Ma'chello

Ma'chello was a male Human that hailed from the planet Dendred.

His history was deeply entwined with the Goa'uld since his birth on the slave world of Dendred. The world differed from others within the Goa'uld Empire as it was already advanced when the Goa'uld invaded. Fortunately for the Goa'uld, the Dendredans were for the most part peaceful and had largely abandoned warfare and thus posed little threat to the warlord Ares who quickly conquered their world.

Growing up under the rule of the System Lords instilled a desire for freedom in Ma'chello that shaped his life. Though talks of independence were common among his people, it was Ma'chello whose determination put those words into action. At the age of 20, he started an underground rebellion which began with small insurgent attacks against the Jaffa patrols. What started as a small group of freedom fighters soon spread to the other cities and towns around the planet. Though not publically acknowledged, Ma'chello was considered a hero by his people for he gave them hope that they might one day free themselves from the tyranny of the System Lords.

Ma'chellos role in the rebellion extended beyond his leadership capabilities and his ability to inspire his comrades. He was also a brilliant scientist and engineer which was done so secretly as the System Lords outlawed learning among his people. He was able to develop weapons and other devices that could aid his people's struggle against the Goa'uld. These ranged from simple but powerful weapons to tools of subterfuge and intelligence gathering to booby trapped and sabotaged pieces of the Goa'ulds own technology. Nothing that could be concievably used as a tool or weapon was beneath Ma'chellos consideration. From experiments conducted on Goa'uld symbiotes harvested from captured Jaffa, e learned enough of Goa'uld physiology to arm his rebels with a myriad of devices designed to destroy the parasitic conquerors.

As the rebellion grew, its attacks became more daring and ambitius to the point where it drew the attention of Ares himself. Ma'chello and his rebels stopped their attacks against his Jaffa followers; as they decided to target the Goa'uld himself along with his personal retinue and even his orbital ships. However, Ares was far from helpless as he used his spies to locate Ma'chello and sent his troops to hunt the rebel leader down.

Despite this, Ma'chello and his rebels were prepared. They began an operation that would anger the God of War himself and secure Ma'chellos name in infamy among the ranks of the System Lords most wanted list. Using an earlier version of his body swapping device, two rebels switched their bodies with two of Ares Jaffa allowing them to move freely throughout Ares planetary strongholds. Ma'chellos two Jaffa rebels would gain control of two of Ares Ha'tak motherships that were commanded by Ares sons Deimos and Phobos. They would sabotage the Transportation rings of the vessels so that instead of transporting matter, they would destroy it after which they moved weapons between the two starships. The result was the death of Ares sons along with two of his motherhips.

Ares fury knew no bounds as he hunted Ma'chello which quickly surpassed any in Goa'uld history. It even drew the attention of other System Lords who offered their assistance in finding and destroying the upstart rebel. For 50 years this would continue as Ares scoured all of Dendred for Ma'chello and resulted in the death of two billion people who refused to hand over their hero. Just as Ma'chello thought he had evadedd capture from the Goa'uld, he was betrayed by the one person closest to him. Unknown to Ma'chello, Ares spies had actually captured his wife Sharna who was taken over by one of Ares lieutenants, Eris. Using her new host body, it was an easy matter of locating Ma'chello.

Once within Ares grasp, Ma'chello was brutally tortured but kept alive through the use of the Sarcophagus. Despite all that he suffered from, he refused to divulge any information about his inventions or the rebellion. Rather then lose access to Ma'chello's knowledge, Ares decided to use him as a host body for his brother Hephaestus. However, before his could be accomplished, Ma'chello managed to escape and kill several Jaffa before escaping through the [[Stargate.

Ma'chello would continue his war against the Goa'uld on other worlds for nearly 30 years where he aided the enemies of the System Lords such as the Tok'ra and the Ohnes. The price on Ma'chellos head would slowly rise as he quickly became the most wanted man in the galaxy, rivalling the reputation of the Tok'ra Jolinar of Malkshur. Scrounging and salvaging any technology he could find, Ma'chello continued to build devices to use against the Goa'uld. In order to elude the System Lords, he would constantly be on the move and never stayed long enough to be identified. He would also create numerous laboratories scattered across the galaxy so that he could continue his battle against the Goa'uld. In addition to this, he attracted a group of like-minded individuals to his side which included fellow Dendred rebels and a number of Ohnes and Reol. They aided Ma'chello in his battles with the System Lords and used his laboratories as both temporary bases of operation as well as hiding places. Over time, Ma'chellos advancing age prevented him from continuing his fight and he eventually set up a base on the planet Tonnem where he supplied his allies with technology and whatever technology or assistance he could provide.

To survive longer due to his rapidly fading health, Ma'chello would use stasis technology to live across the years until SG-1 arrived on the planet which awakened him. He would trick Daniel Jackson into using his body swapping device allowing him to place his mind secretly within Dr Jacksons body while the explorer from Earth was placed within the rapidly fading body of Ma'chellos. He attempted to live his days on Earth but when discovered, he refused to reverse the process as he felt that he deserved a right to live after all the suffering he faced. In exchange for his use of Dr Jacksons body, Ma'chello offered his technology to the SGC in their fight against the Goa'uld. Ma'chello would speak to the dying Dr Jackson who managed to convince Ma'chello to reverse the process after Ma'chello realised that he was no different from the Goa'uld by stealing Jacksons body for his own as Eris did to Sharna. He would shortly die in his old body leaving his mark on the galaxy.

His allies and the System Lords are unaware of his death.