Tau'ri

: Tauri is also the name of a historic population of Cimmerians in Crimea

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In the science fiction television show Stargate SG-1, the Tau'ri (or Tauri or "People of the Tau'ri") are humans from Earth. In the Stargate universe, there are humans on many other planets. Humans were moved to these other planets by the Goa'uld. Tau'ri specifically refers to Earth humans, especially in the sense that human life began on Earth. The word "Tau'ri" literally means "the first ones".

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According to Jaffa legend, and writings found on Abydos, a very long time ago the Goa'uld race was dying. One Goa'uld, Ra travelled to Earth and encountered a primitive race of ancient Egyptians. With his knowledge and technology he discovered that he could sustain a human body indefinitely. Ra took a young human as a host and became ruler of the people. Ra (and other Goa'uld) transplanted many thousands of humans to other worlds, using an interstellar transportation device called a Stargate. Some of those taken were used as Goa'uld hosts; others were modified to become Jaffa, and the rest were made into slaves. Eventually, the people of Earth rose up in rebellion and forced the Goa'uld from Earth. They buried the Stargate to prevent the return of the Goa'uld. The Tau'ri eventually advanced to a state almost exactly like that of the present-day. They rediscovered the Stargate in 1928, and the truth about sixty years later: the galaxy is populated with the ancient peoples of Earth, and the Tau'ri may be their only hope of eventual freedom from the Goa'uld.

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In season 6 of Stargate SG-1, it was discovered that Earth was also the homeworld (as it turns out, in exile) of the Ancients, the highly advanced species that constructed the Stargates. Although not necessarily direct ancestors of the Tau'ri, the Ancients consider human beings in general and the Tau'ri in particular to be the "second evolution" of their species. Some members of the Tau'ri possess genetic markers (called the ATA gene) unique to the Ancients that allow them to use Ancient technology, possibly as a result of interbreeding with a group of Ancients that returned to Earth ten thousand years ago from their city of Atlantis. The Asgard Thor once described the Tau'ri as being well on their way to becoming the "fifth race", a reference to the Alliance of four great races of which both the Asgard and Ancients were members.

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Throughout the series, all attempts have been made to ensure that the public is completely oblivious to the facts about the Stargate, owing to the mass panic that would in all likelihood ensue. The SGC has been remarkably successful at this, even when Earth was under direct attack by Anubis and when a large building disappeared with no apparent explosion.

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The United States, by virtue of its control of the Stargate, was largely responsible for Earth's interstellar policy. However, more nations have gradually come to take part in its use. After an Asgard ship crashed into international waters, Russia was able to recover a Stargate it was transporting and used it to briefly establish their own Stargate program based in Siberia, although this was eventually terminated and merged with the United States program running out of Cheyenne Mountain (the Russian get to operate their own SG team under Stargate Command's authority). After System Lord Anubis became an increasing threat and his planned attack on Earth seemed to be coming in the immediate future, the United States and Russia informed the other 3 permanent members of the UN Security Council; the United Kingdom, France, and the People's Republic of China. This was done in the hopes of pooling their combined military resources to defend Earth against Anubis' fleet. As a consequence of this, the eventual arrival of Anubis' fleet prompted the US President to inform these 5 nations, as well as long-time ally Canada, about Stargate Command's fleet engagement plans. After the defeat of Anubis's Fleet and the subsequent discovery of the Ancient outpost in Antarctica, an international committee was established to oversee it and the Atlantis expedition. These new nations were informed of the Stargate's existence because they were all signatories to treaties establishing Antarctica as neutral terriotory (the outpost is located in the region not claimed by any government). Still, not all nations have been informed about the existence of the Stargate. The 3 main branches of Earth's involvment with alien technology include oversight of the Atlantis outpost in Antarctica, the construction of the fleet of Earth-built space battleships (at the moment consisting of two vessels, Prometheus and Daedalus), and Stargate Command (and its associated research facility at Area 51). The secret branch of the Pentagon led by General Hammond and later Jack O'Neill that is in charge of all three has been dubbed the department of "Homeworld Security".

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Many of the nations that are now aware of the existence of the Stargate still don't agree on many issues regarding interstellar and domestic policy. From the onset, China has expressed its distaste at not informing the public about the Stargate's existence; however, they have deferred to the United States, as they have seen that this could create mass panic, and there are several examples of SG teams accidentally sparking planetary wars on at least two industrial, Cold War-era worlds by informing their populations about the Stargate, the most notable being Langara, homeworld of Jonas Quinn. Russian officials have intimated in private that one of their major motivations in supporting the United States' control of access of advanced alien technologies is that they want the USA to be the one that spends billions of dollars and risks a great deal developing prototype technologies, such as for the BC-303's, and that once they are perfected the Russians plan on building their own BC-303's, for half the cost and no risk.

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