Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune systems?
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Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
It isn't though, as it's 'natural'. It would be no more 'damage' than a frog losing the tail it had as a tadpole.
It isn't though, as it's 'natural'. It would be no more 'damage' than a frog losing the tail it had as a tadpole.
Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
Sure it is. Losing its tail doesn't kill the frog.
A Jaffa has a functioning immune system when it's born. Giving them a symbiont forces them to lose that immune system, and afterward they can no longer survive without one. That counts as damage.
Sure it is. Losing its tail doesn't kill the frog.
A Jaffa has a functioning immune system when it's born. Giving them a symbiont forces them to lose that immune system, and afterward they can no longer survive without one. That counts as damage.
Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
They lose their immune system at a certain age regardless of whether they get a symbiote or not, it's how their body is designed to function, the symbiote doesn't cause it.
They lose their immune system at a certain age regardless of whether they get a symbiote or not, it's how their body is designed to function, the symbiote doesn't cause it.
Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
So you're saying that the Jaffa were genetically engineered to require the Symbiotes over time and eventually it became a part of their normal genetic make-up through subsequent generations?
Kind of like the bounty hunter's race from "Deadman Switch" in Season 3
So you're saying that the Jaffa were genetically engineered to require the Symbiotes over time and eventually it became a part of their normal genetic make-up through subsequent generations?
Kind of like the bounty hunter's race from "Deadman Switch" in Season 3
Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
So if the first genetically altered jaffa were put in a Sarcophagus would it have repaired their immune systems or just reset their natural genetic state?
So if the first genetically altered jaffa were put in a Sarcophagus would it have repaired their immune systems or just reset their natural genetic state?
Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
Depends on how they were altered, but I bet it would have repaired their immune systems, just as it did for Jack.
Depends on how they were altered, but I bet it would have repaired their immune systems, just as it did for Jack.
Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReedRichardsIsUseless
Read the above.
Because it would effectivly cure AIDS and like a load of other conditions..
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReedRichardsIsUseless
Read the above.
Because it would effectivly cure AIDS and like a load of other conditions..
Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
^We've already determined that the Sarcophagus wouldn't work on the Jaffa due to their inherited genetic modifications as they start to loss their immune systems upon reaching puberty.
and FYI, Reed isn't useless, he's just an Absent Minded Professor. :-P
^We've already determined that the Sarcophagus wouldn't work on the Jaffa due to their inherited genetic modifications as they start to loss their immune systems upon reaching puberty.
and FYI, Reed isn't useless, he's just an Absent Minded Professor. :-P
Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
I'm guessing that the new tretonin is synthetically produced. They were never explicit about it, but it's the only way it makes sense. Unless one goa'uld yields more than enough tretonin to sustain a Jaffa for more than ten years or so (I think that's how long a symbiont incubates), it is in no way superior to just stealing a goa'uld and then killing it once it reaches maturity for the Jaffa.
They can certainly make it synthetically now, though, using the replicator on the Odyssey.
Doesn't explain why they don't use it as a medicine for humans, though.
I'm guessing that the new tretonin is synthetically produced. They were never explicit about it, but it's the only way it makes sense. Unless one goa'uld yields more than enough tretonin to sustain a Jaffa for more than ten years or so (I think that's how long a symbiont incubates), it is in no way superior to just stealing a goa'uld and then killing it once it reaches maturity for the Jaffa.
They can certainly make it synthetically now, though, using the replicator on the Odyssey.
Doesn't explain why they don't use it as a medicine for humans, though.
Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
Good point, I'd forgotten about the Asgard replication tech.
As far as using in on humans though... once you're on it, you're on it.
No going back ever.
Good point, I'd forgotten about the Asgard replication tech.
As far as using in on humans though... once you're on it, you're on it.
No going back ever.
Re: Can't the Jaffa use the sarcophagus to restore their immune system
Those were basically the same as the Pangaran symbiotes. In fact, it was from Jonas Quinn's memories of Pangara that Anubis got the idea.
Those were basically the same as the Pangaran symbiotes. In fact, it was from Jonas Quinn's memories of Pangara that Anubis got the idea.