Protected Planets Treaty

"So basically, you guys are…bluffing the Goa'uld. Big time."

- Jack O'Neill

The Protected Planets Treaty is an armistice between the Goa'uld and the Asgard.

History
The treaty ensures these planets remain free from Goa'uld oppression. There are twenty seven planets under the treaty. The Goa'uld view it as simply recognizing that the Human race exists solely to serve as hosts and slaves for them. The System Lords are expected to enforce the treaty on all Goa'uld. In turn, the Asgard may not use their technology to advance a race living on one of the planets, even to prevent a natural disaster. Limits are also placed on the development of the populations of the planet to prevent them from becoming a threat to the Goa'uld. Definition of threat rests solely with the High Council of System Lords. The treaty was presumably nullified with the desintegration of the Goa'uld Empire.

Treaty Details

 * Treaty Law Section 326 states that no human planet will be allowed to advance technologically to a point where they may become a threat to the Goa'uld.
 * The Passage of Nilor was previously banned from Goa'uld use until the inclusion of Earth into the treaty under Addendum 10815.
 * Subsection 42 states that the people on the planets can not be artificially advanced through Asgard technological means. This prevented the Asgard from interfering in natural disasters and use of their technology in such circumstances would nullify the treaty entirely.

Asgard protected planets

 * Adara II
 * Cimmeria
 * Earth (according to agreement in 1999)
 * Galar
 * K'Tau
 * PX3-595
 * Svoriin

Attempts to circumvent the treaty by the Goa'uld
The Goa'uld have attempted to circumvent the Protected Planets Treaty on a number of occasions to launch attacks against Earth. The first such attempt, in 2001, was the result of a deal between Tanith and the Tollan where weapons of mass destruction built with the Tollan's phase shift technology, with the focus on Stargate Command's Iris. The Goa'uld System Lords denied any knowledge of the incident.

The second attempt to circumvent the treaty occurred in 2002 when a meteorite whose mass was 40% pure Naquadah was dragged into the solar system by the Goa'uld and set on a collision course with Earth, knowing that the Tau'ri would attempt to stop it with a nuclear weapon - such an attempt would cause an explosion equal to that in force of a small nova with enough energy to set the atmosphere of Earth on fire and boil the oceans. SG-1 thwarted the attempt by using the cargo ship they flew the bomb in with to open a Hyperspace window through Earth to avoid collision.