Ancient Egypt, 5000 BC

In the ancient city of Giza stood one of the largest pyramids in the world, the great pyramid of Giza. Built to house the remains of deceased Pharaohs it was also built as a platform for the "gods", and right at this moment the city was housing a god.

Egeria the Roman goddess of fountains stood on the balcony of her palace overlooking the city below her taking it in. The people below believed she and her kind were gods, beings with untold power's and as such were worshipped by millions.

The only problem was that she wasn't a god nor were her kind. They were in fact aliens from another world. The goa'uld a race of parasitic life forms that took humans and other species as hosts to control. Using advanced technology they portrayed themselves as gods to less advance cultures and demanded that they worship them.

Egeria herself was a goa'uld, however she wasn't like the others. While the majority of her race were power hungry megalomaniacs she wasn't. In fact she was disgusted by her race, there thirst for power and domination knew no limits. They killed thousands, millions of people and other species sometimes even destroying entire star systems just to spite there fellow "gods".

She herself was bonded to the most powerful of the goa'uld, Ra. The supreme system lord who took the guise of the sun god of ancient Egypt. He was cunning, absolutely ruthless, brutal and most of all power hungry.

After untold centuries she couldn't stomach there ways any more. They would never change the way they were. So she sought to change them before they were even born. Being a goa'uld meant they could inherit the genetic knowledge of the queen. However queens could do so much more. They could choose the withhold the knowledge leaving the symbiote as a blank slate but they could also imprint personality traits. Using her abilities she created a new generation of symbiote's but they weren't goa'uld for they were forever known as the Tok'ra.

The Tok'ra literally meaning 'against Ra'. They were vastly different from the goa'uld symbiotes despite sharing the same appearance. These symbiotes had what the goa'uld lacked, compassion. While the goa'uld forcibly took hosts the Tok'ra didn't. What they did was called blending with a willing host. This provided a much deeper bond and trust between symbiote and host. The Tok'ra were committed to destroying the system lords and ultimately Ra. Already hundred's of symbiote's, blended or not had spread out to the stars to begin the rebellion.

Egeria felt confident that with Tok'ra created she could finally announce what she had done to the other system lords. However she felt should have create a back up plan in the event the Tok'ra fall.

She turned from the balcony and looked at the symbiote swimming on the jar before her. This symbiote would be her contingency plan.

This symbiote while not a goa'uld was also not a Tok'ra. It was what she had spent month's trying to perfect. She created hundred's symbiotes all of whom failed until this one. To say she was proud would be an understatement.

She was broken out of her thoughts by a knock on the door.

"Enter" Her voice unnaturally deep for a women.

A servant stepped into the room that contained the "god".

"My god they are ready for you" The servant said.

"Very well let us begin" Egeria replied.

Motioning to the servants to carry the jar containing the symbiote she made her out her room and down an ornately decorated corridor covered in gold hieroglyphs. Reaching the end she entered a room that held an altar upon which laid a human male. There were temple priests that surrounded man chanting in the language of the "gods".

The man on the altar was over six feet and had long black hair that fell to his shoulders. His chest was rising up and down as his breathing became lighter and lighter. Unfortunately the man was dying from a virus. Egeria could have saved the man if she wanted to but she knew she couldn't for her symbiote needed a host.

As the man's chest finally stopped rising Egeria moved over to check the man's pulse. When she could not find one she knew the man was dead. Moving in front of the man's head she began the implantation.

"Bring me the jar" She ordered the servant as he moved down on one knee and presented the jar. Egeria reached in with her hand and symbiote moved into it. Grasping the symbiote she held it next to the man's neck and watched as it entered through the skin.

"Leave" She commanded to the people in the room as they bustled out of the room leaving her alone with the body.

'Please let this work' Egeria thought to herself.

After a tense fifteen minutes the man's finger started to twitch a little before his whole hand started to move then all of a suddenly his eyes shot open.

