Originally posted by BloodNight
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If you're a race that can produce nano technology and program it to good effect (putting in certain safe-guards) then I think that purely technological methods would be better, as you could have nanites on board your ships that can auto-repair any damage and be programed to add improvements or changes in the same way the Wraith can with their ships.
For less advanced races biological methods would I think be better, but saying that you don't have to be a highly advanced race to make nano tech work, just aware of the potential problems the tech could have and capable of producing machines on the nano-scale.
As others here have said the way the Wraith made their ships was kinda explained in The Seed, as for why they can't reproduce more ships, I think it was mentioned in the episode Allies by that Wraith who was 'helping' us to find a way around the Wraiths countermeasures to our/Asgard beaming tech that those individuals who possessed the knowledge of how to repair and improve their ships sided with larger more powerful factions, I think it was also said that they were the Wraith with the knowledge of how to build more ships.
It must also come down to knowledge of the best materials and power sources for ship construction.
Regarding the whole shield issue, I think that just keeping a Hive/Cruiser together in one piece requires power, as each vessel is a living entity it would constantly require a food source, which must come from the generators on board the ship, so each system like hull regeneration, engines and weapons are probably all fairly power hungry and I'd bet the generators are all ready pretty large to sustain the energy requirements needed, so adding shields may not be permitted within a standard Hive/Cruiser's energy generation limits.
Perhaps their versions of shield emitters or generators are just not powerful or efficient enough to properly protect their vessels effectively enough and the hull regeneration works pretty well already.
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