The Gate Historian: A Military History of the Stargate Universe

The super-hive was a Wraith battleship transformed by the power of a Zero Point Module. Ordinary hive ships already possessed enormous organic hulls, regenerative capacity, and heavy weapons; the ZPM gave this vessel stronger defenses, faster interstellar travel, and enough energy to survive attacks that would destroy other Wraith ships. This episode examines how a rival within Todd’s faction seized the opportunity, took control of the enhanced hive, and obtained the coordinates of Earth from a transmission originating in an alternate reality. The ship became more than another raider. It was a strategic platform capable of crossing the distance to the Milky Way rapidly and challenging Earth’s battlecruisers near their home planet. Atlantis personnel attempted to stop it before departure, but the vessel escaped and began its attack run. The super-hive demonstrated what the Wraith could become with a stable supply of Ancient power: no longer constrained by traditional shipboard energy generation or normal hive vulnerabilities, and able to carry a feeding war into another galaxy. Visit ImaginedBattlefield.com for more military and science fiction.