"Well, if you mean by literally, I think dinner would be appropriate." The stress of the day had worn him down leaving little but his hunger.

"In general...We'll have to wait and see. The commanders said they'd do what they can about recruiting other hive ships and getting their queens to produce females. In the meantime, we're going to make our patrols through our territory, check on the worshiper world, another check with the commanders, and then back to Atlantis. The serum for the drones has to be completed as soon as possible and by then Keller and Beckett will have had those we left with them on the drug for a reasonable amount of time."

It seemed like a busy schedule but this would be over a period of several weeks to months, as predicted.