This is something I've been kicking around in my head for the last little while. Basically it's generally taken for granted that the Wraith are all many thousands of years old, and I'll admit I've done as much myself. What recently occured to me though is that even though their bodies may physically have existed for X thousands of years, given how much time they spend sleeping, just how much of that time can really be counted toward the gathering of actual life experience in comparison to humans and other species who don't hibernate for hundreds of years at a time.
I made this thread to try and nail down a good ratio for this based on quotes and such from the series that I'm never going to be able to remember offhand on my own.
To give an example of what I'm talking about I want to be able to figure out the real elements to plug into a calculation as follows.
If we say that a Wraith spends 1 year out of every 500 "awake" and culling before going back into hybernation for another 500 years then that would mean that a Wraith who was physically aged 10,000 years would in actuality only have comparable life experience to a human who was 20.
That's just an example though, which is again why I made this thread. Do we actually know, or can we at least form a fairly good idea of how long they sleep between cullings and how long individual cullings/periods of activity last before they hibernate again. If we can get some sort of a handle on that we can likewise begin to aproximate the amount of life experience they would actually accumulate in X long seeming amounts of time.
It would also be helpful to know if they require ordinary sleep when not hibernating. I'm assuming a default yes for now given their obvious similarities to humans, since it's never been stated clearly one way or the other.
I made this thread to try and nail down a good ratio for this based on quotes and such from the series that I'm never going to be able to remember offhand on my own.
To give an example of what I'm talking about I want to be able to figure out the real elements to plug into a calculation as follows.
If we say that a Wraith spends 1 year out of every 500 "awake" and culling before going back into hybernation for another 500 years then that would mean that a Wraith who was physically aged 10,000 years would in actuality only have comparable life experience to a human who was 20.
That's just an example though, which is again why I made this thread. Do we actually know, or can we at least form a fairly good idea of how long they sleep between cullings and how long individual cullings/periods of activity last before they hibernate again. If we can get some sort of a handle on that we can likewise begin to aproximate the amount of life experience they would actually accumulate in X long seeming amounts of time.
It would also be helpful to know if they require ordinary sleep when not hibernating. I'm assuming a default yes for now given their obvious similarities to humans, since it's never been stated clearly one way or the other.
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