The Reetou

The Reetou are the enemy you don't even see coming. Insectoid creatures that exist just alongside our dimension, which makes them invisible to the naked eye. Present, deadly, but out of sight. And some of them have their minds firmly made up: eliminate anything that could serve as a host for the Goa'uld, us included.

The Reetou live a hair's breadth away from our reality. To spot them, you need a special device that makes them visible. Imagine an assassin in the room, invisible, and you'll understand the terror they inspire.

Not all of them are enemies, though. Some even try to help Earth protect itself against the Goa'uld. But a radical faction wants to follow its logic all the way: to deprive the Goa'uld of any body to possess, it's prepared to exterminate every species that could serve as their hosts, humanity included.

Fighting evil by eliminating its potential victims: a logic as relentless as it is monstrous, and an enemy all the more unnerving because you can never be sure it isn't already there, right next to you.

The Reetou play on one of the most primal fears there is: the invisible threat, the danger lurking in the same room as us that no eye can detect.

The idea has fascinated and terrified people since antiquity. The philosopher Plato already imagined the Ring of Gyges, which made its wearer invisible and freed him from all morality, since no one could see him act anymore. Centuries later, H.G. Wells's novel The Invisible Man took up the idea and blended it with science, and its hero, once invisible, in turn descended into madness and crime.

That's exactly the anxiety the Reetou bring to life: what if the room you're in isn't really empty? What if the worst danger is the one you'll never see coming?