The Wraith are the result of Ancient/Insectoid meeting. The Ancients were in Pegasus for several million years. They built a lot of gates and seeded a lot of civilizations before the war with the Wraith began. We know that the insectoids share ancestry with the Wraith. My theory is that we'll find that the Wraith also share some ancestry with the Ancients.
I don't postulate that this was in any way a purposeful creation by the Ancients. I've read plenty of theories that the Ancients created the Wraith to fight the Go'auld, or vice versa, but those seem a little beyond farfetched and don't fit the timelines very well. We do know that when those nasty insectoid buggers bite, there is some DNA funkiness that happens. I think it is entirely plausible that an Ancient stumbled onto that same planet millions of years ago, was bitten, removed the insect and left it behind.
Millions of years is plenty of time for an advanced race to evolve given the right conditions, and especially given an infusion of advanced DNA. I think this would make a fabulous story arc, explain a lot about the "powers" of the Wraith, and also clear up the lingering question of how the Wraith could have become so advanced before the Ancients arrived, and at the same time so stupid that they ate all their food and had to become dormant. That seems kinda like the doomsayers that say in 2050, at this rate, we'll slaughter the last cow on Earth... I mean what idiot would actually look at the last cow in existence, say "this will make some tasty burgers" and kill it. I can't see a civilization with the brains to create high technology doing something even more insane by killing every source of food they had. I prefer to think that the Wraith were simply not there before the Atlantians arrived.
Now, there are some difficulties with this theory. The most obvious to me is how/why the Ancients would allow the Wraith to develop, being such a nasty species and all, without wiping them out early in their development. I guess it's possible that the Wraith didn't draw much attention to themselves at first, avoiding the Ancients. Even the Pegasus galaxy is pretty dang big after all. The holo-chick's message about awakening a sleeping enemy is another difficulty. Does this mean explicitly that the Wraith were already in Pegasus, dormant, before the Atlantians arrived? It definitely could, though I still think a race so stupid that they ate themselves out of food would have otherwise blown themselves up somehow. The message could be more cryptic (wouldn't be the first time, after all), referring to the intellectual and technological awakening of the Wraith as a species thanks to the Ancient DNA, or perhaps reffering to something else entirely (lots of room for TPTB to play).
Several million years is a lot of time to play with. The Ancient holo-chick says something about the vast numbers of Wraith, but this does not explicitly say that there were that many when the Ancients arrived. Perhaps it was how large the Wraith had grown when they finally left 10,000 years ago. There is reference to the arrogance of the Ancients and the overestimation of their strength. What would be more arrogant than letting your worst enemy develop right under your noses, because you were unconcerned with their level of technology or even too busy doing pure research and kicking back on the balconies taking in the sun and great ocean view to even notice?
I don't postulate that this was in any way a purposeful creation by the Ancients. I've read plenty of theories that the Ancients created the Wraith to fight the Go'auld, or vice versa, but those seem a little beyond farfetched and don't fit the timelines very well. We do know that when those nasty insectoid buggers bite, there is some DNA funkiness that happens. I think it is entirely plausible that an Ancient stumbled onto that same planet millions of years ago, was bitten, removed the insect and left it behind.
Millions of years is plenty of time for an advanced race to evolve given the right conditions, and especially given an infusion of advanced DNA. I think this would make a fabulous story arc, explain a lot about the "powers" of the Wraith, and also clear up the lingering question of how the Wraith could have become so advanced before the Ancients arrived, and at the same time so stupid that they ate all their food and had to become dormant. That seems kinda like the doomsayers that say in 2050, at this rate, we'll slaughter the last cow on Earth... I mean what idiot would actually look at the last cow in existence, say "this will make some tasty burgers" and kill it. I can't see a civilization with the brains to create high technology doing something even more insane by killing every source of food they had. I prefer to think that the Wraith were simply not there before the Atlantians arrived.
Now, there are some difficulties with this theory. The most obvious to me is how/why the Ancients would allow the Wraith to develop, being such a nasty species and all, without wiping them out early in their development. I guess it's possible that the Wraith didn't draw much attention to themselves at first, avoiding the Ancients. Even the Pegasus galaxy is pretty dang big after all. The holo-chick's message about awakening a sleeping enemy is another difficulty. Does this mean explicitly that the Wraith were already in Pegasus, dormant, before the Atlantians arrived? It definitely could, though I still think a race so stupid that they ate themselves out of food would have otherwise blown themselves up somehow. The message could be more cryptic (wouldn't be the first time, after all), referring to the intellectual and technological awakening of the Wraith as a species thanks to the Ancient DNA, or perhaps reffering to something else entirely (lots of room for TPTB to play).
Several million years is a lot of time to play with. The Ancient holo-chick says something about the vast numbers of Wraith, but this does not explicitly say that there were that many when the Ancients arrived. Perhaps it was how large the Wraith had grown when they finally left 10,000 years ago. There is reference to the arrogance of the Ancients and the overestimation of their strength. What would be more arrogant than letting your worst enemy develop right under your noses, because you were unconcerned with their level of technology or even too busy doing pure research and kicking back on the balconies taking in the sun and great ocean view to even notice?
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