One of the planets that the Furlings had claimed as a supply world and staging ground for their coming campaign was named Ushuotis in their own tongue. It was a singularly unimportant world in Lord Yu's rather vast territory that was only known for its unforgiving climate. A desert world, Ushuotis had little water and, as a result, almost no vegetation, except for small scrub plants that had adapted overtime to the climate. The weather was extremely unpleasant: scorching in summer and frigid in winter with large temperature differentials between night and day. To top that, the planet was prone to severe sand storms in summer. All in all, the planet was deemed good-for-nothing and, consequently, had never been occupied. Few people ever visited it either, making it an excellent stop-over for those trying to keep the Stargate address of their homeworld concealed.

Late one night, sometime after the Furlings had made first contact with the Free Jaffa, the Stargate opened, and a man stumbled through. He was young with pale skin and short-cropped brown hair. His clothes had once been fine but now were torn and stained with blood.

He seemed first surprised when he saw the surroundings and then dismayed when there was no DHD in sight. Slowly and with many stumbles, he began to make his way from the area around the gate towards the surrounding dunes. He was hampered by a head injury, his hair being matted with blood right at the base of his skull, and by a staff-weapon blast on his upper right leg, and there were large blood stains on the cloth covering his ribs on the right side. Several times he fell but managed to drag himself to his feet again with dogged determination. After the fifth fall, he stayed down much longer before finally managing to rise, only after his eyes had flashed gold.

His gaze firmly set on the hills, he resolutely made his way toward them. Yet, finally, after one last fall, his strength gave out, and he was not able to rise or drag himself across the sand any farther. He rolled onto his back and gazed up at the stars, which were shining brilliantly in the near-cloudless sky above. His eyes slipped close, and consciousness fled.