Homeworld
In the Pegasus Galaxy
Goverment
Hive Mind
Leader
Unknown
Society
- Majority were male, females are always Queens
- Show little regard for their own lives
Highlights
- Iratus bugs fed on the humans that the Ancients seeded in Pegasus
- Eventually, they began to take on human characteristics, becoming the Wraith
- Went to war with the Lanteans, almost defeated them but the Lanteans escaped
- They abduct humans, feed on them, then entered into a hibernative state,
- This cycle continued for 10,000 years,
- until the Atlantis expedition accidentally awoke them prematurely
- The lack of food caused them to enter into a civil war
- They eventually forged a peace treaty with the humans,
- A retrovirus that strengthened human physiology was administered
- Allowed the feeding process not to be fatal
