Following the revolt that drove Ra, the strongest of the system Lords, from Earth, a small contingency of lesser Goa'uld discovered previously unknown Naquadah deposits in the Indian subcontinent and set about to mine it covertly. They quickly realized that this was not ordinary Naquadah; it was a far more powerful and previously unknown material which they dubbed "Naquadah'nija" (a portmanteau of Naquadah and the Hindi word "Khanija" meaning "mineral", roughly translated as "Naquadite" ) Nearly an order of magnitude more powerful than Naquadah it is an naturally occurring isotope similar in structure to Naqudria (an artificially created isotope) but is far more stable. These Goa'uld conspired to keep this discovery from the other System Lords and setup a clandestine research facility on