Do the wraith have the same healing powers as the ancients?

[airfro]

Read the title (we know the wraith are hard to kill, would the ancients be as hard to kill?)

[buckner]

I do not know but it is a good topic. I would think that they would have some healing power but not to the extent of the wraith.

[bioevilfan]

We where shown that they do in Frozen but it is not as good as the Wraith.

[Ohper]

No way of knowing.

In Frozen, the chick had just been in stasis for several million years. Since the rate of regeneration in a Wraith is related to how recently they've fed, it may well be the same in an Ancient.

[Atlantisluva]

maybe.


It would be interesting if they stole the wraith gene and engineered it into themselves, stealing their regenerating abilities. Or vise versa.

[TechnoWraith]

We will probably get an answer to this question in an upcoming season of Atlantis. I do know from "The Defiant One" that

Spoiler:

The wraith are capable of living for exceptionally long periods of time (well the Wraith dude that the team ran into in this ep was stuck on that planet for like 10,000 odd years). And that the Wraith's ability to regenerate is tied to when they fed last (in other words, if the Wraith fed recently, their regenerative abilities are pretty much instantaneous. Remember the part where shappard shot the Wraith and it healed itself right afterward?)

Since we really haven't seen much of the Ancients, it's hard to say whether or not their regenerative abilities are like that of the Wraith. Again, upcoming seasons of Atlantis may help out here (or even upcoming seasons of SG-1).

[Tarrifist]

maybe.


It would be interesting if they stole the wraith gene and engineered it into themselves, stealing their regenerating abilities. Or vise versa.

Oh that is interesting. Like to see how this plays out in the future episodes.

[Daniel's_twin]

Definitely two diffferent kinds of healing. I don't remember an Ancient healing themselves, only giving that gift to others (tho I guess it could be supposed that they could heal themselves, too). But When they do heal other people, they kinda give a little of their own life, it seems. Whereas with the Wraith, they take life to heal themselves. I think it's definitely two different things.

[LOKI LOKI]

Definitely two diffferent kinds of healing. I don't remember an Ancient healing themselves, only giving that gift to others (tho I guess it could be supposed that they could heal themselves, too). But When they do heal other people, they kinda give a little of their own life, it seems. Whereas with the Wraith, they take life to heal themselves. I think it's definitely two different things.

might be two different things but it could be a give and take system. the wraith steal the life from their victims and it helps to heal them perhaps the ancients choose to give instead of receive maybe they could drain like the wraith but its against their higher morals????

[LordAnubis]

Read the title (we know the wraith are hard to kill, would the ancients be as hard to kill?)

I think the Ancients were much easier to kill since they were just advanced humans. I think the Wraith can regenerate themselves pretty easily, but I don't think they can heal a human or other species. Ancients could heal others. I bet there is a link to the power somehow, but it's used in opposite ways.

[Ancient 1]

Read the title (we know the wraith are hard to kill, would the ancients be as hard to kill?)

I think this was one of the reasons for the thread that asked if the ancients and wraith were related; which I hope they are not. Stands to reason though, that if the ancients need others to heal them, then they would be a lot easier to kill by themselves.

[greytop]

Definitely two diffferent kinds of healing. I don't remember an Ancient healing themselves, only giving that gift to others (tho I guess it could be supposed that they could heal themselves, too). But When they do heal other people, they kinda give a little of their own life, it seems. Whereas with the Wraith, they take life to heal themselves. I think it's definitely two different things.

I have to agree with Daniel's twin. If the Ancients were able to heal themselves, the woman in Frozen would still be alive.

[airfro]

I think the ancients have the same healing abilities when the wraith havent been feeding for a while, we also know that the ancients can heal others which the wraith cant.
what about the wraith can they heal others?
we know the ancients can control there brain can the wraith?
can the ancients connect to each other via there brains as the wraith can?
if ancients were still around could they connect with people with the ancient gene or would it take something else?

i would love to see these questions answered in season 2. feel free to try to answer and put your own ideas.

[Wass]

I think this was one of the reasons for the thread that asked if the ancients and wraith were related; which I hope they are not.

Watch "The Gift" and it will be explained

[Cycrow]

its not really explained in the gift
more like hinted and speculated