domain