Wraith underestimated

[Lord Insanity]

Let's look at the race's abilities.

can directly modify ancient tech....which is far superior then the asgards and the gould's abilties.
they can adapt in a fast and effiecnt way....
The Wraith are pretty much a united race. and if they find a way to the milkyway galaxy...there civil war will end and the will continue to come. they overwhelm with numbers.

The asgard are a dying race and as advanced as they are seem limited in there adaptability.

The Gould a powerful race but steal tech and slow to create there own tech

The only real thing the wraith are lacking is full hyperspace capability(galatic) there current hyperspace was good enough but now they now earth exists it's onl a matter of time before they arrive

[Tassadar]

I really don't think the Wraith understand Ancient tech as much as they let on. I mean they can't even modify their hyperdrives. Plus their ships are way old and they don't seemed to have advanced much, but then again thats all speculation. Also I don't think they are any more united than the Goa'uld were. It seems that they just banded together to defeat the Ancients.

[Chutzpah]

I dunno, over the last 10,000 years I imagine their technology research dvision has gone pretty stagnant. Since they beat the Ancients they have had no need for better weaponry, sheilds, or pretty much anything except things to do with culling.

[2ndgenerationalteran]

well if you think about it ancient tech is the only thing they know is more advanced than theirs. Its just about the only advanced tech they can study

[gkyun]

At least they supersceded Agard tech in some aspects such as jamming beaming tech and that's a credit to 'em.

[pyrodude]

Thats not much of an advantage if the wraith met an Asgaurd ship though. The main reason they are stonger is because of their numbers. And now that is starting to be a huge problem as thier food supplies run out.

To be honest I am starting to think that they are more like the Tauri than Goa'uld regarding thier technology. They have the technology from the Ancients(Tauri tech is mainly goa'uld and asgaurd), can use some of it but don't really understand it all and are not able to build new ships or repair them efficiently(Earth has built 4 large ships and a collection of fighters).

[kefke20]

the wraith are not like the goaold ther have make altarran tech there own by making it organic and the can r&d new tech fast look at beaming counter magers. tha did that in mater of hours

[The Ori]

Wraith are powerful but I hope the Asurans are ven more powerful!!

[Harekin]

Where exactly do the Wraith modify Ancient tech? The only place Iv seen anything like that happen is when they hacked the Aurora. And coming up with a beaming counter-measure when all the Hives could work on the problem simultaneously is easy. Thats ALOT of manpower.

[Wraith Scientist]

Where exactly do the Wraith modify Ancient tech? The only place Iv seen anything like that happen is when they hacked the Aurora. And coming up with a beaming counter-measure when all the Hives could work on the problem simultaneously is easy. Thats ALOT of manpower.

As you said one of them managed to hack the Aurora on his own

They've come up with the beaming technology by themselves, and build bioships of their own design.

And they can reverse engineer and mass-produce DHDs (one in every dart)

And let's not forget their awsome virus-AIs

It could detect threats and decide on a course of action to neutralize them, evade capture, understand human physiology enough to know that gas and hard vaccum would kill them, manipulate systems with ease and even fly a fighter. Not bad for something that comes in an ultrafast milisecond databurst.

They're computer programming abilities are way in advance of anything we've seen.

They seem to possess a remarkable ability to adapt

[Harekin]

However in Allies it was stated that they lacked the ability to do such things without a Keeper. Rodney and the Wraith-Scientist were talking about it.

[AscendedWarrior]

I don't think they can adapt as fast as you think, if you watch allies they tell you that because their technology is organic its hard for them to make it do new things etc. And growing ship is probably time consuming(but i don't know for sure).

[Harekin]

Plus they cant grow the WHOLE ship because it is only partially organic. It seems the organic bits were grown around a technological/metal base.

[Wraith Scientist]

Plus they cant grow the WHOLE ship because it is only partially organic. It seems the organic bits were grown around a technological/metal base.

That's debatable

However in Allies it was stated that they lacked the ability to do such things without a Keeper. Rodney and the Wraith-Scientist were talking about it.

No denying the keepers aren't smart though

Having a keeper on your side significantly increases your chances of surviving in the civil war

A faction with a keeper would be harder to beat, and in the Ancient-Wraith war there was probably many, many keepers all working together

Michael's faction didn't have one

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I think the Wraith have been underestimated

It is partly to do with shields. People automatically assume that Wraith ships are weak because they don't have shields

[Harekin]

However they were able to programme the worm...but not re-programme their own ship. Is this a slight plot hole considering the worm was so so well programmed.