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A flick of his fingers had his scribe leaving the scrolls and bowing out of the room, though to call the man a scribe was a misnomer, the man worked as part of his information collection network. Following in his father’s footsteps as his father had before him.
The information his scribe had brought was really nothing out of the ordinary, as such. There were a few rumblings among the Jaffa, as always, these days. And one of the village's small rebellion seemed to be gaining new members. He wasn’t entirely sure what to do about that, a little descent wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. It allowed their peoples to grow, and develop. More than one of their innovations had come from the villagers way of thinking.
Looking further through the document, it seemed that maybe the seeds of this minor rebellion didn’t come from the villagers. Word of the Tua’ri was spreading. They may have to make an example of the Tok’ra that had insinuated themselves on their planet to stamp on this, nothing like public torture to quieten things down.
He knew eventually he was going to have to kill those who were rebelling, but at least he’d just disappear them first.
The Hales were not goa'uld and hadn’t been for millennia, so public mutilation of their people didn’t have to be something he would do. They were Selene’s children, holding her memories but not her prim'tah.
Selene had known that her life was ending, that she would no longer be able to bare symbiotes. She chose a young woman from her villages and bore a human child. Not a true harcesis as the child only carried her memories and was not born of male seed.
The complete memories of their queen passed to the first female child of the line born. Though it was not possible for non goa’uld brain to process thousands of years of memories, so most were hidden until needed. And the memories of how to hide in the shadows, how to protect a queen, how to weld control passed to the first male of the line.
As years passed and The Hales chose the bearers of their line, those memories had been tempered by the chosen.
But that didn’t make them any the less System Lords, as more than one who opposed them had found out.
It didn’t change their right to rule, their right to control their peoples, and their right to choose who lived or died. The Tok’ra were a nuisance but the Tau’ri though, they were dangerous.
The goa’uld had no knowledge that Talia didn’t carry Selene’s symbiote, and it was going to stay that way. Tau’ri in their System would not be tolerated and would be eviscerated with extreme prejudiced.