A civilization of humans in the Pegasus Galaxy whose planet has been besieged by the Wraith for many centuries. Their technology is behind Earth's by roughly eighty years.
The Hoffans are a resolute people who have preserved their history in enormous vaults staggered in various locations beneath the people's feet. If one is destroyed, their legacy is not lost.
One distinguished Hoffan, Farrol Mylan, discovered and perfected a drug that inhibited the Wraith's ability to feed on a human. Completion of this drug has become the legacy of the Hoffan people for 150 years, and they have reached a point where any sacrifice to finish it is worth making.
Despite the warnings of Major John Sheppard that creating such a weapon would force the Wraith to eliminate the threat entirely, production proceeded until the prototype itself was injected into all members of the population.
HOMEWORLD -
Hoff
FIRST APPEARED -
Poisoning the Well
KEY EPISODE(S) -
Poisoning the Well - After several days of negotiations with the Hoffan people, Major Sheppard and his team are introduced to the possibility of an anti-Wraith feeding drug the inhabitants have been perfecting.
