Wraith Hierarchy/Queen

[Spimman]

What do you all think is the extent of the hierarchy within the wraith society? We have seen the drones and the leaders(what are they called), but so far we haven't seen a queen. How many others types of wraith do you all think exist, and do you all think their are large numbers of queens or just a few? Does anybody have a thought at what a Queen will look like? Maybe it will be similar to a termite and just be a huge body laying egss...we'll see...I doubt that. I'll be interested in learning more as the series continues.

[not so ancient]

What do you all think is the extent of the hierarchy within the wraith society? We have seen the drones and the leaders(what are they called), but so far we haven't seen a queen. How many others types of wraith do you all think exist, and do you all think their are large numbers of queens or just a few? Does anybody have a thought at what a Queen will look like? Maybe it will be similar to a termite and just be a huge body laying egss...we'll see...I doubt that. I'll be interested in learning more as the series continues.

The Wraith evolved from insects mixed with human DNA, as we learned in "The Gift." The Wraith female that we saw in "Rising" had breasts. I'm willing to bet they're not an egg-larvae-pupa-adult species, but rather more like mammals that have hive insect-like behaviour (parasitic feeding, periods of dormancy, linked thinking/communication) sort of overlaid on humanoid anatomy.

The Wraith are _way_ disgusting. I'd rather be Go'a'uld'ed any day of the week, twice on Sunday, than be Wraith food.

[6thMonolith]

Hmmmmm... I just cant wait for season two. Hopefully we'll find out some more then.

[A Whiter Shade]

Maybe they are "grown" instead of having a traditional birth like the Orcs in LOTR?

[Freyrs]

We also haven't seen any young Wraith which would support the fact that their either grown or have some weird form of reproduction. But its only season one, they'll probally be more info in season 2.

[Spimman]

I agree we don't know anything other than before Atlantis even aired they were referred to as a "hive-like" race...that has certian implications. I imagine we'll learn more and more every season, and might know more about this topic in a few years.

[Dinoflo]

From the First episode it looks like the female wraith are in charge, but don't fight, so that could explain why we havn't seen them. Perhaps theres only 1 female per hive ship, like one queen bee per bee hive?

[keppiezbt]

i wonder what happend to those entries they used to do on the stargate atlantis website....they were kinda cool

[Excalibur]

We also haven't seen any young Wraith which would support the fact that their either grown or have some weird form of reproduction. But its only season one, they'll probally be more info in season 2.

The reason for no young could be because they havent needed a population increase. They where laying dormant as to not over feed on the the peg galaxy. With not actual enemy no losses and no need for more young.

[keppiezbt]

The reason for no young could be because they havent needed a population increase. They where laying dormant as to not over feed on the the peg galaxy. With not actual enemy no losses and no need for more young.

plus a wraith can live for about ten thousand years

[Wass]

The Wraith evolved ....................................... The Wraith female that we saw in "Rising" had breasts. I'm willing to bet they're not an egg-larvae-pupa-adult species, but rather more like mammals that have hive insect-like behaviour (parasitic feeding, periods of dormancy, linked thinking/communication) sort of overlaid on humanoid anatomy.

The Wraith are _way_ disgusting. I'd rather be Go'a'uld'ed any day of the week, twice on Sunday, than be Wraith food.

Dude you need some spoiler tags as not everyone has seen this episodes.

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[Freyrs]

plus a wraith can live for about ten thousand years

Actually Wraith can survive indefinetly as long as they have food.

I don't see a life form like this ever dieing of natural ageing the way we do.

[not so ancient]

Dude you need some spoiler tags as not everyone has seen this episodes.

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Please accept my apologies. I didn't know the particular protocol for this.

In fandoms I have participated in before, full disclosure rather than spoiler warnings were the norm after the US Pacific time airing of an episode, and those who browsed before viewing an ep did so at their own risk of being spoiled.

I'll use spoiler tags from now on. Again, I'm sorry.

[Spimman]

Please accept my apologies. I didn't know the particular protocol for this.

In fandoms I have participated in before, full disclosure rather than spoiler warnings were the norm after the US Pacific time airing of an episode, and those who browsed before viewing an ep did so at their own risk of being spoiled.

I'll use spoiler tags from now on. Again, I'm sorry.

I thought that was the case, once the episode has been aired in the US then spoiler tags weren't needed? Are we supposed to wait longer incase somebody taped it and hasn't watched it yet?

[Elite Anubis Guard]

this is something id like to see get developed..although they dont really need to do more breeding it would be interesting to see how the wraith do breed....i like the idea of eggs or clones.