Ancient healing device
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In the fictional Universe of the Science-Fiction TV Show Stargate SG-1, the Ancient healing device was an extremely powerful technology built by the Ancients to heal extreme injuries and even revive the dead. The technology was so powerful that it could give life to something which was never alive.
Goa'uld interaction with the device
The Goa'uld Telchak based the Sarcophagus technology on the Ancient device. Originally, the device was so powerful that it was destructive. Telchak modified it (by turning down the power) until he developed the Sarcophagus. Anubis went to war with Telchak over the device. Although he won, the device was never found.Once Anubis Ascended, thereby gaining access to all the knowledge of the Ancients, he used the Ancient's Healing Device to bring life to his Kull Warriors. Later on, Samantha Carter and Jacob Carter used the device to develop a weapon which blocked the Ancient's Healing Device's effect on the Kull Warriors, thus killing them. This technology later became known as the Kull disruptor.
The Tau'ri's first encounter with the device
The Tau'ri's first encounter with the device was when Dr. Daniel Jackson and Dr. Lee went on a mission to find the device in South America. They found it after following information which Daniel's grandfather Nicholas Ballard left (during his archeological career). This information said, "All water flows towards it." After walking down a stream and past a waterfall, they entered a chamber. They were able to locate the device in the chamber after pouring water about. The chamber was booby trapped to flood if the device were removed; however, Drs. Jackson and Lee survived this trap.Minutes after finding the device, they were kidnapped by a group of terrorists and soon after interrogated about the device. After refusing to reveal anything, the terrorists experimented with the device, figuring-out how to activate it. A dead man a great distance away (whom the terrorists had killed earlier) was revived not long after the device's activation. However, upon his resurrection, he became deranged and violent, shooting at everyone he saw and rather resilient, taking many bullets before dying again (he is even revived a second time, see "Evolution"). This was a clear indication that the device had psychological effects similar to the Sarcophagus and was powerful enough to heal across great distances.
Origin of the fountain of youth
The Ancient Healing Device, according to Samantha Carter, is the origin of the fountain of youth mythology. The information that all water flowed towards it, and the strange truth to that statement, were evidence that that was so. Nevertheless, this theory was never proven or disproven.See also
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