Name: SpnDean
Email:Character: Colonel Jack O'Neill
Age: Mid 30's (ok I'm fuging it
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Sex: Male
Location: Cheyenne Mountain Stargate Command Colorado
Skin: (i.e. light, dark, etc) lightly tanned
Family: Charlie O'Neill (son, deceased)
Spouse: Sara O'Neill (ex-wife)
Occupation: In charge of the Stargate Command SG-1, a Colonel in the Air Force
Race (Soldiers, Jaffa, Goa'uld, Tok'ra, NID ): Human
Brief History: Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill is the commanding officer of SG-1, the flagship unit assigned to the Stargate Command facility. An officer in the United States Air Force, O'Neill was pulled out of retirement and assigned to lead the first Stargate mission to Abydos. He was selected because of his state of depression and self-hatred following the accidental death of his young son, Charlie.
During his off hours Jack spent time with his wife and son. Family brought terrific meaning to his life. Simple games of catch and baseball, his son's favorites, fulfilled the parts of his existence that were inaccessible through his military career. But one fateful autumn day, on the day Charlie came home from school with his class pictures, the boy uncovered his father's handgun and fatally shot himself inside their home. Jack and Sarah heard the shot from outside the house, and rushed Charlie to the hospital. The child did not survive.
The impact of Charlie's death sent O'Neill into deep depression. He was deactivated from duty until two of General West's officers arrived at his house, informing him that he had been brought back into active service at the Creek Mountain facility. The top-secret Stargate project was approaching a critical juncture. O'Neill accepted the mission that, if Dr. Daniel Jackson succeeded in opening this "door to heaven," he would go through to the other side to assess the situation and, if he found any hostile threats to Earth, would give his life to destroy the Stargate with a nuclear weapon.
he Stargate was opened around 1996, forever changing O'Neill's life. On the other side of the portal was the Supreme System Lord Ra, who had seeded the world of Abydos with humans. With the help of Jackson and the native Abydonians, O'Neill instead used the bomb to obliterate the false god in orbit aboard his mothership. O'Neill returned to Earth, leaving Jackson, per his request, on Abydos.
Arriving home from the mission, O'Neill found Sarah wished him gone from their home. Soon divorced, he was alone for the first time in over a decade. With the Stargate program shut down and transplanted to Cheyenne Mountain, Jack retired from service. He quit smoking and spent much of his time in solitude, some on his roof staring at the stars through a telescope. It was there on his roof, one year later, that he learned that the Stargate had been reopened and a new threat had emerged.
With the inception of Stargate Command under Major General George Hammond, O'Neill agreed to come out of retirement to command the flagship field unit, SG-1. Along with Samantha Carter, his new second-in-command, he returned to Abydos to retrieve Dr. Jackson and uncover the source of the new Goa'uld threat. But his good friend Skaara, an Abydonian boy, was soon kidnapped by the Goa'uld System Lord Apophis, giving O'Neill a very personal reason to seek out and fight this new enemy.
The SG-1 team and the worlds they have explored have forced O'Neill to reassess his future and his relationships. His initial dislike for Jackson changed to a fondness over the course of many years. Frequently disagreeing with the scientist, he found common ground nonetheless, realizing that both complemented each other's strengths, both in diplomacy and in battle. When Jackson died and ascended to a higher plane of existence, O'Neill struggled with how to deal with his grief -- but was eventually reunited with his lost friend. Jack also became a good friend and brother of Teal'c, a warrior as much as he, whom he convinced to turn against the Goa'uld and join them.
Among his many achievements over the years, O'Neill has been implanted with a symbiote twice, one a Goa'uld and one a Tok'ra named Kanan. He has had the Ancients' library downloaded into his brain. He kidnapped an alien child to allow her to experience life as a kid. He died and was revived countless times in Baal's sarcophagus. He has spent three months becoming part of Edoran society, believing he was fated to live out his life there. He was framed for the murder of a U.S. senator, rapidly aged by Goa'uld nanocites, possessed by a microscopic alien race, trapped in a time loop, and saved Earth more times than he can count.
Many of Jack's dearest friends have not necessarily been human. Thor, the supreme commander of the Asgard fleet (whom Jack knows as his "buddy"), has been a friend from the beginning. The Asgard saw the potential of the human race in Jack and chose to ally themselves with Earth. Thor has even revealed that the Asgard have found the colonel to be quite unique -- the next stage in human evolution.
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