In the beginnings of mankind, when the goa’uld first found the tiny blue planet of Earth, many goa’uld vied for control of the planet and it’s harvest of new slaves and hosts. Battles between the first System Lords raged on the world between goa’uld in the first establishments of human and jaffa soldiers. Though Ra eventually rose to power, Ra and his queen Hathor were not the only goa’uld on the earth in those days.
Another goa’uld of contention was the Queen Tiamat and her thirteen kings. Claiming the valleys of the Tigris north toward Asia, a land called Chaldea, Queen Tiamat made her capital the city of stone and silver, Babylon. In this beginning, the Queen and her kings maintained rule from their original hosts, powerful Unas. The superiority of the Unas body and the Goa’uld mind lent credence to stories of the man that Nephel was a goddess, and she portrayed her children as the children of god. But because the humans revolted against creatures of the appearance of demons, her rule was mainly guided through her first prime, Ur'zababa.
Unlike other Goa’uld, Tiamat gilded the cage of her human slaves and brought to them advancements in language, technology, and law. She taught them medicine, herbology, and sciences that would help them survive the world and expedite their evolution. Her edict was to develop the humans into a perfect host, in belief that the more evolved a human can be, the more powerful, intelligent, and healthier a host could be. Her goal was nothing less than true immortality.
This treatment was not just meant to keep her vassals in favorable condition. This good treatment was also meant to be a strategic power play on several fronts. Tiamat surmised that if her slaves were intelligent and more knowledgeable then battles against the slaves of other goa’uld would fall in her favor, having a superior force in capability even if not in number. In addition, she led her slaves that if they fought for a Goddess they truly loved, then they would fight harder and with more zest and determination than would the oppressed and disheartened followers of other System Lords.
Despite her decent treatment of her subjugates, forces aligned against Tiamat and her brood. In addition to constant war with other factions of the goa’uld, one enemy in particular rose to contest her and the goa’uld spawn which had collectively come to be known as the Nephilim. This enemy was technologically advanced much to the same level as the goa’uld, but was opposed to the goa’uld with a fervor that was unparalleled. This one enemy had the power to fight and destroy goa’uld, and was intent on nothing less than their complete eradication. This enemy, another alien from a mysterious world far away, was Omoroca.
On the world Omoroca had lived, her people had been ravaged by war with the goa’uld. Though the people called the Oannes had been superior to the System Lords, when the System Lords realized they could be defeated by this enemy, the goa’uld collected together to destroy the Oannes completely. Of all of the System Lords, it was Queen Tiamat that found the hideous way in which the goa’uld defeated the Oanes. Queen Tiamat was gifted with the sciences and technology of genetic manipulation, and used her skills to engineer several viruses. These viruses decimated the Oannes people, bringing about famine and decay, literally causing the bodies of the Oannes people to deteriorate if they did not stay submerged in water. Being that the original home world of Oannes was a volcanic world and water had been sparse, millions died before they had even found another world, a water world, to migrate to.
Omoroca knew what the goa’uld were capable of, and had made it her sole purpose to destroy them all, but most of all wanted the head of Tiamat herself. Omoroca hunted the kings of Nephilim first, seeking to eliminate the leadership of the Nephilim armies. Tiamat's enemies were successful in killing five of the thirteen kings, leaving only Tiamat’s most favored and protected sons, Rephaim, Anakim, Zuzim, Em, and Gibbor. This dealt a strategically deafening blow to Tiamat's power base, and lost Tiamat the ability to regroup her forces well enough to defend against defeat by the other System Lords. Unwilling to leave Tiamat to surrender to the other System Lords, Omoroca sought to kill Tiamat in direct battle.
Combat between Omoroca and Tiamat waged many years and was at a stalemate. Though Omoroca had immense power and weapons in her arsenal, Nephel had established a powerful defense and base of operations. Tiamat's number and shields were just too many to overcome with pure brute force. This is how Omoroca came to decide on a tactic inspired even by Tiamat's attack on the Oanes people. Instead of fighting fire with fire, as it were, Omoroca had decided to fight fire with water.
The Oannes people had mastered a technology which could hold back a body of liquid as though it were a solid object. This had allowed the Oannes people to manipulate lava flows on their volcanic home world, but the effects of the technology were just as effective on water. It could allow them to part water, use it as a wall or shield, or even hold it back and manipulate whole oceans. Omoroca had decided that if there was no way to break in past Nephel’s defenses, and no way to lure Nephel out to kill her, then Omoroca would simply drown Tiamat and her whole empire under an ocean of water.
The day of this final battle, Tiamat and her people woke only to a torrential downpour, similar to their seasonal rains, but much heavier than usual. A rain storm did not alarm the goddess as much as recent battles with the System Lords, most notably an intelligent upcoming goa'uld named Marduk, and she spent much of the day planning the future days’ battles with her sons. Thunder and lightning ripped apart the skies, and only when the streets of Babylon began to flood did Tiamat begin to realize that this storm was more than a strong monsoon.
Tiamat commanded her people to work to block the water from intruding into the important buildings but the water began to rise faster than was natural, and in hours much of the city was underwater, its people drowning. Tiamat retreated to her ship, a pyramid on the highest hill, and had decided at last to take off from the city when the sky grew black and the rain stopped. Though the downpour no longer fell, though, there was a strong breeze and in the distance a deafening roar.
Queen Tiamat stood on her balcony, her remaining sons at her side, and looked to the horizon. There was no longer enough time to raise the ship, not even enough time to raise a shield. The System Lord Tiamat and her children saw their end coming, in the form of a black wave a mile high. It was a tidal mass of water moving hundreds of miles per hour, and with a majority of the city’s defenses underwater already, there was no withstanding their destruction.
The last report of Queen Tiamat and the first city of Babylon was a great flood, and as the water eventually washed away, the whole city - every tower and temple and home, was washed away or buried with it. The remaining children of Nephilim scattered to the winds. Many were killed in the days that followed as Marduk claimed Tiamat's territory, and others absorbed into the rank and file of Inanna ranked under his first prime Sargon. The last of Nephilim that live to this day are few. They are loyal to their Queen and her desire to find or create the perfect host, and fiercely loyal to each other as the last remaining of their family. They obey a code of harmony for their slaves, followers, and jaffa. They hide in the outskirts of Goa’uld society waiting for a day when their queen might rise from the depths of Babylon, or at least take her place as the rightful ruler of the Goa’uld, and of Earth.
