## [RT, DC, FF] Interview with a System Lord (Stargate fanfic)

* Author: u/DRMacIver *
* URL: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5023654
* Score: 30

* Created: 2015-10-20T08:57:48

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/recursiveAI** [+11]  (12 hours later)
> 
> This is absolutely brilliant ! It makes so much more sense than an independently evolved symbioite being compatible with human biology. This is going to be my personally preferred canon for the series. 
> The mindless symbiote feeling pain in the home waters is puzzling at first, but makes sense as Baal"s after-the-fact interpretation of the symbiote memory.

>> **u/DRMacIver** [+3]  (a day later)
>> 
>> I've updated that sentence slightly. I was intending it to mean that the symbiote has only animal intelligence without a host rather than being completely mindless.
>> 
>> ETA: Also, yes, I've absolutely accepted this as my new headcanon. :-)

>>> **u/recursiveAI** [+1]  (2 days later)
>>> 
>>> Also, regarding the very last line, why would Baal being able to possess his interrogator so easily ? Surely the Trust would take precautions, despite being portrayed as criminally negligent in canon.
>>> 
>>> Any chance of expanding this into a full (fanfic) episode ?

>>>> **u/DRMacIver** [+1]  (3 days later)
>>>> 
>>>> It's canon that Ba'al infiltrates the trust. They currently have three suspiciously easily captured Ba'al clones on board. It's probably a trap. :-)
>>>> 
>>>> My track record of long-form fan fiction is not good. Multi-chapter things tend to get abandoned unfortunately.

> **u/Empiricist_or_not** [+5]  *Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm* (an hour later)
> 
> I'm reminded of /u/DocFuture 's personality drift concern, and the first thing I thought of when I read the description of the anticipated Brain  in a Vat experiment while reading The Terminal Man

>> **u/JackStargazer** [+8]  *Primordial Apologist* (7 hours later)
>> 
>> The always remembered 7.9999 million years of primordial rage, fear, and hate probably has something to do with the [Always Chaotic Evil](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlwaysChaoticEvil) nature of the Go'auld in this scenario, yes.

> **u/Jiro_T** [+4]  (15 hours later)
> 
> How is saying "a Go'auld doesn't control the mind of its host" consistent with the Tok'ra, who *actually* don't control their host?

>> **u/DRMacIver** [+6]  (a day later)
>> 
>> My working assumption is that the Tok'Ra are all crazy and/or lying and/or engaged in an extreme degree of compartmentalization to deliberately offset the worst effects of the symbiosis. I agree it's a bit of a flaw in the theory.

>>> **u/callmebrotherg** [+1]  *now posting as /u/callmesalticidae* (2 days later)
>>> 
>>> IIRC the Tok'Ra inherited their Always Good natures from the Tok'Ra queen, because of the genetic memory thing, so you only need one Goa'uld to figure out a way to reduce the mental problems and then reproduce.

>>>> **u/DRMacIver** [+2]  (3 days later)
>>>> 
>>>> Yep, but this actually reinforces the plausibility of all three versions of the theory - all you need is one Goa'uld to go crazy / decide to lie / compartmentalize and all their descendants are likely to follow suit.

>>>>> **u/callmebrotherg** [+1]  *now posting as /u/callmesalticidae* (3 days later)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nod! I was meaning to support, not critique, the theory. Sorry about the confusion.

>> **u/Empiricist_or_not** [+6]  *Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm* (16 hours later)
>> 
>> The Tok'ra have long term memory of ascetic self discipline
>>  trying to reacquire their old culture?

> **u/Mbnewman19** [+2]  (13 hours later)
> 
> I like it!

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