A thought about Wraith Ships..

[Neosuchi]

Now sure if this has been discussed about (tried to look in other threads) but, why does the Wraith ships have lights on the outside but inside we never see any windows when inside and it's all dark? Allways found that amusing.

[Character]

WHo knows, maybe the organic parts glow for some reason, maybe radiation or excess heat or something, considering that the super hive didnt have these glows. Motstly, though, its to make the model look better.

[thekillman]

maybe cause a hive is like a city, and the more important stuff SGa needs is deeper inside?

[Aer'ki]

Now sure if this has been discussed about (tried to look in other threads) but, why does the Wraith ships have lights on the outside but inside we never see any windows when inside and it's all dark? Allways found that amusing.

Good question. I don't think they are windows. Either it's glowing biomater of some sort or another snafu by the production staff.

[Neosuchi]

Mebbe they wanna camoflague themselves into the starry space >_>::::
(yea it won't work, scanners whatnot)

[AtlantisRules!!!]

florscence? They are organic after all..

[Mister Oragahn]

We've seen a window twice. During the first attack on Atlantis (queen looking through a window apparently) and Michael's quarters.
Still, they have changed the texture on hiveships a couple of times. There's been a time when they pasted blurred ugly textures with yellow lines all over the ship, around No Man's Land period, urgh.

[Character]

Yea, there might be windows on the hive (or their might be elaborate screens), but the same scenes show that the lighting from inside the ship couldnt possibly acount for the rather large are very bright glows seen from outside.

[Ouroboros]

Yea, there might be windows on the hive (or their might be elaborate screens), but the same scenes show that the lighting from inside the ship couldnt possibly acount for the rather large are very bright glows seen from outside.

That's a good point. Wraith hives have very dark interiors and tend to almost exclusively use blueish or greenish lights, very rarely yellow or white ones.

We shouldn't be seeing that bright of a yellow tinged glow out the windows.

[dahok]

I think it gives the Wraith ships some detail on the outside, instead of being jet black blobs in the middle of space.

On the inside, it gives the corridors and compartments a sense of foreboding.

(Of course a dark set is good for the budget, they can scale back detail. )

[Mister Oragahn]

Yea, there might be windows on the hive (or their might be elaborate screens), but the same scenes show that the lighting from inside the ship couldnt possibly acount for the rather large are very bright glows seen from outside.

It's a staple of Star Warsian space opera.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't consider it sane to put so many windows out there, especially when it's counter productive to the presence of armour around.

[Dragon_Heart]

I'm theorising that it is re-lated to the biomass of the ship somehow. Maybe a chemical reaction when the organic material comes into contact with the metal on the hive, and glows. Or maybe it is just fluorescent, who knows.

It could not possible be the lighting, because so many windows, as someone has previously stated, would counter-act the whole 'no need for shields, we have bulging armour' theory. It's basically creating swiss cheese, so it cannot be windows.

[CSESL]

Mebbe they wanna camoflague themselves into the starry space >_>::::
(yea it won't work, scanners whatnot)

lol.

Probably the Wraith didn't care that they were detected in space. Before the Atlantis expedition came the Wraith had almost no serious enemy with space capability

[Ouroboros]

I would expect also that if you actually scaled some of the "windows" that they would turn out to be ridiculously oversized given the purported 11km length of a hiveship as stated by the vfx people.