Abydos

Abydos was the first planet reached through Earth's Stargate program and possibly the first world the Goa'uld brought humans to. Abydos is a desert world, useless save for its deposits of naquadah. When this world was under the domain of Ra, he forced the human inhabitants to mine it for him. Abydos was destroyed by Anubis in 2003.

Ra's Rule
At the time the Tau'ri first reached Abydos, the group researching the Stargate was not certain of its use. The symbols for this world were the first valid gate address they discovered. A team was sent through, headed by Jack O'Neill, to look for signs of any "possible danger" on the other side. When the Abydosians first met the team, they were friendly, beileving the team had been sent by Ra.



When Ra returned to Abydos and discovered a nuclear weapon, he captured the travelers and made plans to send the bomb back to Earth with a naquadah enhancement. He captured O'Neill and revived Daniel Jackson, who had been killed in the struggle, with his sarcophagus. He then told Jackson that unless he executed the rest of the party he would kill him and "all who have seen you."

Jackson grudgingly began to carry out the executions, but then tured on Ra and his guards at the last second, allowing him, the team and a group of young Abydosians to escape. Daniel managed to convince the Abydosians that their rulers were not gods and encouraged them to rebel. When Kasuf finally did so, Ra attempted to leave the planet, but O'Neill and Jackson ringing the bomb aboard his ship.

Jack O'Neill and his men returned to Earth, but Daniel Jackson remained on Abydos. (Stargate: The Movie)

After Ra's Rule


After Ra's rule, the Abydonians thoguht they were free and continued on with their lives with Daniel Jackson. For one year, all contact with Earth had been nonexistant until SG-1 returned to see if attacks on Earth in 1997 were from Abydos. After finding out that the attacks were not based from Abydos, Daniel Jackson showed SG-1 a cartouche containing a map of Stargate addresses etched into a structure's wall. Immediately after this, the unknown aggressors who arrived on Earth (commanded by Apophis) arrived at Abydos and killed or injured many Abydonians and SG-2's Louis Ferretti. Daniel Jackson then decided to return to Earth to help save the captured Sha're and Skaara, commanding the other Abydonians to bury the Stargate for one year until his return. (SG1: "Children of the Gods")

Locations

 * Cartouche
 * The Pyramid

Behind the scenes
The scenes on Abydos in the feature film were filmed in California and Yuma, Arizona. For the series, new footage of Abydos was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, where the show is filmed.

Related
Abydonians, Shifu