He paused a moment in undressing, then resumed before answering, "What will be will be. There's nothing we can do but hope that the serum works on her, and if it doesn't, that its effects are reversible before it kills her. In the event it doesn't, and she dies, then we'll have to go raiding enemy hives for their queens to continue testing the serum on as none of the other queens in the alliance will agree to take it unless its perfected."

Todd knew such a task was next to impossible, and he'd be sure to bring up the risk of the queen's death thoroughly with Woolsey and the rest. Upgrading the hive would not be enough, Atlantis would have to aid in retrieving queens and females to experiment on.