The Skirmish with Imhotep was an event that took place in 2002 during the Tau'ri-Goa'uld War.
Prelude[]
Teal'c and Bra'tac visit Cal Mah where the Jaffa K'tano, First Prime of the minor Goa'uld Imhotep who he killed addresses a large gathering of Rebel Jaffa about their desire for freedom.[3]
Battle[]
The gathering intrigues them as K'tano is able to gather a powerful following and they bring the idea of an alliance with K'tano to SG-1 and General George S. Hammond. K'tano needs help with weapons and supplies and Bra'tac and Teal'c want Earth to supply it to him, believing that with as large a following as he is gathering, he will be seen as a threat by the System Lords and will be attacked. K'tano's army is growing, culled from many different System Lords with more warriors joining with each raid he inflicts. Doctor Daniel Jackson explains that instead of being a powerful Goa'uld System Lord, Imhotep was actually a minor Goa'uld who never gained any real power meaning that K'tano took out a nobody which is why he has survived so long. However, K'tano is proving to be a great leader and Bra'tac feels that he could lead his rebel army to victory over the System Lords. While Hammond is ready to send food and other supplies, he hesitates to send weapons especially after learning that K'tano needs weapons for several hundred warriors. However, Teal'c convinces Hammond to send a small shipment of weapons as a gesture of good intentions.
On Cal Mah, the team and Bra'tac are greeted by Rak'nor who is disappointed to learn that the weapons SG-1 brings are FN P90 Personal Defense Weapons rather than what they see as true weapons such as staff weapons and zat'nik'tels. Rak'nor shows them to the camp where he explains that the Jaffa are learning the Mastaba method of fighting and Bra'tac has to correct a young warrior, Tara'c's method, learning that K'tano teaches that one has to strike with single-minded purpose towards victory without regards for their own survival. When asked to demonstrate this, Tara'c brutally beats his opponent even after winning before Colonel Jack O'Neill stops him, causing Rak'nor to further explain that K'tano teaches that they have to be willing to die if they wish to be free which O'Neill disagrees with. Tara'c challenges O'Neill for disrespecting the Jaffa ways, but is interrupted by the return of K'tano who reports that three of the Jaffa fell in battle with the forces of Zipacna but they managed to collect some cases of weapons. K'tano is excited to meet SG-1 as they have killed Ra, Hathor, Setesh, Heru'ur, Sokar, Cronus and Apophis and is happy to discuss an alliance, but doesn't like the idea of using Earth weapons as he sees them as primitive. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the P-90, O'Neill has Rak'nor and Major Samantha Carter enter into a shooting contest in which the P-90 proves superior. O'Neill explains that a staff weapon is a weapon of terror made to intimidate the enemy while a P-90 is a weapon of war made to kill the enemy. SG-1, Bra'tac and K'tano later gather to discuss the alliance and K'tano is wary as Earth will be able to control how much ammunition the rebels get while O'Neill worries that K'tano will use the rebel army to seize power for himself. K'tano reassures them that he wants no such thing and that any member of the army can challenge him to joma secu for leadership. In order for them to bond in battle, K'tano invites SG-1 to join him in raiding a shipment meant for a battalion of the System Lord Nirrti's Jaffa and promises them a share of the spoils in return which O'Neill agrees to. That night, Rak'nor and Teal'c discuss the alliance with Rak'nor trying to get Teal'c to join the rebel army, pointing out his role in the growing Jaffa Rebellion. Teal'c sees the conflict between the ways of the Tau'ri and rebels as a possible issue, but K'tano refuses to change his ways for either humans or the Goa'uld. Meanwhile, the rest of SG-1 discuss the alliance and O'Neill is wary of K'tano given the fact that his Jaffa are nearly fanatical and are willing to die for their cause on K'tano's say-so.
