As a high priestess, Ishta kept a record of all births and presided over the ceremony itself. She decided that she could not sit back and watch her sisters be murdered and do nothing, so she, along with her seconds, Mala and Neith formed a resistance movement, called the Hak'tyl Resistance. Since they were allowed relatively free access to the planet's Stargate of the worlds under Moloc's rule, they could rescue as many young girls as possible and seek refuge on another planet, which the resistance would call Hak'tyl. She and her followers would seek out symbiotes from fallen warriors, which could be used to save the children before reaching prata (Jaffa puberty). (SG1: "Birthright")