They were glowing bright yellow.

It worked, she had finally done it. With this completed she let out a deep breath, she didn't know she had been holding in.

"How do you feel my child?" Asked Egeria as she looked at him worryingly.

The man blinked and looked around the room before settling on Egeria.

"I feel confused but I'm sure that will pass eventually" The man responded in a deep unnatural voice.

As the man stood up he stumbled a bit before getting his balance.

"This will take some time to get used too" He said.

"Unfortunately time is something we are in short supply off." Egeria said while handing the man some clothes.

"There is a tel'tak nearby that is filled with supplies you will need for your journey, you will need to hurry before someone discovers it" Egeria said in a hurried voice.

"What about you? What are you going to be doing?" The man asked.

"I must stay here and await for Ra. It was only through good fortune that he was called away from here." She replied.

The man stared at her in disbelief.

"Come with me. Together we can end the reign of the system lords." The man asked.

"No I must stay. When the next meeting of the system lords convene I intend to tell them of what have begun." She said sadly.

"What! Why? If you do that Ra will surely execute you or worse yet bring you back to life just to kill you again. Why would you want that?"

"Because it is my repentance. This change in me didn't just occur over night, it happened over countless centuries during which I witnessed and sometimes participated in unspeakable horror's upon innocent beings. I must pay for that. You and the Tok'ra are my attempt at redemption." Egeria concluded sadly.

"Please don't do this. If you truly want to redeem yourself come with me. With your knowledge we can save countless of innocent beings. Not only that you are perhaps the only queen who can reproduce the Tok'ra. What if Ra or the system lords eventually destroy them?" The man asked.

"That is why I created you. You are my contingency in the event what you have said comes's forth." Egeria said as she looked at her 'child' proudly.

"If you stay here you will die" The man said pointedly.

"Perhaps but I will have spawned a legacy that will last centuries after my death. Because every offspring I have created is a part of me. I will through you and the Tok'ra." Egeria concluded.

"You know I am going to do everything in my power to save you, right?" The man replied.

Egeria chuckled softly before responding.

"Of course I do. I made you like that" She said sounding amused.

Sadly the humorous moment couldn't last forever.

"You should go it's shift change for the guards so you shouldn't run into any of them. The tel'tak is several hundred metres out of the city. This map here should guide you to it." She said handing him a map that showed a way out of the city and too the ship.

"What about the ships in orbit?" The man asked as he looked over the map.

"The tel'tak has a cloaking system, they shouldn't be able to pick you up on there scanners. However the cloak doesn't work in hyperspace so you will need to turn it off before you enter it. I suggest you fly behind this planets moon before you do that, the moon will shield you from there long range scanners as long as they stay in there current positions." Egeria replied.

They soon fell into silence as they both looked at each other. The both knew this may be the last time they see each other.

"I believe this is what humans do to convey affection and love" The man said before he brought Egeria into a strong hug. They stayed like that together for several moments before breaking apart.

"Before you go have you selected a name for your self?" Egeria asked.

The man paused appearing the be deep in thought before answering.

"I rather like the name… Cadmus." He replied with a smirk.

"A Greek name. I would avoid Cronus if I was you. Him and Greeks don't exactly have a happy history together." Egeria said.

"If your memories of him are anything to go by I would say the feeling is mutual." Cadmus replied.

The hugged each other once more.

"This is not goodbye, I will see you again" Cadmus vowed. Before they broke apart and he left for the door not before leaving he turned around and looked at Egeria and with a firm nod he left.

As Egeria gazed at the spot he just left, she knew one way or another Cadmus would change the very foundations of the galaxy.

"Good luck my son" She whispered to him.

As soon as Cadmus left the palace he moved through the city in a fast pace. Because it was late at night the city was virtually deserted except for the few roaming guards that were still there but they were easy to avoid.

