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The Sodan are a group of Jaffa in the Stargate universe. Five thousand years ago, they broke away from their Goa'uld master, Ishkur. They sought out the planet Kheb and ultimately enlightenment. They never found Kheb but instead settled on the planet designated P9G-844.

The Sodan have survived for the past five thousand years by raiding Goa'uld symbiote transports, to replace their own symbiotes once they mature. They are proud, legendary warriors with a great sense of honor. They are role models to some free Jaffa, including Teal'c. The Sodan do not return the respect of other Jaffa, however, resenting them for their continued enslavement to the Goa'uld and their late realization of the need to fight them.

The Sodan homeworld was once inhabited by the Ancients. The Sodan realized that the Ancients had Ascended and worshiped them in hope of achieving Ascension themselves. When a Prior arrived on their planet offering them enlightenment in exchange for following the Ori, Lord Haikon readily accepted, though some of his people did not agree. SG-1 made an effort to convince them that the Ori are not the good enlightened beings they believed the Ascended were, and that they kill all those who oppose them. This idea was difficult to accept, but after some investigation of their own, they discovered it to be true.

The Sodan ultimately rejected Origin but paid the price for doing so. The population was wiped out by one of their own, when a Prior altered him to become a near-unstoppable murderous zombie of sorts.

Key Episodes

• "Babylon"
• "The Fourth Horseman, Part 1"
• "The Fourth Horseman, Part 2"