Hive Ship

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Wraith Hive-ships are the main components of the Wraith fleet, and the centerpiece of their entire society.

Contents 1 Functions and statistics 2 Locations 2.1 Holding Area 2.2 Throne Room 2.3 Dart bays 3 Command structure 4 Uses and details 5 Known hive-ships 5.1 Known destroyed Hive ships 6 External links

[edit] Functions and statistics

A hive ship is a massive wraith mothership with hundreds of Wraith darts at their disposal. Large portions of the ship and hallways are dedicated to human cargo trapped in cocoons. Additional stasis cocoons support thousands of wraith warriors during hibernation. During these periods ships land on the surface of a planet and become overgrown with vegetation. The ship is entirely organic, allowing it to grow new parts and repair itself, but the programming is very haphazard and inefficient. The organic components also limit their hyperdrive abilities, forcing them to make "pit stops" in order to heal from radiation damage accumulated in subspace.

Hive ships are capable of carrying three cruisers, which then function as escorts. They have energy based weapons which can bring down the shields of a 304 in a matter of minutes, and destroy another hive with twenty to thirty blasts. There were approximately sixty hive ships at the time the Atlantis expedition arrived, but at least fourteen of them have been destroyed since then. (ATL: "Rising", "Underground", "The Siege", "The Hive", "Allies")

[edit] Locations

[edit] Holding Area

Hive ships contain holding cells for prisoners and immediate feedings. The door to the cell is of a webbed pattern that opens upwards. Such a cell was used to hold the Athosians and Atlantis Expedition members, led by Colonel Marshall Sumner, who went to Athos when a culling occurred. (ATL: "Rising")

[edit] Throne Room

The throne room is where the Hive Queen (or any other such ruler) resides. The room is deep within the hive ship, where the Queen sits upon a large throne (that has the appearance of stone or bone). A large open area allows for people to meet with the queen, and an adjacent dinning room can serve food, although those who eat there are usually fed upon soon after. Usually, there are Warriors guarding the main entrance to the throne room. (ATL: "No Man's Land", "Sateda")

[edit] Dart bays

There are dart bays on the port and starboard sides of the hive ships. The vessels carry many darts, which errupt from the hive and swarm the intended targets. The bays have no doors to keep opposing ships in or out, allowing an intruding vessel to enter the hive ship with relative ease. The dart bays are usually a high priority target, as the resulting secondary explosions are quite large causing extensive damage to the hive ship. (ATL: "Underground", "The Lost Boys", "The Hive", "No Man's Land")

[edit] Command structure

The hive ship is controlled by a hive queen. She remains in a throne room deep within the hive ship, usually guarded by a group of Warriors and their commander, and tended to by worshippers. One hive, however, was ruled by a male. The hive is controlled from a bridge that has controls which only respond to a Wraith neural interface, similar to how a puddle jumper or control chair will only respond to someone with the ATA gene. Those who have Wraith DNA spliced into their genetic makeup are capable of piloting the ship, but it is very taxing if the individual is not a Wraith. (ATL: "Rising", "The Hive", "No Man's Land", "Sateda")

[edit] Uses and details

After learning that Atlantis was still out there, the Wraith sent a fleet of Hive ships to bombard Atlantis from orbit, but the city-ship's shields prevented much damage. Another use seen by the Tau'ri has been to dispatch Wraith Darts on their planetary culling runs for their respective hive-ships. According to the hive-ships' computers, the Wraith hive-ship dwarfs its other opponents in size, being more than 13 times the size of a Tau'ri 304.

As they have no shields, the hive-ships, weapons are considerably more effective against them; however, the hull on hive-ships are known to regenerate because they are organic.

[edit] Known hive-ships

• Michael's hive ship
• Atlantis' Hive-ship

[edit] Known destroyed Hive ships

When the Altantis Expedition first knew about the estimated number of hiveships in the Galaxy (of at least 60), (ATL: "Underground") the numbers started to diminish and now at least 13 are known to have been destroyed. Here is a list of known ships that were destroyed;

• One destroyed by the Ancient satellite. (ATL: "The Siege, Part 2")
• One destroyed by nuclear weapons activation from a Puddle jumper. (ATL: "The Siege, Part 3")
• Three destroyed by the Daedalus beaming nuclear weapons on board. (ATL: "The Siege, Part 3")
• Two destroyed by attacking each other. (ATL: "The Hive")
• One destroyed by the Orion. (ATL: "No Man's Land")
• Atlantis' Hive-ship destroyed by another hive-ship. (ATL: "Misbegotten")
• One destroyed by the Odyssey beaming a nuclear weapon on board. (SG1: "The Pegasus Project")
• Two destroyed by attacking each other. (ATL: "The Seer")
• One destroyed by ramming into the Wraith cloning facility. (ATL: "Spoils of War")
• In an alternate reality, at least four ships were seen being destroyed by the Phoenix. Also at least two more were seen being destroyed by Michael. (ATL: "The Last Man")

[edit] External links

• GateWorld's article on Wraith hive ship in The Stargate Omnipedia
• Wraith Hive-Ship on Wikipedia

Wraith spaceship classes
Hive Ship · Cruiser · Supply ship · Scout ship · Dart