Todd had no desire to take any unnecessary risks. He had no idea what to expect of this queen. So far it seemed she didn't seem to mind Rogue remaining on board, but she was very weak and her attention not really giving much care to her.
The walk to the throne room seemed very slow and long but he didn't rush the new female, and they got there eventually, greeted by all but those who remained on the bridge to keep an eye on things. And the drones of course, which Todd told her were all in hibernation to keep starvation at bay.
Clawed fingers sought out the throne and the new queen sat upon it, and began her tale to her new crew.
About a week before the hive went missing, they got into a battle with another hive from those who were against taking the gene therapy. The battle was intense and lasted nearly an hour before her hive managed to take out and blow up the other. But theirs was severely crippled and on the edge of the galaxy, hyper-drive completely destroyed. Their queen was killed when shrapnel struck her, thus putting her daughter in charge.
So few of the crew were left after the battle but they worked furiously to repair it, cannibalizing other systems where necessary, using sub-lights to at least move to a populated planet to feed. The Stargate on the planet was their way to tell the other hives of their problem, but before they could reach it they were ambushed by Genii who'd gone into hiding but couldn't resist taking out some Wraith.
The new queen was injured and the Genii found themselves lucky to get her. They took her back to their base and tortured her for information. Cutting her throat and even removing her eyes and some fingers. All of which had grown back but her sight was still gone. After a month under their boot, she managed to escape, feeding on and killing as many as she could before making her way back to the scout ship parked on the planet, and then back to her hive. Blind, she worked as best she could, alone. Fortunately much of Wraith technology was worked by touch and mind than by sight. It was some time before she managed to get the hyper-drive working to putter on to the coordinates of the last rendezvous site she could think of.
The distress beacon was activated and, without sustenance, she didn't know when or if she'd be picked up so she went into hibernation, until they found her.
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The walk to the throne room seemed very slow and long but he didn't rush the new female, and they got there eventually, greeted by all but those who remained on the bridge to keep an eye on things. And the drones of course, which Todd told her were all in hibernation to keep starvation at bay.
Clawed fingers sought out the throne and the new queen sat upon it, and began her tale to her new crew.
About a week before the hive went missing, they got into a battle with another hive from those who were against taking the gene therapy. The battle was intense and lasted nearly an hour before her hive managed to take out and blow up the other. But theirs was severely crippled and on the edge of the galaxy, hyper-drive completely destroyed. Their queen was killed when shrapnel struck her, thus putting her daughter in charge.
So few of the crew were left after the battle but they worked furiously to repair it, cannibalizing other systems where necessary, using sub-lights to at least move to a populated planet to feed. The Stargate on the planet was their way to tell the other hives of their problem, but before they could reach it they were ambushed by Genii who'd gone into hiding but couldn't resist taking out some Wraith.
The new queen was injured and the Genii found themselves lucky to get her. They took her back to their base and tortured her for information. Cutting her throat and even removing her eyes and some fingers. All of which had grown back but her sight was still gone. After a month under their boot, she managed to escape, feeding on and killing as many as she could before making her way back to the scout ship parked on the planet, and then back to her hive. Blind, she worked as best she could, alone. Fortunately much of Wraith technology was worked by touch and mind than by sight. It was some time before she managed to get the hyper-drive working to putter on to the coordinates of the last rendezvous site she could think of.
The distress beacon was activated and, without sustenance, she didn't know when or if she'd be picked up so she went into hibernation, until they found her.