[Stargate]When the tok’ra capture and kill a Goa’uld what do they do with the host if it’s someone who’s possessed long enough to have long since gone completely insane?
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We know from Qetesh’s host that only a decade or two doesn’t seem to have any noticeable ramifications on the freed host. Presumably the same goes for Ba’al’s host since Vala was going to stay behind to help him, but I don’t have any idea how long he’d been a host. We also aren’t sure if they were using a sarcophagus repeatedly during those years.
Physically, I don’t know what would happen to a host who’d been alive 1000 years. I would’ve assumed that the sarcophagus would’ve kept them fit and healthy, and now without it they’ll simply keep aging from whatever point they were freed.
Considering the Tok’ra even bothering saving the host without having a symbiote nearby for immediate joining, I have to assume that they know the host can survive the extraction without needing a symbiote or sarcophagus on hand afterwards.
Mentally, that’s a different matter. When Apophis was dying and his host was able to be in control once in awhile, the man was utterly terrified and shouting in ancient Egyptian. “Thousands of years, trapped in your own body. It’s like a nightmare, it’s unimaginable.”
Thus, even if freed from the Goa’uld, after 1000+ years you’re either going to have a broken shell that you have to care for until they pass away, or at minimum someone needing years of therapy and will probably be suffering PTSD for a very long time.
There was an episode where Apophis was separated from his host, and the host reverted to a relatively normal state, despite having been joined for millennia. The Continuum movie starts off with a process that successfully separates Goa’uld from hosts with no ill effects.
If the Tok’ra manage to kill a Goa’uld while sparing the host settle the host somewhere they can live a normal life.
Isn’t there an episode where they treat a long-time host in the Cheyenne Mountain sick bay? I remember an extremely old and frail looking man speaking ancient Egyptian. I want to say he only lasted hours?
If the host is too old, beyond the natural lifespan of a human (or other species) they’ll probably die. Aphophis’s host was insane, but also he was quite frail. The tok’ra probably try to make their passing comfortable and are kind to them during their last hours.
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I don’t think we ever see there being any negative side effects of having a Symbiot removed (mainly because we don’t see it often).
The host would die pretty quickly without a sarcophagus if they’re at that age.
In one of the movies they remove Baal from his host. They take the host away for rehabilitation and therapy
We know from Qetesh’s host that only a decade or two doesn’t seem to have any noticeable ramifications on the freed host. Presumably the same goes for Ba’al’s host since Vala was going to stay behind to help him, but I don’t have any idea how long he’d been a host. We also aren’t sure if they were using a sarcophagus repeatedly during those years.
Physically, I don’t know what would happen to a host who’d been alive 1000 years. I would’ve assumed that the sarcophagus would’ve kept them fit and healthy, and now without it they’ll simply keep aging from whatever point they were freed.
Considering the Tok’ra even bothering saving the host without having a symbiote nearby for immediate joining, I have to assume that they know the host can survive the extraction without needing a symbiote or sarcophagus on hand afterwards.
Mentally, that’s a different matter. When Apophis was dying and his host was able to be in control once in awhile, the man was utterly terrified and shouting in ancient Egyptian. “Thousands of years, trapped in your own body. It’s like a nightmare, it’s unimaginable.”
Thus, even if freed from the Goa’uld, after 1000+ years you’re either going to have a broken shell that you have to care for until they pass away, or at minimum someone needing years of therapy and will probably be suffering PTSD for a very long time.
There was an episode where Apophis was separated from his host, and the host reverted to a relatively normal state, despite having been joined for millennia. The Continuum movie starts off with a process that successfully separates Goa’uld from hosts with no ill effects.
If the Tok’ra manage to kill a Goa’uld while sparing the host settle the host somewhere they can live a normal life.
Isn’t there an episode where they treat a long-time host in the Cheyenne Mountain sick bay? I remember an extremely old and frail looking man speaking ancient Egyptian. I want to say he only lasted hours?
If the host is too old, beyond the natural lifespan of a human (or other species) they’ll probably die. Aphophis’s host was insane, but also he was quite frail. The tok’ra probably try to make their passing comfortable and are kind to them during their last hours.