Goa'uld Scout Team

Goa'uld Scout Teams are the primary method by which the Goa'uld explore new worlds and are similar to the Tau'ri SG team. These scout teams are charged with locating new worlds in the Stargate system and report the findings back to the System Lords. This is a necessary task even after millenia of using the gate system, the sheer number of unexplored worlds is hgh and takes time to discover. However, due to inter-Goa'uld Empire politics, more emphasis is placed on finding worlds with viable resources or threats to their lord.

In its composition, Goa'uld scout teams consist primarily of several Jaffa and possibly a Goa'uld underlord who oversees them. The group is not heavily armed and carries nothing more than staff weapons along with necessary survival equipment. The underlord, however, may make use of a Zat'nik'tel or some other piece of technology though the Goa'uld tend not to use more advanced equipment in fear that it may be captured by hostile natives on the world they explore. As such, the teams are trained to operate on the bare minimum to survive and support their operations for extended periods of times on worlds without ever returning to their System Lords domain for supplies.

Furthermore, the scout teams have little time to pose as gods or as agents of their god and instead wear chain shirts and armour plates used by the standard Jaffa warriors. Though some, such as [[Ra]'s scout teams, would not even do this and wear simple lightweight clothing that permitted rapid movement and easly camoflage. In order to allow easy infiltration for the scout teams, the System Lords do not brand their symbol of the warriors locating in the scout teams. This allows them to simply blend in with the population of the world and prevents them from being identified by rival Goa'uld.

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 * Fantastic Frontiers rpg