Post by Akren Garkos on Oct 23, 2006 5:19:21 GMT -5
History / Backgroubnd[/u]
A thief & a con artist, Vala Mal Doran is an ally of SG-1. She makes a living trading, stealing, and selling things, and though she provides weapons to shadey characters, she is something of a morally conscious arms dealer. She is brash and self-confident, and disguises her true, sensitive character with humor and innuendo. Because of their history together, Vala and Daniel Jackson have a special, love-hate relationship.
Vala was once host to the Goa'uld Qetesh, who ruled over her world. Ten years ago the Tok'ra incited a rebellion on her world and the Goa'uld was overthrown, according to her story. Vala, as its host, was tortured and beaten by her former subjects. But the Tok'ra took pity on her, as a helpless host, and removed the symbiote and nursed her back to health.
Jackson and Vala first met when the thief, disguised as a Kull warrior, got on board the Earth ship Prometheus (bound for Atlantis) and hijacked the ship, transporting its crew to her disabled Al'kesh. Only Daniel was left on board, and after going head-to-head (and lips-to-lips) with Vala he managed to retake the ship. Contrary to Vala's noble claims that she wanted to use the ship to save refugees from her world, she simply wanted to sell the ship to an alien named Tenat, an employee of the Lucian Alliance.
Vala escaped capture, and several months later visited Stargate Command while hunting for a treasure she believed had been left on Earth by the Ancients. She convinced Daniel to help her find it -- thanks in part to the kor mak bracelets that bound the two together until she got her way. The treasure was uncovered, and along with it an Ancient long-range communcation device.
Vala and Daniel activated the device, which sent their consciousnesses to a distant galaxy. There they inhabited the bodies of Harrid and Sallis, and when Vala could not keep up the act of playing her role, she was discovered and publically burned to death. Only the intervention of a Prior of the Ori brought her back to life. The two were introduced to the Ori, a powerful new threat to our galaxy.
Vala remained on Earth with SG-1 for several days and joined them on a number of missions before the effect of the bracelets wore off, allowing her and Daniel to be separated. When the Ori attempted to create a Supergate by which they could bring their fleet to the Milky Way Galaxy, Vala heroically used a cargo ship to destroy it. She was lost in the process, her ring transport matter stream being pulled into the Ori galaxy.
Vala woke up in the village of Ver Isca on a planet of Ori worshippers, who were building the invasion fleet and training as foot soldiers. When she found herself pregnant by the Ori, she quickly married a young man named Tomin to prevent being accused of harlotry and being burned alive again. Vala's husband became a faithful warrior of the Ori, and when the anti-Ori underground was wiped out she joined him on board one of the first ships to pass through a newly-constructed Supergate.
After giving birth to a child who is "the will of the Ori" (the Orici) - which she named Adria after her formidable step-mother - Vala joined the SGC & became a member of SG-1 in order to help stop the Orii invasion & prevent her daughter from claiming any more worlds for the Orii; hoping that, some day, some how, she could get her Orii-enhanced daughter to see reason & abandon the destructive path she has chosen to follow, before it is too late for them all. . .
