Pharrin

Pharrin was a Talthun engineer on the Stromos during its trip to Ardena before it crashed, having been forced to leave his wife and most of his family behind on Talthus save for his youngest son. When the ship's systems began to fail, he was automatically awakened from the stasis pods to try and save the passengers, but, with the ship's systems damaged and the bodies of many passengers dead, he was forced to resort to more desperate measures by transferring the minds of twelve passengers into his own body. He was apparently able to come to a kind of consensus with the other personalities whereby he remained in control while still being able to communicate with the others, although the other personalities could still assert control if they wished.

It was later implied that Pharrin had a significant reputation among other officers on the ship, with Tryan, another engineer, later commenting that only Pharrin could have achieved what he had done. However, this intellect apparently left him with a certain desperate arrogance; when SG-1 discovered the crashed Stromos, he automatically resorted to using the body of Daniel Jackson to store the minds of twelve other dead passengers- including his Soverign Martisse and his own son- rather than simply asking if they had access to technology that could help him. After explaining his situation to Teal'c and Major Samantha Carter, the SGC offered him a Naquadah generator to restore the ship's power and their assistance in sending the Stromos to Ardena in exchange for Daniel being purged of the excess minds within him. Although Pharrin briefly hesitated when his Soverign Martisse refused to leave Daniel, Colonel Jack O'Neill shot down Martisse's orders with the pointed reminder that Martisse was dead and had no right to Daniel's body. Pharrin was later able to remove the extra minds from Daniel and transfer some of them to himself, including Tryan and his son ("Lifeboat").