Following the map he appeared outside of the city and followed it's directions to a patch in the middle of the desert. As he approached the empty patch carefully he stretched his arm out and then it he felt the cold metal of the ship that was currently cloaked.

He ran his hand over the sip feeling out the hatch, as soon as he felt it he opened it the ship de cloaked before him and he stepped into the ship. It was a typical goa'uld ship interior with gold hieroglyphs on wall and escape pods on the side. He looked into the cargo hold and couldn't believe what he saw. Egeria hadn't been joking when she said she filled it with supplies. There were crates filled naquadah both liquid and refined. He even spotted several bricks of weapon's grade naquadah. There were several cases of staff weapons and zat'nik'tel's, not too mention what looked like several chests of jewels and treasures.

'Egeria must have been stealing this stuff from Ra for months' Cadmus thought.

But perhaps the most valuable objects he found were what laid in a small wooden box.

A kara'kesh or a goa'uld hand device, a gold one. Also a hand held healing device.

Placing the hand device on him he felt a tingling feeling in his arm as it activated. It would take some time to get used to it.

He moved to the pilots seat and powered the ship up. Despite the fact that he himself had never piloted a spaceship before it felt so natural that he felt he been doing it for years.

As the ship started to take off Cadmus activated the invisibility cloak and aimed for the atmosphere. As he broke into space he saw a dozen ha'tak vessels and several al'kesh protecting the planet below. Weaving through the vessels he set off for the far side of the moon.

When he got the far side of the moon he waited and started planning his next move. What he needed was a base to get started from. It would have to be at least moderately developed. It would take far too long to start on a completely new planet. His best chance at destroying the system lords is from within. It would be far too suspicious if simply showed up to an occupied planet and asked for a job, chances are he would simply be executed. No his best chance was taking over from a minor goa'uld, there were dozens of them but most if not all were affiliated with a system lord and they wouldn't take kindly to him killing one of there under lords. No he would have to take over a goa'uld who was unaffiliated the kind of goa'uld who are so insignificant that the others would care, but who.

He combed his fractured memories before finally settling on someone who matched his requirements. It would take several days to a week to get to this goa'uld's planet but that would give him time to sort through his memories. With his decision made he set course and entered hyperspace.

Cadmus was deep in thought when a beeping sound alerted him that he was approaching his destination. He had spent that last several days sorting though the sheer wealth of memories and knowledge Egeria had given him, not only her memories but the hosts as well.

Although the host was dead when Cadmus entered him his brain was still active allowing Cadmus access to his memories. It turned out that his host was a warrior with a formidable fighting style that allowed Cadmus to become proficient in hand to hand combat.

But it was Egeria's memories that proved to be the most enthralling. When Queens spawn they can choose what memories to give and what to keep. While most Queens give there spawn the memories of there technical knowledge they also include the DNA of the male symbiote they are born too. More often then not a power hungry tyrant with delusions of grandeur which in turn shows up in there offspring.

With Cadmus she strictly kept it too technical knowledge. She installed in him compassion but ruthlessness, selflessness tempered with a strong desire to survive, ambition hardened with generosity and cunning softened with ethics. All in all he was not a goa'uld or a tok'ra but a mixture of both.

As he returned to the pilots seat he looked out at the star system he was entering before activating his cloak.

The star system he was entering belonged to a very minor goa'uld named Imhotep. Despite the fact the he came up with the idea of pyramids as landing pad's for the ha'taks he never achieved any real power, in fact he was so insignificant that some of the system lords thought he was dead. Which was perfect for Cadmus because if they thought he was already dead they won't come looking for him when Cadmus kill's him.

As Cadmus piloted his ship to towards Imhotep's home world he could see a measly three al'kesh in orbit. He set forth through the atmosphere and landed a few kilometre's out of town.

The planet itself was roughly the same size as Earth with three continents and several islands on it all surrounded by water.

As he stepped out of the ship onto the continent that contained Imhotep's main population centre he could see it was a world similar to Apophis's home world Chulak.