The next day, SG-1, K'tano and a group of rebel Jaffa ambush Nirrti's Jaffa as they make their way to a Tel'tak with a shipment. The Jaffa refuse to surrender when ordered by K'tano and a firefight breaks out. K'tano ends up walking out into the line of fire and orders both sides to hold fire and then asks Nirrti's Jaffa to join the rebellion, telling them to kill him if they don't believe in freedom from the Goa'uld. The Jaffa decide to lower their weapons and join K'tano's army. However, while Teal'c is impressed, O'Neill is not, believing that K'tano could've gotten them all killed and that he believes he can do anything. K'tano shows them that the shipment contains staff weapons and weapons-grade naquadah. K'tano promises Earth a fair share of the naquadah, but can't spare any of the weapons though he informs them he will be able to supply them with much more soon as some Jaffa loyal to him are leading a mutiny on board a Ha'tak and will bring it to join the rebellion. O'Neill is dubious, knowing that if the mutiny fails the Jaffa will be killed, but K'tano believes it will succeed either because their cause is just or through the strength of their resolve. In order to keep Nirrti from learning of their raid, K'tano sends a squad led by Tara'c on a suicide mission to get as deep into Nirrti's forces as possible and then bomb them. O'Neill attempts to stop them but is stopped by Rak'nor, leaving O'Neill angry as he sees K'tano's actions as arrogance rather than resolve. K'tano insists on continuing to do things this way and demands that if O'Neill can't accept them then not to make an alliance and leaves with Teal'c and Bra'tac. K'tano then plans an attack on Lord Yu who survived an attack by Osiris at the System Lord Summit due to his sarcophagus but was left severely weakened. K'tano believes that if Lord Yu was assassinated, many of his Jaffa would then join the rebellion and they could then commandeer Lord Yu's fleet. O'Neill approaches and asks Teal'c to come with them when they leave, but Teal'c decides to stay in order to attack Lord Yu. However, O'Neill sees this as K'tano trying to get rid of a possible rival for leadership of the army and challenges K'tano, pointing out how K'tano plans to assassinate the System Lords one by one and take their ships and armies who will die for him for him and how its similar to how things are now. K'tano dodges the accusation and prepares to send Teal'c through with the assassination squad. O'Neill tries to convince Teal'c not to go, having decided not to support the alliance, but Teal'c believes he will succeed and goes anyway with a promise from K'tano to be made his second-in-command when he returns.
On P3X-042, Teal'c is captured and brought before Lord Yu who was not as weak as Teal'c was led to believe. However, Lord Yu possesses some respect for Teal'c and his lack of blind faith and reveals to a stunned Teal'c that he plans to release Teal'c to return to the rebels but tells him there is something he must know first. As SG-1 prepares to depart Cal Mah, Teal'c returns, calling K'tano a deceiver. He reveals that Lord Yu told him that the mutiny on the Ha'tak has failed and the System Lords bided their time to root out all of the rebel Jaffa. When the Ha'tak arrives, it will destroy the rebels. K'tano refuses to listen so Teal'c challenges him to joma secu. The two fight with Bashaak staffs in a fight to the death, but K'tano has the upper hand with the Mastaba technique and due to the fact that Teal'c is still injured and weakened from his torture at the hands of Lord Yu's Jaffa. Teal'c loses the fight with his Bashaak breaking. K'tano demands he beg for mercy and when Teal'c announces that he dies free, K'tano secretly reveals himself as Imhotep to Teal'c before moving in for a killing blow. However, as he moves in, Teal'c impales Imhotep with the broken end of his Bashaak, killing him. Rak'nor examines Imhotep's abdomen and discovers he was not a Jaffa with Teal'c explaining that K'tano was actually Imhotep all along. Jackson realizes that Imhotep, who had been a powerless minor Goa'uld, had been using the Jaffa desire for freedom against them by using it to gather an army loyal to him in order to finally gain power. Teal'c tells the rebels that while K'tano was a lie, their desire for freedom was not and begs them to leave with him and the rest of SG-1 as Lord Yu's Ha'tak will be attacking at any moment. Bra'tac and Rak'nor support this, pointing out that Teal'c is now their rightful leader as he won the right of joma secu. As Cal Mah comes under attack, the Jaffa decide to follow Teal'c and flee through the Stargate, following SG-1 to safety with Bra'tac telling Teal'c that the Jaffa's day for freedom will eventually come.[3]
Aftermath[]
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