Zipacna (Stargate)
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| Zipacna | |
| Race | Goa'uld |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Emissary, Underlord to Apophis, then Klorel, then Anubis |
| Birthplace | Unknown |
| Portrayer | Kevin Durand None (film) |
| First episode | "Pretense" |
In the fictional universe of the science fiction TV series Stargate SG-1, Zipacna is a Goa'uld who was one of Apophis's most loyal underlings. He shares a name with a demon in Maya mythology.
An underlord in the Goa'uld political structure, Zipacna tends to serve whatever Goa'uld is in power. He was once allied with Apophis, and then served Apophis's son Klorel when the System Lord was killed. [1] Following Klorel's own downfall, Lord Zipacna moved into the service of Anubis, who was just coming to power. [2]
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[edit] Fictional character biography
In 2000, Klorel, inhabiting the body of Skaara, fled to Tollana, hoping that the Goa'uld motherships, under the control of Heru-ur, pursuing him would be destroyed by the Tollan Ion cannons defending the planet. After Klorel crashed on the planet, his host, Skaara, asked to have the Goa'uld removed, and a Triad was organised to determine who could control the body. Skaara asked SG-1 to defend his interests, while Zipacna represented Klorel.
However, Zipacna was unable to sway the other archons, and the Tollan decided to have the symbiote removed. Unwilling to abide by the judgement, Zipacna ordered an orbiting Ha'tak to attack the planet, using prepositioned targeting transmitters to allow the mothership to destroy the Tollan defenses before they had a chance to fire. When his plan was thwarted by SG-1, he escaped through the Stargate. [1]
Eventually, Zipacna pledged his allegiance to Anubis, who was just coming to power at the time. He was responsible for enlisting the aid of Osiris to represent Anubis at the summit of the Goa'uld System Lords. Later, after having captured a Tok'ra spy and using Anubis's mind probing technology to find the location of their primary base, Zipacna led a devastating attack upon Revanna, wiping out the Tok'ra there. [2] However, he failed in his secondary objective of finding the formula for the symbiote poison the Tok'ra had developed.[3] Though the Goa'uld himself has not reappeared since, the Goa'uld Imhotep, posing as a Jaffa, carried out several successful material raids against Zipacna's Jaffa soon afterwards.[4]
[edit] Trivia
- Zipacna is one of only a small number of Goa'uld to bear the name of a god from the Americas.
- Despite his Mayan origin, Zipacna can clearly be seen to wear armor of a Greco-Roman design when he meets Osiris in "Summit". He did, however, wear a tropical outfit with a grass crown in "Pretense."
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Pretense" (Stargate SG-1)
- ^ a b "Summit" (Stargate SG-1)
- ^ "Last Stand" (Stargate SG-1)
- ^ "The Warrior" (Stargate SG-1)
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