On the rendezvous planet where the Goa'uld system lords Tilgath and Ramius were to forge an alliance Teal'c and his mentor Bra'tac find the two armies slaughtered and Ramius gone. Ramius' First Prime is still barely alive and warns them to leave immediately. But it's too late - out of the distance a tall lone warrior in black body-armor comes forth shooting power blasts of tremendous magnitude from his wrist weapons. After a desperate firefight the warrior finally falls. The body is brought back to Stargate Command where Maj. Carter and her father Jacob/Selmak remove its armor and discover a huge but poorly detailed synthetic Goa'uld host with no evidence of trauma from energy blasts. The armor appears to be made of an energy-absorbing material. Teal'c and Bra'tac did not kill the warrior: It died of a heart attack having been engineered for strength and not longevity. Selmak the Tok'ra half of Jacob Carter's symbiotic being surmises that this was intended to be a synthetic Goa'uld foot soldier. Also the being was only about three weeks old and was given life after it was fully grown. Its energy signature is similar to that of Goa'uld sarcophagi which can heal and even restore life but are not able to bring life to things that were never alive in the first place. Selmak explains that thousands of years ago a Goa'uld system lord named Telchak found a device created by the Ancients from which he was able to create the first sarcophagus. Telchak and fellow system lord Anubis went to war over the device but Anubis never found it. The Tok'ra have long sought this original device in the hope of using it to perfect the sarcophagus technology. Now it might be the key to fighting this kind of warrior by discovering how to reverse the device's life-giving energy. Its healing power is also of great value. But where to find it? Dr. Daniel Jackson recalls that his grandfather Nicholas Ballard in his search for the fountain of youth claimed he had found evidence indicating that the source of the fountain's power was a piece of alien technology used by early Mayan tribes around 900 BC. Ballard traced its origin to Chac the Mayan God of rain who might have been Telchak. Much of Ballard's notes are indecipherable because as Selmak sees instantly they are written in an obscure Goa'uld dialect.