Once a powerful Goa'uld System Lord, Anubis was banished by the others because his actions were deemed unspeakable, even among the Goa'uld. He was believed destroyed, but managed to escape and learn the secrets of ascension. But the Ancients did not want the Goa'uld to join them on a higher plane of existence, and tried to force him to descend. They were only partially successful, and Abubis became trapped between the two planes of existence. Because of his knowledge of the Ancients, Anubis amassed unimaginable advanced technologies, gathering strength for hundreds of years before returning to take his revenge upon the System Lords and dominate the galaxy. With weapons and armies to rival the entire collective power of the System Lords, he posed the largest threat to ever enter their collective domain, as well as to hundreds of peaceful worlds that stood in the shadow of his destructive hand. Physically, Anubis is still some form of energy, and wears a mask to keep his form intact. It appears like the liquid-like event horizon of the Stargate, akin to the Ancient's technology. Anubis was responsible for single-handedly destroying an entire fleet of System Lord motherships with the combined powers of the Eyes, as well as annihilating the planet Abydos. Using the technology of the Ancient's healing device, he also engineered an army of nearly unstoppable Kull warriors. When he attacked Earth with his fleet, Anubis was apparently destroyed by the Ancient super-weapon that SG-1 found in the Atlantus outpost buried under the ice of Antarctica. Anubis was presumed dead, but his formless essence survived the explosion of his mothership. He hitched a ride on a Russian space craft, possessing the body of a cosmonaut and returning to Earth. Leaping from person to person he made his way to Stargate Command, where he managed to escape through the Stargate in the body of Russian officer Alexi Vaselov -- but he found himself frozen near the gate on an ice-covered planet, trapped. Read more about the real-life mythological figure on which this character is based at the Encyclopedia Mythica. PLAYED BY - David Palffy (web site) FIRST APPEARED - Revelations
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