Cadmus made his way to one of the outlying villages that surrounded the main city. As he entered the village he could that taking over from Imhotep would be a pleasure. The people here lived in abject poverty. The smell of death and despair hung in the air like a bad omen. People here lived in tent's made out of sticks and cloth, it was disgusting to him that a leader could let his people live like this.

He saw a gathering of people surrounding one tent in particular. As he made his way to the tent people instinctively moved out of the way and gazed unabashedly at the stranger.

"What is happening" Cadmus asked in a normal human voice.

One of the villagers scrutinised him before answering.

"Our village elder is ill and we have nothing that heal him." The villager said with a worried face.

"May I please enter the tent, perhaps I can be of assistance." Cadmus asked the villagers.

They parted allowing Cadmus to enter and kneel next to the elderly gentlemen.

"What ail's you honoured one?" Cadmus asked the elder.

"He has contracted a sickness from working in the mine shafts for too long." A woman next to the elder answered. Judging from the similarities between her and the elder Cadmus would say they are related, father and daughter perhaps.

"Why does he work in the mine shaft at his age, shouldn't he be enjoying the twilight of his years in peace?" Cadmus asked the woman.

"Our god demands that we work in the mine's to supply him with naquadah. No matter how much harder it is getting to extract it he keeps demanding more. Pretty soon there won't be any left and I fear what he will do to us when that happens." The woman said bitterly.

Several other villagers muttered in approval of the woman's words.

"Maybe I can ease the burden for him" Cadmus said before putting his left hand in his pocket and taking out the healing device. He didn't bring many items with him from the ship only his hand device, a zat'nik'tel and a dagger hidden in boot.

Cadmus waved his hand with the device on it over the elders body and focused on trying to heal him. A golden light shot out of the device bathing the village elder while a distinct humming sound.

The elder opened his eyes in surprise at the sensation he was feeling in his body.

"The pain it is easing" The elder gasped between breaths before Cadmus finished.

Once Cadmus had finished he put the device back in his pocket before turning back to the elder.

"I have removed the sickness for now. However if you continue to work in the mine's at your age it will return and I may not be able to heal it next time." Cadmus said to the elder.

The villagers looked at the newcomer with wide eyes and stunned silence. The powers they witnessed were only seen from the "gods".

"He wields the healing powers of the gods." One of the villagers gasped.

The daughter tore her eyes from the stranger and looked at her father who was staring at the man who healed him with shrewd eyes.

"Are you a god?" The elder asked.

"No" Cadmus replied in an even tone.

"Then how do you explain your powers."

"That explanation would take some time. However before that I ask you all one question." Cadmus said as he turned to the group that had gathered.

"Are you happy?" He asked. A simple question if there was ever one.

"Are you happy with your lives? Are you happy with the way things are? The hunger? The Diseases? The squalor you are forced to live in? Wondering day after day whether or not this is day you die. The forced labour in the mines for a leader who does nothing but take and give nothing in return." Cadmus asked in an impassioned tone.

The gatherers were enraptured with his speech. The more they thought about it, the more they realised that they weren't happy.

"When you have asked yourself that, then ask yourself this question" He continued to the growing group. He looked at everyone of them before asking.

"Are you willing to do whatever it takes to change it?"

The entire group was silent, before a very someone asked a very important question.

"Who are you?" The daughter of the elder asked with wide eyes.

The stranger turned to the daughter with a smirk on his face.

"What my name is not important, What I can do for you is. If your tired of the way things are, then I ask you to gather other like minded people and join me in the forest that surrounds this village in two rotations of this planets moon. There I will explain everything. But be careful of who you tell, what I will tell you will be dangerous to hear. I guarantee you this is something you do not want to miss." Cadmus said before moving to the entrance of the tent. Just before he left he turned around to the woman.

"Oh and miss, My name is Cadmus." And with that he left.